CRIMEWATCH: The Don is Dead
Under the radar but blessed with an A-list cast as well as behind-the-scenes creative personnel, The Don is Dead is a mafia story heavily...
Tagged: Mobsters
CRIMEWATCH: Crazy Joe
Created to appeal to fans of The Godfather series, the little-known Crazy Joe (1974) tells the “true life” story of Italian mobster “Crazy” Joe...
CRIMEWATCH: Across 110th Street
During a mob meeting, two men disguised as police officers bust in and hold the gangsters at gunpoint. When one of the crooks moves,...
Charles Bronson rats out the Mob in THE VALACHI PAPERS
Two decades before Martin Scorsese’s masterpiece GoodFellas (1990) about the life of a mobster turned informant, Director Terence Young covered similar territory with The Valachi...
The Untouchables Train Station Shot By Shot
One of Director Brian DePalma’s seminal works is the 1987 gangster classic The Untouchables. The story, which is based on a book by Eliot...
GOODFELLAS Copacabana Tracking Shot
The famous tracking shot from GoodFellas may seem like a cliche choice to start off with but I wanted to pick something that would...
CRIMEWATCH: The Iceman
Based on a true story, Michael Shannon stars as Richard “The Iceman” Kuklinski an infamous contract killer for the New York mob during the...
The Films of HOWARD HAWKS
When I was told about the Howard Hawks Blogathon by my friend Ratnakar of Seetimaar – Diary of a Movie Lover I was really...
POSTERS: Brian DePalma’s SCARFACE
Brian DePalma and Screenwriter Oliver Stone’s 1983 update of the Howard Hawks gangster classic is one of our favorite furious films (READ OUR FULL...
Ultimate Gangsters Classic & Contemporary
BURBANK, Calif., March 11, 2013 – As part of the studio’s 90th Anniversary celebration, eight of Warner Bros. Pictures’ greatest gangster films – from...
