Demystifying the traditional Western through raw, unglamorous violence, The Wild Bunch exploded onto the screen in 1969 and altered the face of the genre, and filmmaking, forever. Sam Peckinpah set as...

In 1961, the Justice Department and U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy were investigating Sam Giancana, a Chicago mobster who, besides mafia allegations, shared a mistress with President John F. ...

James Cagney reinvented his longstanding gangster persona in White Heat, the 1949 film in which he plays Cody Jarrett, a wanted criminal whose unlawful activities are reflected by the character’s extr...

In Heat, all the meticulous authenticity and coolly portrayed characters inherent to a Michael Mann picture fulfill a crime epic of incredible scale and ambition. Over the course of twenty years, Mann...

After negotiating his conditional surrender with American military command, Colonel Hans Landa of Hitler’s SS rides in the passenger’s seat of a German truck headed for the Allied border and regards t...

Uncle Charlie has come home, much to the delight of Charlotte, otherwise known as Young Charlie, nicknamed after her uncle. She idolizes him and expects his presence will break up the monotonous routi...

To set the stage, in the last months of 1941, the world’s political climate was unfathomably grim. Hitler’s forces invaded Moscow in October of that year, and the battle continued until the following ...

Welcome to Lumberton, USA, a sleepy community with crisp blue skies overhead and emerald green lawns underfoot. In this idyllic American neighborhood of white picket fences lined by dew dropped red ro...

A sprawling period piece of immaculate design and elusive temper, Barry Lyndon might contain the narrative elements and setting of a grand historical drama or epic romance, but Stanley Kubrick’s film ...