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The Color of Money **** (1986, Paul Newman, Tom Cruise, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Helen Shaver, John Turturro, Bill Cobbs, Forest Whitaker) – Classic Movie Review 873

Paul Newman didn’t attend the Academy Awards ceremony when he won his long-overdue Best Actor Oscar for Martin Scorsese’s The Color of Money in 1987. Nor did he when he won an honorary award the […]

Mar, 06

The Wolf of Wall Street ***** (2013, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie) – Movie Review

Leonardo DiCaprio won the 2014 Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for director Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street. Now that’s odd. I didn’t realise […]

Jan, 16

Bringing Out the Dead **** (1999, Nicolas Cage, Patricia Arquette, John Goodman) – Classic Movie Review 701

Director Martin Scorsese returns in 1999 memorably and stylishly to the smoky New York mean streets he explored so famously in Taxi Driver, with a screenplay by that film’s writer Paul Schrader, based on the […]

Jan, 15

Kundun – Classic Film Review 700

Master director Martin Scorsese delivers a glorious looking, exquisitely crafted biography of the 14th Dalai Lama, Tibet’s spiritual and political leader. The story runs from 1937 when he was a two-year-old boy through the horrific Chinese […]

Jan, 15

The Aviator *** (2004, Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale, Alan Alda, Alec Baldwin) – Classic Movie Review 592

Director Martin Scorsese’s patchy, rambling and overlong 2004 biopic of legendary film director and plane and movie mogul Howard Hughes is sometimes  hard work, and nothing new emerges. But it re-tells a story most people won’t know […]

Dec, 30

Seduced and Abandoned – Film Review

Alec Baldwin goes to the Cannes Film festival, surprisingly for the very first time, along with the maverick film director James Toback, and they go on a hilarious quest for financing for their next feature film, a preposterous […]

Nov, 05

After Hours **** (1985, Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette, Teri Garr, Verna Bloom) – Classic Movie Review 331

Largely forgotten actor Griffin Dunne stars as a computer programmer who finds his casual date with a  young woman exploding in his face. His one rash decision turns immediately into a surreal nightmare of mistaken […]

Oct, 27

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