The legacy of heroin kingpin Frank Lucas, whose story was dramatized in the 2007 narrative feature American Gangster, is the focus of a forthcoming documentary film. The film features interviews with ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. During a chat with Graham Bensinger, Josh Brolin recounted a scene where his character from the movie, Detective Trupo, and ...

One of Denzel Washington's films, which many feel is his biggest Oscar nomination snub, just got a major streaming update. American Gangster, the 2007 crime thriller which Washington stars in ...

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 ...

Frank Lucas, the former Harlem drug kingpin whose life and lore inspired the 2007 movie "American Gangster," has died, a relative said Friday. Lucas, who was 88, died Thursday in New Jersey, nephew ...

On this day in 2007, Jay-Z released American Gangster, his tenth studio album and one of the most ambitious projects of his career. Inspired by the Ridley Scott film of the same name starring Denzel ...

Gangster movies are among the most acclaimed and popular films of all time, with plenty of contemporary directors delivering modern classics in the 21st century. Although many will point to ...

In Ridley Scott’s American Gangster, Denzel Washington plays the title character, North Carolina-born Frank Lucas, a Harlem drug kingpin who, back during the Vietnam War, became both ghoulishly ...