Cinema history is crime-ridden. In 1901, a French short called Histoire d’un crime told the story of a burglar who commits murder and is sent to the guillotine. In 1903, the American short The Great ...

Directed by Brian De Palma, The Untouchables starred Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, and Robert De Niro; the movie is delivering ...

James Cagney may be more strongly associated with the gangster movie than any other actor, having made several of the genre’s best films. The star was more than a film hoodlum, of course, getting his ...

PARIS — Few film types are as iconic in French cinema as the gangster. Throughout the genre’s heyday from the early ’50s through the late ’70s, Belmondo, Montand and Delon seemed to live with a gun in ...

John Hitchcock graduated from the University of Toronto with a degree in film studies and previously wrote on his own blog. He also specializes in nature and virtual photography and does art in Source ...

Thomas Butt is a senior writer. An avid film connoisseur, Thomas actively logs his film consumption on Letterboxd and vows to connect with many more cinephiles through the platform. He is immensely ...

Over 12 years of operation and 65 short films to its name, Whatsabudget Films has covered a lot of ground: action, noir, drama, sci-fi, comedy, documentary, horror (seriously, a ton of horror) and now ...

New releases coming to Netflix and Amazon Prime include a World War II drama and a 1950s mob movie with Ryan Gosling.