Martin Scorsese

15 Inferior Best Picture Oscar Winners (And the Enduring Classics They Beat)

Last Wednesday, Craiggers hit on some forgotten Best Picture Academy Award winners, films which have slipped through the cracks of society's consciousness for one reason or another; either for being too of-the-moment, not having enough quotable lines, or for simply not having held up very well -- hi ... More >>

Dear Hollywood, Get Some New Ideas: Goodfellas, Titanic 3D

Last week, it was announced that AMC, original drama channel numero uno, would be officially backing what has been an under the radar development for a television series based on the movie Goodfellas. My first reaction to the news, which trickled through the intertubes in the last year or so, was ... More >>

The Film Issue: 10+

The Film Issue: The Old Men and 3-D

The Film Issue

Looking back on the year in movies, and what's coming in 2012.

A Boy, His Toy and the History of Cinema

Scorsese milks the 3D trend for his timeless cause in Hugo.

Out Today: Steve Earle Is Alive, Bootsy's Aged Funk, And The Late Poly Styrene's Last Disc

​Yep, it's the third week now that we have been listening to the new Foo Fighters album, Wasting Light. We even acquired it on vinyl this weekend, so we are doubly screwed. Now we just need it on cassette tape and one of those toothbrushes that play music in your skull like you are schizophren ... More >>

The Leopard (Il gattopardo)

The Best Concert Movies Of All Time

​A quick note before CHL starts this hlist. We define a concert movie as a flick that documents one or more shows on a tour. More narrative-oriented rock flicks like D.A. Pennebaker's Bob Dylan mash note Don't Look Back, Charles Peterson's grunge chronicle Hype!, and of course the lighthearted ... More >>

Another Year

2010 is old news. Here are ten to watch out for in 2011.

Karina Longworth's Top Ten Movies of 2010

Loudon Wainwright III's Top Five Movie Roles

​Aside from being the dad of glam-folkie Rufus Wainwright and similarly talented sister Martha, Loudon Wainwright III is one of the most unsung singer-songwriters still strumming today. With his ex-wife, the late, great Kate McGarrigle, he was a part of a folk power-couple, and songs like "Ruf ... More >>

Bun B Fires Back At Source Rating Critics... Including Ours

"I get 5 mikes, you say The Source ain't shit. If your favorite would've won, would you say the same shit?" - Bun B, "B.M.F. Freestyle" Photos by Marco TorresBun B at House of Blues, August 4; see here for our review and slideshow​Whoever came up with that saying "if you've got nothing nice t ... More >>

The Week In TV: Boardwalk Empire And Bravo, Two Ends Of A Spectrum

This guy has to be stopped.​The Cup is upon us, the spring season is definitely behind us, and I'm warning you: Don't tease the panther. This was the week in TV Land: • So, the World Cup started the other day. I was with friends at a Mexican restaurant when the USA-England game began, whic ... More >>

Out of the Past

Stuck in the asylum with Martin Scorsese — head-trip Shutter Island is the good kind of insane.

Five Great Examples Of Scorsese Using Rock Music, And A Chance to Win Free Shutter Island Passes

Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island opens next week -- check at the end of this item for a chance to win preview passes -- and the question is, what's the soundtrack gonna be?If there's one guy who knows how to blend classic rock into a movie, it's Scorsese. Shutter Island, of course, looks to be more ... More >>

Pop Rocks: Golden Bozos

You know awards season is in full swing when all the celebrities converge upon the Beverly Hilton to get drunk and act like receiving an award from the same organization that once honored Pia Zadora is something to be proud of.That's right, it was Golden Globes night last Sunday. And while the just ... More >>

Win A Free Public Enemies DVD; Check Out Five Other "Enemy" Movies

Johnny Depp is the "sexiest man alive." I know this because it's what I've been told by People magazine, my wife, all my wife's friends, my sister, and that girl I dated in college who used to make me watch 21 Jump Street before she'd allow me to get her clothes off.He's also the star of Public Ene ... More >>

We Rent the Night: Pride and Glory

New York cop drama holds the audience hostage

Shine a Light, The Stones and Scorsese

This film is a treat for movie and music fans alike

Some Country for Old Men: Shine a Light

Seniors Scorsese and the Stones together again

Keeping The Meter Running

Rock and Roll Autobiographies

Stars' tell-all stories

The Passion of the Christ

The River Oaks Theatre offers a dogmatic loophole

Joel Gilbert/Mickey Jones

Bob Dylan: 1966 World Tour -- The Home Movies

Bait and Switch

A hero of the Hong Kong new wave returns the compliment

Year of the Concept

Green Day opens the Idiot-ic floodgates

Overlooked in '05

Ten great discs that were underserved by the media but are more than worthy

ADULT., with Genders, Numbers

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Bob Dylan

No Direction Home: The Soundtrack

Broke, But Not Broken

With Cinderella Man, Ron Howard finally scores a knockout

Buggin' for Bling

Michael Stadther's Treasure's Trove is a real gem

Crash and Yearn

Howard Hughes gets what he wants, in this case a fun and loving biopic

Floundering

Cruel, vapid and unfunny, this Shark bites

Roll Over, Eric Clapton. And Tell Stevie Ray the News.

The blues is back -- rawer and louder (and punker) than ever

Mean Streets

Martin Scorsese looks at the roots of New York's violence, with mixed results

See, Hear

Without Elmer Bernstein, scores of movies wouldn't have sounded the same

Lazarus, Reborn

Peter Bogdanovich wasn't dead. He was just acting like it.

Do Look Back

The Band dances The Last Waltz, but can time heal old wounds?

Blood Brothers

Albert and Allen Hughes deliver a sensuous but grisly message From Hell.

The Final Cut

DVDs pull back the curtain on the movies, but do you really want to see the Wizard?

Playbill

Coming This Week

Mortal Soul

Scorsese and Cage elevate the EKG of the mean streets

Hello, Dalai

In Kundun, Martin Scorsese meets Tibetan Buddhism

Scorsese Gets Personal

The Power of Pop

Hail the Cabbie

Moving History

The Year in Film

Though not great, 1995 still produced some movies worth seeing (and reseeing)