Stories By George Anastasia, Glen Macnow
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Charley Varrick, #78
October 1, 2023Few filmgoers noticed Charley Varrick when it came out in 1973. After all, The Godfather, that...
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Movies
100 Greatest Gangster Films: King of New York, #77
September 26, 2023Christopher Walken plays—as only Walken can—Frank White, a drug dealer whose release from prison sets the...
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Movies
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Al Capone, #76
September 21, 2023Rod Steiger offers one of the best portrayals of the legendary “Scarface” in this straightforward account...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Godfather: Part III, #75
September 19, 2023The problem with Godfather III is that . . . it’s not Godfather I or Godfather...
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Movies & TV
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Roaring Twenties, #74
September 15, 2023Warner Brothers owned the franchise for gangster films in the 1930s. The studio capped the decade...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Analyze This, #73
September 12, 2023The film succeeds because of strong performances by its two stars. Veteran comic actor Billy Crystal...
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Movies
100 Greatest Gangster Films: American Me, #72
September 10, 2023But the gang becomes even more powerful behind bars, controlling the drug trade out on the...
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Movies
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Killers, #71
September 8, 2023Ernest Hemingway hated Hollywood. Or, more to the point, the great American author hated Hollywood’s treatment...
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Movies
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Valachi Papers, #70
September 5, 2023While the acting is choppy and sometimes overly dramatic in The Valachi Papers, the story stays...
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Movies
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Let Him Have It, #69
September 1, 2023As the days tick down, you’ll start to sweat. As the hanging occurs—graphically and efficiently—you may...