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Director Doug Liman, who worked with Cruise on the ingenious Edge of Tomorrow, tries to maintain a frenzied energy, a kind of GoodFellas of the skies.

These asides and breakings of the fourth wall should be mere artifice, but here they work as brilliantly as in Goodfellas or the aforementioned Big Sick.

Liman mines the story for familiar but fun comedy... though it never reaches the comedic heights of rise - and - fall classics such as Goodfellas or The Wolf of Wall Street.

He borrows a bit too heavily from Goodfellas as well, especially where the soundtrack is concerned.

And since the film is told from David's point of view, there are also similarities to «rise and fall» / «cautionary tale» Scorsese films like Goodfellas and The Wolf of Wall Street in particular.

A project years in the making, Martin Scorsese's The Irishman reunites him with GoodFellas stars Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci, and throws Al Pacino into the mix as well.

The 14th annual Tribeca Film Festival will close on April 25 at the Beacon Theatre in New York with Martin Scorsese's gangster film GOODFELLAS...

The same can be said about Academy members in 1990, who famously screwed Martin Scorsese out of the Best Director statuette for Goodfellas in favor of Costner's proficient but overrated work; 13 years after its original release, the film remains nothing more than a well - polished but generic example of epic Hollywood filmmaking.

Home Video will release a new 4k scan of Goodfellas on Blu - ray on May 5, 2015.

Secondary accounts are supported — which can be locked down via ratings, so parents can hand off a tablet without worrying that their 8 - year - old will watch Goodfellas instead of The Good Dinosaur.

It's one of those rise - and - fall arcs so beloved of American biopics — think Goodfellas with cosmopolitans, and a side order of feminist push - back against the reeking sexism of this rich boys» club.

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Goodfellas does nt tell us anything we don't already know.

Reviews of this are either that its amazing, best Scorsese since Goodfellas, or too long and offensive.

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While Goodfellas ends with Hill entering the Witness Protection Program (and lamenting, through Ray Liotta's voice - over narration, «I'm an average nobody.

Few films have come close to ever stealing their thunder but if there was one that has the potential to pop a couple in the back of their heads, it would be Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas which expanded on (and complimented) Coppola's films by providing a fascinating insight into the day - to - day machinations and the allure of mob life from a more personal point of view.

Why then were the cigarettes sold out of a trunk in the iconic movie Goodfellas so popular?

In 1989, he was cast in the Martin Scorsese classic GOODFELLAS.

Brad Pitt, Ryan Gosling, Christian Bale, and Steve Carrell look awesome in this trailer as their respective characters and give me a mixture of Wolf of Wall Street meets Goodfellas meets Moneyball (which McKay directed as well).

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Born Peter Schwarze, the German artist was rechristened by teacher Joseph Beuys because of his supposed resemblance to the fight - fixing goodfella who owned heavyweight Sonny Liston in the»60s.

It takes time to learn — don't expect to make Goodfellas out of the gate — and it's not as simple as the experts make it look.

Now I'm a pale imitation of Joe Pesci in Goodfellas because I am terrible at swearing.

Actor involved in grisly on - screen violence in The Sopranos and in Scorsese films including Goodfellas and Raging Bull

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When I went to see GoodFellas on opening day in 1990, my hopes were high.

That's not to say Goodfellas isn't great.

There's a pretty good twist at the end, and Ray Liotta occasionally pops in to remind you that you really should be watching Goodfellas instead, but these are petty compensations for seeing a film that more readily recalls the easy reductive nihilism of that asshole frat - boy favorite, The Boondock Saints.

This sense of Scorsese being far outside his usual realm was reinforced by the fact that his previous two films, the kinetic gangster epic GoodFellas (1990) and the relentless psycho - thriller Cape Fear (1991), were among his most violent and bloody films.

Remember in Goodfellas when Joe Pesci stops by his mom's house to get a knife but within minutes is served a full - on red - sauce dinner despite his mom having been asleep when he arrived?

And then we have Dances with Wolves, which beat Goodfellas to the big gong to deny Martin Scorsese his Oscar for a third time.

Sorkin has made a canny, disjointed thriller of process and exposition, a sort of Goodfellas riff with a nerdy twist.

Goodfellas opened with Henry Hill musing that he always wanted to be a gangster... well if he saw this movie he would have been too bored to even come up with that dream.

I'd forgotten that this was coming out (UK in a few weeks, I guess) but I saw the trailer a couple of months ago and was intrigued as it suggested a bit of a Joe - Pesci - in - GoodFellas kind of performance from Depp.

In terms of the least loquacious participants, Sen. Simcha Felder and Goodfellas actor Paul Sorvino finished in a tie in the legislature's upper house with one word apiece.

Mayor Bill de Blasio didn't stick strictly to utensils — he sampled three slices (one marghertia, two «Smoking Goodfellas») and began with utensils for each, before switching to the more conventional New York handheld style for finishing.

De Blasio was skewered in 2014, when he openly ate a slice of pizza at Staten Island eatery Goodfellas with — gasp — a fork and knife.

Warm hearted goodfella, positivist, believes in hardcore - positive thinking, very cool, loves the newest designer fashion,true - blue fashionsta, has many aspirations, goals and success oriented, well rounded, well groomed, religiously hygenic, smart, brilliant, resiliant not belligerant, charismatic, romantic, baom...

And Ricky Russert, as the actual guy hired to attack Nancy, brings such sweat and paranoia to his brief screen time that you want more of him — this is the Ray - Liotta - in - Goodfellas school of rabbit - in - the - headlights criminality.

She frequently appeared in other Martin Scorsese films, most notably Goodfellas (1990) and 1991's Cape Fear.

Boogie Nights - Fictional porn star Dirk Diggler's journey from dish - washer to erotic film god to cokefiend, while perhaps echoing Goodfellas a little too closely, is one worth taking.

I'm not sure if the tone is supposed to be slightly off - kilter, but there are enough bizarre elements to make The Deuce more intriguing than another severe Goodfellas retread.

Where Magnolia is a loud three hours about being good to your children and Boogie Nights is an unapologetic Goodfellas rip - off and exercise in empty style, Punch - Drunk Love is a tight ninety minutes of a stalker's violent love affair with an emotionally arrested sociopath.

Imagine my surprise when I finally got around to watching it and discovered the best pure crime movie since Menace II Society (# 7, 1993) or even Goodfellas (# 2, 1990).