Sentences with phrase «by some gangsters looking»

Not exact matches

Sentimental and violent, the usual gangster movie combo, «Live by Night» may look first - rate (though Affleck's direction, whether it's action or simply two people, seething, is routine) but it feels second - hand.

Richie looks like he'll be sitting pretty until he's approached by a tenacious FBI agent named Shavers (Mackie, Gangster Squad) looking to take Block down.

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).

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.

Remarking therein that anyone who'd seen a few examples of this relentlessly formalized genre could write one himself, Schrader spoke from experience: his own The Yakuza, touched up a smidge by Robert Towne and formally permissive enough to incorporate some double - dealing American gangsters along with its Japanese pro- and antagonists, looked a likely enough successor to the kung - fu cycle in popularity that Warner Brothers paid a hefty price for the screenplay ($ 300,000, according to Newsweek).

In support Oka Antara is great as a gangster looking out for Rama, and Arifin Putra is perfectly cast as a spoilt heir to a crime family empire frustrated by always being underestimated by his father.

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.

Today looks to be a day of renegades and gangsters from the start, with «Killing Them Softly» by Andrew Dominik, the second American film to premier in competition, first thing in the morning.

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.

Narrated by the twenty - year - old Esme, The Magnificent Esme Wells moves between pre — WWII Hollywood and postwar Las Vegas - a golden age when Jewish gangsters and movie moguls were often indistinguishable in looks and behavior.

Her novel, The Gangster We Are All Looking For, was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 2003, and her writing has appeared in the Massachusetts Review, Harper's Magazine, and The Very Inside anthology.