Goodfellas (movie)

Strolling behind tour leader Scott Deitche through Tampa's Ybor City on a spring evening, I found my feet in the present but my brain back in a dark past — say, Nov. 10, 1936. That's when a black sedan rolled up to the corner where our tour group...

"The Iceman" — directed by Ariel Vroman from a script he cowrote with Morgan Land — is based on the life of Richard Kuklinski, a hired killer who is believed to have murdered more people than any number of serial killers. In a 1992 HBO special...

A fledgling rooftop drive-in theater in downtown Los Angeles — a recent cause celebre for urbanites — has landed safely on its wheels after getting booted from its home atop a parking structure in the historic core. To make way for a new...

Cue the sad violins -- Max is back. Not to worry, he's brought his guns and painkillers with him. "Max Payne 3" is a outstanding update to the 11-year-old series that helped make RockStar Entertainment a gaming juggernaut. Rockstar Games, maker of...

For the past five years, two of Los Angeles' totemic structures — the parking lot and the movie theater — have intersected at 240 W. 4th St. downtown. There, the top level of a two-story garage has been moonlighting as a makeshift drive-in,...

Without Sterling Lord, there would be no Jack Kerouac — not Kerouac as we know him, anyway, the writer who introduced the Beat Generation. Lord was a former magazine editor and fledgling literary agent working in a basement apartment in New York...

Tony Lip, 82, a veteran character actor known for playing mob roles on "The Sopranos" television show and in films, died Friday at a hospital in Teaneck, N.J. Family members told New Jersey's Record newspaper that Lip, a resident of Paramus, N.J., had...

Indie staple Paul Dano ("Ruby Sparks," "There Will Be Blood") has been tapped to play a young Brian Wilson in a new film titled "Love and Mercy." The actor will collaborate on the production -- which is scheduled to begin in early summer -- with an...

Martin Scorsese has found his next film subject: Bill Clinton. The Oscar winner will produce and direct a documentary on the former president for HBO, the network announced Monday. The documentary will explore the 42nd president's perspective on...

The American Cinematheque welcomes 2013 with "Motion Picturesque: Cinema at Its Most Beautiful" festival, which shines the spotlight on the visual splendor of motion pictures. The series opens Thursday at the Egyptian with Fritz Lang's influential...

Michael Chiklis, who scored an Emmy and Golden Globe for playing corrupt cop Vic Mackey in "The Shield," stars as mob casino boss Vincent Savino in CBS' "Vegas." The freshman series takes place in 1960, as Las Vegas was growing into its role as Sin City....

The East New York neighborhood that was a focal point in the 1990 Martin Scorsese film, "Goodfellas," still remembers the movie's lead character--mob associate, Henry Hill--who died Tuesday in Los Angeles, a day after his 69th birthday. "Goodfellas"--...