CRIMEWATCH: White Heat
“Made it, Ma! Top of the World!” In my previous post for our ongoing CRIMEWATCH series I looked at the film that catapulted Edward...
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CRIMEWATCH: Little Caesar
At a small greasy spoon, Caesar Enrico “Rico” Bandello (Edward G. Robinson) and his best friend Joe Massara (Douglas Fairbanks Jr) eat spaghetti, drink...
CRIMEWATCH: Hoodlum
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)...
CRIMEWATCH: State of Grace
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...
Fernando DiLeo: Maestro of Italian Crime Cinema
Fernando DiLeo wrote and directed some of the best works in the poliziotteschi (Italian crime) genre. Films like Milano Calibro 9, La Mala Ordina,...
SCENES OF THE CRIME BLOG-A-THON Rendezvous
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...
CRIMEWATCH: The Departed
“When you decide to be something, you can be it. That’s what they don’t tell you in the church. When I was your age...
50 FURIOUS CRIME FILMS
The crime genre film has been one of the most popular forms of cinema since the early days of Hollywood. These kinds of heightened,...
