Sentences with phrase «get shorty»

The first titles available will include movies like Goldeneye, The Spy Who Loved Me, Star Trek Beyond, and Transformers: The Last Knight, as well as Epix original series Get Shorty.

As Bo says in Get Shorty:

Four more novels are available in the six - dollar range, and there's even a three - novel collection that you can purchase for just $ 9.99 — the «Elmore Leonard Classic 3 - Book Collection,» which bundles together Get Shorty, Tishomingo Blues, and Killshot.

We discussed Jake's first novel, The Big Mango (an excellent stand alone novel) which the late great actor, James Gandolfini (The Sopranos, Get Shorty, and more) wanted to make it into a movie and play Eddie Dare.

Delacorte Press will publish Be Cool, the follow - up to Get Shorty, in February 1999.

Each of his novels since then — Bandits, Touch, Freaky Deaky, Killshot, Get Shorty, Maximum Bob, Rum Punch, Pronto, Riding the Rap, Out of Sight and Cuba Libre — has been a national bestseller as well as a critical success.

An alternative is to get shorty headers which will mate up to your stock exhaust.

Unfortunately, Gary is so determined to outdo Get Shorty, not only in laughs, but in the homages to other movies, that the tone of the film is so rife with constant distractions, and the proper tone is never achieved.

Frank clinched his reputation as a screenwriter with his witty adaptations of the Elmore Leonard novels «Get Shorty» (1995) and «Out of Sight» (1999).

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Following ten years after Get Shorty, Be Cool is the second installment in the Chili Palmer saga, adapted from the novel by Elmore Leonard.

The studio just released three new movie stills featuring Nicole Scherzinger As Lily Poison in the upcoming film «Men in Black III» aka Men in Black 3D from director Barry Sonnenfeld (Get Shorty, Men in Black II) stars Will Smith (Seven Pounds), Alice Eve (Dolly Dimple, Sex and the City 2), Tommy Lee Jones, Emma Thompson, Rip Torn and Josh Brolin.

He played a gay Samoan bodyguard in ill - advised Get Shorty sequel Be Cool, which was hailed as a bold move at the time, but he's lost in a big ensemble and a crappy script.

It would be tough to out - cool John Travolta's portrayal of a mobster with Hollywood dreams in Barry Sonnenfeld's 1995 comedy - thriller Get Shorty.

After all, Sonnenfeld also gave us the excellent Addams Family movies and Get Shorty.

Returning from directing the first two movies is Barry Sonnenfeld (Wild, Wild West / Get Shorty).

Depending on the country, it's being released as the book's name of The Death and Life of Bobby Z, or the less ponderous, Let's Kill Bobby Z, but the way it plays in terms of playful tone and visual style, another fitting title could rightfully be Get Shorty for Dummies.

I guess that's Barry Sonnenfeld's schtick: I've felt emotionally distanced from his other films like Get Shorty and Men in Black II, and I really only get involved watching Men in Black because Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith pull me in with their charm.

Argo mixes in an uneasy balance of drama and humour as the introduction of the fake film («Argo») is brought in and the Get Shorty - style set up takes away from the serious threat Affleck showed in the opening scenes, taking the audience away from the threat in Iran at a crucial time.

Pulp Fiction aside, Get Shorty is probably the quintessential role for John Travolta as the coolest man in Hollywood.

Keke was at the event with Berlin Station co-star Ashley Judd and Get Shorty «s Chris O'Dowd during the EPIX panel.

«Get Shorty», «Broken Arrow», «Face Off», «Blow Out», «Grease», «Wild Hogs», «Old Dogs», «Swordfish», «The Shaggy Dog», «The Punisher», «Be Cool», «Shout»,...

The Buzz: Carries the strong odor of other movies — «Ocean's Eleven,» «Get Shorty,» etc. — but they were movies we liked, and the cast looks great, so what's the harm?

It doesn't alter the standard serial killer scenario, but writer - director Scott Frank knows his way around crime dramas: Seven of his first eight screenplays (including «Out of Sight» and «Get Shorty») were crime - based, and he marches us forward with grim skill toward the melodramatic ending.

Among those are This is England, Get Shorty, Wendy & Lucy, Fort Apache, American Psycho, and Cool Hand Luke.

Frank, who also wrote the screenplay for Leonard's «Get Shorty,» seems to know the author inside and out.

The best is still Get Shorty (1995), which was written by Scott Frank, who also wrote the new film.

The Lookout is perhaps most notable for the directorial debut of Scott Frank, the screenwriter for the Oscar - nominated Out of Sight, as well as other notable thrillers like Minority Report and Get Shorty.

«Molly's Game» also stars Kevin Costner («Hidden Figures»), Michael Cera («Arrested Development») and Chris O'Dowd («Get Shorty»).

In any case, it is the sin that afflicts BE COOL, the sequel to GET SHORTY, a film that did not... Read More»

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Despite the rather poorly crafted screenplay and shoddy directing by Barry Sonnenfeld (Get Shorty, Addams Family Values), there's just enough entertainment value in the interesting ideas (mostly stemming from the obscure comic book) to squeeze out a good time watching.

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Epix's Get Shorty is adapting a slightly less acclaimed, but still beloved, mid -»90s film, and also taking the Fargo «inspired by» approach.

Here's a brand new movie poster for the upcoming film «Men in Black III» aka Men in Black 3D from director Barry Sonnenfeld (Get Shorty, Men in Black II) stars Will Smith (Seven Pounds), Alice Eve (Dolly Dimple, Sex and the City 2), Tommy Lee Jones, Emma Thompson, Rip Torn and Josh Brolin.

Dennis Farina, best known for brilliant supporting performances in the likes of MANHUNTER, MIDNIGHT RUN and GET SHORTY, passed away in Scottsdale, Arizona at age 69.

Minority Report does so many things so well from the terrific concepts of Dick, the superb screenplay by Scott Frank (Get Shorty, Out of Sight), the always impressive directing of Spielberg, the convincing acting of Cruise, and outstanding special effects, that it comes as a bit of a surprise that a home run isn't hit here.

The problem, though, is that where Get Shorty gave the movie industry a satirical savaging the likes of which had not been seen since Robert Altman's «The Player», «Be Cool», is just too amiably daft to be truly biting.

Viewers expecting from this another, better «Get Shorty» will just get short - changed.

So said mob - debtcollector - turned - movie - producer Chili Palmer (John Travolta) in Get Shorty (1996), Barry Sonnenfeld's hilarious film adaptation of Elmore Leonard's Hollywood - baiting novel.

Working with Jersey Films on both Get Shorty and Out of Sight, they even included me in marketing meetings, everything.

Here's a brand new TV trailer for the upcoming film «Men in Black III» aka Men in Black 3D from director Barry Sonnenfeld (Get Shorty, Men in Black II) stars Will Smith (Seven Pounds), Alice Eve (Dolly Dimple, Sex and the City 2), Tommy Lee Jones, Emma Thompson, Rip Torn and Josh Brolin.

The long - awaited sequel to «Get Shorty» was not, sadly, worth the wait.

But the nature of the award has also generally allowed for some outside - the - box thinking, witnessed in nominations for «Get Shorty,» «The Bourne Supremacy» and «Iron Man,» among others over the years.

Epix released the first trailer for its upcoming adaptation of Get Shorty and it looks pretty darn good.

Get Shorty — Stylish comedy with John Travolta as a gangster trying to break into the movie business.

«It's essentially a satire on Hollywood, basically telling us Hollywood is a terrible place, not that anyone who had seen Sunset Boulevard fifty years ago, or the play, or Get Shorty, or The Canyons last year didn't know!»

That aside, «Get Shorty» is one of those great, all - too - rare movies which has an understanding of what it means to be cool, but doesn't use it as its driving force.

There's gambling, guns, and plenty of gangsters, but I won't go into the plot much more than that, as one of the most enjoyable parts of «Get Shorty» is the way it effortlessly moves from one comic hitch to the next.

Edition Reviewed: (Released 22nd February 2005) Get Shorty (Special Edition) Amazon UK Get Shorty (Special Edition) Amazon.Com DVD Extras Rating: 7/10