The year was 1995. Scorsese, De Niro, & Pesci teamed up in CASINO (and GOODFELLAS in 1990) and De Niro & Pacino in HEAT. And now all four have finally come together in Scorsese’s ‘The Irishman’. Arguably the greatest cast…
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Music homage films abound in 2019 (Beatles, Springsteen, Elton John & Bob Dylan)
After the big box-office smash hit Bohemian Rhapsody, film studios must have been wiping the dust off dozens of musical homage scripts faster than they could sing: ‘We will, we will rock you!’. Yesterday and Blinded By The Light In…
Tagged with: beatles, Blinded By the Light, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Elton John, Film, IMDB, Martin Scorsese, music, Rocketman, Rolling Thunder Revue, Yesterday
Posted in Movies and TV, Music
Posted in Movies and TV, Music
‘Love and Theft’ – American Hustle (2013)
David Russell lent heavily from Martin Scorsese’s best crime dramas to make American Hustle. The narratives, music and editing are an almost direct homage to Scorsese’s 90’s work particularly Casino. Even De Niro makes a key entrance wearing the same…
Tagged with: American Hustle, Amy Adams, Casino, Goodfellas, Jordan Belfort, Martin Scorsese, Silver Linings Playbook, Wolf of Wall Street
Posted in Movies and TV
Posted in Movies and TV
