One of the most chilling things in Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York is a sound. The "chink chink" of a man tapping his glass eyeball - with the blade of a knife. He's underlining his point.

What is Gangs of New York About? In 1863, Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points of America to seek vengeance against the psychotic gangland kingpin, Bill the Butcher, who murdered his father ...

I have to really push to go to movies. In 2002 I joked that I saw 75 movies, and 72 of them were "Gangs of New York." Sometimes I miss swaths of important projects that I have to find the time to ...