Sentences with phrase «crime caper film»

Following a strong debut at Sundance this year, a new online trailer is out for the darkly comic crime caper film «American Animals» about two friends who attempt one of the most brazen art heists in history.

Snatch The Rupert Grint - led remake of Guy Ritchie's crime caper film «Snatch» has already shot its second season, and now Crackle have announced a September premiere and released a first look clip.

Not exact matches

Got ta love that classic film poster though huh, just like «The Rocketeer» they really capture the essence of the old style crime caper and dare devil hero aspect.

In this regard, the film is both a crime caper, as well as a cheeky, light satire.

In celebration of Wes Anderson's latest film — the crime caper THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL — we're thrilled to feature a few of everyone's favorite crime flicks of all time!

For a film that's been billing itself as a female - led crime caper, Steve McQueen's upcoming thriller Widows is going all - out when it comes to its male co-stars.

Already leading an impressive career highlighted by his seemingly effortless ability to hopscotch between genres — from crime caper («Trainspotting») to horror («28 Days Later») to family film («Millions»)-- it wasn't at all impractical to think that Boyle could be the one responsible for delivering this generation's «2001: A Space Odyssey.»

Although the animation film on everyone's lips at Berlinale is undoubtedly Isle of Dogs, for those who like their plucky heroes a little more amphibian, a charming Swedish crime caper by the name of Gordon & Paddy is here to satisfy that niche.

We're a long way from McDonagh's last film, Seven Psychopaths, which was a gleefully glib (albeit frequently hilarious) meta cartoon crime caper, like what Charlie Kaufman might make if assigned to write a Tarantino knockoff with his fictional brother Donald.

And though David O. Russell has been on a nomination hot streak of late, with American Hustle capping a trio of Best Director nominations over the last four years for the filmmaker, his chances, which seemed much higher back when his crime caper stormed onto the scene last December, have since fizzled along with the film.

The debut feature from Zachary Sluser, The Driftless Area's moods and machinations fall curiously between a Coen Brothers crime caper, the existential mysteries of a Krysztof Kieslowski film, and the hypnotic bewilderment of Herk Harvey's cult classic Carnival of Souls.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening May 8, 2009 BIG BUDGET FILMS Next Day Air (R for violence, drug use, pervasive profanity and brief sexuality) Action - oriented crime caper about the comedy of errors which ensue after a couple of hapless hoodlums (Mike Epps and Wood Harris) are mistakenly delivered a large package filled with bricks of pure cocaine.

While Tarantino's debut sits at a cosy stall right at a crossroads in»90s film history, Bottle Rocket might actually be deemed the better film, a bungled crime caper revolving around a lead character whose pluck and moxie shroud serious psychological damage.

«Nocturnal Animals» — The crime caper that unfolds in the film is as powerful and taut as cinema can get.

Although the plot, once the filmmakers get around to revealing it, suggests that world - altering plans are afoot, the film still feels like a small - time crime caper, with a tongue - in - cheek attitude, and a lackadaisical delivery that explores about a half - dozen cool features of the theme park attraction (3D holograms, dream readers, etc.) that have no bearing to the story at large.

Soderbergh's obvious intelligence leads you to expect his film to be about something more than a crime caper and an unlikely romance.

This highly entertaining film from an exceedingly assured Thai filmmaker takes the underworld of organized high school math cheating and transforms it into a nail - biting caper, with all the excitement and suspense of the best crime stories.

Joel and Ethan Coen made arguably the definitive Minnesota film in Oscar - winning 1996 crime caper Fargo.

Whereas «Fast Five» was more of an «Ocean's Eleven» - type crime caper, «Fast & Furious 6» feels like a straight - up action film, jam - packed with a series of excellent set pieces that somehow manage to outdo the previous movies in excess and sheer ridiculousness.

By contrast, the frenzied rhythms of American Hustle's editing, though stylistically derivative of the Martin Scorsese films to which the crime caper owes a significant debt, fit the mold of previous winners rather comfortably.

It's a poor - man's Lynch meets Jodorowsky crime caper — actually, that sounds better than this film ever could be.

This comedy can be easily explained by comparing it to a certain Best Picture winner in the 70's (I won't say which for fear of ruining the entire film), but certain elements take it from lighter fare into an inferior Coen Brothers-esque crime caper.

Acclaimed back - to - back films for the studio, racetrack crime caper The Killing (1956) and anti-war downer Paths of Glory (1957), gained Kubrick significant notice.

This film would also mark a foreseeable end to Ritchie's mockney - cockney crime capers, and a move towards adaptations for major studios.

She initially proffers a fastidious, Melvillian crime picture with special attention given to manual processes rather than human drama, but then elegantly pulls the focus back (with the help of a very subtle twist) in the second half to reveal that the caper at the film's centre was only included for context.

The heist genre occupies its own corner of the crime movie universe, sometimes embracing the dark heart of film noir's world of corruption and desperation and doom, just as often skipping into lighthearted crime comedy or slipping into cool, calculated caper spectacle.

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Kiluanji Kia Henda's single - channel film Havemos de Voltar (We Shall Return)(2017), a wry post-colonial crime caper and droll meditation on the animal displays in the «endless corridors» of Luanda's natural history museum.