My favorite Scorsese films are his weird ones, his ones *not* about the subject he's most known for -- organized crime -- his ones about faith and relationships. Kundun is absolutely my favorite film of Marty's, and that's part of a pattern, not an outlier.

Bringing Out the Dead? Absolutely one of those weird ones. This is a deranged and chaotic film, a story about an EMT very rapidly breaking down under the pressures of one of the hardest jobs…

Some films attract a fanbase that gives the whole film a bad name, and I don't know if there's a better poster child for it than Fight Club. Between the pandemic of college boyfriends forcing their dates to watch it with them, and dudes idolizing Tyler Durden and his rage-anarchy, it got hard to remember if I liked Fight Club in spite of leaning into toxic messaging, or if its worst fans were the ones out of step.

I expected…