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The Godfather isn’t just a mafia story—it’s about love, loyalty, and family. Behind all the power and violence, it’s really a ...
The documentary “Shooting the Mafia” is, according to the distributor’s press materials, a portrait of a remarkable woman. To be sure, its ostensible subject is the now 84-year-old Letizia Battaglia, ...
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.
“I wasn’t a real person,” Letizia Battaglia says of the days before she took to photography. As an unhappily married housewife stifled and abused by Italy’s dominant patriarchy, picking up a camera ...
Anthony Colombo, a mobster’s son who successfully agitated to keep out even a single reference to the Mafia during the entire 175 minutes of “The Godfather” film, died Jan. 6 at his home in San Diego.
Two Racine County filmmakers spent a year making "Milwaukee Mafia" about Frank Balistrieri, the made man who ruled the Milwaukee mob from the 1960s to the 1980s.Filmmakers Wayne Clingman and Jason ...
In his impressive directorial debut, Italian TV star Pierfrancesco Diliberto finds unlikely comedy in the murderous criminal underworld of his native Sicily. By Stephen Dalton The Mafia Only Kills in ...
UN FILM FATTO PER BENE Un film fatto per bene, Italy, 2025. Director: Franco Maresco. Cast: Franco Maresco, Umberto Cantone, ...
A certain fatigue had set in for the multiplatinum-selling electronic dance music act Swedish House Mafia in 2012. By the three members’ own estimate, they had partied hard five days a week for six ...
The latest films include “Mafia Mamma,” “Suzume,” “Beau is Afraid” and “Renfield.” KCRW gets reviews from Christy Lemire, film critic for RogerEbert.com and co-host of the YouTube channel “Breakfast ...