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Since the Golden Age of Hollywood and the heyday of film Noir, gangster movies like The Untouchables, Goodfellasand The Maltese Falcon have given audiences some of the best films ever made.
“From as far back as I remember, I always wanted to watch gangster movies.” Clearly, that’s not the original quote, but the sentiment remains true. Audiences love gangster movies. They make ...
Just when you thought he was out, infamous gangster Al Capone keeps getting dragged back into movies. Trank makes clear he took creative license in "Capone," calling it an "impressionistic film ...
Denzel Washington plays a renowned drug lord in Ridley Scott’s American Gangster. The biographical crime film is loosely based on the criminal activity of Frank Lucas, who smuggled heroin into ...
According to Brolin, Washington was adjusting a line at the last minute and was very much in character as his New York City gangster Frank Lucas, not making eye contact with his co-star.
The gangster genre started out in the early 1930s as an essential piece of classical Hollywood success and continued to generate titles for the following decades. It has changed in various ways ...
Martin Scorsese’s rueful, poignant 2019 drama “The Irishman,” starring longtime collaborator Robert De Niro, was a reflection on — or perhaps even a eulogy for — the kind of gangster ...
There is a high likelihood that many people, if asked, would tell you that their favourite gangster movie is the Francis Ford Coppola classic The Godfather. However, there is another gangster film ...
By Ryan Gajewski Senior Entertainment Reporter The legacy of heroin kingpin Frank Lucas, whose story was dramatized in the 2007 narrative feature American Gangster, is the focus of a forthcoming ...
Good boy. CHANG: When I spoke with her this week, I asked her what drew her to this role of half Pakistani auntie, half gangster? JAGANNATHAN: I have a teenage son. Do you have kids, Ailsa?