In its overwhelmingly artificial depiction of the street gangs that ruled Brooklyn's mean streets in the 1950s, "Deuces Wild" draws from a phony deck. The most antiquated aspects of "West Side Story" ...

In Deuces Wild, a ’50s gangster film, director Scott Kalvert (Basketball Diaries) tells a coming-of-age story with a tone that varies between nostalgia and regret. If only it didn’t make you feel such ...

It’s back to ’50s once again in “Deuces Wild,” an unintentional comedy about Brooklyn street gangs, sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll in the summer the Dodgers fled town for Los Angeles. The most amusing ...

In war movies, there are two kinds of violence. There’s the brutally honest, ground-level look at war that you find in a film like Saving Private Ryan. And there’s the borderline-pornographic violence ...

The face cards of Deuces Wild are rebels with causes. Leon Anthony (Stephen Dorff, Cecil B. Demented) is the king of a club (well, gang) who call themselves the Deuces. They rule half of Sunset Park ...

In 1950s New York City, a bad and bloody gang war is about to erupt on the dysfunctional streets of Brooklyn between the Deuces and the vicious Vipers.

It’s entirely possible to take a stale and calcified old story — a ’50s neighborhood gang saga replete with murder, revenge and illicit love, for instance — and revitalize it, or at least make it ...

takes place in Brooklyn in the summer of 1958, the year after the Dodgers left for Los Angeles and, as a voice-over tells us, "the streets of Sunset Park ran red." The two events aren't connected, ...

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”But it’s not this drive-by-and-kill-someone stuff gangs do today.” So far, Deuces has been anything but wild, idling on MGM’s shelf since spring 2001. Kalvert, however, insists his $10 million ...