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Judi Dench, who plays James Bond's boss M in the film, adds: «I think it's very exciting if you go out and see that this is the real thing.

Not exact matches

Catholic Church leaders are scheduled to meet a BBC boss after concerns that a digital film about being gay in 2018 attacks Christians.

Cambridge Analytica boss Alexander Nix was apparently filmed giving examples of how his firm could discredit political rivals by arranging various smear campaigns, including setting up encounters with prostitutes and staging situations in which apparent bribery could be caught on camera.

Along his adventures, he meets Kat (who coincidentally is played by Kat Dennings), a young prostitute who proves to be instrumental in finding Defendor's archenemy Captain Industry (at a price)-- a powerful mob boss whose relationship to Defendor is explained later in the film.

The thing I like about that is that, at least at a later point in the film, they bring up the boss of the cartel and how Flores (and Davis) can gain access to him to exact their plan of revenge on him.

«A license to kill is also a license to not kill,» M lectures his new boss in the 24th James Bond film, Spectre.

But unlike earlier Bond films in which this all might play out in an uninterrupted stream of stuntery, here we cut back to rainy London, where Bond's boss M (Judi Dench) is tensely following the mission's progress.

The bosses in this film aren't just horrible; they're almost supernaturally evil.

It was a later sound film, 1930's Little Caesar, that brought him to the attention of American audiences; portraying gangster boss Rico Bandello, he established a prototype for a number of gangster roles he played in the ensuing years.

Among these: 2016's Office Christmas Party, and — especially — 2011's Horrible Bosses, with which Game Night shares considerable creative DNA (Bateman starred in both films, but Bosses was co-written by one of Game Night's two directors, John Francis Daley).

It was directed by the team of John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, who were co-writers on «Horrible Bosses» (2011) and «Spider - Man: Homecoming» (2017), and there's an echo of the former film's knockabout misanthropy in their rollicking staging.

Daley and Goldstein, who started off as actors, have co-directed one previous feature, the 2015 holiday - road reboot «Vacation,» but the sign that they're instinctive filmmakers, with a bold sense of comedy structure, comes in the sequence they stage, with serpentine ingenuity, at the home of a crime boss (Danny Huston) who has the film's MacGuffin — a Fabergé egg — locked in his safe.

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.

So says professional killer Jackie Cogan at one point in Killing Them Softly, the third film by New Zealander Andrew Dominik - and considering the filmmaker's efforts to establish a connection between the events in the movie and the economic crisis started in the late 2000s thanks to the greed and lack of scruples of Wall Street, it is easy to see Cogan as an ordinary employee of any company complaining about the lack of vision of his bosses and, on the other hand, the big bankers as Armani - dressing versions of the violent mobsters who inhabit the crime section of the newspapers.

In development as far back as 1988 by «House On Haunted Hill» director William Malone, the film circled development hell at MGM for a decade, with «Romper Stomper» director Geoffrey Wright briefly attached, before Hill eventually stepped in, rewriting the script (without apparently knowing that his studio bosses were happier with the previous versionIn development as far back as 1988 by «House On Haunted Hill» director William Malone, the film circled development hell at MGM for a decade, with «Romper Stomper» director Geoffrey Wright briefly attached, before Hill eventually stepped in, rewriting the script (without apparently knowing that his studio bosses were happier with the previous versionin, rewriting the script (without apparently knowing that his studio bosses were happier with the previous version).

He was in Toronto last year with This is Where I Leave You, a film that, like Horrible Bosses and The Change - Up and The Switch and countless others, finally played out like a cry for help.

• Which brings me to perhaps my favorite element of the film: the CIA higher - ups played by David Rasche (as Cox's former boss, Palmer Smith) and the great J.K. Simmons (who, if there is any justice, received this role as consolation for his appearance in The Ladykillers).

More recently, a few Hollywood productions have let him explore a more tongue - in - cheek side to his persona («Horrible Bosses» and «Fright Night» for example), but before that in American films, he was largely squeezed into straight - up hero or classic villain roles.

And Judi Dench, magisterial and magnificent as M, Bond's boss, lets go with the emotional heat she withheld in the Pierce Brosnan films.

See Also: There's not a lot comparable to «The Lobster» in Farrell's (or anyone's) filmography, but to see him ugly up to more grotesque effect, you could always check out «Horrible Bosses» which is fun enough until it loses steam, while the black comic vein of Lanthimos» film is maybe closest to a more surreal take on Farrell's collaborations with Martin McDonagh («In Bruges» and «Seven Psychopaths») inasmuch as it's close to anything at alin Farrell's (or anyone's) filmography, but to see him ugly up to more grotesque effect, you could always check out «Horrible Bosses» which is fun enough until it loses steam, while the black comic vein of Lanthimos» film is maybe closest to a more surreal take on Farrell's collaborations with Martin McDonagh («In Bruges» and «Seven Psychopaths») inasmuch as it's close to anything at alIn Bruges» and «Seven Psychopaths») inasmuch as it's close to anything at all.

Rounding out the cast are Chris Hemsworth (the «Thor» films) in the role of Stone Crandall, Rusty's irritatingly successful brother - in - law; Charlie Day (the «Horrible Bosses» films), who plays a river rafting guide; and Skyler Gisondo («Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb,» «Hard Sell») and Steele Stebbins («A Haunted House 2»), who play Rusty's sons, James and Kevin.

To the film's credit, the Oedipal set - up of Dan's boss being a kid almost the same age as his own daughter, Alex (Johansson), stays mostly in the subtext, while the contrivance of a romance blossoming between Carter and Alex is handled with a few moments of elbows - and - angles courtship that deserve a film of their own.

Stellan Skarsgard, as an intimidating but seemingly earnest Russian crime boss who desperately wants to get his family out of Russia, practically steals the whole film, and top - notch support work is provided by the likes of Naomie Harris as McGregor's loyal wife and reluctant partner - in - espionage, Damian Lewis as a (seemingly) trustworthy British operative, and Jeremy Northam as a shady character who may be playing both sides of the fence.

It's not hard to pinpoint where the difference in quality between the two Vacation films comes from; although they have a solid comedy hit under their collective belt (Horrible Bosses), writer / directors John Francis Daley and Jonathan M. Goldstein just don't compare to the team of Harold Ramis (Ghostbusters, Caddy Shack) and John Hughes (Ferris Buller, Breakfast Club) working in their heyday.

It's on their backs that the film coasts, which is actually a pity since there are three great performances lurking in the horrible bosses.

There is an enjoyable cameo from John Goodman as film company boss Frank King — a baseball bat - wielding but honest hustler in Hollywood for the «money and the pussy» — but these characters are ciphers.

The Hunger Games films veer off into a different direction with Mockingjay, Part 1, as we no longer have a highly televised arena featuring combatants battling to the death so much as a battle for the people of Panem in terms of whether they want to stay with the oppressive regime led by the Capitol and President Snow (Sutherland, Horrible Bosses), or whether they're going to join the revolution and fight for a new way of life.

The film follows Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson), a young coder at the world's largest tech company who's invited by his boss, Nathan (Oscar Isaac), to participate in the grandest experiment in human history, involving a robotic girl named Ava (Alicia Vikander), the world's first sentient AI.

There are a couple of alternate openings, neither of which is as good as the one in the final film, and we get to hear the full recording of Kurt's tryst with Nick's boss» wife (hint: it doesn't take long).

The writers behind that film are in the director's chair for Game Night, and they brought Horrible Bosses lead Jason Bateman with them to try to recreate that same sensation.

The truth is, we have yet to watch the extended version of the film (it's eight minutes longer, and if we knew where those eight minutes were, we'd go straight to them), but if the deleted scenes in the Special Features section on the Blu - ray are any indication, the makers of «Horrible Bosses» left nothing in the bag, as it were.

Rosi uses the same montage style from the «baptism murder» sequence in Coppola's film, cutting from a lavish dinner held in Luciano's honour to scenes of bosses being shot to death in various locations, mostly in Peckinpah-esque slow - motion.

It's also a bit disappointing that the film doesn't find a way to work in a boss battle of sorts.

Peyton Reed is back to direct the second installment, with Rudd returning as the former systems engineer - turned - Avenger, Evangeline Lilly as the Wasp, as well as Michael Douglas, Michael Peña and T.I. Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige is producing with film, which is scheduled to bow in theaters July 6, 2018.

The screenplay by Michael Markowitz, John Francis Daley, and Jonathan Goldstein goes about the expected route in regards to the protagonists» superiors, etching three separate portraits of bosses whose very existences seem to fly in the face of the basic decency of humanity (not to mention a responsible human resources department), but it's in the central characters» actions that the film truly finds its edge.

Perhaps because this is a film written and directed by men, cutting loose for these moms does not mean acting like they did when they were young and single, but rather a frat boy fantasy involving speeding in muscle cars, downing bottles of vodka and Jell - O shots, shrugging off any responsibilities, flipping their condescending boss the bird, throw wild and hedonistic parties, and trying to get laid with easy hookups at the local bar.

July 10, 2011 I was grateful for the opportunity to moderate a Q&A with director Seth Gordon at a Boston - area screening of his latest film, Horrible Bosses, which has proven to be something of an oasis in an otherwise lousy summer for movies.

If anything this is one of Director Hong's more plot - heavy films as a young woman starts a new job at a publishers only to find herself entangled in her new boss's old workplace affair.

As the film dutifully moves from one year to the next, Senna is repeatedly pitied by her best friend (Liza Lapira) for never having a lasting relationship, scolded by her mother (Ellen Burstyn) for not taking herself more seriously and turning away prospective mates, and chastised and eventually fired by her boss (Famke Janssen) for being too quirky and esoteric in her fashion choices.

James «Whitey» Bulger terrorized Boston as the boss of the Winter Hill Gang from the 1970s until the 1990s, went into hiding in 1994, fell into FBI custody in 2011, and now, thanks to filmmaker Scott Cooper, he's stalking multiplexes in the gangster film Black Mass..

Octavia Spencer's work as Sally Hawkins» friend and co-workers is among the best supporting performances of 2017, Richard Jenkins is brilliant as her best friend and neighbor, and finally, one of the best and totally unrecognized performances in the same film: Michael Shannon as the evil boss representing a premonition of Trump's America.

But the big bad bosses of the film are also a disappointment, including the evil - but - conflicted black - magic witch in a good human's body, Enchantress, and the superfluous inclusion of her hulking demonic brother at her side, Incubus, whose abilities are thinly defined and whose motivations other than perhaps family loyalty are not at all dealt with.

Robert Pattinson, Robert De Niro and Rachel Weisz were slated to star in the French auteur's film, based on a 2007 Playboy article called «Boosting The Big Tuna» by Hillel Levin about a bunch of regular criminals who accidentally rob a porn store backed by Chicago mafia boss Tony Accardo.

This is also newly remastered and includes the supplements from the earlier DVD special edition: two commentary tracks (on by film historian Richard Schickel, one by film historian / screenwriter Lem Dobbs and film historian Nick Redman), the featurette «Shadows of Suspense,» an introduction by Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne, and the 1973 TV - movie remake starring Richard Crenna in the MacMurray role, Samantha Eggar as the seductive Phyllis, and Lee J. Cobb as the insurance boss Keys.

Lucas and fellow technology pioneers James Cameron, the maker of «Avatar», and DreamWorks Animation boss Jeffrey Katzenberg pointed out that digital film - making was only in its infancy but would bring vast improvements to how movies were made and seen.

Similar to the first movie, Universal domestic distribution boss Jim Orr pointed out the threequel is «overindexing in a lot of Midwestern markets you wouldn't associate with an R - rated film.»

I've always been a huge fan of crime drama, whether it is Scorsese's classic mafia film GoodFellas, or the groundbreaking HBO series The Sopranos, in which James Gandolfini portrayed the iconic mob boss Tony Soprano.

The fallout, obviously, of the cult of Twilight, Red Riding Hood is so poorly filmed that everything in it — everything — is funny, from a grieving mother pausing (and grimacing, in boss «Invader Zim» style) in the doorway of a pub to an obviously pagan celebratory dance sequence that doesn't quite jibe with the film's late - Christian histrionics.

The other point the film makes is that the creators live in an almost video game world with the completion of the game being their «final boss.»

She has also starred in a string of hit films including Horrible Bosses, Bruce Almighty, and He's Just Not That Into You and amassed an impressive property portfolio.