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Bad News for Goodfellas

By David Samuel McCalmont

May 22, 2024
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Warner Brothers / Alamy

“Trigger Warning” for an American Classic

AMC (American Movie Classics) has just slapped Martin Scorsese's 1990 masterpiece "Goodfellas" with a trigger warning. "This film includes language and/or cultural stereotypes that are inconsistent with today's standards of inclusion and tolerance", the warning states, "and may offend some …

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