Joy
If American Hustle was supposed to be David O Russell’s Goodfellas (which it wasn’t), then Joy can rightly be called David O Russell’s Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore. A sort […]
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Cape Fear
Martin Scorsese’s Cape Fear is an interesting film, maybe more so than it originally seems. I haven’t seen the original, but from what I’ve read this remake both updates and […]
The King of Comedy
The King of Comedy is one of those overlooked gems lurking in the depths of Scorsese’s brilliant filmography. Like many of those more obscure films, it has nothing to do […]
Look Over There….. AFI Top 100 Discussion: Raging Bull
Today Jon over at A Cinematic Odyssey and I continue our series of posts on films from AFI’s Top 100 with Martin Scorsese’s Raging Bull. We trade off whose site […]
The Deer Hunter
Kicking off my best picture themed month for 2014 we have a largely forgotten film: The Deer Hunter. There have been many films about the Vietnam War over the years, […]
Goodfellas
Goodfellas is arguably Scorsese’s best and most popular film. For some reason, it didn’t really connect with me when I first saw it a couple years ago. While I did […]
10 of the Best Cinematic Bromances Gone Wrong
Well, it’s been a frightfully long time (over a month!) since my post on the best cinematic bromances that went right, but here we finally are looking at the ones […]
Tarantino Tuesday… Wrap-Up
So I have finally reached the end of my Tarantino quest. Some time last year, I made a promise to myself that I would see Django Unchained, and if I […]
Casino
Scorsese’s back! No more The Age of Innocence or New York, New York getting out of character stuff; Casino is a Scorsese film through and through. As much as I love, […]
New York, New York
New York, New York is sort of an odd film out in Scorsese’s filmography, coming in between his two greatest films: Taxi Driver and Raging Bull. Critics don’t like it […]
The Soul of the Plot 