Martin Scorcese’s biography of boxer Jake La Motta is the movie for which Robert De Niro famously piled on nearly 30 kg and won his second Oscar. It has phenomenal performances, fantastic black and white photography, and the fight scenes are wonderfully choreographed and edited. But it is very slow burn, and whilst it is…
Cape Fear
Here are two very different posters for both versions of Cape Fear, 30 years apart. The first is a Belgian poster for the Gregory Peck/Robert Mitchum 1962 version. Cape Fear is a taut noir-style thriller about an upright lawyer tormented by a recently paroled psycho he helped put in jail. The French title “les nerfs…