With 'Mafia Is Not What It Used to Be,' Palermo-born satirist Franco Maresco has made a sequel of sorts to his 2014 mockumentary 'Belluscone.' By Boyd van Hoeij In 2014, Sicilian satirist Franco ...

ROME – RAI Com has sold U.S. rights to bittersweet Mafia-themed comedy “The Mafia Kills Only in Summer” by Sicilian TV satirist-turned-helmer Piefrancesco Diliberto, known as PIF, to New York-based ...

In his impressive directorial debut, Italian TV star Pierfrancesco Diliberto finds unlikely comedy in the murderous criminal underworld of his native Sicily. By Stephen Dalton The Mafia Only Kills in ...

Veteran docmaker Kim Longinotto turns her lens on veteran Italian photojournalist Letizia Battaglia, leaving us with more admiration than insight. “I wasn’t a real person,” Letizia Battaglia says of ...

In November 1993, 11-year-old Giuseppe Di Matteo was abducted by the Sicilian Mafia in order to silence his father, a gangster who had become a "pentito", or turncoat. Acting on the orders of Mafia ...

Marco Bellocchio’s “The Traitor” is a sturdy if somewhat uninspiring Mafia biopic. As Tommaso Buscetta, the real-life turncoat who helped put 366 different Mafiosi in jail, actor Pierfrancesco Favino ...

John Hitchcock graduated from the University of Toronto with a degree in film studies and previously wrote on his own blog. He also specializes in nature and virtual photography and does art in Source ...

But former prosecutors said the mafia's influence and activities have changed since its heyday in the 20th century, when ...

A certain fatigue had set in for the multiplatinum-selling electronic dance music act Swedish House Mafia in 2012. By the three members’ own estimate, they had partied hard five days a week for six ...