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Goodfellas

(dir. Martin Scorsese)

Following the day-to-day lives of three gangsters from the 1960's through to the 1980's and their steady decline. Goodfellas is based on the real life memoirs of Irish-American mafioso Henry Hill, who eventually turned snitch and joined the witness protection programme.

One of several peaks in Scorsese's career, Goodfellas is a bonafide masterpiece and a regular in this chimp's top 5. Superb performances from Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci and De Niro amongst others, fantastic music and flawless camerawork and direction make this utterly watchable. Even though I have the DVD, I caught two minutes on TV the other night and ended up watching the whole thing. Again.