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 ...
For a variety of cultural, financial and governmental reasons, Canadian filmmakers produce films that tend to be conventional — even bland. There are two great exceptions to this. The obvious one is ...
Throughout the storied career of Martin Scorsese, he has undergone various phases as a visionary and storyteller. Like most filmmakers, he started out trying to find his own voice and made very ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Last week, Netflix dropped all eight episodes of The Gentlemen, a TV spin-off of Guy Ritchie’s 2019 film of the same name. Its mix of jet-black humor and brutal violence is par for the course for ...
Which of the following gangster movies have you seen? Which sound like something you’d give a shot? Let’s find out. Running Scared isn’t a gangster film in the traditional sense, but it does work its ...
A masterpiece of a gangster flick hailed a cult classic for mafia film fans will be aired on BBC Two this weekend. Starring ...