‘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 ...

The Gangster Squad was formed in 1946 to keep East Coast Mafia out of L.A. Its ‘anything goes’ approach endured through the 1950s in an era when justice was found far from the courthouse. Sept ...

At 102 years old, Lindo “Jaco” Giacopuzzi was the last living member of the LAPD gangster squad, which was assembled in 1946 to try to stop organized crime figures from eastern cities f… ...

USA TODAY review: ** out of four Cast: Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling, Josh Brolin, Nick Nolte, Emma Stone Rated R; runtime: 1 hour, 53 minutes; opens Friday nationwide A bullet-riddled bloodbath with an ...

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 throwback in nearly every sense, "Gangster Squad" takes place in the glamorous Los Angeles of 1949, a time of Tommy guns, Zippo lighters and felt fedoras. Its script, too, feels old enough to ...

Gangster Squad doesn’t have an original idea in its dizzy, derivative head. It looks art-deco yummy, swanning around 1949 Los Angeles as mobster Mickey Cohen (Penn), ...

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 ...

Gangster Squad, a star-studded period drama based on the LAPD's real-life 1940s offensive against gangster Mickey Cohen, had garnered a small amount of Oscar buzz in the weeks leading up to its ...

The period setting, interpersonal drama between actors like Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Sean Penn, and Josh Brolin, and exciting set pieces make Gangster Squad an incredibly watchable film, even if ...

And, with “Gangster Squad,” Fleischer and his screenwriter, Will Beall (working from a nonfiction book by Paul Lieberman), simply put together a yarn as if the wool came from no living sheep ...