Last week, I rewatched Casino, Martin Scorsese’s 178-minute glitz epic about the rise and fall of the mob in Las Vegas in the 1970s and ’80s—a movie that wrestles with its own conspicuous excess. The needle-drop montages, the zillion costume changes and killer suit-shirt-and-tie combos, the physical and verbal…
Back in October, Martin Scorsese dismissed Rotten Tomatoes and other review aggregation websites, saying that they “have absolutely nothing to do with real film criticism” and that they “rate a picture the way you’d rate a horse at the racetrack. He says condensing a movie down to a score—or a “Rotten” or “Fresh”…
Netflix announced today that it’s teaming back up with Martin Scorsese, with the prolific filmmaker embarking on a documentary special focused on the rise and legacy of Canadian comedy institution SCTV. Scorsese, presumably, was drawn to the project because of his well-known love of cult comedy, and also the fact that…
Welcome to Stream And Stream Again, a monthly column highlighting films and TV series new to streaming catalogs that are of special interest to The A.V. Club’s staff—and hopefully to you, our readers. Here are five new titles streaming this April.
According to a report from The Guardian, Martin Scorsese is so totally obsessed with the history of Rome that he’s teaming up with screenwriter Michael Hirst for The Caesars, a TV drama about the history of ancient Rome. Hirst is already a veritable expert in historical TV dramas as the creator of Showtime’s The…
Action Bronson, a man who has a late-night cable show where all he does is watch Ancient Aliens and smoke a bong, has been spotted on the set of the latest Martin Scorsese film, which is weird and kind of cool. Billboard reports that Bronson—who started out as a hip-hop artist and chef before branching out into eating…
Online education site MasterClass operates from an undeniably hooky premise: Find one of the biggest, most recognizable celebrities in a field—Gordon Ramsay for cooking, Shonda Rhimes for screenwriting, Steve Martin for comedy, etc.—and get them to give a point-blank series of talks into the camera on the subject of…
According to Deadline, Jack Huston has joined the cast of Martin Scorsese’s new Netflix mob movie The Irishman. That makes this a Boardwalk Empire reunion of sorts, as Huston played Richard Harrow on that series and Scorsese was one of its executive producers, but The Irishman is also just a big excuse for everybody…
Now that he has his Oscar, Leonardo DiCaprio can start making fun movies that are just excuses to hang out with his pals. Case in point, Variety is reporting that DiCaprio will soon be reuniting with his old friend Marty—a.k.a. acclaimed director Martin Scorsese—for an adaptation of true-crime thriller Killers Of The…
Few bands have been as thoroughly subsumed by their own mythology as the Grateful Dead, which, at its height, was simultaneously a working musical group, a subculture in its own right, and the nexus of what was, essentially, a traveling town of hippies and societal drop-outs. That confusion is captured aptly in the…
For his next film collaboration with Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro will be doing something that’s more Lucasfilm than Raging Bull. For the duo’s new Netflix movie The Irishman, 73-year-old De Niro will be playing Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran, the labor union official and alleged hit man who confessed to killing…
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Michael Ballhaus, the German director of photography known for his mastery of camera movement and his partnerships with directors Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Martin Scorsese, has died. One of the most remarkable cinematographers of his generation, Ballhaus brought the expressive and fluid camera of the classic studio…
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Way back in 1990, Martin Scorsese made a short documentary about fashion designer Girogio Armani that primarily focused on his day-to-day life as he prepared for a fashion show. Titled Made In Milan, the film is Scorsese’s only short-form documentary, and for whatever reason, it has been pretty much forgotten in the…
Variety reports that Netflix has acquired the rights to The Irishman, the latest collaboration between long-time friends Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro. Originally announced way back in 2010, the film is expected to start shooting later this year, and will be the ninth shared project between De Niro and his Raging…
Last week, Nintendo showed off its new system, the Switch—an interesting fusion between the company’s long line of massively popular handheld systems and forward-thinking TV-based consoles. With it, Nintendo premiered a bunch of games from its flagship series, including the first evolutionary Mario game since Super…
The plot of Martin Scorsese’s Silence—his epic based on Shūsaku Endō’s novel of the same name—hinges around the search for Portuguese missionary Father Ferreira, played by Liam Neeson. With the film set to be released nationwide this weekend, The A.V. Club has an exclusive featurette which delves into the role and…
Martin Scorsese isn’t one to give up on a project easily; this is a man who spent 26 years trying to get his religious epic Silence off the ground before finally succeeding just a few weeks ago. But not even Scorsese can stand up to the Sinatra family, apparently, with Pitchfork reporting that the Goodfellas director…
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