martin-scorsese

Stop Picking on ‘The Irishman’

A recent ‘Hollywood Reporter’ piece about Netflix’s troubles singled out Martin Scorsese’s epic gangster saga as a ‘vanity project’ that represented what’s wrong with the streamer. Why have people had it out for this movie since before it was even released?

How Good of a Cabbie was De Niro in ‘Taxi Driver’?

I asked three New York City cab drivers to size-up Travis Bickle’s taxi-driving skills in the hopes of finding out whether the crazed psychopath might also have been a decent cabbie

In ‘Cape Fear,’ Robert De Niro Wants to Kill Your Family

Martin Scorsese updates the 1962 thriller into a genuine horror movie about a sexual predator tormenting his former lawyer

Ray Liotta’s Bittersweet Return to the Mob

The veteran actor is terrific in ‘The Many Saints of Newark,’ but the performance only underlines the long shadow that ‘Goodfellas’ has cast over his career