Displaying items by tag: Robert De Niro

The Irishman was released on the 27th of September 2019, having its world premiere at the 57th New York Film Festival, followed by digital streaming on Netflix.

This is not a supervillain movie. Not in terms of trappings and effects, but more profoundly, not in terms of pace, of zippy dialogue, of (conventional) humour, or of satisfied expectations.

© Words - Scott Powhatan Collins

Dear readers, as I have often expressed to you, I am no film expert. I am only a film enthusiast. When I write my reviews and postings, I am only offering my opinion of the films that I have seen and not truly expressing a "set-in-stone" assessment designed to be the final word. Essentially, you have your opinions and I have mine, no one is inherently right or wrong and that is exactly how it should be. Even so, there are times in which my opinion seems to fall directly against what is seemingly the mass consensus,

Every morning, I wake up next to Robert De Niro. He says good luck, I nod at the signed photo I am referring to and then I rise. Smiling. Guess you could say I am a bit of a fan.