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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The “Gangster Squad” movie, which finally opens Friday, initially got caught up in the furor surrounding the massacre in the Colorado movie theater. For good or ill, “Gangster Squad” is inextricably ...

Life—so tragically—has imitated art even before that art takes to the silver screen, prompting a scramble within Warner Bros. to determine how to handle an Aurora, Colorado-like scene in Gangster ...

A triumph of production design but a pretty dull kill-’em-up otherwise, the post-World War II-set “Gangster Squad” comes from the director of “Zombieland,” Ruben Fleischer. It’s clear Fleischer, who ...

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 ...

So "Gangster Squad" is quickly shaping up to be among the most anticipated movies of 2013. Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling and Josh Brolin in talks for "Gangster Squad," which is being written by ex-cop Will ...

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 ...