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 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 ...
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 ...