The New Republic’s Tom Shone on how Martin Scorsese created the modern masculine ideal. “If masculinity were a product, then Italian-American masculinity — florid, violent, hungry for respect, as thin-skinned as Italian sausage — would be the brand leader, thanks to the movies.” (I don’t know about that, but many of us will always be indebted to Tony Soprano for bringing husky back.)

+ FastCo: Martin Scorsese’s Film School: the 85 films you need to see to know anything about film.

+ Men Women & Children’s remarkably bad opening weekend.