A few years ago, I had seen Infernal Affairs on DVD – a Hong Kong film about an undercover cop who infiltrated a Triad at the same time as a Triad member infiltrating the police force. Now Martin Scorsese has remade the film as The Departed, and moved the location to South Boston. Jack Nicholson plays Frank Costello, the crime kingpin at the center of the story. A member of his crew, Collin Sullivan (Matt Damon), has just graduated from …
Gangs of New York
British actor Daniel Day-Lewis has a rather long history of playing Irishmen in film. Or so it seems. Well, now he gets his chance to break out of the mold, cause in Martin Scorsese‘s violent period drama Gangs of New York, he plays the most virulent, racist, anti-Irish, cruel sonofabitch I’ve seen in a very, very long time. The basic story is thus: In 1863, just out of state reform school up north, Amsterdam Vallon (Leonardo DiCaprio) returns to the …