The allure of wealth and power, the precarious gambling of life and death - there's nothing quite like a good gangster movie. But what might be the greatest gangster movies ever made? As the American ...

The great director Zhang Yimou made the highest grossing Chinese film -- and possibly most-bootlegged DVD -- in history, "Hero." He spoke to Salon as it was finally about to be released in theaters.

“It don’t make any difference to me what a man does for a living, you understand. But your business is a little dangerous,” growls Don Vito Corleone in “The Godfather.” This line, delivered with ...