Frank Lucas & The True Story of American Gangster, distributed by MVD Entertainment, which arrives on streaming service Tubi ...

The biographical crime film is based on the life of the Irish-American gangster Danny Greene and tells the true story of ...

‘American Gangster’: Film Review. A gangster movie focused on character rather than action, it's smooth and smart enough to attract a significant audience beyond the considerable fan base of ...

Baseball season has ended, but the analogies linger on. Take the one about swinging for the fences -- when all you should worry about is making contact. That's precisely what happens in "American ...

The movie is a loose adaptation of the true story of Frank Lucas, a gangster who operated in the 1970s and smuggled heroin into the U.S. in American service planes returning from Vietnam.

Let's recap and remind ourselves what the film was about, shall we? The movie is directed by Ridley Scott, and is inspired by the criminal career of drug lord Frank Lucas (Denzel Washington), a ...

“American Gangster” wants to be a great epic crime saga so badly you can feel it. The true story at its core — of the rise, fall and redemption of a ’70s-era Harlem drug lord — is so ...

What is the most quintessentially American genre of film? Some might argue for the Western, but there also is a case to be made for the gangster film, says Tiel Lundy, associate teaching professor ...

The film was released in 2007, and went onto land two Oscar nominations for Best Art Direction and Best Supporting Actress for Ruby Dee. Who composed the soundtrack for American Gangster ?

Between 1931 and 1932, three blockbuster films captivated audiences and laid down the foundation of the modern gangster movie: Little Caesar (1931), The Public Enemy (1931), and Scarface (1932 ...