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American Gangster: Academy Award winners Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe team with director Ridley Scott in this powerful epic story. Armed with ruthless, streetwise tactics and strict sense of honour, crime boss Frank Lucas (Washington) rules Harlems chaotic drug underworld. When outcast cop Richie Roberts (Crowe) sets out to bring down Lucass multimillion-dollar empire, it plunges both men into a legendary confrontation. American Gangster is a brutal and brilliant film Pete Hammond, Maxim.

Scarface: Al Pacino gives an unforgettable performance as Tony Montana, one of the most ruthless gangsters ever depicted on film, in this gripping crime epic inspired by the 1932 classic of the same title. Directed by hit-maker Brian DePalma and produced by Martin Bregman who brought both Godfather legends to the screen. Scarface follows the violent career of a small-time Cuban refugee hoodlum who guns his way to the top of Miamis cocaine empire. With its intense screenplay by Academy Award winner Oliver Stone, driving musical score by Giorgio Moroder and superb insights into Miamis Latin lifestyle. Scarface joins the ranks of Hollywoods greatest underworld dramas, as it lays bare the sordid power of the American drug scene. Time Magazine calls it Exhilarating while the New York Times Vincent Canby applauds the picture as Stylish and Provocative.

Casino: Danger. Power. Seduction. Welcome to Las Vegas 1973. Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone and Joe Pesci star in director Martin Scorseses riveting look at how blind ambition, white-hot passion and 24-carat greed toppled an empire. In an era of over-the-top glitz, Sam Ace Rothstein (DeNiro) is riding high as front man for the Mobs multi-billion dollar Las Vegas operation. To protect their investment the bosses send in Aces boyhood pal, hot-headed enforcer Nicky Santoro (Pesci). Its a winning hand: Aces brain and Nickys muscle until sexy wild card ginger McKenna (Stone) turns up the heat. This gripping fact-based tale boasts extraordinary performances a sizzling soundtrack and a dizzying look beneath the glamorous faade beyond the closed doors and behind the eyes of the men and women whose fortunes and lives were made and lost with a roll of the dice.