Watching "American Gangster" in tandem with "Mr. Untouchable" underlines that the Hollywood film is less based on actual fact than on movie fiction. What "American Gangster" is doing is recreating ...

These two fine actors are two of the most well-known in the world. Not only are they recognizable but they have both brought some of the greatest Oscar winning performances ever to the big screen. In ...

In Ridley Scott’s American Gangster, Denzel Washington plays the title character, North Carolina-born Frank Lucas, a Harlem drug kingpin who, back during the Vietnam War, became both ghoulishly ...

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 ...

Universal’s Denzel Washington-Russell Crowe starrer “American Gangster” whacked the weekend box office, easily turning in the highest-opening for an R-rated crime drama in history. With DreamWorks ...

If you read my last recommended list, Top 4 Recommended Westerns to Watch Before Seeing 3:10 to Yuma, then hopefully you took my advice and brushed up your knowledge of the western genre. With the ...

Notorious American gangster John Dillinger rose to power during the Great Depression. Reportedly, he was the leader of the infamous Dillinger Gang that was accused of committing several bank robberies ...

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 ...

"Don't compare me to other rappers. I'm more Frank Lucas than Ludacris." JAY-Z needed something. He'd just made a major comeback to music following his 2003 "retirement." He'd closed out his 1996-2003 ...

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 ...

“This is black superhero music,” Jay-Z proclaims in his excellent new “Roc Boys.” That means live horns, grooving on some kind of Afro-beat riff over Seventies rumble-in-the-jungle funk, while Jay-Z ...