When Eight is Not Enough...

(Nine if you count Shark Tale. But please, for the love of cinema, don't!)


Robert De Niro, he of the often shameless mugging, is planning to reunite with Martin Scorsese. The film will be based on the mafia memoir I Heard You Paint Houses. That might be a good thing since Scorsese could be the one man capable of pulling something great from that Raging Bull again. Their previous credits together (in chronological rather than qualitative order) are rather enviable

1. Mean Streets (1973)
   
2. Taxi Driver (1976)
   
3. New York, New York (1977)
4. Raging Bull (1980)
   
5. King of Comedy, The (1983)
   
6. Goodfellas (1990)
   
7. Cape Fear (1991)
   
8. Casino (1995)
   

Individual opinions may vary as to whether or not it's a good idea to chase this particular double dragon. Sometimes a nostalgia inducing reunion (from Heat to Righteous Kill ??? to stay within DeNiro-land) just ain't a good idea. Sometimes it is. Speaking of which: Can Quentin Tarantino please find a role for UMA in Inglorious Bastards? Maybe she could perform it in drag.
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