Sentences with phrase «about mobster»

Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall again co-star in this drama about a mobster, played by Edward G. Robinson, who commandeers a hotel in Key Largo at the tip of Florida, in order to return to the United States and resume his criminal undertakings.

Revolver (R for nudity, profanity and violence) Guy Ritchie and Luc Besson collaborated on this crime saga about a mobster casino owner (Ray Liotta) who orders a hit on a lucky gambler (Jason Statham) who has beaten him in a private game.

The first part, however, is about the mobster, Palmetto (a typically loopy Vincent D'Onofrio), whose lust for glory nearly gets him bumped off but then bizarrely turns him into a tree - preservation advocate.

The much talked about mobster film landed the most massive deal to come out of Cannes this year.

The complaint is also full of some colorful details, including the fact that Percoco referred to cash payments as «ziti,» which was lifted from the HBO series «The Sopranos,» which, incidentally, was about mobsters.

This is a movie about mobsters.

Not exact matches

«The offshore system is ultimately not about celebrity tax exiles and mobsters,» Shaxson writes.

How about all the little mobsters that can't help being so weak with the group think doin'the overpowerin», callin» home like ET??

I recall a bunch of articles about how because a bunch of local Irish mobsters are invested in the amateur boxing scene, he knows a lot them through crossed - paths, for certain.

Long before a deranged doctor opened fire inside Bronx - Lebanon Hospital, the place was under an ongoing federal corruption probe, mobsters controlled the construction of its new outpatient center, executives were enjoying million - dollar pay packages and fat bonuses, doctors were allegedly offered per - patient bounties to drum up clinic business, and whistleblowing staffers sounded the alarm about poor patient care but were ignored.

Operation Odessa: Operation Odessa is a true crime documentary about a Russian mobster, a Miami playboy and a Cuban spy who sold a Soviet submarine to a Colombian drug cartel for $ 35 million.

So says professional killer Jackie Cogan at one point in Killing Them Softly, the third film by New Zealander Andrew Dominik - and considering the filmmaker's efforts to establish a connection between the events in the movie and the economic crisis started in the late 2000s thanks to the greed and lack of scruples of Wall Street, it is easy to see Cogan as an ordinary employee of any company complaining about the lack of vision of his bosses and, on the other hand, the big bankers as Armani - dressing versions of the violent mobsters who inhabit the crime section of the newspapers.

Under Waintrop, Directors» Fortnight has unveiled some of the most talked - about of titles in any Cannes section, whether Houda Benyamina's «Divines» in 2016, Sean Baker's «Florida Project» last year, or this year's opener and critical favorite, Ciro Guerra's «Birds of a Passage,» a desert mobster saga which delivers a premonitory take on how the drug trade consolidated in and ended up destroying Colombia.

«Gangster Squad» is a deliberately retro crime thriller about the rise and fall of Los Angeles mobster Mickey Cohen, played by Sean Penn with such twisted relish that at times he resembles a gargoyle — or maybe Gollum.

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).

Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: Hong Kong Hit Men Chase Macao Mobster in High - Octane Chopsocky It is Macao in 1998, just before the former Portuguese colony is about to be transferred back to Chinese rule.

Incompatible fugitive recovery agents, the flighty Jersey Bellini (Michael Dudikoff) and his more serious - minded female partner, B.B. (Lisa Howard), have, for the last time, ticked off mobster Wald (Tony Curtis) by apprehending his rather inept henchmen just as they are about to commit a robbery or kill one of Wald's enemies.

Rian Johnson's Looper is a smart and unique science fiction film set in the future about time travel that is controlled by mobsters.

The only character who truly cares about the play (and art more generally) is mobster Cheech (Chazz Palminteri).

Let the Bullets Fly (Unrated) Action comedy, set in China in the Twenties, about a notorious crime boss (Wen Jiang) who poses as the newly - appointed mayor of a provincial town until he meets his match in a local mobster (Chow Yun - Fat).

Scott Cooper's bleak and atmospheric drama about real - life Boston mobster Whitey Bulger ushers in the 2016 awards season.

Operation Odessa: From the director and producers of «The Seven Five» comes this true crime documentary about a Russian mobster, a Miami playboy and a Cuban spy who sold a Soviet submarine to a Colombian drug cartel for $ 35 million.

Peter Benchley's Jaws is a poorly written beach read, loaded with nonsense subplots about local mobsters.

The formidable matriarch laid waste to a gang of Russian mobsters in defence of Moore Street, but should have been more concerned about the stale jokes and cartoon characters that surrounded her.

In addition, Bullz - Eye is currently running a «Boardwalk Empire» contest asking our Facebook friends to tell us about their favorite cinematic mobsters.

Behind it was the Wanda film «Detective Chinatown 2,» an action comedy about a pair of detectives who travel to New York's Chinatown to investigate who killed a mobster's son.

Fortunately, the carrot - chomping hobo happens to be a military veteran well - versed in weapons and martial arts combat, a set of skills about to come in very handy since he's just unknowingly ticked - off Hertz (Paul Giamatti), a ruthless mobster with a gang of cutthroat assassins.

Lorna's Silence (R for nudity, sexuality and profanity) Crime caper, set in Belgium, about an Albanian immigrant (Arta Dobroshi) who hatches a diabolical plan with a mobster (Fabrizio Rongione) to marry and then murder a Belgian heroin addict (Jeremie Renier) so that a Russian mafia kingpin seeking citizenship can assume his identity.

Swerve (R for violence, profanity, sexuality and nudity) Aussie crime thriller about a Good Samaritan (David Lyons) who ends up on the run from a ruthless hit man (Travis Hitman) and a crooked cop (Jason Clarke) after stopping to help a gun moll (Emma Booth) with a suitcase of cash at the scene of a car accident which claimed the life of her mobster beau.

When it's among men, however, as in an early scene where Vail visits a mobster and a city alderman to secure testimony, or another where he rejects the sanctimony of former boss DA Shaughnessy (John Mahoney) over Chinese food, Primal Fear lives up to its title's promise to be about the wet places in the male's lizard brain.

He becomes this monster of monsters, a mobster who reminds us that there's nothing glamorous about «Thug Life,» nothing romantic about stone cold criminals who turn their limited intellects toward the illegal, whose sole «code» is self - preservation.

Compadres (Unrated) Unlikely - buddies action thriller about a disgraced ex-cop (Omar Chaparro) who joins forces with a young hacker (Joey Morgan) to exact revenge on the mobster (Erick Elias) who kidnapped his girlfriend (Aislinn Derbez) and framed him for a crime he didn't commit.

Our Kind of Traitor (R for violence, sexuality, frontal nudity, brief drug use and pervasive profanity) Adaptation of the John le Carre international thriller of the same name about a naive Britsh couple (Ewan McGregor and Naomie Harris) duped into helping a powerful Russian mobster (Stellan Skarsgard) while vacationing in Morocco.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Brighton Rock (Unrated) Remake of the 1947 crime thriller based on Graham Greene's classic novel about a ruthless hoodlum (Sam Riley) who romances the gullible waitress (Rose Riseborough) scheduled to testify after witnessing him murder a rival mobster (Sean Ellis).

Safe (R for profanity and graphic violence) Action thriller about a retired Mixed Martial Arts fighter (Jason Statham) who comes to the rescue of a 12 year - old Chinese girl (Catherine Chan) who's been abducted by the same mobsters who murdered his wife and children.

During the early part of the film, the story focuses on Bulger's power but then it becomes more about the relationship between Bulger and John Connolly (Joel Edgarton), the FBI agent who used Bulger as an informant but who ultimately became corrupted by the mobster's influence.

Directed by Ariel Vromen, The Iceman is a biopic about a contract killer (Shannon) caught between his family life and his loyalty to a local mobster.

The feature then traces Connolly, who grew up with Whitey and his brother Billy (Benedict Cumberbatch), feeding the mobster information about possible informants.

Bitch Slap (R for brutal violence, graphic sexuality, pervasive profanity and brief drug use) Campy crime caper about a trio of curvaceous lipstick lesbians, a stripper with a heart of gold (Julia Voth), a corrupt corporate executive (Erin Cummings) and a man - hating assassin (America Olivo), who hatch a plan to extort $ 200 million worth of diamonds from a ruthless mobster (Michael Hurst).

Mr. Right (R for violence and pervasive profanity) Romantic comedy about a woman (Anna Kendrick) who becomes smitten with an intriguing suitor (Sam Rockwell) unaware that he's a professional hit man on the run from miffed mobsters.

Savage Dog (Unrated) Action thriller about a just - paroled boxer's (Scott Adkins) quest for revenge against the mobsters responsible for mutfrting a loved one.

They talk about the hunger they endure because of their lack of money, of how tiring and long the journey is (particularly the parts they go walking), of the extortion of authorities and mobsters, the risk of being kidnapped and sold as slaves, and even organ traffic in the black market, the risks of being inhumanly robbed and / or murdered.

For all it's mobster looks and massive power, the 2010 Chrysler 300S suffers from the same problems that plagued the film about transforming robots.

I read stories about detectives and mobsters and fairies and moms and zookeepers and veterans.

Amy is a military spouse and brat who spent many years volunteering and on staff for the Army National Guard, and who has a propensity for writing about alpha - male mobsters.

I, for one, am ecstatic about Mafia III «s take on the classic mobster revenge tale and I found Vito to be a fairly likable guy through the course of Mafia II, so I'm happy to see him make a return.

In the very beginning of the trailer Dominick talks about what's important to a mobster, «Extortion, racketeering, blackmail, these are the tools of the mobster, without them, my reputation on the streets is worth nothing...» This must be some of the RPG elements EA is promising to bring to the famous movie franchise.

I wrote last month about how much I was looking forward to this idea and now that the first episode of the game, «Realm of Shadows», has been released, you can watch me guide Bruce through his first adventures as he throws a fundraising party for Harvey Dent's mayoral campaign and works with Selina Kyle to solve the mystery behind mobster Carmine Falcone's criminal empire.

The conversation is about the murder of a Las Vegas mobster by the name of Moe Green.