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"Augie's Secrets" is a treasury of family secrets that exposes the steamy underbelly of Minneapolis -- gangsters, gambling, brothels and the social life of organized crime. Augie Ratner, the ...

On a Reddit thread titled "Goodfellas or The Godfather", a debate that has been going on since Goodfellas was released, one user wrote: "Goodfellas is the better gangster movie". Goodfellas is ...

With folks going gaga over "The Town," Ben Affleck was recently offered the chance to direct "The Gangster Squad," about a notorious lawman who patrolled L.A. in the '40s. But he turned it down and ...