Food, Glorious FoodMangia! In Goodfellas, food and family are linked together tighter than a string of salamis. Whether the characters are making a meal together or chowing down on the final produc...

Big Hair and Horrible Eye ShadowKaren doesn't have a problem with the shady way that Henry brings home the bacon. She can look past it. What she can't look past, literally, is the big hair that sym...

The Clothes Make the Man"My god, you look like a gangster," Henry's mother gasps when her boy comes home in his first suit. She's right: he does look like a gangster. That's the point, ma.While the...

The Tracking Shots Seen 'Round the WorldEver heard the old chestnut, "You can't really understand somebody until you walk a mile in their shoes"? Two of Goodfellas most memorable moving images put...

One of Scorsese's visual tricks is using freeze frame shots to stop the action at critical points in Henry's life. Examples: A beating from Henry's fatherHenry running away after torching some cars...