The Color of Money
The Color of Money (green, for those wondering) is a 1986 film starring Tom Cruise and Paul Newman as pool players who work together to hustle their unsuspecting opponents – until ultimately they turn...
Category: Directors
As I write about various directors and their filmographies, they can be found here.
The King of Comedy
The King of Comedy brings back Robert De Niro as the starring role for the fifth time over Marty’s eight films to date. And for the fifth time, he plays a person that, if...
Raging Bull
I’m very glad I finally got around to watching this. Part of the reason I decided on Scorsese for my director deep dive was to give me an excuse to watch some stone-cold classics...
New York, New York
This film, not the city, stars Robert De Niro and Liza Minnelli as they enter a complicated on-and-off again relationship fueled by love, hate, and music. It’s like La La Land, except the audience...
Taxi Driver
I normally try to avoid most spoilers in my articles, but it is not possible to talk about this film without a spoiler warning here. Marty’s fifth feature film, Taxi Driver, follows Travis Bickle...
Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
Apologies for the three week hiatus. We should be back on-track now. Marty’s fourth feature film was something completely different to him. The film follows Alice, a widow attempting to raise her son while...
Mean Streets
Scorsese’s third film, Mean Streets, is the spiritual sequel to his directing debut, Who’s That Knocking at My Door, both in terms of themes and its star, Harvey Keitel. This is the first time...
Boxcar Bertha
Based on the strength of his first film, Martin Scorsese was hired by producer Roger Corman to direct his next project, Boxcar Bertha, the story of a southern girl turned criminal who goes on...
Who’s That Knocking at My Door
Andddddd we’re back! Welcome to my highly anticipated (at least in my own head) series where I’ll be reviewing all 26 of Martin Scorsese’s feature films in chronological order. I’ve had a great time...
The Biggys – A Kathryn Bigelow Retrospective
Now that I’ve made my way through Bigelow’s entire filmography, I felt like it would be fun to honor the tradition I started with M Night Shymalan and hold an award show celebrating the...
