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5Jun2017

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Goodfellas | 1990 | BFI R2016 | UK Quad

Goodfellas is a 1990 film directed by Martin Scorsese. It was produced by Irwin Winkler with the screenplay was co-written by Nicholas Pileggi and Martin Scorsese. The film is based on an adaptation of the 1986 non-fiction book Wiseguy written by Nicholas Pileggi. It stars Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco and Paul Sorvino. The storyline is based on Henry Hill and his life through the teen years into the years of the mafia. Covering his relationship with wife Karen Hill and his rise and fall along with his Mob partners Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVitto in the Italian-American crime syndicate over a period from 1955 to 1980. Initially, Martin Scorsese had named the film Wise Guy after the book is was based on but had postponed make it; later, he and Nicholas Pileggi ...

18Dec2016

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Raging Bull | 1980 | Final | UK Quad

Raging Bull is a 1980 film directed by Martin Scorsese, produced by Robert Chartoff and Irwin Winkler and adapted by Paul Schrader and Mardik Martin from Jake LaMotta's memoir Raging Bull: My Story. It stars Robert De Niro as Jake LaMotta, an Italian American middleweight boxer whose self-destructive and obsessive rage, sexual jealousy, and animalistic appetite destroyed his relationship with his wife and family. Also featured in the film are Joe Pesci as Joey, La Motta's well-intentioned brother and manager who tries to help Jake battle his inner demons, and Cathy Moriarty as his wife. The film features supporting roles from Nicholas Colasanto, Theresa Saldana and Frank Vincent. Scorsese was initially reluctant to develop the project, though he eventually came to relate to La Motta's s...

Lethal Weapon 3 | 1992 | Final | UK Quad

16Oct2016

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Lethal Weapon 3 | 1992 | Final | UK Quad

Lethal Weapon 3 is a 1992 film directed and produced by Richard Donner, and starring Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Rene Russo and Stuart Wilson. It is the third film in the Lethal Weapon series. In the film, which is set three years after Lethal Weapon 2 (1989), Martin Riggs (Gibson) and Roger Murtaugh (Glover) pursue Jack Travis (Stuart Wilson), a former L.A.P.D. lieutenant turned ruthless arms dealer, during the six days prior to Murtaugh's retirement. Riggs and Murtaugh are joined by Leo Getz (Pesci), as well as Internal Affairs Sergeant Lorna Cole (Russo). In Lorna Cole, a beautiful but tough policewoman, has Martin Riggs finally meets his match. Unlike the first two films which received generally positive reviews, Lethal Weapon 3 was met with mixed reviews, but was a box ...

Lethal Weapon 4 | 1998 | Final | UK Quad

16Oct2016

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Lethal Weapon 4 | 1998 | Final | UK Quad

Lethal Weapon 4 is a 1998 film directed by Richard Donner and is the fourth and final instalment in the Lethal Weapon film series. It was co-produced by Richard Donner and Joel Silver. The screenplay was written by Channing Gibson. Lethal Weapon 4 stars Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Rene Russo, Chris Rock and Jet Li in his American film debut. The storyline follows LAPD detectives Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh, trying to stop the Chinese Triads from conducting their illegal business in the US. Chinatown's mob boss, Uncle Benny, has imported Chinese slaves to pay for an artist to create counterfeit Chinese currency. The Triads will use the counterfeit currency to buy the Four Fathers (heads of the Triads) back from the Chinese military. Principle photography was completed at ...