Sentences with phrase «b&w gangster flick»

Writer and director Marcus Warren's debut film, The Heavy, has all you could ask for in a gangster flick: guns, grenades, torture, murder, drugs, corrupt politicians, dodgy cops and a beautiful heroine.

This is a sports film and a gangster flick in one, teased with the satire of a mockumentary but fueled by the frisson that this all happened pretty much as articulated.

We see him in a Chicago theatre, raptly registering every scene of a gangster flick, Manhattan Melodrama (the script won an Oscar) with Clark Gable and William Powell, before stepping out into the street to meet his death.

Few today will remember the uproar caused in some communities eighteen years ago because Quentin Tarantino planned to lauch an ultraviolent gangster flick, Pulp Fiction, on Christmas day.

Michael Mann's (Heat, Miami Vice) gangster flick with Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Billy Crudup and Oscar - winner Marion Cotillard (La Vie En Rose).

She made her film debut in Brian DePalma's 1987 gangster flick The Untouchables and went on to become the darling of the indie film world with her stunning turn in 1998's High Art, followed by strong roles in such lauded films as Far from Heaven, The Station Agent, and Pieces of April.

Just what we need — a good old fashioned gangster flick to heat up the cooling autumn days.

But if you're looking for some white knuckle, high - octane, Hollywood popcorn fun, and a satisfyingly pissed off Sean Connery to boot, then welcome to Brian De Palma and David Mamet's «The Untouchables,» one of cinema's premier gangster flicks, and deservedly so.

Tim Roth plays a take - no - prisoners, happy - to - tie - corpses - to - trees hit man in the upcoming British gangster flick The Liability, and here's the exclusive trailer to prove it.

If you like gangster flicks then I highly recommend checking Black Mass out.

But, all in all, «Layer Cake» gave me hope that, after several years of generic disappointment, there could still be life in the British gangster flick yet (and yes, Matthew, that IS what this is!).

And hey, Martin Scorsese's ferocious gangster flick is damn funny, when it isn't busy being terrifying, paranoid and ultraviolent.

And although Netflix clearly wants to secure that first Academy Award Win for Best Picture — and could possible achieve that with Martin Scorsese's forthcoming gangster flick, The Irishman — they're still in the business of putting as many eyeballs on their projects as possible.

Equally indebted to Martin Scorsese, Guy Ritchie, and Giorgio Armani, London Boulevard represents the apotheosis of style over substance, the kind of gangster flick where the cut of a killer's suit is as important as the motive for his crime.

Due to have been shooting by this point, Deadline reports that production on the gangster flick has been axed, with Benaroya Pictures shuttering the movie.

I went into this movie expecting an all - out British gangster flick.

We truly live in the era of reboots and remakes, as classic gangster flick Scarface will soon be revamped for modern audiences, if all goes according to plan.

Nevermind the terrible looping job, in which Humphrey's natural speaking voice (and Aussie accent) is replaced with a freaky deep baritone that sounds like it belongs to someone in a B&W gangster flick.

Watch our video review of the Tom Hardy starring gangster flick that's tearing it up in UK cinemas.

This fun, sweet and engaging flick mixed Rain Man with a dash of Big Lebowksi to create this terrific melange of gangster flick, sports drama and character piece.

And you'll likely start recalling other quality gangster flicks as you process this one.

Netflix's status as a powerhouse in movie industry has received another boost with the news that the streaming giant has landed Martin Scorsese's next film, a gangster flick featuring Robert De Niro titled The Irishman.The...

Fierce «Southie» loyalties and an unholy alliance between the FBI and the Winter Hill Gang, is the story explored in Scott Cooper's mostly effective gangster flick, Black Mass..

And then, just when you think it has left the gangster flick behind completely, the violence returns with an unexpected and devastating twist.

Number three in the Footsoldier saga is a prequel to the hateful 2007 Essex gangster flick that made DVD heroes out of real - life murderers.

If you've seen the amazing gangster flick Animal Kingdom or that creepy Joseph Gordon - Levitt character study Hesher or Nash's own 2009 neo-noir The Square, you've seen a Blue Tongue movie — and even if the group's arthouse 2.0 take on Ozploitation (or vice versa) somehow didn't leave you slack - jawed, you could appreciate the sheer piss - and - vinegar excitement behind its projects.

More beloved in England than here in the States (possibly due to British stalwart Mike Newell directing), this is one of the best gangster flicks of the modern era.

The three Hollywood legends are to bring another story to life on the big screen for the first time since 1995 after Scorsese's long - term editor Thelma Schoonmaker spilled that Pesci had agreed to a role in the gangster flick.

Instead, what we are left with is what feels and looks like a second - tier Scorsese gangster flick with genre conventions so generic and monotonous, you begin to feel as old as James Cagney.

Yates is apparently still attached, but with the Tom Hardy - starring gangster flick «Cicero» recently hiring a new writer, maybe his attention will turn to that.

Not exact matches

this flick overthrows the usual typecasting for humprey bogart and babara stanwyck, the former constantly as detective hero or gangster villain; the later freuently as self - assured heroine or shrewd femme fatale.

Illegal Tender is a tolerable but just OK flick about gangsters gunning for a mother and son (Wanda De Jesus and Rick Gonzalez); the former looking to finish previously unfinished business and getting a nasty surprise when the latter fight back.

The best Karloff / Lugosi teamup I've seen.Gangster's & a mad scientist trying to figure out where the $ $ $ at, A man who switches back & forth between a gangster & himself after a brain transplant.This flick is definitely something different

A new script for the flick, will teams DC's famous stable of superheroes, is being written by «Gangster Squad» scribe Will Beall

Two friends hit the road to escape some homicidal gangsters with a score to settle in this angsty Gen - X flick set against the backdrop of the mid -»90s grunge music scene.

Young auteurs took the western, the detective movie, the sci - fi flick, the gangster film, and even the «inspirational teacher» genre, and turned them into films as smart and subversive as those below.

Basically, though, the film noir flourished in and reflected a contemporary milieu; films noirs tended to have to do with the world of crime, whether overtly (police and FBI stories, private - eye flicks, gangster stories) or by extension — that is, films in which «the world of crime» proved to be inseparable from the world of nightclubs and cabarets, offices and tenements, cars and homes where private citizens might become, by accident or design, guilty souls.

Director Paul McGuigan, who so far has specialized in ultra-cool, ultra-modern flicks like The Acid House and Gangster No. 1, immerses himself almost completely in crude, muddy 14th century life, save for a few present - day editing techniques that jar the action from time to time.

I also liked the gangster music that played throughout the movie, similar to what you might typically hear in other heist flicks, like Ocean's Eleven and The Italian Job.

Gangster Squad is an okay flick, more of an entertainment than a motion picture.

After the tragedy in Colorado, Warner Bros decided something they needed to be done about their upcoming flick «Gangster Squad» being that...

Gangster Squad arrives on the scene a week after Lawless, which is also a hotly - anticipated period crime flick based on real events, that also comes armed with a killer cast.

Dignan, the twentysomething fuck - up played by Owen Wilson who leads his friends into this folly, fancies himself a gangster out of a»70s heist flick.

The two reunite for gritty crime flick ONLY GOD FORGIVES, a revenge thriller that sees Gosling play Julian, an ex - gangster / kickboxer, now living in Thailand after murdering a cop in his native US.

Over the summer, they offered up four projects for the director choose from: «Cicero,» a potential gangster franchise; the revitionist fairy tale flick «Fables ``; an adaptation of Jonathan Tropper «s «This Is Where I Leave You» and a multi-film take on Stephen King «s epic «The Stand.»

If there's a genre — sci - fi, western, gangster, thriller, comedy, film noir, buddy flick — that doesn't find its way into Solo, we must have missed it.

We have to admit that we're at least a little excited to check out Taraji P. Henson's upcoming action thriller Proud Mary; despite the not - especially - great sign of Sony skipping press screenings for the film, the idea of Henson gunning down a bunch of gangsters in a slickly edited action flick has an undeniable appeal.

If this was an east end gangster film or a zombies flick it would have a very different path to it's audience.