Miami. 1980. Al Pacino is a Cuban refugee looking to make it big in the land of opportunity. Enticed? You should be. Scarface, Brian De Palma’s 1980 three-hour thriller, begins rather ominously; the credits inform us that of the 125,000 Cuban refugees that arrived in Florida, 25,000 of them had criminal records. A rom-com this […]
Scorsese’s latest crime epic is as impressive as it is ambitious, worthy of the excitement it generated as soon as the incredible cast, which includes the likes of Robert De Niro and Al Pacino, was announced. Although The Irishman is better suited to its natural home of Netflix due to it’s outrageous three and a […]
As the follow-up to Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo’s 1972 classic The Godfather, often considered one of the best films ever made, 1974’s The Godfather: Part II had perhaps the highest hurdle to cross that any sequel could be faced with. When you consider that the film had no source material outlining its plot […]
The Godfather (1972) is a crime film about a Mafia family in New York during the years after The Second World War. It is widely regarded as one of the greatest films ever made and, as such, has been analysed repeatedly and in depth for its undeniable success in storytelling and its influence on the […]