Sentences with phrase «as mob boss»

James Gandolfini rose to fame as mob boss Tony Soprano, who was conflicted about his work but had a mean way with words.

Once more, Katz works with a kinetic and inspired cast, featuring Game of Thrones hunk Nikolaj Coster - Waldau as the ex-cop Joe Denton, veteran heavies Robert Forster and Jacki Weaver as a very bewildered Mr. and Mrs. Denton, House of Cards heroine Molly Parker as an all - too - forgivable nurse, an ever - reliable Blair as an all - too - gullible friend, a supremely terrifying Healy as a mob boss» dickhead son, and the one and only Gary Cole as a dirty cop trying to cover his dirty ass.

Besides Hoult & Jones, the cast includes Anthony Hopkins (as a mob boss) and Ben Kingsley (looking wacko), plus Nadia Hilker and Clemens Schick.

Appearances by William Fichtner, Kristen Wiig, Mark Ruffalo, James Franco and Mila Kunis add spice to the mix, while it is great to see Ray Liotta as the mob boss the Fosters make the mistake of crossing paths with.

The cast looks excellent, including a menacing Albert Brooks as a mob boss and Christina Hendricks, Bryan Cranston and Ron Perlman in supporting roles.

As a mob boss he's quite intimidating, not someone you want to cross.

The gang's all here, with Cyril and Pam as a pair of crooked cops, Mallory as a mob boss with Lana and Ray holding positions in her band, and Krieger as Mallory's bartender who happens to be an escaped Nazi scientist.

Not exact matches

A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership is a transparently self - serving and distorted account of Comey's struggle with Trump, who is portrayed as a virtual soul - snatcher with a mob - boss demeanor.

Giuliani is joining Trump's team just as the president escalates a very bitter, and very public, fight with former FBI Director James Comey, whose new book, A Higher Loyalty, paints Trump as a liar who runs his administration like a mob boss

Comey describes Trump's presidency as a «forest fire,» likens the president to a mob boss, and says Trump pressured him more than once to investigate the «pee tape» in previews of the tell - all, which will be released April 17.

The FBI was listening in as attorney Benjamin Brafman chatted with a cop - bribing Mayor Bill de Blasio donor — later telling a judge it involved potential NYPD corruption, and citing the late mob boss John Gotti as a precedent.

Anywhere the parents would be more proud if their child grows up to become a mob boss than a doctor is an area that is about as Democrat as possible.

Cast as a bounty hunter who is sent to Brazil to retrieve the son of a well - known mob boss (American Pie's Seann William Scott), the film provided Johnson with the sort of opportunity to display his comic flair — a notable talent that was mostly neglected in the special - effects - laden Scorpion King.

He steals the show completely as an excessively effeminate but brutally violent Asian mob boss out to harm the trio for yet another mysterious reason.

Out this weekend is Spy, Paul Feig's latest action - comedy romp starring the brilliantly irreverent Melissa McCarthy as Susan Cooper, a pencil - pushing C.I.A. agent turned undercover operative amidst a nuclear threat from an Eastern European mob boss.

The famously hermit - like entertainment journalist, who allegedly ruled her roost much like a mob boss, was the thinly veiled subject of the project, which starred Keaton as Not - Nikki, was co-written by Condon and «Tell Me You Love Me» creator Cynthia Mort, and set up at the premium cable network back in 2011, and was the recipient of much attention from the trades (Finke wasn't intially aware of the project, but eventually struck a deal with HBO, seemingly mostly to ensure her silence).

Some great Zelda - infused mechanics, such as collecting and using items in battle to counter certain enemy attacks, a few giant boss monsters like King Dodongo and Gohma, and of course massive hoards of petty mobs to chew through.

I did, however, find Lin Shaye's Mrs. Smith too overbearing, which for me always saw her as an actor trying hard but not how a mob boss would really act.

Unbeknownst to Tommy, Dion has to jump into the restaurant business as quickly as possible in order to square a debt with Patrick Woichik (a perfectly cast Michael Gladis), the son of a jailed mob boss who is operating the family business in his father's stead.

Casey Affleck plays a bright - eyed recruit who signs up with Woody Harrelson's loose - living detective sergeant to track them down, while Kate Winslet practically rips the screen in two as the mad - eyed Russian mob boss who keeps Ejiofor's cojones in a vice.

(Really, there's nothing cute or overly affectionate about any of these relationships, I just think that ridiculous word seems to fit given we're talking about ridiculous things like Winslet as a Russian mob boss).

Dom Hemingway (R for nudity, sexuality, violence, drug use and pervasive profanity) Jude Law plays the titular character of this crime comedy as a just - paroled safe cracker who's determined to collect a bonus from his mob boss (Demian Bichir) for not snitching on him while behind bars.

Flashback to Domino as a little girl then forward to an interrogation conducted by Lucy Liu (the lighting is so ill - advised that nearly every close - up is a death's head of hollow eye sockets and weeping cheek bones) in what appears to be a bank vault, then to some point in - between as someone's arm is put up for collateral in a trailer park negotiation, then to a mob boss talking on a cell phone from the bottom of his swimming pool, and finally to Domino's lazy hardboiled voiceover — which brings the little girl back to punk rock.

Liam Neeson is at his familiar best as a down - on - his - luck former hit man who has to protect his son from getting murdered by a mob boss over the course of one very long and dangerous night.

As a young boy, Matty Demeret knew he didn't have what it took to follow in his mob boss father's footsteps.

Family dynamics as crooked as they are, things worsen when Carolina (Juno Temple) returns home to her father Humpty after years of estrangement, having ran away from her mob boss husband and become a marked woman as a result.

Jason Robards is somewhat miscast as the stocky Al Capone — he was originally cast as rival mob boss «Bugs» Moran but Corman's first choice for Capone, Orson Welles, was nixed by the studio as being «too difficult» and Robards simply promoted to the leading role — but he certainly captures the savagery, the emotional explosiveness, and the media - savvy persona that Capone puts on when talking to reporters.

It does feature some rather unique casting choices, with the roles being reversed, going against type, with Murray performing admirably as the tough guy mob boss and De Niro even more impressive as the down - and - out loser cop.

The future mob boss known as The Rainmaker hires «loopers» from 30 years past to handle the dirty work.

Big Daddy, in his superhero guise, is meant as a comparison to Dave, and yet there's more evidence tying him thematically to the mob boss.

Gotti (TBA): John Travolta stars as the New York mob boss, with Kelly Preston playing Gotti's wife.

Even the mob boss» son (Christopher Mintz - Plasse) follows the trend but as part of a plan to ultimately take over his dad's business.

Not in a clinical sense, although it may have the therapeutic effect of making us forget about how trivial our problems are - as compared to a mob boss with free - floating anxiety.

Though he's best known for his role as New Jersey mob boss Tony Soprano in HBO's The Sopranos, this crime thriller sees him playing a loan shark turned bar owner who works on the periphery of New York's organized crime scene, safeguarding the dirty money that flows through Brooklyn.

In This Girl is Badass, Jeeja takes her skills to the next level as a bike messenger who is hired by competing mob bosses to smuggle goods.

It starred James Gandolfini as conflicted mob boss Tony Soprano and Edie Falco as his complicit wife Carmela.

Nobuo Kaneko, later the villainous and cowardly mob boss in Kinji Fukasaku's Battles Without Honor and Humanity series, shines in an early leading role as a prisoner being escorted by police who isn't quite what he seems to be at first.

If only the twists didn't occur at all the expected moments as a veteran thief (Gene Hackman) eyeing a peaceful retirement with his wife / partner in crime (Rebecca Pidgeon) when he's called on to one last job by a mob boss (Danny DeVito).

Longtime best friend of mob boss Shawn Maguire (Harris), Jimmy, now 55, is haunted by the sins of his past — as well as a dogged police detective (D'Onofrio) who's been one step behind Jimmy for 30 years.

Summary: Salma Hayek takes no prisoners in this action packed thriller as a femme fatale unleashing the ultimate vengeance against a sadistic mob boss and his army of assassins.

Longtime best friend of mob boss Shawn Maguire (Harris), Jimmy, now 55, is haunted by the sins of his past — as well as a dogged police detective (D'Onofrio) who's been one step behind Jim... Read On

But everyone in this film, from the extremely well dressed Vicki Vale (Kim Basinger), to the sinister mob boss Carl Grissom (Jack Palance), are overshadowed by Jack Nicholson as the Joker.

Gere, as Dixie Dwyer and his lady love Vera Cicero (Diane Lane, who won a few Razzies for this atrocity), are constant presences throughout the film as they fight their corrupt mob boss (Gregory Hines) and attempt to find convenient places to make out discretely.

Although Americans are most familiar with Strong's roles as Sinestro in Green Lantern (2011), mob boss Frank D'Amico in Kick - Ass (2010), and Lord Blackthorn in Sherlock Holmes (2009), British audiences know him from his long history as a television actor.

Where the films strengths lie, are in the performances; Mafia boss Roy Demeo, is captured ferociously by Ray Liotta, who seems to be the go - to - guy for mob figures these days, and the likes of Chris Evans impresses in an almost unrecognisable role as Robert «Mr. Freezy» Pronge — another hitman that Kuklinski gets involved with.

Director Ariel Vromen follows Kuklinski through his early life dubbing porno movies for the mob, his beginnings as a contract killer, his dealings with mob boss / mentor Roy DeMeo (a vital Ray Liotta), and his attempt to balance his shady dealings as a hitman with his tumultuous relationship with his wife (an effective, if underused, Winona Ryder).

After all, while their respective characters, Larry Gigli («rhymes with «really,»» as he says early on) and Ricki, do engage in the expected love - hate sparring, they are both mob enforcers assigned an unusual task: to kidnap and then more or less babysit Brian (Justin Bartha), the younger brother of a federal prosecutor out to nail their big boss.

Following the same basic plot as Infernal Affairs, mob boss Frank Costello (Nicholson) has his adopted son Colin Sullivan (Damon) infiltrate the Massachusetts State Police to give him a man on the inside.

There are a lot of big, attention - getting films in 2012, and one that I forget about once in a while is Gangster Squad, the film in which Zombieland director Ruben Fleischer follows the efforts of a squad of LA cops (Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Nick Nolte, Giovanni Ribisi, Anthony Mackie) to stop the incursion of organized crime into LA, led by Sean Penn as famed mob boss Mickey Cohen.

In Bruges tells the story of two Irish hit men, Ray and Ken (Colin Farrell and Brendon Gleeson), who are stationed in Bruges as they wait for assignment details from their mob boss (Ralph Fiennes).