Film
Martin Scorsese is widely considered the most influential American filmmaker of the last thirty years, and this is due in large part to his ability to capture the hectic energy of the city in which he grew up. In many ways, Taxi Driver (1976) is his most effective movie: an unrelenting portrait of angst, nihilism, and the debilitating effects of urban life on the psyche.
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Film
As I walked out of the cinema, someone asked me why I thought How to Train Your Dragon (2010) is ten times better than Avatar (which I reviewed here). I said because I don’t feel cheated. Now that I’ve had time to think about it, I can give a better answer. What the heck, I’ll give ten better answers.
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