The legacy of heroin kingpin Frank Lucas, whose story was dramatized in the 2007 narrative feature American Gangster, is set to be the focus of a forthcoming documentary film. Pusherman explores ...

Goodfellas' and 'Casino' screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi brings a wealth of Mafia knowledge to a movie that traffics in constant nods to other gangster classics.

American Gangster, an epic crime movie starring Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe, and directed by Ridley Scott, tells the compelling true story of Harlem crime boss Frank Lucas, leading many ...

Discover the films that shaped Martin Scorsese's vision of crime and cinema. Dive into the inspirations behind the legendary ...

an idea that churns within all American gangster movies. This curio of a film could have gone deeper into what it means to be a gangster, but its core themes resonate all the same.——— ...

De Niro’s study of two Italian-American crime bosses ... of middling biopic that lent prestige-movie airs to an inappropriately romanticized biopic of gangster Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel.

an idea that churns within all American gangster movies. This curio of a film could have gone deeper into what it means to be a gangster, but its core themes resonate all the same. Local ...

Martin Scorsese’s rueful, poignant 2019 film “The Irishman,” starring longtime collaborator Robert De Niro, was a reflection on (or perhaps even a eulogy for) the kind of gangster film that the pair ...