Sentences with phrase «avenging angel»

So when Marvel's Head of Television Jeph Loeb approached writer, producer and director Drew Goddard about doing a Daredevil series for Netflix — the first of four separate superhero shows that would culminate in an all - star miniseries called The Defenders («Think a street - level version of The Avengers,» DeKnight says)-- the idea was always to do Miller's version of the character as a vigilante - like avenging angel.

As played by Michael B. Jordan, Erik is a kind of avenging angel whose violence is relentless, yet fueled by a clear ideological agenda that is not entirely wrong.

Honorable mention: Michelle Pfeiffer in «Batman Returns,» mousy secretary turned femininity's avenging angel against misogynists.

What's most likeable about Milt Jewell's two - part painting, called Avenging Angels, is the gritty, ersatz surface.

Hideously burned and left for dead by gangsters, Peyton uses his incipient liquid skin technology and severed nerve endings as the «super-powers» that allow him to become Darkman, a grotesque avenging angel who feels no physical pain but whose emotions have become dangerous intensified.

As such, all the parts are moderately to egregiously underwritten: Lane's Connie has a showpiece sequence on a subway car (shades of Tim Robbins's subterranean epiphanies in Lyne's Jacob's Ladder), but like Gere's Anne Archer - turn as the long - suffering cuckold - turned avenging angel of order, she's at the mercy of Lyne convention.

However, he finds navigating London's criminal underworld leads to an opportunity to assume another man's identity, and in turn transforming into a ruthless avenging angel.

Denzel Washington balances the scales of justice — and challenges Liam Neeson for a slice of the middle - aged action - hero pie — in «The Equalizer,» an ultraviolent update of the 1985 - 89 CBS drama series that featured Edward Woodward as a former government agent turned pro-bono avenging angel.

Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) hopes to pass his role as city protector on to avenging angel Dent so that he might have a chance at a traditional, domestic existence with Rachel Dawes (Maggie Gyllenhaal).

Macon Blair's reluctant avenging angel Dwight is someone I've never met before in a movie, and when Dwight seeks out old pal Ben (Devin Ratray) for help at some point, well, I'd never met him before, either.

Writer - director John Herzfeld keeps introducing new players — Tom Sizemore, Kesley Grammer, Danny Trejo — when we'd much rather hang with Jane's cracked avenging angel cop or Stallone's paint - slinging muckraker or Cary Elwes» creepy Brit actor prone to groping his female co-stars.

The Equalizer with a shopping trolley, Macon Blair's homeless drifter Dwight Evans, seemed an unlikely avenging angel in Jeremy Saulnier's thoroughly ace rural thriller.

«The phrase vigilante has been given a bad name by the media,» says Tim «Nailer» Foley, an army vet and former meth user turned self - styled avenging angel, who sees his role as «upholding the law where there is no law».

Owing a deadpan debt to Chopper, this mortifying movie centres around Daniel Henshall's smiling, patrician psychopath, a narcissistic maniac with delusions of avenging angel grandeur, who feeds upon family insecurities to fuel his insatiable death wish.

It doesn't matter to me as a character in the world of Watch Dogs because I, superhacker and avenging angel Aiden Pearce, am above those issues because my niece got murdered!

Super Angel Bike (Bulletproof) generated at Portland Safehouse Completing Avenging Angels missions in Portland

She comes across here as an increasingly vehement avenging angel waging a kind of war with the camera, using it to expose what might be called both the tyranny and the inner lives of images, especially the images of women that bombard and shape all of us at every turn.

Bharara has emerged as the public's avenging angel against those who have corrupted our democratic system in Albany.

Rick Rhodes Vanguard, April 1980 What's most likeable about Milt Jewell's two - part painting, called Avenging Angels, is the gritty, ersatz surface.

However, Quirk is carrying far too much baggage of his own to have any interest in rushing into the role of avenging angel, so even though he very quickly realizes that the cause of death is not as stated he has no wish to get involved, and even goes to some lengths to divert suspicion.

They are the only religion that had a militia to take on the U.S. government — Nauvoo Militia Brigham Young had his «Avenging Angels» — they did his bidding like the Mason Family did for Charles Manson — google Mountain Meadows Massacre — 30 men 40 women and 70 CHILRDEN slaughtered so badly — then get this — they blamed it on the Indians... what a great group of people!

Ideology has replaced vision in the church turning many Chrisitans into «avenging angels» rather than «ministers of reconciliation.»

If a classmate was mean to your child, you may be tempted to step in like an avenging angel by contacting the other parent or speaking directly to that child.

He's maybe closer to the latter in that he stands in as an avenging angel for an entire cohort — the Return of the Oppressed.

But I wish it had one completely honest scene, where (for example) someone asks the avenging angel - hero: «Who are you?»

«Taxi Driver» style, but without that masterwork's disturbing ambiguities, «The Equalizer» establishes the fallen angel to be saved and the avenging angel to do the saving.

A couple of characters we saw die in «Sin City» are back — Marv, the avenging angel thug played by Mickey Rourke, with - prosthetic jaw, brow and nose, and the last good cop, Hartigan, played by a fatalistic Bruce Willis.

But after a year of women being angry because of men, here comes Mildred striding on to the horizon like an avenging angel lobbing molotov cocktails.

It's like Kim Jee - woon's I Saw the Devil in that way — Yakusho even looks a great deal like Choi Min - sik, though the character he plays here is both avenging angel and serial killer.

Her progression from innocent survivor to avenging angel is tied too easily to gun - heavy gameplay, but she's finally as intriguing as the environment she explores.

Tsugumo (Ebizo Ichikawa) this time around is clearly the avenging angel from the beginning — there is an expectation attached to this filmmaker and enough of a familiarity with the original (one presupposes) that the only point of a remake would be to not attack the hypocrisy of the feudal structure, but to challenge those expectations.

Williams makes it easy to understand how Sy, in his aching social martyrdom, could adopt the avenging angel image that is the hero of the Yorkins» son, Jake.

She could be an avenging angel on a mission to topple a corrupt patriarchy.

Writer - director Jung Byung - gil indulges in all the excesses of South Korean screen violence, punishing his avenging angel played by Kim Ok - vin as much as she does her foes, the cumulative effect of which is a brain - melting daze for the audience.

Writer - director Jung Byung - gil indulges in all the excesses of South Korean screen violence, punishing his avenging angel played by Kim -LSB-...]

Working from her own screenplay adapted from Jonathan Ames» novella, Ramsay's You Were Never Really Here is a spartan yet intense thriller following Joe (Joaquin Phoenix), an avenging angel vigilante in New York who undertakes dangerous assignments to liberate kidnapped and sexually exploited children.

Joaquin Phoenix is reliably mesmeric as Joe, an avenging angel for hire who specialises in rescuing kidnapped children, often from the vice industry.

Once I get lined up to my satisfaction I hit the «X» button which results in Titus plummeting out of the sky like an avenging angel and hammering into the ground, sending Orks flying in all directions at the force of the impact.

The steely Woman gazes imperiously on, head righteously tossed, sending the daggered stare of an avenging angel upon uncertain and imperfect man.

The crisis has come like an avenging angel to cleanse the earth and art with it.

BIG PICTURE: We think of environmentalists as selfless, virtuous, avenging angels.

Her husband, she told me, is like an avenging angel equipped with hammer, pliers and Allen wrench.