The comeback King of supercharged splattercore, it is hard to overstate Tarantino’s revitalising influence on the last decade of cinema. Combining hilariously deadpan dialogue, comic-book savagery and...
Most directors like to compare making movies with going to war, but few have pushed the parallel quite as far as Oliver Stone. As a young man, American cinema’s champion shit-stirrer signed up for vol...
Everybody loves Joker Jack. With his wolfish leer and lascivious growl, Hollywood’s longest standing rebel simply radiates illicit pleasure. Even on the cusp of his 70th birthday, with most of Hollywo...
A titan of 20th century screen acting, Marlon Brando may well have proved F. Scott Fitzgerald’s maxim that there are no second acts in American life. But what a first act! Dying in 2004 at the age of ...
As the driving force behind a generation-spanning dynasty of film-makers, actors, writers and composers, Francis Ford Coppola has enjoyed a long and bumpy career punctuated by towering peaks of cinema...
An iconic yet enigmatic figure blessed with prodigious acting talent, De Niro has long been Al Pacino’s only serious rival for alpha-male dominance of the Italian-American screen pack. Despite being b...
A frontline contender for the greatest actor of all time, Al Pacino has delivered an electrifying gallery of emotionally explosive performances since his ‘60s apprenticeship under legendary Method men...
After two uncompromising decades playing emotionally scarred fuck-ups, drug addicts, freaks and outcasts, John Christopher Depp is living proof that good things come to those who wait. As he enters hi...
Hardcore machismo and slow-motion violence became David Samuel Peckinpah’s movie signatures, although his occasional tender insights into the fears and weaknesses behind alpha-male brutality give a mo...
The flames of Hell are never far from Scorsese’s infernally brilliant body of work, lending an extra moral dimension to the gut-wrenching, stylistically daring genius that frequently earns the godfath...
