When “Boulevard Nights” opened in early 1979, it was one of several major studio films — along with “The Warriors,” The Wanderers,” and “Over the Edge” — to take on gang violence as its primary ...

It’s Christmas 2017 and my dad’s eyes explode as he unwraps a DVD of the 1979 film Boulevard Nights, a film he’s talked about for years until my brother finally gifted him a copy. My father raised us ...

Forty years ago this summer, in 1979, Warner Bros released “Boulevard Nights,” a film that centers around a fatherless Mexican-American family living in East Los Angeles. After film discussion led by ...

Kid brother Chuco (Danny De La Paz) is a sullen low-rider still caught up in the life. Despite their differences, their family bond is strong. But that bond is violently tested when rivals challenge ...

The director of the 1979 drama, which was barely released before its inclusion in the National Film Registry and coronation by Quentin Tarantino, looks back as the movie is released on Blu-ray for the ...