During his account of the pursuit of ‘Gangster Squad,’ Lin raised another intriguing issue--he couldn’t imagine this whole movie sale ever happening without seeing these stories in print.

‘The Gangster Squad,’ due to open next October, hopes to join that exclusive club. The $70-plus million movie, filming here at such iconic locations as Griffith Park Observatory, City Hall and ...

With “Gangster Squad,” director Reuben Fleischer (“Zombieland”) attempts to tap into the classicism of 1940s noir films with a stacked deck of great talent, but comes up empty-handed.

In Gangster Squad, Emma Stone plays Grace Faraday, a young woman who moves to Los Angeles with dreams of becoming a Hollywood star.. While Stone — who moved to Los Angeles at the age of 15 to ...

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 ...

Set in a Post-WWII world, GANGSTER SQUAD kick’s off in 1949, at a time when gangsters were running riot in Chicago and New York, but failing to gain a foothold in Los Angeles. Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) ...

That thought lingers in the air like the smoke off some moll’s cigarette at the end of the gory, only intermittently entertaining “Gangster Squad.” The film noir originally was slated for ...

“Gangster Squad” is a heavily fictionalized account of longtime LAPD chief William H. Parker’s campaign to prevent Mickey Cohen and other mobsters with East Coast roots from gaining power ...

"Gangster Squad," stars Ryan Gosling, Sean Penn, Josh Brolin and Emma Stone, chronicles a coterie of LAPD cops who try to take down Mickey Cohen, a notorious Los Angeles gangster.

Imagine it's 1949, and you're a cop, and you get the assignment to form a vigilante squad of five or six men to bring down the empire of Mickey Cohen, the biggest gangster in Los Angeles. What ...

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 ...

Michael Pena, left, Ryan Gosling, Robert Patrick, Anthony Mackie and Josh Brolin star in 'Gangster Squad.' (Photo by Wilson Webb / Warner Bros.) They are a family man, a playboy, a Latino, a black ...