NYFF Journal: The Irishman
With a running time of just under 3 ½ hours, I’m less time away from The Irishman writing this review than it took to watch the film, yet even in these moments following the first screening, it feels like if I’ve witne...
With a running time of just under 3 ½ hours, I’m less time away from The Irishman writing this review than it took to watch the film, yet even in these moments following the first screening, it feels like if I’ve witne...
The fable-like title (an obvious allusion to Leone) and Quentin Tarantino’s track record of toying with history should give you a pretty good hint about what’s in store with his latest film. Once Upon a Time in… ...
Within the entertainment industry is a sad and regrettable tendency for actors who may have started their careers as exciting talents to eventually burn out and lose their audience’s good will. Sometimes this is due to a sim...
Celebrities may seem so unapproachable when you see them all glammed up in their fancy dresses and tuxedos on the Oscar red carpet, but they’re ultimately real people and have lives to live like any of us. You may have even ...
Robert De Niro, once one of the most vital actors of his generation if not all time, has yet another bland, forgettable comedy coming out this week. He’s made a lot of those in the last decade and a half. In this week’...
If nothing else, David Gordon Green deserves credit for having the most eccentric career of any director of his generation. After kicking down the door with his award-winning art house debut ‘George Washington‘, he som...
A trio of legendary performers demonstrate they still have what it takes to make moviegoers laugh and cry. Now in their golden years, Al Pacino, Meryl Streep and Robert De Niro promise to make this a heartfelt summer to remember.
For years, we’ve suffered the indignity of watching Robert De Niro attempt to redefine his career by committing to comedy rather than that “acting” thing he helped revolutionize. His forever linked contemporary A...
Almost everyone is aware of that big ‘Hunger Games’ knockoff in theaters, but did you know that Sean Penn has an action movie opening and that the ‘God’s Not Dead’ folks are back?
In some ways, ‘The Humbling’ plays like a darker sibling to recent Oscar nominee ‘Birdman’. Both films deal with over-the-hill actors experiencing mental breakdowns mid-production on a play, both favor an e...
The second small Al Pacino film at this year’s Toronto Film Festival comes from director David Gordon Green, which means that it could either be a thoughtful and gently surreal art house yarn like ‘George Washington...
‘The Humbling’ serves up yet another film about the pains of being an aging white man delivered by a collection of famous aging white men. Generally speaking, that’s bad news. (See ‘Last Vegas’ for mo...