This classic gangster movie is still one of the greatest ever made, and it actually subtly inspired The Sopranos.
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In between Goodfellas and The Godfather Part III, Miller's Crossing arrived, and flopped. But the Coen Brothers' gangster ...
Martin Scorsese's crime thriller 'The Departed' paid homage to the classic Howard Hawks gangster movie 'Scarface' with several motifs.
When discussing the best films of every year of the 1940s, classics like Citizen Kane, Casablanca, and Shadow of a Doubt will ...
At their center, noirs deal with the blurred line between heroes and villains, showing how fast a good person can slip into the dark depths. No movie illustrates that tension better than The Big Heat, ...
The phrase film noir was first coined in 1946 by a group of French critics to describe the emerging movement of mainly black and white Hollywood films with dark, pessimistic themes and signature ...
Marcel Carné’s ‘Le Quai des Brumes' (1938), which has received a 4K restoration from Studiocanal, is a classic of French ...
The movie is inspired by real events. Josh Brolin plays the fearless cop who puts together a secret squad to topple Cohen's criminal empire. Brolin's cop character doesn't hesitate, and that makes him ...