Sentences with phrase «cutthroat mudslinger»

Children feature heavily in «The Boss,» which tracks Michelle Darnell's fall from financial grace to the brownie empire she builds with her former assistant Claire (Kristen Bell) and a team of cutthroat preteen girls.

Harlin, perpetrated, I mean, directed CUTTHROAT ISLAND, which ended his marriage to Geena Davis, but oddly enough, it did not stop studios from giving him big bucks to repeat his mistakes.

Watching former small town folks Ed and Peggy Blumquist (Jesse Plemons and Kirsten Dunst) turn into kidnappers that deal with cutthroat criminal elements while maintaining their polite speech and positive outlook is a pretty bold but singularly unique bit of storytelling that produces a lot of laughter without undercutting any of the tension.

Insofar as I, Tonya touches on the cutthroat, money - soaked world of professional sports, the hypocrisy of Olympic Committee bureaucrats, and the cynicism of the various news media outlets, it contains some intriguing moments.

Meanwhile, at Aldous» US label home Pinnacle Records, junior exec and big time Aldous fan Aaron Green (Jonah Hill) pitches the idea of resurrecting Aldous» career to his cutthroat boss Sergio (a never - better Sean Combs) by planning a 10 - year anniversary show of Aldous» mega-selling live album.

When Beca takes this acoustic singing group out of their world of traditional arrangements and perfect harmonies into all - new mash - ups, they fight to climb their way to the top of the cutthroat world of college music competitions.

Curiously, former CIA Agent Claire Stenwick (Julia Roberts) has followed a similar career path, leaving the American agency to work for Burkett and Randle, Equikrom's primary rival in the cutthroat world of consumer products.

Nursery University (Unrated) Head start documentary explores the cutthroat competition among anxious parents trying to place their Ivy League - bound toddlers in one of Manhattan's most exclusive preschools, where tuition is as much as $ 40,000 a year.

Veteran genre director Renny Harlin has definitely had his share of hits and misses during his long career, from the fan - favorite highs of DIE HARD 2, DEEP BLUE SEA, NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 4: THE DREAM MASTER, THE LONG KISS GOODNIGHT, DRIVEN, and CLIFFHANGER to the critical drubbings of CUTTHROAT ISLAND, EXORCIST: THE BEGINNING, THE LEGEND OF HERCULES, and MINDHUNTERS.

Fortunately, the carrot - chomping hobo happens to be a military veteran well - versed in weapons and martial arts combat, a set of skills about to come in very handy since he's just unknowingly ticked - off Hertz (Paul Giamatti), a ruthless mobster with a gang of cutthroat assassins.

Zac Ephron is great as the innocent, fresh - faced Richard who's new to the cutthroat world of the theatre.

The film is based on a story by Russell Adams published by The Wall Street Journal in 2013, titled «Tag, He's «It» for Another Year,» about a group of friends who have been playing a cutthroat version of the children's game for the last 30 years.

His daughter Winnie (Carey Mulligan) blames his cutthroat salesmanship for the death of her brother, and refuses contact with him, but she nevertheless is involved with an investment shark herself: Jake Moore (Shia LaBeouf), a young, idealistic trader who devotes most of his waking hours to pitching alternative energy futures.

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Stuart (voiced by Michael J. Fox, The Frighteners, ABCs Spin City) is an orphan mouse adopted by the Little family, played by Hugh Laurie (The Borrowers, The Man in the Iron Mask) and Geena Davis (The Long Kiss Goodnight, Cutthroat Island).

Cassian, for his part, has been a cutthroat assassin in the service of the Rebels.

The film is about a voice actor who tries to find her voice in a cutthroat world of movie trailer voice - overs.

«The Art of More» Scheduled to Premiere Winter 2015 10 episodes «The Art Of More» is a groundbreaking drama starring Dennis Quaid («Vegas») that goes into the underbelly and surprisingly cutthroat world of premium auction houses.

To Campbell's credit, the film has some impressive action sequences, but it's ultimately the flimsy and derivative story by Robert King, screenwriter for such flops as CUTTHROAT ISLAND and RED CORNER, that handcuffs Campbell with material that could never get off the ground in the first place.

Henry Harrison (Kevin Kline) is such a man and The Extra Man, based off of a book of the same name by Jonathan Ames, provides some comedic insight to this cutthroat world he inhabits.

Peering behind the all - American façade, it dives into the cutthroat world of competitive high school cheerleading, following the fraught relationship between two best friends after a new coach arrives to bring their team to prominence.

The series stars Dennis Quaid, Christian Cooke, Cary Elwes and Kate Bosworth and focuses on the cutthroat behind - the - scenes world of major art auction houses.

Luckily, Scott's directorial style doesn't totally obscure the smart writing by Michael Frost Beckner (Cutthroat Island, Sniper) or the terrific performance by the two stars.

Don Strutt is a real estate developer whose cutthroat tactics have made him a self - made, self - satisfied billionaire.

Fox mentors the film's main protagonist, Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy), and teaches him to unlock the cutthroat prowess that runs through his blood.

The eventual movie was made by the husband and wife team of Renny Harlin and Geena Davis and Black was originally reluctant to sell it to them, since they had to make one movie before they could begin work on «The Long Kiss Goodnight» — «Cutthroat Island.»

Damien Chazelle has taken a relatively staid subject like the relationship between a music student and his teacher and turned it into a thriller built on a brilliant undercurrent of social commentary about what it takes to make it in an increasingly competitive and cutthroat world.

Partner this with Lee Smith «s cutthroat editing and Hans Zimmer «s most intense score in decades, and you have what could be the most visual treat of the year.

Or does it promise something cheekier, a scathing satire about how truly cutthroat corporate culture can be?

Granted, we're talking about one of the best bad - movie directors of all time («Cutthroat Island,» «Driven,» «Deep Blue Sea»), so no one was expecting much from him to begin with... and he still under - delivered.

He followed these films up with such popular films as «The Adventures of Ford Fairlaine,» «Cutthroat Island,» «The Long Kiss Goodnight,» Cliffhanger» and «Deep Blue Sea.»

Towards the end of the year, McConaughey also appeared in Martin Scorsese's drama «The Wolf of Wall Street» as cutthroat businessman Mark Hanna; the brief role was most notable for an on - set improvisation in which Hanna leads Leonardo DiCaprio's Jordan Belfort into a humming, chest - thumping routine in the middle of a crowded restaurant.

Scuttled in early Hollywood by the far more popular western, the pirate movie was left adrift for decades, coming into port every now and again only to find nary a piece of eight at the box office (cf. Polanski's The Pirates (1986), Cutthroat Island (1995)-RRB-.

But after releasing his unadventurous pirate movie Cutthroat Island, he's never really done anything that outstanding since.

Their sibling rivalry follows a twisted path that begins with petty theft but soon leads to murder, mobsters and cutthroat competitive bridge.

Initially it looked like «Anchorman 2» was going to have life as a Broadway musical (though quite how anyone thought they were going to make a glitzy stage show about the cutthroat rough - and - tumble of television news and the sobering questions of journalistic ethics the original film raised is beyond us), but thankfully sanity prevailed and we get to revisit the Channel Four News team nearly one decade on, as they face the challenges of a new era with hope, integrity and, probably, scotch.

Syrup (R for profanity, sexual references and brief drug use) Screen adaptation of Max Barry's dark novel of the same name about a slacker (Shiloh Fernandez) who has to trust a cutthroat marketing executive (Amber Heard) if his million - dollar idea is to have any hope of succeeding.

It's not just bad art, it's unscrupulous, cutthroat capitalism; and just as we reject cheap knock - offs of quality product, we should probably look the other way when presented with something called Hellraiser: Hellworld.

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The first was, of course, «Cutthroat Island,» a movie so phenomenally unsuccessful it sunk Carolco Pictures and likely had the nabobs at New Line nervous about the $ 65 million they gave them for this.

and despite us having nothing to do with Silva Screen, we both eagerly nodded and said «Yes», to which he replied «I loved what you did with Cutthroat Island», so we thanked him and walked out of the room), Don Davis, Zbigniew Preisner, Trevor Jones, Lalo Schifrin, and even Trevor Rabin, who unfortunately had read some of my reviews.

Meryl Streep was superb as a fashion editor of great ego and heartless ambition, whose career depends on cutthroat rivalry in «The Devil Wears Prada.»

The film's combination of cutthroat action and wicked humor made it much more than just your run - of - the - mill, fangs - for - the - memory film.

DeHaan plays a cutthroat Wall Streeter sent to retrieve his company's CEO at a luxurious spa resort in the Swiss Alps.

Star - writer - director Mike Birbiglia (Trainwreck) shows no mercy in pulling back the curtain on the cutthroat comedy scene: When Ben Stiller drops by the gang's regular dive bar after taking in their show, these quick - witted adults make fools out of themselves trying to impress him.

As Call of Duty prepares to enter into the cutthroat world of Battle Royale games through Blackout, can it take the top spot from Fortnite?

Suggesting a period piece version of a film noir saga as envisioned by Stanley Kubrick, this twisted feminist drama is rooted in contentious racial - and gender - warfare issues, employing a meticulous formalism to recount its cutthroat story about Katherine's at - any - cost attempts to attain liberation.

He was fired from Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist and replaced with the director of Die Hard 2 and Cutthroat Island.

La - La Land Records and Studiocanal present the remastered 2 - CD re-issue of acclaimed composer John Debney's breathtaking original motion picture score to the 1995 pirate - themed action epic Cutthroat Island.

It's a measure of The Aviator's complexity and ambiguity that it can be read equally as a celebration of rugged, capitalist individualism and as a leftist critique of cutthroat free - market competition.