An adaptation of the Neil Gaiman novel of the same name, Stardust brings a strong cast together for an enjoyable family feast, with plenty to enjoy. Stardust mixes in romance and adventure, all in a fantasy movie guise, as it follows Tristan on his quest to retrieve a fallen star for the beautiful Victoria. Only it soon becomes clear that there's a lot more going on as Tristan ...
Manufacturer: Paramount Home EntertainmentStarring: Michelle Pfeiffer, Clare Danes, Charlie Cox, Robert De Niro, Sienna MillerDirected By: Matthew Vaughn
Throughout his long, wandering, often distinguished career Francis Ford Coppola has made many films that are good and fine, many more that are flawed but undeniably interesting, and a handful of duds that are worth viewing if only because his personality is so flagrantly absent. Yet he is and always shall be known as the man who directed the Godfather films, a series that has dominated and ...
Manufacturer: Paramount Home EntertainmentStarring: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Diane KeatonDirected By: Francis Ford Coppola
Once Upon a Time in America has a chequered history, having been chopped from its original 229-minute director's cut to 139 minutes for its theatrical release. The longer edition presented here benefits from having the complete story (the short version has huge gaps) about turn-of-the-century Jewish immigrants in America finding their way into lives of crime, as told in flashback by an ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Tuesday Weld, Treat WilliamsDirected By: Sergio Leone
The DVD extras follow the adage that if one has lemons, make lemonade. This "special" edition has no commentary track, and no new input from stars Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, and Andy Garcia or writer David Mamet. Yet DVD director Laurent Bouzereau has an ace up his sleeve that makes the four new featurettes (about 50 minutes of content) worth listening to: candid talk. The usual, stiff ...
Manufacturer: Paramount Home EntertainmentStarring: Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Charles Martin Smith, Andy Garcia, Robert De NiroDirected By: Brian De Palma
After Martin Scorsese went to Hollywood in 1972 to direct the low-budget Boxcar Bertha for B-movie mogul Roger Corman, the young director showed the film to maverick director John Cassavetes and got an instant earful of urgent advice. "It's crap," said Cassavetes in no uncertain terms, "now go out and make something that comes from your heart." Scorsese took the advice and focused his energy on ...
Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UKStarring: Robert De Niro, Harvey KeitelDirected By: Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese's 1990 masterpiece GoodFellas immortalises the hilarious, horrifying life of actual gangster Henry Hill (Ray Liotta), from his teen years on the streets of New York to his anonymous exile under the Witness Protection Program. The director's kinetic style is perfect for recounting Hill's ruthless rise to power in the 1950s as well as his drugged-out fall in the late 1970s; in ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco, Paul SorvinoDirected By: Martin Scorsese
Director Martin Scorsese reunites with members of his GoodFellas gang (writer Nicholas Pileggi; actors Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci and Frank Vincent) for a three-hour epic about the rise and fall of mobster Sam "Ace" Rothstein (De Niro), a character based on real-life gangster Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal. (It's modelled on Wiseguy and GoodFellas and Pileggi's true crime book ...
Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UKStarring: Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci, James Woods, Frank VincentDirected By: Martin Scorsese
If Franz Kafka had been an animator and film director--oh, and a member of Monty Python's Flying Circus--this is the sort of outrageously dystopian satire one could easily imagine him making. However, Brazil was made by Terry Gilliam, who is all of the above except, of course, Franz Kafka. Be that as it may, Gilliam sure captures the paranoid-subversive spirit of Kafka's The Trial ...
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home EntertainmentStarring: Jonathan Pryce, Jim Broadbent, Barbara Hicks, Robert De Niro, Katherine HelmondDirected By: Terry Gilliam
Let's be honest: this should be titled Wretched Excess' Frankenstein. Swooping, wild, bloody, and energetic, this is bad moviemaking from the best, which makes it all the more loveable. Kenneth Branagh plays Victor Frankenstein, a man so obsessed with conquering death that he decides to create life. What he gets, after a protoplasmic mud wrestle, is a Mean Streets monster (Robert De Niro) ...
Manufacturer: UcaStarring: Robert De Niro, Kenneth Branagh, Tom Hulce, Helena Bonham-Carter, Aidan QuinnDirected By: Kenneth Branagh
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Al Pacino, Jon Voight, Val Kilmer, Natalie Portman, Robert De NiroDirected By: Michael Mann
