Showing posts with label Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio. Show all posts

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)

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Fascinating comedy-drama written and directed by Quentin Tarantino.  It’s 1969 in Los Angeles. Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) is an actor f...

Gangs of New York (2002)

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One of Martin Scorsese's lesser works. As a fan, I found this a big disappointment. Fragmented and unfocused, it tells the story of the ...

The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

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The curiously featureless face of Leonardo Di Caprio works perfectly to represent the banality of ultra-greed in Martin Scorsese’s audacious...

Marvin's Room (1996)

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Touching family drama.  Two estranged sisters (Diane Keaton and Meryl Streep) get to know each other in the context of an elderly, unwell fa...

J. Edgar (2011)

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Directed by Clint Eastwood, this is a surprisingly dull biopic given the rich source material.  J. Edgar Hoover (Leonardo DiCaprio) looks ba...

Blood Diamond (2006)

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An engrossing drama directed by Edward Zwick.  A diamond smuggler working in Sierra Leone (Leonardo DiCaprio) begins to examine his motives ...

Shutter Island (2010)

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US marshal Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) is sent to a Boston Harbour island. With his companion (Mark Ruffalo), he is looking into the d...

The Beach (2000)

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An adaptation of the popular novel by Alex Garland.  A young American traveller called Richard (Leonardo DiCaprio) goes in search of a mythi...

The Departed (2006)

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Directed by Martin Scorsese , this remarkable crime thriller is as good as any.  In Boston . Irish Mob boss Frank Costello ( Jack Nicholson ...

The Aviator (2004)

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Biopic of billionaire entrepreneur Howard Hughes, directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio .  It’s a sad and engrossing s...

Body of Lies (2008)

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Intelligent Ridley Scott CIA thriller that’s extremely gripping.  The CIA operative on the ground is Leonardo DiCaprio and his superior i...

Romeo + Juliet (1996)

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Modernisation of the Shakespeare play starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes in the main roles. They are both excellent and their lov...

The Revenant (2015)

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Unrelentingly grim and bloody tale of North American frontiersman Hugh Glass ( Leonardo DiCaprio ) trying to survive against all the odds. ...

Revolutionary Road (2008)

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This faithful adaptation of the 1961 novel by Richard Yates is a fairly bleak study of oppressive suburban conformity in 1950s America, and...

Inception (2010)

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Barnardo’s , Whetstone. Baffling Christopher Nolan thriller about espionage conducted within dreams – on multiple levels. Buried within a ...

Titanic (1997)

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I enjoyed this far more than I expected to. I have always found disaster stories fascinating, and this one is especially well done. The sl...