Cinema history is crime-ridden. In 1901, a French short called Histoire d’un crime told the story of a burglar who commits murder and is sent to the guillotine. In 1903, the American short The Great ...
They may not be Goodfellas or The Departed, but these gangster films are unsung classics that have gone under the radar for ...
Gangster movies - both old and recent - can be found in abundance on several streaming services, just in time to watch for the weekend. Streamers like Prime Video, Tubi, Netflix, and HBO Max all have ...
Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...
PARIS — Few film types are as iconic in French cinema as the gangster. Throughout the genre’s heyday from the early ’50s through the late ’70s, Belmondo, Montand and Delon seemed to live with a gun in ...
Throughout the storied career of Martin Scorsese, he has undergone various phases as a visionary and storyteller. Like most filmmakers, he started out trying to find his own voice and made very ...
Thomas Butt is a senior writer. An avid film connoisseur, Thomas actively logs his film consumption on Letterboxd and vows to connect with many more cinephiles through the platform. He is immensely ...
Oscar Isaac, with louche long hair and a snaky hostility, plays Nick Toches (or, rather, the fictional version of him from the novel), a journalist who’s a hipster-outlaw legend. We meet him as he’s ...