Sentences with phrase «around by his gangster»

After years being pushed around by his gangster friend Simone, Marcello finally cooks up an appropriately animalistic plan to get even.

Not exact matches

Reduced by Refn almost to the point of abstraction — it could have been called Notes on a Rehearsal for an Action Movie — Drive may do little to win over multiplex crowds who prefer the fast and furious to the moody and languorous, but it reconfirms Refn as one of the most exciting young directors around, and Albert Brooks (stealing the film as a small - time Jewish gangster with an aversion to loose ends) as a national treasure.

Her pursuit by hardened gangsters (led by the great William Forsythe, applying a Glasgow smile to a then - unknown Catherine Keener) and her tutelage by jailed hookers with gold hearts all around (Cathy Moriarty among them) are window dressing to the story's real goal: getting Alex to smarten up and pay attention.

It's understood in mobsterland that Emma is the property of rum - running gangster Albert White (an authentically brutal Robert Glenister), and Joe Coughlin is walking a tightrope by being seen around town with her.

The drama, a co-production with Sony Pictures Television Studios, revolves around a con man, Marius (Giovanni Ribisi, Avatar) who left prison only to find himself hunted by the vicious gangster he once robbed.

An American everyman (Depp) is picked out of a crowd by the most beautiful woman on screen, followed by police and foreign agents (led by a ruthlessly obsessive Paul Bettany), targeted by international gangsters (under the command of vaguely Russian baddie Steven Berkoff) and batted around by opportunistic Italian cops.

Willem Dafoe is a gangster or something made up to look like Charlton Heston from Touch of Evil, Mickey Rourke, carrying around a Chihuahua at all times, is Dafoe's number - one man, maybe, and then there's the president of Mexico (I think), who is about to be assassinated or something by someone or someones.

Seductive Subversion includes Marisol's John Wayne sculpture, commissioned by Life magazine for an issue on movies; the French sculptor, painter, and filmmaker Niki de Saint Phalle's eight - foot - tall Black Rosy, one of her «Nana» sculptures exploring the role of women; Rosalyn Drexler's oil and acrylic work Chubby Checker, inspired by the poster for the movie Twist around the Clock, and Home Movies, based on frames from old gangster movies; the Times Square — inspired Ampersand, a multilayered, stylized, and illuminated neon ampersand in a Plexiglas cube by Chryssa, one of the first artists to utilize neon in her work; and a seventeen - foot - long triptych by Idelle Weber.