The upcoming movie, “American Gangster,” is a gripping real-life ... We had floors in a building with thousands of changes of clothes for the actors. We had locked locations and had all ...

American Gangster covers very little new ground in the gangster genre but it does all the old good bits well and is given to us by a superb director in a slow-building and easy to follow way.

But the building beckoned ... the ground floor apartment of 80 St. Mark’s Place into The Museum of the American Gangster, turning its two rooms into something that straddles the line between ...

Read more about these tours and get tickets below: Tour of the Woolworth Building Lobby and Cocktail ... The tour guide from the Museum of American Gangster will also give us a walkthrough of ...

Gangsters are among the most compelling characters in America in part because they seem to be so distinctly American. If you’re looking for a great gangster epic and you’ve already checked out ...

“American Gangster’s” naked desire to be a return ... the catchy chorus (“the Roc boys in the building tonight!”) are too perfect. In contrast, “Pray” felt even more plodding and ...

The gangster’s success in the face of widespread hardship resonated with the American public, planting the seeds for a culture that would glorify organized crime for decades to come. At its core ...

Denzel Washington plays a renowned drug lord in Ridley Scott’s American Gangster. The biographical crime film is loosely based on the criminal activity of Frank Lucas, who smuggled heroin into ...

With American Gangster, Scott harkens back to the more measured style of filmmaking evidenced in his defining sci-fi document. The director’s world-building skills, never in doubt, are on full ...