Perhaps no other film captures our imagination of organized crime as perfectly as Francis Ford Coppola 's 1972 masterpiece, ...

Gangster movies usually have clever screenplays, but a few, like The Godfather and Pulp Fiction, have quotes that can only be ...

Despite being responsible for some of the finest movies in history in several genres, Howard Hawks never liked one of his earlier efforts. Read more here.

Those are the movies that follow, those with a lot stuffed in one package and, because they’re so fun or engrossing or entertaining, they’re easy to watch more than once. You may even like them more ...

We guess when you move Frankenstein to the world of 1930s Chicago, a gritty retelling full of guns and gangsters is precisely what you’ll get. Even monsters are a product of their time. The synopsis ...

Huh. Well, I have to say, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Frankenstein retelling, The Bride, definitely has the most shoot-outs of any Frankenstein movie I’ve ever seen. It almost feels more like a gritty, ...

Chicago is known as “the city that works” — but for decades, the factor that determined who worked and where was patronage, or clout. If you had it, you were set. And if you didn’t, you needed to get ...

First it was referred to as a “mysterious illness.” Later it was called “gay cancer,” “gay plague” and “GRID,” an acronym for gay-related immune deficiency. Most egregiously, some called it “4H ...

Talk about a scary-good box office streak. “The Conjuring: Last Rites,” which scored a franchise-best launch of $83 million domestically and $187 million globally over the weekend, has extended an ...

Oscar Isaac plays Nick Tosches — and Dante — in a heist-movie-meets-philosophical-rumination that overreaches almost on purpose. Oscar Isaac, with louche long hair and a snaky hostility, plays Nick ...

Venice: The painter/filmmaker's 700-year-spanning shrine to the Italian poet gives us two Oscar Isaacs — one in present-day, the other in 14th-century Florence and Renaissance Faire garb — and a ...