Martin Scorsese has seen it all. After a two-score year long journey in which he had experienced the highs and the lows of the business, the director has frequently been hailed “America’s greatest living filmmaker” in recent years and was finally even awarded the elusive Academy Award for Best Achievement in Directing for “The Departed” [...]
With its high-profile cast and elaborate special effects, “Inception” has all the makings of a summer blockbuster. But it also seems its critical success is as promising as its commercial success. At present, “Inception” holds a 9.6 out of 10 on IMDb, and critics have feverishly tweeted their ovation for the Christopher Nolan film. Review [...]
Martin Scorsese is not only our greatest living director, but is perhaps our greatest living film historian. His movies are not only brilliant probes into the depths of the human condition, but are astute and articulate commentaries on film itself. From “Who’s That Knocking at My Door” to “Shutter Island” Scorsese’s films have challenged the [...]
What happens when Martin Scorsese, the master of personal, gritty, nuanced filmmaking decides to make a schlocky, B-movie-style, psychological thriller? You get a delicately constructed, multi-layered ode to the classics of Hollywood cinema, of course. Hitchcock, Kubrick and all the greatest elements of the noirs and suspense pictures of the 1940s and 50s are [...]
Martin Scorsese, often cited as our greatest living director, is having something of a late-career crisis. He stormed onto the New Hollywood scene in the late 60s equipped with a singular vision, an intimate knowledge of crippling guilt and human nuance and the god-given talent to turn it all into truth-bearing films on par with [...]
Martin Scorsese has been selected by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as the recipient of the Cecil B. DeMille Award for the 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards on Jan. 17. DeMille, one of the fathers of film and a preeminent Hollywood director, is most famous for co-founding the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, [...]
Leonardo DiCaprio may just be the busiest man in showbiz. The “Titanic” star has a slew of high-profile gigs emerging in the near future including a new Paramount film, that he is set to star in and produce, that deals with the vast world of online casinos based in Costa Rica, reports Variety. Brian Koppelman [...]
From Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese, “Shutter Island” is the story of two U.S. marshals, Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo), who are summoned to a remote and barren island off the coast of Massachusetts to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a murderess from the island’s fortress-like hospital for the criminally insane. Director: [...]
Rorshach himself, Jackie Earle Haley, has signed on to play iconic horror villain, Freddy Krueger in the reboot of beloved horror franchise, “A Nightmare on Elm Street.” Inspired by the success of the New Line/Platinum Dunes franchise “Friday the 13th,” relaunch, which has grossed $65 million domestically to date, the studio assembled a production team [...]
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