KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON – Review by Susan Granger
Master storyteller Martin Scorsese’s harrowing epic Killers of the Flower Moon relates an American true-crime drama, set in the 1920s.
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AMSTERDAM – Review by T.J. Callahan
The cast of Amsterdam reads like an Irwin Allen disaster picture lineup…Christian Bale, Margot Robbie, John David Washington, Rami Malek, Robert DeNiro, Anya Taylor-Joy, Mike Myers, Michael Shannon, Chris Rock, Zoe Saldana, Ed Begley, Jr, Timothy Olyfant and Taylor Swift…and like the Poseidon Adventure, this film is a sinking ship that barely manages to stay afloat.
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Martin Scorsese on THE IRISHMAN, Crime and Corruption in His Cinema – Jennifer Merin interviews
Martin Scorsese’s latest film, The Irishman, releasing November 1 in theaters and available on Netflix on November 27, is the director’s eighth foray into the world of crime and corruption. Perhaps because The Irishman’s truth-based narrative is about relatively recent events that actually changed the course of history, the engrossingly complex, superbly structured and thoroughly gripping crime thriller serves not only as an intense decades-spanning character study, but also as a provocative sociopolitical primer. In our present era’s predicament about finding truth in media, this is a history-making film about historical events. Read what Scorsese has to say about truth in narrative.
Read moreAWFJ Women On Film – “Little Fockers” – Review by Susan Granger
It’s a sad commentary on the pathetic state of Hollywood comedies that this lackluster sequel topped the end-of-the box-office, primarily
Read moreAWFJ Women On Film – Kirk Jones on Bob DeNiro and Hollywood Shooting – MaryAnn Johanson interviews
British screenwriter-director Kirk Jones, 45, looks startlingly like Russell Crowe, but with a demeanor far gentler than the legendarily ferocious
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