Sentences with phrase «as dogs of war»

Prepare to unleash the Dogs of War as Dogs of War Online flies into open beta.

In fact, Pyrenees were such strong fighters that they may have even been used as dogs of war.

A reportedly loyal breed, the Molossus traveled with their humans to fight side - by - side as dogs of war.

Today's Great Dane is widely regarded as a gentle giant, but the breed was originally developed as a dog of war.

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Ironically, Ackman's 3 - year - long «for profit species of holy war,» as Parloff dubs the investor's extended Herbalife siege, has forced the company to shake off many of its most unsavory operations, like its dogged lead generation businesses.

Just as his backpack designs have transformed from Clifford the Big Red Dog to Star Wars to plain black, someday I'll probably be seeing college applications instead of field trip permission forms and pink paper with a girl's phone number on it rather than torn notebook paper featuring sloppily penned strategy a fellow 11 - year - old has provided for an Xbox game they both love.

This toy is a fun one for games of fetch and tug - of - war as well as entertaining your dog on its own.

4000 years ago in Eurasia, young warriors killed large numbers of dogs, ate their flesh, and chopped their skulls into small pieces as part of a bizarre initiation into war bands

Dr Tom Doyle, lead author of the study and Lecturer in Zoology from the School of Natural Sciences at NUI Galway, said: «What most people don't understand is that these jellyfish — the lions mane, the Portuguese man o war and a box jellyfish, are as different from each other as a dog and a snake.

After World War II, Menzel began the peacetime pursuit of breeding and training Canaans as guide dogs for the blind.

The true story of a stray dog, who becomes a World War I hero and remains the most decorated dog in American history, is realized as an animated film with the voices of Helena Bonham Carter, Logan Lerman and Gérard Depardieu.

Adapted and Americanized from the 1974 novel by popular British author Frederick Forsyth (The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File), Dogs casts Walken as Jamie Shannon, one of several mercenaries making a narrow exit from war - torn Central America in the film's opening sequence.

But while «War Dogs» occupies a similar space as Adam McKay's Oscar - winning dramedy, it doesn't really have anything important to say — or rather, the important stuff feels like an afterthought compared to the dramatized events at the center of the film.

Thanks to some great performances, «War Dogs» rises above similar themed films (for some reason, I kept thinking back to 1983's «Deal of the Century» as well as 2005's «Lord of War»).

As one of the last films of the summer season, «War Dogs» is definitely one to watch before you end your summer vacation.

In the hands of Hangover trilogy director Phillips, War Dogs annoys in a variety of ways: its halfhearted critique and sympathetic embrace of machismo and whatever - it - takes business savvy (the women in the story, uniformly P.Y.T.s, serve as sex objects and the buzzkill voice of morality), wall - to - wall use of overplayed source music (a Warner Bros. hallmark these days), and frequently sitcomedic joke constructions (Albania is «a beautiful place,» Cooper's character promises; cut to blue - grey blight).

In other hands, War Dogs might have been a fresh classic of political satire instead of a crime comedy that plays as sub-Scorsesean riff.

War Dogs is nowhere near as in your face as say The Wolf of Wall Street or as confusing as The Big Short may have gotten.

War Dogs has the air of The Wolf of Wall Street and The Big Short as it is further proof of the obsession many young men have with money and power and how far it takes them before it all comes crashing down on them.

Who wouldn't want to see a character like Terence Fletcher, played by J.K. Simmons (Juno, Upcoming Justice League movie as Commissioner Gordon) in front of a live audience, using funny profanity, hollering, and acting like a maniac at a lovable character like Andrew Neiman, played by Miles Teller (War Dogs, Bleed for This)?

War Dogs adapts a magazine article about two assholes in particular, David Packouz (Miles Teller) and Efraim Diveroli (Jonah Hill), who made a fortune, then made a terrible mistake when they decided to traffic a hundred million rounds of defective Chinese AK - 47 ammo by disguising it as Albanian stock.

Soon enough, Packouz lies to Iz of his financial ventures with Diveroli, and the two become War Dogs — a once derogatory term for members of this ilk, regarded as bottom feeders that profit from the war without engaging in combat, these 20 - something's kinda like War Dogs — a once derogatory term for members of this ilk, regarded as bottom feeders that profit from the war without engaging in combat, these 20 - something's kinda like war without engaging in combat, these 20 - something's kinda like it.

From his attention - grabbing debut with «Reservoir Dogs» (1992), a deviously clever heist film where the heist is never seen and the drama is all in the conversation and the ingenious structure, to his acclaimed «Inglourious Basterds» (2009), his thrilling rewrite of World War II history as a magnificent movie fantasy, Tarantino has gone his own way, snatching up ideas strewn through decades of film history and hundreds of genre movies like a magpie, rethinking them completely, and weaving them into entirely new stories that unfold at a leisurely pace so he can enjoy every word and gesture along the journey.

Quite the opposite: Jonah Hill is incredibly adept at comedy and drama, the undeniable sweetness of his face never telegraphing emotions too hard, as he brings nuance and charm to something as tone - deaf as War Dogs (Todd Phillips, 2016); Will Ferrell brilliantly modulates the intensity of his delivery and generates fiercely hilarious one - liners to bless the otherwise unfunny Zoolander 2 (2016).

Ramonda's only son finds protection through two warrior women: Okaye (played by The Walking Dead's Danai Gurira), head of the king's all - female protective taskforce, the Dora Milaje, and Nakia (Nyong «o), a Wakandan spy known as a «War Dog» and sometimes love interest for T'Challa.

It used to be a project with this kind of clout and buzz would spark at bidding war at the major studios, but the streaming service Netflix has solidified itself as a major player that can run with the «big dogs» so to speak, and nabbing Bright was a huge coup.

Rather than presenting combat as a simple numbers game, here you actually place your troops on the field, position your champion, and let slip the dogs of war.

Ford's cinematic influences are overtly placed — everything from the iconography and satire of DR. STRANGELOVE (as shown in the war room scene), to the narrative drive of STRAW DOGS (as shown in the grippingly tense scenes with fictional Tony's harassers, led by a perfectly - cast Aaron Taylor - Johnson), to the tangible feel of David Lynch's oeuvre, to the cunning bite of Michael Haneke's FUNNY GAMES.

Based on World War II tale Beware Of The Dog, 36 Hours stars James Garner as a military intelligence officer kidnapped and tricked by a Nazi doctor into believing the war is over — an intriguing premise which director George Seaton handles in entertainingly tense styWar II tale Beware Of The Dog, 36 Hours stars James Garner as a military intelligence officer kidnapped and tricked by a Nazi doctor into believing the war is over — an intriguing premise which director George Seaton handles in entertainingly tense stywar is over — an intriguing premise which director George Seaton handles in entertainingly tense style.

Dogs of War is available as a limited edition blu - ray from the Twilight Time label, and is available exclusively through Screen Archives Entertainment and TCM Shop.

Ford will return as Deckard, joined by Ryan Gosling, Jared Leto, Robin Wright, Dave Bautista, Barkhad Abdi («Captain Phillips») and Ana de Armas («War Dogs», «Hands of Stone»).

Dimension's boozy teen horror flick All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, starring 21 - year - old looker Amber Heard (Alpha Dog) as a virginal object of affection who gets caught up in a greater, downward - spiraling tug - of - war, releases in a little over a week, on July 20.

«The Big Short» and «The Wolf of Wall Street» this is not, and although it works just fine as a piece of late - summer entertainment, for a movie called «War Dogs,» it's all bark and no bite.

But while «War Dogs» occupies a similar space as Adam McKay's Oscar - winning dramedy, providing an entertaining look at how a pair of ambitious twentysomething pals became millionaires due to the U.S. government's own negligence, it doesn't really have anything important to say — or rather, the important stuff feels like an afterthought compared to the highly dramatized events at the center of the film.

While cleaning up kennels for the K9 unit as punishment for a night of misbehavior, Megan becomes fascinated with the working dogs that trained to sniff out explosives in war zones.

Though the supporting cast doesn't have much to do — save for Ana de Armas, who's slowly becoming an actress to watch between her work here and in last week's «War Dogs» — it's filled with veteran actors like Blades, Turturro, Ellen Barkin and Reg E. Cathey (as flamboyant boxing promoter Don King) who know how to make the most of their limited screen time.

«War Dogs» could be the subject of a documentary, one which Michael Moore could do a job with, but prospers as a comedy - drama from direction by Todd Phillips, well - known to mostly youthful movie fans for «Hangover» (three buddies at a bachelor party try to locate a missing bachelor in time for the wedding).

While not nearly as ambitious or powerful as The Big Short, War Dogs shows that a director can branch out of their comfort zones and deliver quality films.

The film will be set in post-Civil War times and as of now sounds a bit like previous Tarantino film Reservoir Dogs in the sense that the majority of the film will take place in only one location.

A sequel could dive further into his rule after Thanos» invasion, how his romance with Nakia (Lupita Nyong» o) is shaping up, Shuri's (Letitia Wright) potential as a superhero, the status of Wakanda's outreach programmes, the fates of traitors like W'Kabi (Daniel Kaluuya) and the War Dogs.

If you're a fan of films such as Road Trip and The Hangover trilogy you were likely excited to see that director Todd Phillips was back in the spotlight with his latest film War Dogs.

Titles that weren't playable — by judges, on the E3 show floor — included a number of games with 2018 release dates, but also titles that are launching rather soon, such as BioWare's Anthem, Studio MDHR's Cuphead, SIE Santa Monica Studio's God of War, Deck Nine Games» Life is Strange: Before the Storm, EA Tiburon's NBA Live 18, Insomniac Games» Spider - Man and Naughty Dog's Uncharted: The Lost Legacy.

Rick goes off to war (WWII) and Pax is sent off to war as part of the Dogs for Defense program.

Against a background of war, terrorism, disease and unbearable uncertainty about the future, this story of how a foreign correspondent and his wife fought to adopt a Zimbabwean baby emerges as an inspiring testament to the miracles that love and dogged determination can sometimes achieve.

Against a background of war, terrorism, disease, and unbearable uncertainty about the future, Chipo's story emerges as an inspiring testament to the miracles that love — and dogged determination — can sometimes achieve.

With its multiplicity of settings and kaleidoscopic mix of preoccupations - sex, Russia, jet helicopters, seismic upheaval, boarding schools, Middle Earth, skinheads, home improvement, suicide, skateboarding, Sovietology, public transportation, massage, Christian fundamentalism, dogs, Texas, global thermonuclear war, truth, evil, masturbation, hope, Bethlehem, CT, eventual salvation (abridged list)-- Oh the Glory of It All is memoir as bildungsroman as explosion.

Later, due to the widespread anti-German sentiment after the start of the World War I, it was decided to rename the breed and use the name of Mr. and Mrs. Hall's kennel as part of a the new breed name - the American Eskimo Dog.

These tips will help you establish yourself as a pack leader, in a positive way, over your aggressive dog: Don't play games such as tug - of - war unless you always win.

Tug of War has been successfully used to heighten the esteem of a submissive dog, but the method of play must be the same as described above.

As society moved further away from post war life it became a popular dog among households worldwide and prompted the formation of a variety of breed recognition clubs.