WASHINGTON – Try as they might, producers can never truly predict the climate in which their films will be released. The timing can work to a film’s advantage, as it did for “Argo,” where the attack ...

Early in Gangster Squad, circa-1949 Los Angeles crime kingpin Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) tells a Mafia rival he’s no longer beholden to the Italians in Chicago because he’s got a new vision for doing ...

Gangster Squad, the new film from Zombieland director Ruben Fleischer, got some undue attention this summer when it hastily moved off its original September release date and was pushed to January. The ...

The best way to describe director Ruben Fleischer's new film, "Gangster Squad"? Ridiculously violent. We're not talking an occasional scene with gunfire or fist fighting. We're talking 110 minutes of ...

Two of the best character actors among the new generation of movie stars couldn’t save Gangster Squad from falling into a “made for Hollywood” movie trap thanks to a weak, predictable script and a ...

And with this cast attached, it could have been so much more. Josh Brolin is Sgt. John O’Mara, the angelic cop at the heart of the story. The film opens with him rescuing a damsel in distress, one of ...

LOS ANGELES -- "Gangster Squad," a Warner Bros. movie featuring a shootout at the Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, will not arrive in theaters in September as initially planned but instead will be ...

Warner Bros. is showing its faith in Will Beall, as the “Gangster Squad” scribe has signed a blind two script deal with the studio. Though it’s not known which films will be part of the deal, the pact ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A look at Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, and Nick Nolte’s friendship Penn, 64, Brolin, 57 and Nolte first worked together on the 2013 ...

Larry is joined by KPCC film critics Andy Klein from the L.A. Times Community Papers chain and Claudia Puig from USA Today to review the week's new film releases including Gangster Squad, FrackNation ...