Prophet a ’70’s-Style Gangster Epic

Agreeing at the insistence of a Corsican Mob boss to suck and then slash a fellow inmate, newly jailed Malik El Djebena (Tahar Rahim) — poor, illiterate, a “dirty Arab” in the prison’s racist pecking order — gets what’s coming to him but in a good way. Indeed, crime pays…

The Real Boiler Room

Robert “Brother Rob” Christensen began trading in foreign currency in February 1998, and it didn’t take long before he was making a killing. Or so it seemed. By his own reckoning the $135,000 he had invested with a South Florida trading firm had ballooned in value to more than a…