For as much heat as they take, there’s often nothing quite like watching a great gangster movie. Gangsters are among the most compelling characters in America in part because they seem to be so ...

American Gangster, an epic crime movie starring Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe, and directed by Ridley Scott, tells the compelling true story of Harlem crime boss Frank Lucas, leading many ...

Director Legs McNeil's feature 'Pusherman,' centering on the figure memorably played by Denzel Washington, is set for home release this summer. By Ryan Gajewski Senior Entertainment Reporter The ...

The allure of wealth and power, the precarious gambling of life and death - there's nothing quite like a good gangster movie. But what might be the greatest gangster movies ever made? As the American ...

“I thought it was entertaining, but it wasn't true,” says the doc maker of the 2007 film starring Denzel Washington. By Steve Bloom The scourge of heroin use by Black Americans in cities like New York ...

Josh Brolin revealed that things once got tense between him and Denzel Washington while filming American Gangster. During an ...

The ruling cliché in writing about crime bosses — “the gangster as tragic hero” — was coined in 1948 by Robert Warshow, an extremely intelligent cultural critic, whose premature passing in 1955 robbed ...