Ron's rages are sincere and — according to his wife — healthily cathartic. But can these splenetic outbursts loosen the grip of capitalism at its most monstrous?
Mob-handed
Martin Scorsese's lengthy epic of gangster goings-on boasts great performances from a string of Hollywood greats, says MARIA DUARTE
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FRANCIS DEVINE introduces a new collection of essays that draws on Pease McKenna’s example to indicate future paths for the movement
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The Irishman (15)
Directed by Martin Scorsese
MASTER of the gangster film Martin Scorsese returns to the genre he made his own in this epic mobster drama which explores the unsolved mystery of who killed US union leader Jimmy Hoffa.
President of the Teamsters Union, he had wide-ranging connections to the mob and organised crime. He was pardoned by president Richard Nixon in 1971 after being convicted for the jury tampering, attempted bribery and fraud which ended his career.
He disappeared, never to be seen again, in July 1975, provoking umpteen theories.
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