Director Ridley Scott knows many things about having a critically acclaimed film, and he managed to do so in different genres. Many of them reunited him with frequent collaborator Russell Crowe. Such ...

Denzel Washington starred in American Gangster at 53 years old. He played the leading drug lord, Frank Lucas, and did so with the highest combination of charm and danger. Oh, and not forgetting, a ...

Gangster Life Depicted on FilmCrime has come to the movies in a big way. Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe star in American Gangster, a film about the career of Harlem drug lord Frank Lucas. And the ...

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

In 2007, two iconic actors teamed up with a legendary director to make a crime classic that became a box office hit — and almost 20 years later, it's still drawing viewers in as it climbs the Netflix ...

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

André Joseph is a movie features writer at Collider. Born and raised in New York City, he graduated from Emerson College with a Bachelor's Degree in Film. He freelances as an independent filmmaker, ...

Newly launched streaming platform BET Plus is debuting its first new original unscripted series, “American Gangster: Trap Queens,” an inside look at the lives of some of the country’s most notorious ...

American Gangster is streaming for free with ads on YouTube and Tubi. Lucas begins his criminal career as the driver for Harlem mob boss Bumpy Johnson. In a monologue he gives to his younger brothers ...

American Gangster is a movie with obvious gravitas and a familiar argument: Organized crime is outsider capitalism. As archetypal as its title, Ridley Scott’s would-be epic aspires to enshrine Harlem ...