"Las Vegas"

1995 · Martin Scorsese · 178 min · Crime / Drama

Casino is Martin Scorsese working at full operational scale, a 178-minute chronicle of how greed, ego, and love brought down the mob's last great enterprise. Robert De Niro anchors the film with controlled precision, Joe Pesci brings terrifying volatility, and Sharon Stone delivers career-best work as the woman caught between them. It lives permanently in the shadow of Goodfellas, and the runtime demands real commitment, but the film's meticulous reconstruction of Las Vegas in its mob-run golden age is a feat of filmmaking craft that rewards every minute of patience.

2000 · 15 Seasons · CBS · Crime, Drama, Procedural

CSI transformed television crime drama by making forensic science the star of the show, and its early seasons remain some of the most compelling procedural television ever produced. The Grissom era established a tone and visual style that spawned an entire genre of imitators, and while the show's quality declined as lead actors departed and the formula grew repetitive, the first seven or eight seasons deliver a standard of forensic storytelling that few shows have matched since.