Sentences with phrase «even as cops»

Mullins called it a double standard for the commissioner to get the freebie even as cops are being probed and punished for taking gifts for favors from neighborhood bigwigs.

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Yet Democrats have largely viewed that debate as an attempt to shift focus away from guns — even a cop - out for Republicans.

So without hesitation, I can preach the Gospel as good news, and not engage in this good - cop / bad - cop routine where God is dreadfully offended at you — hates you even — but Jesus gives you a way out.

I leaned back on the pillows and watched as the maven of Murder She Wrote solved even the most impossible of crimes, proved to the skeptical cop that she was more than a meddling writer, made the killer confess.

Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano says he hasn't formally nominated acting Police Commissioner Thomas Krumpter as top cop — even though he said he would nearly five months ago — because he hasn't met with legislators tasked with voting on the appointment.

Nevertheless, a majority of New Yorkers believe police in New York City were wrong to turn their backs on de Blasio, even as upstate voters and Republicans polled between the cops were correct do so.

Even more complaints are anticipated in the future, as last month The Post reported that a new NYPD directive forbids cops from entering residences on a noise complaint unless they get permission.

The city's top cop, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, remains the clear frontrunner on the list of talked - about candidates, with 24 percent of those polled wanting him as the next mayor, even though he has said he has no intention of running.

He continued to defend it during his second tenure as top cop under de Blasio, even in the aftermath of Eure's report.

As of Monday evening, about 1,300 people had signed up to participate in the protest, which aims to «jail killer cops» and «fire Bill Bratton,» according to Facebook.

Cops are now hoping to speak to eight men shown in an eyewitness video in connection with the attack, and have released a photo of a person of interest, but had not made any arrests as of Monday evening.

Acting Nassau Police Commissioner Thomas Krumpter, a 25 - year veteran whose tenure as top cop included annual crime reductions even as the county's fiscal distress resulted in closed precincts, said Monday he is retiring.

Even as this was playing out, sources told the Daily News that veterinarians in Harlem were refusing to euthanize the deer, and the city was going to have to bring in an undercover cop to finish the job.

Don't count on the collab offering as intensely ornate details; you won't be copping an exact replica of Kim Kardashian's bachelorette dress (below, left), even if she's immortalized in wax wearing it.

«Busy» is a cop out, as we know if we really want to connect with someone we will, even if it's a quick «thinking of you» text.

Even though at - home date nights have gotten a bad rap as a cop - out date, they don't have to be that way.

I'd even go as far as to call it a bit of a cop out.

When Pollack misjudges the depth of the authoritative decay and his girlfriend is hospitalized following a brutal attack by the alliance of crooked cops known as F.R.A.T., he soon decides to take action and prove that even those who believe themselves to be above the law still aren't beyond its reach.

Top notch film - making from first to last as three cops work to unravel a bloody crime spree that even leaves dead policemen in it's wake.

Terribly rushed game for next gen consoles, not any interesting graphcis, incredibly short open world, borring story, repetitive missions, annoying cops as much as you couldn't even imagine.

Those were perhaps the highlights of a career mainly constituted by unbilled, bit roles as cops, military officers, small - time gangsters, and even the occasional sheriff (Oh, Susannah!

The whole movie becomes such a pileup of detritus, whether it's cop cars or plot points, that even something as important as rationale becomes an afterthought.

To make sure the job goes off without a hitch, Chris has even hired a contract hitman who never fails — a psychotic cop in a Stetson hat and skin - tight jeans called Killer Joe Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) who moonlights as an assassin.

They're a classic odd couple: Stiller the neurotic, uptight Jewish guy, Wilson the impossibly laidback WASP, but as «Zoolander» and cop parody «Starsky & Hutch» demonstrated, their personas could stretch to far more than just that, even while they always prove perfectly complementary.

By that point, the film was almost a decade old (I wasn't even born when it opened in June 1988), part of the Golden Age of Murphy's Hollywood career that included works such as 48 Hrs., Trading Places, and Beverly Hills Cop.

David Ayer's fantasy blockbuster, which stars Will Smith and Joel Edgerton as a human - orc cop duo, was met with mixed reviews from critics, but Netflix is confident in the movie's franchise potential, with Bloomberg reporting that a sequel had been given the green light before the film had even been released.

This seemingly highlights and underscores every perceived failing or emptiness in Annie's life, and the passive - aggressive competitiveness of Helen (Rose Byrne), Lillian's wealthy and newer friend, does little to bring about the best in Annie, even as a local cop, Nathan (Chris O'Dowd), tries his best to get to know her.

Even the other cops are reluctant to investigate, being just as glad to be rid of the woman.

Fincher's excellent at whatever the film needs — Freeman sulking around because he's a lonely old cop and it's what lonely old cops do, Pitt doing a chase sequence, even John C. McGinley's glorified cameo as the SWAT commander has some good procedural sequences — but he doesn't actually have a real vision for it.

Since first making waves as corrupt cop Shane Vendrell on The Shield, Walton Goggins has added a number of remarkably complex roles to his resume, a list that reveals he's a rare actor with an unnatural ability to sink his teeth into nearly any character and completely own it, mold it and morph it into something worthy of respect and awe, even if the character he's portraying isn't necessarily worthy of admiration.

Still, it's interesting to learn that Beverly Hills Cop and Midnight Run served as templates for The Other Guys, even if it was already a given.

The opening sequences carefully introduce us to the various individuals whose lives, you sense with grim foreboding, will be irrevocably altered or even terminated by the day's events: a lonely Chinese student, a sweet shy cop, a young married couple on whose lithe, soon - to - be-amputated limbs the camera lingers as they make love.

The high - profile buddy - cop comedy pushed Tatum even more into the mainstream, and gave him his third Number One movie as a leading man.

It's not as bad as Cop Out, but it is no where near the quality of Chasing Amy or even Red State.

It even has engaging (not to say great) performances, especially from a creepy Merritt Butrick (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan), a cool Rosalind Cash (The Omega Man) as a cop, and Brenda Bakke (later in L.A. Confidential), who spends much of the film emoting with bandages covering her eyes.

It does feature some rather unique casting choices, with the roles being reversed, going against type, with Murray performing admirably as the tough guy mob boss and De Niro even more impressive as the down - and - out loser cop.

Smash bros is pretty much the same as the last game, mario kart looks ok, dk looks like more of the same from wii, Hell the Dk games on snes had more effort and felt more like whole games and less like cop outs for money, do nt get me wrong DK for wii was good but was nothing even close to the old ones, do nt care about wind waker its an old game that i played on my gamecube a few times.

As Rhodes, a bashful, Irish - accented cop who dotes on Annie, Chris O'Dowd also helps keep things on an even keel.

They are passable as bosses even though it's a lazy cop - out compared to creating more unique bosses.

But there's a respect given to the time - travel premise of this film that remains affecting — charming, even — to this day despite the second - unit Naval recruitment techno - love and an ending that can only be seen as something of a cop - out.

It was tough believing Ben was a cop - in - training during the first film, but accepting him as a real law enforcement officer here is even more of a stretch.

Even under thick layers of makeup, Edgerton is likable as Nick Jakoby, a monstrous - in - appearance but mostly sweetly dorky Orc, who gets a job as an LAPD beat cop in an alternate modern - day L.A. where fairies, elves and the like live uneasily alongside humans.

Final Victory was written by Wong Kar - wai, one of the last screenplays he wrote before his 1988 directorial debut As Tears Go By, and in this intersection of genre film and full - blown romance, it is consistent with his later works, where the primal DNA of films like Days of Being Wild, Fallen Angels and even Chungking Express can be found in Hong Kong cop / gangster sagas (As Tears Go By is explicitly a Triad film).

Even without an official teaser trailer, Warner Bros. has enjoyed loads of high - profile buzz, rivaled only by Lionsgate's Hunger Games announcements, that's followed the non-stop torrent of Dark Knight Rises casting additions which so far include: Tom Hardy (Bane), Anne Hathaway (Selina Kyle / Catwoman), Marion Cotillard (Miranda Tate), Juno Temple (a street - smart gal), Josh Pence (spoilerish flashback character), Joseph Gordon - Levitt (John Blake), and Alon Aboutboul (a mad scientist) with Matthew Modine, Tom Conti, and Joey King as well as Daniel Sunjata, Burn Gorman, and Diego Klattenhoff in unspecified roles (most likely cops and / or robbers).

Though he loves his wife and kids, Michel is one of those cops who is the job, even if he's transferred to the much more dangerous Marseille, the port city that functions as a gateway for the heroin trade.

Well, 15 years later, Friedkin made a cop movie that is even nastier than that one, and it might even be better as well.

The outfit Harry wears throughout Silent Hill is the same as the one Arnold Schwarzenegger wears in Kindergarten Cop, for example, and the plots are even incredibly similar.

The reinserted scenes — a bathroom chat between David and psychologist McCabe and a shootout between David and Shannon's cop — do not look nearly as polished as the rest of the film and even feature an unfinished visual effect in passing.

The report goes on to state that Halloween Returns will pit a new group of Haddonfield youngsters against Myers, as the now 18 - year - old child of one of Myers» victims plays a central role along with the child of a cop whose long been obsessed with Myers» case, even putting it before his own daughter.

With numerous pop - cultural references, movie references, one - liners, visual gags and spoofs that parodied Hollywood and fairytales: Far, Far Away (Hollywood), Burger Prince (Burger King), Farbucks (Starbucks), Versarchery (Versace), Olde Knavery (Old Navy), Saxon Fifth Avenue (Saks Fifth Avenue), Gap Queen (Gap Kids), Tower of London Records (Tower Records), Friar's Fat Boy (Big Boy), Baskin Robinhood (Baskin Robbins), Banana Kingdom (Banana Republic), Marilyn Monroe's infamous pose from The Seven Year Itch (1955)- when Fiona's dress blows up, Meet the Parents (2000), Ghostbusters (1984), Mission: Impossible (1996), Alien (1979), Flashdance (1983), The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989), Spider - Man (2002), From Here To Eternity (1953), The Little Mermaid (1989) and The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and even more, such as Joan Rivers» red - carpet appearance, and the TV show Cops (parodied as KNIGHTS).