Sentences with phrase «at by gangsters»

A Taiwanese Bitcoin Miner almost paid for his life after being shot at by gangsters for allegedly reneging on a mining deal by not offering cost.

Not exact matches

Just by hinting at the existence of moral knowledge, Dawkins gives us reason to doubt that we actually do live in a world ruled by gangster genes.

He rose to fame as bandleader at Harlem's Cotton Club, run by gangster Owney Madden, where well - heeled white patrons would go «slumming» and enjoy (in the words of a Harold Arlen song that made its debut at the club):

Diaz brothers have so many other things to them, two vegeterian triathletes who came up from the lowest of the lows, nothing to eat at home, in a rough neighbourhood saying no to all the drugs, later on to all the roids, serving their community, teaching kids,... they have been awarded many times by their local authorities and all... but all UFC wants people to think of a Nate Diaz is a mexican gangster who smokes weed and does not give a damn...

The movie, which follows Phil (Bradley Cooper), Stu (Ed Helms), and Alan (Zach Galifianakis) as they're forced to track down Ken Jeong's nefarious Mr. Chow by a ruthless gangster (John Goodman's Marshall), is actually at its best in its opening half hour, as filmmaker Todd Phillips has infused the proceedings with an affable feel that compensates for the lack of wholeheartedly funny elements.

When his friend Professor Kingsely (Ridges) is at deaths door, brain surgeon Dr. Sovac (Karloff) saves his life by means of an illegal operation that transplants part of injured gangster Red Cannon's brain.

As it happens, a handful of gangsters led by the sexy but dangerous Riley (Carmen Electra) have learned that Jude's valuables are in Harlan's car, and they'll stop at nothing to get them back, including kidnapping Tuesday.

«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.

«I think American Gangster got elbowed out by Juno because the latter is a better, or at least more distinctive, film.»

Zootopia unfolds as a mystery procedural, as Judy and Nick traverse the varied terrains of Zootopia to crash the place of a mouse gangster modeled after Don Corleone, drop in at a DMV hilariously run by sloths (whose slow speech and movements give the film by far its biggest laughs), and uncover corruption and conspiracy.

To be honest, I think American Gangster got elbowed out by Juno because the latter is a better, or at least more distinctive, film.

This time he also throws in a nostalgic look at Hollywood by name - dropping some famous stars of the era, but he's just as quick to flash his lack of respect for the movie industry and seems to compare it to the world of east coast gangsters (such as Bobby's brother played by Corey Stoll).

They include an infamous bounty hunter who always brings his quarry in alive (Kurt Russell); his current «client,» a foul - mouthed lady gangster (Jennifer Jason Leigh); a proud and decrepit ex-Confederate general (Bruce Dern) searching for his lost son; a black Union officer who's also turned to the bounty hunting game (Samuel L. Jackson); a former rebel raider who claims to be the new sheriff at the closest town (Walton Goggins); a prissy British hangman (Tim Roth); a near - silent cow puncher (Michael Madsen); and Bob (Demián Bichir), a mysterious Mexican almost completely hidden by his coat, hat and beard.

Even so, the film hadn't really been on our radar at first, and it was only after failing to get into Susanne Bier's «Love Is All You Need,» and deciding that not having seen its predecessor probably precluded us from seeing Takeshi Kitano's gangster sequel «Outrage Beyond,» that we headed to the late - night press screening of the film.

Rocknrolla is good at what it does, which is play out a violent criminal fairy tale in a movie gangster fantasy, where the good guys are just bad guys who look good only by contrast to the really bad guys, and where we root for the thugs who prey upon other thugs.

by Walter Chaw Justin Lin's feature debut caused something of a minor firestorm at this year's Sundance Film Festival, where it was charged that Asian - American stereotypes of the «model minority» were being indulged by Better Luck Tomorrow's tale of honor - roll gangsters amuck in SoCal.

Before anyone gets a glimpse at The Batman however, Affleck's newest upcoming project is the Prohibition Era gangster film Live By Night.

Deadline reports executives at the studio are pushing the project forward with a script written by William Monahan, the writer behind the 73 - year - old director's 2006 gangster thriller The Departed, which picked up four Academy Awards, including a Best Director title for Scorsese and a Best Adapted Screenplay honour for Monahan.

The plot concerns a Brooklyn bar that's run by Hardy's Bob Saginowski and Gandofini's Cousin Marv and is used at random by the local gangsters as a drop bar for their dirty money.

It doesn't matter that nearly all Ben's moments in the film are all strictly by the book, in a strain of gangster humor going back at least to George Raft's insouciant line about his lawyers, «all Harvard men,» in Some Like It Hot.

I liked Drive, a vigorous 2011 take on Hollywood car - chase movies with noirish undertones starring Ryan Gosling, but its 2013 successor, Only God Forgives, a muddled romp (also starring Gosling) about a mama's boy adrift in the Bangkok underworld at the mercy of a gangster who performed musical numbers between bloodbaths, was parboiled by critics and avoided by audiences like an airborne virus.

One might say that he's on a cinematic roll, at least behind the camera, so it's no surprise that he has aimed high for his latest, the period gangster epic Live By Night.

It is a milieu of blissful ignorance and arch sophisticates, genuine emotion and heart - rending revelations that will fuel Bobby's return east, where he will take a job at the nightclub run by his brother, Ben (Corey Stoll), a violent but principled gangster with a soft spot for family.

Loosely based on a true story, as documented in the «American Legacy» article by Tony Scherman, The Great Debaters centers on poet Melvin B. Tolson (Washington, American Gangster), who spent several years as a teacher of speech and English at all - negro Wiley College in the mid-1930s.

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.

The film takes a wonderfully atmospheric and psychologically acute look at the Parisian underworld: at a legendary, stylish old gangster named Max le Menteur (played by the legendary, stylish Jean Gabin), at the spoils of Max's last big job and at the unbreakable ties of friendship that entrap him.

Instead of being a quirky gimmick, this character trait enhances the film, turning what could be an average pulpy yarn into something at once more solemn and exciting to watch: a poetic meditation on mortality and honor that delivers the action and suspense of any good gangster film — all set to a moody rap score (by RZA).

Little by little, Wilmot enters a mirror house of illusions and hallucinations that propels him into a secret world of gangsters, greed, and murder, with his mystery patron at the center of it all, either as the mastermind behind a plot to forge a painting worth hundreds of millions, or as the man who will save Wilmot from obscurity and madness.

The section of a level we got to play at Paris Games Week had me trying to track down a mid-level gangster named Keech in the casino he runs, taking the opportunity to cut off another part of the criminal empire in the process... by blowing the casino up with C4 presumably borrowed from the British military.

After a long day at work, all I want to do is sit down and relax... by breaking legs and setting gangster's...

Installation view, «Jan Frank: Gangster of Love / Crushed,» at Nahmad Contemporary, New York, with works by John Chamberlain and Jan Frank.