The Roaring Twenties News

VARSITY SHOW is a fun entry in the "Let's put on a college show" musical subgenre.

They have heard plenty about the Brooklyn bombshell, though. Obviously, Mae West was not the only writer to revive the 1890s era on the Bowery and in Chinatown.

MILLION DOLLAR BABY opens with Harry Warren's jaunty "I Found a Million Dollar Baby in a Five and Ten Cent Store" playing over the opening credits, and from there on it continues to provide an entertaining viewing experience.

James Cagney in The Public Enemy Edward G Robinson's Little Caesar is great; Cagney's twitchily restless Tom Powers, profiting from Prohibition, is even greater.

The Roaring Twenties, directed by Raoul Walsh, is widely considered one of the greatest gangster films and is an homage to early gangster films of the 1930s.

For more than a year now, I've doing a bit on The Chris Vernon Show ever-so-creatively dubbed "Movies" where I give five rental recommendations based on a topic presumably connected to one of the new releases in theaters.

Celebrate Independence Day with America's greatest invention: the cinema! I'm looking forward to having a day off to catch up on some movies that have snuck past me, starting with Michael Mann's new gangster picture, Public Enemies.

Johnny Depp is the latest actor to jump into a getaway car when "Public Enemies" opens Wednesday.

James Cagney and Mae Clarke appear in the famous grapefruit scene from "The Public Enemy" . June 27, 2009 Listen, you dirty rats, nobody, but nobody, could play a gangster like Cagney.

The Brattle continues its Classic Gangsters series with the John Huston classic Key Largo , which couldn't come with a more hard-boiled cast: Edward G. Robinson, Humhrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, and Lionel Barrymore.