Martin Scorsese’s 1990 masterpiece GoodFellas immortalizes 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. Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) says, “As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster,” […]
The Aviator
By the time Hughes (Leonardo DiCaprio) was 22 in 1927, he had inherited his family’s fortune and was living in California. He hired Noah Dietrich (John C. Reilly) to run the Hughes Tool Company and began pursuing his interests in film and aviation. Hughes started by directing the silent film, Hell’s Angels. Despite skepticism among […]
Walk The Line
In 1968, an audience of inmates at Folsom State Prison cheer for Johnny Cash’s (Joaquin Phoenix) band as he waits backstage near a table saw, reminding him of his early life. In 1944, Johnny (Ridge Canipe), then known as J.R., grows up the son of a share cropper on a cotton farm in Dyess, Arkansas, […]
Cinderella Man
James J. Braddock (Russell Crowe) is an Irish-American boxer from New Jersey, formerly a light heavyweight contender, who is forced to give up boxing after breaking his hand in the ring. This is both a relief and an upset to his wife, Mae (Renée Zellweger): she cannot bring herself to watch the violence of his […]