Sentences with phrase «film about a gang»

A powerful and entertaining film about a gang of girls, and what friendship means, the protection it provides.

They may as well have made a film about a gang of dippers on the Dart.

Not exact matches

The actress Cameron Diaz probably doesn't need any introduction — you already know her from the way she lit up the screen in films like Gangs of New York, and There's Something About Mary.

«Tower Block» is a riff on «Assault on Precinct 13» but where Carpenter's film had a police station about to be shut down which found itself under siege from an L.A gang, here it's a London tower block which is on the verge of being demolished.

It's only as the film inevitably segues into its mystery - oriented midsection that it slowly - but - surely becomes a seriously dull piece of work, as there's simply nothing interesting or intriguing about the gang's ongoing investigation into what happened - with the tediousness of this stretch exacerbated by the unpleasant and downright seedy nature of the movie's locale.

This is a gritting, depressing film about the horrors of the chain gang prison camps of the south in the early 20th century.

The female roles are (unfortunately) secondary to all other plot elements, but the film still warrants a viewing if but for the political uproar it brought about after exposing the chain gang system.

Francis Ford Coppola's gang film is as moony about death as «One From the Heart» was over romance; the film is unremitting in its morbid sentimentality, running its teenage characters through a masochistic gamut of beatings, killings, burnings, and suicides.

I love the way that Yates continues the dark tone of the film with a glimmer of hope as Potter and the gang continue to deal with their day to day lives at school and at times try to engross themselves in such truly childish things and forgetting about the fact that Voldermort is out there looking for blood.

(remix) music video by Danger Mouse and Jemini; deleted scenes and alternative takes, five in total, including an alternative ending (9 min) with a less subtle conversation between Richard and Mark, but a haunting final image of Richard with Anthony; images from Anjan Sarkars graphic novel animation matched to actual dialogue from the films soundtrack (the scene where Herbie first sees the elephant); In Shanes Shoes (24 min) documentary featuring the premiere at the 2004 Edinburgh Film Festival, interviews with Shane Meadows about run - ins with violent gangs in his youth, and on - location clowning; Northern Soul (26 min) also made by Meadows in 2004, and starring Toby Kebbell as an aspiring wrestler with no actual wrestling experience or talent - this comic short is as amateurish as its protagonist, and serves only to show how much better Dead Mans Shoes is.

OPENING THIS WEEK by Kam Williams For movies opening August 24, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS Illegal Tender (R for violence, profanity and sexuality) Rick Gonzalez and Wanda De Jesus co-star in this graphic revenge saga about a college student who chooses to defend his family's honor after a ruthless gang kills his father and forces his mother to flee for her life.

Thus the Coens» film: nominally a movie about the travails of a trio of chain - gang escapees making their way across Depression - era Mississippi; in fact, a picaresque musical romp and arguably their lightest cinematic fare to date.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

Personally, I would love to watch the film while listening to Spielberg, Dreyfuss and gang discuss all the great old stories about the trials they went through while in the process of making history.

itself, Kameron, you wrote that it was «the kind of movie that makes me want to avoid the internet for a century,» which makes me curious about how you and the rest of the gang have approached writing about tricky films in a moment where everything feels polarized between «this movie will save mankind!»

The first section of the podcast my guest, Gold Rush Gang member Matt Dinn, and I talk about the impact of this on the current landscape of the Oscar race, specifically to The Weinstein Company's awards efforts and the surprising news last week that Ridley Scott would cut Kevin Spacey out of his Getty kidnapping drama All the Money in the World, replace him with Christopher Plummer (the actor he originally wanted for the role of Getty) and the race to do this and keep the film's December 22nd release date.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Christmas in Wonderland (PG for crude language) Holiday comedy about a couple of kids from L.A. who find a million dollars of fake money in a Canadian mall and go on a shopping spree while being chased by a hapless gang of counterfeiters and a Canadian Mountie.

The third film in as many years about a mixtape, a rag - tag gang and a dead mom, this movie needs to bring something genuinely mesmerizing.

Zoolander and the gang have mostly ossified into pullstring See»n Says, though to encore the greatest hits of a fifteen - year - old movie whose footprint on popular culture has long since dissipated is to masturbate, really, and the celebrity cameos — about the same number as the previous film's, but much more elaborately integrated this time around — feel no less onanistic.

There are also hours of bonus material to enjoy, including a pair of new interviews with actor Martin Sheen and writer John Milius that are loaded with anecdotes about their experiences working on the film, as well as a casting featurexte on the supporting actors that made up the PBR Street Gang.

This is a remarkable film in many ways - angry, visceral, brimming with testosterone and not a little self - mythologising (Mullan describes his gang membership as «I was a total tourist»)- and has touches of Taxi Driver and Ken Loach about it.

Johnnie To is most famous for his «Election» films, gripping crime dramas about rival gangs and who controls them, but before he made those, he directed a film (with Wai Ka - Fai) that oozes charm, a clever narrative structure and excellent action sequences.

It strikes the right chords, not only as a personal story of one boy's confusion with his own identity, but also of the confusion of an entire country, whose peoples were conflicted about a war they didn't want, and a bubbling under of anti-immigration sentiment that left foreign newcomers largely unprotected to skinhead gangs like the one depicted in the film.

In an exclusive interview, the multi-talented RZA talked about the genesis of the project, what appealed to him about his character, how he prepared for the role, his collaboration with Delamarre on his feature directorial debut, working with Belle and the late Walker and what they brought to the film, his bold line of dialogue, what he learned about himself while making the movie, how Walker inspired him, his role in the upcoming martial arts sequel «The Protector 2» with Tony Jaa directed by Prachya Pinkaew, and his new Fox Network TV series, «Gang Related,» that premieres May 22nd.

By its very nature — it's a Part 2, after all — Goon: Last of the Enforcers may lack some of the invigorating freshness of the first film, but it was clearly made by people who care about Doug Glatt and his weird gang of friends, who don't mind getting super dirty for a good laugh, and who clearly have a serious obsession with the sport of hockey.

In a Hollywood cinema landscape that still mostly revolves around white hegemony, Ryan Coogler's Creed was a huge breath of fresh air, a motivational, moving film about a black man that didn't involve poverty or gangs.

Adapted from the autobiography of escapee Robert E. Burns, it skates about some specifics, never naming the state which claps the hero into grand guignol prison camps (the book was called I Am a Fugitive From a Georgia Chain Gang) but is eye - openingly frank for a film of its vintage.

In fact, if you would like to hear Tim Conway talk about this film, you would be wise to seek out the Apple Dumpling Gang commentary on that disc.

10:00 pm No edition of the IFFR is complete without a second - tier Takashi Miike film, and this year it was The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji, a not - all - that - funny, very broad comedy about an inept beat cop who is recruited to infiltrate a yakuza gang.

: For all of the body parts that Stephen King has torn asunder in his numerous books and film adaptations, it's ironic that two of the most beloved movies ever about male bonding come from his book «Different Seasons» — a «Body» that spawned the CSI Our Gang of «Stand By Me,» and the prison breakout that lay behind «Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption,» Wisely shortened to the last three titles by writer - filmmaker Frank Darabont, this 1994 classic of an unbreakable man slowly chiseling his way out of a Maine hellhole over the course of decades stands as not only the most soulful film in an understandably macho prison break genre, but also as a film that many rightfully consider to be one of the best movies ever made.

To the extent that the film has a narrative, it's an overly familiar one — just your basic cautionary tale about gang life.

AMERICAN HISTORY X An interesting and for the most part honest presentation of a difficult subject, this film about a young man who becomes the leader of a neo-Nazi gang is hampered by a banal ending and some unconvincing moments.

Shot on the cheap and loosely based on the Manson cult murders, which were still big news when the film was being shot in 1971, it's a potboiler about a serial - killing biker gang of women in thrall to a presumably charismatic, self - styled guru calling himself Satán.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening December 3, 2010 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Warrior's Way (R for graphic violence) Western action fantasy, set in the Badlands, about a martial arts master (Jang Dong Ton) who emigrates from Asia to America to retire in peace, only to have to pick up his sword again to defend his adopted hometown and a beautiful local gal (Kate Bosworth) from the returning gang of marauders who had made her an orphan many moons ago.

A rape, revenge and road movie (in that order) about a distressed young girl (Georgia Groome) helped by a prostitute (Lorraine Stanley — stunning) to flee a gang of tinpot hoods, it's a film where no shot, line and character is wasted.

The Iron Horse Trailhead trestle bridge that the vampire gang hangs from in the film is located off Interstate 5 on the Magic Mountain Parkway, about 40 miles north of Los Angeles.