Al Pacino Gossip

Based on either a true story or an entertaining lie, depending on how hot your conspiracy thermometer runs, The Irishman is the story of Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro), a union worker and alleged mob hitman who claimed at the end of his life to have assassinated Jimmy Hoffa (Al Pacino). A three-and-a-half-hour opus from Martin Scorsese, The Irishman is a gangster movie that is equally interested in the mechanics of the mob life, and the heavy price paid by those who live it, especially if they have the misfortune to survive to old age. Full Story

The Hollywood Film Awards don’t really mean anything in that even though they happen during award season – and we are firmly in award season now – they don’t predict real awards. Winning a Hollywood Film Awards doesn’t increase your chances at an Oscar. Showing up at the Hollywood Film Awards, however, is definitely an award season requirement, which is why it’s always well-attended. Full Story

A couple months ago we got a teaser for Martin Scorsese’s mob passion project, The Irishman. This is the movie with extensive digital de-aging of its stars, and at the time I said, “They still have a few months to get it all fixed up Full Story

Martin Scorsese’s long-gestating mob opus, The Irishman, is finally coming out later this year, thanks to Netflix. It stars Robert De Niro as Frank Sheeran, a mob hitman who claimed on his deathbed to have killed Jimmy Hoffa. Al Pacino stars in The Irishman as Hoffa, and Harvey Keitel and Joe Pesci also co-star. Full Story

Filmmaker David Gordon Green has a weirdly binary career. On one side are comedies like Pineapple Express, The Sitter, and Eastbound & Down, and on the other are slow, thoughtful dramas, usually set in the rural South, that show a heavy Terrence Malick influence. Green’s latest, Manglehorn, is of the Malickian variety, a slow, thoughtful drama about an odd and lonely man in Texas. Full Story

I’m into it. Even though I worry that Pacino’s work, lately, has been super sh-t. Like Robert DeNiro. Is DeNiro broke or something? Anyway, this movie, with Christopher Walken, is called Stand Up Guys. A group of aging thugs get together for one last scam. So like George Clooney, Brad Pitt, and their Oceans crew in 15 years. Full Story