Study in China

Shutter Island won't attract universally favourable reviews, but that is not because it is bad. It's just unusual, outrageous and made with a splendid disregard for 'refined' critical taste. Maybe it's unrefined of me, but I loved it. It's a wonderfully inventive, visceral horror film, one of Scorsese's most enjoyable pictures, and right up there with Taxi Driver and GoodFellas as a waking nightmare. It's a thrill to see one of the world's finest directors returning to top form at the age of 67. Murder and mystery: Leonardo Dicaprio and Ben Kingsley It's as if, now Scorsese has finally won a Best Picture Oscar for The Departed, which I found polished but conventional, he can make the much more daring, idiosyncratic films he really wants to create. It's 1954, and World War II veteran and U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels (a jowly and suddenly mature  Leonardo Dicaprio ) travels with his deferential new partner Chuck Aule (Ma...

Warning: A minor 'Inception' SPOILER towards the end Dear  Leonardo Di Caprio , I think I speak for a lot of film goers in saying that we all are impressed at the rise of your career and the integrity and maturity you have shown your film roles post- Titanic – a film which could have turned you into a completely different actor than the one you are today. In fact, it seemed as if over the past 13years both you and Kate Winslet chose the same path, avoiding trappings of Blockbusterism, youth idolatry, and for lack of a better word‘selling out’ , and converged again recently on Revolutionary Road , which unfortunately represents a sad career misstep which is one of the reasons why this article is being written. roles, with the exception of Catch Me if You Can , and Celebrity (which was a cameo appearance anyways and thus doesn’t really count) have been rot with brooding emotional melodrama, tortured souls and dark journeys into madness and heartbreak. Let’s g...