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NOBU (Tribeca 2025) – Review by Beth Accomando

June 16, 2025June 20, 2025 Beth Accomando documentary, Jean-Georges Vongerichten, matt tyrnauer, Nobu, Nobu Matsuhisa, robert de niro, sushu, Tribeca 2025, Wolfgang Puck

Matt Tyrnauer helms this documentary portrait, which divides its time between tracking Chef Nobu’s personal history with a behind the scenes look at his signature restaurants, Matsuhisa and Nobu as well as his fine dining empire. Tyrnauer shows how experiences in Peru and Alaska shaped Nobu, and how Nobu innovated his own take on Japanese cuisine. The documentary includes interviews with Nobu’s founding partner Robert De Niro, as well as with celebrated chefs Wolfgang Puck and Jean-Georges Vongerichten. Nobu’s daughter explains that her father had no clue who DeNiro was when the actor first came to the restaurant with an offer to partner on a project. It is fun to see DeNiro’s passion for the work he does with Nobu, it’s a side of the star we don’t often see.

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ZERO DAY – Review by Susan Granger

February 26, 2025February 27, 2025 Susan Granger Angela Bassett, Eric Newman, jesse plemons, joan allen, Lesli Linka Glatter, matthew modine, Michael J. Schmidt, netflix, Noah Oppenheim, robert de niro, television series, Zero Day

One of 2025’s most anticipated ‘new’ Netflix releases – Zero Day – marking Robert De Niro’s first leading role in a television series – is a dreadful disappointment. Obviously ‘green lit’ before the Trump tidal wave swept the Presidential election, it’s filled with unfulfilled promises. As a political thriller, it has a provocative premise: a catastrophic terrorist cyberattack disables computers throughout the nation. Planes crash. Cars collide. Hospitals shut down. Wall Street, including the New York Stock Exchange, halts. All forms of digital communication cease to exist. The concept is truly terrifying.

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KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON – Review by Valerie Kalfrin

October 16, 2023October 16, 2023 Valerie Kalfrin David Grann, eric roth, jesse plemons, Killers of the Flower Moon, Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone, martin scorsese, Osage Nation, Robbie Robertson, robert de niro, Rodrigo Prieto, tantoo cardinal

To the Osage, the flower moon occurs when tiny flowers sprout over the hills in waves of color. Then taller plants pop up among them, stealing their water and sunshine, eventually killing them—the forces that doom them lying among them all along. The film Killers of the Flower Moon doesn’t hammer home the metaphor that author David Grann introduced in his best-selling 2017 book of the same name. But this intricate crime drama about the real-life slayings on the Osage Nation over the inheritance of oil rights gives director Martin Scorsese other allegories. The evil of White supremacy. The poison of greed. The betrayal of native people overall.

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KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON – Review by Susan Kamyab

October 16, 2023October 19, 2023 Susan Kamyab Killers of the Flower Moon, Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone, martin scorsese, Osage, robert de niro, truth-based

No surprise, Martin Scorsese hands us another triumph. Though the story of bad people murdering innocent ones and later getting caught is a familiar theme for the director, he revives the formula by telling an infuriating piece of non-fiction which reminds us of a heartbreaking American injustice that deserves to be remembered. It’s an important part of history told masterfully through a slightly comedic tone that makes the horrifying truths easier to digest.

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THE IRISHMAN – Review by Susan Granger

December 5, 2019 Susan Granger 0 Comments al pacino, jimmy hoffa, joe pesce, martin scorsese, netflix, robert de niro, the irishman

Martin Scorsese has created a sprawling, three-and-a-half-hour gangster epic, teaming Robert De Niro with Al Pacino (for the first time),

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THE IRISHMAN – Review by Brandy McDonnell

November 28, 2019November 29, 2019 Brandy McDonnell 0 Comments al pacino, joe Pesci, martin scorsese, netflix, robert de niro, the irishman

Even by their superlative standards, De Niro, Pacino and Pesci – the latter came out of retirement at Scorsese’s behest, give stellar performances, and Industrial Light & Magic’s de-aging effects show just how far that cinematic technology has come in a short time.

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Ruth E. Carter and Sandy Powell talk Epic Costuming – Jazz Tangcay interviews

November 27, 2019December 28, 2019 Jazz Tangcay 0 Comments designers, dolemite is my name, domemite is my name, eddie murphy, robert de niro, ruth carter, Ruth E. Carter, sandy powell, the irishman

Ruth E. Carter made history when she became the first African-American to win the Academy Award for Outstanding Costume Design add this year for “Black Panther.” Recently, she’s reteamed with Eddie Murphy on Netflix’s “Dolemite Is My Name” (they previously collaborated on “Daddy Day Care,” “I Spy” and “Dr. Dolittle 2”), for which where she created more than over 75 costume changes for the star Murphy alone.

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JOKER – Review by Susan Granger

October 17, 2019 Susan Granger 0 Comments batman, DC Comics, frances conroy, joachin phoenix, Joker, robert de niro, Todd Phillips

Ostensibly, this is the ultra-bleak origin story of DC Comics’ super-villain and Batman’s arch nemesis, known as the Joker. Saddled with a long familial history of insanity, which he shares with his deranged mother who tried to burn him alive as a child, troubled, tortured Arthur Fleck, who’s plagued with uncontrollable laughter, has endured years of social isolation and medical negligence.

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