When you’re acting against a titan like Denzel Washington, it can be hard to think about the scene sometimes. Or at least it was for Josh Brolin while on set of “American Gangster.” In Ridley Scott’s ...

The ruling cliché in writing about crime bosses — “the gangster as tragic hero” — was coined in 1948 by Robert Warshow, an extremely intelligent cultural critic, whose premature passing in 1955 robbed ...

The actors shared a misunderstanding while preparing to shoot a scene in Ridley Scott's 2007 crime epic. Brolin wasn’t thinking about Washington’s feelings as he went into a scene with him though, but ...