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…
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Is the new Martin Scorsese movie based on a true story?
Editor’s note: The Irishman, a Martin Scorsese movie, was released today in a limited number of theaters across North America…
Mob TV shows, movies put New York on center stage
When it comes to Mob movies and television shows, New York is in the spotlight again. Two television series focused…
Mob fixer Johnny Rosselli is back in the spotlight
“Strategist.” That word on Johnny Rosselli’s business card summed up his role as a Mob fixer whose colorful adult life,…
New Mob movies focus on women
Women are taking center stage in several Mob movie projects now in the news. Hitting movie theaters this summer is…
Las Vegas Mob stories attract Hollywood interest
Of the many Mob movies and television shows now in the works, several are focused on underworld figures who had…
Frank Lucas, the drug kingpin who inspired ‘American Gangster, is dead
Frank Lucas, the brash New York drug kingpin whose life was depicted in the popular movie American Gangster, died Thursday,…
Several Mob movies in the making
“Everyone loves gangster movies.” This sentence, written by former FBI agent Joseph Pistone, leads off the forward to The Ultimate…
White Boy Rick: From Teenage FBI Informant to Poster Boy for Criminal Justice Reform
Richard “White Boy Rick” Wershe is a living, breathing casualty of America’s war on drugs, locked away for the past…
Fifty years ago this spring, Mario Puzo changed the way we view organized crime
Mario Puzo needed money. His first two novels, The Dark Arena (1955) and The Fortunate Pilgrim (1965), received good reviews…