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'Public Enemies' is a terrible indicator of how America has retreated from one of its greatest inventions--the movies.

Michael Mann's new film about the gangster John Dillinger is timely. For it's said that the glorification of gangsters happens during times of economic depression - at least it did in America during the 1930s.

This summer's Maine International Film Festival gets under way this Friday in Waterville.

Johnny Depp and Christian Bale hit the screen with a new take on the legend of John Dillinger, the bank-robbing gang leader who became a cult hero.

As any solid movie buff knows, there's a certain number of ingredients that go into making a movie about gang life.

Art imitates life in "Public Enemies" when Johnny Depp, as John Dillinger, watches Clark Gable play a doomed gangster in "Manhattan Melodrama," just before being gunned down himself outside Chicago's Biograph Theatre.

Hollywood makes myths and always has, and I guess that's as it should be. Moviegoers want to be entertained, after all, so moviemakers have long burnished history to make it more entertaining.

Johnny Depp arrives as John Dillinger in theaters nationwide Wednesday. Clint O'Connor ranks the top-ten gangster films.

The LA hustler played by Ashton Kutcher in David Mackenzie's Spread could be his best role yet.

Taking some tentative steps into the ocean, Hilary Duff looks as if she regretted going for that swim in the Hawaiian surf.

Norman Jewison Yes, he directed 'Moonstruck' and two unforgettable musicals, but Jewison is also responsible for a trilogy of films focusing on racial-injustice, a whacky Cold War comedy and a signature film of Steve McQueen's showing that he is one of the most versatile directors since Robert Wise.

With Johnny Depp in a cool black hat and thrilling tommy-gun shootouts, does Public Enemies set up a shrine to movie gangsters? Maybe so, admits director Michael Mann.

MIFF 2009 Showcases 100 Films by 50 Filmmakers in 10 Days While Expanding to the Portsmouth Music Hall from July 17-19 for a Weekend of Special Programming, Guests and Seminars Waterville, Maine - Film buffs and critics alike agree that MIFF is this summer's official Mecca for movie lovers.

Johnny Depp stars as the most charismatic stickup man of them all. Why is Hollywood in love with the mad and the bad? Bryan Burrough Criminals fascinate, and always have.

The Art of Making Money reads like a gangster film waiting to be made. The true story of Art Williams, the master counterfeiter of the book's title, it is a fast-paced tale of a man from a broken family in the rough end of Chicago sucked into a life of crime.

That film is a collaborative art is accepted, but it can also be a war of attrition where inflated egos collide at the interface of culture and commerce.

Comedic actor Gene Wilder caught his first big break playing a small roll in the off-Broadway production of Arnold Wesker's "Roots" and followed quickly with his Broadway debut as the comic valet in "The Complaisant.... Comedic actor Gene Wilder caught his first big break playing a small roll in the off-Broadway production of Arnold Wesker's ...

La Jolla Playhouse announced today the addition of the world-premiere musical Bonnie & Clyde, to its 2009-10 season, replacing The Big Time.

It's so easy to associate plastic surgery with the vain excesses of neurotic celebrities and other vulgar bubbleheads that it's easy to forget the medical benefits of the practice.

Bonnie and Clyde died in a shoot out with law enforcement 75 years ago. And on the anniversary, the FBI opened 1000 never-before-seen pages of its file.