In 1976, Evening News reported a film had been released that was ‘as gory as A Clockwork Orange and Straw Dogs’. Critic Leonard Maltin states that it is a ‘gory, cold-blooded story of a sick man’s lurid descent into violence’ and slammed the film as ‘ugly and unredeeming’. Yet, in 1976, it won the Palme … Continue reading God’s lonely man: ‘Taxi Driver’ →