Martin Scorsese is recognized as a champion of cinema, a man who’s dedicated his life to preserving the seventh art, the former model for the single most 1970s beard ever and our greatest living American filmmaker. What folks usually forget to mention is that the 81-year-old director is also our …
Read More »To B or Not to B? Why Roger Corman Was One of the Most Influential Figures in Movie History
A quick question: Do you like The Godfather? How about Goodfellas? Or Gremlins? Or Stop Making Sense, Avatar, Apollo 13, Chinatown, Easy Rider, Paper Moon, Lone Star, or roughly 90 percent of any movies featuring monsters terrorizing pretty ladies from the last 50 years? You have, in so many ways, …
Read More »How to Watch 'Killers of the Flower Moon' Online, Just in Time for the Oscars
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Quick Answer: Scorsese fans can watch Killers of the Flower Moon online by buying it on Prime Video and Vudu, or by streaming it with a free trial …
Read More »Oscars 2024 Predictions: Who Will Win, Who Should Win
Many decades ago, a man — feared by some and respected by others — had a breakthrough idea. He and a team of dedicated colleagues worked feverishly to make the conceptual notion come to fruition. It was a big swing, and the end result would become a historical game changer. …
Read More »Greta Gerwig's Oscar Snub for 'Barbie' Is Classic Academy BS
In Billy Crystal’s musical medley that opened the 1992 Oscars, he sang a tribute to Barbra Streisand’s romantic drama The Prince of Tides to the tune of “Don’t Rain on My Parade,” the song made famous, of course, by Barbra Streisand. He crooned: “Seven nominations on the shelf, did this …
Read More »Lily Gladstone Is Seizing the Moment — and Making History
W hen Lily Gladstone was growing up on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in rural Montana, acting in plays was an escape from bullies, who targeted her for being “verbose and goofy.” The idea came from her father, a Native man of Piegan Blackfeet and Nez Perce heritage, whom she describes …
Read More »Leonardo DiCaprio Shouldn't Have Played 'Idiot' in 'Flower Moon,' Says Paul Schrader
Paul Schrader would like a word, please. In a new interview with French publication Le Monde, the screenwriter — who has worked with Martin Scorsese on iconic films Raging Bull and Taxi Driver — shared his dissatisfaction with Leonardo DiCaprio playing “the idiot” Ernest Burkhart instead of the FBI agent …
Read More »Robert De Niro's Number One Priority Is Getting Rid of Trump
Robert De Niro has had a hell of a year. In April, the screen icon welcomed a daughter, Gia, with his girlfriend Tiffany Chen. Three months later, he lost his grandson, Leandro, to a drug overdose at just 19 years of age. Then came the actors’ strike, causing an industry-wide …
Read More »Why Does Martin Scorsese Make Everyone Lose Their Minds?
Across his grand filmography, Martin Scorsese has weighed up the deadly sins that make us all too human. Greed, wrath, envy, pride — name the flaw, he’s made it visceral on the screen. That he’s 80 years old and bringing out the epic Killers of the Flower Moon, based on …
Read More »'Killers of the Flower Moon' Was 'F-king Hellfire' to Watch for 'Reservation Dogs' Star Devery Jacobs
Reservation Dogs actress Devery Jacobs is speaking up about the portrayal of violence against indigenous people in Martin Scorsese‘s new film, Killers of the Flower Moon. In a series of tweets Monday, the actress, who is Kanien’keha:ka, described the movie — which depicts the Osage murders — as “painful, grueling, …
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