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THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE (Grade: B +): This bizarre French animated semi-musical — about a Parisian grandmother who teams up with an aged singing sister act to rescue a grandson kidnapped by gangsters while competing in the Tour de France — defies description but it's original and immensely charming.

Not exact matches

Reservoir Dogs: Bloody Days by Big Star Games is a third - person top - down shooter with few connections to Quentin Tarantino's film other than it being about gangsters with color - coded names; and yet Bloody Days partially succeeds in its aspiration to revive a classic for crime and gangster films, while offering a time - rewind mechanics that helps the game distinct itself from the pool of titles in the top - down shooter category.

The Departed marked director Martin Scorsese's return to modern - day gangster movies after an eleven year break, and while it possesses the brutality and violent tension of earlier classics such as GoodFellas (1990) and Casino (1995), it also differed from his previous explorations of the gangster life by following a more linear narrative and eschewing a spoken narration.

«Lucy» is a combination of the title character's superhuman powers and a standard gangster melodrama, the former given life by a gorgeous series of psychedelic images and imaginative, fantasy scenes, while the latter exhibits groups of Taiwanese thugs with AK - 47's, a drug mob that kidnaps people and forces them to work as drug mules by implanting whole plastic bags of blue powder into their stomachs.

Ostensible bad guy Sullivan does good by collaring a number of prominent gangsters (Costello's rivals) while supposed good guy Costigan amasses considerable evidence against Costello by participating in all manner of gangland horrors.

Sent by his gangster boss on «one last job» to bring back the gangster's son Travis (Seann William Scott) from Brazil, Beck is soon caught in a local war between ruthless American goldmine boss Hatcher (Christopher Walken) and native rebels, while helping Travis and mysterious barmaid Mariana (Rosario Dawson) in a race to find the legendary El Gato, a priceless golden statuette.

2014 Directed by Rupert Wyatt Starring Mark Wahlberg, John Goodman, Michael K. Williams, Brie Larson, Jessica Lange, and George Kennedy Synopsis: A literature college professor and high stakes gambler runs afoul of a loan shark and his bodyguard - like gangsters while he has an affair with one of his students.

And while Josh Pence is famous for playing one of the Winklevi in «The Social Network,» but even having his face replaced by Armie Hammer, he's not hurting for work, with appearances in three of the biggest movies of 2012, «Battleship,» «The Dark Knight Rises» and «The Gangster Squad» all lined up.

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.

Meanwhile, rap producer, Sin (Cedric the Entertainer, A Series of Unfortunate Events) is out to get an outstanding debt owed to him by Tommy, while the Russian gangsters are still in the mix.

Bohemian romance is promoted by Dash Snow's enlarged blurry Polaroids of his young friends behaving wildly, while Michael Vasquez's Impressionistic paintings based on photographs of people and scenes from his own gangster past invoke the myth of the outlaw artist.