Gamblers never realize they lose everything they have as soon as they enter a casino to win money. You will sit at the jackpot machines and pull levers for levers, hoping that three will be lined up in a row. If they don’t, they’ll go back and pull the levers...
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Casino presents the rare, inspiring sight of a director pushing his skills, obsessions and stylistic experiments to the limit...
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Directed by Martin Scorsese. Actors: Robert DeNiro, Joe Pesci, Sharon Stone, James Woods, Don Rickles, Alan King, Kevin Pollark, L.Q. Jones, Dick Smothers, John Bloom. Released November 22, 1995. Running time: 178 minutes.
Brutally violent, dramatically layered, edited with speed and precision, switched between a sta...
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“Whatsamatta you, Eric? How did you talk about Martin Scorsese without seeing one of his crime classics? It’s easy enough to see ‘Casino’ as a wonderfully entertaining, three-hour odyssey into the sick heart of gilded success – but it is It is also a film that, as you may say, has it all...
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Martin Scorsese understands gangsters better than anyone. With Mean Streets, he followed the life of small hoods in Little Italy. In Goodfellas, he showed us the ups and downs of gangster life for those who climb a few rungs up the ladder and then of course hit every rung on the way back down...
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The movie casino was released in 1995 by Martin Scorsese. It featured Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci and Sharon Stone. The plot was inspired by the real story of Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal, who led the Fremont, Hacienda and Stardust casinos in Las Vegas for the Chicago mob in the 1970s and 1980s...
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Martin Scorsese dealt with the history of the casino directly and just bluffed on the names.
As much as Martin Scorsese may have skewered gangster history by telling Frank Sheeran’s version of things in The Irishman, he did it right when he did it alone with casino...
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“Doctor, are you telling me that there’s s...
Well it looks like my calls for a good thriller has been answered. I just finished watching “30 Days of Night” and I have to say that Hollywood has not lost its touch totally. This is also one of the few movies like Fallen Before Falling that actually held true to its hype which in today’s world is a very hard process to achieve.
Great settin...
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