Jazz Odyssey: Round Midnight
This 1986 drama stars saxophone giant Dexter Gordon as a drug-addled saxophonist in 1950s Paris. Named after a Thelonious Monk composition, based on the life of Bud Powell and featuring […]
This 1986 drama stars saxophone giant Dexter Gordon as a drug-addled saxophonist in 1950s Paris. Named after a Thelonious Monk composition, based on the life of Bud Powell and featuring […]
This is the story of a mob hit man (Robert De Niro) and his relationships with an elderly crime boss (Joe Pesci) and a charismatic union leader (Al Pacino). Martin […]
A bunch of low-level crooks behave terribly for two and a half hours. While the subject matter, title and running time suggests a Godfather-style crime epic, Goodfellas is actually every […]
Long Strange Trip is a Grateful Dead documentary produced by the band, their families, Martin Scorsese and David Lemieux; the archivist best known for getting distracted by nature. At 4 hours this […]
“This film should be played loud!” So begins Martin Scorsese’s The Last Waltz, and the careers of Michael Bay and Zack Snyder. Not to be confused with Take This Waltz or Christoph […]
Set in the 17th century, Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver play a pair of Portuguese priests who go to Japan as missionaries in search of their mentor Father Ferreira (Liam […]
Released in 1997, Paul Thomas Anderson’s Boogie Nights follows Eddie Adams AKA Dirk Diggler (Mark Wahlberg) as he tries to make it in the pornography industry. Set in California in the late ’70s and early […]
The story of an undercover cop (Leonardo DiCaprio) and a mob insider (Matt Damon), The Departed is the best film about a rat and a mole since The Wind in […]
Life Itself is an informative and moving documentary about Roger Ebert, the great film critic who died from cancer in April 2013. Based on and featuring excerpts from Ebert’s memoir of […]
A violent criminal, Max Cady (Robert De Niro), is released from prison after 14 years. Cady hunts down his former defence attorney (Nick Nolte) and starts to terrorize his family […]