Sentences with phrase «about gangs»

A powerful and entertaining film about a gang of girls, and what friendship means, the protection it provides.
You must not have one bit of understanding about gang culture.
The mayor was so concerned about gang violence in the city that he had certain liquor stores and gang - heavy communities closed, he told CBS News in July.
City and state officials have traded insults in a series of letters in recent weeks, and on Monday, the city accused the state of deliberately trying to make the de Blasio administration look bad by leaking a report about a gang rape in an adult men's homeless shelter (which turned out to be false, according to the city) to a news outlet before investigating to find out whether or not it had actually happened.
Jacob is goofy, flippant, cheeky, and is more concerned about his gang and toys while his sister fulfills her oath.
Walt's column this week was all about the Gang of Five — Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Facebook — and how they dominate the tech industry.
Or if you do dishonorable things and you go in and everyone knows you're a bad guy, does that make sense with the story that we're telling about a gang that's being chased through the map by the law?
«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.
It was a role - playing game that benefited greatly from the comic talents of Tim Schafer and the rest of the team, with a charming story about a gang of trick and treaters fending off an invasion of sweetie - stealing monsters.
THE TOWN is a crime drama about a gang who's robbing banks in Boston and it stars, Ben Affleck (Dogma), Jon Hamm (Mad Men), Rebecca Hall (Vicky Cristina Barcelona) and Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker).
The Hurricane Heist (PG - 13 for action, violence, destruction, profanity and suggestive material) Action thriller about a gang of computer hackers who conspire to steal $ 600 million from the U.S. Treasury during a Category 5 hurricane.
«Foxfire» French filmmaker Laurent Cantet, who helmed Palme d'Or winner «The Class,» takes on a quintessentially American tale in this adaptation of the Joyce Carol Oates novel about a gang of young women in the 1950s.
To the extent that the film has a narrative, it's an overly familiar one — just your basic cautionary tale about gang life.
«I'm always pressing him to do more about the gangs and MS - 13 on Long Island, and it's obviously an issue that's important to him, and a priority for the president,» King said.
«Dead in Tombstone»: Direct - to - video action film about a gang leader (Danny Trejo) who is killed by his own men and sentenced to damnation.
I explained to him that they are probably not rapping about gang banging and gun running, but about Jesus.
Several people were arguing about gang violence and high school drop out rates and one guy kept saying:
Encourage you to talk openly with your child about gangs, drugs, and sex.
Last week the Wentworth Junior High School PTA began a program to educate parents about gangs.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, left, with Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone, talks about gangs and new legislation he will propose to eradicate them at Central Islip High School on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017.
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.
We need to do something about gang violence,» said Assemblyman Joseph Lentol (D - Brooklyn).
New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo meets with Evelyn Rodriquez, mother of victim Kayla Cuevas, at Central Islip High School Wednesday, where he spoke about gangs and new legislation he will propose in the fight to eradicate them.
«What has always disturbed me the most about these gangs is they prey on the weakest, right?»
Troche wants to create a website for students to post anonymously about gang activity within the school.
«Media and popular culture have led to misconceptions about gangs and gang membership, chief among them the myth of permanence, as reflected in the quote from West Side Story - «When you're a Jet, you're a Jet all the way, from your first cigarette to your last dyin» day».»
It's only as the film inevitably segues into its mystery - oriented midsection that it slowly - but - surely becomes a seriously dull piece of work, as there's simply nothing interesting or intriguing about the gang's ongoing investigation into what happened - with the tediousness of this stretch exacerbated by the unpleasant and downright seedy nature of the movie's locale.
The source material, a novella - sized newspaper article about a gang of murderous beefcake criminals, doesn't exactly reflect the more light - hearted, potentially «Fargo «- esque tone of the final film.
The Proposition is an extremely violent — and yet surprisingly thoughtful — work about a gang of violent brothers and the lawman who seeks to apprehend them.
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
It's an epic about gang wars in mid-1800s New York City which features only two major battles, and one of them is interrupted before the fighting can actually begin.
Rites of Spring (Unrated) Payback horror flick about a gang of kidnappers whose plan to kidnap the daughter of a wealthy businessman goes horribly wrong when they have the tables turned on them by a relentless killing machine.
The incredible trailer, incomprehensible and so batshit - crazy you can't help but grin, looks like it'll be an uber - violent story about gang warfare with hip - hop musical numbers thrown in for good measure.
And there's this chestnut about this gang of «crooked arrows» — Each one is different.
Red Dead Redemption 2 is an open - world Western game about a gang of criminals led by a man named Dutch van der Linde.
Also, with the release of the gang documentary «Crips and Bloods: Made in America,» Peter Hartlaub checks in with a piece about gangs portrayed in the movies (Page 22).
American Honey is an extreme road movie about a gang of teens selling magazine subscriptions door to door, state to state, in the Midwest.
It proceeds to look at facts and statistics about gangs, then a case study of Rhys Jones.
If Northwestern University researcher Greg J. Duncan and his colleagues hadn't used more than one research method to study an anti-poverty experiment in Milwaukee, they would never have known about the gangs and the sneakers.
«So, if you're sitting there, and you're a black male from New Orleans, and you're looking at Brandon [Mercadel], and you're inundated with negative images about black males, and messages about gang violence in New Orleans... you can't help but look at him and believe there are alternative narratives that can exist for you.»
This resource is designed to provide parents with answers to common questions about gangs and to help them recognize and prevent gang involvement.
The second part is a prequel, in which the player is to learn about the gang of Van Der Linde, in which John Marston was.
«It's an admittedly extreme example, but think about gangs — where people will literally kill to stay in the tribe,» Comaford points out.
How about the gangs, prostitutes, and drug dealers?
Bill told the crowd, «The difference in crime in the two cities is all about gangs, and with all due respect to Martin Scorsese, the gangs of New York are nothing compared to the gangs of LA.»
the greatest thing about gangs is the way the «old way» of corruption ruling the lands slowly collides with the new way of order and reform as the movie slowly winds to a head as it goes on.
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