Streaming giant Netflix has purchased the worldwide rights to Martin Scorsese’s crime drama, The Irishman. The long gestating movie which is to see the iconic director once again team up with Robert De Niro as the film’s star, will be the pair’s ninth collaboration together. Working on such iconic movies as Taxi Driver, Raging Bull […]
Is Cinema Really Dead If Scorsese Says It Is?
Henry Bevan on whether cinema is really dead… The ‘cinema is dead’ narrative has gone around for a while. It is normally spouted by some blogger who wants to get across their “hot take”. But, sometimes, someone of note joins in, and as 2016 came to a close, a director trifecta chimed in — Martin […]
Martin Scorsese’s Lost Masterpiece: Remembering The King of Comedy
With Silence getting the critics salivating, Sean Wilson examines what is possibly Martin Scorsese’s greatest – and almost certainly most underrated – film, The King of Comedy… Do portrayals of celebrity culture and fan worship get more lacerating and acute than 1983’s masterpiece The King of Comedy? Martin Scorsese’s follow-up to Raging Bull is quite […]
Movie Review – Silence (2016)
Silence, 2016. Directed by Martin Scorsese. Starring Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver, Liam Neeson. Tadanobu Asano, Issei Ogata, Shin’ya Tsukamoto, Yoshi Oida, Yôsuke Kubozuka, and Ciarán Hinds. SYNOPSIS: In the seventeenth century, two Jesuit priests face violence and persecution when they travel to Japan to locate their mentor and propagate Catholicism. To be honest, Martin Scorsese’s […]
Martin Scorsese’s next film with Leonardo DiCaprio is The Devil in the White City
Martin Scorsese is a busy man, indeed. Fresh off bringing long time passion project Silence to screens, the legendary filmmaker is now turning his gaze towards his next project, The Devil in the White City. And no one will be surprised to hear that this involves long time collaborator Leonardo DiCaprio. This will be the […]
Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman will digitally de-age Robert De Niro
Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese are set to reunite for the first time since 1995’s Casino with The Irishman, a biopic of mob hitman Frank Sheeran, and it seems the film will be employing the same kind of digital de-aging we’ve seen recently in Captain America: Civil War and Rogue One: A Star Wars […]
Movie Review – Silence (2016)
Silence, 2016. Directed by Martin Scorsese. Starring Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver, Liam Neeson, Tadanobu Asano, and Ciarán Hinds. SYNOPSIS: Martin Scorsese’s SILENCE tells the story of two Christian missionaries (Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver) who face the ultimate test of faith when they travel to Japan in search of their missing mentor (Liam Neeson) – […]
Amazon orders The Departed TV series
As Amazon continues to build its network of original programming, Variety is reporting it has just acquired a new series from Warner Bros. TV and Plan B based off Martin Scorsese’s The Departed, which in turn was a Western remake of Andrew Lau and Alan Mak’s 2002 Hong Kong thriller Internal Affairs. Warner Bros. TV […]
HBO pulls the plug on rock & roll drama series Vinyl
HBO has announced it is pulling the plug on its epic music drama Vinyl. The Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger-executive-produced series, which recently saw the exit of showrunner Terence Winter back in April, had previously been renewed for Season 2 but, according to THR, those plans have now been scrapped. Vinyl followed New York record […]
Joe Pesci unlikely to appear in Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman
Having finally reached a deal to bring The Irishman to the screen at Cannes after a fierce bidding war, Martin Scorsese’s plans for his long-gestating adaptation of Charles Brandt’s bestselling book I Heard You Paint Houses have suffered a setback, with The Hollywood Reporter revealing that there’s a big question mark over the involvement of […]