The Departed (2006)

Director Martin Scorsese finally gets the respect that’s his due with the multiple Academy Award winner The Departed (2006). It’s a story he knows well, though the setting is a bit unfamiliar. This time his lowlife gangsters are Irish and working the dirty streets of Boston. Based on the Hong Kong hit Infernal Affairs (2002), it stars Leonardo DiCaprio as an undercover cop in Jack Nicholson’s mob and Matt Damon as the criminal mole in the police force. But all work and no play makes Jack a limp boy. While Nicholson has his perverted scenes with a black dildo, DiCaprio gets to hug the heinie of Vera Farmiga, who also happens to be Damon’s broad. What a tangled and tantalizing web!