Despite Ridley Scott's (Blade Runner, Gladiator, Black Hawk Down) flop last year with A Good Year, it looks like he may be coming back into style with his upcoming 1980's based film American Gangster.

American Gangster is by no means a great film, or even the best film made by anyone involved. Edited in a perfunctory, businesslike manner by Pietro Scalia and scored with lazy, Oscar-baity flourish ...

American Gangster, Ridley Scott's crime epic co-starring Russell Crowe and Josh Brolin, might have been lost in the shuffle of all their stellar careers, but that doesn't make it any less engaging ...

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 ...

Director Ridley Scott said he told Idris Elba to lean his head on an unloaded gun while filming 2007's American Gangster to get a reaction from the recoil Benjamin VanHoose is a Staff Editor on ...

American Gangster, the latest film from director Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner, Gladiator), is a biography of notorious crime boss Frank Lucas (Denzel Washington). Lucas got his start as the ...

LIKE “The Godfather” and other genre classics, Ridley Scott’s epic “American Gangster” focuses on the bigger picture – how a drug epidemic and police corruption brought the Big Apple ...

American Gangster. American Gangster is a 2007 crime film directed by Ridley Scott, featuring Denzel Washington as Frank Lucas, a heroin kingpin in Harlem, and Russell Crowe as Richie Roberts, the ...

FIRST LOOK — Ridley Scott’s American Gangster. After a week off, holed up in the Cotswolds since you ask, it's been a busy time for film screenings.