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Home Entertainment Guide: December 2020
The latest and greatest on Blu-ray and DVD, including Tenet, The Irishman, Possessor, The Dark and the Wicked, and special edition releases of Total Recall, The Lord of the Rings, and Tremors.
The latest and greatest on Blu-ray and DVD, including Tenet, The Irishman, Possessor, The Dark and the Wicked, and special edition releases of Total Recall, The Lord of the Rings, and Tremors.
Far Flung Correspondent Gerardo Valero reviews Martin Scorsese's "The Irishman."
I have come to appreciate silence not as a sign of weakness or capitulation, but as a finely sharpened dagger that finds its way to the heart, every time.
Some of our favorite performances of the year.
It’s possible that even the uncanny valley ushered in by Scorsese’s so-called “youthification” is there by the director’s elaborate design.
The best films of 2019, as chosen by the staff of RogerEbert.com.
Matt writes: With Martin Scorsese's "The Irishman" being named the best film of 2019 by the National Board of Review and the New York Film Critics Circle soon after its Netflix debut over Thanksgiving weekend, let us take a closer look at this masterwork.
A piece on Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, and Joe Pesci, and what they've meant to the career of Martin Scorsese.
This year’s festival was one of the strongest I’ve ever witnessed.
As much as Matt can say about "Baby Driver" in 30 minutes at the keyboard.
Frank Mosley on "Her Wilderness"; "Goodfellas" is the perfect gangster film; "Ex Machina" and feminism; Amy Schumer on confidence; PTA's 5 types of father figures.
Does "The Wolf of Wall Street" celebrate the bankers it portrays? Omer Mozaffar ponders whether the film endorses their bad behavior.
Scorsese, De Niro reuniting on a new gangster film; Zadie Smith on life, death, Warhol; Spike Lee speaks; our ancestors didn't sleep like us; Van Sant to headline a LGBT film fest in St. Petersburg.
Dedicated to memories of Roger Ebert, for the simple reason that talking about movies is so thrilling. He did not like lists, but I love his lists.
I'm fairly certain most Martin Scorsese fans prefer his Robert DeNiro period to the current one with Leonardo DiCaprio. The later entries may include the film that won him the Academy Award for Best Picture ("The Departed") and they've surely displayed signs of greatness, but I don't think any of them can be discussed as pinnacle achievements like his earlier ones.
