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Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence

Daniel Goleman

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For more than two decades, psychologist and journalist Daniel Goleman has been scouting the leading...

Great Traits: Investigating the Behaviour and Beliefs Behind Phenomenal Feats

Tobias Harwood

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What makes successful people tick? Great Traits reveals the five character traits that drive...

Handbook of Japanese Mythology

Michael Ashkenazi

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Japanese gods, too numerous to count, are known collectively as yaoyorozu-no-kamigami-the eight...

Tarsem Singh recommended The Decalogue (1989) in Movies (curated)

The Decalogue (1989)

1989 | Drama

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"The reason I love it is it’s the ultimate adaptation. You know, memes coming out in your films. This guy makes a film every two, three years, is making, making, making, and all the money goes away and they come to him and they say, “Okay, you can make it for TV. You can make whatever you want,” and he walks up to a building complex and he goes right, The Ten Commandments in that building. How do you do that? He makes 10 movies in a year — three of them I think they released later on as features. And you look at them and they have the balls of a student movie, like a short film about killing. It’s just all about the process. It isn’t about hanging the guy or not hanging the guy, it’s just what it takes to hang a guy. And just stuff like that, that I just think, “How do you do that?” I don’t think it’ll ever happen — at least in my lifetime."

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LoganCrews (2861 KP) rated Casino (1995) in Movies

Sep 19, 2020

Casino (1995)

1995 | Drama

8.2

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As expected this was thoroughly entertaining moment-to-moment, but as a whole this seems like small-risk doddle for Scorsese: simple characters with a not only a familiar story but an almost entirely predictable and hasty one that just doesn't feel fully rewarding enough to be three hours. For a film that's so long it feels like huge, important chunks of the story are just... gone. Though that being said, it's paced nearly to perfection - flowing steadily from one fun and confidently-crafted mob movie trope to the next. What almost explicitly saves this from otherwise total dime-a-dozen mediocrity is the fact that the three leads are some of the most engrossing actors alive and each of them are rip-roaringly astonishing in it even if they're playing characters they've already played before practically to a T. It's pretty much 𝘉𝘶𝘨𝘴𝘺 with more of an edge. Far from great but also the sort of movie Scorsese could do in his sleep. Robert De Niro's suits are the clear highlight in all of this.