It’s time for the punks to meet the godfathers. The creators of SopranosCon merged with MobMovieCon for a family celebration. From July 23 to July 25, Harrah’s Resort & Casino in Atlantic City will house the boardwalk’s biggest gangster gathering since Nucky Johnson hosted the mob’s Atlantic City Conference in 1929.
“Al Capone will not be coming though,” VirtualCons CEO Michael Mota tells Den of Geek. “Those were the mobsters. I would say this would be the biggest gathering of mobster wannabes.” The Sopranos fan convention has come a long way since it was dreamed up by three gangster movie aficionados from New York, Maryland, and Rhode Island. The 2019 SopranosCon drew thousands of fans from as far as The Netherlands and the United Kingdom to the Meadowlands Exposition Center in Secaucus. A planned expansion to MobMovieCon had to be pushed back because of the pandemic, but the organizers introduced VirtualCons...
“Al Capone will not be coming though,” VirtualCons CEO Michael Mota tells Den of Geek. “Those were the mobsters. I would say this would be the biggest gathering of mobster wannabes.” The Sopranos fan convention has come a long way since it was dreamed up by three gangster movie aficionados from New York, Maryland, and Rhode Island. The 2019 SopranosCon drew thousands of fans from as far as The Netherlands and the United Kingdom to the Meadowlands Exposition Center in Secaucus. A planned expansion to MobMovieCon had to be pushed back because of the pandemic, but the organizers introduced VirtualCons...
- 7/22/2021
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
Here's a look at an upcoming new feature film, from writer/director/producer Tony Lindsay, titled "Where Hearts Lie" - his directorial debut. Starring newcomers Alex C. Mulzac and Erin Sanderson, with Clifton Powell, Malik Yoba and Taral Hicks, Tanya Thompson (also associate producer) and others rounding out the cast, the synopsis for "Where Hearts Lie" reads as follows: "A young Brooklyn based real estate mogul in the making unwittingly gambles his success, sanity, and the safety of his young child, when he falls for the wrong woman. 'Where The Heart Lies" is a drama/thriller that delves into...
- 2/2/2015
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Cert 15 / Region B / Running Time 121 mins
Robert De Niro’s 1993 directorial debut tells the story of Calogero Anello, the young son of morally strong bus driver Lorenzo Anello who is trying to bring his son up with a solid sense of right and wrong but living in the Bronx does’t make that an easy thing. After Calogero witnesses a shooting by local gangster Sonny (Chazz Palminteri) and does’t rat him out to the cops, young Calogero is taken under the wing of a gang leader and given an inside look at the world of the local crime scene.
As Calogero grows up the two father figures in his life struggle with each other’s mentoring of the teenager. Calogero himself begins to see the problems with his neighbourhood slim view of the world after he befriends a local black girl, Jane Williams (Taral Hicks) and as the racial...
Robert De Niro’s 1993 directorial debut tells the story of Calogero Anello, the young son of morally strong bus driver Lorenzo Anello who is trying to bring his son up with a solid sense of right and wrong but living in the Bronx does’t make that an easy thing. After Calogero witnesses a shooting by local gangster Sonny (Chazz Palminteri) and does’t rat him out to the cops, young Calogero is taken under the wing of a gang leader and given an inside look at the world of the local crime scene.
As Calogero grows up the two father figures in his life struggle with each other’s mentoring of the teenager. Calogero himself begins to see the problems with his neighbourhood slim view of the world after he befriends a local black girl, Jane Williams (Taral Hicks) and as the racial...
- 6/23/2012
- by Marcus Doidge
- Obsessed with Film
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Why are kidnapping victims always so pretty? Hollywood.com ponders this and other difficult questions as Amanda Seyfried is out on a double mission of rescue and revenge in the new kidnapping thriller, "Gone."
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- 2/25/2012
- by Bryan Enk
- NextMovie
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