André Joseph is a movie features writer at Collider. Born and raised in New York City, he graduated from Emerson College with a Bachelor's Degree in Film. He freelances as an independent filmmaker, ...

The best way to describe director Ruben Fleischer's new film, "Gangster Squad"? Ridiculously violent. We're not talking an occasional scene with gunfire or fist fighting. We're talking 110 minutes of ...

Kathryn Bigelow's controversial film earns an A- CinemaScore from audiences as it expands nationwide; "Silver Linings Playbook" surges. By Pamela McClintock Senior Film Writer I believe Kathryn ...

Life—so tragically—has imitated art even before that art takes to the silver screen, prompting a scramble within Warner Bros. to determine how to handle an Aurora, Colorado-like scene in Gangster ...

Gangster Squad has edited a theatre shooting scene in the movie's final version. The Warner Bros film, starring Ryan Gosling, Sean Penn, Emma Stone and Josh Brolin, is about LAPD officers battling the ...

Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone and Sean Penn feature in a set of character posters from Gangster Squad. Ruben Fleischer's (Zombieland) 1940s-set crime drama stars Penn as real-life gangster Mickey Cohen, ...

Based on the cast alone, this movie was creeping up our "must see" list. Now that the official synopsis has been released...it's crept up another rung or two. The period drama "Gangster Squad" is a ...

A team of merciless cops go after a mob boss, by any means necessary. It’s the classic film noir premise, and in this time set in a moonlit 1949 Los Angeles. Director Ruben Fleischer’s biggest work ...

Two of the best character actors among the new generation of movie stars couldn’t save Gangster Squad from falling into a “made for Hollywood” movie trap thanks to a weak, predictable script and a ...

The film was set to be released in September. But in July, Warner Bros. pushed it back to January out of respect for the victims of the deadly Aurora, Colo., movie theater shooting. The film had a ...