When it was originally released into theaters during the cinema of paranoia that defined 1970’s American film, few aside from its makers, their roving band of American New Wave gang, and a few hip movie critics ever event thought to seek a...

Todd Phillips's film ‘Joker’ and Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver both follow isolated, mentally ill protagonists, Arthur and Travis, as they explore the significant shift in the protagonist’s identity provoked by a callous society. However, Arthur a...

In his analysis of Taxi Driver as a revisionist western, Robert Ray places Taxi Driver's protagonist Travis Bickle squarely in the mould of the solitary heroes of the western genre. He notes the unspecified origins of Travis as well as the...

Whether making gritty dramas or black comedies or even a Biblical epic, legendary film director Martin Scorsese consistently proves over and over against he possesses an absolutely unerring instinct for knowing when his film requires a score, when...

‘What’s interesting to me is how the story keeps changing, and the reality of what’s happening keeps changing, and how, up until the very final scene, it's all about how the truth is perceived.’ – Martin Scorsese, director of Shutter Island.

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A guilty conscious can be a crippling ordeal to the mind especially if the basis of the guilt cannot be undone or corrected. When the mind is in emotional distress it will grasp on any construct that makes it feel better. In Martin Scorsese’s ...

A guilty conscious can be a crippling ordeal to the mind especially if the basis of the guilt cannot be undone or corrected. When the mind is in emotional distress it will grasp on any construct that makes it feel better. In Martin Scorsese’s...

“I am not a destroyer of companies. I am a liberator of them. The point is ladies and gentlemen that greed for lack of a better word is good. Greed is right. Greed works, clarifies and cuts through and captures the essence of the evolutionary...