“As far back as I can remember,” Brooklyner Henry Hill’s voiceover confides, “I’ve always wanted to be a gangster.” In 1955, at age 11, Hill quit school and began his partial ascent up Mafia ranks, dutifully robbing and killing, keeping his mouth shut and ratting out nobody. Only half-Italian (the other half, Irish), he could […]

Someone with a cold heart, and whose literary tastes run to Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, its classical antecedents and Jacobean revenge tragedy, might savor the twisted flavor of writer-director Peter Greenaway’s The Cook the Thief his Wife & her Lover, which comes to us with a dash of neo-Augustan wit from the UK and France. It […]