Rob Cotto takes a deep look at one of the greatest actors the screen has shown, Robert De Niro.
Here’s a look at the tightest race this awards season.
Spike Lee’s focus, appropriately, is on the process and the passion, not the tabloid conjecture and presumed wackiness.
As we count down the weeks until The Dark Knight Rises and get our superhero fix through webslinging teenagers, we might as well embrace a documentary about a potential interloper, Robert DeNiro’s turn as a world famous psychic bound to be kin to the devil, the fourth installment of a mediocre animated franchise, and Martin Scorsese’s presentation of […]
Forty years ago, on March 14, The Godfather premiered in New York City. The two hour film began what would become a veritable epic about a world-weary don and his favored son, both of whom try to hold their families together in a turbulent world ripe with war, politics, power struggles, and resentment. Based on the novel […]
If nothing else, Hugo is a departure from the characteristic Martin Scorsese film. George Melies (Ben Kingsley) is not whacked by a bullet in the back of the head. The Station Inspector (Sacha Baron Cohen) does not pass out from smoking too much pot and forget to get rid of the getaway truck. No one is insulted […]
Admittedly, there’s little to be said about Taxi Driver that hasn’t been noted already. Scorsese’s 1976 look at slightly off-kilter cabbie Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) is a noir-style classic that avoids flashiness and focuses on how the “filth” and “sleaze” in one’s environment can cause someone to “thank God for the rain to wash the trash off […]
Logic dictates that when a movie slated for release in October is pushed back until February of the next year, the film probably has some major flaws that would pull it out of contention for any major awards. And, for the most part, the producers are conceding that the film isn’t very good and would only be […]