At a Q&A following a revival of Martin Scorsese’s Casino (1995) earlier this year in New York City, screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi explained that he saw Scorsese’s upcoming film The Irishman as the last in a quartet of gangster films starring…
Movie Review: Free Fire
[Check out our red carpet coverage of Free Fire here. Check out our interview with director/writer Ben Wheatley here.] In typical action films, when the bullets start to fly, all logic flies out the window. Ammo suddenly becomes infinite, the…
Movie Review: Silence
Like a good deal of Martin Scorsese’s films, Silence handles the subject of faith in a complex and humanistic way; the legendary American filmmaker transmutes the torment, humiliation and suffering of two young, idealistic Jesuit priests, by the fiendish censors of Feudal Japan,…
The Stunning New International Trailer for Scorsese’s Silence
The international trailer for Martin Scorsese’s Silence is here, and it gives a better sense of the film’s epic visual quality than the previously released trailer. In the new trailer boats appear as small blips on a vast sea and characters…
The Film Canon: Bad Lieutenant
Bad Lieutenant, set in a particularly grimy-looking New York, lugs around enough Catholic-guilt, crooked cops, cocaine snorting and a somewhat-conscious Harvey Keitel to remind us of the great crime dramas Martin Scorsese made back in the ’70s. Bad Lieutenant is…
Trailer: Boxer Vinny Paz’s story comes to life in “Bleed for This”
A new biopic from Boiler Room director Ben Younger tells the story of what is considered to be one of the greatest comebacks in sports history. Bleed for This stars Miles Teller (The Divergent Series, The Spectacular Now) as Vinny Paz, a flamboyant…
TV Review: Vinyl 1X01 “Pilot”
In the beginning and ending of the pilot episode to HBO’s latest great-looking drama Vinyl, coked-up record executive Richie Finestra (Bobby Cannavale) is in a crowded club in New York City, 1973. He’s watching famed glam band the New York Dolls play…