By Simon Miraudo August 18, 2014 Play It Again is a weekly feature in which our classic-film connoisseurs revisit a revered motion picture from the annals of movie history, to see if it holds up… or if it has aged terribly. And yes, it takes its name from a famously misquoted Casablanca line. Hey, whatever. It […]
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Trailer Debut: Grudge Match
September 13, 2013 
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Sylvester Stallone and Robert De Niro are headed back to the boxing ring, but not as Rocky Balboa and Jake LaMotta. In Grudge Match, they play former adversaries who, in their 60s, agree to a 30-years-in-the-making, well, grudge match. The sports comedy also stars Kevin Hart, Alan Arkin, and Kim Basinger, and comes from director […]
Continue readingPlay It Again – Casino
July 2, 2013 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo July 2, 2013 Play It Again is a weekly feature in which our classic-film connoisseurs revisit a revered motion picture from the annals of movie history, to see if it holds up… or if it has aged terribly. And yes, it takes its name from a famously misquoted Casablanca line (hey, whatever; […]
Continue readingTeaser Debut: Last Vegas
May 20, 2013 0 Comments
Everyone old is new again! The teaser for Last Vegas – looking like a cross between The Hangover and The Bucket List – touts Oscar winners Michael Douglas, Morgan Freeman, Robert De Niro, and Kevin Kline “like you’ve never seen them before.” Douglas plays a long-time bachelor finally bound for matrimony. He brings his three […]
Continue readingPlay It Again – Mean Streets
April 16, 2013 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo April 16, 2013 Play It Again is a weekly feature in which our classic-film connoisseurs revisit a revered motion picture from the annals of movie history, to see if it holds up… or if it has aged terribly. And yes, it takes its name from a famously misquoted Casablanca line (hey, whatever; […]
Continue readingManic depressive dream girl – Silver Linings Playbook review
January 29, 2013 0 Comments
Silver Linings Playbook – Starring Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, and Robert De Niro. Directed by David O. Russell. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. The most pleasant surprise in David O. Russell‘s Silver Linings Playbook is that Bradley Cooper is the best thing in it, despite it also featuring such venerable actors as Robert De Niro, […]
Continue readingPlay It Again – Cape Fear
January 23, 2013 0 Comments
Play It Again – Cape Fear. Starring Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, and Polly Bergen. Directed by J. Lee Thompson. Rated M. By Jess Lomas. Play It Again is a weekly feature in which our classic-film connoisseurs revisit a revered motion picture from the annals of movie history, to see if it holds up… or if […]
Continue readingCrispin Glover checks into Motel
July 4, 2012 0 Comments
Back to the Future alum Crispin Glover will join John Cusack and Robert De Niro in the indie thriller Motel. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film concerns a hit man (Cusack) hired by a crime boss (De Niro) to battle a bunch of “shadowy characters” in a motel in the Delta bayous. Martin Klebba and Rebecca De Costa also star […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: Silver Linings Playbook
June 29, 2012 0 Comments
The trailer for Silver Linings Playbook, director David O. Russell‘s follow-up to Oscar winner The Fighter, has arrived online. Bradley Cooper stars as a former teacher released (prematurely?) from a mental institution and into the care of his parents (Robert De Niro, Jacki Weaver). He sparks up a relationship with a similarly troubled neighbour (Jennifer Lawrence). Russell adapted […]
Continue readingPlay It Again – Taxi Driver
May 29, 2012 1 Comment
Play It Again – Taxi Driver. Starring Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, and Cybill Shepherd. Directed by Martin Scorsese. Rated R. By Jess Lomas. Play It Again is a weekly feature in which our classic-film connoisseurs revisit a revered motion picture from the annals of movie history, to see if it holds up… or if […]
Continue readingMorgan Freeman might head to Last Vegas
May 17, 2012 0 Comments
Morgan Freeman is in talks to join Robert De Niro and Michael Douglas in Last Vegas, Deadline reports. The film is something of an elderly Hangover; Douglas will play the last of four old friends to get hitched, who is treated by his buddies to a raucous bachelor party in Sin City. Jon Turteltaub will direct the comedy for CBS Films. […]
Continue readingRobert De Niro joins Michael Douglas for Last Vegas
May 14, 2012 0 Comments
Robert De Niro is set to join Michael Douglas in Last Vegas, a Hangover–reminiscent comedy about three older gents who throw a bachelor party in Sin City for their soon-to-be-married pal. According to Deadline, Jon Turteltaub will direct the comedy for CBS Films. Douglas will play the unmarried fellow. So… Discuss: Cast the last two elderly party animals!
Continue readingMel Gibson takes his temper to Machete Kills
April 24, 2012 0 Comments
Mel Gibson, who you may or may not be aware has featured heavily in the news recently, is in “serious discussions” to join Machete Kills, Deadline reports. It seems that Gibson only has “serious discussions” these days. Robert Rodriguez will direct the sequel to 2010’s Machete, bringing back Danny Trejo as the vengeance-seeking grindhouse hero. […]
Continue readingRaging Bull II in the works
April 10, 2012 1 Comment
Here is what happens when you withdraw from the world of movie news over the Easter long weekend – someone goes ahead and announces a sequel to Raging Bull. According to MovieHole, National Lampoon’s Cattle Call director Martin Guigui is set to helm a sequel to Martin Scorsese‘s iconic 1980 boxing biopic. William Forsythe is […]
Continue readingShould old acquaintance be forgot? – New Year’s Eve review
December 7, 2011 0 Comments
New Year’s Eve – Starring Hilary Swank, Ashton Kutcher and Sarah Jessica Parker. Directed by Garry Marshall. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. These movies must be really easy to write. You know the kind. They’ve got a countless number of tangentially-related stock characters portrayed by typecast actors (saves time normally spent on characterisation!) who make […]
Continue readingSee Jacki Weaver as Bradley Cooper’s mum in The Silver Linings Playbook
November 9, 2011 0 Comments
The first images from David O. Russell‘s follow-up to The Fighter, The Silver Linings Playbook, have arrived online. The snaps – collected by Collider at the AFM – give us our first glimpse of Oscar nominated Aussie Jacki Weaver as Bradley Cooper‘s mother. Cooper’s character – Pat Peoples – is a former high school teacher […]
Continue readingRobert De Niro to play Bernie Madoff
November 7, 2011 0 Comments
Robert De Niro looks set to play a character more villainous and depraved than Max Cady and Travis Bickle combined: Bernie Madoff. According to The Hollywood Reporter, HBO have optioned Laurie Sandell’s book Truth and Consequences: Life Inside the Madoff Family with the intention of bringing it to the small screen. De Niro’s Tribeca Productions is […]
Continue readingKristen Wiig joins Robert De Niro in The Comedian
November 1, 2011 0 Comments
Kristen Wiig is set to star alongside Robert De Niro in Sean Penn‘s upcoming directorial effort The Comedian, according to international distributor Film Nation. Don’t be fooled into thinking this is a comedy though! Despite the title and Saturday Night Live star Wiig’s recent box office hit Bridesmaids, the film is reportedly a drama. Also, Sean Penn is behind the […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: New Year’s Eve
July 29, 2011 0 Comments
Everyone in Hollywood is falling for everyone else in Hollywood, in the first trailer for New Year’s Eve. The producers of Valentine’s Day have reunited with their director Garry Marshall to bring us another one-night-only tale in which seemingly the entire constellation of celebrities attempt to hook up with one another. VD alum Ashton Kutcher, Jessica Biel and Hector Elizondo are […]
Continue readingDavid O. Russell no longer directing Uncharted
May 27, 2011 0 Comments
Oscar-nominated director David O. Russell (The Fighter, Three Kings) will no longer direct the film adaptation of the popular video game Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune. The news comes from Deadline, although no reason for Russell’s exit has been mentioned. It is unknown if frequent Russell collaborator Mark Wahlberg still remains attached to play Drake. Fans of the video […]
Continue readingLittle effort – Little Fockers review
December 23, 2010 2 Comments
Little Fockers – Starring Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro and Teri Polo. Directed by Paul Weitz. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. It’s the holidays, and the third instalment of the Meet the Parents saga has arrived – not unlike the Ghost of Christmas Future – to provide us with a terrifying glimpse at a journey […]
Continue readingMark Wahlberg to star in Uncharted
November 25, 2010 4 Comments
Mark Wahlberg – continuing his ongoing tour of bristling honesty – has revealed to MTV he will star in David O. Russell‘s upcoming adaptation of the video game Uncharted. Wahlberg told Josh Horowitz that he was definitely involved in the project, presumably as treasure hunter Nathan Drake. He also confirmed the heretofore too-good-to-be-true rumour that […]
Continue readingStallone and De Niro to jump back into the boxing ring?
October 21, 2010 0 Comments
This is kinda tasty. Production Weekly tweeted (yeah, we know) a rumour that Sylvester Stallone and Robert De Niro might be teaming up for a new boxing film entitled Grudge Match. According to THR, the film “revolves around retired boxers Billy “The Kid” McGuigan and Henry “Razor” Sharp, lifelong bitter rivals who are coaxed out […]
Continue readingLittle Fockers trailer debut
June 25, 2010 0 Comments
The trailer for Little Fockers – the highly-anticipated (maybe?) sequel to the hit comedies Meet the Parents and Meet the Fockers – has debuted online. Little Fockers reunites Robert DeNiro and Ben Stiller as the ever-dueling father and son-in-law, along with Blythe Danner and Teri Polo as their put-upon wives. Owen Wilson and Barbra Streisand […]
Continue readingWill Charles Grodin reteam with De Niro for Midnight Run 2?
June 3, 2010 0 Comments
Charles Grodin is being courted by Universal Pictures and Tribeca Productions to reteam with Robert De Niro for a sequel to their classic 1988 comedy Midnight Run. De Niro is producing the sequel, in which he will return as bounty hunter Jack Walsh. When screenwriter Tim Dowling was originally hired to pen the screenplay, it […]
Continue readingPacino to star in Scorsese’s Sinatra film?
May 25, 2010 0 Comments
Martin Scorsese wants Al Pacino to play Frank Sinatra in his long-touted biopic of Ol’ Blue Eyes. Frequent collaborator Robert DeNiro is also in Marty’s sights to play Dean Martin. Scorsese dropped the news in an interview with The Hindu (he’s currently promoting Shutter Island‘s release in India). The conversation moved from mental asylums to […]
Continue readingMachete trailer debut
May 6, 2010 1 Comment
I have to say – I didn’t actually believe this movie would ever happen. Robert Rodriguez is famous for announcing projects that never eventuate to anything. But here we are, with a brand new trailer for a feature-length version of Machete. Fans of Rodriguez/Tarantino‘s Grindhouse project may recall the hilarious fake trailer for a exploitation […]
Continue readingIs the Taxi Driver remake happening or not?
February 17, 2010 3 Comments
source: screendaily.comYesterday we salivated over the possibility that Martin Scorsese would remake Taxi Driver, with Robert DeNiro reprising the iconic role of Travis Bickle and hilarious Danish director Lars von Trier acting as Scorsese’s creative partner. Well, it now seems as if that dream will not come true – maybe. Peter Aalbaek Jensen, von Trier’s […]
Continue readingScorsese and DeNiro to remake Taxi Driver? With Von Trier?!
February 16, 2010 2 Comments
source: earthtimes.org OK, there’s a good chance this may not be true. BUT, if we all cross our fingers really tightly then maybe – just maybe – it’ll happen. Reports from the Berlin Film Festival suggest that Martin Scorsese is considering a remake of his seminal picture Taxi Driver. Crazy, right? It gets crazier. Copenhagen […]
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