DVD Verdict: Gangster

Rolling Thunder Pictures Triple Feature

2013-05-03

Reviewed by Mac McEntire
Quote: "Give me Mighty Peking Man in a collection with any two other movies and I'll be happy."

Gangster Squad (Blu-ray)

2013-05-01

Reviewed by Gordon Sullivan
Quote: "Though you'll see pretty people performing stylized violence, don't expect much more than empty spectacle."

The Mob Doctor: The Complete Series

2013-04-06

Reviewed by P.S. Colbert
Quote: "Thirteen episodes of shark-jumping so elaborately staged and sumptuously photographed that it could qualify as an Olympic event. In Hell."

Hard Romanticker

2013-01-23

Reviewed by Patrick Bromley
Quote: "There is something profoundly unpleasant about the experience of watching it."

Asylum (I Want to Be a Gangster)

2012-12-14

Reviewed by Tom Becker
Quote: "Expectation gets tossed on its head, and the bulk of the film plays out in a hellish and intriguing alternate universe that is more Sartre than Tarantino."

Citizen Gangster

2012-10-24

Reviewed by Daryl Loomis
Quote: "An uneven but decent biopic that seems more interested in maintaining cinematic convention than it does in historical accuracy."

For the Love of Money

2012-09-29

Reviewed by Tom Becker
Quote: "These are stories that would be better left told at a family dinner than splashed on the big screen."

Mean Streets (Blu-ray)

2012-07-19

Reviewed by Tom Becker
Quote: "This is Mean Streets -- the most exciting film of 1973, and the breakout work of one the screen's great artists."

Decisions (2011)

2012-06-22

Reviewed by Daryl Loomis
Quote: "Decisions plays like a version of City of Hope that has been killed and kicked into mush out of some kind of revenge."

Out (1978)

2012-04-01

Reviewed by Dawn Hunt
Quote: "A fine example of late '70s British television, gangster tales, and exceptional performances. If you accept that Out is very much a product of its era, you'll truly enjoy it."