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 ...

For as much heat as they take, there’s often nothing quite like watching a great gangster movie. Gangsters are among the most compelling characters in America in part because they seem to be so ...

The ruling cliché in writing about crime bosses — “the gangster as tragic hero” — was coined in 1948 by Robert Warshow, an extremely intelligent cultural critic, whose premature passing in 1955 robbed ...

Denzel Washington is getting some major Oscar buzz thanks to his performance in Gladiator 2, but long before the legacy sequel, he teamed up with Ridley Scott for a crime thriller with a star from the ...

"Those characters I played in 'Training Day,' in 'American Gangster' — it might look like they were close to me, and I could tell you they were, but I wasn’t no gangster," said Washington in a recent ...

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 ...

Newly launched streaming platform BET Plus is debuting its first new original unscripted series, “American Gangster: Trap Queens,” an inside look at the lives of some of the country’s most notorious ...

Owner Lorcan Otway describes the Museum of the American Gangster as a “scholarly institution,” and indeed, his museum is void of the kitsch fanfare that could plausibly be associated with the topic of ...