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Over the years many films have been made about the legendary gangster Al Capone such as Scarface (1932), Al Capone (1959), The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre (1967) and Capone (1975). Although Brian DePalma’s The Untouchables (1987) isn’t focused solely on Capone it is one of the best films featuring the mobster ever made. The screenplay was written by David Mamet and based on accounts in Eliot Ness’ autobiography about his [read...] 
David Ayers’ End of Watch (2012) gives viewers an intimate look at life in the modern day police force with Officers Brian Taylor (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Mike Zavala (Michael Pena) as they work the streets of South Central LA. What makes this film unique is that Taylor is making a video journal for a college course while on the job, but instead of only using the live recording point of [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...] 
Ever since Dredd 3D premiered at the July San Diego Comic Con, surprisingly positive word of mouth has been spreading through the internet faster than SLO-MO inhalers across Mega-City One, something that is very shocking because action films released in September tend to be pretty lousy. Infinitely better than it has any right to be, Dredd 3D is a lean and mean superhero exercise that is both thoughtfully constructed by [read...] 
We couldn’t do our Don Siegel retrospective without reviewing the film that features one of the international icons of popular cinema… Clint Eastwood plays “Dirty” Harry Callahan a rebellious San Francisco police homicide inspector who is investigating the killing of a woman by a serial killer called Scorpio (Andrew Robinson) a character who was inspired by the real Zodiac killer that was from the same area. Harry’s wreckless methods of [read...] 
What we now know as the “biker movie” genre began with Roger Corman’s The Wild Angels (1966) which starred Peter Fonda as a furious, “sickle” riding hellion. Throughout the rest of the late 60s and into the 70s there were hundreds of these kinds of chopper operas made for drive-in and grindhouse audiences and they proved to be very popular. When I want to watch a more modern day, furious [read...] 
If there was any confusion as to how much of a mad as hell police officer Woody Harrelson will be playing in his upcoming film RAMPART, this new viral poster with the hilarious subtitle “I WORK FOR YOU” says it all. For more information on the film check out our previous post: HERE UPDATE (February 24, 2012): The latest poster has an even more furious-retro aesthetic. Love this! Looks like [read...] 
The crime genre film has been one of the most popular forms of cinema since the early days of Hollywood. These kinds of heightened, dramatic, violent stories about outsiders in society who live on their own terms have always captivated filmgoers. In the 1930s and 40s gangster pictures were all the furious rage. Actors like James Cagney, Edward G. Robinson, Paul Muni and Humphrey Bogart gained popularity in roles as [read...] |
    
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