Denzel Washington plays a 1970's drug lord named Frank Lucas in American Gangster. Lucas takes pride in many things, but most of all in the quality of his merchandise, Southeast Asian heroin as pure, ...

Ridley Scott’s American Gangster features crime lord Denzel Washington and cop Russell Crowe facing off, and it’s officially ...

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 ...

Few genres embody the definition of a “cult classic” quite like the mob mentality fandom of gangster films. After all, nothing builds a bond between viewer and protagonist quite like bearing witness ...

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 ...

The most intense gangster movies ever made include absolute classics like The Godfather Part II, Reservoir Dogs, and Once ...

A documentary narrated by Legs McNeil examines Frank Lucas' influence on drug trade and NYC culture, featuring insights from journalists, writers, and hip-hop figures who witnessed his impact on power ...

American thrillers that aren't nearly as well-remembered as they deserve to be include The Stunt Man, The Narrow Margin, and ...

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 ...