New York Post (Free subscription) | 12/10/2008
PAGE Six gets action. When Leonardo DiCaprio filmed "Ashcliffe" under the direction of Martin Scorsese six months ago in Boston, Leo's beloved LA Lakers were facing the Boston Celtics in the NBA Finals. One day, DiCaprio got into a basketball...
PXDCO Reviews (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Click Here to download Body of Lies Fresh off of their success with director Martin Scorsese’s The Departed, star Leonardo DiCaprio and screenwriter William Monahan team with director Ridley Scott for this screen adaptation of David Ignatius’ novel Body of Lies. When CIA operative Roger Ferris (DiCaprio) uncovers evidence indicating that a major terrorist leader may [...]
Vulture (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Photo: Getty Images If New York cinema belongs to Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen, no other British filmmaker of the past 30 years has chronicled London quite like Mike Leigh (of Topsy-Turvy and Vera Drake fame), whose renowned, hands-on style entails months of improvisatory sessions to shape the narratives of his films. His irresistible latest work, Happy-Go-Lucky — which hits theaters tonight —...
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Kim Chan, an actor who became a familiar face in a variety of Asian roles, notably as Jerry Lewis's butler in the Martin Scorsese film "The King of Comedy," a character who did furious battle with an obsessed fan played by Robert De Niro, has died in Brooklyn.
Film Junk (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
The results are in, and it looks like last week’s poll wasn’t much of a contest as Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas easily took home the title of “Best Mob Movie” with over 35% of the votes. The Godfather probably would have had a shot at beating it except that the votes were split between part 1 [...]
BigPictureBigSound.com (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Martin Scorsese returned to familiar territory in this 1995 film about the mob in pre-corporate 1970's Las Vegas
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin is going to be on SNL this weekend. She's going to spoof Tina Fey 's Amex commercial with Martin Scorsese . Tina Fey is brilliant. Funny. Smart. Talented. Sarah Palin reads at a third grade level. Our suggestion for a title: Pearls Before Swine...With Lipstick. New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media
The Independent (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
How do you portray the Mob as it really is? It's a challenge that has tested film-makers since the earliest days of the silent movie era. Gangster movies have been made for going on 100 years now; the director Martin Scorsese cites DW Griffith's The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912) and Raoul Walsh's The Regeneration as the first forays into the genre, but others look back even further.
Starpulse News (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Fresh off of their success with director Martin Scorsese's The Departed, star Leonardo DiCaprio and screenwriter William Monahan team with director Ridley Scott for this screen adaptation... Continue summary Pictures / Video / Win a 'Body of Lies' Prize Pack / More
Hollywood Grind (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
According to The Chicago-Sun Times, staffers for Sarah Palin would like to arrange for Sarah to play Tina Fey on Saturday Night Live in a Weekend Update sketch, and they would also like Sarah to do a parody of Tina Fey’s AMEX commercials with Martin Scorsese. If Sarah does it, the sketches would appear in [...]
MTV Movies Blog (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
When Tim Burton announces a film project, there are rarely any surprises in the casting department. It’s more like a check-list that ends with Christopher Lee. But is there really anything wrong with that? Martin Scorsese does it all the time! With that introduction, it will come as no surprise to you that [...]
The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Matteo Garrone ’s Gomorrah , a documentary-like depiction of the brutal Camorra organized crime regime that rules the southern Campania region of Italy, screened to a small audience—including Martin Scorsese , Steve Buscemi , Stanley Tucci , Nick Pileggi , John Turturro , and Gay Talese —Friday evening, followed by a dinner discussion at Osteria del Circo. (Mr. Buscemi told the Daily Transom he found...
Starpulse News (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
British royal Sarah Ferguson has tried her hand at film making - producing a new movie about late monarch Queen Victoria. The Duchess of York teamed up with Martin Scorsese [...] Read more!
enrevanche (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
OJ Simpson, guilty on all 12 counts in the sports memorabilia robbery case. You know, this is kind of like when Martin Scorsese won the Oscar for "The Departed," which was an okay movie but nothing like his best work ("Raging Bull"? Come on.) The Academy was really recognizing him, um, cumulatively...
Fritz's House of Movie Reviews (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
For some time now, many of us have been hoping (and probably praying!) for the Scorsese-Pesci-De Niro trifecta to reunite. And it would seem that our prayers have been partially answered . Goodfellas director Martin Scorsese and the movie's star Robert De Niro are returning to the murky underworld of the New York mob for a new gangster film. De Niro has signed to play Frank 'the Irishman' Sheeran in...
