Releasing any mafia-related films in the wake of The Godfatherseemed like a fool's errand. After all, the first two chapters in Francis Ford Coppola's epic about the rise and fall of the Corleone ...

What makes a crime film epic? There is, of course, the American Film Institute's strict definition of a cinematic epic as "a large-scale film set in a cinematic interpretation of the past," but the ...

Ryan Heffernan is a Senior Writer at Collider. Storytelling has been one of his interests since an early age, with his appreciation for film and television becoming a particular interest of his during ...

Diego Pineda has been a devout storyteller his whole life. He has self-published a fantasy novel and a book of short stories, and is actively working on publishing his second novel. A lifelong fan of ...