Tag: The Departed
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Martin Scorsese’s 10 Best Documentary Movies, Ranked
Martin Scorsese, now in his 80s, is a filmmaker who’s made countless iconic movies over the past 50+ years. While he’s most often celebrated for his influential gangster movies like Goodfellas, Casino, and The Departed, he’s far from someone who only makes movies in that genre. After all, he’s also behind films like After Hours,…
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Jack Nicholson’s 10 Best Movies, Ranked by Rotten Tomatoes
Jack Nicholson is ranked as one of Hollywood’s greatest stars and versatile actor starring in iconic films such as One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Chinatown and The Departed. The actor made his film debut as the lead in the teen drama, The Cry Baby Killer, but his career didn’t take off until appearing in…
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Jack Nicholson’s Most Underrated Characters
Jack Nicholson is arguably the finest actor of the last fifty years. Ever since he burst onto the scene as the whacked out George Hanson in the counter-culture classic Easy Rider in 1969, he has never looked back accumulating over sixty roles in his filmography. His twelve Oscar nominations are a record, and he has…
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The Daily Stream: The Departed Is A Rare Remake That Matches The Original With Fresh Themes
(Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching, why it’s worth checking out, and where you can stream it.)The Movie: “The Departed“Where You Can Stream It: Netflix, HBO MaxThe Pitch: A cop and criminal each risk blowing their cover while acting as informants for the…
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The 7 Best Movies New to Netflix in June 2022
Netflix’s film slate has made news in recent weeks, mainly due to a bombshell report that the streaming service is planning to stop funding expensive prestige movies like Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman” in favor of cheaper, crowd-pleasing fare.But while Scorsese may not be directing another film for Netflix anytime soon (he’s moved on to Apple…
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Ben Affleck, Tye Sheridan Get Confessional in First Look at George Clooney’s ‘The Tender Bar’
There are more than a few surprises coming for awards watchers and film fans this Christmas. George Clooney’s latest, “The Tender Bar,” looks to be one of them.Amazon Studios will release the film in select theaters on Dec. 17, the studio announced Wednesday, followed by a nationwide rollout on Dec. 22. Amazon Prime Video members…
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Jack Nicholson Rewrote ‘Departed’ Scene to Make It More Twisted, but It Didn’t Get Used
One of the most memorable lines in Martin Scorsese’s “The Departed” arrives early. Jack Nicholson’s mob boss Frank Costello is lecturing young Colin Sullivan when Scorsese cuts to one of Costello’s murders. Costello shoots a woman from behind on a beach. “She fell funny,” the mob boss tells his partner, played by Ray Winstone. It’s…
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Pixar’s ‘Soul’ Gets Its Heart From Two Ex-Journo Screenwriters
Is journalism the best training ground for screenwriting? Two-thirds of the writers of Pixar’s “Soul” have backgrounds as reporters: Mike Jones and Kemp Powers.They wrote “Soul” with director Pete Docter; Powers is also co-director of the film, which debuts Dec. 25 on Disney Plus and seems a likely contender for Oscars and other film awards.Jones…
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Ben Affleck Eyed for George Clooney Drama ‘The Tender Bar’
Ben Affleck is being considered to star in George Clooney’s feature film version of J.R. Moehringer’s coming-of-age story “The Tender Bar: A Memoir” for Amazon Studios.Affleck and Clooney worked together as producers on “Argo,” which won them and Clooney’s producing partner Grant Heslov an Academy Award for best picture.Clooney and Heslov are producing “The Tender…
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The Best Movies Leaving HBO Max in September 2020
It feels like only yesterday I was writing about how Blazing Saddles and The Departed were coming to HBO Max. They both arrived on the streaming service last month, but evidently only booked a short stay – they’re both packing up and moving on at the end of next month. Instead of recommending again that…