LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Aiming for the mythical rise-and-destruction territory of crime films like "Scarface," writer-director Cess Silvera delivers an empty, bullet-riddled exploitation ...

Writer-director Cess Silvera is in talks to direct rapper T.I. in “Grand Hustle.” Silvera, who scripted the drama, also is weighing offers for “Shottas 2,” a film he’s written and will direct that ...

The Shottas are one of the leading criminal groups in Colombia’s port city of Buenaventura. The group gained notoriety due to its fierce and violent rivalry with the city’s other principal criminal ...

The most violent and gun filled streets of Kingston, Jamaica seem like a day at a Beverly Hills’ spa, when compared to the unscrupulous and underhanded dealings of some in the film industry. Don’t ...

The residents of Buenaventura hide after nightfall as a deadly war between rival gangs brings terror to their doorstep - Copyright AFP Joaquin SARMIENTO The residents ...

Kicking around the festival circuit since its 2002 completion, Cess Silvera’s ganja gangsta dud follows a couple of shottas (Jamaican gangsters, for those of you who aren’t shottas) as they blast, ...

Newly installed police commissioner, Rear Admiral Hardley Lewin yesterday warned the nation’s criminals to put down their guns and give up a life of crime or face the consequences. At the same time, ...

In our series ‘The Films That Made Us’, we take a look back at the films that have shaped British music over the last three decades. In this third edition, we talk to pioneering grime producer/DJ Sir ...

Shottas actor and performing artist Louie Rankin has died. He was 66. Rankin, whose real name is Leonard Ford, was involved in a collision with a transport truck in Shelburne, Ont., Ontario Provincial ...