I Heard You Paint Houses

Rating: 8/10 (18 December 2019)

In the light of the recent furore surrounding the 'whitewashing' of history by Hollywood, it's ironic that a film should now be made by several of Hollywood's most famous Italian-Americans called 'The Irishman' about an Irishman (played, inevitably, by Robert DeNiro rather than, say Liam Neeson) who always seems to be with union leader Jimmy Hoffa whenever anything dramatic happens (like when they're in a bar together when news comes in of Kennedy's assassination).
Al Pacino in a wig gives the same performance he always gives as Hoffa; while Scorsese seems to have spent more time recently studying Coppola, DePalma, Leone and Tarantino than Curtiz, LeRoy, Powell or Wellman.