| 单词 | gangster |
| 例句 | There was no such thing as a thirty-year-old gangster: he was either working a legitimate job, dead, or in prison. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z When she splits the book open, I watch her flip through sketches of cartoonish women, all dressed like futuristic gangsters and armed with some kind of weapon or another. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “As if he’s afraid I’m a gangster, when I leave he’ll never lift his arms up again.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Although the full facts would never be known of just how several of the White Sox’s best players arranged with gangsters to “throw” the series, the arrangements had been made. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z With millions in profits, the gangsters who ran Conexco could afford the best cryptography in the business. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The rumrunning gangsters were paying for some of the best cryptography on earth, she realized. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I am not a thug, gangster, hoodlum, nor monster. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z All this says nothing of the fact that Prohibition was directly responsible for the birth of organized crime in America and the introduction of the American gangster. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The high financial stakes would spawn intense and often vicious competition between gangsters, and many would die. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Hitler had the most gangster dance moves ever, and those white people didn’t know what hit them. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z They were the true “OGs,” as the kids say, the original gangsters, and although the language, colors, and turf have changed dramatically over the last four hundred years, the theme is universal. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z The gangsters tried both tactics on the Coast Guard. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Two gangsters had overheard his description and kicked him mercilessly. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Before the train leaves, the gangsters roam the Tapachula depot, eyeing which migrants are buying food and where they stash their cash afterward. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “Her dad once asked my dad if he knew any gangsters in Mexico.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Many of the gangsters wear white plastic rosaries around their necks so the migrants will be less suspicious. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Regular Warcross teams are sponsored by wealthy patrons; Dark World teams are owned by gangsters. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She knew that drug lords could be just as dangerous as the rumrunning gangsters had been—and just as ingenious with their ciphers and codes. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I always thought gangsters liked to dress in pants three times their actual waist size with white T-shirts. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Roy figured it came from years of interrogating shifty characters—gangsters or spies, or whoever it was that his father was in the business of investigating. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z These poets assured me that the PG County police were not police at all but privateers, gangsters, gunmen, plunderers operating under the color of law. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z He'd seen plenty of gangster movies, and the FBI always caught the bad guys. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z So it must have rubbed him the wrong way to see Elizebeth winning battles against smugglers and gangsters in the 1920s and 1930s. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Bandits try to avoid gangsters, who are probably armed, preferring easier prey. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Aristotle, Socrates, and Plato were wearing their gangster suits. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z But most gangsters were, as the cliche assures us, two-bit gangsters. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “He’s a gangster from Chicago. Killed a lot of people on Valentine’s Day.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He watched two cartoon programs and part of an old gangster movie. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z When Lourdes returns home in the middle of the night, gangsters come up and ask for money. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Many MS gangsters setde in Chiapas after committing crimes in the United States and being expelled to their home countries in Central America. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z In the hood, gangsters were your friends and neighbors. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “Right. We used to pretend to be ‘gangster’ when we were younger, too,” Malik adds. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z “Yeah I do. Hell, I get you. Walking around here, claiming you ain’t a gangster no more, claiming you trying to change stuff, but still following all’a that ‘don’t snitch’ mess. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Lucky for her, I don't really have the heart to be gangster anyway. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z “Next time, we kill you,” the gangsters told him. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The truth is that my game is my fame and when I made the scene with my gangster lean I knew I was crazy good and on the money. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z At fifty-one, he had served in the Coast Guard for most of his working life, and he had been tracking the gangsters for years. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “He caught up with them, took a flying leap off the bicycle, and cracked their heads together? Knocked them out cold. That's gangster.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z "Mr. Donatelli's no gangster. Last night he made Willie Streeter stop 'cause he had a cut eye, and he made Spoon quit 'cause he was getting hit too much. And Spoon was winning fights." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Arriaga’s Red Cross workers retrieve, on average, ten migrants per month who have fallen or been beaten up by bandits or gangsters. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z She was not one of the reformers who had campaigned for Prohibition, but she believed in the rule of law, and the rise of the gangsters appalled her. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The She Elephant swaggered among them like a gangster. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z When I asked him where it was, he said his shirt was to be laundered by the notorious gangster inmate Al Capone. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Matthew was simply walking home when a van full of gangsters pulled him into their car, drove him down to the railroad tracks, beat him up and then shot him repeatedly in the head. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z A fat Mexican gangster runs in from the backyard with his fists clenched, a smaller one trailing behind. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Sometimes criminals—robbers, brigands, freebooters, highwaymen, hooligans, thugs, bandits, pirates, gangsters, outlaws—organize or join together in gangs or bands or mafias. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z More and more of Chicago’s black gangsters were getting sent to federal prisons. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z His clothes had gone out of style, so that he looked like an extra in a gangster movie. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Caged like beasts were murderers, rapists, gangsters, and robbers. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z The crime wave of the 1920s and 1930s, the great gangster era, increased public interest in prisons and punishment, and the interest of Hollywood in particular. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The coach looked like an old gangster: broken nose, a scar on his cheek like a stitched shoestring. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In addition to being violent gangsters, South African minibus drivers are notorious for complaining and haranguing passengers as they drive. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “Them gangsters taught him how to play,” another guy agrees. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z All three of us smile, trying to look gangster with our peace signs. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z In Paris and Western Europe, the story was “essentially a one-day sensation,” with the West German press handling it “as if it were in the Chicago gangster tradition.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z You knew them from before they became gangsters. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The American gangster was a new type of criminal character, one who developed a whole new image of himself and his fellow mobsters. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The weird thing about these gangsters was that they were all, at a glance, identical. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Outside the three dorm buildings was a large gym, built by Warner Bros, as thanks for use of the Death House and other prison sites in its gangster movies of the 1930s. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In one city, a famous gangster robbed a bank of five thousand dollars and spent the whole lot on candy bars that same afternoon. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z Something about how much money he has, how many girls like him, his clothes, his jewelry, the gangster life he’s living. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Instead of moving on and making way for the younger gangsters to ascend, the veterans stayed put. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Others, like New York gangster Lucky Luciano, dressed far more conservatively, favoring gray suits and cashmere topcoats. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “It’s punitive. And for what? Protecting the community by making this kid into a real gangster?” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z He must have been a gangster of some sort, but I cannot be sure. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Enrique and the gangsters ran past a group of Mexican men standing by the tracks, machetes at their sides. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “Horrible, horrible gangsters! They cut off people’s ears and things!” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z But the gangsters soon fought back with a blizzard of new codes and ciphers. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z About two hundred street gangsters in Chiapas share the rolling criminal enterprise. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The last thing I needed was colored gangsters up against me. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z I was waiting for the bus after school when three wanna-be gangsters approached me. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Since when do gangsters wear GUESS? shirts with Levi pants at the waist? The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z No one else in the cell knew what to make of us, the ruthless colored gangster and his menacing, Hulk-like friend. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z When he smiled, however, you saw the softness in his eyes, which made it clear that Lefty was in fact no gangster but the pampered, bookish son of comfortably well-off parents. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Violence skyrocketed after Mitchell’s death as other gangsters battled for a piece of his turf as well as the increasingly lucrative crack trade. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z I’ve faced armed detectives and gangsters less hostile than she was. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Root had also seen how the gangsters spared no expense on their rumrunning fleets. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The gangsters used middle-sized boats called “intermediates” to ferry the cargo to speedboats near the coast. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “It was right before the water rushed in at that concourse. When we fought off those wannabe gangsters. I woke up just as the bad part began.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The following year, it even became home to the nation’s most notorious gangster, Al Capone. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z In their dark glasses, they look like gangsters in the American movies that sometimes come to town. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Thanks to all the newspaper coverage, gangsters and mobsters across the country now knew exactly who was decoding their secret messages—and whose evidence was sending them to jail. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Prohibition-era gangsters also became known for the cars they drove or were driven in. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z In South Africa, everyone knows that colored gangsters are the most ruthless, the most savage. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z They watch for anyone with tattoos, especially gangsters who have skulls inked around their ankles—one skull, police say, for every person they have killed. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The MS gangsters decide to retaliate and throw the gangster off the train. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z He could have been a “gambler or lawyer or maybe a gangster from Chicago.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z His jaws were blue-black and he looked like a gangster in the movies. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Again, they’d rather deal with us than with some gangster loan shark. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z When another man tried to run, the soldiers mowed him down like bank robbers in an American gangster film. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Arrayed against them is la migra, along with crooked police, street gangsters, and bandits. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z I tell him I don’t know and when he pokes his finger into my chest Malachy says, I’m a gangster, Frank’s a cowboy. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Yet she rose to become one of the most formidable code breakers in the world, the scourge of gangsters and spies. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The words are from a gangster sleeping next to him, on top of a mausoleum. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The chief, Sixto Juarez, suggests that any robbing is done by gangsters or bandits who impersonate judicial officers. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z It’s a hive of constant human activity, all day long, people coming and going, gangsters hustling, guys on the corner doing nothing, kids running around. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z These are matches with haphazard rules run by gangsters, the matches where I find and catch the gamblers who get in trouble with the law. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He is on the train with El Brujo and two other MS gangsters, who are carrying machetes. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “Shut up, gangster,” Mrs. Levy answered wildly, “before we pin it on you.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The officers take them to a cell filled with MS gangsters, then deport them. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Without these gangsters, Enrique would never venture here, behind the black iron gates. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z He wanted to know if Elizebeth was willing to serve in a new kind of war—a war against smugglers and gangsters. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z As he set out on his trip, he noticed another teenager, a gangster named El Brujo, at the bus station in Honduras waiting to go to the Mexican border. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z He’s still rapping about being such a gangster. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z He’s wearing a weird hat, one of those old gangster movie ones, and there’s white surfer hair sticking out every which way under it. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Neither guy blinked at being instructed to join up with a reformed gangster who smelled strongly of urinal cakes to prank a former heavyweight champion prizefighter. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The first time he got up there, I rolled my eyes like half the sisters in class, certain he was going to spout something lame or nasty about girls and sex, or gangsters. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z "I don't like this boxing business one bit. Full of gangsters, and people get hurt bad." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Moreover, the Mara Salvatrucha street gangsters, some deported from Los Angeles, always prowl the train tops looking for sleepers. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The positions of trust were given only to the common criminals, especially the gangsters and the murderers, who formed a sort of aristocracy. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z It was not easy to gain Americans’ sympathy when you’d spent years cutting off their liquor supply, but articles about a tiny woman bringing gangsters to justice made their departments look like the good guys. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z After all, this is the city of the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, of jazz, gangsters, and speakeasies. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z He liked to talk like that, adopting a slight shift in his voice, as if he was a gangster in a movie and wearing a three-piece suit, not a windbreaker over a shirt and tie. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z You'd keep saying to him, "You mean Joe Blow's a flit? Joe Blow? That big, tough guy that plays gangsters and cowboys all the time?" The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z In the past, the black gangsters had bought their drugs from a middleman, the Mafia—which, as it happened, was then being pummeled by the federal government’s new anti-racketeering laws. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z He stuck with a band of street gangsters. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z He was one of those young men who affected a style of dress that mimicked the well- tailored gangsters in American movies. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He is relieved that there are no Central American gangsters on board. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Enrique allows himself to doze only on trains farther north, where the gangsters no longer control the tops of the trains. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “So you must be careful. Black market not good place for innocent children. I heard black market are run by gangster. Some children not so innocent; they may go.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z By the mid-1920s, gangsters were ruling the roost in big cities like New York and Chicago. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Hixon: 1 don’t know if you ever met these guys, but Johnny was a little gangster. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Herbert first found work with a moving company owned by the gangster Dutch Schultz. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z “He looks like a gangster to me,” Mrs. Levy said. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes the gangsters were annoyed by his curiosity; more often they took advantage of his willingness to listen. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The warfare of people like Lot had been suppressed, but not the unbiddable baronage who lived like gangsters on their own estates. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “Install gangsters in government without giving us a chance to vote on it?” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z When it was time for a gangster to start supporting a family, he would have to quit. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The only other white man on V-south at the time was Elliot Markowitz, a decaying old murderer who smoked too much, got pushed around by young gangsters, and was prone to depression. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They had no idea what real colored gangsters were like. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z And when we tell them we came from America they want to know, Are ye gangsters or cowboys? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z But when I met him in real life I was like, wow, this is a real new age type of gangster rapper. The Last Days of Pop Smoke 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z “We Live in Water” features a fall-guy father who has cheated a gangster and is about to pay the price for it, with his young son nearby enough to remember the event forever. Books of The Times: ‘We Live in Water’ by Jess Walter 2013-01-31T21:10:42Z It’s a 1930s gangster term, now surviving in usage in newspapers — and almost nowhere else. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Gene fingers journos in language imbroglio 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z This series is fantasy in the way that "Deadwood" is a western or the "Godfather" films are gangster pictures. How "Game of Thrones" slew all comers 2011-06-17T18:01:00Z The streaming service is filling three levels of compact Broadway seats with some of the first audiences to see “The Irishman,” Martin Scorsese’s epic gangster drama, this month at the Belasco. ‘The Irishman’ on Broadway: Phone Booths, Broadsheets and Jimmy Hoffa Stickers 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z There are a few such moments in Live by Night, Ben Affleck’s love letter to – and hopefully death knell of – the classic Hollywood gangster flick. Live by Night: how the gangster film went from top of the world to sleeping with the fishes 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z The elegance certainly seems to have gone out of the place, along with any evidence that gangsters like Capone ever hung around. In Tijuana, searching for Al Capone 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z Maybe the channel didn't want the piled-up corpses of Albanian gangsters bleeding into its Christmas schedule – a bit offbrand for the festive advertisers. Have you been watching … The Fear? 2012-12-06T15:04:20Z Unbeknown to her, he is a powerful gangster who is determined to wrest supply routes for drugs and weapons from his Russian and German rivals. Laura Wilson's crime fiction roundup – reviews 2013-04-25T07:00:01Z This is a movie about a kid who, when he can do anything he wants with his parents away, decides to pop in a VHS tape of a 1930s gangster movie. "Home Alone" itself shows why a Disney+ reboot Is a bad idea 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z Is it true you turned down roles in gangster movies? Rap legend Rakim opens up about finding his unique, intellectual sound and transforming hip-hop 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z Many of these works are morality tales stressing loyalty to family and friends; some are simply gangster stories. Prodigy’s ‘H.N.I.C.,’ Street Lit From Infamous Books 2013-05-31T21:16:57Z Regina is the leader of the Plastics, the fashion-obsessed emotional gangsters who rule North Shore High School, tossing snarky insults off as if they were molotov cocktails. Review | ‘Mean Girls’ fans: Tina Fey’s musical is a singing, dancing revenge party, and it’s funny 2017-11-19T05:00:00Z “Pay your taxes, fellas,” one of the gangsters says. 'Boardwalk Empire' Finale Recap: Golden Memories 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z Guys and Dolls National touring production of this classic musical comedy about gamblers, gangsters, showgirls and others in 1940s NYC. L.A. theater openings, April 12-19: 'Loopholes: A Pain in the I.R.S.' and more 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Not gangsters, but crazy con men and ne’er-do-wells in black comedies. It’s Delightful, It’s Delicious, It’s DeVito 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z Photograph: Jonathan Burger This is basically a Warner Brothers gangster movie of the 1930s, excitingly and excitedly transposed to the crime-ridden world of post-apartheid Johannesburg. Gangster's Paradise: Jerusalema 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z As I pointed out last week, Nucky is not only more than half a gangster now; after Billie’s death, he is a warrior. Boardwalk Empire Watch: My Ears Are Ringing 2012-11-12T13:30:58Z At times a visitor yearns for the street vendors, rickshaw pullers, White Russian gangsters, the intrepid Snows, the opinionated missionaries, the Peking of Pamela’s time. Pursuits: A Mystery Endures in Beijing’s Old Legation Quarter 2014-05-02T18:00:05Z In the new novel, they involve gambling, a natty Rwandan Hutu gangster who lost one leg to the Tutsi, Chinese triads, money-laundering, human trafficking and a whole lot more. In ‘Righteous,’ a Stand-Up Sleuth Investigates His Brother’s Murder 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z Scorsese is charmingly self-deprecating about “The Departed”—after describing the story to Mekas as a tale about informers, the police, and gangsters, he adds, “I guess it’s like other movies I’ve made.” Review: Jonas Mekas’s Illuminating Documentary of Martin Scorsese on the Set of “The Departed” 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z Otherwise, as a tale of squabbling gangsters and prison intrigues, "Angel of Evil" is ordinary. 'Angel of Evil': Gangster portrayal lifts ordinary crime drama 2011-06-16T20:09:09Z We saw that tonight when a burly Irish gangster, infuriated by Frankie’s having busted up his machines with a crowbar, pulled a handgun on Vinnie at the bar. ‘The Deuce’ Season 1, Episode 3: Making It and Faking It 2017-09-24T04:00:00Z Some hear a presidential gangster using the federal government to shake down a foreign official; others hear a leader trying to root out corruption in a fragile ally. Review | In the impeachment spin wars, only the English majors can save us 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z And the story line is such a gangster. Mark Ballas on why 'Jersey Boys' was his destiny: 'I had seen the show 12 times when I auditioned' 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z The musical, featuring songs by Cole Porter, tells the story of two once-married actors who fight, flirt, and fend off gangsters as they prepare to stage a musical adaptation of “The Taming of the Shrew.” ‘Kiss Me, Kate’ Will Head Back to Broadway With Kelli O’Hara 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z In 1942 she appeared in two war-promotion shorts and provided the voice of a telephone operator in a Humphrey Bogart gangster movie, “The Big Shot.” Eleanor Parker, 91, Oscar-Nominated Actress, Dies 2013-12-10T02:07:52Z Not quite Bonnie and Clyde — too disciplined, too businesslike — but with more than a hint of old Hollywood gangster style. ‘Ash Is Purest White’ Review: Love Smolders and Crime Pays in a Changing China 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z “We get everyone — schoolkids, local gangsters wanting protein shakes, yoga types, pensioners and left-wing politicians.” Keeping It Real in South London’s Brixton Hill 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z By committing this heinous act of violence, however, he crosses a moral Rubicon that forever changes him and the audience follows his transformation into a vicious, calculating gangster. ‘The Night Of’ Season 1, Episode 5: Seeing Naz in a New Light 2016-08-07T04:00:00Z Martin Scorsese’s gangster movie “The Irishman” and Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” followed with 10 nominations each. 'Joker' leads BAFTA nominations with 11 nods 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z Mark Jones Carrie breaks into Ukrainian gangster Mr Rabbit's heavily guarded hutch while he's playing chess and tries to give him his diamonds back. TV highlights 13/05/2013 2013-05-13T06:00:18Z Oh, an innocent man inadvertently ends up with some gangster's money and he's going to want it back! Tips, links and suggestions: What are you reading today? 2013-03-12T16:10:04Z And then there were the heroes I interacted with each and every day on the block —the rich drug dealers and feared gangsters. Jason Reynolds on wanting writer role models: “Judy Bloom never came and hollered at us" 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z Besides those gangster pix, the studio specialized in backstage musicals and gritty melodramas, recurring to a homegrown theme that transcended genres: an “obsession with sibling rivalry and pals who become enemies.” How the four Warner brothers built a movie empire that conquered the world 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z A Pakistani migrant worker and a gangster, along with hundreds of other equally hapless individuals who have fallen foul of South Korean capitalism, gamble it all. "Squid Game": The real debt crisis shaking South Korea that inspired the hit TV show 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z In an interview at The Times, Mr. Sandow, 48, spoke about his film and a character obsessed with gangster movies. Tribeca Film Festival Interview: Nick Sandow on 'The Wannabe' 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z He doesn't want to be just another gangster, yet he is one, and he's very good at it, if a bit hotheaded at times. The plot-crazy spectacle of "Boardwalk Empire" 2011-09-26T01:26:00Z First, as one of two jazz musicians who flee from gangsters after witnessing the St Valentine's Day massacre in Chicago in 1929. Tony Curtis obituary 2010-09-30T13:06:00Z "Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now," Ferrara says. Abel Ferrara: 'I made Scarface look like Mary Poppins' 2010-08-05T20:29:00Z It seems to me he's more some kind of international gangster with, as it is said, a license to kill... Was James Bond just a "neo-fascist gangster?" 2010-08-17T12:53:00Z I asked him: Is it possible that a lifetime of consuming gangster films where heroes die at the end left a flavor? Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: A Deep Dive Back Into ‘The Sopranos’ 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z It only made sense that he died in the end, given his actions as a gangster, but the vagueness of the series’ end made speculation about Tony’s true fate far too easy. Sopranos Creator Says Tony Soprano Is Very Much Alive 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z At the end of the road lie a notorious Russian gangster and his robotic minion, a big, blond palooka seemingly impervious to pain -- but as readers of Larsson's novels know, I'd better stop there. "The Girl Who Played With Fire": Out of the past 2010-07-09T00:20:00Z Conceptually, the show is a gangster melodrama with an infinite twist. Four Shows at the Center of a Golden Age of Hip-Hop Television 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z Jackie Brown escapes the misogynist gangsters who have her in their thrall. Quentin Tarantino is Fox News’ piñata: The real reason why Bill O’Reilly and the police hate him 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z Dressed for the meeting in a pinstripe suit that makes him resemble “a broke black gangster from an American film,” he boasts and blusters with a parent’s loving obstinacy. Turning the ‘Curse of Ham’ Into a Blessing 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z With a gaggle of gangsters on his back, led by French actor Vincent Cassel, the auctioneer resorts to hypnosis in the hope of unlocking his memory. Danny Boyle exorcises dark side in 'Trance' 2013-04-05T13:44:09Z In the Bronx, there is a famous section where gangsters would eat along Arthur Avenue, which is basically a Bronx version of Little Italy. Q&A: Mapping a Darker Side of New York 2013-12-25T19:10:51Z Unfortunately, he doesn’t clear it with the local gangsters. Critic?s Notebook: Tribeca?s Taste of All Things Grim and Gory 2011-04-21T22:10:27Z “A lot of white kids, 15, 16 years old, look at white gangsters as rock stars.” Dangerous, growing, yet unnoticed: the rise of America's white gangs 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Yet, after reading Hudson's book, it's more than plausible that financial gangsters will rise from the ashes and find new ways to prey on unsuspecting borrowers. 'The Monster': How the subprime lending industry almost brought down the economy's house 2011-01-19T21:57:04Z For Spring Breakers, Franco channelled this spirit – and Riff Raff's look – for his portrayal of Alien, a "gangster mystic" who plays with guns, drugs and the film's female leads. Rapper Riff Raff takes TV soap role to mock James Franco 2013-04-12T12:27:08Z “He is very different from what I am and who I am and how I think and my values,” Travolta said of playing the gangster. Forty years after 'Grease', Travolta's back in Cannes 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z SL: Originally, we had more of the gangster movie. 'Performance? I still don't fully understand it' – behind the scenes photos from the cult classic 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z This is a neat distillation of the gangster rap paradox by a rapper who is as savvy about the multiple constituencies he’s performing for as any before him. The Year in Music Videos 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z But with its thriving cartels and gangsters, the city is growing monstrous, smelly and chaotic. Between a rock and a high place 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z Behind bars, he played cards with Latinos and football with black gangsters. 'Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead': rising in America's neo-Nazi ranks 2010-05-27T19:50:00Z Apparently Trump’s all-time favourite De Niro film is Goodfellas, Martin Scorsese’s swirling, teeming portrait of New York’s gangster scene. Ageing bulls: have Robert De Niro’s roles inspired Donald Trump? 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z A command performance for a local drug lord at a seafood restaurant, in which he was ordered to serenade the gangster and his friends for three hours without pay, was the last straw. The Folk Music That Inspired ‘La Bamba’ Finds a New Generation of Fans 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z “The Act of Killing” focuses on a group of low-level, aging gangsters in the North Sumatra capital of Medan who were part of the death squads. Film Gives Indonesia View of Bloody, Obscured Past 2013-10-04T13:50:53Z Has any screen gangster been so thoroughly and publicly humiliated? Boardwalk Empire: season one, episode two 2011-02-02T22:10:00Z It doesn't do much for the image of international gangster, but they're very good for concealing things, apparently. TV Review: Odd One In and Beyond the Pole 2010-07-19T05:45:00Z In a race to learn how shooting victims at the factory are being killed by disappearing bullets, they work against pressure from gangsters and superiors. 'The Bullet Vanishes': Exciting crime thriller misses target at end 2012-08-31T00:01:05Z Photograph: BBC The third series of BBC2’s garish period gangster drama served up a heady stew of Russians, robbery, religion and rampage with more swagger than really seems fair. The best TV of 2016 so far 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z In Saints Row IV, you are a gangster turned United States president turned captive in an alien-made computer version of the world. Video Games: Saints Row IV; Papers, Please; Knightmare Tower; Payday 2; and Pikmin 3 2013-08-20T22:30:08Z His songs limn classic Los Angeles gangster rap, but also that city’s kinetically inventive progressive independent scene of the early-to-mid-1990s. Review: Kendrick Lamar’s Anxiety Leads to Joy and Jabs on New Album 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z In a particularly absurd moment, a Vietnamese gangster threatens the Black veterans as he recounts the My Lai massacre. Vietnamese Lives, American Imperialist Views, Even in ‘Da 5 Bloods’ 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z He has gotten the best of Albanian sex traffickers, cartel enforcers from Mexico and Colorado, innumerable European henchmen, plane hijackers, gangsters, and packs of snarling wolves in the Alaskan wilderness. The surprisingly durable second act of Liam Neeson 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z Everybody needs to get their hair cut, from the gangster to the preacher to the teacher. In Chicago, ‘Opera Can Be Hip-Hop, and Hip-Hop Can Be Opera’ 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z Next year comes a film he made with James McAvoy and Mark Strong, Welcome to the Punch – a London-based crime thriller already being talked about as a step up from generic gangster films. David Morrissey: 'Acting gave me a life' 2012-11-09T17:00:01Z Structured like a home-invasion drama, “Us” is a horror film—though saying so is like offering a reminder that “The Godfather” is a gangster film or that “2001: A Space Odyssey” is science fiction. Review: Jordan Peele’s “Us” Is a Colossal Cinematic Achievement 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z As young kingpin Franklin Saint, Idris strikes a balance between a vulnerable young man and a calculating and highly strategic gangster, a fascinating and chilling combination. Smart Watch: "Veronica Mars" returns! Here's your guide to new TV coming in July 2019-06-29T04:00:00Z With time, maybe a scene of gangsters blowing through a movie screen won’t hurt so much. “Gangster Squad”: A theater shooting in a movie. Too soon? 2012-07-24T17:20:00Z In an interview, Capone claimed to despise the gangster movies of the time, calling them “terrible kids’ stuff”, but rumour has it that he had his own prized copy of Hawks’s uncensored film. El Chapo, Hollywood and the lure of the mob movie 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z Cops, gangsters, drug dealers, high-end madams: They all turn out to be in business together. Review: A Corrupt Cop Is Up Against the Wall in Don Winslow’s ‘The Force’ 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z Black Mass” is peculiarly transparent regarding the very essence of the gangster film. The Blinding Cinematic Whiteness of “Black Mass” 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z “He’s a prophet in the sense that he designs a new kind of gangster,” Mr. Bidegain explained. Film: The Godfather?s Ghost Speaks French 2010-02-19T21:50:00Z The arrival of Johnny Depp as a ludicrously dressed gangster with an entourage of weirdos does nothing to reverse that position. Review: In ‘London Fields,’ Sex, Apocalypse and Writer’s Block 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z Diverse private lives seem to be going on behind the semipublic stage of every window, and the streets are an unceasing stream of shoppers, gangsters, hookers and assorted wheeler-dealers. | London Theater Journal: Revenge Served Sticky, and Cleanly Staged Comedy 2012-02-07T16:07:11Z And more important, after the bloody ending to Jimmy Darmody’s story, “it’s in danger of just becoming a show about how a gangster fights his enemies and stays in business.” Taking It Personal: A Look Back at Boardwalk Empire Season Three 2012-12-05T15:27:34Z But it’s also suspenseful, devious, well-constructed and as filled with ethical questions as it is with gangsters. Review: Dennis Lehane’s ‘World Gone By’ Completes a Loose Trio of Novels 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z There is police brutality, pulpit praise and gangsters walking through prison halls. ‘I do not want to take Kanye West seriously. But I know that we have to.’ 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z Says Barret: "The true problem is the cops and the army, not the gangsters." From street to screen: the story of Staff Benda Bilili 2011-02-24T22:00:01Z He’s just a ruthless gangster who exercises lethal power without being affected by it. ‘Narcos’ Season 2, Episode 2: The Legend vs. the Monster 2016-09-03T04:00:00Z “My dream was to become a gangster, to be honest with you.” With ‘The Godfather,’ Art Imitated Mafia Life. And Vice Versa. 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z "Sleepless Night": A French thriller about a cop involved with gangsters and drug dealers. Weekend Preview: Whidbey Island Fair, geocaching 2012-08-15T18:58:08Z Certainly if this were framed as fiction, it might be easier to buy Mr. Farrell as a Russian gangster, or forgive the crudely obvious commercial rationale of his casting. | 'The Way Back': Pushing the Limits of Endurance 2011-01-20T23:13:53Z But Cohen — showman, gambler, gangster — would have been especially pleased to see his film doppelgänger looming above Wilshire Boulevard in West Los Angeles. Sean Penn in Ruben Fleischer’s ‘Gangster Squad’ 2013-01-04T14:56:24Z “Federal and local investigators on surveillance duty saw and heard made men and wannabes imitating the mannerisms and language of the screen gangsters,” he wrote. With ‘The Godfather,’ Art Imitated Mafia Life. And Vice Versa. 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z What irks Brolin's gangster squad is that alien corruption is robbing their city of its essential virtues. Gangster Squad reflects the west coast's fear of the east 2013-01-07T17:25:58Z Certainly the superhero movies of today are, like the gangster pictures of the Depression and the westerns of the ’50s, a screen onto which our society projects its fears and dreams. ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ and the Modern Comic Book Movie 2012-06-27T16:13:49Z Nguyen appears to take to heart Robert Warshow’s comment that if the gangster film tells us anything, it is that it’s dangerous to be alone. Viet Thanh Nguyen Packs Plenty of Action and Outrage Into ‘The Committed’ 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z Visitors will move through stage sets of mob history; at the center is a series of galleries of artifacts provided by local gangster families. Museum Review: Mob Museum Opens in Las Vegas 2012-02-14T00:58:51Z He sees four main areas where gangsters flourish. No fantasy 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z I was just lucky enough to be like a stenographer as this guy talked about what it was like to want to be gangster. Goodfellas set for TV series ? with or without Martin Scorsese 2010-09-23T09:47:00Z "You were either an athlete or a gangster, or you were funny." Writer-director Garry Marshall dies at age 81 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z Page last updated at Actor Michael Pena says that working on his new film End of Watch was a "scary" experience due to the use of real gangsters in certain scenes. VIDEO: 'We had 100 gangsters on set' 2012-11-22T06:14:42Z The place is used as a drop point by Chechen gangsters for their illegal cash. Tom Hardy's 20 best film performances – ranked! 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z As he made his way down the glittering red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival for the premiere of his Prohibition-era gangster film "Lawless," Hardy found himself enjoying the extravagance - briefly, anyway. Visceral performances bring stardom for Tom Hardy 2012-05-21T13:07:47Z Shot in lurid, gilded tones; pulsing with pop decadence, the film is less an anatomy of authoritarian politics than a gangster movie. | 'The Devil?s Double': Straight From Uday Hussein?s Inner Circle 2011-07-29T00:16:46Z Bells shine and strings shudder in the background, while gangster/Muslim rapper Freeway rises to the seemingly impossible challenge of mirroring Jake's drums with individual syllable placement. Friday Favorites: J. Pinder, Freeway and Jake One, Last Night's Mixtape 2010-04-09T20:04:00Z If Malik resembles any character in an American film, it would probably be Michael Corleone of “The Godfather,” who also did not, at least initially, want to be drawn into the gangster life. Film: The Godfather?s Ghost Speaks French 2010-02-19T21:50:00Z My goal is to experience different things all the time, from playing a doctor to a gangster to a murderer to a lawyer. "I wanted to be waterboarded for real," says "The Mauritanian" star on playing a Guatanamo detainee 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z He recalled auditioning for the role of the Jewish gangster Moe Greene in “The Godfather.” ?Magic City,? Jewish Power Brokers in 1950s Miami Beach 2012-03-30T21:10:08Z Dada and Surrealism were the twin motifs for a party at the downtown club Don Hill’s on Saturday night, guests turning up in gargoyle masks and gangster suits. Shien Lee Presides Over Peripatetic Costume Parties in New York 2010-04-21T22:42:00Z “Gangs of Wasseypur”: A two-part Indian saga that follows three generations in a family of gangsters. Home show, Lunar New Year, birding | Weekend Preview 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z Claim to Fame: Mr. Loving is the grandson of Dapper Dan, the Harlem couturier fabled for outfitting gangsters and rap stars in bootlegged Fendi and other designer duds. Dapper Dan’s Grandson Sews His Own Gucci 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z By the time “The Godfather Part III” finally arrived on Christmas Day, critics and audiences may well have simply burned out on gangster movies. How ‘Goodfellas’ and the Gangster Class of 1990 Changed Hollywood 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z He commands every room he enters, even a hall packed with imposing gangsters. "Judas and the Black Messiah" is a window into FBI’s surveillance apparatus 2021-03-01T05:00:00Z For a gangster, he's like a big, soft teddy. Rebecca Atkinson on her favourite TV 2012-09-28T23:05:00Z The stark black and white gangster films of the '20s — which is also the time frame of our story — were a huge inspiration. Watch the documentary “Bad Dog,” a true crime tale about Pep, the felonious pup 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z It looks like a lot of Vietnamese gangster thugs in a dark, loungey space, with hip-hop music playing. An Unconventional Guide to Charlotte and Tampa 2012-07-27T18:49:38Z Rather than being inspired solely by gangster films and TV shows like “Miami Vice,” the Grand Theft Auto games now try to capture, albeit in heightened form, aspects of contemporary life. Q. and A.: Rockstar’s Dan Houser on Grand Theft Auto V 2012-11-10T01:05:01Z The story is simple: In Incheon, South Korea, a cop hunts a gangster. What's on TV Wednesday: ‘The Irishman’ and ‘Julie & Julia’ 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z His Hustle Gang crew represents for all the “gangsters across the globe,” T.I. said another time. Rapper T.I. isn’t necessarily worth the wait at his Echostage concert 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z The quintet of unlikely allies devises a harebrained scheme to steal back the tickets by infiltrating the gangster’s underground fight ring. Five Action Movies to Stream Now 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z Leisurely and deliberate, intelligent and casually cruel, “Have a Nice Day” is a stone-cold gangster thriller whose violence unfolds in passionless bursts. Review: In ‘Have a Nice Day,’ a Follow-the-Money Tale in China 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z The catalyst is a minor traffic accident in which Richard runs into the back of a Lexus driven by a young Guatemalan nanny who works for a New York gangster. Review | It’s a snowy day in Brooklyn, and there’s love in the air — and a body in the trunk 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z His antiheroes are gangsters, junkies and cops, living on the margins in the heart of Manhattan. Abel Ferrara: 'I made Scarface look like Mary Poppins' 2010-08-05T20:29:00Z The people he knows, some of whom form part of his own G-Unit-esque crew, SN1, listen to gangster music and nothing else. Are you ready for the British MCs? 2010-07-29T22:34:00Z Viewed in this context, the appeal of “Tulsa King” for an old stallion like Stallone makes sense: When it comes to mythological Hollywood heroes, not even Avengers can compete with cowboys and gangsters. In ‘Tulsa King,’ Sylvester Stallone Tries Something New: Being Himself 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z As Rosselli continued to work in and around Hollywood, the gangster eventually got to know Sinatra and Kennedy, who was soon to be president. Review | The incredible life of ‘Handsome Johnny,’ a gangster worthy of the movies 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z What he loses in power, he gains in understanding — a new definition of the gangster as tragic hero. DVDs: Class Alliances and Ambition in Thatcher Time 2010-09-25T21:04:00Z Nucky isn’t a gangster because he murders people but because he manipulates them. Boardwalk Empire Watch: A New Jimmy? 2012-10-08T12:00:35Z Tupac was many things to many people – an activist, a revolutionary, a Shakespearean, a hip-hop artist, a gangster, an overall fascinating individual. "Don't bite your tongue for no one": Tupac's mom, Afeni Shakur, taught him how to rebel and prevail 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z But I would find it impossible to do a film about gangsters with guns that was just that and didn't question it. Seven Psychopaths: 'You can't kill dogs in Hollywood' 2012-12-01T00:01:00Z Then again, the bloody tale of Depression-era gangsters Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker is simply irresistible. Almost Infamous: 10 Biopics With Memorable Antiheroes 2013-10-23T09:45:20Z “It came down to narrative choices,” he said, adding that the gangster’s later years as a fugitive with Greig were “less dramatic.” Sienna Miller cut from Johnny Depp gangster biopic Black Mass 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z He is haunted by his role in the beating and, presumably, death of the young, small-time gangster Ozzie Jackson, whom he was forced to rough up. ‘Perry Mason’ Season 2, Episode 6 Recap: The Smoking Gun 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z Narrator Henry says the gangster’s full name and pauses. Ray Liotta in ‘Goodfellas’: How the Right Actor Turned the Right Part Into a Classic 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z Shia LaBeouf dropped acid for 24 hours to prepare for a role in forthcoming gangster film The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman. Shia LaBeouf took acid for film role 2012-08-29T11:22:31Z But the gangster romance is far more dominant in another mob exhibition in town. Museum Review: Mob Museum Opens in Las Vegas 2012-02-14T00:58:51Z Clips of violence from old gangster films hammer us with the threat of a hit that never happened. 'Chasing Madoff': a tale not to be ignored 2011-09-15T19:21:06Z That same year, Gangsta Boo renamed herself Lady Boo because she said that she was not “living the gangster lifestyle” and wanted to align herself more closely with God. Gangsta Boo, Memphis Rapper Formerly With Three 6 Mafia, Dies at 43 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z Despite a few gangster movie clichés and unconvincing incidents, “My Brother the Devil” marks El Hosaini as a director worth following. ‘My Brother the Devil’: Siblings part ways on mean streets of London 2013-04-18T21:33:27Z The other gangsters, even the ones you see in the show, like Lucky Luciano and Arnold Rothstein, they didn't embrace the celebrity, which seems obvious if you're involved in all this illegal activity. How real is "Boardwalk Empire's" Al Capone? 2010-10-11T17:01:00Z As for the gangsta/gangster mix-up, he agreed with the judges. ‘Jeopardy!’ Tells Contestant: A ‘Gangster’ Is Not a ‘Gangsta’ 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z Some of the show's characters are fictional, but many are based on real gangsters and politicians from the Prohibition era, the most recognizable being Al Capone. How real is "Boardwalk Empire's" Al Capone? 2010-10-11T17:01:00Z Mr. Curtis played not his original role, a musician on the run from gangsters who joins a band disguised as a woman, but the millionaire Osgood Fielding; Mr. Storch played the band manager, Bienstock. Larry Storch, Comic Actor Best Known for ‘F Troop,’ Dies at 99 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z Anna, a gangster’s daughter, takes a more traditional approach, which can make her appear to be the tougher and more pragmatic half of the couple. 'A Most Violent Year,’ With Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z In this town, he notes, even a Russian gangster has a screenplay in his trunk. Bodies of Evidence 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z After the gangster nonsense, Perry sensibly jumped ship. Luke Perry obituary 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z He's a gangster mystic, he's almost like an energy. Spring Breakers, a riotous take on modern America 2013-03-30T06:00:00Z In the course of clearing his name, the P.I. commits numerous sins, including jumping bail, seriously irritating both his attorney and a gangster, and impersonating a policeman. Sleuths for our time: smarts, not guns 2013-01-11T00:47:17Z This weekend the film at 1 p.m. is the animated “Shark Tale,” a family-friendly “Sopranos” of the deep: the big fish are gangsters. Spare Times for Children for Jan. 11-17 2013-01-10T23:09:44Z There were a lot of hotels around Broadway that gangsters would frequent. Q&A: Mapping a Darker Side of New York 2013-12-25T19:10:51Z His movie breakthrough came in 1980 thriller "The Long Good Friday," playing an East End gangster hoping to profit from redevelopment of London's docks. 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit' actor Hoskins dies at 71 2014-05-01T11:01:43Z I dealt with truck men, unions and gangsters. On the Runway Blog: Joseph Altuzarra Wins His Prize 2011-11-15T16:07:55Z One gangster, one moll and one inspired casting of a yolk. Clip joint: the best film clips involving recipes 2010-04-07T10:50:00Z Mr. Lamar has also probably listened to some Freestyle Fellowship, the Los Angeles underground heroes who counterbalanced that gangster rap in the early ’90s with inventive wordplay. Critic’s Notebook: Kendrick Lamar and Meek Mill, Rappers With Debut Albums 2012-10-28T21:48:03Z Oscar-winning filmmaker Martin Scorsese picked up his first Emmy for directing the pilot episode of HBO's period gangster series "Boardwalk Empire." 'Modern Family,' 'Mad Men' win big 2011-09-19T05:08:01Z A football player, sweating profusely in the locker room, menaced by gangsters into throwing the big game, slides a handgun into his waistband and hits the field. Lethal weapons: Shane Black's pulp fiction is still the best action around 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z And indeed, Nucky has to become a whole gangster—by killing his other half. Boardwalk Empire Watch: Do It Yourself 2011-12-12T13:20:05Z The premiere focuses on the secret underground escape route rumored to have helped gangster Al Capone elude authorities. TV highlights: ‘The Mindy Project’ returns to Hulu 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z What about the gangsters from the earlier eras? Q&A: Mapping a Darker Side of New York 2013-12-25T19:10:51Z Most gangster movies focus on the big bosses and godfathers; “Goodfellas” and its descendants are about the grinders, the middlemen, the working-class thugs. How ‘Goodfellas’ and the Gangster Class of 1990 Changed Hollywood 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z This brutal gangster drama landed its makers with a subpoena when its interpretations of Melbourne’s late 90s gangland wars threatened to prejudice an ongoing trial in the state of Victoria. The 10 most politically controversial TV shows of all time 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z At that moment, a gangster is born, and with him, the next great gangster movie. Nameless Gangster: The Korean Mob Film Scorsese Would Be Proud Of 2012-04-10T10:45:25Z “Odessa” is inspired by music written for a film based on Isaac Babel’s “Odessa Stories,” which are set in a world of Jewish gangsters. Alexei Ratmansky’s Elective Affinity, Musically Speaking 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z Comparatively, the famous fight scene in Chan-wook Park’s twisty gangster movie wasn’t shot that many times. Let's try that again … the most difficult scenes to film in cinema history 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z I’d spend time with locals, expats, artists, entrepreneurs and a former gangster. Panama City Rising 2013-05-03T17:49:49Z Add to that list the Maldives, a micro-nation blighted by repression, political gangsters and, increasingly, Wahhabi extremists. A darker shade of blue 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z They were snapshots of life on the fringes, where she herself had dwelled: Bowery bars, vaudeville stages and carnivals, filled with gangsters, boxers and drunks. Mae West Vamped and Winked. She Also Blazed a Trail We’re Still Following. 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z Netflix went into the night with 34 nods, including six for Noah Baumbach’s searing “Marriage Story,” the most of any movie, and five for “The Irishman,” Martin Scorsese’s leisurely gangster yarn. 2020 Golden Globes: What to Expect at the Awards Show Tonight 2020-01-05T05:00:00Z Chill has a meeting with a group of other gangsters in Gotham City, making them aware of the Batman's threat. It's time to cancel Batman — for good 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z His upcoming projects include the post-apocalyptic reboot "Mad Max: Fury Road," the period gangster film "Legend" and the 9/11 drama "The True American." Tom Hardy joins Leonardo DiCaprio in revenge western 'The Revenant' 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z “Like Beaton, David can take a society portrait and later that afternoon one of a gangster and later that night a fashion magazine cover and run out the next morning and shoot a crime scene.” Photography: Photographer Who Broke Molds 2011-01-24T12:30:05Z As Michael Corleone, Pacino found his footing impressively fast, and this scene, arguably the best of the entire trilogy, sees him transform into the gangster who will haunt him throughout the rest of the saga. Al Pacino: five best moments 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z I was offered gangster parts all the time. Michael Peña Does Double Duty in the War on Drugs 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z Films about gangsters are popular because most of us work in offices and lead boring lives, and gangsters do not. Irish America and the siege of Hollywood 2010-07-11T21:29:00Z Just as indelible, though it took home no Oscars, is "White Heat," one of James Cagney's last and best gangster portrayals created under the professional eye of director Raoul Walsh. Landmark's Anniversary Classics Series screens noir gems 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z Half-mad with grief, Amy has reached out to Los Angeles gangsters who say they will put her in contact with terrorists who can answer questions about her son’s death. In ‘The Promise,’ Robert Crais wins our hearts with an unusual hero: A dog 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z But “Miles Ahead” turns Davis’s volatility into a cartoon — Cheadle plays him as a gangster, firing a pistol around Columbia Records’ offices and partaking in a wild car chase around Manhattan. Here’s how Miles Davis and Nina Simone were alike and different 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z More locations, more gangster characters and more criminal subplots is really not what this series needs. The plot-crazy spectacle of "Boardwalk Empire" 2011-09-26T01:26:00Z So a gangster is “aggressive but also indirect, like warm grease.” Books of The Times: Some Time at the Races, With Luck and Change 2010-12-01T22:57:00Z “My theory is there are only gangsters and cops,” he said in 2005. Jon Polito, character actor in ‘Homicide,’ Coen brothers films, dies at 65 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z We worked obsessively on a 1,000-piece puzzle featuring a map of the U.K., listened to Pink Floyd and, as the days wore on, caught up in the British gangster series “Peaky Blinders” on Netflix. To attend our daughter’s wedding, we spent 14 days quarantined in Scotland 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z Al Capone was the first US gangster to do this. El Chapo, Hollywood and the lure of the mob movie 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z On the streets of Los Angeles, "Shadow" reports, Cox is admired by other gangsters and gangster wannabes. Kermit Alexander walks into 'The Valley of the Shadow of Death' to explore murders of his relatives 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z Nicolás wants to engage with the gangsters, get involved, even mediate their turf wars. Cannes 2012: White Elephant ? review 2012-05-21T16:52:47Z And this soul-searching quest lends “Easy Money” a depth rarely found in gangster films. Movie Review: ‘Easy Money,’ Directed by Daniél Espinosa 2012-07-10T21:45:24Z Usually, brutal beatings are accompanied by incongruously jaunty music over the blood-spattered mayhem, a device we've seen countless times in films and now a staple of TV gangster drama. Gangster dramas: the cliches fly like a hail of bullets 2011-04-07T13:11:36Z An episode about Bishop's assassination of a hypocritical religious leader has its amusing touches, but a subplot about a seductive gangster comes off as not just ugly but vicious. 'The Mechanic': Jason Statham is no Charles Bronson in this remake 2011-01-27T22:39:06Z Equal parts corrupt politician and gangster, Nucky is Atlantic City's treasurer, which puts him in perfect position to capitalize on the opportunity to traffic in illegal, bootlegged booze. Martin Scorsese brings gangland drama to HBO 2010-08-08T19:08:00Z The filmmaker said there is a “gangster element” to Smith’s screenplay that makes this “Star Trek” idea unique. Quentin Tarantino rips Simon Pegg for acting like he knows R-rated "Star Trek" details 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z The multi-gallery installation examines a century of movie stars and the role that bowlers, berets and broad-brimmed Borsalinos played in creating indelible images of heartthrobs, gangsters and dandies. At Cavalli, a New Generation?s Take on the ?70s 2011-01-17T18:10:38Z Aside from interviews with the late former Mayor Ed Koch of New York and the late City College professor Marshall Berman, director Shan Nicholson's film consists of oral histories from the now-reformed gangsters. 'Rubble Kings' details the gritty Bronx of the 1960s and '70s 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z And a part came along a little while back, and it was to play quite a troubled, psychotic gangster, and they wouldn't give me the part. 'Robin Hood' star Strong proves good at being bad 2010-05-13T14:16:00Z Hollywood gangster movies, especially those directed by Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola, have conditioned us to expect every film in the genre to follow particular guidelines or risk feeling inauthentic. Movie Review: ‘Blood Ties’ Ignores Rules of the Gangster Genre 2014-03-20T23:26:44Z Toward the end of the novel, a man-eating crocodile in Biscayne Bay suffers a small bout of indigestion while passing one of the gangsters he ate. Review | Readers have waited 13 years for a new Thomas Harris novel. But ‘Cari Mora’ is no ‘Hannibal.’ 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z In Season 4, a Northern gangster weary of listening to Boyd’s circumlocutions snapped, “I’m gonna need Google Translate on my phone if I’m going to keep talking to you.” ‘Justified,’ on FX, Returns for Final Season 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z And if The Bucket List or Stand Up Guys — the new buddy film about the last hurrah of three old gangsters — is any indication, they are likely to be pretty awful. Can old age still have a happy ending? 2013-02-07T23:17:00Z Her next stop, Odessa, is under the nominal control of the White Army, with the support of the French, but everyone knows it’s the gangsters in the thieves’ quarter who really rule the city. Teffi’s “Memories” and the Women of the Russian Revolution 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z She also does one absolutely fabulous gangster tap ballet that makes you wish she had worked on the last “Guys and Dolls” revival. Theater Review: Woody Allen Transforms His ‘Bullets Over Broadway’ 2014-04-11T02:00:16Z Busting up gangsters’ steroidal S.U.V.’s is one thing, violating the privacy of a working stiff quite another. Books of The Times: In Thomas Perry?s ?Strip,? Affable Thugs, Rough Justice 2010-05-26T22:24:00Z And there’s another gangster, Joe Stark, to whom Christie owes money. The tireless (and sometimes tiresome) hero of Ian Rankin’s ‘Rather be the Devil’ 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z When a tough female gangster from Loony Island thinks, “All boundaries are permeable,” she’s not far from the animating principle of “The Revisionaries,” whose various story lines constantly blur into one another. Review | A.R. Moxon’s ‘The Revisionaries’ might be the weirdest novel of the year 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z The most acclaimed remake of a Hong Kong movie in recent years was Martin Scorsese's adaptation of the 2002 gangster thriller "Infernal Affairs." Hong Kong tepid on remake of John Woo classic 2011-01-25T11:33:08Z It's rare to see that level of ferocity in a character who isn't involved in violence -- an action film bad guy, for example, or a gangster. Great Oscar debate: Why was Franco nominated? 2011-02-24T21:20:00Z Today, they have rolled into London as the main attraction on the press roadshow for The Irishman, Martin Scorsese’s monumental new gangster picture – and there is a lot to get through. Robert De Niro and Al Pacino: 'We’re not doing this ever again' 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z Gandolfini's portrayal of a gangster who ordered hits on his enemies and saw a therapist to talk about his insecurities, is the signature role of his career. Family, friends, fans attend funeral of 'Sopranos' star Gandolfini 2013-06-27T15:16:13Z The politicians are locals, the police are locals, the criminals are locals, and the neighborhood defends itself against outsiders—whether F.B.I. snoops or black interlopers, whether Italian gangsters or Harvard snoots. The Blinding Cinematic Whiteness of “Black Mass” 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z I’d had my share of gangster players and cool, hard hipsters. From good girl to prostitute: My path from ultra-Orthodox Judaism to Craigslist sex ad 2014-02-03T01:00:00Z Q. The popular image of Prohibition is one of flappers, speakeasies and gangsters. Lisa McGirr Discusses ‘The War on Alcohol’ and the Legacy of Prohibition 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z In a fleeting visual coup, black-suited gangsters appear on the stairs, clambering up from the bottom of the frame like two-dimensional figures in a brush painting. The Great Unknown Movie of the Century So Far? Here’s Mine 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z Deren and Hammid made “Meshes” in their apartment on the border of Los Angeles proper, where gangsters and stars partied and played out of reach of the city’s laws. Avant-Garde Cinema Ran Parallel to Hollywood 2011-11-04T20:56:20Z You'd like to avoid stuff like "If you liked this gangster movie, here are some other gangster movies." Like 'The Social Network'? Scarecrow Video suggests other movies based on true stories 2010-09-30T20:39:00Z “Black Caesar,” in particular, is a remake of the 1931 gangster picture “The Public Enemy” transposed to Harlem of the 1970s. Blaxploitation Movies Are Ready to Stream, Nostalgia Included 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z In high school I used to do a routine: how famous actors who play gangsters die on stage — Edward G. Robinson and Jimmy Cagney — they all have different ways of dying. 97-year-old actor: ‘I enjoy working with other people, particularly young — well, in my case, they’re all younger than I am’ 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z According to Billboard, Daleste was involved in São Paulo's ostentation funk scene, where rappers trade gangster bars over heavily percussive beats. Brazilian rapper MC Daleste fatally shot on stage 2013-07-09T11:19:20Z "It produced gangsters, it produced guns, it produced all sorts of terrible things," said Ruth Dudley Edwards. Radio review: Emerald Noir 2011-03-09T08:00:03Z “I don’t mind playing a gangster as long as it’s redefined in some way,” he said in an interview on the website Groucho Reviews in 2005. Jon Polito, a Favorite in Coen Brothers Films, Dies at 65 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z The taxi’s door locks were broken and clicked loudly whenever the vehicle accelerated, so naturally, I thought gangsters were shooting at us. Chris Colfer: The First Time I Braved New York (and a Taxi!) 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z Angry Russian gangsters, a determined insurance company and a very strange hit man are all after poor Buster, thus ensuring plenty of high jinks. Crime fiction: Lupton's 'Afterwards' and Bazell's 'Wild Thing' 2012-04-04T20:35:04Z Joel Grey, billed above the title in “Anything Goes” as gangster Moonface Martin, was moved to the featured actor category. ArtsBeat: Some Actors Move Up, Others Down, in Jockeying for Tony Consideration 2011-04-29T19:38:03Z Which raises the question: What is gangster rap, a genre made by actors, or nonfiction rap made by gangsters? Friday Favorites, authenticity edition: The Head and the Heart, Avatar, Salem 2010-09-24T19:06:00Z Mr. Joffe has turned “Brighton Rock” into a full-scale film noir with the stylistic undertow of a more modern British gangster movie. | 'Brighton Rock': ?Brighton Rock,? Film of Graham Greene Novel - Review 2011-08-25T23:02:20Z “Reservoir Dogs” is a crime film, it’s a gangster film, but more important it’s a heist film, even though you don’t really see the heist. The Visionaries: How Quentin Tarantino Concocted a Genre of His Own 2012-12-19T13:00:00Z The gangsters take custody of little “Marky” when the father commits suicide. Shirley Temple: A Cute Cocktail of Talent and Charm 2014-02-12T16:13:08Z In many ways, neoliberalism and gangster capitalism are making the individuals and groups who suffer under their rule literally mad. "Joker": A harsh indictment of neoliberalism and gangster capitalism 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z The original plot was classically simple, a seven-day countdown as a Copenhagen heroin dealer tries to settle a debt to a louche but vicious Serbian gangster. Pusher returns – again 2012-10-11T19:00:01Z I loved him, but failed to see how our relationship could work, and six months of anthropological novelty as a gangster’s moll was enough for me. How do I tell our sons about their father’s criminal past? 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z “I know they were gangsters and killers, but I think for the right audience, they were very innocent. . . . they were human beings.” Review | ‘The Sopranos’ at 20: How did the show change TV — and us? 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z The two performed the duet Brush Up Your Shakespeare, written by Cole Porter and most often performed by male gangsters giving advice on how to quote the Bard to woo women. Meryl Streep slathers on fake tan for convincing Donald Trump impression 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z F. Gary Gray chronicles the rise of the gangster rappers N.W.A in “Straight Outta Compton,” now on cable. What’s on TV Saturday 2016-07-16T04:00:00Z There's knife crime, gangsters, and even a bit of romance thrown in for good measure. Cat Clarke's top 10 books with teens behaving badly 2011-04-04T08:53:17Z He had sought an early release, citing his poor health and his rejection of the gangster life, in an effort to avoid dying in prison. Gambino crime family’s elder Gotti, Peter, dies in prison 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z At times, ordinary men, women and children pressured by gangsters into playing extras clearly look traumatized, raising an ethical question about Oppenheimer’s efforts to get at unspeakable truths. ‘The Act of Killing’: a haunting take on Indonesia genocide 2013-08-01T22:56:25Z A lonely bartender who funnels cash to local gangsters finds himself caught in the middle of a robbery gone awry and a deep-digging investigation. The Fall Movie Preview list of films 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z The result is “Paradise Lost” but with more gangsters: a zany interrogation of religious concepts in a wholly secular context. Review | A.R. Moxon’s ‘The Revisionaries’ might be the weirdest novel of the year 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z What remains is the impulse to tell the story of a fictional version of this place, of the hustlers, gangsters and losers who live like coyotes on the edge of this town. ‘Better Call Saul’ Stars Bob Odenkirk of ‘Breaking Bad’ 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z Soon the station wagon catches a flat and Chris realizes she doesn't have her purse, and a night of bullet dodging, gangster evading, blues singing, evil-boyfriend confronting and skyscraper scaling begins. Scarecrow suggests | Like 'Date Night'? Find more tales of harried marrieds on DVD 2010-04-08T22:41:00Z It’s an elegant, economical opening that sets up the show’s battle lines: the cowboy sheriff will fight the city-slick gangster, as well as corrupt officials and greedy businessmen, for Las Vegas’s soul. Television Review: ‘Vegas’ on CBS, Starring Dennis Quaid 2012-09-24T21:48:27Z A decade earlier, the aviation mogul and dedicated playboy had produced movies, including the aerial epic Hell's Angels and the notorious gangster film Scarface, directed by Hawks. Remembering "The Two and Only" Jane Russell: 1921-2011 2011-03-04T09:05:00Z In movies dealing with crime, gangsters like to promenade around the old neighborhood, dispensing favours and advice, often consuming small amounts of fruit or nuts as they do so. Joe Queenan's guide to crime cliches 2010-10-17T11:00:00Z “I wanted it to be something that was innovative and crazy and kind of gangster,” said Cheadle of the movie. Don Cheadle: 'I wanted to create a film that Miles Davis would want to star in' 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z A gangster wears a hat that will call to mind Johnny Boy in “Mean Streets.” For ‘Public Morals,’ Edward Burns Exhumes the ’60s From Manhattan Streets 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z The score for “Odessa,” by Leonid Desyatnikov, was written for the 1990 Russian film “Sunset,” inspired by Isaac Babel’s short stories about Jewish gangsters in Odessa at the end of the Russian Revolution. No More Gang Rape Scenes in Ballets, Please 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z Now he's a matured gangster, one whose affairs cross class lines from the underworld Ybor City to the offices of Tampa's police and politicians and the promise of Cuba. Dennis Lehane drinks in some sunlight 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Advertised as both an “investigative documentary” and a “gangster story,” the film traces the rapper’s life from childhood up to his arrest in late 2018 on charges that include attempted murder and armed robbery. The saga of Tekashi 6ix9ine: inside the story of a 'supervillain' rapper 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z Starting with Dr. Dre’s “The Chronic” in 1992, every album released by Death Row Records went at least platinum, but the gangster rap label’s holiday album wasn’t exactly a huge hit. ‘Christmas on Death Row’ and a Stormy Season for a Storied Rap Label 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z Regarding one gangster’s impulse to do “something big” so as not to appear weak, Nate observes, “Yeah, they always think they have to be seen doing something big. . . .” ‘Every Night I Dream of Hell’ takes us deep inside a hit man’s life 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z "In the street we just call it gangster music," he says, shrugging his shoulders. Are you ready for the British MCs? 2010-07-29T22:34:00Z Simon Yam, who has helped define the role of the quiet but simmering gangster, here plays the downtrodden father; his fans may be alarmed to see his undyed gray hair. Film: Samplings From the Asian Film Festival 2010-06-24T21:39:00Z He later raged against the entire city, telling the Portsmouth News it was a town of "gangsters". Adam Ant checks into hospital 2010-05-24T12:14:00Z The crowd — teenage stoners, aging hipsters, dressed-down professionals — is as eclectic as the soundtrack, which ranges from deep house to Armenian pop to gangster rap. Next Stop: Salonika, Greece?s Cultural Capital 2011-11-04T16:01:38Z I thought that was an amazing, original crime scene — farmers and gangsters combined into one. The Carpetbagger: A Crime Tragedy, not a Crime Drama 2012-02-16T14:11:26Z So when he boards a bus, splashing its interior in the blood, teeth and tissue of a passel of Russian gangsters, his lethal skills are as unsurprising as his ultimate satiety. ‘Nobody’ Review: A Wolf in Wimp’s Clothing 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z More often than not, that character would be drawn from his rogues’ gallery of brutal killers, thuggish gangsters and slick con artists. Elmore Leonard, Who Refined the Crime Thriller, Dies at 87 2013-08-20T14:28:20Z The dynamic is emblematic of the show’s strong female roles, a rarity in gangster dramas. ‘Peaky Blinders’: The Disparate Ingredients of a Cult Hit 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z So the crooks hastily dupe some C-list actors into cobbling together a cheap gangster flick. A Landscape of Lies: the gangster film that taxed the taxman 2013-03-13T19:03:53Z “The world is run by gangsters,” said Lee, referring to former U.S. Spike Lee, ‘Annette’ open 74th Cannes Film Festival 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z Growing up with him, and then coming to New York and waiting on gangsters as a young man, I think that really influenced me. Dylan McDermott Wants to Be a Good Guy for a Change 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z Chow became an instant icon with his swashbuckling, match stick-chewing gangster character who mowed down enemies stylishly one gun in each hand. Hong Kong tepid on remake of John Woo classic 2011-01-25T11:33:08Z He claims Jones told him that Wynn was a gangster and a murderer who was the de-facto head of the Genovese mob family. Casino mogul denies threatening porn producer 2012-09-05T00:41:12Z It was the latest in a string of legal troubles for Mane, 34, whose gangster persona helped land him a role in the 2012 movie "Spring Breakers," starring James Franco. Rapper Gucci Mane gets three years in prison for assault in Atlanta 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z Perhaps her strangest incarnation was in 2012 as a nonagenerian East End gangster in a music video for the band Quarrel. Anna Wing, who played Lou Beale on EastEnders, dies aged 98 2013-07-11T12:56:52Z “I won’t wear a hat to a premiere, and ‘Goodfellas’ wouldn’t be the right place for this — I wasn’t a gangster, I was a drug addict. Debi Mazar’s Talent for Glamour 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z It’s a surprising turn of events since, in recent memory, the gangster movie was pretty much the pinnacle. Live by Night: how the gangster film went from top of the world to sleeping with the fishes 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z They have been sentenced to a life without parole or sometimes to death, caught as they are in a crossfire between cops and warring neighborhood gangsters. America’s criminal injustice system: A private eye sheds light on the gross indignities suffered by the poor 2016-08-21T04:00:00Z Al Capone dealt with his deaf son and beat on other gangsters. Taking It Personal: A Look Back at Boardwalk Empire Season Three 2012-12-05T15:27:34Z The mobsters’ wives and mothers particularly loved him, but he refused to kowtow to gangsters. John Travolta to play 'the other Sinatra' in film about Jimmy Roselli 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z At five, she went round the house in wellies and a swimming hat; by the age of 11, she was a "gangster" with a collection of neckerchiefs. One to watch: SOAK 2013-01-27T08:00:00Z The Mississippi Association of Gang Investigators often points to violent white gangsters to push for tougher enforcement, telling media that 53% of verified gang members in the state are white. Dangerous, growing, yet unnoticed: the rise of America's white gangs 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z The funnyman’s first novel involves nuclear bombs, Russian gangsters, giant pythons — just ordinary life in Miami. Perspective | We need comic novels more than ever. So where are they? 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z While Bock stayed behind the camera for this murderous gangster escapade through the Californian desert, professional actors brought an unusual gravitas to his chaotic dialogue, making their posturing both hilarious and unnerving. Artist of the week 2010-08-04T16:33:00Z In the end, Boardwalk Empire went out exactly the way you would expect a gangster story to: with a Tommy gun. REVIEW: Boardwalk Empire Watch: Golden Boy 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z Many of the gangsters, drug dealers, frauds and cheats who populate the film end up dead, but in every case accidentally: frozen in a refrigerator truck, impaled in a high-speed scooter chase. Film: Samplings From the Asian Film Festival 2010-06-24T21:39:00Z "Cold War" tackles the politics and power struggles within the police force, unlike the typical police versus gangster films, he said. Hong Kong thriller 'Cold War' touted in Taiwan 2012-11-13T09:01:03Z The Miami Police Department encouraged residents to report gang activity - with a website banner depicting two gangsters bearing a striking resemblance to rapper Jay-Z. 'Gangsters' in police web banner look like Jay-Z 2010-10-08T18:45:00Z In 1951, Miss Scott starred opposite Robert Mitchum in “The Racket,” in which she played a torch singer romantically caught between a police officer and a gangster. Lizabeth Scott, sultry femme fatale of Hollywood’s film noir, dies at 92 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z Wearing dark glasses and metal-toed shoes and spouting Runyonesque gangster gibberish, he reminds you that “Pacific Rim” is, more than anything else, a cartoon. Movie Review: In ‘Pacific Rim,’ Pilots Inside Robots Face Alien Invaders 2013-07-11T12:00:01Z In the language of gangster narratives, he reads more as legend than monster. ‘Narcos’ Season 2, Episode 2: The Legend vs. the Monster 2016-09-03T04:00:00Z Where the Montana sat at the apex – a haven for cocktail-sipping diplomats, aid workers and wealthy gangsters – the valley below was its polar opposite. Haiti survivors 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z With Kim’s help, he runs a plot to ruin Howard’s reputation that inadvertently leads, in this year’s midseason finale, to Howard’s murder by one of Saul’s gangster clients. ‘Saul’ Great, Man 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z A gangster saga with a history lesson is apparently the best algorithm for cross-cultural success. Review: The Criminal Life in Mumbai in ‘Sacred Games’ 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z Thirty years ago, he was working on the screenplay for “New Jack City,” a film that would become a 1990s Black gangster classic. The strange journey of ‘cancel,’ from a Black-culture punchline to a White-grievance watchword 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z Granted, Smith is shooting paintballs, but there's real gangster rap spirit in PMPH's music. Seattle punk band PartMan PartHorse has gangster rap spirit 2010-05-06T18:08:00Z Maureen’s gangster son, Jimmy, cleans up the mess, but soon regrets rekindling the relationship with his mother. Irish charm 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z We wanted to make him gangster cool in the way we know it cinematically. Tribeca Film Festival Interview: Nick Sandow on 'The Wannabe' 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z The more aggressive Monique is a self-defined feminist and “sociopathic hard-core gangster”; Catherine is as taciturn and nearly as awkward as Ellis. Review: ‘The Purple Lights of Joppa Illinois’ Revels in Unease 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z Allen’s masterstroke was to cast Farrow fiercely against type as a gangster’s moll. From Holly to Annie to Brooke: the women of cinema who personify New York 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z At other times he and Herman dress up like movie gangsters or other movie archetypes. Movie Review: ‘Act of Killing’ Re-enacts Indonesian Massacres 2013-07-18T16:01:22Z "Nameless Gangster: Rules of the Time," a Korean gangster/yakuza film that's been a box office hit in its home country earlier this year, opens today at Alderwood Mall Cinemas 16. Marx Brothers, Cary Grant, Hitchcock classics to screen 2012-04-12T20:15:18Z It is the deviation from the code of omertà that usually sets in motion a gangster's ruin. Joe Queenan's guide to crime cliches 2010-10-17T11:00:00Z Al Capone: Icon This new special looks back at the more violent aspects of the infamous Chicago gangster's life and public persona, as reinforced by such portrayals as Robert De Niro's in "The Untouchables." Tuesday's TV Highlights: 'Face Off' on Syfy 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z The 84-year-old gangster will spend the rest of his life behind bars. 'Whitey' documentary indicts more than just James J. Bulger 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z “They’re playing to a stereotype,” he added, like contemporary hip-hop artists who have college degrees and stable families but pretend to be disaffected gangsters onstage. Antiques: Black and Jewish Music, Kentucky Cabinets, Magician Posters 2012-12-06T22:01:49Z None of that was enough, however, to prevent its wholesale bootlegging of American gangster classics. Rewind TV: Boardwalk Empire; The Big C; Louis Theroux ? Ultra Zionists; Welcome to Romford 2011-02-06T00:05:43Z The short version: It was the handiwork of a bumbling confederation of Boston gangsters and out-of-state Mafia middlemen, many now long dead. Isabella Stewart Gardner Heist: 25 Years of Theories 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z “So you needed him to be incredibly human, funny, connected to whoever’s in the room, and yet he’s a gangster.” Robert F. Chew, Actor on ‘The Wire,’ Dies at 52 2013-01-19T04:32:48Z The use of guns in Hollywood films has a long tradition going back to the gangster movies of the 1930s. Hollywood’s love of guns increases the risk of shootings – both on and off the set 2021-11-13T05:00:00Z From early roles on Broadway playing juvenile, “tennis anyone?” types, he made his way to a succession of gangster roles in Hollywood. Books of The Times: Talent Is What Made Him Dangerous 2011-02-14T23:29:12Z While it raided the histories of both Italian and American film and gangster mythology for its look and style, it felt distinctly European, with an operatic realism unlike anything on American TV. The Best TV Shows of 2016 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z Once in Norway, a country full of snow and reindeer sweaters, electric cars and polite police chiefs, he figures out how to put his gangster skills to use in a new environment. Don Draper?s reckoning nears 2012-05-21T12:45:00Z There’s also the question of whether the banker embezzled millions of dollars and whether a murderous Ukrainian gangster is coming to claim the money. The tireless (and sometimes tiresome) hero of Ian Rankin’s ‘Rather be the Devil’ 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z Because you have a character who is a movie lover, did you want to pay homage to gangster films in your movie? Tribeca Film Festival Interview: Nick Sandow on 'The Wannabe' 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z And she took him down, she was pretty gangster about it. "We do have power": "Queens of Resistance" books profile the politicians who inspire us most – women 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z Tommy DeVito is entertaining fellow gangsters with stories of his exploits when one of his listeners, Henry Hill, tells him he’s funny. The Restrained Genius of a Joe Pesci Performance 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z He kept the stuffed cheeks and padded suit from the screen test and added a raspy voice that, for those in the know, offered a spot-on impression of the legendary New York gangster Frank Costello. The cutthroat casting of "The Godfather": life imitates mob movie 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z His endgame is not that of a gangster facing down the law but, like Don, of a man finding integrity in his splintered identity. ‘Saul’ Great, Man 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z For Staples, gangster rap is a cover for a life that isn’t about chains and notoriety but about death and desperation. “Atlanta” and Vince Staples and a New Hip-Hop Sensibility 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z Jimmy’s line, “What’s done can be undone,” is a nod to Macbeth, and a famous utterance by a Lady Macbeth — the original female gangster — who rues her role in murdering King Duncan of Scotland. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 6, Episode 9 Recap: Bye Bye Love 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z Omar had swagger as he patrolled Baltimore’s back alleys with his sawed-off shotgun, but he was no two-dimensional gangster cowboy. Where to Stream Michael K. Williams’s Best TV Performances 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z Highly compromised, as it turns out, because Frank has gone full gangster after realizing the $5 million he gave Ben to purchase land along the rail corridor is missing. 'True Detective' recap: State launches probe into Vinci corruption 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z The story is deepened with a distinctively European political subtext as the increasingly grandiose Mesrine engages in a running dialogue with various characters about the differences between gangsters and revolutionaries. | 'Mesrine': Drunk on His Own Notoriety 2010-08-26T19:53:00Z Sure, Analyse This came after the first season, hilariously referenced by Tony's new shrink in season two, but the comic and bemusing potential of gangsters has always been present. The Wire re-up: season five, episode seven ? The Wire v The Sopranos 2010-03-29T23:15:00Z If Snoop just wanted to appropriate Rasta culture and cash in on it, he’d just grow dreadlocks and write some gangster songs—but he hasn’t done that at all. Dogg to Lion: A Q&A with Reincarnated Director Andy Capper – South By Southwest (SXSW) 2013-03-13T09:45:14Z She was a tireless and talented code breaker who brought down gangsters and Nazi spies. Dig into those archives! The story of a lost code breaking woman of World War II 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z And the media makes it look good to be a gangster. Snoop Doggy Dogg: 'Ain't nobody else bigger than me but Michael Jackson' – a classic interview from the vaults 2012-07-03T14:20:00Z It's a pastiche of gangster movies by someone who did not much care for gangsters. Truffaut: growing backwards into childhood 2011-02-19T00:05:31Z Robert De Niro has renewed his criticism of Donald Trump, calling the US head of state a “gangster president” and saying he “can’t wait” to see him jailed. Robert De Niro on Donald Trump: 'I can't wait to see him in jail' 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z Surveying the records of the era, Samet contrasts this dehumanization with the portrayal of European fascists, who were more typically described as “gangsters.” ‘Looking for the Good War’ Says Our Nostalgia for World War II Has Done Real Harm 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z On the long, boring car journey up there, I started telling them the story of a gangster called Bugsy Malone. How we made Bugsy Malone 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z “You said ‘gangster’s’ instead of ‘gangsta’s’ on that song by Coolio, so we take 3,200 away from you.” ‘Jeopardy!’ Tells Contestant: A ‘Gangster’ Is Not a ‘Gangsta’ 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z Styled like an extra from the Beastie Boys' Sabotage video, Devgan takes on a gangster villain in this Bollywood action thriller. This week's new films 2011-07-22T23:07:03Z From then on, no action film was complete without a mammoth display or artillery and the slow-motion deaths of gangsters or Western varmints, perforated with blood squibs. Appreciation: Arthur Penn, the Miracle Worker of 'Bonnie and Clyde' 2010-09-30T18:15:00Z The film follows the journey of D., a young gangster who loses his older brother to ghetto rivalry in Kingston, Jamaica. Idris Elba brings 'Yardie' to Berlin International Film Festival 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z Where would you rank it among other gangster films? ArtsBeat Blog: Critics' Picks Video: 'The Public Enemy' 2011-11-14T22:11:18Z And in Mesrine , arguably his most acclaimed role to date, the actor portrayed one of the most notorious gangsters in French history, winning a best actor César last year for his performance. Vincent Cassel: 'You don't have to be your character in real life' 2010-12-12T00:06:00Z That period, characterized by his growing impatience with genre formulas and his increasing taste for surrealist humor and formal experimentation, ended with his gangster movie “Branded to Kill” in 1967. Seijun Suzuki, Director Who Inspired Tarantino and Jarmusch, Dies at 93 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z “I would rather have thieves and gangsters,” the populist Huey Long declared in the 1930s, “than chain stores in Louisiana.” Books of The Times: ?The Great A&P,? by Marc Levinson, a Retail History - Review 2011-09-06T21:03:24Z He may have thought he was a big deal, but in the end all he merits is a minor gangster movie. Review: In ‘Black Mass,’ Johnny Depp Is the Dead-Eyed Killer Whitey Bulger 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z By far the most celebrated gangster of the day, though, was Al Capone, a New York-born hoodlum who controlled much of the Chicago underworld in the mid-1920s. How Prohibition backfired and gave America an era of gangsters and speakeasies 2012-08-25T23:05:52Z As she waits for her mother to join the rest of the family in San Diego and watches her former gangster father fall into drunken rages, the narrator also grieves for a drowned brother. Perspective | Now that Hollywood is interested in Asian stories, here are other books that should be movies 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z In its place, he said, was a “sprayed-on varnish stain veneer” of mass-produced goods, American gangster films and Tin Pan Alley songs. Richard H. Hoggart, ‘Lady Chatterley’s’ Savior, Dies at 95 2014-04-23T20:45:56Z Mr. Garner’s co-star was Julie Andrews, with whom he later appeared in Blake Edwards’s cross-dressing farce “Victor/Victoria” as a Chicago gangster with a surprisingly open mind toward gender roles. James Garner, disarming leading man of film and television, dies at 86 His latest venture brings him back to Cairo where he plays a gangster taking on an organ trafficking ring in "El Ott" or "The Cat". A Minute With: Egyptian actor Amr Waked on making movies at home and abroad 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z Instead, it’s a grooming: I would wager two cases of whiskey that Van Alden will be the greatest gangster of the series. Boardwalk Empire Watch: The Crate 2012-11-19T13:30:43Z Fishers High School in Fishers, Ind., had planned to present “Bullets Over Broadway,” a musical adaptation of Woody Allen’s gangster comedy. When the Actors Are Students, and They’re Armed 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z Instead, he transforms into a gangster, bootlegger and rumrunner in the dark underbelly of Tampa’s Ybor City district. A Comeback King Fights His Way Back Into the Ring 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Takes the Gun says hip-hop – in its more negative aspects – influenced him to play the part of a gangster. Fighting the power and speaking for the earth: The explosion of Native American hip-hop 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z Taking rich, handsome, ruthless gangsters and surgically removing every ounce of their picaresque charisma might be a worthy pursuit, but it’s not much to look at. Sorry episodes: the most disappointing TV shows of 2018 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z He looks less like an old gangster than a retired tailor—or, 50 years later, one of the cadets that Jocko browbeat. Requiem for Mr. Tough Guy 2012-02-06T17:01:31Z “Ai Weiwei takes us beyond the gangster years into something that’s not only part of our history but part of our present.” @Large: Inside Ai Weiwei's Unprecedented Exhibit on Alcatraz 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z Julian has finally managed to extricate his parents from Nazi Germany by finagling a job offer for his father, a philosophy professor far less nurturing than Julian’s gangster mentor. ‘Wherever There Is Light’ review: A tale of lovers caught in history 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z This older, end-of-the-line gangster, Gandolfini says, completes an arc for him of mafia men, a kind of epilogue of the "last, most pathetic one in the end." In bite-sized roles, Gandolfini ubiquitous again 2012-12-24T16:26:08Z Film gangsters despise other ethnic groups, who do horrible things they would never do. Joe Queenan's guide to crime cliches 2010-10-17T11:00:00Z It's one of the aspects that defines his character, making him different from just another gangster. "Peaky Blinders" and Tommy Shelby's perceived crime of sobriety 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z The film is not a documentary or a slice of miserablist social realism; it's a gangster movie. Ill Manors just wants a little respect for our gangsters 2012-06-06T11:07:56Z In a gangster movie Will would be the midlevel enforcer, entrusted with the dirty work but denied real authority. | 'Margin Call': ?Margin Call,? With Zachary Quinto - Review 2011-10-20T16:15:02Z Burke has no inclination to romanticize gangsters, no matter how well groomed: “They were brutal, stupid to the core, and had the visceral instincts of medieval peasants armed with pitchforks.” A Gumbo of Crime: From the Bayou to Britain 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z I’m enjoying the show’s willingness to offer fresh takes on members of certain species, like Krinn, a villainous Vulcan, or Sneed, the gangster Vulcan. ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Season 3, Episode 5 Recap: Old Friends Return 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z “The fact that so many of the gangsters in the series have Italian names has been a touchy problem,” Mr. Shepard noted in his profile. ‘The Untouchables’ TV Series: Old-School Gangster Trapping 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z Where better to set a gangster novel than big, bad, brawling Chicago during Prohibition? A Gumbo of Crime: From the Bayou to Britain 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z He called George Soros the “OG” — a slang term meaning “original gangster” — of “organizing and financing riots, looting and civil unrest” — an unfounded statement with anti-Semitic overtones. Sinclair yanked a pandemic conspiracy theory program. But it has stayed in line with Trump on coronavirus. 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z Several years later, after becoming one of Hollywood’s most in-demand screenwriters, Sheridan reached out with a pilot script about “the ultimate fish out of water: gangster goes west,” Stallone said. In ‘Tulsa King,’ Sylvester Stallone Tries Something New: Being Himself 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z The film follows the journey of D., a young gangster who loses his older brother to ghetto rivalry in Kingston, Jamaica. Idris Elba brings 'Yardie' to Berlin International Film Festival 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z Even a competent gangster might develop an inferiority complex around Sal, who effortlessly conveys a toe-curling menace, even — or especially — when chortling amiably at his own jokes. 'Unorganized Crime' a quirky mob-family melodrama 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z And what happened to Albert Brooks, who won most of the awards from critics’ groups for turning from fretful comedy to gangster stolidity in Drive? 2012 Oscar Nominations: Who Will Win? 2012-01-24T16:24:15Z Mercer was Pescatore's best friend in Chicago — where the boys grew up talking music and watching gangster movies — a charismatic playboy with a golden singing voice and an itch for criminal adventure. 'The Convert's Song' is a skillfully layered thriller 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z The film-maker has previously discussed his interest in filming a gangster movie set in the 1920s, and has also hinted that he could return to the second world war. Quentin Tarantino plans 'rewritten history' trilogy 2013-02-11T13:13:03Z "I'm not going to lie, it can be fun throwing money over a naked midget in one of the most famous gangster strip clubs in America," he offers, sagely. Dizzee Rascal: 'The music just got bigger and better' 2012-06-21T22:00:01Z In a story dominated by tough guys, Tasha is “just as boss and as gangster as the rest of them,” Ms. Naughton says. Under-the-Radar Crime Drama ‘Power’ Keeps Gaining Viewers 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z The amusing examples of her newly roughed-up language suggested a child imitating a gangster. Katie Finneran Performs ‘It Might Be You’ at 54 Below 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z The group pitches Paramount producer David O. Selznick and “Joe” von Sternberg — the director for whom Hecht wrote the pioneering gangster story “Underworld.” Who’s Who in ‘Mank’: A Guide to the Real-Life Players 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z Establishing his "office" at Lindy's Restaurant in Midtown Manhattan, Rothstein brought alcohol across the Great Lakes and down the Hudson from Canada, and supplied it – at a handsome profit – to the city's gangsters. How Prohibition backfired and gave America an era of gangsters and speakeasies 2012-08-25T23:05:52Z JG: Despite working on the script, even Anita wasn’t aware that there was a whole gangster part to the film at the start until she saw it! 'Performance? I still don't fully understand it' – behind the scenes photos from the cult classic 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z The New York Film Festival, presented by Film at Lincoln Center, made news last month with the announcement that it would open with “The Irishman,” Martin Scorsese’s much anticipated gangster drama for Netflix. Bong Joon-ho, Pedro Almodóvar Lead New York Film Festival Lineup 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z Years later, he would sometimes be complimented by real gangsters. Henry Silva, Actor Who Specialized in Menace, Dies at 95 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z When it opened in neighborhood theaters on a double-bill with a lesser gangster film, “Mad Dog Coll,” the New York Times reviewer Howard Thompson praised Fuller’s direction as “nimble, particularly in his use of close-ups.” Sam Fuller and Fritz Lang: Audacious Auteurs of Noir 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z Liv and Babineaux solve one murder and prevent another – Liv kicks a gangster “in the nards” – and Liv promises to alert Clive if her visions show him so much as jaywalking. 'iZombie' recap: Kung fu fighting in 'Live and Let Clive' 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z Martin Scorsese made his rep as the fierce bard of American gangster machismo; from Mean Streets to The Departed he has sung the body choleric. Hugo: Scorsese's Magnificent Dream Machine 2011-11-22T20:39:54Z That novel — yearning, lyrical, mordant — tells the story of Jay Gatsby, a millionaire bootlegger and minor gangster, who remakes himself in a disastrous attempt to win Daisy Buchanan, the society girl he once loved. Can’t Repeat the Past? An Immersive ‘Great Gatsby’ Thinks You Can. 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z As a gangster, poor Nicky was lame, Just as dense and as dumb as they came. Style Invitational Week 1140: Give us a bad name 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z His turn as Don Fanucci, a gangster in 1920s New York, was an indelible part of a beloved film, released in 1974, that won six Academy Awards. Gastone Moschin Dies at 88; Played a Doomed Don in ‘Godfather Part II’ 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z Cal in particular calls to mind that other disappointing son of an illustrious gangster, The Sopranos' Jackie Aprile Jnr – sharing that lethal mixture of endless bravado, poor impulse control and rank stupidity. Have you been watching … The Fear? 2012-12-06T15:04:20Z The first book, Ribblestrop, saw a motley crew of pupils, headed by the feisty Millie and Colombian gangster's son Sanchez, discover a lethal laboratory beneath their school. Andy Mulligan's school rules 2011-08-05T15:34:00Z On the way down the tenement stairs, Bugsy bumps into the woman’s husband, Morris, who is thrilled to see his old friend, now a gangster celebrity. 'Boardwalk Empire' Recap: Casualties of War 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z He took his stage name in tribute to the gangster Johnny Dio, and he began his career in rockabilly bands in the late 1950s. Ronnie James Dio, Black Sabbath Vocalist, Dies at 67 2010-05-17T05:00:00Z The fact that Arnott's early books used the form of gangster yarns encouraged a tendency to categorise him as a sort of bookish Guy Ritchie. The House of Rumour by Jake Arnott – review 2012-06-29T07:00:02Z The mom of his “Mother’s Day Composition” was a dancer who worked in chorus lines and dive bars until a gangster took a liking to her. CBS’s ‘Mom’ Handles Issues Beyond Kissing Boo-Boos 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z It was a valiant effort, but in the 1990s gangsters moved in to sell drugs and fought among themselves. How we made: Ben Kelly and Peter Hook on the Haçienda club 2012-07-02T18:32:01Z These characters were real guys who were doing the right thing, stopping gangsters and saving the city that we all love. 'Gangster Squad' to debut after reality intervened 2013-01-09T20:46:05Z Among the film’s loudest proselytizers is Martin Scorsese, whose visceral, psychologically complex gangster movies are clearly indebted to it. Rolling back: why we should welcome Mick Jagger's big screen return 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z The only thing we can do is pay careful attention, making sure that the gangster is not using the film to send hidden messages. El Chapo, Hollywood and the lure of the mob movie 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z "Fake gangsters must think I spent my music money on chocolates and sweets." Skepta: Doin' It Again - review 2011-01-27T23:59:00Z So has he ever feared the reaction of the gangsters? Andrea Camilleri: a life in writing 2012-07-06T21:55:16Z Latif lived to write a book upon which the film, which is more a gangster drama than Iraq truth tale, is loosely based. Too early to talk Oscar? Not for Dominic Cooper 2011-08-04T19:05:35Z Thus in the first season we watched as Buscemi's Nucky Thompson waged an interior battle between the businessman who ruled his head and the gangster he was at heart. Boardwalk Empire: a slow-burner with a fierce flame 2012-09-28T14:15:00Z In return, the FBI turned a blind eye as the gangster cemented his rule over the region's criminal enterprises, until the deal and Bulger's reign of terror were eventually exposed by the Boston media. Johnny Depp to play mobster 'Whitey' Bulger 2013-02-04T13:17:32Z We don't look to gangster films for a CT scan of society's underbelly. Ill Manors just wants a little respect for our gangsters 2012-06-06T11:07:56Z Two obvious models for "Bullets" — "Guys and Dolls" and "Kiss Me, Kate" — take place in musical-theater universes where gangsters are naughty but harmless puppies. 'Bullets Over Broadway' makes up for its lack of new music with strong choreography and acting 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z I would love to make a Jewish gangster story. "Like photographing sculpture": Cinematographer reveals what makes "Creed III" look so good 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z So it’s definitely a badge of honor to say that you ate there and got to rub elbows with people who are perceived to be gangsters. Q&A: Mapping a Darker Side of New York 2013-12-25T19:10:51Z There was a hint of a retro 1920s gangster vibe in both the masculine and feminine silhouettes, especially the accessories including oxfords and spat booties. Karan's strong woman can borrow from the boys 2012-02-13T22:21:10Z He cast Wright in “Sneaky Pete,” about a con man hiding from violent gangsters, because “I wanted to see her play someone who gets revenge,” he says. Martha is back on ‘The Americans,’ and Alison Wright has finally arrived 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z Stallone, meanwhile, said he had always wanted to play a serious gangster, ever since he was rejected from being an extra in “The Godfather.” In ‘Tulsa King,’ Sylvester Stallone Tries Something New: Being Himself 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z They plan to kidnap a baby from a Cleveland gangster, posing as cops to commit the crime. Willem Dafoe and director Paul Schrader are at it again. This time it’s murder and mayhem all ’round 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Love/Hate is a gangster story that suggests the dominant influence on Irish showmakers is American rather than British television. Is Love/Hate Ireland's answer to The Wire? 2013-07-24T10:28:50Z He coined the term "the big sleep" to describe death: two years later it was quoted as the last words of a notorious gangster. The Big Sleep ? review 2011-01-02T00:05:12Z “If you’re a Latino actor and you get a job in movies, it’s going to be as some kind of gangster.” Benicio Del Toro, Hollywood’s Instant Antihero, Goes the Distance 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z They make them, adore them and venerate them - especially gangsters, outlaws, and vicious murderers. Hitler satire arrives in West End 2013-09-25T07:29:10Z Prohibition also offered gangsters such as Al Capone another lucrative avenue for revenue via bootlegging, which was only contributing to crime. The 100th anniversary of Prohibition: A closer look at how it happened, and why it ended 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z It would be easy to romanticize him as a mythical gangster figure. ‘Black Mass’ (With Movie Trailer): Scott Cooper Narrates a Scene 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z Fourteen years ago, a childhood friend, Lollo, vanished — apparently abducted from a nightclub by the three Stavic brothers, all notorious gangsters. ‘Eyes Open. Hit First. Move Fast. Stop When He’s Dead.’ 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z You can’t, to borrow a line from SoA’s 1920s cousin in bloodshed , be half a gangster, no matter how often you tell yourself you are. Trigger Warning: Sons of Anarchy Out-Shocks Itself Again 2013-09-11T14:55:02Z In general, this took the form of the gangster movie. Irish America and the siege of Hollywood 2010-07-11T21:29:00Z Just as he skewered science fiction in “Fluke” and gothic horror in “You Suck,” Christopher Moore gives us dizzy dames and shadowy gangsters in “Noir.” Review | Twice-told tales: Jo Nesbø, Madeline Miller and others revive classic stories 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z But heroic fatalism and unwilling villainy remain enduring cinematic tropes, including in gangster movies, even if it means holding convention over complexity. Review: In ‘Baby Driver,’ It’s Kiss Kiss, Zoom Zoom 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z His teenage gangster in The Blue Lamp despises authority, but, as he plays a gun across his girlfriend's face, seems to hate her more. Dirk Bogarde: the rebellion of a reluctant pinup 2011-03-24T21:59:00Z At the moment, as a result, he has a volume of his friend Freddie Foreman's gangster memoirs on the go, as well as Jack Kornfield's Buddhist bestseller, A Path With Heart. Tricky: 'I can still be really dark in my mind' 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z At one point, a gangster conclave on La Gomera is interrupted by an English-speaking filmmaker scouting locations. ‘The Whistlers’ Review: From Bucharest With Ambivalence 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z Williams also read histories of Johannesburg's townships, discovering an obsession urban South African criminals in the 1950s developed for the 1948 Hollywood gangster movie "The Street with No Name." Nelson Mandela opera comes to Johannesburg 2011-08-12T17:56:09Z When we see a clip from a gangster picture on screen, it’s the fake movie from “Home Alone.” ‘Pokémon Detective Pikachu’ Review: A Cat and (Electric) Mouse Game 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z “When the world is a gang fight, people want a gangster to lead them.” Washington theaters shine a spotlight on Vladimir Putin 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z It was a dark and labyrinthine place; full of stars and artists, gangsters and rascals. The afternoon Lenny Bruce and I spent cutting out newspaper pin-ups 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z Yet there have been too many times when it seemed to use a knack for period atmosphere and bloody gangster plotting to cover for the fact that it still didn't know what it's about. The plot-crazy spectacle of "Boardwalk Empire" 2011-09-26T01:26:00Z “This is way better,” he says, comparing his preferred vigilante post with California gangster life. California-raised kids vs. Mexico’s violent cartel 2014-01-18T22:00:00Z She’s expected to be quiet and complicit in the Mafia lifestyle, exchanging a blind eye for the fabulous privileges attached to wealth and power, a dark bargain common to gangster fiction. The Irishman: the murder, the women, the ending – discuss with spoilers 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z Martin Scorsese’s long anticipated gangster film The Irishman is to receive its world premiere as the opening film at the New York film festival. Martin Scorsese's The Irishman to premiere at New York film festival 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z The long-delayed arrival on American screens of Season 3 of this moody and engrossing Italian series is, for lovers of gangster dramas, the biggest news of the TV season. Winter TV Preview: 21 Shows to Watch 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z And in the third act, substantially written by Jenkins, Chiron has remodelled himself into a gangster and drug dealer named Black in the style of McCraney’s first mentor, Blue. Moonlight’s writer Tarell Alvin McCraney: 'the story needed to be out there' 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z In the other Garcia is persuaded to audition for the role of a gangster in a Martin Scorsese-Robert De Niro movie and is encouraged by the casting director to explore his inner self. City Island 2010-07-24T23:06:00Z A great deal rests on Mullan's performance here, but I buy him both as terrifying gangster back in the game and frightened old man out of his mind. Have you been watching … The Fear? 2012-12-06T15:04:20Z At some point, he put on a Halloween costume, a 1920s-style gangster suit and hat purchased at Goodwill, and a menacing flesh-colored mask. An Addict, a Confessed Killer and Now a Debut Author 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z Its security was often provided by the gangster Monk Eastman, who would cut a notch in his club for every skull it cracked. Disney?s ?Newsies the Musical? Comes to Broadway 2012-03-02T18:00:09Z He's a smirking gangster nihilist, the Lucifer of the Rolling Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil" playing Oscar Madison in "The Odd Couple." Why Charlie Sheen is still winning 2011-09-20T16:20:00Z I liked the idea of a turf war between four or five fictional gangsters of the period. Alan Moore: an extraordinary gentleman ? Q&A 2011-07-25T12:47:07Z Very often these Hollywood wannabe tough guys have made a gangster movie and they think they are the character in real life. Author Don Winslow: Trump's administration feels like it's "manifested itself" as the coronavirus 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z In the 1964 musical "Robin and the 7 Hoods," Frank Sinatra as "Robbo" takes on gangster Edward G. Robinson in 1930s Chicago. Scarecrow suggests | Like 'Robin Hood?' Try earlier versions on DVD 2010-05-14T00:46:00Z "In the neighborhood where we grew up in, the Bronx, you only had a few choices. You were either an athlete or a gangster, or you were funny," the New York native said. Garry Marshall Has Died 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z He simultaneously satirized the post-hippie self-absorption of Southern California, registered the narrow-minded brutality of the cops and gangsters, and signaled his fondness for an old Hollywood that was already history in 1973. Robert Altman’s ‘The Long Goodbye’ Is Popular Again 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z Photograph: Allstar/20th Century Fox Loggia’s rugged looks and voice suited his many character roles as gangsters or other shady characters. Actor Robert Loggia dies aged 85 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z Mirren began her film career in the late 1960s, with titles including Michael Powell's "Age of Consent", and established her reputation in 1980 with gangster movie "The Long Good Friday" also starring Bob Hoskins. Actress Helen Mirren to receive European film award 2012-09-25T13:45:35Z Not surprisingly, perhaps, his boyhood hero was Al Capone, the American gangster, whose high-octane glamour and robust worldliness appealed to the unglamorous young man whose Sicilian family were, even by South African standards, outsiders. Shooting Angels by Christopher Hope ? review 2011-08-26T21:55:01Z Nucky decides to cut him loose, telling him "If you wanna be a gangster in my town, you pay for the privilege." Boardwalk Empire: season one, episode two 2011-02-02T22:10:00Z A former hit man tracks down the gangsters that took everything from him. The Fall Movie Preview list of films 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z He brought his unique artistic vision to "Once Upon a Time in America," which was based on "The Hoods," Harry Grey's 1952 novel about Jewish gangsters during the Prohibition. Sergio Leone's original 'Once Upon a Time in America' out on DVD 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Mr. Brown’s songs were even subject to insta-analysis by The Riverfront Times, a St. Louis weekly, which at first characterized his lyrics as “gangster” but later removed that word after criticism. J. Cole Releases an Impassioned Song About Michael Brown, ‘Be Free’ 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z When asked about Burton's gangster image, Grace said he hoped that wasn't the tipping point for the jurors. Calif. jury acquits man in killing of rapper 2010-05-22T00:03:00Z "Peaky Blinders" is a gangster show set in England a century ago. Date Lab: He expressed his likes. She expressed her dislike. 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z Now is a great time to be a gangster. Natural Born Killers: Italy’s ‘Baby Gangs’ Blast Through Roberto Saviano’s Debut Novel 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z "Machine Gun" was the nickname of George Kelly, a Prohibition-era gangster. Rapper arrested in Ohio after organizing flash mob 2011-08-21T16:16:10Z “Hard to Kill,” like its predecessor, is a gangster movie with a social conscience. Movie Review: In ‘Easy Money: Hard to Kill,’ Wily Social Climber Is Back 2014-02-13T23:26:19Z For gangsters like Anwar, Oppenheimer was offering the chance to make a "beautiful family film" – a celebration of their rise, inspired by the Hollywood movies they loved. Joshua Oppenheimer: 'Even a mass killer you can love as a human being' 2013-06-20T14:57:23Z He stars as Freddie, a seedy lowlife with flashy gangster aspirations and a brutal streak that’s upsetting even to his fellow criminals. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z Kuke grew up in the capital, Tirana, a city of drizzle and fascist-inspired architecture that drew in communists, gangsters and provincial men with outsized ambitions. Visual effects artist's Hollywood path began in Albania, with detour in Kosovo 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z As soon as Hollywood casting directors met Mr. Bologna, they saw him as a gangster. Joseph Bologna, Onscreen Tough Guy With a Sense of Humor, Dies at 82 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z Nazis and Communists are fighting on the streets, gangsters are taking over businesses, and everyday people living in fear. Your next box set: Berlin Alexanderplatz 2010-08-06T05:45:00Z Johan, in the Swedish gangster thriller “Easy Money: Hard to Kill.” Movie Review: In ‘Easy Money: Hard to Kill,’ Wily Social Climber Is Back 2014-02-13T23:26:19Z Mr. Kessler varied the formula by making the interloper a rich gangster instead of a shabby homeless man. Theater Review: ‘Orphans,’ With Alec Baldwin, at the Schoenfeld Theater 2013-04-19T02:00:01Z Mendes followed the success of his cinematic debut, "American Beauty," with meditative gangster film "Road to Perdition," starring Tom Hanks. British actress Kate Winslet splits from husband 2010-03-15T21:10:00Z A few months later De Niro touched on the mafia comparisons again, calling Trump a “wannabe gangster” and “total loser” on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. Robert De Niro v Trump: a complete history of a (mainly one-sided) beef 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z Instead, Boardwalk Empire thrusts us in at the beginning, watching the gangsters begin to fashion their story. Empire state of mind 2011-01-20T07:57:00Z Back home in the mid-’60s, he took over the Winter Hill Gang and, with Weeks as his enforcer, became the most famous and feared gangster in New England. Home Movies: Who’s the Bigger Criminal, Whitey Bulger or the FBI? 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z His stocked bubbled up again thanks to Woody Allen’s Bullets over Broadway, in which he plays an idealistic playwright forced to cast a talentless gangster’s moll to get his play produced. John Cusack: ‘Hollywood is a whorehouse and people go mad’ 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z Guys and Dolls The classic musical comedy based on Damon Runyan's tales of gamblers, gangsters, showgirls and others in 1940s NYC. L.A. theater openings, Aug. 23-30: 'Climax' and more 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Even when he was painting pictures of gangsters — there’s no reason why his score to “Superfly” should have been as powerful as it was. The Protest Playlist, From the Hip-Hop Duo Run the Jewels 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z She struggled with obesity and heroin addiction, ran a hot-check scheme and had troubled relationships with men, including some gangsters. Blues singer Etta James dies at 73 2012-01-21T01:55:50Z Capone is the paradigm of the small-time gangster who made it big on illegal liquor. How real is "Boardwalk Empire's" Al Capone? 2010-10-11T17:01:00Z You felt very strongly about gangster rap, and set up an early meeting with Snoop Dogg, Suge Knight and others to encourage them to reconsider their lyrics. Dionne Warwick Is Ready for an Encore 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z Stringer had no interest in cred-building gangster posturing, and Mr. Elba has little patience for the actor’s equivalent: endless prattling about art and the corresponding reluctance to speak frankly about one’s own ambitions. Film: Idris Elba, ?Wire? Star Generating His Own Buzz 2010-04-16T18:19:00Z “It’s another story of ultimate outsiders turned ultimate insiders,” she added, “which makes it as blissfully American as apple pie, low riders and gangster rap itself.” What’s on TV This Week: ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ and Shark Week 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z Yet Scorsese was able to consider the scene with an artist’s empathetic fascination for those viewers who would empathize with Henry’s admiration, and who find alluring the gangster dream of cruelly exerting power. Scorsese’s Achievement with “GoodFellas” 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z Babel was a chronicler of gangsters, Cossacks and the underclasses; he fell victim to Joseph Stalin’s paranoia and was shot in 1940. Review | New York City Ballet’s knockout punch is delivered at Kennedy Center 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z Chase had wanted to make a respectable gangster film. Alessandro Nivola Put His Foot Down and Won the ‘Many Saints’ Role Anyway 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z “She was a gangster — just a hoofer, period,” she said. Michelle Dorrance’s Four Musketeers of Tap 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z Unlike countless gangster films, “Black Souls” doesn’t secretly admire the bad guys. Review: ‘Black Souls’ Depicts Crime Families Bound by Blood in Bad Ways 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Snoop Dogg reportedly lobbied on behalf of Mr. Harris, or Harry-O, an early financial backer of his former label, Death Row Records, which helped bring gangster rap to the mainstream. Lil Wayne and Kodak Black Among 4 Hip-Hop Figures Trump Pardoned 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z He had the actual support of the real people in the city, real gangsters, real positive people, everything in between. The Last Days of Pop Smoke 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z Which is, of course, the theme of this season: you can’t be half a gangster. Boardwalk Empire Watch: My Ears Are Ringing 2012-11-12T13:30:58Z It’s a funny idea that lasts for a page if it’s just about how people talk and making these characters as if they were Prohibition-era gangsters. ArtsBeat: Running Wilde: A Gangster Version of 'Earnest,' Directed by David Hyde Pierce 2012-03-01T15:17:33Z Now the self-defense groups are at war: accused by some of being gangsters themselves, heralded by many others as defenders of their communities. California-raised kids vs. Mexico’s violent cartel 2014-01-18T22:00:00Z This was an administration whose “Downfall” bunker memes wrote themselves, marking a political period many observers saw as the inevitable result of Americans’ infatuation with the amoral swagger and sharkskin impunity of classic gangster movies. Perspective | Trump’s bizarre post-election behavior isn’t a tantrum or a coup. It’s fan service. 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z The first finds the Lyons forced to present a united front against a common enemy: the gangster, producer and potential federal informant, Shyne. ‘Empire’ Season 3, Episode 5: Fight Club 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z In the latter title, mobster Tom Fell gets shock treatments for his manic depression, only to wind up disarmingly free of affect and teetering into full-blown psychosis, gangster style. Vintage crime reprints: mysterious tales that never die 2013-06-05T22:27:56Z Hot tap theatre Last week I saw a play called God Don't Live On a Council Estate, in which actor Dudley Sutton plays a gangster grandfather, terrorising his family from his council-estate home. Hot Tap theatre: throwing a spanner in the works 2010-07-23T14:40:00Z Mr. Palminteri made his Broadway musical debut on Thursday in the role of the gangster Sonny, a character he knows intimately well and will inhabit through the summer. Chazz Palminteri Is Singing. Sonny Would Tell You to Listen. 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z In this novel, longlisted for the Booker Prize, two aging Irish gangsters spend an evening entertaining each other with outlandish stories from the past. July paperback releases: 14 books worth reading 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z It was very gangster, not in good taste. The Best-Dressed Athletes 2010-12-08T16:00:00Z He has played a lot of gangsters in his career, but his real life today looks nothing like that. ‘Gentefied’ Asks, Can a Show About Gentrification Be Funny? 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Scorsese conjures the new world into which Henry, a talented young gangster, initiates her. Scorsese’s Achievement with “GoodFellas” 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z The plot, something about gang bosses and deals gone bad, whizzes past in its irrelevance while you're assailed by gangsters, policemen, attack dogs, soldiers and helicopter gunships on your way to final escape. This week's new games 2010-08-13T23:06:00Z Starting in 1941, “Gangs” follows three generations in a family of gangsters. ‘Gangs of Wasseypur,’ an Indian Saga, Echoes ‘The Godfather’ 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z As a young man he had wanted to be an actor; he got bit parts in “Apocalypse Now” and “Bugsy,” typecast as an agent and a gangster. In Trippy Times, Bill Graham Took Care of Reality 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z His admiration for big-time Chicago gangsters and his desire to emulate them eventually harden Jack's character, and LaBeouf negotiates the transformation with great conviction while keeping a spark of Jack's innocence alive. Tom Hardy, Shia LaBeouf and Jason Clarke: the actors playing the Bondurant brothers in Lawless 2012-08-25T23:05:45Z We have a book by an Australian about 19th-century Australian gangsters, a book by a Canadian writing about an Indian, a book written by an Irish-resident Australian about American high school kids ... Irvine Welsh's Booker prize attack makes scant sense 2012-08-21T09:58:32Z He's also a traditional gangster rapper, both in the sense that he rhymes about crime and cops, and in the sense that he does so like they used to in the 90s. Freddie Gibbs at SXSW 2011 - review 2011-03-18T15:50:57Z He moved from acting to directing in the late 1990s, but didn't hit it big until 2010, when his gangster movie "Monga" emerged as one of the year's surprise hits. Taiwan's 'Love' features Taiwan-China romance 2012-02-08T10:46:03Z The gangster movie canon is filled with tales told in hindsight, where nostalgia is the only thing keeping the mob alive, but the memory is waning. At the first-ever SopranosCon, meet the fans who never stopped believin’ 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z He presents himself as a pillar of the community while hobnobbing with visiting Chicago gangsters in a hotel stocked with hookers and booze. The underrated genius of Steve Buscemi 2010-09-20T21:01:00Z Stormzy is equally likely to rap over a drill beat, spit on a gospel song or croon over a piano: “Excellent rap is not always rooted in the energy and the gangster,” he said. How Stormzy Crafted His Latest Album, ‘This Is What I Mean’ 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z The best known of Warner’s early gangster titles were “Little Caesar,” “Public Enemy” and “I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang.” News Analysis: Warner Brothers and Its Decades of Violent Films 2012-07-25T22:32:24Z What will the rival gangsters with their “Kansas City Northern expansion strategy 1979-1980” plan make of developments in the Gerhardt family? Fargo recap: season two, episode one – Waiting for Dutch 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z This is a Mexico in which gangsters face off against the police in daytime, machine gun to machine gun, turning a city street into a nightmare of war. | 'Miss Bala': Gerardo Naranjo?s ?Miss Bala? Depicts Drug War - Review 2012-01-19T23:29:20Z Trump’s emotional appeal is similar to that of gangsters everywhere, who act out our most violent and anarchic impulses. The Three Faces of Trump 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z Despite the fact that her father had died in 1957, taking his mob ties with him, Berman continued to mine the gangster vein. The literary life (and death) of Susan Berman, alleged Robert Durst victim 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z The top gangster in Atlantic City has been out-gangstered by a couple of swindlers. 'Boardwalk Empire' Recap: No Exit 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z “It turns out that ‘gangsta’ and ‘gangster’ are both listed separately in the Oxford English Dictionary, each with its own unique definition. ‘Jeopardy!’ Tells Contestant: A ‘Gangster’ Is Not a ‘Gangsta’ 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z This October, he once again returned to the gangster motif, calling Trump a “gangster president” at the premier of a film in London. Robert De Niro v Trump: a complete history of a (mainly one-sided) beef 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z When the kitten winds up in the hands of gangsters, he and his friend Clarence infiltrate the gang to get it back. Beyond black and white 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z The mansions of Long Island have been replaced by the saloons of New Orleans, and the gangster subtext is now blaring like a jazz trombone. Review | For ‘Gatsby’ fans, 2021 will be the start of remakes. First up: ‘Nick’ 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z The most attention-getting spot of the night was a nearly shot-for-shot remake of the opening credits of another turn-of-the-century icon that, like Dre, represented for gangsters all across the world: “The Sopranos.” At the Super Bowl, Nostalgia’s the Only Game 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z Chazz Palminteri made his Broadway musical debut this month as the gangster Sonny in the surprisingly durable show “A Bronx Tale.” What’s on TV Thursday: N.B.A. Finals and ‘A Bronx Tale’ 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z The plot's pretty straightforward: an aging gangster is released from prison, and he gets a few of his buddies together for one last score. Scarecrow Video recommendations for 'Tower Heist 2011-11-03T13:01:07Z But the overriding impression we are left with is of the irresistible appeal of being a gangster. Goodfellas: No 10 2010-10-17T10:46:00Z “With this fellow here,” he said of his “Tulsa King” character, a silver-tongued gangster named Dwight Manfredi, “you have to be clever.” In ‘Tulsa King,’ Sylvester Stallone Tries Something New: Being Himself 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z “Kicks,” an indie drama from the director Justin Tipping, follows Brandon as he tries to track down his Air Jordans after they’re stolen by gangsters, an adventure that puts him in danger. Air Jordans on the Big Screen: When the Sneaker Is the Real Star 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z The film is also a powerful indictment of neoliberalism and gangster capitalism, and a culture of cruelty that is causing great harm around the world. "Joker": A harsh indictment of neoliberalism and gangster capitalism 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z Ryan Gosling stars as a Hollywood stunt driver and part-time getaway wheelman who ends up in a very violent confrontation with some gangsters. Scarecrow Video recommendations for "Drive" 2011-09-15T12:55:07Z The generals of wartime are replaced by an impossibly colorful cast of characters: the hatchet-wielding Carrie Nation; Wayne Wheeler, the master manipulator behind the Anti-Saloon League; showboating gangsters like Al Capone. Television Review: ?Prohibition?, a Ken Burns Documentary on PBS ? Review 2011-09-30T19:00:58Z A long scene compounded of both moods is laid down in The Big Sleep, a visit to the night club owned by the gangster Eddie Mars. Howard Hawks, Hollywood's finest practitioner of everyday chivalry 2011-01-15T00:05:49Z I’ve bumped into every kind of person there: artists, scammers, artist who scam, politicians, gangsters, the clergy, Girl Scouts and high-ranking medical officials. My favorite cheesy snack is dairy-free and takes only 5 minutes to make 2023-10-15T04:00:00Z There are a philosophical gangster, a chatty investigator, a neighborhood psycho, a collection of small-time hoods and a lonely, pretty woman who somehow got mixed up in some bad business. ‘The Drop’ Unfolds in a Brooklyn Underworld 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z He convinced former death squad members, including his primary subject, Anwar Congo, to re-enact some of their more gruesome killings in the swaggering style of the hard-core gangster films they revere. Joshua Oppenheimer: why I returned to Indonesia’s killing fields 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z At the end of the movie, the audience expects to see the gangsters die. Irish America and the siege of Hollywood 2010-07-11T21:29:00Z Rodgers’s harmless kiss-off to a rude date transformed into a gangster’s ruthless desecration of his relationship. The strange journey of ‘cancel,’ from a Black-culture punchline to a White-grievance watchword 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z “My dad wasn’t a gangster and he wasn’t a criminal, but he sure liked to rub padded shoulders with them,” Mr. Heller wrote in his 2006 memoir, “Ruthless.” Jerry Heller, music executive who launched gangsta rappers N.W.A., dies at 75 2016-09-03T04:00:00Z As with Shyne, “Bobby got this deal from his persona, from this gangster lifestyle,” Mr. Ossé said, “so in a sense the label and listeners are encouraging him.” Hip-Hop Star Bobby Shmurda, in Jail, Finds His Label Unsupportive 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z This was the crazy thing, and especially as directors, you're meeting a lot of people, like criminals, gangsters, who want to be famous, and want to tell you their story. "Monsters Inside" examines how a criminal's claims of dissociative identity disorder made him a star 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z Rick Jr. earns his catchy nickname soon after he starts running with powerful black street gangsters who inexplicably welcome him into their fold, as if he were one of them. Review: Drugs, Guns and Poses in ‘White Boy Rick’ 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z In her anger, and against the orders of her unseen handler, she clumsily tries to shake down a Ferengi gangster only to have him order his goons to slaughter her. "Star Trek: Picard" challenges us to consider that our icons change, yes even in franchises 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Soon, a gangster taps him to return to South Korea where a truck filled with American cash waits, ripe for the plundering. ‘Peninsula’ Review: The First Rule of Zombie Club Is Run! 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z "Killing Them Softly", a modern-day gangster tale starring Brad Pitt, was one of five U.S. productions in competition and won warm plaudits from critics, as did "Mud" by Jeff Nichols. Past winners lead the pack for Cannes film award 2012-05-26T22:17:44Z He ends up on the run from his fellow gunmen, having beaten to death with his father's wooden leg a big-shot gangster turned respectable politician. The Dead Republic by Roddy Doyle 2010-04-02T23:07:00Z Visitors are greeted by life-size holograms of chatty gangsters and a chance to get "made." Las Vegas embraces mob roots with new attractions 2011-03-30T09:46:06Z Here, the real gangsters, long absconded, are the corporation Texaco, whose laughable "clean up" operation has left oil seeping into the water table, endangering the health and survival of local people and wildlife alike. Great Ormond Street 2010-04-19T23:05:00Z Being a gangster was a way of transcending poverty; then rapping about life as a gangster became a way of transcending the gangs. Snoop who? 2013-04-06T08:00:00Z “But instead of gangsters killing, these are women just scamming these guys.” ‘Joker,’ Tom Hanks’ Mr. Rogers pic among TIFF selections 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z Snoop Dogg smokes weed, he looks old, he’s an old rapper, he went to jail once, he’s a gangster. Hannibal Buress on His New Show, Justin Bieber and Hawaiian Shirts 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z When I explained I hadn’t budgeted that kind of time, she offered to skip the part that dealt with Prohibition and gangsters as national phenomena and focus on what happened right there on site. The Met, they’re not: The oddest museums in New York City 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z I accompanied him at a very tender age to the local cinemas, and was raised on a diet of gangster movies and film noir, nourishing a family addiction which still persists. Terence Baxter obituary 2011-08-11T17:16:26Z Initially they set about adapting a script then known as “The Prophet,” most of which took place outside prison and told a more traditional story of the rise of a small-time gangster. Film: The Godfather?s Ghost Speaks French 2010-02-19T21:50:00Z She was a poet who taught herself to break codes; she caught gangsters during Prohibition; and, oh yeah, she was married to a godfather of the N.S.A. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: A Shakespeare Scholar Turned Nazi Hunter 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z He emerged from the West Coast on the gangster rap scene, with music produced by Dr. Dre and released on Suge Knight’s Death Row Records. Snoop Dogg to join Def Jam label as strategic consultant 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z This tells the story of Pépé, a Parisian gangster played by Jean Gabin, who is on the run from the Parisian police and holed up in the Casbah. Algiers: a city where France is the promised land – and still the enemy 2013-01-27T00:06:03Z First, Hong Kong gangsters also have their hand in the Seattle drug trade, so Blaine “Candy Man” DeBeers doesn’t seem to have a monopoly there. 'iZombie' recap: Kung fu fighting in 'Live and Let Clive' 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z The Chinese star Sun Honglei plays the most heroic of the officers, perilously going undercover as a gangster with a hyenalike laugh. Critic’s Notebook: New York Asian Film Festival Offers Sturdy Hollywood Themes 2013-06-28T22:13:41Z The gangster girls gestured and grinned to each other delightedly. “This Is Pleasure” 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z Jones said that music saved him from a "gangster" lifestyle in his native Chicago. Quincy Jones talks music, life, love at ASCAP expo 2010-04-24T21:16:00Z Mr. Winter was previously the show runner of HBO’s gangster drama “Boardwalk Empire” and had been a producer on “The Sopranos,” as well as the screenwriter of Mr. Scorsese’s film “The Wolf of Wall Street.” Terence Winter Out as ‘Vinyl’ Showrunner 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z Anger locks down his facial expression, save for when he's obviously frightened by greater threats: aliens, a crazed, gun-toting local gangster and worst of all, the "Feds," their shorthand for the police. Before John Boyega became "Star Wars" hero Finn, he was far more revolutionary in "Attack the Block" 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z But Altman got one more great, full-length performance out of the performer with this period gangster comedy-drama, set in the city and time of the director’s youth. Watch These Great Harry Belafonte Screen Performances 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z To get out from under the debt, they decide to rob some local gangsters. The 25 Best Heist Movies 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z But Connolly can’t resist filling the interim spaces around it with rote gangster business, erring away from the drama this could have been and back to the mold tacitly understood to be the default. Gotti, Escobar, Manson: Hollywood's problem with real-life criminals 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z We boarded the skiff and continued west, stopping briefly at the ruins of the Bang Bang Club on Pot Cay, a fishing lodge and reputed hideaway of gangster Al Capone. Wildlife galore in the Bahamas, where the whole world’s a park 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z “It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World” plays ironically over the opening shots of “The Kitchen,” writer/director Andrea Berloff’s undemanding crowd-pleaser about a trio of female gangsters in the late 1970s. Haddish, McCarthy and Moss take charge in "The Kitchen," which gleams through the grit 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z Stealing the movie from wily pro Adolphe Menjou, who called her “an Ethel Barrymore at six,” she played a child given to gangsters as collateral for a debt her father had incurred. Shirley Temple: A Cute Cocktail of Talent and Charm 2014-02-12T16:13:08Z It is a complicated drop into the subculture of racing, where gangsters pet their horses, jockeys ride one another, and everyone is playing the long con. Television: HBO?s ?Luck,? Starring Dustin Hoffman 2012-01-25T15:29:12Z But while Beckett might have achieved redemption as a human being, redemption as a gangster still relies on his two sons. Have you been watching … The Fear? 2012-12-06T15:04:20Z South African critics were agitated that Die Antwoord appropriated the distinctive gangster style of the “coloreds,” South Africans of mixed racial origins. The Brilliant Weirdness of Die Antwoord 2012-01-29T07:13:50Z But “Keyhole” is not really a gangster picture nor a horror movie, though it traffics in some of the visual and verbal conventions of both genres: tough talk, murky shadows, darkened hallways. Movie Review: ?Keyhole,? Directed by Guy Maddin, With Jason Patric 2012-04-05T22:59:39Z She talks low and fast in her Bronx-then-Queens accent, so that she sounds like a gangster in one of her beloved James Cagney movies. ‘Clueless’ Was Amy Heckerling’s Masterpiece. Is She Done With It? As If. 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z And he includes the police in his documentation of street mayhem on “Hands Up,” which sounds like vintage 1991 gangster rap. Vince Staples, Sebastian Mikael and Girlpool Are Highlights of 2014 2014-12-27T05:00:00Z At its busiest, actors and directors churned out 40 movies a year, most of them featuring kung fu, sword fighting or Asian gangsters known as triads. Hong Kong movie mogul Run Run Shaw dies 2014-01-07T14:02:11Z There are certain things we have come to expect of our TV gangsters. Gangster dramas: the cliches fly like a hail of bullets 2011-04-07T13:11:36Z He admits that Locke saved him more than once, fighting for a nuanced portrayal that, according to her, was more mother and less gangster. Attica Locke left Hollywood to write novels. Now she’s found success in both worlds. 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z In gangster movies, there is always an amorphous code of behaviour, be it omertà or honour among thieves or let's keep it in the family. Joe Queenan's guide to crime cliches 2010-10-17T11:00:00Z Critics have also slammed the attraction for being too deferential to the family members of the gangsters. Las Vegas embraces mob roots with new attractions 2011-03-30T09:46:06Z The reason he's less gangster anymore is because he's on probation. Daveed Diggs: “[Thomas] Jefferson would not f**k with Trump, period” 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z A pretty straightforward rip-off of The French Connection, but entertainingly paying homage to the great French gangster movie tradition. Michael Caine’s best films – ranked! 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z Walter White progresses from unassuming savant to opportunistic gangster — and as he does so, the show dares you to excuse him, or find a moral line that you deem a point of no return. Magazine Preview: The Dark Art of ?Breaking Bad? 2011-07-06T12:20:00Z The first image of actor Tom Hardy as the infamous Krays has been released as filming gets under way on a new movie about the notorious London gangsters. First glimpse of Hardy as Kray twins 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z I am surrounded by gangsters, public officials, Russian spies. Meeting my husband’s killer 2014-01-21T12:45:00Z He didn’t want a publisher because, he said, they’re all terrorists, bloodsuckers and gangsters. Igor Levit on Frederic Rzewski: ‘The People’s Composer’ 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z The film had been shot two years previously, but the censors had blocked its release, on the grounds that it was too violent, and glamorised the gangster lifestyle. El Chapo, Hollywood and the lure of the mob movie 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z “We wanted to make a gangster film, more than anything else,” Chase said. Michael Gandolfini and the Riddle of Tony Soprano 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z The series featured Whicker reporting on the unusual and bizarre, interviewing all types of people from millionaires and monks to gangsters and dictators. Broadcaster Alan Whicker dies at 87 2013-07-12T16:18:54Z “Supreme City” has none of the existential darkness of “Boardwalk Empire”; here, even notorious gangsters like Frank Costello come across as charming if complicated ne’er-do-wells. ‘Supreme City,’ by Donald L. Miller 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z As a London gangster in "The Long Good Friday," he moved from bravura bluster to tragic understatement. 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit' actor Hoskins dies at 71 2014-05-01T11:01:43Z Williams’s breathtaking performance made him the ultimate outlaw: a Black, gay, shotgun-carrying gangster who operates both above the law and beyond the Baltimore street codes. Michael K. Williams Brought His Whole Life to His Characters 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z The funny thing about Nucky Thompson is that he is the most talented, least willing gangster since the young Michael Corleone. Boardwalk Empire Recap: A Chaos of Spoils 2012-09-23T22:04:22Z These efforts fail — dully or hilariously — because once Fitzgerald’s poetic language has been stripped away, “The Great Gatsby” is just a silly story about a misfit obsessed with a gangster who’s stalking his cousin. ‘No One Is Coming to Save Us’: ‘Gatsby’ gets a revolutionary reboot 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z When Billy indulges his taste for violence and misogynist hate one night, and is himself murdered by his victim's father, Julian realises that he is expected to discharge the gangster's ultimate responsibility: revenge. Cannes 2013: Only God Forgives 2013-05-22T09:45:00Z The seemingly endless supply of new gangsters and drug gangs filled the story with anonymous, unengaging characters. ‘Gomorrah’ Review: The End of TV’s Sleekest Italian Import 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z Winter took a gangster story, largely from life, and had it do what you expect gangster stories to do, right down to ending with a whacking. REVIEW: Boardwalk Empire Watch: Golden Boy 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z Three out of four is a high proportion for any city, particularly one famous for its macho cinema, where the men are gangsters and kung fu masters and the women are merely pretty. Heady Days for Hong Kong Women 2010-03-30T12:18:00Z Maybe he wanted to play more East End gangsters, rappers, goblins … Maybe. The curse of Mr Darcy: did Colin Firth's beloved performance really damage his career? 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z Fears about popular culture, like violent video games and gangster rap, are not new. Amid London’s Crime Surge, Authorities Take Aim at ‘Drill,’ a Bleak Style of Rap Music 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z He recounted his pitch for the drama as, "We're going to take Mr. Chips and turns him into Scarface," film references to the teacher of "Mr. Chips" and the gangster of "Scarface." 'Breaking Bad' documentary will follow drama's end 2013-07-26T23:20:24Z They paired him with Charles Lane for True Identity, in which Henry played several roles including a white gangster. Black films matter – how African American cinema fought back against Hollywood 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z “Nowhere to Hide” — his only venture into the popular Korean genre of the gangster film — may be both his most singular and most accessible movie. The Great Unknown Movie of the Century So Far? Here’s Mine 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z Based on the real-life exploits of a Cleveland gangster, "Kill the Irishman" contains many elements that will be familiar to fans of crime movies. 'Kill the Irishman': Ray Stevenson gives us a gangster to root for 2011-04-08T21:43:05Z In Turkey, several drama series compete for viewers every night, each episode two hours or more filled with romance, family strife and gangsters. Can Netflix Take Turkey’s TV Dramas to the World? 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z When the immensely scurrilous low-level gangster played by veteran character actor Mark Pellegrino starts speculating how “someone with a goatee and a Ph.D.” might analyze his relationship with teenage protégé B.J. “Bad Turn Worse”: Texas teen noir infused with “Blood Simple” 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z But The Irishman is also a political picture which shows – as mafia films traditionally do not – that gangsters do not exist in a miraculous vacuum, but are a function or dysfunction of bad politics. Why The Irishman should win the best picture Oscar 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z He was prolific and contradictory, a child of activists signed, late in his career, to Death Row, the label that mainstreamed gangster rap. ‘Holler if Ya Hear Me’ Uses Songs by Tupac Shakur 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z Italian director Sergio Leone never saw the American version of his final film, the 1984 gangster epic "Once Upon a Time in America," starring Robert De Niro. Sergio Leone's original 'Once Upon a Time in America' out on DVD 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Indeed, for all its allusions to murder and drugs, this is Harlem’s gangster culture glazed with more humor than blood. Review | With ‘Harlem Shuffle,’ Colson Whitehead proves once again that he’s a master of reinvention 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z A disillusioned former black-ops agent looking to put his dark past behind him comes out of retirement to save a young girl from ruthless Russian gangsters. The Fall Movie Preview list of films 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z He’s an inheritor of several generations of Chicago gangster rap, and also of the drill music that’s saturated the city in the last three years. Critic’s Notebook: Chief Keef’s New Album is ‘Finally Rich’ 2012-12-19T23:07:51Z Recent gangster entertainment exemplifies the crucial divide between those that worship The Sopranos and those that worship its main character. The Sopranos at 20: how the hit show changed the gangster genre 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z Apart from a few servants who come and go, a gangster on the run and later some hippies, the brothers meet virtually no one as they grope their way through this "kingdom of rubble". Readers recommend their favourite books of 2010 2011-01-01T00:05:32Z Years before YouTube, Tango was the original gangster of viral marketing. Tango, the new TV advert 2013-07-13T05:00:00Z Commenting subsequently on Donald Trump’s response to the unrest and demonstrations, Lee said it was a sign the president was “a gangster, trying to be a dictator”. Spike Lee: send us your questions for the director of Do the Right Thing and Malcolm X 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z The film, a neon-splashed, hyper-violent noir set in Bangkok, sees Gosling's gangster Julian tasked by his drug kingpin mother to exact bloody revenge on the men who killed his older brother. Meeting Mr Controversial 2013-07-31T08:21:02Z Lee began his career as a model before starring in a number of hit Korean films, including the erotic thriller “The Housemaid” and the gangster drama “Deliver Us From Evil.” Emmys 2022: Lee Jung-jae Would Stay in the ‘Squid Game’ Contest 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z “I don’t have a gangster phonebook or anything like that,” he said, but he does have a point of reference for the sleaze and subplots. Television: HBO?s ?Luck,? Starring Dustin Hoffman 2012-01-25T15:29:12Z He reminds me of some of the street gangsters in Harlem who always behaved as if they couldn’t believe their good fortune. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: By the Book 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z For if David Chase gave The Sopranos its uniquely knowing spin on the gangster ethos, it was Winter who provided the show's heart. Empire state of mind 2011-01-20T07:57:00Z As a cinematographer Mr. Suschitzky was best known for this work on “Get Carter,” about a London gangster who travels to his hometown, Newcastle, to look into his brother’s death. Wolfgang Suschitzky, Photographer and Cinematographer, Dies at 104 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z But by “Part III,” the “Godfather” series had served its purpose; the gangster movie had evolved yet again, into something even more grimy, eccentric and alive. How ‘Goodfellas’ and the Gangster Class of 1990 Changed Hollywood 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z Martin Scorsese got his long overdue best director Oscar for this knotty gangster/crime thriller, a reworking of the cult Hong Kong thriller Infernal Affairs. The best English-language remakes – ranked! 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z Q: In your latest movie "El Ott" the themes are quite grim -- organ trafficking, street kids and gangsters. A Minute With: Egyptian actor Amr Waked on making movies at home and abroad 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z Small wonder that New York and Chicago's gangsters, among them the suave Arnold Rothstein and his volatile companion Charles "Lucky" Luciano, are following developments with interest. Empire state of mind 2011-01-20T07:57:00Z Biden “is a senile gangster with the IQ of a sack of carrots,” he said. It began on a gold escalator. It may have ended at Four Seasons Total Landscaping. 2020-11-08T05:00:00Z Tokyo Drifter regards the mythic gangster Tetsu’s attempt to leave the gangster lifestyle and go legit, only to be stymied by various rivals and opportunists. Burning desire: John Wick and the undying appeal of the revenge thriller 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z Some lawmakers, newspapers and parents have been left questioning the role of the music they have labeled — in a 1990s throwback — “gangster rap.” After a Star’s Killing, Sweden Struggles With ‘Gangster Rap’ 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z The usual Brit gangster suspects – bent coppers, menacing gangs, bank heists, shootouts and manly dialogue – are lined up for a complicated yet routine crime escapade. This week's new films 2013-04-06T05:00:08Z At times, he suggests the embryonic Los Angeles gangster rap of the late 1980s, or even vocal eccentrics like E-40 and Suga Free. Meet Blueface, the Self-Aware Rapper Who Knows He’s More Than a Meme 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z The president has even imported gangster vernacular like “rat” and “slime ball” into the Oval Office. Victoria Gotti Is Back in a Big Way on Your Teensy Screens 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z In Las Vegas, casino creators were the king’s opposites, thorough nonaristocrats: gangsters. Museum Review: The Neon Museum in Las Vegas 2013-02-02T01:43:04Z It’s a grave injustice that should be easily remedied, seeing as Gavras follows in a popular tradition of roundly, generously enjoyable gangster mischief. My streaming gem: why you should watch The World Is Yours 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z Many of the killings – and the persecutions that followed – were carried out by gangsters who have not only escaped prosecution, but are now heralded as local heroes. The Act of Killing – review 2013-06-29T23:05:24Z That Stephen King-like angle is the richest material in “That Demon Within,” which is otherwise another tale of gangsters turning against one another. ‘That Demon Within’: A cop’s anguish feeds thriller’s flame 2014-04-17T20:25:23Z Set during the Jazz Age, it conjured a world immortalized by Damon Runyon, in which gangsters and chorus girls strutted the same turf. Theater Review: Woody Allen Transforms His ‘Bullets Over Broadway’ 2014-04-11T02:00:16Z Think of the rhyming gamblers from “Guys and Dolls” barking out track tips in “Fugue for Tinhorns,” or the leg-breaking, harmonizing gangsters from “Kiss Me, Kate,” who advised that you “Brush Up Your Shakespeare.” Theater Review: ‘Fiorello!’ an Encores! Musical at City Center 2013-01-31T22:37:27Z She is moving in on terrain that was formerly a gangster’s paradise, and establishing, at the center of the show, an enchanted forest where her imagination can roam. The Best Part of “The Deuce” Is Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Emerging Auteur 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z If it says 'gangster', I play a gangster. Helen Mirren: 'I want to play Hamlet!' 2011-03-03T21:31:00Z For daytime, the look was gangster chic, with loose-fitting men's double-breasted suits worn with nothing more than a dickey underneath and topped with exaggerated bowler hats - pink with purple ribbon. Large coats a mainstay for next winter from Milan 2013-02-21T22:50:18Z I also don’t need another script about a gangster. The Mystery of the Oscars: How Do You Really Vote for a Script? 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z As the antic gangster Moonface Martin, Stephen DeRosa even jokes about the nautical railings toted on and off between scenes, firmly lodging his elbow in the audience’s ribs. Review | Want to get away? ‘Anything Goes’ sails into silly high seas 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Silent Movie Mondays returns this month with a "Silent Crime Spree" — four gangster films, all accompanied by Jim Riggs on the Paramount Theatre's Mighty Wurlitzer organ. Film fests and series galore 2010-09-30T20:43:00Z Cardi, as is her wont, was direct, addressing Nicki with both indignation and exasperation: “Do you want to be the victim or do you want to be the gangster?” Hip-Hop Rivalries Aren’t New. But the Battlefields Have Changed. 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z In the first couple of shots, Cobb washes up on a beach, possibly in Japan, and is dragged into a luxurious house for an audience with an aging yakuza gangster. "Inception": A clunky, overblown disappointment 2010-07-15T01:01:00Z Still, Affleck clearly hopes to provide not mere entertainment, but a critique of US capitalism – and in so doing illuminates the essential hypocrisy of the gangster genre. Live by Night: how the gangster film went from top of the world to sleeping with the fishes 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z Sometime after 2 a.m., a track sampled a line from “Goodfellas,” the one about always wanting to be a gangster. Benny Benassi at Echostage The Garveys drive to a rendezvous with a gangster called Mr Pink and arrive at a tunnel. Benidorm; Coronation Street ? review 2011-03-12T07:00:01Z Bloodline reveals the one-time Rebel Alliance leader has been given the title of “The Huttslayer” for her heroism in killing the slug-like alien gangster. Star Wars book to resolve Princess Leia's accent, father and 'slave' bikini issues 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z Mr. Sollima and his colleagues are certainly aware of the many influences to be sorted through in making a modern gangster tale. Review: The Mafia in ‘Gomorrah,’ Reminiscent of ‘The Wire’ and ‘The Sopranos’ 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z The film became a constantly quoted pop cultural phenomenon that provided the template for the modern gangster story. Former 'Goodfellas' mobster Henry Hill dies in L.A. 2012-06-13T18:42:15Z The film is leavened by slapstick and studded with stunt sequences involving actors’ dangling from high places; colliding with movie shoots; outrunning gangsters; and encountering every possible messy, malodorous or dangerous landing place. Review: ‘Lost in Hong Kong’ Is Part Music Video, Part Buddy Film 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z There is a strange power to using a child as a pawn, whether it’s an estranged spouse, gangsters and extortionists, drug cartels, terrorist groups, child-kidnapping syndicates or the state machinery. “We have come to take your daughter”: An immigrant parent’s traumatic separation from her c... 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z “She was married to a London gangster and after him she married an American gigolo. She throws these big parties.” T Magazine: The Aesthetes 2014-04-11T18:32:15Z “The Houseguest” was a comic gangster story in which a thug ingratiates himself with a Long Island family, then keeps them hostage - at least they think he does. Correction: Obit-Thomas Berger story 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z Filled with gangsters, groupies and musicians on paths of self-destruction, it's nothing like the realistic — if exaggerated — musicianship and competitiveness shown in "Whiplash." Jazz drama 'Miles Away' hits all the wrong notes 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z The big winners from Prohibition were, of course, the nation's gangsters. How Prohibition backfired and gave America an era of gangsters and speakeasies 2012-08-25T23:05:52Z Here in the UK, the private pool is entirely exotic, a fantasy belonging to rock stars and retired cockney gangsters on the Costa del Sol. Clip joint: swimming pools 2010-09-08T15:58:00Z The Japanese army, Manchurian gangsters and other battling factions are racing to find a map leading to Chinese treasure buried deep in the Manchurian desert. 'The Good, the Bad, the Weird': A recklessly filmed Korean Western 2010-05-06T20:04:00Z The gangster stylings play nicely against their very gothic horror, and of course the Statue of Liberty is the mightiest Angel of all. Doctor Who: The Angels Take Manhattan – series 33, episode five 2012-09-29T19:05:00Z Now the money is missing, and Frank is trying to recoup the losses by reverting to his ruthless gangster ways. 'True Detective' recap: Carnage erupts as homicide probe deepens 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z The play follows a score the musician wrote for a British gangster film called Peterman, and he is following a long line of rock and pop artists who have moved into soundtracks. White Lies star writes theatre score 2014-09-12T04:00:00Z Legend has it that the first gangster to grasp the real commercial potential of Prohibition, though, was racketeer Arnold Rothstein, whose agents had been responsible for rigging the baseball World Series in 1919. How Prohibition backfired and gave America an era of gangsters and speakeasies 2012-08-25T23:05:52Z One of the men Anna’s father mingled with, a complicated gangster and nightclub owner named Dexter Styles, who wants to go legit, moves sideways into Anna’s life. Jennifer Egan Updates the Old-Fashioned Page-Turner in ‘Manhattan Beach’ 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z The inmates — the program says many were violent gangsters jailed in a crackdown three years earlier — easily blended into the chaos of the tent cities. Television Review: Lawlessness and Need Survive in Shaken Haiti 2011-01-10T22:59:12Z Nominated for three Academy Awards, he masterminded the look of pictures as visually diverse as latter-day noir, sanguinary gangster films and music videos. Michael Ballhaus, an Oscar-Nominated Cinematographer, Dies at 81 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z As a reader, we may at times have reason to pause and wonder if the gangster who longs for a cooking show he wants to call "Thug Sizzle" is real. 'Running the Books': Learning life lessons as a prison librarian 2010-12-08T23:59:00Z Mr. Trump’s taste for gangster sagas — he’s cited “The Godfather” and “Goodfellas” as favorites — might draw him to this Italian television series, available on Netflix. 7 Shows for President Trump to Watch on His Vacation 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z Remember that Monty Python sketch about the vicious gangsters the Piranha Brothers? ‘Pretenders’ Review: A Little New Wave Love, a Lot of Misogyny 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z Some gangsters of the 1930s were the rock stars of their day. Bonnie and Clyde's guns, personal items on the auction block 2012-07-15T00:06:04Z In this respect, they break with two different and sometimes opposed traditions in hip-hop: gangster rap and so-called conscious rap. “Atlanta” and Vince Staples and a New Hip-Hop Sensibility 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z That usually means, as it does here, that they all tend to sound like gangsters from a James Cagney movie. London Theater Journal: A 'Carousel' That Really Moves 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z When Falcone began to address him in Sicilian with the words "I would like to ask you …", the gangster stopped him and insisted on speaking only in Italian rather then their shared native language. Andrea Camilleri: a life in writing 2012-07-06T21:55:16Z Italian American groups sometimes object to gangster movies on the grounds that they perpetuate negative stereotypes. Michael Peña: 'It was difficult for me to break through' 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z Charles Benedict is a triple, if unlikely, threat: brilliant defense attorney, amateur magician, and hit man for a Russian gangster. New in crime fiction: Waverly Curtis and Robert Ferrigno 2013-04-10T21:32:44Z "Or if you do something in a Shakespearean manner, or if you reference American movies or gangster talk or hip-hop – those all work much better in English." Funny foreigners: how overseas comics are storming Edinburgh 2010-08-17T20:31:00Z But since Steiner seems to judge all her characters on the strength of their mothering instincts, the Latvian gangsters don’t get any love. In the Best New Crime, Lethal Lasagna, Honor Killings and Nanny Cams 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z It explores Kinshasa’s criminal underworld and focuses on a young wheeler-dealer who runs afoul of Angolan gangsters. The Week Ahead: April 3 ? 9 2011-04-02T03:12:49Z He also played a Greek peanut vendor, a blind Portuguese cobbler, a prison guard on Devil’s Island, a mad bomber, a South African Boer, a sinister Chinese gangster and Henry Kissinger. Theodore Bikel, Master of Versatility in Songs, Roles and Activism, Dies at 91 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z Far safer to view it as a spat between two Gotham millionaires with bulging property portfolios and a shared interest in New York gangster movies. Ageing bulls: have Robert De Niro’s roles inspired Donald Trump? 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z Sam Riley is teenage gangster Pinkie – at 30, it's a bit more of a stretch for Riley than for Richard Attenborough who was 23 when he played the part. Brighton Rock ? review 2011-02-03T15:00:01Z A: I wanted to be a gangster because that’s all I saw in Chicago. Quincy Jones, master of firsts, arrives to open a museum 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z Admittedly many were along the lines of "So I met this gangster who pulls up the back of people's pants; it was Weggie Kray", but quite a feat nonetheless. Dedication's what you need: top 10 record-breaking comedians 2010-07-22T10:51:00Z Those of us who watch a lot of international genre movies have seen Korean gangster films or Italian horror movies that make the violence in "Drive" seem relatively tame. The "Drive" backlash: Too violent, too arty or both? 2011-09-23T14:01:00Z Sanchez also featured the neighborhood’s notoriously colorful past, with a ’60s gangster lamenting the loss of a mobster’s paradise. No Room Service, but History’s on the Menu 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z Although it likes to think of itself as a new kind of gangster drama, The Fear is very much of the genre. Have you been watching … The Fear? 2012-12-06T15:04:20Z Being Irish by descent, he would never be fully entrusted with any of the Italian-run gangster operations around Tampa and Havana, abundant and colorful as they might be. Review: Dennis Lehane’s ‘World Gone By’ Completes a Loose Trio of Novels 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z For Henry, an up-and-coming mobster — and also for the viewer, hovering in the limbo between bystander and accomplice — the arrival at the Copa is a pure and potent dose of gangster glamour. ‘The Irishman’ Review: The Mob’s Greatest Hits, in a Somber Key 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z The gangsters in “The Outfit” have plenty of tough moves, but none of these guys hold the screen like Mark Rylance when he just stands or stares — or sews. ‘The Outfit’ Review: The Violent Measure of a Man 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Immediately I wanted to focus on this hormone mafia, which was a real crime organization — farmers and gangsters combined into one. Oscar Nominees for Best Foreign-Language Film Discuss Work 2012-02-20T22:38:12Z He seemed to say that line because it's the sort of thing that post-"Godfather" gangsters are supposed to say when pressed by women they care about. The plot-crazy spectacle of "Boardwalk Empire" 2011-09-26T01:26:00Z Is a gangsta the same as a gangster? ‘Jeopardy!’ Tells Contestant: A ‘Gangster’ Is Not a ‘Gangsta’ 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z That's inevitable, not just because "Mad Men" creator Matthew Weiner and "Empire" creator Terence Winter were key creative players on David Chase's suburban gangster saga, and contributed some of most striking elements. "Sopranos" family tree: Edith Bunker to Don Draper 2010-10-16T01:01:00Z It was a song played on the offbeat, a “gangster film,” Robert Benton said, “about all the things they didn’t show you in a gangster film.” Bored of blockbusters? Why Hollywood needs another Bonnie and Clyde moment 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z It soothes my mind to separate, say, con artists from gangsters, and it makes a jumble of true-crime books on a variety of topics easier to tackle. Hunting Down the Best True-Crime Tales 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z George may not have poisoned his wedding envelopes, but his shrugging off Susan’s death was in its way colder and more gangster than anything Walter White did with Lily of the Valley. Seinfeld at 25: There's Still Nothing Else Like It 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Whishaw will make his second West End appearance of the year as Baby, the most psychotic of the gangsters – a role originally played by Tom Hollander. Rupert Grint to join Ben Whishaw in West End revival of Mojo 2013-07-26T13:49:28Z Cultivate your reputation while learning new moves and upgrading Wei's skills as he progresses as both policeman and gangster, enjoying a grimly-detailed expanse of suspiciously empty, neon-lit, perpetually night-time Hong Kong. This week's new games 2012-08-17T23:05:30Z Guys and Dolls Classic musical based on Damon Runyon’s stories about gangsters, gamblers and gals in old New York. The week ahead in L.A. theater, June 25-July 2: Griffith Park Free Shakespeare Festival and more 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z Most importantly, he's not a gangster in the obvious sense and Boardwalk Empire isn't a simple gangland tale. Empire state of mind 2011-01-20T07:57:00Z HBO’s gangster drama “Boardwalk Empire” won its second consecutive trophy for outstanding performance by an ensemble in a drama series. 'The Help' cast takes top SAG honor 2012-01-30T02:58:00Z Chatty to a fault, these gangsters rarely kill without preamble, declaiming everything from philosophy to Fauvism and Buddhism to Brexit. Review: In ‘Have a Nice Day,’ a Follow-the-Money Tale in China 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z The family calls her brother "the Eliot Ness of Whiplash", she said, after the legendary Chicago law enforcement officer who spent years trying to nail the gangster Al Capone in prohibition-era Chicago. Tom Hiddleston to play Coriolanus at Donmar Warehouse 2013-05-20T13:53:58Z Cave has already dubbed Lawless a "wangster" movie, a rather unfortunate label for a film that deftly merges the tropes of the urban gangster and the rural western with considerable style. Nick Cave: 'Lawless is not so much a true story as a true myth' 2012-08-25T23:05:50Z A group of crime thrillers leads the list of new movies opening Friday: the true story of a French gangster, "Mesrine: Killer Instinct"; the set-in-Melbourne "Animal Kingdom"; and the heist film "Takers." Films opening Friday include 'Mesrine: Killer Instinct' and 'Animal Kingdom' 2010-08-25T23:17:00Z “The Irishman,” Martin Scorsese’s 209-minute gangster epic, is very, very good. Martin Scorsese's "The Irishman": De Niro, Pacino and Pesci shine in this intimate gangster epic 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z Nevertheless, Johnny Rosselli lived like a gangster from the movies — only he was real. Review | The incredible life of ‘Handsome Johnny,’ a gangster worthy of the movies 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z Now unencumbered by legal restrictions, he’s published “Nick,” a story about the years leading up to Nick Carraway’s move to Long Island, where he falls under the spell of that charming gangster. Review | For ‘Gatsby’ fans, 2021 will be the start of remakes. First up: ‘Nick’ 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z But you have to realize that there’s a big possibility that it has blood all over it: of children, of women, not just gangsters killing gangsters, innocent people, most of them poor. How to Write a Novel About the Bloody War on Drugs 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z A new trailer for Marvel’s Luke Cage shows the hero fighting off gangsters unaware of his super strength. Marvel's Luke Cage Is Sick of Buying New Clothes in a New Trailer 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z A scene like that would have made Black Mass more than a gangster film, it would have given a national audience a glimpse into the saga that haunts Bostonians to this day. Black Mass: the glamorization of Whitey Bulger muddles an already murky story 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z Sure enough, the Oxford English Dictionary defines gangster as “a member of a criminal gang, esp. one involved in organized crime,” while it defines gangsta as “a member of an urban territorial gang.” ‘Jeopardy!’ Tells Contestant: A ‘Gangster’ Is Not a ‘Gangsta’ 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z There are nods to 1920s flappers and ’70s punks, original gangsters and Hollywood starlets, Adolf Loos and Frank Lloyd Wright, Spanish Colonial and midcentury modernism. The Stylish Ace Hotel Opens in Los Angeles 2014-01-13T05:00:00Z He indicts gangsters in sharkskin suits “wearing fancy gold rings,” the new ruling class of financiers and robber barons. Album review: Bob Dylan, 'Tempest' 2012-09-07T16:48:00Z On the 10-episode "Rogue," Newton plays Grace Travis, an undercover detective who takes on a gangster after her son is killed in a drive by shooting. Thandie Newton takes lead acting role in 'Rogue' 2013-04-02T20:58:09Z Adelstein received death threats after the article was published, during a time when gangsters were more tolerated — and even celebrated — by Japanese society. ‘Tokyo Vice’ Revisits a Faded Underworld 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z Always good for a tale of the streets, Nick Pileggi intimately captures something New York is known for, the world of the gangster. Bill Bratton Doesn’t Root for the Bad Guys 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z Its vivid depiction of gangsters, the London drug scene and sexual ambivalence was heady for the period; and it went from failure to cult classic without ever enjoying success. Nicolas Roeg obituary 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z Male strippers, Lego superheroes, and cold-blooded gangsters were among the diverse cast of characters Warner Bros. unveiled to an enthusiastic crowd of exhibitors gathered in Las Vegas. CinemaCon 2015: Warner Bros. chief touts diverse slate 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z And “The Irishman,” Martin Scorsese’s gangster epic, is still being shown on Broadway at the Belasco Theater ahead of its streaming release Wednesday. Netflix’s New Single-Screen Space: The Paris Theater 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z “The Irishman,” Scorsese’s gangster character study, received 10 nominations. ‘Parasite’ Makes Oscar History With Best Picture Win 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z Silent Movie Mondays at the Paramount continue with Josef von Sternberg's 1927 gangster film "Underworld," screening with live accompaniment by organist Jim Riggs on the theater's Mighty Wurlitzer, at 7 p.m. 'Bear City' opens Lesbian & Gay film fest; Silent Monday shows 'Underworld' 2010-10-14T20:49:00Z The occasion for the aforementioned gathering of gangsters is the dawn of Prohibition, which goes into effect a few hours after "Boardwalk Empire" begins. "Boardwalk Empire" recap: Prohibition begins 2010-09-20T12:53:00Z When asked about the expensive gangster movie, De Niro once again mentioned how exciting it was not only to reunite with Scorsese but also to play a character through numerous decades. Robert De Niro’s long-wanted “Taxi Driver” sequel remains dead, even after “The Irishman” 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z Based on the same book as the 2008 film “Gomorrah,” the show is a brooding, propulsive, totally addictive story of rival gangster clans in modern-day Naples, shot like a Brutalist chiaroscuro nightmare. ‘Fortitude,’ ‘Bosch,’ ‘Gomorrah’: TV Crime Never Sleeps 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z When it's still light and there's that golden glow over the city – that's when you want to be listening to something gangster. Sounds of the summer 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z In contrast, Mapplethorpe, who emerged in the anything-goes 1970s, explored his various identities “as a woman, as a gangster, as a devilish imp, as a toughie, as nothing special.” Ingrid Sischy’s Genius: Portraits of Contemporary Culture 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z But Bugsy suffers from a problem that afflicts many gangster movies. Bugsy: don't mention the flying eyeball 2011-03-10T08:00:00Z The film says that, for decades, the government outsourced most of this dirty work to gangsters and paramilitary groups. ‘The Act of Killing’: a haunting take on Indonesia genocide 2013-08-01T22:56:25Z And, here, a splendid irony: A gangster is barely a villain on a show where, as Carrigan puts it, “all the characters are kind of awful in their own way.” The actor behind ‘Barry’s’ NoHo Hank, TV’s happiest mobster 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z Meanwhile Stephen Graham is keeping it properly gangster as Al Capone. 2011 TV preview: gangsters, gap years, off-world colonials 2011-01-01T00:05:29Z The cousin goes unnamed but he isn’t depicted like the antagonists in “Boyz N the Hood,” who are treated with as much care as gangsters in Grand Theft Auto. ‘Menace II Society’ at 30: A Bleak Nightmare Then, a Milestone Now 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z In the end the back story involving gangsters, corrupt police officers, a wealthy businessman’s murder and incriminating video adds up, sort of. | 'Point Blank': It?s Paris, and Everyone Is Rotten but the Man Chased by the Police 2011-07-28T22:30:10Z In a neighborhood rife with racial tension, Calogero ends up caught between his loving blue-collar father and the glamorous life of a gangster. The ‘Bronx Tale’ Strategy: Win Suburban Love, Not Broadway Prestige 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z “Black” was the street name of a notorious–and violent–gangster. Rapper's Delight: Inside 50 Cent's Car Collection 2013-06-04T14:00:01Z The actor Cillian Murphy is back in the spotlight right now as a 20th century gangster in the new season of “Peaky Blinders” on Netflix. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Nancy Drew’ and ‘Goliath’ 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z He also sees a clear connection to Quentin Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction” and “Reservoir Dogs” — particularly the recurring motif of gangsters who hang out, talk trash and do their jobs like, well, jobs. How ‘Goodfellas’ and the Gangster Class of 1990 Changed Hollywood 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z Jude Law, clearly having a good time, plays the title character, a British gangster who talks the hard-boiled talk with verve and gutter lyricism, but is really just a big softie. Movie Listings for April 18-24 2014-04-17T22:55:56Z One result was a stunning James Cagney-Jean Harlow poster for the 1931 gangster classic "The Public Enemy" that hadn't been seen since the film's release. A lifetime love affair with Golden Age movie posters 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z Soft words from the biggest internet gangster of our generation. Don’t go, Michelle Obama! Her Oprah interview was a powerful reminder of why she’ll be missed 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z Ricky had an encounter with an older gangster at a block party who eventually murders him in front of Tre — another reality my friends and I faced too often. A heart to heart with Cuba Gooding Jr.: The film he really wants to make and why it’s not about... 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z I have seen “Goodfellas” and the “Godfather” movies more times than I can count, and I’m as susceptible as any other deskbound, conflict-averse fantasist to the visceral appeal of a good gangster movie. Review: In ‘Black Mass,’ Johnny Depp Is the Dead-Eyed Killer Whitey Bulger 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z "I was really surprised how many families there were," said Do, who dressed up as a gangster zombie last year. Zombies prowl Fremont Saturday 2011-07-01T02:12:08Z “Johnny Dangerously,” her 1984 follow-up, was about gangsters in the 1930s — her favorite genre, equal only to musicals. ‘Clueless’ Was Amy Heckerling’s Masterpiece. Is She Done With It? As If. 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z It was in drama, then, that his career began: a gangster in Sundance-selected Strays, the voice in The Iron Giant, a ruthless stockbroker in Boiler Room. Vin Diesel on Guardians of the Galaxy: 'I didn't realise how much I love trees' 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z As you might have guessed by now, the mechanics of the story in “Tokyo Vice” are familiar from decades’ worth of both Japanese and American gangster films. ‘Tokyo Vice’ Review: Another American in Translation 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z Dreaming of being a gangster is something constantly handed down to us. I always loved hip-hop, but Nas transformed me into a fan, which ultimately changed my life 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z Then Giancana, a known gangster, was spotted at the Cal-Neva by state gaming board agents, an infringement that cost the singer his casino-operator's licence and led to an abrupt, enraged switch in his political allegiance. When the Rat Pack ruled supreme 2010-10-07T19:29:00Z The pesky vice squad is on their case, as is Louis the gangster, who's keen to invest and become the girls' protector. TV highlights 21/06/2013 2013-06-21T06:00:01Z Mr. Donovan, who most recently starred in the second season of “Fargo” as a raging, semi-articulate gangster, returns here to the style he perfected in seven seasons of “Burn Notice.” Review: ‘Shut Eye’ on Hulu Follows a Scamming, Small-Time Psychic 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z The new “Last Days of Coney Island” is a crowd-funded cops and gangsters short, full of Bakshi’s now beloved eccentrics and street freaks. They don’t make them like Ralph Bakshi anymore: “Now, animators don’t have ideas. They just like to move things around” 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z Indeed, the way Ms. Bacall’s family baggage performed, you’d think it had been stuffed with stacks of cash like in the old gangster movies. Lauren Bacall’s Eclectic Treasures Auctioned Off 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z A novel spin on Brit gangster antics, as two men, both accused of a mob murder, are set against each other. This week's new films 2012-08-10T23:05:23Z But even if everyone her father killed had been gangsters like him, her attitude to murder is still well outside the norm. Sammy 'The Bull' Gravano: my dad, the mafia underboss 2013-02-15T21:00:06Z Why are all gangsters' mothers seemingly intent on putting their sons in harm's way? The Wire re-up: season five, episode seven ? The Wire v The Sopranos 2010-03-29T23:15:00Z Some boisterous protesters marched through the streets of the financial district, chanting "bankers are gangsters" and cursing at police. Dozens arrested at N.Y. Occupy rally 2012-03-18T05:49:02Z Although he starts merely as a vessel for the story, he's drawn into the brutal, visceral, fascinating world of the gangsters. The Great American Novelist tournament 2013-01-22T12:51:05Z Ever since they said yes to the idea of a TV show about a gangster with some serious maternal issues, we've been in the middle of a renaissance in US drama. States of bliss 2011-01-29T00:05:00Z In Naples, where I grew up, during the mafia war of 2004, the upcoming camorra members modelled themselves on gangsters from film and TV – The Matrix, The Crow, Pulp Fiction and, more recently, Breaking Bad. El Chapo, Hollywood and the lure of the mob movie 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z At this point the prison life is inseparable from the play, and the actors merge their roles with their careers as gangsters. Caesar Must Die – review 2013-03-03T00:07:05Z He is also part of the ensemble cast of Guy Ritchie’s upcoming gangster thriller The Gentlemen. The new heart-throbs: how Hollywood embraced east Asian actors, from Henry Golding to Simu Liu 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z They’ve also had a peek at “The Godfather”: The three sons of the gangster patriarch Harry Montebello are a hothead like Sonny, a choirboy like Michael and an addict sort of like Fredo. Watch List: ‘The Straits,’ an Australian Series at Hulu.com 2012-12-14T22:58:41Z Each character, whether gangster or chorus girl, has a pleasingly distinctive language of movement. 'Bullets Over Broadway' makes up for its lack of new music with strong choreography and acting 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Growing up among "gangsters and priests", Scorsese outdid even Godfather director Francis Ford Coppola as the definitive cinematic chronicler of the American underworld with his hard-hitting movies. Interview: Martin Scorsese 2010-11-21T00:06:00Z The Chicago gangster seems to have left his mark on everything, from an illegal card game at a secluded coastal hideaway to any number of local cantinas. In Tijuana, searching for Al Capone 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z The gangsters had always wanted to be in an opera, and suddenly they were. Nicholas Pileggi: the mob, Nora Epron's death and Vegas 2013-02-03T07:02:31Z Why is he the most famous of all gangsters? How real is "Boardwalk Empire's" Al Capone? 2010-10-11T17:01:00Z Like many of America's colorful cities, Las Vegas boasts a rich history of hustlers, gangsters and hoodlums. Las Vegas embraces mob roots with new attractions 2011-03-30T09:46:06Z Kirby grew up on Manhattan's Lower East Side, the turf of the notorious gangster Charles "Lucky" Luciano, also known as the father of modern organized crime in the United States. 11 facts about Jack Kirby, the artist behind the Marvel Universe 2021-04-24T04:00:00Z Some are about the threat posed by ranchers or gangsters or great white sharks. Invasion of the dumbasses 2011-08-11T20:32:01Z In that sense, “Processed Cheese” is a retail fantasy clotted with gangster thrills. Review | Finally, a novel that captures the inanity of the Trump era. It isn’t pretty. 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z But James Franco steals the whole movie away when he arrives about halfway through as a cornrowed, wanna-be gangster rapper named Alien. Capsule reviews of new movie releases 2013-03-13T18:10:09Z On Tuesday night, the Indian film, “Bombay Velvet,” a period gangster movie directed by Anurag Kashyap, drew more than 8,000 spectators, despite a steady drizzle of rain before the film began. Chinese Independent Filmmakers Look to Locarno Festival 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z She and Maruge are shaken down, by gangsters and government goons, for a cut of the money their would-be extortionists assume must be attached to Maruge’s celebrity. | 'The First Grader': Simple Quest for Literacy Hits a Wall of Politics 2011-05-12T23:10:04Z You have mutants and gangsters coming at you from all angles, and you’re blowing them away with assault rifles and shotguns. Video Game Review: Rage, New Video Game From id Software - Review 2011-10-11T16:28:13Z It is peppered with Coben’s customary bombshells and surprises, from dark secrets to a fearsome gangster who has lost his taste for revenge, and that page-turning special something that keeps readers up too late. Harlan Coben, Suburban Dad With 75 Million Books in Print 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z Mostly these fellows don’t work, but if they do, they’re probably baby gangsters. Critic?s Notebook: A Wave of Indie Angst Hits South Asian Cinema 2010-10-21T22:10:00Z As the anchor of the Shelbys and the show, Tommy displays the classic contradictions of the gangster antihero — a family man who murders without compunction. ‘Peaky Blinders’: The Disparate Ingredients of a Cult Hit 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z Smith plays Ludlow, a gangster with a taste for fine watches. Wu-Tang Clan's Method Man gets serious about a career in Hollywood 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z I generally go in that direction rather than the gangster stuff. John Cale: 'I don't want to end up in Pseud's Corner' 2012-09-26T08:50:35Z “But he presents himself, consciously or not, as a classic Asian-American striver, even if he tends to dress like a gangster on a spa retreat.” What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Huang’s World’ and ‘Reg’ 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z “Who but Cary Grant could be a fantasy self-image for a President and a gangster chief?” Archive Collection: Actors 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z On-screen, he was a racist, a bigot, a gangster and a bully. New this week: ‘Girls5eva’ and ‘The Boy From Medellín’ 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z As for gangster films, with their dreadful middle-class cringe, and uniquely distasteful celebration of working-class criminal mores, the less said the better, which is why The Sopranos was such a breath of fresh cordite. The debate: Can British TV produce drama as good as Mad Men? 2010-07-24T23:06:00Z He doesn’t like guns or cheating or anything that would make him look like a gangster. 'A Most Violent Year,’ With Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z The ultimate gangster performance is no longer confined to the screen. Ageing bulls: have Robert De Niro’s roles inspired Donald Trump? 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z The vamps of "True Blood" and the gangsters of "The Sopranos" fascinate us with their lurid exploits. Do a "Glee" star's photos glamorize domestic abuse? 2011-09-06T15:07:00Z Perhaps there is a little bit of the Joker in all of us who live under the cruel logic of neoliberalism and gangster capitalism. "Joker": A harsh indictment of neoliberalism and gangster capitalism 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z The shelves lined with novelty items feature mobster paper dolls and gangster teddy bears dressed in striped suits and armed with plastic machine guns. New Vegas museum highlights mob bosses, tommy guns 2012-02-14T12:31:12Z He went on to direct another gangster movie, a documentary and television projects, experience that seems to have served him well for “Life, Above All,” which is at the intersection of fact and fiction. | 'Life, Above All': Burdened in a Ravaged South Africa 2011-07-14T21:45:54Z Would anyone else quite like to see a spin-off series with those orthodox Jewish gangsters that Frank does business with? True Detective: season two, episode seven recap – Black Maps and Motel Rooms 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z Knight is also the writer of BBC gangster drama Peaky Blinders, which Hardy is joining for its second series this autumn. Ridley Scott to direct BBC TV drama 2014-04-04T10:52:41Z The movie “wasn’t reality and it wasn’t gangster,” Ms. Barnes said. Dr. Dre Apologizes to the ‘Women I’ve Hurt’ 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z In Rian Johnson's zingy thriller "Looper," he's a hit man employed by gangsters of the future who zap their victims 30 years into the past to be killed and destroyed, leaving no trace. 'Looper': Hit man goes back to the future in dark, zingy thriller 2012-09-27T15:15:04Z As a boy, he idolised the gangsters who hung out at a coffee shop across the street from his apartment. Henry Hill obituary 2012-06-13T17:54:00Z “In particular, the gangster and the crime movies were so glamorous to me, and I think it's really where that all began.” Megan Abbott writes bestsellers about bad people. Look out, she's coming to L.A. 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z Certainly Rylance’s presence enriches “The Outfit,” a moderately amusing gangster flick that doesn’t make a great deal of sense. ‘The Outfit’ Review: The Violent Measure of a Man 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Former gangster Michael O'Connor is trying to go straight, living the good life in rural Ireland. On the Money With Robert Peston 2010-06-07T05:45:00Z Near the end, Reacher engages in an epic fistfight with that massive London gangster. Spoiler alert: Jack Reacher survives, but the 19th Lee Child novel is fascinating If three hours of Bible analysis as rehashed in the language of gangsters isn’t your thing, so be it. Forum Theatre’s ‘The Last Days of Judas Iscariot’ But Pao is no ordinary gangster, and the humanity he shows doesn’t fit with the brutality he needs. Read Your Way Through Kingston, Jamaica 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z Mr. Newberry poured bourbon from bottles decorative enough to be mistaken for luxury fragrance vessels and shared stories of how legendary gangsters ran bootlegging rings through Newport. Savoring Bourbon, and Its Storied History, in Northern Kentucky 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z "If I was a gangster and a criminal, what would that mean to their job security?" Casino mogul denies threatening porn producer 2012-09-05T00:41:12Z It was after we'd been voted Time Out live band of the year, so we played this party that seemed to be for Russian gangsters, magazine and a bed shop! British Sea Power: Full steam ahead for indie oddballs 2011-01-16T00:05:34Z Mr. McGruder adapted the show from his own comic strip about the Freeman brothers, Huey and the 8-year-old wannabe gangster Riley, and their grandfather Robert, who moved them to the white suburbs. Critic’s Notebook: Back to ‘The Boondocks,’ Minus Its Creator’s Touch 2014-04-20T21:59:13Z “Just a little gangster,” Miller says, winding up. Steve Miller cracked the code of 1970s radio. But he’s still raging against the music industry. 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z “The idea was that those kids would grow up to be gangsters.” Bang: The troubled legacy of toy guns 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z He was a more gangster version of Vitamin, in a way. Jake One speaks on his "Town Biz" mixtape 2010-04-27T17:42:00Z Just replace "ninjas" with "killer monks, mechanical bees, a deceptively mild-mannered elderly assassin, a Genghis-Khan-like fiend, a deeply sinister government agency, and a clock repairman who starts channeling his gangster father." 'Angelmaker': A clock repairman tries to stop the world's end 2012-03-14T19:55:04Z "Whether it was a gangster film, or Gavin and Stacey, which I watched a lot to get the Welsh accent for Submarine." Britain's tough new actresses look to redefine our heroines 2011-04-02T23:13:41Z The industry also welcomed funds from gangsters and politicians, looking for ways to launder their ill-gotten gains, known in India as "black money," the cable said. India court upholds actor Sanjay Dutt's conviction 2013-03-21T12:43:08Z This thriller follows a clairvoyant, a police detective and an Austrian psychologist as they hunt for $1 million hidden by a recently deceased gangster. What’s on TV This Week: ‘This Is Us’ and ‘The Haunting’ 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z Before he was player No. 456, Lee was a model-turned-actor who had starred in a number of hit Korean films, including the erotic thriller “The Housemaid” and the award-winning gangster drama “Deliver Us From Evil.” Lee Jung-jae Thinks ‘Squid Game’ Critics Should Watch It Again 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z Instead we get slurred Russian, delivered by a variety of goons, gangsters and Gypsies, all one-dimensional place markers in a plot with not an ounce of originality or humanity. Russian Gangsters Run Amok 2010-12-17T05:43:01Z Yet he directed only one more feature, “I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead,” which also starred Mr. Owen, as a gangster who investigates his brother’s suicide. Mike Hodges, Director Acclaimed for ‘Get Carter,’ Dies at 90 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z And though he did not pursue an acting career, decades later he was playing himself in movies like the Robert De Niro-Billy Crystal gangster comedy “Analyze This” and the Jim Carrey vehicle “Bruce Almighty.” Tony Bennett, Champion of the Great American Songbook, Is Dead at 96 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z Wallace doesn’t skimp on the seedy underside, with labyrinthine tales of gangsters and gamblers, crooked cops and greedy ward-heelers. The 20 Years That Made New York City 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z He recently moved his family to Wales after their home in Dublin was burned down by gangsters seeking one of his relatives. Movies: ?Knuckle,? by Ian Palmer, Follows Irish Travelers 2011-11-27T05:03:03Z There's something faintly politically recognizable in those themes, particularly the subversion of the state and the camaraderie of one's fellow gangsters. Why the left loves Martin Scorsese movies – especially right now 2021-03-13T05:00:00Z I originally worked on the project where we were going to make it into a period gangster picture, which is a tired genre. 29 movies in, Brian De Palma still won’t play by Hollywood’s rules 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z It’s just that you’re letting go of the life, and it’s almost like being a gangster or a retired ballplayer. Denis Leary on the Return of 'Rescue Me' 2010-06-29T17:51:00Z As the protagonists evolve from teenage gangsters and hit men into journalists and, eventually, refugees, the structures of their stories grow ever more coordinated and shapely. Books of The Times: ‘The Corpse Exhibition,’ Stories About a War-Torn Life 2014-01-28T22:29:14Z Photograph: Cathal MacIlwaine The biggest challenge for a show about gangsters is humanising the monsters who are its protagonists so that the viewer has a reason to invest time in their struggle. Have you been watching … The Fear? 2012-12-06T15:04:20Z Did being a gangster live up to expectations? Snoop who? 2013-04-06T08:00:00Z Initially the audience laughed heartily at jokes stemming from that star-worthy kitten, and various gags involving the actors as none-too-streetwise characters pretending to be gangsters. Key & Peele Film Gets a Sneak Peek at SXSW 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z The 76-year-old English stage and screen actor has credits spanning over 50 years and has played everything from a gangster’s girlfriend in “The Long Good Friday” to Queen Elizabeth II in “The Queen.” Helen Mirren to get actors’ guild Life Achievement Award 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z As some of you know, I used to write about TV and pop culture for the Star-Ledger, the stomping grounds for David Chase's gangster epic. The plot-crazy spectacle of "Boardwalk Empire" 2011-09-26T01:26:00Z All those Depression-era gangsters perceived by the public fighting against big banks and the corruption of government. Bonnie and Clyde's guns, personal items on the auction block 2012-07-15T00:06:04Z Bull Rated R for gory payback by a gangster who has thought of little else. ‘Bull’ Review: Vengeance Is His 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z Like an Old Testament heavy, lumbering and leering through a Martin Scorsese gangster flick, Carmichael doesn’t take double-crosses lightly. Comic angst, alive and well on Seattle stages 2013-01-31T23:00:10Z A versatile character actor capable of menace, quiet poignancy and Cockney charm, London-raised Hoskins appeared in some of the most acclaimed British films of the past few decades, including gangster classic "The Long Good Friday." British actor Bob Hoskins dies at 71 2014-04-30T13:07:10Z Fox promoted Brown as an expert on crime who has “had frequent contact with gangster types and concededly knows more about them than any other person in motion pictures.” In ‘Quick Millions,’ a Young Spencer Tracy Knocks ‘Em Dead 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z He wrote an Off-Broadway play about a cross-dressing gangster. Son of NYC mobster Mickey Spillane falls to death 2010-07-11T01:44:00Z Mr. Palminteri is currently performing in the cast as the gangster, Sonny. ‘A Bronx Tale’ Is Closing on Broadway 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z It’s remarkably far-sighted, and one of the things that differentiates mafias from mere gangsters. Paul Theroux on travelling 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z “The Irishman,” which reunites De Niro with Scorsese for another gangster drama, is backed by Netflix. Robert De Niro called out for lack of working with female directors — he’s not sure why 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z Quentin Tarantino, who directed her as a gangster’s wife in “Pulp Fiction” and wrote the “Kill Bill” movies for her, compared Ms. Thurman to golden-age luminaries like Greta Garbo and Bette Davis. Uma Thurman, Ready to Be Tested 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z Barber, a writer on crime and mental health, here profiles the former New Haven gangster William Juneboy Outlaw III, who reformed his life after his 85-year prison sentence was drastically reduced. New & Noteworthy, From Ghost Stories to Essays on Female Identity 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z Be aware that inked skin is associated with gangsters; tattooed visitors may be barred from spas and public baths. Why your next vacation should be in Japan 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z That picture has shifted over the seasons; sometimes he’s a cold gangster, sometimes a cruel patriarch, sometimes an old softy and world’s greatest grandpa, overwhelmed with awe for a natural world greater than himself. This Land Is His Land 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z “When the company brought in local gangsters from the Pancasila Youth, the workers dropped their demands immediately,” says Oppenheimer. Joshua Oppenheimer: why I returned to Indonesia’s killing fields 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z And Piet is a Swedish police infiltrator whose dealings with top-level Polish gangsters have put him in an exceedingly dangerous situation. Books of The Times: Stoking the Fire Larsson Ignited 2011-01-05T23:00:14Z Ross's first foray into comics, the gangsters and vampires series Turf, is currently in stores, though reports suggest sales have not been spectacular. Matthew Vaughn set to film Jonathan Ross comic 2011-02-17T11:03:10Z The new film about a costumed crime fighter with no real superpowers bills itself as a cheeky blend of teen humor and stylish violence, directed by a veteran of seedy British gangster films, Matthew Vaughn. Scrappy fighter "Kick-Ass" high on Hollywood radar 2010-04-14T14:38:00Z Role: Originally a renowned Los Angeles gangster, Diablo caught the eye of Waller after he incinerated an entire prison yard. Everything You Need to Know About the Suicide Squad Villains 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z But the depiction of a social order in which almost every participant is a gangster of some sort, and the mordant humor the movie finds in this, is Russian through and through. ‘Why Don’t You Just Die!’ Review: Attempted Murder, but Make It Comedy 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z A brazen ring of college students turned credit card thieves inadvertantly rob a notorious gangster and are forced to settle the debt. The Fall Movie Preview list of films 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z But the two men whose murderous activities form the basis of gangster drama Black Mass have dismissed the film as an inconsequential fantasy. Real-life gangsters pour scorn on Johnny Depp mob biopic Black Mass 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z As a rapper, Mr. Ross is known for cultivating a persona as a Miami street gangster. ArtsBeat: Shots Fired at Car Carrying Rick Ross 2013-01-28T16:24:54Z “If we do this right, it’s a contemporary gangster movie,” Mr. Lin recalled thinking when he persuaded Warner Brothers to acquire Mr. Lieberman’s series four years ago. Sean Penn in Ruben Fleischer’s ‘Gangster Squad’ 2013-01-04T14:56:24Z Again at the center is an ambivalent gangster, this time Ezekiel “E.Z.” Review: ‘Mayans M.C.’ Motors Down a Familiar Road 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z There's another psychopathic gangster hanging around along with a fanatically religious mother and all of them behave predictably. The Man Inside – review 2012-07-28T23:05:56Z Rules of the game, says Weeks: “You wanna spend time with gangsters and wise guys, this is what happens.” Home Movies: Who’s the Bigger Criminal, Whitey Bulger or the FBI? 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z The government was still astoundingly ineffective, unable to produce even a proper constitution, and gangsters supposedly ran the unions that organized the protesters who brought the city to a halt. Assessing a Quake-Shattered Nepal 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z “This one is a little bit of an old-time gangster hat with a little feeling of Marlene Dietrich,” said Ms. Mazar, trying on the first one. Debi Mazar’s Talent for Glamour 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z The usual way for the gangster hero to get ahead is to show greater guile, cunning or bloodlust than his rivals. Live by Night: how the gangster film went from top of the world to sleeping with the fishes 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z Working with the late rapper’s estate, which is overseen by his mother Afeni Shakur, the exhibit boasts an impressive breadth of never-before-seen artifacts exploring his creative process, thoughts and many ambitions beyond gangster rap. Tupac Shakur exhibit at Grammy Museum showcases his ambitions 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z There are other reasons why information is being gathered about us, whether by gangsters or by governments. Elvis Costello: ‘Believing you’re being watched is no longer fantasy’ 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z In the film, set in the 1930s, he plays a mobster, Johnny Caspar, at odds with another gangster played by Albert Finney. Jon Polito, character actor in ‘Homicide,’ Coen brothers films, dies at 65 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z At several points, the pilot contains self-conscious references to the all-American tradition of the gangster film. Review: ‘Queen of the South’ Oozes Violence and Excess 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z But Nucky’s hoped-for transition from murderous gangster to upstanding entrepreneur is “tricky,” the senator cautions, because “your hands aren’t the cleanest.” 'Boardwalk Empire' recap: Nucky wants out of gangster biz 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z But in many others, sometimes on the same albums, he portrayed the gangster life as a desperate, self-destructive existence of fear and sudden death. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Crooked House’ and ‘Who Killed Tupac?’ 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z When gangsters became a staple of Hollywood films in the ’30s, gangster guns became popular toys. Bang: The troubled legacy of toy guns 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z There’s “La La Land,” a musical set in the Golden Age of Hollywood, and possibly “Live By Night,” a Ben Affleck-directed gangster film that has yet to set a release date. The Oscars might not be #SoWhite in 2017: These buzz-worthy performances could be game-changers 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z Otto made certain his son Dodd could operate in the family business; we saw that in flashback last week, when the young whippersnapper jammed a blade into a gangster’s neck during a Ronald Reagan movie. ‘Fargo’ Season 2, Episode 5: The Butcher of Luverne 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z Photograph: HBO This is not after all the gangster milieu as fully formed myth. Empire state of mind 2011-01-20T07:57:00Z Season three begins with that most traditional of gangster storylines – Nucky is at the height of his power, but facing a new threat from Bobby Cannavale's charismatic and short-tempered Gyp Rosetti. Boardwalk Empire: a slow-burner with a fierce flame 2012-09-28T14:15:00Z “Lawrence Konner and I wanted to make a gangster movie. We didn’t want to make an origin story,” says Chase. Don’t Stop Believing: David Chase returns to ‘The Sopranos’ 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z The film, released last fall, went on to gross more than $160 million at the box office, while revitalizing interest in N.W.A’s brash, political gangster rap. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Embraces N.W.A, and Ice Cube Is Cool With It 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z As a gangster tells the salaryman in “Monday,” the important thing is to keep a scowl on your face. Critic?s Notebook: Fanfare and Ridicule for Japan?s Common Man 2011-01-26T00:21:19Z Acutely aware of class differences, ethnic stereotypes and discrimination, the gangsters are bitter but defiant about their outsider status. Movie Review: In ‘Easy Money: Hard to Kill,’ Wily Social Climber Is Back 2014-02-13T23:26:19Z But Scorsese’s movie isn’t just about real-life gangsters — it’s also about how we mythologize them. Ray Liotta in ‘Goodfellas’: How the Right Actor Turned the Right Part Into a Classic 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z He also interviewed dozens of other gangsters, policemen, politicians—and morro dwellers. Single-handed 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z "But everybody else just saw it as a violent gangster movie." Alistair Beaton and Anthony Neilson: double trouble 2010-07-27T20:31:00Z Rock'n'roll gangster movies like Layer Cake usually involve small-time criminals who get out of their depth when they cross big-time criminals. Joe Queenan's guide to crime cliches 2010-10-17T11:00:00Z They can't always be trusted, and it is a mischievous one who serves as the story's catalyst, leading Kelpie to the corpse of the right-hand man of one of the city's top gangsters. Gory 'Razorhurst' by Justine Larbalestier mixes noir and ghosts 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z A great gangster movie must edit out any moments of bestial violence. El Chapo, Hollywood and the lure of the mob movie 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z He was the wisecracking tummler in the rumpled suit, always on the lookout for a car crash or a dead gangster. A Portrait of Weegee That Captures the Man and the Myth in Full 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z The British crime thriller “Bull” is named after a small-time gangster seeking vengeance, but it could be short for “bullet.” ‘Bull’ Review: Vengeance Is His 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z “We have a real, immediate problem in that we have a gangster president who thinks he can do anything he wants.” Robert De Niro and Al Pacino: 'We’re not doing this ever again' 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z Peaky Blinders is after all about gangsters – incredibly violent ones. Cillian Murphy: ‘I think James Bond should be a woman, which rules me out’ 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Although Mr. Callander and Mr. Murray were both British, their most successful songs were American gangster narratives despite their limited knowledge of the subject. Peter Callander, Lyricist of ‘The Night Chicago Died,’ Dies at 74 2014-03-14T04:53:02Z And also love … Things are complicated by a bunch of faintly cartoonish gangsters, who strike the one false note in the novel – they seem to have wandered in from a trashy Guy Ritchie movie. The Hit by Melvin Burgess – review 2013-04-17T10:24:26Z Decades after the creation of hip-hop, the genre is still falsely placed into a box as the music of thugs and gangsters. Talib Kweli on hip-hop, Rudy "Ghouliani" and how Kanye West can make amends for supporting Trump 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z When he broke through as a performer in 2006, his street-wise image and rhymes about the Miami gangster lifestyle seemed like references to a shady past. Rap lyrics can be used as ‘smoking gun’ in criminal cases 2014-03-28T02:01:41Z In his latest film, The Big Ugly, he plays a London gangster at large in the US, intent on laundering dirty money through the green hills of Appalachia. Malcolm McDowell: 'I have no memory of doing most of my films' 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z It’s about a code-breaking Quaker poet who caught gangsters, hunted Nazis and helped win the world wars, only to be left out of the history books by men. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: A Shakespeare Scholar Turned Nazi Hunter 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z One particularly accommodating gangster lets delinquent customers pick which appendage they’d like broken. Review | With ‘Harlem Shuffle,’ Colson Whitehead proves once again that he’s a master of reinvention 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z All of it in the service of a thriller involving a hard-boiled cop, a femme fatale and an international crew of gangsters. ‘The Whistlers’ Review: From Bucharest With Ambivalence 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z If a gangster wears a wig, it must be a bad one. Gangster dramas: the cliches fly like a hail of bullets 2011-04-07T13:11:36Z As a producer he backed Howard Hawks’s landmark, censor-baiting, gangster classic Scarface, as well as that marvel of logistics and barminess, Hell’s Angels. Rules Don’t Apply: Howard Hughes is the enigma Hollywood still obsesses over 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z Dancehall moved reggae closer to the American gangster rap scene, led by artists like Snoop Dogg, one the biggest selling American rappers. Reggae making a revival in Jamaica, recalling golden era of '70s 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z Then “Live by Night” took a supporting character from those books — budding gangster Joe Coughlin — and placed him center stage as he amassed a fortune running rum from Cuba during Prohibition. Dennis Lehane’s ‘World Gone By’: The past is close behind 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z Two-time Oscar winner De Niro was nominated as a producer of “The Irishman,” which will compete for best picture, but not for his acting in the gangster epic. Oscar voters snub J.Lo, Eddie Murphy and De Niro; Banderas lands first nomination 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z Guys and Dolls Classic musical based on Damon Runyon’s tales of gangsters, gamblers and streetwise gals in old New York. The week ahead in L.A. theater, July 2-9: 'Heisenberg' and more 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z The connection was cemented by 1980 film The Long Good Friday, in which he played a ruthless London gangster with dreams of redeveloping the Docklands. Obituary: Bob Hoskins 2014-04-30T13:56:01Z Nick Cordero for his supporting gangster turn in "Bullets Over Broadway." Tony Awards 2014: A few rays of sunshine in a mostly cloudy Broadway season 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z Christopher Wilkinson and Stephen J Rivele's screenplay then transfers into strict fantasy territory as the former combatants team up to battle Chinatown gangsters. Birth of the Dragon: the Bruce Lee 'origins story' takes a flying leap forward 2013-02-20T14:11:20Z A poster for the classic film noir 1971 British gangster film Get Carter, starring Michael Caine, is expected to fetch a similar amount. Retired teacher’s rare film posters stand to make a fortune at auction 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z Well, at the outset a gangster named Darryl Christie is badly beaten outside his home. The tireless (and sometimes tiresome) hero of Ian Rankin’s ‘Rather be the Devil’ 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z Laura Neely catered the dinner, along with her staff of mostly middle-age women who called themselves “the old gangster catering crew.” The Writer Anne Lamott Gets to the Happily-Ever-After Part 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z He celebrates his neighbourhood but does not glamourise criminality, deconstructing the gangster mentality rather than glorifying it. Kendrick Lamar: rise of a good kid rapper 2012-12-08T00:01:00Z This gritty nine-episode BBC series, now available on Netflix, features British actor Martin Shaw as George Gently, a Scotland Yard detective who relocates to North England after his wife is murdered by a gangster. What our writers love this week 2011-06-29T23:23:05Z But nearly every lowbrow form, from gangster flicks to horror movies, eventually gets repackaged as prestige, and in recent years, some skilled pranksters have been making their move. In This Prank Show, the Joke’s on Misogynistic Men 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z Under your feet are tunnels used by gangsters to avoid detection. The city where Diego Maradona rose from the dead 2019-06-02T04:00:00Z So what else do we demand of our TV gangsters? Gangster dramas: the cliches fly like a hail of bullets 2011-04-07T13:11:36Z Perhaps that’s the reason the film mostly tanked in 1990, though premiering in the shadow of Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas, instantly understood as one of the great gangster dramas, probably didn’t help. Miller's Crossing at 30: the Coen brothers' unknowable gangster drama 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z He believes that Russian gangsters are about to kill him and his beloved family. 'Our Kind of Traitor': John le Carr?'s novel of the world's number-one money launderer 2010-10-13T23:08:00Z You know, it's thing where America loves the outlaw, the gangster. Q&A: Rapper and Documentary Filmmaker Ice Cube 2010-05-11T16:35:00Z In crime movies, there is usually one straight arrow whom the gangsters respect because he is not completely crooked like them. Joe Queenan's guide to crime cliches 2010-10-17T11:00:00Z N.W.A made “Straight Outta Compton,” but you did West Coast gangster rap first. Ice-T Hasn’t Totally Lost His Taste for Rage 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z But in the end—especially as Nucky has moved on from being “half a gangster”—it has become a straight-up gangster story, with familiar names and types. Taking It Personal: A Look Back at Boardwalk Empire Season Three 2012-12-05T15:27:34Z Where the world had seen an unprecedented emergency, Italy’s gangsters had perceived an unrivaled opportunity. Lessons from the case against the Calabrian mafia: Organized crime is global, and flourishing 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z That, though, was where the similarities between D and Elba ended: “I was never a gangster, I never wanted to be a gangster.” Idris Elba: ‘My ambition is boundless’ 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z Which brings us to Pinkie, one of the most unlikely, but unforgettable, gangsters in English literature, whose descent into corruption draws the reader into the narrative. Brighton Rock's themes are too big for the screen 2011-02-07T12:04:15Z “Those men are gangsters,” Nucky says, while he’s “an advocate for repeal” of Prohibition laws. 'Boardwalk Empire' recap: Chalky's on the run; Margaret's in trouble 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z But they didn’t have any kids and his career stalled, so thinking legacy, they suddenly went gangster and killed their nice, old friend, the king. Denzel Washington, Man on Fire 2021-12-04T05:00:00Z The gangster they called "Scarface," but never to his face, is profiled in "Al Capone: Icon." TV This Week July 20 - 26: 'The Hunger Games: Catching Fire' 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z I watch a lot of French gangster movies. Must-Read TV: The Bridge's Elwood Reid on Getting America to Watch Subtitles 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Why do you think we are fascinated by gangster's lives in general and Al Capone in particular? Kyle MacLachlan shares the secret to making David Lynch laugh 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z Best supporting actress went to Jennifer Lawrence for the 1970s-set "American Hustle," and James Franco won best supporting actor for his portrayal of a gangster drug dealer in the comic drama "Spring Breakers." 'Inside Llewyn Davis' is U.S. critics' choice for best film 2014-01-05T17:22:42Z There are few action scenes and fewer laughs in this tense, brooding Aussie thriller, which sidesteps the gangster cliches to study the volatile dynamic of a cornered criminal family. This week's new films 2011-02-26T00:07:42Z This shrugging off of arbitrary brutality strikes Shepard as truer to the way gangsters actually behave, and he draws analogies with the politics of the day, especially the George W. Bush administration’s invasion of Iraq. Review | Films that offer a surprising reflection of U.S. foreign policy 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z The movie also has Bill Murray as a sinister, milk-drinking gangster named Happy, who isn't happy. "Passion Play": Megan Fox and Mickey Rourke, together at last 2011-05-07T16:01:00Z The story line quickly expands to include all sorts of wild stuff: London gangsters, international terrorists, global financial shenanigans, and much more. Crime fiction from Sicily and Britain, and true tales of famous corpses 2013-03-07T20:45:06Z Chicago has long been associated with gangsters, but in the popular imagination mostly of the historical kind. Meet Chicago's Interrupters? 2011-08-06T22:48:57Z "The fun of it was, can you have a gangster film that quotes Gandhi every 20 minutes?" Seven Psychopaths: 'You can't kill dogs in Hollywood' 2012-12-01T00:01:00Z Mr. DeVito plays a character in one of those bars, and he took a moment to talk about working on a film made for the Internet and his attempt, generally, to avoid Italian-American gangster roles. ArtsBeat: A Girl, a Bar and Danny DeVito 2011-03-13T22:28:19Z He doesn’t have the vision of Coppola, and the visceral punch of Scorcese is beyond him – really, if the gangsters in his films wandered into Scorcese country, they’d get spanked and sent home. Quentin Tarantino's artful pulp: On alchemy, fantasy and "Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood" 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z The anomie that characterizes many 1970s films we love has always drifted in and out of Hollywood, in gangster films, melodramas, noirs. A Movie House Divided 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z What gives the scene punch isn’t that Mr. Weitz has the ostensible courage to show that gangsters delight in their children like everyone else; their humanity is a given, as is their visceral threat. | 'A Better Life': Drifting Apart, Struggling Together 2011-06-23T21:17:27Z Attenborough as Pinkie Brown, the vicious young Catholic gangster, according to the New Statesman, "deserves to have won fame in a single night, for his study in abnormal psychology is thoughtful, delicate and powerful." Richard Attenborough obituary 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z He brings a similar intensity, as well as far more poise, to the character of Tommy Shelby, a gangster trying to find his bearings and sanity in post-World War I England. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Peaky Blinders’ and ‘Great News’ 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z She cites the gang storyline as potentially problematic because it promotes the theory “that all Asian men are gangsters and villains.” A new ‘Kung Fu’ debuts at a crucial time for Asian Americans 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z We're talking TV gangsters here, but obviously there's a debt to the many beloved gangster movies. Gangster dramas: the cliches fly like a hail of bullets 2011-04-07T13:11:36Z His character is a sort of linchpin who keeps both officers and gangsters in line but who also has a home life that includes a son with disciplinary problems at school. For ‘Public Morals,’ Edward Burns Exhumes the ’60s From Manhattan Streets 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z Possibilities Black Mass After debuting to good word of mouth in Venice, Scott Cooper’s gangster epic Black Mass played in Telluride. Academy awards 2016 race comes into focus at Telluride 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z But Francis said, ‘I want to look at the Mafia not as thugs and gangsters but like royalty in Rome.’ Abe Vigoda, Actor of ‘Godfather’ Fame, Dies at 94 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z WATERBURY, Conn. — A reopened police investigation in Connecticut has concluded that actor Dylan McDermott's mother was killed by her gangster boyfriend in 1967. Conn. cops: Dylan McDermott's mom murdered in '67 2012-06-25T12:07:10Z Skewing a little heavier is Steven Soderbergh's "The Limey," which stars the legendary Terence Stamp as a dangerous British gangster who, just released from prison, travels to Los Angeles to track down his missing daughter. Scarecrow suggests | Like 'The American'? Try 'The Mexican' and other similar films 2010-09-02T19:56:00Z You felt psychologically close to being a gangster? From Gangsters to Governor Cuomo: Michael Imperioli on Playing the Tough Guys 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z “I’m a poet, I’m an opera singer, I’m an author … none of it is gangster.” Paul Sorvino: A Voluble Man Who Excelled as a Brick of a Mobster 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z As Vale sings, gangsters discuss the fate of Jimmy Hoffa, the Teamsters leader who in real life disappeared in 1975. Who Is Jerry Vale and Why Does Martin Scorsese Love Him So? 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z I was dating somebody who was like a thug gangster, and this was a person who you would think all he listened to is rap. Sherri Shepherd Skates Through Life 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z As you note, that song includes allusions to “Huckleberry Finn” and a Japanese gangster novel. Bob Dylan 101: A Harvard Professor Has the Coolest Class on Campus 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z They did great stuff with historical drama in Rome, with the western in Deadwood, the gangster thing in The Sopranos. George RR Martin: Barbarians at the gate 2011-04-13T20:30:00Z I walked into some tricked-up rental location alone and saw him posing for a picture with two stylish young women, who were leaning on his shoulders, making funny faces and gangster hand signs. “This Is Pleasure” 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z This was nothing like the fishnet-stockings version that George Balanchine created for the original musical, which ballet troupes still perform, with showgirls and gangsters. The colorful restraint of the Mark Morris Dance Group 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z “All my life I’m this cream puff, and next thing I know everyone sees me as some kind of gangster,” he told The New York Times for a 2017 article. Michael K. Williams Brought His Whole Life to His Characters 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z I mean, he’s giving us the Mafioso story, the narrative crafted about the gangster — but it was the remorse, the regret, the grief, the horror, the suffering. Jay-Z is ‘Robert Frost with a Brooklyn accent,’ a Georgetown professor writes in his new book 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z He's not as gangster as Miles and he deals with— Daveed Diggs: “[Thomas] Jefferson would not f**k with Trump, period” 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z With friends warning him that "yakuza" gangsters might be involved, Woodford fled Japan and spent months in England looking over his shoulder. Olympus whistleblower eyes movie deal with le Carré sons 2012-11-26T09:57:51Z It certainly did not help theaters that Martin Scorsese’s gangster epic “The Irishman” arrived on Netflix on Wednesday. Did ‘The Irishman’ Take a Bite Out of the Thanksgiving Box Office? 2019-12-01T05:00:00Z There are those who don't buy Buscemi's portrayal: who complain that he lacks the charisma of a James Gandolfini; that he doesn't seem believable in the gangster role. Boardwalk Empire: a slow-burner with a fierce flame 2012-09-28T14:15:00Z Among her friends was one of the country’s most notorious gangsters. Actress Rose Marie of ‘Dick Van Dyke Show’ fame dies at 94 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z Unlike in other cities, where mob bosses fought for territory, Las Vegas was deemed an open playground for gangsters of all nationalities. Las Vegas embraces mob roots with new attractions 2011-03-30T09:46:06Z But at that point he’s hijacked by these gangsters played by this bonkers rap group called Die Antwoord. Dev Patel: 'I Want to Be Very Selective in the Story I Go to India to Tell' 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z The rapper, actor, gangster and stoner extraordinaire has reinvented himself as a reggae-singing messenger of hope. Snoop who? 2013-04-06T08:00:00Z A sweeping tale of gangsters, illegal booze and corrupt cops that unfolds from the streets of 1926 Boston to the grand avenues and squalid back alleys of Cuba. 8 great paperbacks to tote this summer 2013-05-10T20:24:08Z If a gangster goes for a gentleman look and carries a suitcase, it must contain either bank notes or weapons. Gangster dramas: the cliches fly like a hail of bullets 2011-04-07T13:11:36Z I’m dying to do a big sci-fi epic, a western, a gangster movie, it goes on and on. Paul Feig Keeps Filmgoers Guessing 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z So you still get inundated with gangster projects? ArtsBeat: Steve Schirripa on the Real-Life Button Men in His New Series 2011-03-08T20:30:20Z One thing is certain, gangsters, Jedi, assassins and cyborgs don’t meet without an extensive arsenal. See a Mash Up of Movie Nightclub Scenes in 'Hell's Club' 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z Who doesn’t want to watch rum runners and gangsters on HBO? | 'Boardwalk Empire': The Jersey Devil Is in the Details 2010-09-16T19:59:00Z Police often used the existing law as a pretext to investigate problems such as boisterous clubbers, illegal drugs or suspected gangster involvement, so changing the rules may not end police intrusions into clubland. Japan's party animals closer to dancing the night away 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z The director says his approach to the program’s gore was partially inspired by the 1970s series Kolchak: The Night Stalker, which once aired an episode with a rotting corpse attacking gangsters. No Guts, No Glory: The Rise of Gross-Out TV 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z For my money, none match the incendiary power of “Dry Ground Burning,” a feminist gangster movie from Brazil that spits oil in the face of that country’s political establishment. ‘Dry Ground Burning’ Review: Feminist Gangsters, Brazilian Style 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z Q: There was rioting recently in poor sections of Kingston ruled by real Jamaican gangster kingpins. A Q&A with Jimmy Cliff, reggae royalty 2010-07-14T03:17:00Z And finally, this weekend’s midnight movie at the Egyptian is “Reservoir Dogs,” the 1992 gangster drama from current Oscar nominee Quentin Tarantino. Science fiction film festival at EMP Museum 2013-01-17T22:18:56Z The much-admired director of existential gangster pictures, Jean-Pierre Melville, makes an appearance as himself, the first of such cameos in a Godard picture. 50 years of Breathless 2010-06-05T23:04:00Z The gangsters are so upset that Chill's crime had created the Batman they decide to gun Chill down. It's time to cancel Batman — for good 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z The Krays were cool only by proxy, but they became celebrities of a kind, and their look filtered into the gangster film iconography, inspiring the likes of Guy Ritchie. Review: ‘Legend,’ Starring Tom Hardy as the Gangster Twins Ronnie and Reggie Kray 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z Even the great Mr. Gambon can’t find much traction as Mike, an English gangster who is a stock mob boss in yachting clothes: Al Capone with a touch of Rupert Murdoch. | 'Luck': ?Luck,? Starring Dustin Hoffman on HBO 2012-01-27T12:00:00Z A strong contender for laziest mob movie ever made, the Boston-set Italian mafia tale "By the Gun" proves that what was once thrillingly exotic and coolly dangerous about gangster films is now hopelessly monotonous. Mob movie 'By the Gun' misses its mark 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z “The first ‘Snabba Cash’ films portrayed gangsters from the Balkans who are trained to shoot,” he said. ‘Snabba Cash’ Depicts a Sweden Flowing with Money and Blood 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z The final track, "Bristol to London", is a collaboration with his 24-year-old half-brother Marlon Thaws, a reflection on gangster life that is more raw than Tricky often allows. Tricky: 'I can still be really dark in my mind' 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z Ahmad Fadil was a high school dropout, a video store clerk and a petty gangster who got tattoos, drank alcohol and sold drugs as a youth in Zarqa, his hometown in northeast Jordan. 'Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS' offers brilliant biography of Abu Musab Zarqawi 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z We are made to feel comfortable but jolted every so often to remind us exactly where we are and who we are with – perhaps like being invited to a friendly gangster's house for dinner. The Wire re-up: season five, episode seven ? The Wire v The Sopranos 2010-03-29T23:15:00Z “The label is the thing the gangster clientele use to let the other gangsters in the street know, ‘You ain’t got what I got.’ The Fashion Outlaw Dapper Dan 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z “We somewhat got a hood pass, we talked to some O.G.’s,” Mr. Davis said, referring to original gangsters. Critic?s Notebook: Prez N the Hood: A Hip-Hop Parody Stirs Up Issues 2010-10-25T22:56:00Z True Crime: Hong Kong This is Activision’s big attempt to bust in on Rockstar’s epic Grand Theft Auto series of gangster adventures. The Best Games of E3: From New Halo to Epic Mickey Mouse 2010-06-21T21:54:00Z For many people, finding out a loving gift has been desecrated by a gangster's bullet, for crying out loud, would be a deal breaker. In breaking up with Kim Wexler, "Better Call Saul" maps a noble end to a stellar portrait of a lady 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z To be a gangster, after all, is to own the world. Tribeca 2015: Jon Stewart to preside over 'Goodfellas' reunion 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z As an FBI agent who liked the limelight when it came to arresting gangsters, DiCaprio's Hoover gets to point pistols and act tough. "J. Edgar" turns tables on FBI keeper of secrets 2011-11-08T21:12:18Z And that nobody could wear gangster pinstripes with an ascot quite the way he did. Books Of the Times: In ‘Hothouse,’ Boris Kachka Tells the Farrar, Straus Story 2013-08-08T20:34:15Z Partly based on the real-life gangster Donnie Andrews, who was lionized as Baltimore’s own Robin Hood, Omar apotheosized Williams’s career but also plagued Williams in the years after the show ended. Michael K. Williams Brought His Whole Life to His Characters 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z In his second year, for example, he appeared in “Golden Boy” not as Joe but as Fuseli, an older gangster figure who corrupts him. Seth Numrich of ‘Golden Boy’ Polishes His Boxing Moves 2013-01-14T22:11:05Z They hit, head on, the Italian American community’s hatred of the show, glorifying gangsters at the expense of all the hard-working Italian Americans. Review | ‘The Sopranos’ at 20: How did the show change TV — and us? 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z In the ’30s, mothers’ movements tossed toy guns onto bonfires to protest the notion of making toys like the weapons gangsters used against police. Bang: The troubled legacy of toy guns 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z It deals with three friends called the Tender Trio, original gangsters who pull small-time jobs as City of God is just starting to be built up. Why was edgy Fernando Meirelles chosen to direct Rio's opening ceremony? A revealing film review 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z The gangsters and thugs who inhabit the building won’t go down without a fight, or several of them. ArtsBeat: Behind the Action of 'The Raid: Redemption' 2012-03-22T16:43:20Z Gibson is busy protecting his wayward daughter from gangsters she’s been associating with; there is, as one expects from a Gibson project, a good deal of bloodletting. William H Macy: 'It was 104 degrees and I had on thermals, shirt, hoodie, jacket and muffler' 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z That isn’t his fault, but rather that of filmmakers who decided to cast a well-known Irish actor as a Russian gangster in an ostensibly true saga. | 'The Way Back': Pushing the Limits of Endurance 2011-01-20T23:13:53Z He’s just directed his first feature film, Yardie, an adaptation of a notorious novel about Jamaican gangsters in London. Idris Elba: ‘My ambition is boundless’ 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z The rote gangster comedy “The Public Menace,” part of the present set, finds Arthur with thickly rouged lips and painted-on eyebrows — a makeup job that looks more like disguise than enhancement. DVD: New on DVD: ?Jean Arthur: Comedy Collection? 2011-11-12T22:03:03Z It is equally at home in gangster flicks and film noir, road movies and political thrillers. Will Hollywood ever end its love affair with guns? 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z Winter told Deadline the scene’s power lay not in leaving Tony’s fate ambiguous but in serving as a microcosm of Tony’s entire predicament as a gangster. David Chase always planned to end "The Sopranos" with Tony’s death, then changed his mind 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z In that era, it was a lot of big-cast gangster movies like New Jack City and Menace II Society. Don Cheadle: 'Acting can be such a grind' 2011-08-11T21:00:00Z It’s true I’ve been offered these gangster roles ever since the beginning of my career. Robert Loggia obituary 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z Now these people would say, “You didn’t portray Italians as they are. All Italians are not gangsters.” David Chase on ‘The Sopranos,’ Trump and, Yes, That Ending 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z And “Wùlu” tells a gangster tale against the backdrop of Mali’s military coup. What’s on TV Monday: Sports Documentaries and ‘Wùlu’ 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z "Don't laugh!" is also very good advice, especially when delivered by Jack Nicholson's fearsome gangster after you've just scuppered his plans. Clip joint: getting the giggles 2013-07-17T16:38:50Z This east London tale of a petty crim who turns to Islam had moments of greatness but could have done with fewer gangster cliches, thought Xan. Cannes 2014: all the films we reviewed – which do you most want to see? 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z “Shot in lurid, gilded tones; pulsing with pop decadence, the film is less an anatomy of authoritarian politics than a gangster movie,” Mr. Scott wrote in The Times in July. DVD: New on DVD, George Cukor?s ?My Fair Lady? 2011-11-20T02:03:04Z Its violence is sporadic, and two of its most interesting characters — Hardy's, and a charismatic gangster played by Gary Oldman — disappear from the story for long periods of time. 'Lawless': Depression-era saga shot down by unlikable characters 2012-08-28T00:02:04Z “No gangster ever exploded atop an oil refinery,” he said. Sean Penn in Ruben Fleischer’s ‘Gangster Squad’ 2013-01-04T14:56:24Z Several characters are historically based, such as gangsters Arnold Rothstein, "Lucky" Luciano and a stubby young Al Capone, with whom Jimmy forms a business partnership. HBO's 'Boardwalk Empire' leads list of promising new shows 2010-09-15T23:31:00Z The film's opening hour is an evenly-paced gangster thriller that toys with the character as cultural export. The Wolverine – first look review of Marvel's blockbuster 2013-07-18T10:46:00Z People are fascinated by gangsters because they do things outside of most people's range of experience and accepted behavior. Kyle MacLachlan shares the secret to making David Lynch laugh 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z Elsewhere, Vinnie and the gangsters begin their fateful collaboration by establishing a payroll scheme that gives them all a piece of the construction business. ‘The Deuce’ Season 1, Episode 2: Rinse and Repeat 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z He went from street thug to top gangster to respected businessman to revered civic pillar, which I believe is unmatched in the history of American criminal justice. An Unusual Gangster: Doug J. Swanson Talks About Benny Binion 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z Q. What was your approach to making a gangster film? ‘Black Mass’ (With Movie Trailer): Scott Cooper Narrates a Scene 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z Judging from all the historical detail and history surrounding "Boardwalk Empire," it was clear you always wanted the series to be more than just the story about the rise and fall of a gangster. A fitting ending to 'Boardwalk Empire' 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z Fox debates whether he should do that, sell his house to pay the gangster or risk serious punishment being inflicted on his sister. The tireless (and sometimes tiresome) hero of Ian Rankin’s ‘Rather be the Devil’ 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z Before gangster rap became the ubiquitous soundtrack of Los Angeles, Egyptian Lover’s sensual electro-rap was one of the defining sounds of the city. Pop Music Gifts, All Bundled Up 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z When we first meet them, they have temporarily abandoned the gangster Mishazzo in order to investigate a shooting in which the victim thinks the perpetrator is a vintage car. Hawthorn & Child by Keith Ridgway – review 2012-07-11T07:00:03Z Fetishizing the tired tokens of the American gangster movie, “The Connection” is a slickly styled, overlong pastiche. Review: ‘The Connection,’ a Crime Thriller Retold From a Gallic Perspective 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z It’s another story of ultimate outsiders turned ultimate insiders, which makes it as blissfully American as apple pie, low riders and gangster rap itself. Review: In ‘Straight Outta Compton,’ Upstarts Who Became the Establishment 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z “We are in a moment in our lives, in this country, where this guy is like a gangster,” De Niro said. Robert De Niro drops f-bomb on critics of anti-Trump stance – live on CNN 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z Inspired by Mr. Allen’s 1994 film about a 1920s playwright and the gangsters and molls who become involved with his new show, “Bullets” opened in April to mixed reviews and struggled to generate ticket sales. "Bullets Over Broadway," the Musical, to Close Aug. 24 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z Whitehead left to become a gangster in liberated Paris. Deserter: The Untold Story of WWII by Charles Glass – review 2013-03-28T11:00:01Z The result, Warrior, is a ferociously paced mix of period drama and martial arts moves – like the gangster hit Peaky Blinders transported to 1870s San Francisco and given an extra jolt of adrenaline. Bruce Lee's daughter on resurrecting his lost TV epic: 'We righted the wrong' 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z You had your private eyes, your Marlboro Men, your commandos and your gangsters. Cultural Studies: Food Is the Latest Arena for Macho Contests 2012-09-15T00:37:02Z As a primarily Roma group in Birmingham, the Peakys are a departure from the usual pop culture gangsters. ‘Peaky Blinders’: The Disparate Ingredients of a Cult Hit 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z “I think white people are very stereotyping towards me because I’m brown, because they think I’m a rudeboy or a gangster. White people are very quick to judge black and brown people.” 'They think I'm a gangster': the young black men caught in joblessness 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z He played tough guys, gangsters and cops, hundreds of times, managing to show the fraternity of both groups, the humanity of each. Peter Falk: From Lt. Columbo to Wings of Desire and Princess Bride 2011-06-25T05:45:00Z He also allows gangsters to use his furnace as a convenient way to discard of inconvenient corpses. Aleksei Balabanov obituary 2013-05-19T17:18:05Z Some of his close friends were "gangsters," he said. Smokey Robinson visits Duke Ellington students 2012-03-03T02:46:03Z As law enforcement opened its investigation into the murder, Mr. Williams’s profile as a whimsical, genre-shifting musician — with attention-grabbing fashion sense that includes, in defiance of macho gangster stereotypes, wearing dresses — only grew. Violent Gang, or Rap Label? Prosecutors Say Young Thug’s YSL Is Both. 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z On Tuesday nights, CBS will add "Vegas," where Chiklis plays a Chicago gangster who moves to Las Vegas in the 1960s to create mischief, and Quaid is the detective who tries to keep the peace. CBS moving 'Men,' 'Mentalist' for new season 2012-05-16T14:20:09Z In the first Wick movie, the assassin resumes his bloody ways after gangsters kill his puppy — a gift from his dead wife — and steal his car. ‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ Review: There Will Be Blood, Yeah 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z But perhaps the greatest power of neoliberalism and gangster capitalism is the control they assert over people’s emotional lives. "Joker": A harsh indictment of neoliberalism and gangster capitalism 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z By the second act, this almost joyless post-punk gangster show is a brutal grind. Updated ‘Oliver!’ goes a bridge too far 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z He can do anything, play anybody: a dimwit New York bartender, a Russian copper, a cruel, atavistic London gangster. Jude Law is one but Tom Hardy isn't: what makes a movie star? 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z Other widely-anticipated shows include the Blonds, who in recent seasons have electrified runways with dazzlingly produced shows themed on topics like Disney villains or gangster fashion. New York Fashion Week kicks off in shadow of Oscars 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z Martin Scorsese’s latest gangster movie, “The Irishman,” is now in theaters and will soon be available through your internet browser. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘The Apollo’ and Scorsese Crime Films 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Killers, skinheads, gangsters, princes – whatever the gig, he tries to nail it for them. Tim Roth: ‘If you neglect the working class for so long they will rebel against you’ 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z When I first went to New York in the early 80s, I met drug dealers and gangsters whose fathers were drug dealers or gangsters. iLL Manors – reviews 2012-05-26T23:03:05Z The students were abducted and presumably killed by drug gangsters in collusion with police officers. My Mexico City Is Everyone’s Now 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z On release, Tony resumed his criminal career and became an accomplished gangster. How do I tell our sons about their father’s criminal past? 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z After all, he plays a rapper/gangster named Alien in the film. James Franco in Spring Breakers: Not Your Traditional Oscar Nominee 2013-10-17T19:37:29Z We’re all fascinated by the figure of the female gangster, but Longrigg shows that there are many more dimensions to women’s roles within Italy’s criminal organisations. Paul Theroux on travelling 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z Without him, it’s in danger of just becoming a show about how a gangster fights his enemies and stays in business. The Morning After: Rise or Fall of Boardwalk Empire? 2012-09-18T13:08:39Z A strong sense of self helped Pridmore turn from gangster to preacher; the absence of self, by contrast, is what Knight found while living in the woods. Weekend Reading: The Makings of Three People 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z You have this “Godfather”-y thing going on, except non-corrupt, not counting your gangster wife. How Dick Cheney and Marvin Gaye Inspired 'A Most Violent Year' 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z The cousins’ simple scheme, justified as an example of “textbook globalization,” soon draws the attention of local gangsters. When the Town’s Future Is an Obsolete Factory 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z “That took me into this world of Hollywood, Vegas, gangsters, sex and murder.” Michael R. Jackson on the Soap Opera Origins of ‘White Girl in Danger’ 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z The gangster offers to write off the debt if Fox will hand over police secrets. The tireless (and sometimes tiresome) hero of Ian Rankin’s ‘Rather be the Devil’ 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z Mizell says lots of gangster rappers in Seattle are actually not gangsters at all, but sons of rich parents who act hard because they think it's cool. Friday Favorites, authenticity edition: The Head and the Heart, Avatar, Salem 2010-09-24T19:06:00Z But when six characters in gangster suits rushed toward Mr. Shepard, he started punching. How Sam Shepard Hit Downtown New York and Reinvented Himself 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z Lyrics from a previous album, “Love and Theft,” were similar to passages from the gangster novel “Confessions of a Yakuza,” by Junichi Saga. ArtsBeat Blog: Questions Raised About Dylan Show at Gagosian 2011-09-27T00:20:58Z Two films in one, it begins as a British gangster movie with hallmarks that would go on to define the genre. 'Performance? I still don't fully understand it' – behind the scenes photos from the cult classic 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z In reality, it usually turns out to be gangsters. Art heists: more Tony Soprano than George Clooney 2013-03-20T16:09:56Z The other features a gangster’s captive lover swimming nude in his pool, one of the few pleasures left to him in an abusive, controlling relationship. How Cinemax's "Jett" does nudity — and plenty of it — right 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z They sounded sharp revisiting the menacing wobble of Quik’s early hits, defining gangster rap tracks like “Born and Raised in Compton” and “Quik Is the Name.” Music Review: Los Angeles Rap, New and Vintage, Straight Out of Brooklyn 2011-06-12T22:15:28Z A car pulls up with two machine-gun toting gangsters, who open fire, shattering the windows. 'Boardwalk Empire' Recap: Surprise, Surprise 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z I know you probably see all the goofy memes and fake gangster jokes. An open letter to NBA star Ja Morant about your latest gun controversy: Soar, Ja, soar 2023-05-19T04:00:00Z Hillcoat was attracted to the film, in which Western meets gangster movie, partly because he believed it reflected contemporary concerns. Tough times for small U.S. films despite bumper Cannes 2012-05-19T11:40:00Z In the book and the film he talks about hard it was to lead an ordinary life after years steeped in gangster glamour. Former 'Goodfellas' mobster Henry Hill dies in L.A. 2012-06-13T18:42:15Z Las Vegas has long been enamored with its gangster roots. New Vegas museum highlights mob bosses, tommy guns 2012-02-14T12:31:12Z It’s hard to muster schadenfreude for a movie star who wished he’d played fewer gangsters. In 'Cagney' the musical, Hollywood's tough guy tap dances 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z Instead, he is overflowing those fetid waters with financial payoffs for his Wall Street and other gangster capitalists at the expense of the American people. The butcher’s bill keeps coming due: Donald Trump’s Hannibal Lecter budget cannibalizes his own supporters 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z In places like Atlanta, it is a crucial selling point for the unflinching style of hip-hop known as trap music, which builds on earlier iterations of gangster rap and centers on the drug trade. Violent Gang, or Rap Label? Prosecutors Say Young Thug’s YSL Is Both. 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z Just as Jimmy Darmody once called Nucky “half a gangster,” he also had a foot each in the show’s docudrama half and its people’s history half. REVIEW: Boardwalk vs. Empire: Can HBO's Gangster Chronicle Bring Its Two Sides Together? 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z Their ad hoc campaign, conducted mostly online, has managed to shift the focus from Dr. Dre’s accomplishments to his less pristine past in the often lawless early years of gangster rap. Dr. Dre Apologizes to the ‘Women I’ve Hurt’ 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z He became known as the Cook because he would prepare meals for mob associates with whom he spent time at a Hartford garage that was a gangster hangout. Reputed Mobster May Be Last Link to Gardner Museum Art Heist 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z This gentlemanly charm is at odds with the gangster posturing of much of Rocky's music. A$AP Rocky: 'We're grungy but we live like rock stars' 2012-06-01T23:04:00Z Ultimately Leela loses a tooth in a beating, and she and a friend leave to work in Dubai at the urging of a gangster. Books of The Times: ?Beautiful Thing? by Sonia Faleiro 2012-02-29T22:52:22Z The Runaway ... hair-raising stuff Photograph: Sky Most of the indispensable cliches of gangster exist for a reason – shows that ignore them do so at their peril. Gangster dramas: the cliches fly like a hail of bullets 2011-04-07T13:11:36Z The idea is to get him a job as a technical adviser on “The Manchurian Candidate” and see whether he can observe gangsters up close, ideally in Sinatra’s company. Jake Tapper’s Hero Is Embedded With the Rat Pack, Hoping to Catch a Rat 2021-05-08T04:00:00Z One of the poor schlubs waiting on the gangsters laughs along with them, but Capone stops laughing and confronts him. 'Boardwalk Empire' Recap: Paying the Price 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z His next part is a small but important one in Martin Scorsese’s gangster requiem, “The Irishman.” For comedian Sebastian Maniscalco, being bothered is serious business 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z Mr. Riley, now 31, is a little too old to play a teenage gangster, and it throws the movie off somewhat. | 'Brighton Rock': ?Brighton Rock,? Film of Graham Greene Novel - Review 2011-08-25T23:02:20Z Similarly, for decades gangster films – including the Godfather movies – portrayed unions as handmaids to the mob. Can unions save the creative class? 2013-03-18T16:25:00Z Such will probably be the case this summer, anyway, as the gangster movie, after a period of dormancy that followed the 2007 finale of “The Sopranos,” returns with a vengeance. The Original Gangster Style Guy 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z Social mobility is the eternal promise of storytelling, underpinning everything from fairytales to gangster movies to sports dramas. It's a rap: hip-hop and Hollywood 2012-07-19T19:00:00Z Like a gangster or poker player who doesn’t want anyone to read his next move, his eyes were constantly shaded by a dark Yankees baseball cap. Concert review: Watch the Throne at the United Center 2011-12-01T07:35:00Z What organised crime demands from a gangster film is that it show the gangster life in a way they recognise, but with an epic quality that, in reality, the criminal world mostly lacks. El Chapo, Hollywood and the lure of the mob movie 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z He spent a couple of teenage weekends in an East End pub, serving jellied eels to gangsters and learning to double-salt the crisps so that punters drank more. Gavin Rossdale: ‘If you divorce America's sweetheart, you're in trouble’ 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z When he broke through as a performer in 2006, his streetwise image and rhymes about the Miami gangster lifestyle seemed like references to a shady past. Using Rap Lyrics as Damning Evidence Stirs Legal Debate 2014-03-26T23:01:35Z But the whole point of Nucky is that he started life as a businessman – that he believes, erroneously, he can be "half a gangster". Boardwalk Empire: a slow-burner with a fierce flame 2012-09-28T14:15:00Z He was trying to look like a gangster, but I was a real gangster in Chicago. Quincy Jones, master of firsts, arrives to open a museum 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z So, yes, the plot involves suitcases full of rupees, coveted and chased by the usual assortment of bumblers, gangsters and civilians. ‘Total Dhamaal’ Review: A Bollywood Caper Stoops to Amuse 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z Mr. Ando was identifiable by a prominent scar on his left cheek, the result of a razor slashing by a Korean gangster. Noboru Ando, 89, Mobster and Film Star in Japan, Dies 2015-12-26T05:00:00Z Italian and Irish gangsters rule competing halves of the town. Review | A corrupt, cynical world as only David Mamet could imagine it 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z While he has paved the way for the resurgence of Compton as a creative hotbed, with rappers like YG and Vince Staples making nouveau gangster rap, he is heavy with the burdens of yesterday. Kendrick Lamar, Emboldened, but Burdened, by Success 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z Religious extremism is sometimes hinted at, but most bad guys are generic gangsters or drug smugglers. Defying the Taliban, one (bad) movie at a time 2010-06-19T16:02:00Z The same is true in drama: they are looking to recognise human behaviour, whether it's a Shakespearean king, a Scorsese gangster or someone in the Prince Albert. Jason Isaacs: this much I know 2013-05-11T17:59:01Z Oppenheimer watches quietly from the sidelines, giving the gangsters all the rope they need. Joshua Oppenheimer: 'Even a mass killer you can love as a human being' 2013-06-20T14:57:23Z “Did you know your dad was a gangster? Your dad was a drug addict.” How do I tell our sons about their father’s criminal past? 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z The German painter Blinky Palermo got his art training from Joseph Beuys and his pseudonym from an American gangster — a pair of tough guys, in other words. Art Review: Following a Painter?s Options Beyond the Canvas 2011-08-04T22:00:30Z The balaclavas and Kalashnikovs and the culture of gangsters are connected to bottomless corruption. The Bard of Eastern Ukraine, Where Things Are Falling Apart 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z His adoptive parents were a yakuza gangster and a geisha. Motherlode Blog: In Japan, Seeking a Father-in-Law’s Permission to Adopt 2013-07-09T13:28:44Z Without doubt a big-time gangster, or possibly a business man on his way home. TV review: Gordon Ramsay ? Shark Bait; Wild at Heart; Zen 2011-01-17T08:00:02Z The film offers an unorthodox — and sometimes downright bizarre — window into the mass killings of suspected communists, Chinese and leftists committed by the army, paramilitary units and gangsters. Film Gives Indonesia View of Bloody, Obscured Past 2013-10-04T13:50:53Z "I'm basically a gangster at heart," she said, laughing. Jorja Leap sheds light on Watts' black fathers in 'Project Fatherhood' 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z "Before we made films about gangsters, everything was about the royal families," says Mikkelsen. Mads Mikkelsen: the blockbuster villain with leading-man ambitions 2012-06-05T18:31:01Z Jay-Z, the reformed gangster turned music-industry mogul, has long been a model of ruthless efficiency at turning his linguistic genius into dollars. Jay-Z and Kanye West ? review 2012-05-20T16:24:58Z Overall ticket sales couldn't compete with a year-ago period that saw the debuts of the Johnny Depp gangster film "Black Mass" and a sequel to "Maze Runner." Box Office: 'Blair Witch,' 'Bridget Jones's Baby' fall flat as 'Sully' soars 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z The narrator is country simple, with a voice that is full of truth and humour, but this isn't just smalltown America: he faces seriously violent big-time gangsters as well as small-time criminals. Your books of the year 2012-12-28T22:55:18Z The artist known for gangster rap is releasing a reggae album called "Reincarnated" in the fall. Snoop Dogg becomes Snoop Lion, readies reggae CD 2012-07-31T16:10:08Z Martin Scorsese will turn back the clock on his career when he reunites with Robert De Niro for a gangster movie about mob hitman Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran. Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro gang up for new mafia film 2010-12-17T17:05:33Z Chandor: Yeah, the sort of gag of the movie is essentially it’s structured like a classical gangster movie, and so the beginning of the movie she’s the femme fatale gangster’s wife. Five top film directors on tipsy chats, mysterious packages and more 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z Many of our grandfathers thought all gangster movies were the same, often calling them “despicable”. Francis Ford Coppola: Scorsese was being kind – Marvel movies are despicable 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z Its men are like gangsters, wearing low-brimmed hats and double-breasted jackets, who try to fight but not hardly because of any particular woman. Dance Review: ‘Forever Tango’ Incudes ‘Dancing With the Stars’ Alumni 2013-07-15T02:00:01Z Thematically, the nine films in the series range from romantic comedy to gangster fare, and together they form a kind of travelogue, as each film was shot in a different part of Taiwan. New Taiwan Academy in Westwood features films from the island 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z From Oxford he returned to south Wales to teach, where he became known as "Killer" Thomas in the classroom for his habit of dressing like a B-movie gangster. Writer's centenary is celebrated 2013-07-06T10:35:47Z Claire’s transformation from mousy victim to gun-toting gangster overnight may strain credulity, but it is rewarding to see her fend off a harasser on the street. Haddish, McCarthy and Moss take charge in "The Kitchen," which gleams through the grit 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z One of the best uses for a bit of King County's $1.4 million would be to buy a copy of Kennedy's book for every politician, street cop and gangster in the county. 'Don't Shoot': Saving young lives in a long gang war 2011-09-28T23:47:03Z Not long after his release in September 1964, he was approached by a producer at Shochiku, a major film studio, and asked to star in a film based on his life as a gangster. Noboru Ando, 89, Mobster and Film Star in Japan, Dies 2015-12-26T05:00:00Z He's a gangster with a moral compass, a center often in turmoil about the violence he witnessed and participated in during the war, and about the violence he participates in now. "Peaky Blinders" and Tommy Shelby's perceived crime of sobriety 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z Robinson, who became a star portraying gangsters, is as hard a hard guy as he’s ever been; the vessel he commands is less a pirate ship than a floating concentration camp. ‘The Sea Wolf’ and ‘Titanic’: Fascism on the High Seas 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z To begin with, Lamb wouldn't speak to Pileggi about this history, but the writer has learned persistence from dealing with gangsters, and eventually the sheriff was persuaded to be involved. Nicholas Pileggi: the mob, Nora Epron's death and Vegas 2013-02-03T07:02:31Z This atmospheric gangster classic, from 1931, is based on a story by Dashiell Hammett; it offers a terse visual translation of his prose as well as of his cold-blooded view of Prohibition-era underworld wiles. Movies 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z Mr. Hazanavicius also throws in masked Mexican wrestlers, a running joke about the inability of Chinese gangsters to speak proper French and a denouement that conflates “Vertigo,” “To Catch a Thief” and “North by Northwest.” | 'OSS 117: Lost in Rio': French Spy Spoof Set in Swinging ?67 Rio 2010-05-07T04:04:00Z I can find hundreds of drug, murder, gangster and deadbeat shows on Netflix. ‘Vinyl’ Season 1 Finale: As Confused as Ever 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z "I want to make it clear that my son was no gangster or nothing like that," he told The Associated Press. Maple Valley woman was victim in Las Vegas cab crash that followed shootout 2013-02-23T18:17:57Z Week 1177, election song parodies: To “The Joker”: Some people call me a base clownboy, Some call me the gangster of gall. Style Invitational Week 1210: Bill Us Now — our ‘joint legislation’ contest 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z “They were farmers or children or farmers, bumpkins most of them,” Mr. Penn wrote of the 1930s gangsters who inspired the story. Arthur Penn, Director of ?Bonnie and Clyde,? Is Dead 2010-09-29T14:59:00Z Statham brought an affable roguishness to rollicking gangster movies, a quality he has never entirely lost; he was the glue that held the whole thing together. Jude Law is one but Tom Hardy isn't: what makes a movie star? 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z “We are in a moment in our lives, in this country, where this guy is like a gangster,” he said. Robert De Niro v Trump: a complete history of a (mainly one-sided) beef 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z “Early Roman Kings,” a Chicago-style blues shuffle with thrusts of slide guitar, hurled brutal gangster boasts.” Review: Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones, Electric, Not Just Nostalgic, at Desert Trip 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z It was not as a gangster but as a seedy detective that Mr. Loggia received his only Academy Award nomination, as supporting actor in “Jagged Edge.” Robert Loggia, actor known for his tough-guy roles, dies at 85 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z ‘I jumped at the opportunity’ … Jimmy Cliff as Jamaican gangster Ivanhoe Martin in The Harder They Come. Jimmy Cliff and Carl Bradshaw on The Harder They Come 2012-08-20T17:20:20Z And I think black oxford is pretty gangster.” 2010-01-25T22:28:00Z With his boxer’s nose and stern mien, the beefy man looked more gangster than barkeep. Journeys: Chasing Anchovies on Turkey’s Black Sea Coast 2012-12-14T15:56:50Z She stars opposite Denzel Washington, who plays McCall, a quiet man with a secret past and a desire to avenge the abuse done to the girl by Russian gangsters. A Minute With: Chloe Grace Moretz on digging into a dark role 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z Other people they ran into were not gangsters. David Chase on ‘The Sopranos,’ Trump and, Yes, That Ending 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z It’s a world away from the gangster stuff, and it’s kind of a risk for him. Dogg to Lion: A Q&A with Reincarnated Director Andy Capper – South By Southwest (SXSW) 2013-03-13T09:45:14Z Eamon II gradually wanders into the gangster hinterlands and, after he shoots a man beating up his friend, is taken up by the local Mr Big. Three in a Bed and The Runaway 2011-04-01T07:00:01Z “This is the country we’re living in,” Umaña says to her onetime lover, whose son was killed by gangsters, even as she encourages him to join her unit. ‘Infiltrados’ Has Its U.S. Premiere on Monday 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese recently collaborated for a ninth time on the Netflix gangster movie “The Irishman,” but don’t expect their 10th collaboration to be De Niro’s long-desired “Taxi Driver” sequel. Robert De Niro’s long-wanted “Taxi Driver” sequel remains dead, even after “The Irishman” 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z Ken Jeong, a doctor-turned-actor, was on the critically acclaimed “Community” and played the gangster Leslie Chow in “The Hangover” movies before starring in his own ABC comedy series, “Dr. Ken,” now in its second season. What Ken Jeong Can’t Travel Without 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z A crew of Albanian gangsters, on hand for local color, conveniently drop out of the action just when you’re thinking, “They could wrap this all up in another 20 minutes.” ‘Justified: City Primeval’ Review: Raylan Redux 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z Panjabi crime comedy, partly set in Canada, with bhangra star Jazzy B as a gangster boss. Frances Ha, The Wolverine, Blackfish: this week's new films 2013-07-27T05:00:00Z It tells the story of Calogero, a boy taken under the wing of a gangster named Sonny. The ‘Bronx Tale’ Strategy: Win Suburban Love, Not Broadway Prestige 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z In recognizing the primacy of the gangster within himself, he is forced to recognize his essential human failings. Adventures from Dennis Lehane and Lene Kaaberbol 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z “When I was younger, I’d seen these Chicago gangster movies, and they always put their victims’ feet in the concrete,” Mr. van Warmerdam said. In ‘Borgman,’ a Surreal Touch of Evil 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z This is not a pseudo-epic of redemption or revenge, with boxers and gangsters and their churchgoing moms and wives. Review: ‘Manchester by the Sea’ and the Tides of Grief 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z It’s hard to picture gangsters running wild here, even if you’ve seen “The Departed,” aspects of which were suggested by Mr. Bulger’s career. ‘Whitey,’ a Documentary About the Gangster Whitey Bulger 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z Though who could blame them for wanting to expose pension officials who hound poor retirees for kickbacks, gangsters who bully business owners and traffic officers who threaten to ticket drivers who don’t pay bribes? 'Ungli,' Written and Directed by Rensil D'Silva 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z But its ghost was raised a few blocks north on Monday night, when “Kill the Irishman,” a film based on Danny Greene, a Cleveland gangster, had a New York screening and after-party. Scene City: Got a Pinkie Ring? You?re All Set for This Party 2011-03-10T00:33:51Z When you first see the title character of “Dom Hemingway,” a violent British comedy about a gangster who talks the hard-boiled talk with verve and gutter lyricism, he’s speaking and staring into the camera. Movie Review: In ‘Dom Hemingway,’ Gangsters Meet Up in France 2014-04-01T22:56:10Z It was his casting in The Sopranos, redefining the very concept of the screen gangster, that near-instantly elevated him to the A-List. James Gandolfini: his film career in clips 2013-06-20T10:16:00Z |
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