From shoe-leather reporter to Mob movie screenwriter, Nick Pileggi remembers it well

Author and screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi is enjoying a couple of major career milestones this year. Two groundbreaking Mob movies he…


Review: ‘The Irishman’ great film despite historical questions

Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman is a great organized crime movie. It’s right up there with the director’s other great organized…


Acting legend enhances lengthy Mob movie resume with ‘The Irishman’

Screen legend Robert De Niro, with a long list of classic Mob movies to his credit, has a lead role…


Scorsese movie, Merlino trial highlight Philadelphia’s Mob past

The City of Brotherly Love is generating Mob-related headlines again. The city’s Mob history has popped up in stories about…


Mob classic “Goodfellas” debuted in theaters twenty-five years ago

Monday marks a quarter-century since Goodfellas was released in American theaters. It was the highest-grossing movie of the September 21-23,…