Casino (DVD)

Casino Another Scorsese great! I just rented and watched this movie as it's one of his films I hadn't yet seen (along with raging bull but that's another review...) and thought it was great. I think on comparison to his other films it's equally as good, and similar in some ways to Goodfellas. Casino is another mob movie, however this time set in Las Vegas. The story follows Sam 'Ace' Rothstein (Robert De Niro) a mob-connected Casino owner who finds living a civilized life proves to be harder than he first imagined. It also follows his relationship with Nicky Santoro (Joe Pesci) and the love of his life Ginger (Sharon Stone). Violence and drug abuse ...

After coming to the attention of the mob bosses in Chicago for his expertise as a very successful bookmaker, as well as being a loyal work horse, Sam "Ace" Rothstein is dispatched to Las Vegas to utilise his expertise in the mega bucks world of the Casinos. Given full control of running one of the boss's largest casinos, he soon turns it into a slick and successful operation, allowing the Chicago bosses to cream of profits whilst going undetected. His ruthless business manner made him as many enemies as it did friends, as he made sure that the only winner in his casino was himself. Wary of protecting their investment in Las Vegas, the Chicago crime ...

Recently, there has been a bit of a sale in the High Street in Liverpool City Centre. Lots of cassette tapes, CDs, videos, DVDs all going cheap in HMV, Virgin and all the other magnets for the money of todays youth. The price war has also spread to WH Smith ... how incredible I thought, as the only reductions I had previously seen in Smith's was the odd day when you could buy the Daily Mail for an eye-popping 20p. It was in dear old Smith's that I found myself, when I saw something rather unusual, a film I actually liked for a rather cheap price. Usually, the cheap films on sale in Smith's are old silver screen B-Movies, starring the talents of ...