One Battle After Another: Anderson’s Anora
Leonardo DiCaprio. Photo: Warner Leonardo DiCaprio once said that turning down Boogie Nights (1997) was the greatest regret of his career. Paul Thomas Anderson, who was just starting out, had…
Romeo + Juliet
After the success of Strictly Ballroom (1992), Baz Luhrmann updated this Shakespeare classic in a way the previous film adaptations hadn’t. Its youthful vitality was incredibly appealing to younger audiences…
Don’t Look Up: Last Days of Earth
Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence. Photo: Netflix There’s something about Adam McKay that irritates the hell out of right-wingers and left-wingers alike. In the first case, the reason is obviously…
Titanic: A Wreck Comes Alive
Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. Photo: 20th Century Fox Twentieth Century Fox wasn’t sure about letting James Cameron make an epic movie about the 1912 sinking of Titanic – especially…
The Revenant: Back from the Dead
Leonardo DiCaprio. Photo: 20th Century Fox The movie business is full of strange rumors, exaggerations and lies. As a journalist it is sometimes difficult to navigate around them, especially when…
Inception: Dream Warriors
Leonardo DiCaprio. Photo: Warner Some of our greatest thrills take place when we sleep. Scenarios play out in our dreams that are genuinely unpredictable and emotional. Regardless of whether they…
Shutter Island
In 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his new partner (Mark Ruffalo) arrive at Shutter Island to investigate the disappearance of one of the patients from the island's…
The Departed: Keeping Your Enemies Closer
Leonardo DiCaprio and Jack Nicholson. Photo: Warner When I went to see this movie with a friend the other night, his expectations were not too high. Martin Scorsese had, in…
The Beach
Young American Richard (Leonardo DiCaprio), who’s backpacking in Thailand, finds a map that supposedly will take him to a paradise untouched by humans. John Hodge's novel is a modern classic…