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Recently I discovered a film called City of Industry (1997) directed by John Irvin whose credits include The Dogs of War (1981), Raw Deal (1986) and Hamburger Hill (1987). At first I wasn’t sure what the movie was about, from the title I thought it might be a story about factory workers or something to that effect. When I found out it was in fact a crime film (or to [read...] 
BURBANK, Calif., March 11, 2013 – As part of the studio’s 90th Anniversary celebration, eight of Warner Bros. Pictures’ greatest gangster films – from Edward G. Robinson’s 1931 classic Little Caesar to Martin Scorsese’s Oscar®-winning masterpiece The Departed– will now be available in two Blu-ray™ sets May 21. Released to coincide with Father’s Day gift-giving, the WB genre greats, along with one of Paramount’s best gangster films, will be offered [read...] 
Tony (Richard Panebianco) is a good hearted kid from Little Italy who attends a dance club one night. He seems to move through the bustling crowd magnetized by something we can’t see. He soon encounters a pretty young Chinese girl named Tye (Sari Chang) and they begin dancing as if drawn together by an invisible force. The good time they and the people around them are experiencing is soon brought [read...] 
“Made it, Ma! Top of the World!” In my previous post for our ongoing CRIMEWATCH series I looked at the film that catapulted Edward G. Robinson into the limelight Little Caesar (1931). While I love that movie and its star, the man who gets top billing in this film review is my all time favorite of the old school Hollywood actors. James Cagney could really play any kind of role [read...] 
At a small greasy spoon, Caesar Enrico “Rico” Bandello (Edward G. Robinson) and his best friend Joe Massara (Douglas Fairbanks Jr) eat spaghetti, drink coffee and chit chat. While reading a newspaper Rico notices a headline about a Chicago gangster named Pete Montana (Ralph Ince) and realizes that he wants to be famous too. He goes to see Sam Vettori (Stanley Fields) a crime boss who works out of the [read...] 
There’s been a lot of great films made about criminals of the Prohibition era from Scarface (1932) to The St Valentines Day Massacre (1967) to Once Upon a Time in America (1984). One of my favorites of the last 20 years is HOODLUM (1997) directed by Bill Duke. Film fans will know Duke best as “Mac” in the classic action-adventure movie Predator (1987). With this largely fictional yet enthralling story [read...] 
Terry Noonan (Sean Penn) has been absent from his old neighborhood of Hell’s Kitchen, NYC for many years. While he was away a few things changed…such as him becoming a police officer in Boston. When he’s picked for a special undercover assignment infiltrating the Irish mob in New York City he accepts but is nervous about it for several obvious reasons. His only contact is Nick (John Turturro) a fellow [read...] 
Fernando DiLeo wrote and directed some of the best works in the poliziotteschi (Italian crime) genre. Films like Milano Calibro 9, La Mala Ordina, Mr. Scarface and Il Boss gave viewers a very clear look at mafia life in 1970s Italy. To me DiLeo did for poliziotteschi what Leone did for spaghetti westerns, in that he brought an extremely vivid, stylized atmosphere to the genre. His brand of filmmaking as [read...] 
Greetings Gangsters and Gun Molls! Welcome to the SCENES OF THE CRIME BLOG-A-THON Rendezvous! This is the home page of our celebratory online festival of crime cinema. The event will be running from DECEMBER 1, 2012 until APRIL 30, 2013 which should give participants lots of time to work with. We’ve already started a listing of categories that represent the many subgenres within the crime film family and as links [read...] 
One of the picks on our Mad As Hell Movies of 2012 list from earlier this year was Andrew Dominik’s Cogan’s Trade. That title was later changed to the more flashy Killing Them Softly. Based on a 1974 novel by George Higgins, the story focuses on a pointman for the mob named Jackie Cogan (Brad Pitt) and his investigation into a robbery of a poker game by a pair of [read...] |
    
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