Who knew?  Martin Scorsese is apparently the kind of pet owner who thinks his dog is the best and he’s pretty funny about it. Today, he wrote a tongue-in-cheek op-ed in the LA Times discussing Hugo star Blackie the Doberman’s snub by the first Annual Golden Collar Awards. He’s calling foul.

With the speed of a lumbering engine powered by critical hubris and self-importance, the 84th Academy Awards nominations dropped into our newsfeeds this morning with predictable result. Did you know that people liked The Descendants this year, The Artist as well? Brad Pitt and George Clooney scored the requisite Hollywood heartthrob acting votes (they will lose to the no-name French guy who doesn't talk), while Meryl Streep got her due for sticking around. Woody Allen and Martin Scorsese were also nominated, just like they always are. It's another Oscar ceremony, y'all!

In Michel Gondry’s Be Kind Rewind, Mos Def and Jack Black produce homemade recreations of Hollywood blockbusters where multi-million dollar special effects are replaced with rudimentary arts and crafts. You got a sense while watching it that Gondry was more at home directing those lo-fi reproductions than he was with the rest of the movie that surrounded them. It’s no surprise then that Gondry directed and starred in a wonderful low-budget version of Taxi Driver that was played before the French premiere of Martin Scorsese’s Hugo.

When we caught up with the extremely articulate Asa Butterfied, the young star had yet to be cast as the lead in the highly anticipated sci-fi adaptaion, Ender's Game. Back then, he was merely the star of Martin Scorsese's dazzling 3D fable, Hugo, currently in theaters. Expect big things from this kid. Here he is on relating to his characters, bonding with costar Chloe Moretz, and learning about film from the master.

Russell Manly, owner of Tommy Guns Salon, started out in the early '90s with a small shop in Brighton, England, which he filled with five repurposed dentist chairs. "Straight away," he says, "our salon looked different from any other." By 1994, he had moved his business to London's Soho neighborhood, opening the first TommyGuns there with an authentic, old fashioned aesthetic - leather upholstery, marble floors, and vintage lighting - and a team of talented stylists with a gift for creating unique looks for both men and women.

We doubt that when Jared Leto sat down to pen his 30 Seconds to Mars anthem "Kings and Queens," he anticipated it would one day score the trailer to a Martin Scorsese kids movie (or get 6 million views on YouTube, for that matter). But stranger things have happened. So when we pressed play on the trailer for Hugo, that Martin Scorsese kids movie we were talking about, and "Kings and Queens" started playing as Chloe Moretz and Asa Butterfield run through a turn-of-the-century Parisian train station, we thought, right on.

Martin Scorsese is currently in London with a cast of character actors filming his first-ever foray into 3D, Hugo Cabret. Does that mean we can expect to see brain matter flying towards audiences from a direct gun-shot wound to the head? Probably not. Hugo Cabret is basically a kids movie about an orphan in 1930s Paris who lives in the walls of a train station and gets "wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and an automaton." It features a strong ensemble cast that includes Ben Kingsley, Emily Mortimer, Jude Law, Chloe Moretz, Ray Winstone, Christopher Lee, and Sacha Baron Cohen, who plays an animated and elastic police inspector. Recently, we somehow ended up on Hugo Cabret's Facebook page, and there came across a picture of Cohen on set in full costume. We haven't been able to find it anywhere else on the web, so consider this an exclusive. Check it out after the jump.

"De Niro was always in character, which made it very scary."

The only thing worse than a bad movie based on a great book is a bad TV series based on a great movie (exempt is Friday Night Lights, a TV show based on a movie based a book), which is why I really hope the rumors aren't true that Martin Scorsese is planning to make a TV series based on Goodfellas, the early years.

Twenty years after its release, Goodfellas is still a high-water mark for Martin Scorsese, mob pictures, and, dare I say, American cinema itself. To commemorate the anniversary, GQ has assembled an oral history of the film’s making that reveals, among other juicy morsels, some dubious casting choices that were considered early on in pre-production. A certain pop star was at least briefly in the running, as was a certain well-known (and at that time still sane-seeming) leading man.