‘American Gangster’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan

The Rewatchables

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Tv & Film

4.6 • 13.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2025

⏱️ 117 minutes

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We celebrate movie no. 400 on The Rewatchables by revisiting Ridley Scott’s 2007 crime thriller, ‘American Gangster,’ starring Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Josh Brolin, and Chiwetel Ejiofor. Producers: Craig Horlbeck, Ronak Nair, and Chia Hao Tat Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The rewatchables, brought to by the Ringer Podcast Network,
0:02.4	where you can find the watch with Chris Ryan.
0:22.0	Still cranking it out. Yeah. Ben Lathan. You're on three podcasts now. Yeah. College football tailgate. We call it the Ringer Tailgate. It's college football podcast. Coming live on Saturdays. Yeah. Wednesdays as well, plus you're in higher learning. Plus midnight. Poo-poo! There you go.
0:22.5	Yeah.
0:23.2	Finally on board.
0:38.8	I'm Bill Simmons. This is the 400th movie we've done on the rewatchables. Wow. I was looking back at all the people. So, fantasy is in Tellerad, so he couldn't be here. But fantasy was a huge part of this podcast, really since we launched it in 2017.
0:40.0	We'll tell the story in a second.
0:43.6	Shea Serrano, Jason Getzsseone.
0:44.0	Yeah?
0:46.2	Really big parts of the first,
0:48.2	like first half of the feed.
0:52.1	Kyle Brandt, huge part of the last five years.
0:55.3	We've had Mallory and Dobbins and Wesley,
0:58.1	Copleman, Rosillo, Juliette.
1:00.1	All of them popped down many times.
1:01.3	Tarantino twice.
1:02.5	Three times.
1:03.5	I was getting to that.
1:03.9	Oh, sorry. Three times.
1:05.3	We've had some extended cameos from Joe,
1:08.5	Joanna Robinson,
1:09.8	Biguaz, Greenwald, Rembert, Chang, Mina Kimes, Logan Murdoch, Cousin Sal, Chuck Closterman, the Danys with Craig a couple times. We had Quentin Tarantino, Michael Mann, Bill Hader, Aaron Sorkin, Judd Apatow, Bill Lawrence, Jimmy Kimmel, all making memorable stop-by. Jennifer Lawrence was stopped by, not as memorable.
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