Review: HUGO

So, Scorsese decided to direct a kid’s movie… when I first saw the trailer for Hugo I wasn’t quite sure what to think of this fact. It looked like a Spielberg movie, a big budget, techno-family epic, and in 3D!!! What was Marty, the Gangster Priest, the King of Gritty, the man with more four-letter words in his movies than an entire season of South Park combined doing? Was he back on coke perhaps? Amazingly the result was a film very different from any of his previous films, and yet very much like them at the same time; this is not a children’s movie by Scorsese but a Scorsese movie for children.

Weekly Ad Classics: SCORSESE BLUE DE CHANEL

For the third installment of our weekly commercials we have one of Martin Scorsese’s most recent ads, Bleu de Chanel. While not as memorable as the ads previously shown, it does demonstrate the versatility of Scorsese as a master filmmaker. Not that we needed an ad to tell us so, his movies speak for more, but Scorsese was one of the first star filmmakers that gave it a go in directing ads. While directors like Michel Gondry and Gonzales Iñarritu began their careers in advertising and then moved onto film, Scorsese worked the other way around. His Armani commercials are classics, while his American Express ad is a masterpiece in simplicity. As far as doing an ad for a fragrance, well, like the names of such fragrances it doesn’t really have to make sense. So the filmmaker is free to do what he pleases within the theme of Bleu (whatever that means). Enjoy:

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Review: SHUTTER ISLAND

I can’t recall the last time one movie made every person in the theater jump at the same time; I mean every single person. Most horror movies make a few girls scream but most just turn their heads to the side and try not to look. This is not the case in Shutter Island; the film is so compelling that you are forced to watch and when the moment to jump arrives there is no way around it: you jump.

Marty's and Leo's Next Film:

Here is the trailer for Shutter Island:

It doesn't look like your typical Scorsese or DiCaprio film. But I am excited anyway since I loved all the movies they have done together so far.