Weird Wednesday

Fifty years ago, Taxi Driver laid the foundation for Martin Scorsese’s Hollywood career. Robert De Niro delivers a brilliant performance as Travis Bickle, a lonely Vietnam veteran who drives his taxi night after night through the grimy urban canyons of 1970s New York. Repulsed by the growing brutality and squalor, Bickle sinks ever deeper into a vortex of paranoia and violence…

France in the 17th century. Cardinal Richelieu seeks to strengthen his position of power. He persuades King Louis XIII to destroy the fortifications of French cities. However, the influential priest Urbain Grandier resists this move in the city of Loudun, thereby incurring Richelieu's wrath.