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Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon has officially started filming

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Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, based on David Grann’s bestseller Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, has officially begun production. The Oklahoma Film + Music Office (OF+MO) and Apple Original Films (via Collider) announced that principal photography has officially started on Martin Scorsese’s latest feature film – which […]

Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon casts four roles

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As Martin Scorsese continues development on his long-awaited Killers of the Flower Moon, he has just cast four roles with Tatanka Means (I Know This Much is True), Michael Abbott Jr (The Death of Dick Long), Pat Healy (Bad Education) and Scott Shepherd (Bridge of Spies) all joining the film. Means will play a character […]

Writer Eric Roth calls Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon “one for the ages”

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Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, based on David Grann’s bestseller Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, was always going to be high on the audience’s most-wanted list having secured Robert DeNiro, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Jesse Plemons before being snapped up by Apple. Now its writer Eric Roth […]

Jesse Plemons joins Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon

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Fresh off his turn in Judas and the Black Messiah, Jesse Plemons shows no signs of slowing down. While the actor has turned down a role in Jordan Peele’s upcoming film, Plemons did so to star alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in a Martin Scorsese film. Jesse Plemons will star in Killers Of The Flower Moon, based […]

Taxi Driver at 45

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Tom Jolliffe takes a look back at Scorsese’s inimitable masterpiece Taxi Driver as it turns 45… You may look back on a number of films considered greats of their day. Some will inevitably age or lose their impact. Maybe they’ll look rough around the edges or decidedly quaint in their style. Others, year upon year, […]

Great Directors and Their Forgotten Gems

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Tom Jolliffe looks at the forgotten gems that most great directors have… If you think of many great directors you cast your mind to their career highlights. Those iconic films. Many of these directors become largely defined by one or two films in particular (sometimes more). Additionally occasionally you might also remember those films that […]

Martin Scorsese praises Midsommar’s Ari Aster: “Right from the start, I was impressed”

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When it comes to modern filmmakers, it’s not too often we hear Martin Scorsese express such reverence. However, in an upcoming book for Midsommar – released to celebrate the film’s first anniversary – Scorsese opens the piece with a wonderful introduction that praises not only the film but its director Ari Aster. Scorsese writes, “A […]

The 1970s – The Best Era In Cinema History?

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Tom Jolliffe on the 1970s and why it is the best era in cinema history… There will always be a great deal of debate about the best era for cinema. For my two cents I’ll say with a great deal of assurance that the best period in cinema history was the 1970’s. There was most […]

Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon heads to Apple TV+

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Having rescued Tom Hanks WWII drama The Greyhound from the choppy waters of release date purgatory, Apple have now performed their biggest streaming service flex yet by acquiring Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon for  a potential Apple TV+ release. Deadline reports that Apple won a bidding war to become the studio in charge […]

The Greatest Director of All Time?

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Tom Jolliffe ponders the question: who is the greatest director of all time? One of the toughest of tough film related questions. Who is the greatest director ever? Think over all the icons throughout history. There have been countless, many who crossed from silent to sound, such as Fritz Lang, Carl Theodore Dreyer, D.W Griffith […]