Tag: Gangsters

Miller’s Crossing [Criterion Collection Blu-ray] Review

Criterion starts up a rumpus by bringing the Coen Brothers gangster classic to blu-ray in a nice new 2K restoration with some spiffy new extras in tow. Let’s try not to give ’em the high hat as take a walk in some dangerous woods. Prohibition is is full force and Leo O’Bannon (Albert Finney) is…


Kansas City Blu-ray review

There is nothing like watching a contemporary film that takes place during the 1930s, kind of like a remembrance of the golden age in both reel and real life. Kansas City is an American crime drama helmed by iconic director Robert Altman. The film explores themes of crime, racism, love, romance and politics during the…


Asylum (I Want To Be a Gangster) (Synapse) DVD Review

Much like Henry Hill before him, all young Jack (Julien Courbey) ever wanted to be was a gangster, just like the ones he used to admire in the movies. But the work he’s getting as a low-level street thug while running a back room Russian roulette game with his partner (Abel Jafri) on the side…