Sentences with phrase «about a gang who»

«Brigands,» widely regarded as one of the best unproduced screenplays of the last decade, is a rule - breaking western epic about a gang who plan to rob a town during an almighty storm, and its unique voice, fascinating characters and twisty plot certainly put Zahler on the map.

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While working for Indrik, before it was bought by Kaspersky, Stoyanov shared information about Russian criminal hacking gangs with American companies, including at least three firms that had contracts to provide services to U.S. spy agencies, people who had worked for each of those three companies said.

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I'm also getting a lot of enjoyment listening to the breathless hyperbole by Nancy «Armageddon» Pelosi, Chuck «Fake Tears» Schumer and the gang denouncing the bill, plus the stories by their allies in the press about the «victims» of tax reform, neglecting to mention the «victims» at AT&T, Wells Fargo and all who are being given immediate raises as a result of the measure.

Referring to a story in Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's book, Half the Sky, I write about Dina, a seventeen - year - old Congolese girl who was gang - raped by five men on her way home from working in the fields.

A bishop from Nigeria asked about the proper role of a parish priest when his flock is threatened by gangs of well - armed terrorists who have killed their friends and relatives.

It's funny How those who don't agree with Tebow's praying and so Forth, yet I've yet to see anything in all these comments About the Black lives matter gang who are disrupting the NFL.

The context of the speech was the previous month's riots across England, largely perpetrated by groups and gangs of apparently nihilistic youth, who seemed on the whole to be enjoying themselves rather than protesting about anything - except perhaps the meaningless of the world - view bequeathed to them.

I associated Ice Cube with a horrifyingly ridiculous speech I heard in a classroom by some handsome full - of - himself black 12th - grader, about how Ice Cube was his hero because he had inspired him to avoid crack and gangs, as if it were some heroic thing for this guy who apparently had pretty middle - class parents to avoid falling into those, and as if Ice Cube had not in fact glamorized the gang life, overt misogyny, etc..

«Mary Thomas is a woman who lived in poverty but cared enough about her kids to keep them away from dope pushers and gangs....

I could stock a shop with the number of fancy baby clothes I've shared with my own group, and know plenty of moms who feel the same way about their own neighborhood gang.

On Friday, Roberts wrote a letter to Banks saying that an OTDA inspector who inspected the Bellevue shelter for homeless adult men in Manhattan heard a story from a security guard about a gang rape that had happened there.

Critics say that Tom Connolly's role as a «special projects coordinator» for Kruger, who was part of the so - called Gang of Four in last year's Senate coup, raises serious questions about the independence of the Independence Party.

That's grossly overstated - by the time the sun set there were roving gangs of drunk men who were about as interested in the rights and wrongs of Brown's fiscal stimulus as I am in knitting jumpers.

«Piece together the different statements from Mr Farage and his gang and think about what it says: «working mothers aren't worth as much as men; life was better when there wasn't equality for gay and lesbian people; you feel safer when you don't have someone who is foreign living next door; the NHS should be privatised; rights at work, whether they come from Europe or from here, are simply a barrier to economic success.

Sarah Garland, a journalist who spent years writing about MS - 13 on Long Island, says this focus to provide aid to students rather than to go on an all - out offensive against MS - 13 might work better to end gang violence in Suffolk.

The foreign secretary's little - known book is about a gang of comedy terrorists who penetrate the heart of Parliament.

Carey Gabay, 43, who is the first deputy council at Empire State Development Corp., was critically injured after being shot in the head by a stray bullet after a gang dispute on Bedford Avenue near Montgomery Street at about 3:41 a.m. on Sept. 7, according to the police.

President Trump appeared to deliver a blistering attack on Mayor Bill de Blasio during a speech about the MS - 13 gang on Long Island on Friday, railing against a «pathetic mayor» who won't let cops do their jobs.

Officer Randolph Holder, 33, a Guyanese immigrant and five - year veteran of the force, was shot in the head when he and his partner confronted one of the suspected gang members who had robbed a man of his bike in an attempted getaway at East 102nd Street and the FDR Drive about 8:30 p.m., sources and police officials said.

The judge, who previously put Hassan on probation in another case, reviewed additional information about Hassan, including that law enforcement has designated him a suspected gang member.

Smith also expressed concern about the involvement of Tom Golisano, the Rochester billionaire who was initially involved in brokering a deal between Smith and the so - called «Gang of Four» dissident Democratic senators to appoint Smith majority leader.

Any kid who ever paged through The Magic School Bus at their school's book fair or watched the animated show on TV in the Nineties definitely fantasized about diving into the cells of the human body, just like Miss Frizzle and the gang did in the classic episode where Arnold turned orange.

«We had no idea about what the double - strand DNA would look like between the nanogold particles,» said Gang «Gary» Ren, a Berkeley Lab scientist who led the research.

It is Richard Talmadge times two in this low - budget action adventure about a young man, Dick Rainey, who switches places with Norman Gray, a look - alike thief out to double - cross the gang.

This is supposed to be about a ruthless biker gang yet no - one in the gang looks intimidating if you added some actors who are like 6» 4» and muscly but don't say anything it would improve it a lot.

Great crime story about 2 young Chinese immigrants who find themselves drawn into the world of gangs and violence.

Shoot «Em Up (Unrated) Clive Owen stars in this high - impact adventure about a mysterious loner who teams with a proverbial hooker (Monica Bellucci) with a heart of gold and lactating mammary to protect a stranger's newborn he's just delivered from a gang of hit men led by a bloodthirsty mobster (Paul Giamatti).

OPENING THIS WEEK by Kam Williams For movies opening August 24, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS Illegal Tender (R for violence, profanity and sexuality) Rick Gonzalez and Wanda De Jesus co-star in this graphic revenge saga about a college student who chooses to defend his family's honor after a ruthless gang kills his father and forces his mother to flee for her life.

Up there with The Goonies, Gremlins and the like, Fred Dekker's adventure about a brave neighborhood gang of kids who happen to be the only ones knowledgeable about taking on monsters will take you back and it's great to share with this generation.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, the team behind the recent Ed Helms - led Vacation movie — or the guys who wrote The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, if you're feeling mean — have sold a new series about sad adults fighting a teenage street gang to Fox.

The story is about a gang of psychopaths who kidnap and brutalize a couple of teenagers, before unwittingly staying overnight at the same house as one of the victim's parents.

Edgar Wright has saved the best for last in the final movie of his «Cornetto» trilogy about a gang of hapless men who feel alienated from their past

Yakin is no stranger to tales of crime, exploiting his talent in developing a story about a 14 - year - old with intimate knowledge of a small gang of gun smugglers, pursued not only by men who would like to see him dead but by a person he considered a pal who thinks twice and three times before shooting the otherwise bland lad.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Christmas in Wonderland (PG for crude language) Holiday comedy about a couple of kids from L.A. who find a million dollars of fake money in a Canadian mall and go on a shopping spree while being chased by a hapless gang of counterfeiters and a Canadian Mountie.

In September, we reported that Johnny Depp was set to star in a movie about Detective Russell Poole, the Los Angeles cop who has spent years trying to prove that there was some connection between the LAPD, various gangs, Suge Knight, and the murders of both Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls.

There are rumors about his past, from being a gang enforcer to being a former military operative who killed Saddam Hussein's sons.

Instead, it's about Nick Talman (Adrian Brody), whose father is being sought by the FBI and whose ill - gotten gains he chooses to invest in a unique startup; Phil Rask (Martin Freeman), the FBI agent who's got Talman's father in his sights; Izzy Morales (Otmara Marrero), the tech whiz behind a new online currency, and Ronald Dacey (Edi Gathegi), the number two man in Miami's preeminent Haitian gang.

Emma Watson stars in Sofia Coppola's real - life drama about the Bling Ring, a gang of fame - obsessed teenagers who broke into the homes of the rich and famous in LA.

; MEN AND CHICKEN, Anders Thomas Jensen's dark, twisted and extremely animalistic comedy as black as pitch, but with the sweetest heart, starring Mads Mikkelsen; Fernando León de Aranoa's black comedy A PERFECT DAY, a freewheeling tale centering on two veteran aid workers starring Benico Del Toro and Tim Robbins; the International Premiere of Brendan Cowell's debut RUBEN GUTHRIE about an advertising exec trying to quit the booze, which spikes social observations with dark, wounded humour and the European Premiere of Japanese auteur / icon Takeshi Kitano's latest comedy, RYUZO AND HIS SEVEN HENCHMEN, about a group of elderly, retired Yakuza who reteam to take revenge on a younger rival gang.

Taut Korean thriller about a high - tech police surveillance team who attempt to take down a gang of ruthless bank robbers.

Johnnie To is most famous for his «Election» films, gripping crime dramas about rival gangs and who controls them, but before he made those, he directed a film (with Wai Ka - Fai) that oozes charm, a clever narrative structure and excellent action sequences.

Harry Brown (R for sexuality, drug use, pervasive profanity and graphic violence) Revenge flick about a recently - widowed, law - abiding senior citizen (Michael Caine) who morphs into a crime - fighting vigilante after the street gang that murdered his best friend (David Bradley) gets off with a slap on the wrist.

Will Forte is excellent as the drug dealer who tells Rell and Clarence about the existence of the 17th Street Blips, a gang made up of outcasts from the Bloods and the Crips.

It was about a trio of teenage pupils — all called Heather — who co-opt very nice Veronica (Ryder) into their nasty gang.

The sexual tension between a curly - haired, side - whiskered Doc and the former prom queen - turned aspiring hippie starlet - turned kept woman is palatable, and fuels the fiction, yet, as any respectable PI, Doc meets a lot of available ladies throughout, whether he beds them or not: Jena Malone (a classic California blonde with a sordid heroin past), Reese Witherspoon (a hard - as - nail but o so classy deputy D.A.), Maya Rudolph (too sexy to be «just a receptionist»), Hong Chau (an employee of the «Chick Planet» massage parlour, who warns him about the Golden Fang gang), newcomer Sasha Fenway (as Japonica Fenway, a poor little rich girl who can't find enough mischief to commit), Yvette Yates (as the hot Chicana maid who thrusts her butt in Doc's direction while serving drinks to her mistress), Joanne Newsom (as the elusive Sortilège) and the fabulous Jeannie Berlin as Doc's I - know - it - all formidable auntie.

While we don't know much about Lenny besides his name, but in our demo he helped guilt Arthur into robbing a bank - so we know he's a member of the gang who believes in honor among thieves.

(In Hindi and English with subtitles) Shaolin (R for violence) Martial arts action flick about a Chinese warlord (Andy Lau) who temporarily becomes a monk to atone for his sins before returning to a life of violence to avenge the murder of his entire family by a rival gang.

By its very nature — it's a Part 2, after all — Goon: Last of the Enforcers may lack some of the invigorating freshness of the first film, but it was clearly made by people who care about Doug Glatt and his weird gang of friends, who don't mind getting super dirty for a good laugh, and who clearly have a serious obsession with the sport of hockey.