And even though times were tough and there was major unrest, movies provided a much-needed escape. Naturally, filmmakers ...

I've been tackling quite a few hot ticket items in the '21st Century Top Fives' department lately, but this one is particularly controversial: the best gangster movies released in the past 20 years.

Park Chan-wook's Oldboy, a Korean film, tells the story of Oh Dae-su, a 15-year-old kidnapped man who returns to hunt his kidnappers after being released. The popular Korean gangster film stars Jo In ...

Its mix of jet-black humor and brutal violence is par for the course for Ritchie, whose interest in gang life—whether ...