Roots and religion are very much on the mind of Martin Scorsese as the Oscar-winning director is being honored with a lifetime achievement award by the Taormina Film Festival in Sicily, where he has ...
Directorial duo Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza (“Sicilian Ghost Story”) tell the true tale of Cosa Nostra boss Matteo Messina Denaro – who was dubbed “the last godfather” – in their new drama ...
There is a disconcertingly ambivalent tone to Sicilian Letters, a very handsomely presented game of cop cats and mafioso mice flying the RAI quality-drama banner. On the one hand, there is the mob ...
"Sicilian Ghost Story" directors Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza diminish the returns on their third feature, a talky cat-and-mouser inspired by the search for real-life mob boss Matteo Messina ...
We Americans can’t be blamed for our “mob mentality” when we think of Sicilian and Italian culture. The ubiquity and mass appeal of gangster movies like the Godfather trilogy, Scarface, Goodfellas, ...
MIDDLETOWN — A film based on the life of Sicilian immigrant and Middletown’s own Biago “Max” Corvo, who became the chief of operations of the Secret Intelligence of the American Office of Strategic ...
EXCLUSIVE: Voltage Pictures has taken worldwide rights to The Sicilian, an action thriller led by Another Simple Favor‘s Michele Morrone, Riff Raff‘s Emanuela Postacchini, Transformers‘ Megan Fox and ...