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A 3D family film from they guy who gave us Taxi Driver and Goodfellas? Film snobbery aside, this Holiday release item sees Scorsese, who often wears the film historian and restoration hat, continue trying on new genres and this time, formats. It's seems fitting since he visits with Georges Méliès -- the original man with the movie camera.

We can bet that Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio won't be renewing their vows every two years as they did with the stretch that sprouted Gangs of New York (2002), The Aviator (2004), The Departed (2006) and I figure the years in between projects will only increase. Technically meant to be released in 2009. Shutter Island turned out to be the divertissement pic that made the month of February a little less tedious.

Martin Scorsese is my choice as this week's Orange of the Week. This year, it's the much neglected films from India's cinematic golden age that will be receiving a huge helping hand from the American master's World Cinema Foundation.

I doubt that we'll be chalking this one up as a seminal picture in Marty's filmography, but before we start bashing the film or over-examining why it got pushed back into early 2010 start calling (DiCaprio worked on Inception) - I say embrace this for what it is: a filmmaker having fun with a genre that he hasn't really explored before and a pure guilty pleasure for the viewer.

David Carradine's accidental death reminded us that his career wasn't solely "Kung Fu" related. 1972's Boxcar Bertha featured the actor in a rare Scorsese film that I've yet to see, and in a role that has often been compared to that of the gun-tooting bank robber from Arthur Penn's 1976 Bonnie & Clyde.