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There is so much to love about The Towering Inferno it's hard to know where to begin.

BEFORE JACK WENT NUTS: Stop by the Ritz East for the Philadelphia Film Society's screening of the classic film "Chinatown." Roman Polanski's 1974 film stars Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway in tale about a P.I. investigating murder and corruption.

By Alison Kerr Michael Winner is many things to many people. To middle England, he's the gallivanting gourmand whose to-the-point restaurant reviews are a talking point at Sunday lunch.

I remember seeing it, but I couldna t remember it well. So I decided to revisit it and it was a charming thriller with a great supporting cast with the likes of Max Von Sydow and John Houseman.

Marlon Brando led the Corleone family empire in "The Godfather." My vote for the ten best gangster films: 1. "The Godfather," directed by Francis Ford Coppola, 1972.

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.

Lady Barbara Skelton, the notorious star of Magdalen King-Hall's novel, should steal the show at Newcastle-under-Lyme's New Vic this summer Margaret Lockwood in the 1945 film of The Wicked Lady.

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.

IT WAS ON April 1, 1934 that the notorious Texas criminals Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker died in a bullet-riddled Ford sedan on a narrow road near Gibsland, La., hunted down by Texas Ranger Frank Hamer and a posse of other lawmen.

Serious theater exploring the existential boundaries of the human condition, provoking deep thoughts and stirring the soul - Uptown Players' production of Jamie Morris' Mommie Queerest does none of that.

If it's been made, Hollywood will remake it -- even good, modest thrillers such as 1974's The Taking Of Pelham One Two Three.

Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, whose bloody crime spree in the Central United States during the early 1930s captured the public fascination.

All Things Considered , May 23, 2009 Three quarters of a century ago Saturday, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow took their final bullets.

The Watergate scandal ushered in a new mini-genre of conspiracy films, starting with Alan J. Pakula's 1974's The Parallax View .

His CIA code name is Condor. In the next seventy-two hours almost everyone he trusts will try to kill him.

Sidney Pollack's spy thriller caters to an intellectual's tender ego, as innocence, book-learning, and beginner's luck are called upon to fend off an army of cold-blooded CIA agents and free-lance assassins.

Hollywood has had a complicated, love-hate relationship with mothers throughout the years.

Which 'Star Trek' movie was the best? SF Gate polls are strictly surveys of those who choose to participate and are therefore not valid statistical samples.

Q Film Festival The fourth-annual event tied to the Center Long Beach's Pride Day Weekend features lavish parties; workshops; the screening of 10 new films; and bonus viewings of the 1981 picture that demonized wire hangers, two John Waters' trashterpieces on back-to-back midnights and a raw, funny and, at times, painful documentary about the ...