An Italian film inspired by the tragic death of a celebrated anti-mafia informer has sparked controversy with her relatives and an association named in her memory. By Reuters, The Associated Press ...

As Matteo Garrone’s “Gomorrah” gains kudos and global converts to the anti-Mafia cause, Italy continues to spawn new ways to recount its age-old mob problem. “Gomorrah,” which recently swept the ...

LB Beistad is a writer and musician based in Nashville, TN. Her love of gaming began with her cousin introducing her to Banjo Kazooie and Jak and Daxter. It was love at first play. Since then, she has ...

THANKS, LARNED. A POPULAR KANSAS CITY FILM FILM FEST IS RETURNING THIS WEEKEND TO THE GLENWOOD ARTS THEATER. KMBC9 ALAN SHOPE HAS MORE AS THE KC MAFIA AND TRUE CRIME FILM FESTIVAL KICKS OFF TONIGHT. I ...

Korean mafia is a staple of many Korean films. It’s hard to pinpoint exactly what the cause of love for organized crime is. In any culture organized crime is depicted as being “cool” and “macho” in ...

ROME (Reuters) - An Italian film inspired by the tragic death of a celebrated anti-mafia informer has sparked controversy with her relatives and an association named in her memory. La Siciliana ...

Mafia bosses tend not to talk a lot, and that’s too bad, because Tano Badalamenti would probably have something to say about I Cento Passi (The Hundred Steps). The film’s title marks the distance ...

Veteran docmaker Kim Longinotto turns her lens on veteran Italian photojournalist Letizia Battaglia, leaving us with more admiration than insight. “I wasn’t a real person,” Letizia Battaglia says of ...

Upcoming musical mafia film features LGBTQ representation Cecilia Wen is recording the musical voice of Niang Niang for UCLA extension student Michael Yip’s short film, “The Gay Mafia.” Niang Niang is ...

Senior Lecturer (Media Studies and Production), University of Southern Queensland When it was released 50 years ago, The Godfather won a swag of Oscars and hailed director Francis Ford Coppola as the ...

The shining point of Mafia: The Old Country is its compelling story. Protagonist Enzo Favara escapes indentured servitude in a sulfur mine and finds himself under the care of the Torrisi crime family.