Stories By George Anastasia, Glen Macnow
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Kill the Irishman, #57
July 29, 2023Greene’s story is told in the excellent 2011 biopic, Kill the Irishman, which covers his rise...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Drunken Angel, #56
July 25, 2023This one, we know, is a tough sell. Drunken Angel is a 60-plus-year-old, black-and-white, subtitled Japanese...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Animal Kingdom, #55
July 22, 2023We place Jacki Weaver, as Grandma Smurf, on the Mount Rushmore of female movie gangsters, along...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Killing, #54
July 19, 2023There are two great reasons to see The Killing, Stanley Kubrick’s 1956 caper film about a...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Snatch, #53
July 16, 2023This is the second of Guy Ritchie’s madcap mob capers. And Brad Pitt’s performance as Mickey...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: High Sierra, #52
July 12, 2023Before High Sierra, Hollywood’s gangsters were not just black-and-white on celluloid; they were equally definitive in...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Mesrine: Killer Instinct, Mesrine: Public Enemy #1 — #51
July 10, 2023Jacques Mesrine was one of the most notorious criminals in France during the 1960s and 1970s....
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Midnight Run, #50
July 7, 2023This is The Odd Couple on the run from the mob. And it works primarily—if not...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Big Heat, #49
July 3, 2023Bannion is a tough-talking homicide detective investigating the suicide of another cop. He questions the dead...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Get Carter, #48
June 29, 2023After launching his career with star turns in Alfie, The Ipcress File and Funeral in Berlin,...