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Rose Marie, best known as comedy writer Sally Rogers on The Dick Van Dyke Show, spent nearly her entire life in show business. The daughter of an Italian-American suit cutter, she was taken to local vaudeville shows as an infant, imitating the songs for her neighbors. At the age of three, she was performing regularly under the name Baby Rose Marie; by five, she’d already signed a seven-year deal with NBC Radio Network and became a child star.

Her father helped establish labor unions by “bombing a lot of the places until they joined,” Rose Marie told the Academy Foundation in 2013. “We became very friendly with a lot of ‘the boys,’ and I was always the kid,” she explained, cupping her hand around her mouth when saying “the boys” to indicate the euphemism.

How did Rose Marie get to know “the boys”? “When I played the Palace Theater in Chicago,...

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Some movies fade with time. Others grow more powerful. And then there’s Brian De Palma’s 1987 classic The Untouchables — a crime drama that still feels bold, beautiful, and unshakably powerful nearly four decades later.

Why We’re Talking About The Untouchables (1987)

Even decades after its release, The Untouchables refuses to disappear from pop culture. It resurfaces through 4K restorations, anniversary screenings, and directors who continue to cite it as a major influence.

For many, this is a first‑time discovery. For longtime fans, it’s a film worth revisiting. If you’ve never seen The Untouchables (1987) — or it’s been years — now is the perfect time to experience why it remains one of the greatest crime dramas ever made.

The Power of Brian De Palma & His Cast

Released in 1987, The Untouchables was directed by Brian De Palma, who delivered one of the most visually striking gangster films in cinema history.

British actor Tom Hardy isn't afraid of tackling some seriously strange and challenging roles, and his breakout role in Nicolas Winding Refn's 2008 crime film "Bronson" is a perfect example. In it, Hardy portrays a fictionalized version of real-life career criminal Michael Peterson, who changed his name to Charles Bronson in 1987, and he goes fully wild. We see him dressed as half-man, half-woman (divided vertically) and also get to watch as he strips nude and slathers himself in butter before fighting a whole team of prison guards. Yet somehow, "Bronson" isn't Hardy's wildest role. That distinction goes to another semi-historical crime movie that's very loosely based on a true story: Josh Trank's 2020 thriller "Capone." 

"Capone" didn't do particularly well with critics or audiences (despite /Film's Chris Evangelista rightly praising Hardy's performance and the film's absolutely gonzo gothic horror take on gangster history), but it's a truly unique project that...

Stars: Michael B. Jordan, Hailee Steinfeld, Miles Caton, Jack O’Connell, Wunmi Mosaku, Jayme Lawson, Omar Miller, Li Jun Li, Delroy Lindo | Written and Directed by Ryan Coogler

The latest film from writer-director Ryan Coogler, Sinners is a thrillingly original vampire movie that plays like From Dusk Til Dawn in the Deep South. As sinful and sexual as its title suggests, it’s a richly detailed, emotionally engaging period drama that’s packed with terrific performances and has a soundtrack to die for…and then the vampires show up and things get properly crazy.

After a brief teaser of a prologue, the film opens in 1932, with the Smokestack twins, Smoke and Stack returning to their home town of Clarksdale, Mississippi after time spent first in the trenches of WWI and then in Chicago, where they apparently ran with Al Capone. Their intention is to open a juke joint, so after buying...

One of the greatest gangster movies ever made is back in the spotlight, and it’s now streaming on Max. The 1931 classic The Public Enemy, which stars James Cagney, has a perfect score on Rotten Tomatoes and helped define the gangster genre as we know it.

Today, we’re used to stories about smooth-talking criminals who are both terrifying and somehow likable. But in the early 1930s, that was a new thing. Back then, real-life gangsters were all over the headlines, and Hollywood saw a chance to bring those kinds of characters to the screen. Actors like James Cagney, Edward G. Robinson, and Humphrey Bogart made their names playing street-tough criminals during that time.

Later on, gangster movies lost their popularity, but that changed in a big way in the 1970s when The Godfather came out. After that, we saw more classics like Scarface and Goodfellas, and even legendary TV shows like The Sopranos.

Barry Levinson’s The Alto Knights (2025) is a sprawling crime drama that resurrects the gritty legacy of classic mafia storytelling. Set in the volatile mid-century underworld, the film centers around the bitter fallout between Frank Costello (played by Robert De Niro) and Vito Genovese—once childhood friends, now mortal enemies. Co-starring Debra Messing, Cosmo Jarvis, and Kathrine Narducci, the film is a slow-burning epic filled with betrayal, ego, and shifting loyalties. With Levinson’s assured direction and Nicholas Pileggi’s screenplay (based on real-life events), the movie captures the cost of power and the tragic beauty of brotherhood turned sour.

If you’re drawn to movies like The Alto Knights—stories that dive deep into the psychology of gangsters, the structure of organized crime, and the humanity behind the violence—here are six gripping films that belong in your watchlist.

1. The Irishman (2019)

The Irishman is perhaps the closest spiritual companion to The Alto Knights.

Writer-director Ryan Coogler’s Sinners – an R-rated, original horror-action-period-piece in a field of films based on time-tested brands – is the year’s second highest-grossing movie in the U.S., just behind one of those kid-friendly IP goldmines. The first must-see film of the summer is finally coming to digital services on June 3. Sinners has reportedly made Coogler one of the fifty highest-grossing directors ever, following his turns helming Marvel’s Black Panther franchise, the Creed trilogy from the Rocky cinematic universe, and his first feature film, Fruitvale Station, a portrait...

Tommy Shelby Standing Alone Outside British Parliament(Photo Credit –Facebook)

Tommy Shelby didn’t ride off into the sunset at the end of Peaky Blinders Season 4. He walked into Parliament.

The final scene flipped everything we thought we knew about the Peaky Blinders. It wasn’t a pub brawl or a gangland shootout that closed the season, it was a political curveball. Thomas Shelby

MP wasn’t just a twist; it was the beginning of something far more dangerous than bullets and vendettas.

Season 4 had already been a ride. The Shelbys faced off against Luca Changretta and his New York vendetta. The boxing ring moment? Misleading. Arthur’s “death”? A bait-and-switch. The real punch came later — when Tommy outfoxed Luca using a secret deal with Al Capone’s crew. Classic Shelby deception. But it wasn’t the double-cross that truly shifted the tide. It was what Tommy did after the dust settled.

“Sinners” is coming home.

Ryan Coogler’s period vampire thriller “Sinners,” which has amassed more than $300 million worldwide since debuting theatrically April 18, has set its home video release dates, courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures. The critically acclaimed movie, which stars Michael B. Jordan in dual roles, will arrive digitally June 3, available through participating digital platforms, including Amazon’s Prime Video, Apple TV and Fandango at Home (formerly Vudu). The physical version of “Sinners,” available to own on 4K Uhd, Blu-ray and DVD, will arrive July 8.

The special features on both the physical and digital versions of the movie include a 32-minute making-of featurette (“Dancing With the Devil: The Making of Sinners”), a featurette devoted to Jordan’s performances, another about the music and a historical piece about the supernatural history of the deep south. There is also a featurette devoted to the creature effects for the film, plus nearly 20 minutes of deleted or extended scenes,...

Kevin Costner has established himself as one of the biggest stars in Hollywood through his grit and talent. While the 70-year-old has starred in dozens of projects, it was one of the 80s’ superhit shows, not even his own, that defined his career.

Like every aspiring star, the multiple Oscar winner was once a promising actor trying to find his footing in Hollywood. It was Brian De Palma’s breakout hit, The Untouchables, in 1987, that changed the script for Costner. However, as is the intrigue of Hollywood, the Yellowstone star was not the first choice of De Palma for playing the charismatic G-Man in the slick action film.

In fact, Costner landed the role of the Prohibition agent only when De Palma’s original choice Don Johnson refused. Johnson’s refusal, on the other hand, can be attributed to his success as the lead actor of one of NBC’s iconic dramas.

The 1990s were a significantly transforming decade for television. From relatable goofy shows to mind-bending sci-fi sitcoms, the ’90s were the blueprint of success. Back then, streaming had not yet altered media consumption drastically. People also relied heavily on television as their primary source of entertainment.

Television was a different game with high stakes and possible profit margins. A lot went into crafting an episode that would captivate the audience and leave them craving for more.

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From stellar star-cast to ambitious storytelling, each element of these shows came with a hefty price tag. And in the golden era of television, some shows easily became quite expensive to make. Here is a ranking of the most expensive TV shows from the 90s.

10. The Untouchables (1993) The Untouchables | Credits: Paramount Television

Production cost per episode: 1.5 million via LA Times.

The Untouchables was...

If you missed Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners” in its eye-popping Imax 70mm version, you are in luck, as Warner Bros. Pictures will re-release the film in nine Imax 70mm theaters across North America, from May 15 to May 21. Tickets go on sale today.

“Audiences have spoken and we listened,” Jeff Goldstein, president of global distribution at Warner Bros. Pictures, said in a statement. “If ever a film needed to be experienced in this incredible larger-than-life format, it’s ‘Sinners.’ Ryan has delivered a film that has been embraced by fans who appreciate the craftsmanship that goes into creating a film for this screen-filling format and we wanted to give everyone the opportunity to see it—or see it again—in 70mm Imax.”

“Sinners” will be back in Imax 70mm at the following theaters – CityWalk Stadium 19 + Imax (Los Angeles), Irvine Spectrum and Imax (Irvine), Lincoln Square 13 + Imax (New York City), Metreon 16 + Imax...

This past weekend was another strong one for Sinners, the vampire movie written and directed by Ryan Coogler (Black Panther). After racking up a solid $48 million at the domestic box office for its Easter opening weekend, Sinners pulled in another $45 million in its second weekend in theaters. That's only a 6% drop off in ticket sales — something which is all but unheard of at the movies, especially in the horror genre. The last movie which opened above $40 million to have that small of a drop off in its second week was James Cameron's Avatar back in 2009. Sinners has not only matched that record set by Avatar, it's also the first R-rated film to ever see such a low second week drop at the box office.

As Entertainment Weekly explains, Hollywood usually plans on large second week drop-off for movies; even a 50% drop is considered a win. For example, A Minecraft...

Sinners drove a stake through Hollywood’s love affair with mediocrity. Ryan Coogler’s bold new flick is like nothing you’ve seen before—a killer mix of gripping 1930s Southern noir and raw vampire horror. The film sticks to the classic lore of blood-suckers we’ve all grown up with, but turns it up to full throttle. And from the early buzz, it’s clear: this movie is about to get Everyone talking.

Starring Michael B. Jordan as a pair of bootlegger twins fresh outta Al Capone’s Chicago and looking to set up a juke joint in their small Mississippi hometown, Sinners isn’t just another vampire movie—it’s a journey into the heart of a haunted era, where every shadow hides something worse than just your average monster.

The film’s not afraid to dig deep, hitting all the right notes of classic horror while also packing a modern punch.

Ryan Coogler’s latest feature, Sinners, starring Michael B Jordan,is hands down the horror film of the year, for its thrilling supernatural plot, performances, and brilliant cinematography. The vampire feature has won the hearts of the audience around the world as they find brilliant themes and a gut-wrenching story unlike any other in a familiar genre. So, naturally, fans are eager to see more of the twin brothers, Smoke and Stack. In a new interview, when Coogler and Jordan were asked about a possible prequel set in Chicago, they had a surprising reaction.

“I’ll be up for it. Not saying [director Ryan Coogler] wouldn’t, but I’m just saying, I would be up for it,” Jordan enthusiastically responded about the prequel, quipping, “He (Coogler) calls the shots.” “I don’t call no shots,” Coogler joked, turning to his wife and co-producer Zinzi Coogler. Jokes aside, the Black Panther filmmaker further added,...

Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners” is here. And based on the early response to his 1930s-set vampire movie, which stars Michael B. Jordan as bootlegger twins who return from Al Capone’s Chicago to set up a juke joint in their small Mississippi town, everybody is going to be talking about it.

There will certainly be much discussion about the movie’s ending, which goes all out. If Coogler eases you into the movie’s horror tropes, by the end everything is turned up to 11.

Let’s talk about the ending of the movie, but obviously, beware of major spoilers. If you haven’t seen “Sinners” already, it’s best to return here after you’ve watched. And if you’ve been turned into a vampire, so be it!

What happens at the end of “Sinners?”

Well, much of “Sinners” has been built around the juke joint that Smoke and Stack,...

As Ryan Coogler’s Sinners storms the box office—shattering expectations and resonating deeply with audiences—the buzz around its franchise potential is reaching a fever pitch.

In a recent interview, Coogler and Michael B. Jordan were asked about the possibility of expanding the Sinners universe with a prequel.

Fans are especially intrigued by the idea of diving into the gritty, untold origins of Smoke and Stack, tracing their rise through Chicago’s criminal underworld under the watchful tutelage of the legendary Al Capone.

Jordan expressed a clear openness to the idea, stating, "I'm always up for it. Not saying he wouldn't (pointing to Coogler) but I'm just saying, I would be up for it." When pressed for further comment, Jordan deferred to the director, adding, "He calls the shots," with a nod towards Coogler.

Coogler’s response was thoughtful and lighthearted, as he playfully deflected the “shot-caller” title by calling out to his wife,...

In the recent Time magazine cover story on the first 100 days of Donald Trump’s second term, a presidential aide explained the president’s revenge strategy: “Look, either we come after you, we shut you down, or you’re going to help me out.”

There’s a famous scene in Goodfellas that explains this mob boss mentality. In voiceover from Ray Liotta’s wiseguy Henry Hill, we learn that the New York Mafia don Paulie tells anyone who owes him fealty, or really anything, “Fuck you, pay me” — or else.

Ryan Coogler’s wildly ambitious period vampire movie is set around the great migration and uses supernatural and real-life horrors to smartly make its point

Sinners – discuss with spoilers

When it comes to centering the Black experience on film, director Ryan Coogler has carved a fruitful and unprecedented niche. Fruitvale Station reconstructs the final hours in the life of Oscar Grant, a 22-year-old Oakland man killed by a transit cop on New Year’s Day. The Creed franchise tarries in the space between Black athletic genius and fatherlessness. The Black Panther franchise meditates on the relationship between Black Africans and the global diaspora. Now comes Sinners, a Jim Crow period piece that frames the Black experience in America as a horror show – complete with real scars.

The film, which made its theatrical debut over the weekend, follows Sammie – a young guitar hero (played by newcomer Miles Caton) itching to break...

Michael B. Jordan stars as twins Smoke and Stack in Ryan Coogler's new vampire film, Sinners, which has finally landed in theaters after being pushed back from its original March release date. As audiences head to cinemas to check out the latest Jordan-Coogler collaboration, the film's star recently teased that he would be open to returning as Smoke and Stack for a prequel, but only if Coogler feels the film is necessary.

Speaking with GamesRadar+, Jordan and Coogler addressed the chances of a prequel to Sinners, given how much history is alluded to in the film regarding Smoke and Stack. "I mean, you know, I'm always… I'd be up for it," Jordan told GamesRadar+. However, Jordan would clarify that a prequel would be up to Coogler, who wouldn't outright dismiss the idea of a prequel, but seems more than happy to keep Sinners as a standalone film. "I mean,...

For Ryan Coogler’s genre-bending vampire film, “Sinners,” cinematographer Autumn Durald Arkapaw shot 65mm on steroids in both IMAX and Ultra Panavision 70. Durald Arkapaw is now the first female Dp able to embrace shooting 15-perf IMAX 65mm — with hopefully many more to come. The film was also the first pairing of IMAX with the anamorphic Ultra Panavision 70 on the same film.

The result is one of extreme, almost heady disparity in aspect ratios (1.43:1 for IMAX 65mm and 2.76:1 for Ultra Panavision 70) that allow the film to emphasize both its period trappings and supernatural atmosphere. Yet Coogler didn’t originally conceive of “Sinners” in large format. The director first thought of the film as being a good fit for 16mm.

“Sinners” stars Michael B. Jordan as twin gangsters Smoke and Stack, who flee Al Capone’s Chicago to open up a juke joint back home in Clarksdale, Mississippi. As Coogler...

Spoiler Alert: This story contains plot details, including the ending, of Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners,” now playing in theaters.

Who survived their dance with the devil in Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners”?

The Premise

The period thriller takes place over one hog-wild, then harrowing day and night in October 1932, as the Smokestack twins — Smoke and Stack, played by Michael B. Jordan — return to their hometown in the Mississippi Delta to open a juke joint.

The first half of Coogler’s 2 hour and 17-minute sultry and scary opus is largely dedicated to Smoke and Stack’s preparations for the party, beginning with securing a venue. The twins, who’ve made some cash working in Chicago for Al Capone, buy an old sawmill from a condescending white man named Hogwood (David Maldonado), who promises the KKK is no longer around these parts, so they won’t be bothered.

Then, they recruit their cousin...

“Sinners” is a lot of movie.

It’s a period crime movie, of sorts, following the exploits of twins (played by Michael B. Jordan), who return from bootlegging with Al Capone to their small Mississippi town, determined to create something of their own. It’s also, chiefly, a horror movie, about a group of vampires who are looking for trouble. And, thanks to the thoughtfulness of writer/director Ryan Coogler, it’s a movie about community and how the safe spaces we create are still vulnerable to outside forces – supernatural and otherwise.

In fact, “Sinners” is so much of a movie that it spills past the credits, with a pair of scenes after the movie is over.

These sequences are fascinating expansions of the main narrative and are very much worth discussing. But before we do, we have to issue a very stern spoiler warning. If you haven’t seen the movie,...

This article contains major spoilers for "Sinners."

The riveting, bold, and spectacular "Sinners" is in theaters now, and "Black Panther" director Ryan Coogler has given audiences a bloody (literally and figuratively), magnificently refreshing take on the vampire subgenre that has been in desperate need of an overhaul after authors Anne Rice and Stephenie Meyer veered the bloodsucking monsters into much different territory with "The Vampire Chronicles" and "The Twilight Saga."

In the film, Michael B. Jordan takes on dual roles as twin brothers known as Smoke and Stack. They've just returned to their rural hometown, after working for famed mobster Al Capone in Chicago, with the hopes of using the money they earned (and some contraband they stole) to create a juke joint where Black people can gather for music, dancing, drinking, and gambling without being bothered by the racist whites in the area. 

Despite the Ku Klux Klan being "dissolved" in the area,...

Stars: Michael B. Jordan, Hailee Steinfeld, Miles Caton, Jack O’Connell, Wunmi Mosaku, Jayme Lawson, Omar Miller, Li Jun Li, Delroy Lindo | Written and Directed by Ryan Coogler

The latest film from writer-director Ryan Coogler, Sinners is a thrillingly original vampire movie that plays like From Dusk Til Dawn in the Deep South. As sinful and sexual as its title suggests, it’s a richly detailed, emotionally engaging period drama that’s packed with terrific performances and has a soundtrack to die for…and then the vampires show up and things get properly crazy.

After a brief teaser of a prologue, the film opens in 1932, with the Smokestack twins, Smoke and Stack returning to their home town of Clarksdale, Mississippi after time spent first in the trenches of WWI and then in Chicago, where they apparently ran with Al Capone. Their intention is to open a juke joint, so after buying...

Ryan Coogler is explaining how he pulled off a magic trick.

He’s not talking about convincing Warner Bros. to greenlight “Sinners,” a $90-million blues-steeped thriller about vampires descending on a small Southern town in the 1930s. Nor is he referencing the nearly unprecedented agreement with the studio that will see the copyright of the film revert to him after 25 years. He’s explaining how they managed to make this movie at all — and on a near-impossible timetable, going from pitch to production in three months. When “Sinners” hits theaters on Friday, it’ll be nearly a year to the day since Imax cameras started rolling on location in Louisiana.

“All our projects are like crazy needles that need to be threaded. We’ve become addicted to that,” Ryan Coogler tells Variety, sitting next to his wife and Proximity Media co-founder Zinzi Coogler. (Their partner Sev Ohanian is in another corner of the Zoom screen.

It’s not the horror that unites the densely packed themes and worldbuilding in writer-director Ryan Coogler‘s first genre feature, Sinners, but the music. The opening preamble sets up the horror that won’t arrive until much later, establishing that, rarely, a musician comes along with talent so great that their music can pierce the veil between the living and the dead. That it can be a beacon for evil. That’s exactly what happens, of course, but it’s merely one component of Coogler’s engrossing epic that’s so ambitious in form and scale that it firmly holds you in its grip from the outset and never lets go.

The premise is deceptively simple: twins Smoke and Stack (Michael B. Jordan in dual roles) return to their hometown in Mississippi, bringing their acquired wealth from their seven-year stint with mob life in Al Capone-era Chicago to start up a juke joint.

Michael B. Jordan delivers a compelling dual performance in Sinners as twin brothers Smoke and Stack, World War I veterans returning to their Jim Crow-era Mississippi hometown after years in Al Capone’s Chicago underworld. Bearing the scars of war and crime, they seek to turn a new leaf by purchasing an abandoned mill, envisioning it as a vibrant music hall for the area. But if you’re expecting just another gangster tale, brace yourself—this one takes a turn you won’t see coming.

Ryan Coogler skillfully blends period drama, gore and action, creating a film that is both grand in scope and intensely gripping. When the horror elements take hold, the film erupts into some of the most striking sequences in recent memory. Coogler brilliantly interweaves the supernatural horror with stark realities, making the former a potent reflection of profound historical race issues.

.Jordan is captivating in his dual roles,...

“Sinners,” written and directed by Ryan Coogler, is a lush, enveloping, historical, phantasmagorical social-panorama from-dusk-till-dawn vampire film. It’s a richly imagined, vibrantly acted portrait of a Deep South community in the early 1930s. It’s also a wild and bloody throat-ripping blowout — a thriller that pushes the vampire-as-metaphor thing about as far as it can go. (The film has a lot on its mind.) “Sinners” works more than it doesn’t, even if it doesn’t always gel, but it’s a commanding demonstration of how lavishly spirited and “serious” a popcorn movie can be.

It’s set in 1932, over one long day and night in the rural town of Clarksdale, Mississippi, a place of sharecroppers and blues singers and racist rednecks and sexy pent-up passion. Michael B. Jordan, in a dual role, plays the Smokestack twins, Smoke and Stack, who grew up in Clarksdale but left to fight...

I'd like to think I'm immune to hyperbole when it comes to watching movies. I'm hardly tempted to get swept up in the hype of an intoxicating film festival atmosphere or the buzz surrounding an early premiere. Even my so-called "Letterboxd curve," the aggregated metric of how generously (or harshly) users of the popular social media site tend to rate what they've seen on a scale of a half to five stars, bears this out. You know that famous Devil's Tower monument from "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" -- steep on both sides, but perfectly flat in the middle? That's exactly the type of curve I have, which one only gets when most logged entries fall between two or three stars and rarely land on either extreme end of the spectrum. In other words, it takes a lot for a movie to earn either breathless praise or contemptuous hate from me.

A bloody, muscular, barrelhouse of a vampire movie that throbs like the neck of a blues guitar on fire, Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners” is the first story the “Creed” director has ripped straight from his own guts. And yet, it thrillingly continues his post-“Fruitvale Station” tradition of filtering real and imagined Black histories through the prism of blockbuster entertainment, and in a way that recognizes genre as a living connection between the past and the future, as opposed to seeing it as a necessary evil of funding his art in the present.

“Sinners” is nothing if not a film about genre, and the distinctly American imperative of cross-pollinating between them to create something that feels new and old — high and low — at the same time. It’s a heartfelt and viscerally well-researched historical drama that introduces the blues as the devil’s music before fighting to reframe it as...

Thomas Pynchon has revealed his upcoming novel, Shadow Ticket. It marks the critically acclaimed and notoriously camera-shy author’s first book in 12 years.

Penguin Random House announced the novel, its Oct. 7 release date, and its synopsis on Wednesday.

Like Pynchon classics, including Gravity’s Rainbow, Against the Day, and Vineland — which serves as the inspiration for director Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film One Battle After Another — Shadow Ticket is an immersive quasi-historical novel, a postmodern mystery set in the Great Depression era 1930s that jumps continents and will likely...

While Warner Bros. has yet to officially confirm themselves, thanks to a since-deleted WGA filing, reports from test screenings, and clues that can be deduced from the official trailer, Paul Thomas Anderson will be delivering his second Thomas Pynchon adaptation this fall with One Battle After Another. Along with Vineland updated for the modern era, following the director’s Inherent Vice a decade ago, Pynchon fans now have another major reason to celebrate this fall.

Pynchon, the genius whose reclusivity might only be matched by Terrence Malick, will release his first novel since 2013’s Bleeding Edge this October. About 12 days after One Battle After Another hits theaters on September 26, Pynchon’s Shadow Ticket arrives on October 7, Penguin Random House announced early this morning. See below a synopsis for the novel (clocking in at 384 pages) which one can pre-order here.

Milwaukee 1932, the Great Depression going full blast, repeal of Prohibition just around the corner,...

“Sinners” is about to take a bite out of the spring film calendar in 2025.

Ryan Coogler’s ambitious big swing “Sinners” marks the “Black Panther” director’s first original project, out from under the weight of I.P., since his 2013 Sundance sensation “Fruitvale Station” put him on the map. The 38-year-old mega talent has had an impressive run directing both “Black Panther” movies along with the Rocky spinoff “Creed” (2015), while also producing that film’s two sequels — all major box office coups. But he wrote the Warner Bros. supernatural horror epic “Sinners,” out April 18, from his own idea, and first reactions are already praising a vision that welds classic vampire mythology to the metastasizing racism underlying the mid-century American South.

“Black Panther” and “Creed” star Michael B. Jordan plays dual roles as twin brothers Smoke and Stack, each representing their own side of a coin of good and corrupt. They...

The crime genre continues to be a hit or miss for Hollywood in the modern day. Even with Robert De Niro's slight resurgence in the 2020s, his success hinges on who he decides to collaborate with. After The Irishman proved that De Niro still works best with Martin Scorsese, the legendary actor continued his reunion with Scorsese in 2023 with Killers of the Flower Moon. What these films have in common is a Scorsese factor that simply doesn't exist with every film De Niro decides to do. Robert De Niro's prolific career has continued to solidify his status as arguably the greatest actor of all time. However, De Niro is no stranger to duds and flops, especially in the 21st century. His most recent collaboration with director Barry Levinson is another example of a movie that should've been better than it was.

Aside from The Alto Knights being a box...

It can be difficult sometimes to fully appreciate the fact that we still have a legend like Robert De Niro still with us. Part of it is that De Niro has been a constant for decades now, almost as long as our Modern Hollywood has existed: breaking out as the chief collaborator and muse of Martin Scorsese in the early ’70s with performances in “Mean Streets” and “Taxi Driver,” the two-time Oscar winner personified the grit and edge of the New Hollywood revolution, and remained a vibrant force on film through the ’80s and ’90s.

That said, not every film that De Niro stars in is a hit, and not every performance he gives is up to the standards he’s often set for himself. Especially in his later years, De Niro has a reputation for sometimes coasting, particularly in films that don’t exactly measure up to the classics...

The Netflix limited series Adolescencehas been nothing short of a sensation, earning rapturous reviews and sitting at the top of the streamer's top ten since its release. At a time when many streaming properties struggle to break through, Adolescence has managed to command attention for its visceral performances, technical virtuosity, and distressingly timely subject matter.

While everyone on the series gives it their all, it serves as an ideal showcase for the many talents of its co-creator and star, Stephen Graham. As Eddie, the father of 13-year-old suspected murderer Jamie, Graham radiates genuine love for his son along with deep anger and guilt in the wake of the allegations against him. It's a masterful performance that marks one of Graham's most visible projects to US audiences, but it's really just the latest in a long line of stellar work stretching back over three decades. Among its many virtues, Adolescence is...

“Peaky Binders” favorite Stephen Graham stars in the Netflix series “Adolescence” as a man whose world is shattered when his 13-year-old son (newcomer Owen Cooper) is accused of murdering a female classmate.

Graham wrote ad co-created the series with Jack Thorne, whose previous work includes the 2022 sports drama “The Swimmers” and the 2024 biopic “Joy.”

Like the BAFTA-nominated feature “Boiling Point,” which also starred Graham, the series is filmed in a continuous one-shot style by Philip Barantini.

Here’s who plays who in the cast, which also includes co-stars Mark Stanley, Jo Hartley and newcomer Amélie Pease.

Owen Cooper as Jamie Miller in Adolescence. (Credit: Netflix) Owen Cooper as Jamie Miller

13-year-old Jamie is accused of the horrific murder of a classmate. This is Cooper’s debut role.

Stephen Graham as Eddie Miller in Adolescence (Credit: Netflix) Stephen Graham as Eddie Miller

Graham, who also co-created the series, stars as Jamie’s father.

Stanley Tucci has been a chameleonic character actor for four decades, playing a wide range of roles, including many Mafia members. The actor has earned numerous accolades over his career, including six Emmys and two Golden Globe Awards. He received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for playing a serial killer in The Lovely Bones. His recent roles include the Oscar-winning Conclave and Netflix's The Electric State, which hasn't been received as warmly by critics.

Since Tucci is of Italian descent, he has received many offers for Mafia roles over his career. Tucci has taken roles as a foot soldier, a don, and a Mafia associate in titles such as Quick Change, Men of Respect, and Billy Bathgate. However, after playing a gangster in 1992's The Public Eye alongside Joe Pesci – who continued to star in Mafia movies like Martin Scorsese's Casino– Tucci grew tired of being...

One of the most underrated sci-fi action shows, and one that’s suitable for some good old-fashioned family watching, is all set to land on free streaming. Making its debut back in 2016, Timeless offers all manner of historical shenanigans as a small band of heroes must come together to save everything after a rogue government steals the time travel tech and embarks on a mission to change the past.

Created by The Boys’ Eric Kripke and The Night Agent’s Shawn Ryan, the series stars Abigail Spencer as Lucy Preston, a history professor, Matt Lanter as United States Army Delta Force soldier and Master Sergeant Wyatt Logan, and Malcolm Barrett as nervous programmer Rufus Carlin, the three of which make up the main trio tasked with saving the world, alongside Sakina Jaffrey, Paterson Joseph, Claudia Doumit, and Goran Višnjić, Timeless is all set to materialize on free streaming platform Tubi...

After the disastrous critical and audience reception of 2015's Fantastic Four, writer/director Josh Trank found himself in an inenviable position. At odds with 20th Century Fox after pinning the blame for the film's failure on studio meddling, his blockbuster prospects began to dry up, with a planned Star Wars project getting canceled. Trank claimed it was for personal reasons, but plenty in Hollywood speculated that the failure of Fantastic Four had something to do with it. Whatever the reason, the once promising upstart indie director was at something of a crossroads.

Rather than try and get back in the studio system's good graces, Trank instead poured himself into a passion project about the final days of famed mobster Al Capone, with Tom Hardy attached to star. Originally titled Fonzo after Capone's nickname, the title was later changed to Capone, and the film finally saw release in May 2020. Sadly,...

One of the most iconic characters in the world of cinema is Tony Montana, the violent protagonist of Brian De Palma’s 1983 crime epic Scarface. Al Pacino transformed the future of gangster films through his outstanding portrayal of the drug lord.

Through his performance, Pacino brilliantly portrayed Montana as both an ambitious and powerful criminal whose story ended in self-destruction. With a thick Cuban accent, in his white suits, and with many memorable lines, Montana tells a complicated story of aspiration and the dark side of the American Dream.

Al Pacino in Scarface | Credit: Universal Pictures

However, the iconic character had a different real-life story, which shaped the movie’s creation. Are there historical grounds that say Tony Montana came from actual real-life incidents? Do his actual life events exceed the events shown in the movie? Well, the truth proves to be far more interesting than you would have expected.

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Gangster movies have long held sway over audiences. Just as stories about Robin Hood filled people's minds in medieval times, these tales eventually evolved into stories of organized crime. Bonnie and Clyde thrilled people living during the Great Depression, and Al Capone became a giant after Prohibition. The idea of everyday people turning to crime for a myriad of reasons has always been compelling. After all, crime always lurks just outside of reach for many people. Gangsters, who control crime itself, are just as salient as the idea of becoming a king.

Hollywood, of course, was quick to capitalize on the idea of gangsters. The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912) was a silent film that saw a man fighting back against gangsters who stole his wallet. 1927's Underworld...

Plot: Inspired by the true life stories of a group of characters battling for survival in the brutal East End of London in the 1880s. Hezekiah Moscow and Alec Munroe, best friends on the run from Jamaica, find themselves thrust into the criminal underbelly of London’s thriving bare-knuckle boxing scene. As Hezekiah finds fortune and fame through the art of pugilism, he attracts the attention of the infamous Queen of the Forty Elephants, Mary Carr, who sets about exploiting his talents to further her criminal enterprise. Meanwhile the menacing and self-declared emperor of the East End boxing world, Sugar Goodson, determines to destroy Hezekiah whose ambitions to fight in the West End threatens everything he has built. What ensues is a battle of the old world against the new.

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No, there is no imperial conspiracy against the Third World. Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine As Light lost the Critics Choice award to Emilia Perez for the very simple reason that it was a lesser film.

Dare I say that? For months now, we have been spotlighting Ms Kapadia’s film as though it was the best thing to happen to cinema since Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali. Sorry, that was an overreaction. I have seen Ray’s Pather Panchali innumerable times, and each time, I came away with a new thrill.

I saw All We Imagine as Light a second time and could barely sit through it. While the salient characters’ profound forlornness is palpable—the nurses need some serious healing—the second overture in the Maharashtrian village lacks space, elegance, and even coherence.

French auteur Jacques Audiard’s new work Emilia Perez is a beast hard to tame.

The Grammys this year graced us with some amazing looks, and some were outright ridiculous and questionable. While this isn’t nearly the same level as Bianca Censori and Kanye West’s stunt, Jaden Smith had a very curious fashion choice for his Grammys outfit.

Smith wore a $4600 gothic castle headpiece to the 2025 Grammys that stood out for the reasons he didn’t expect. While the rest of his outfit consisted of a custom Louis Vuitton suit, the castle was all people could focus on and caught the attention of One Piece fans.

Jaden Smith as Dre in The Karate Kid (2010). [Credit: Sony Pictures Releasing]

This character in One Piece matches Jaden Smith’s 2025 Grammys outfit perfectly. Capone Bege has the Shiro Shiro no Mi or the Castle Castle Fruit that grants him the ability to turn into a living fortress, making him the Castle Human.

While all Smith was missing...

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The following contains major spoilers from Chicago Pd Season 12, Episode 11, "In the Trenches, Part 3," which debuted Wednesday, Jan. 29 on NBC.

Chicago Pd Season 12, Episode 11, "In the Trenches, Part 3" is the conclusion to the One Chicago crossover that began on Chicago Fire. It's exactly what fans of the Dick Wolf franchise will expect at the end of a three-show, three-hour event, which is both a good thing and a bad thing. The audience knows that they're going to have an enjoyable time, but there are also some moments that just don't land.

"In the Trenches, Part 3" rushes to tie all the plot threads together as the Intelligence Unit investigates the group that robbed the city building, and started a fire to cover their tracks.

So, the Windy City’s infrastructure issues weren’t just potholes and crumbling El tracks. Turns out, Al Capone’s secret tunnels are still a thing, and now they’re a terrorist superhighway. This week’s “Chicago Pd,” the final installment of the “In The Trenches” crossover, saw our heroes grappling with the fallout from a subway bombing orchestrated by […]

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Warning: The following contains spoilers for the #OneChicago crossover. Proceed at your own risk!

#OneChicago’s first crossover in five years put Fire couple “Stellaride” through the wringer on Wednesday.

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One Chicago dished out one of its biggest disasters to date in its 2025 crossover. There was a huge explosion, victims trapped under rubble, and an entire train full of passengers who were under threat of having concrete structures collapse on them. It was a tense experience for all involved.

In typical One Chicago fashion, characters came up with clever and often genius methods to save lives and ensure the people responsible for the explosion were brought to justice. One aspect of the three-part story that may have taken some viewers aback, however, were Al Capone's secret tunnels. They were repeatedly referenced throughout, and proved to be play a pivotal role in the plot. So what is the deal? Are these tunnels real?

The Chicago tunnels are over 100 years old Chicago P.D. -- "In The Trenches: Part III" Episode 12014 -- Pictured: Miranda Rae Mayo as Stella Kidd -- (Photo...