Sentences with phrase «film about cops»

Written and directed by David Ayers of TRAINING DAY fame, it makes an edgy, gritty, and engrossing film about cops, played by Michael Pena and Jake Gyllenhaal, who are neither corrupt, as in TRAINING DAY, nor of the rogue variety that are out for their own brand of... Read More»

The film about cop Al Pacino investigating a serial killer targeting gay men was controversial upon its release, and its reputation remains contentious.

The French Connection is heralded as one of the greatest thrillers ever made, and certainly ranks among the very best when it comes to films about cops and criminals, regardless of the subject matter.

Not exact matches

On Twitter, the most polarizing thing about Three Billboards is how the film handles his racist - cop character, but do Oscars voters agree?

Ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP 23) next week, Meat Free Monday has released a short film about a huge contributor to climate change that is often left out of conference discussions — animal agriculture.

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I've heard grumblings about Willis on set and much like Cop Out, also written by the same filmmakers here, he caused reshoots and unplanned scenes while filming.

Veteran director Walter Hill helms this graphic novel adaptation about New Orleans (or, going by the film, Crescent City - NOLA's nickname) hitman James «Jimmy Bobo» Bonomo (Sylvester Stallone) who teams up with greenhorn D.C. cop Taylor Kwon (Sung Kang) to bring down the killers of their respective partners.

Wong Kar - Wai's movie about two love - struck cops is filmed in impressionistic splashes of motion and color.

The film is a messy crime comedy about criminals and corrupt cops in the American Southwest, and Michael Peña plays a particularly nasty policeman in Alburqueque.

We never learn anything about Harry's past as a husband and father, and intuit only a few traces of his background as a cop and a former alcoholic, but we discover a great deal about his emotional life in relation to his friends and former colleagues, which is all the film really cares about.

«A street - racing blockbuster about traffic cops» is one of the more endearing action - film premises in recent memory, and in terms of conceptual scale alone it seems a refreshing rejoinder to the genre's rather exhausting penchant for maximalism.

However, it's somewhat unusual for a buddy cop film to make these tropes textual, not as meta - commentary but solely to be upfront about going through the motions of «story» and «character development.»

What I'm not so fond of is the cop - out ultimately taken by the filmmakers, who can't seem to follow through on their promisingly metaphysical premise (let alone the theme of obsessive love), electing instead to eliminate all ambiguity — now would be the time to dig up that gift - wrapped box I told you about earlier — which reduces the film, in the end, to little more than a cheap, if rather expensive - looking, joke.

And when I was watching that short film in 2010, at no point did I wish it would last about 88 more minutes, use a tired Ghostbusters plot device, and have a leading role for Paul Blart, mall cop.

Anyone who was a fan of the «Naked Gun» movies is in for a treat - there are definitely undertones of NG «blundering good cops» about this film.

Triple 9 is an overfilled sandwich of cop vs criminal underworld thrillers - it is about four films in one, and is never a boring watch though at times it can make for a confusing one.

On another level, the film is an overly glossy, ostensibly intellectual but deliberately trite mass - market romance (from the screenplay written by Pierce) about a reporter and a movie star falling in love while she shadows him on the set of yet another movie (in which he plays a cop along side Brad Pitt) for a magazine fluff piece profile she's writing.

The Saskatchewan team behind the horror - comedy Wolf Cop take part in CineCoup's weekly challenges as they attempt to gain attention and fan votes on their film's two - minute trailer using social media platforms — to find out more about this wicked little flick just click here.

The film seems to be about a bunch of different characters that have had different troubles with the law in the 1970s, centering on two brothers, one a convict and the other a cop.

The film is well - made and benefits from a very strong cast, but it's both overly worthy and rather pushy about its perspective.Immigration cop Max (Ford)...

To get you in the mood, check out this horror comedy short film titled Bundle of Nerves about two friendly local cops from the Willowbrook police department battling a slime - sucking monster.

The film is based on the novel by Don Winslow about a team of corrupt NYPD cops.

The original 1974 The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 is a kind of blue collar cult film, a smartly done crime thriller about smart crooks, a smart transit cop and a battle of wits over the hijacking of a subway car and the ransoming of the passenger.

Perhaps the peakiest peak in a film full of»em: Walter Matthau's transit cop, pleading for cooperation from the spectacularly apoplectic Dick O'Neill as the head of transit operations, protests that all he cares about is saving lives.

It would be easy to expect the film to be about race, given the setup in the trailer and the premise of a bigoted Irish cop working with an African - American, but this film can not be so easily pigeon - holed, and ends up being far more of a character study (albeit an uproariously funny one) of Gleeson's character.

That's a question posed by a lovelorn cop in Wong Kar - wai's 1994 film Chungking Express, and in a sense that line is a snapshot of what Wong's films are all about.

The film sees the first astronauts on Mars about to leave the red planet, but just like a cop on his last day of retirement, all the human waste is about to hit the fan.

Not the best social climate to promote a film about corruption and deadly cops.

And I think what bothered Cukor was that the film was disturbing and blasphemous, as well as the fact I had recently won it for a little fucking documentary about two cops.»

Three Billboards got something very right about women's rage, but it also got something very wrong about race — no small matter for a film set in Missouri in 2017 that features an openly racist cop who dances around the n - word and has tortured a black man in police custody.

21 Jump Street Rated R for crude and sexual content, pervasive language, drug material, teen drinking and some violence Available on DVD and Blu - ray If you would have told me in January that one of the best films of the year come June would be a rehash of the old Johnny Depp TV show about cops who undercover in high school, I would have called you an idiot.

Next we get Beverly Hills Cop: The Phenomenon Begins, a new 29 - minute and 11 - second documentary about the film.

It's a film about family, specifically the kind of family where everyone is a cop.

Yet, after acknowledging that it was an inspiration, the two films should be seen as separate entities, since much of what makes City on Fire work (character development, yin and yang cop - robber themes, and a romantic subplot) are not to be found with the 1992 American film, and what people liked about Reservoir Dogs (smart and savvy writing, sassy interplay among characters, and some brutally graphic violence) aren't really the strengths of the Hong Kong original.

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.

Jerzy Skolimowski describes his next film, 11 Minutes, as a «catastrophic thriller,» suggesting that the Polish director's bit part in Joss Whedon's The Avengers was time well spent... The cast for John Hillcoat's Triple Nine, a thriller about crooked Los Angeles cops planning a robbery, includes Woody Harrelson, Casey Affleck, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Kate Winslet, Aaron Paul, and Michael Peña... Mohsen Makhmalbaf lives!

When I first saw previews for this film, I couldn't help but get excited about the strong cast of solid actors involved, and likewise it's been a while since a decent cop thriller was released.

As a huge Batman nerd, I'm a bit biased to this film, but how can you deny that powerful stories about a marathon runner, a boy with cancer, a cop, and wealthy guy who dresses up and visits sick kids at hospitals isn't heart - warming and inspiring.

Is Verhoeven's RoboCop an entertaining film with more layers than most viewers expected from a story about a cyborg cop?

The film isn't about racism per se, though when mostly white cops detain mostly African - American suspects, it is often an implication.

There are a lot of big, attention - getting films in 2012, and one that I forget about once in a while is Gangster Squad, the film in which Zombieland director Ruben Fleischer follows the efforts of a squad of LA cops (Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Nick Nolte, Giovanni Ribisi, Anthony Mackie) to stop the incursion of organized crime into LA, led by Sean Penn as famed mob boss Mickey Cohen.

I saw films with stories about finding happiness even with cancer (Me and Earl and the Dying Girl), the struggles of addiction (I Smile Back), transgender women in Los Angeles (Tangerine), post-apocalyptic love triangles (Z for Zachariah), a teenage girl's sexual awakening (The Diary of a Teenage Girl), relationships between interviewer and interviewee (End of the Tour, True Story), washed up Olympians (The Bronze), two kids who go for a joy ride (Cop Car), psychological studies (The Stanford Prison Experiment), lesbian lovers coming - of - age (The Summer of Sangaile), being a single parent (People, Places, Things), and geeky kids learning how to grow up (Dope).

The film is about an ex-con pursued by cops and killers as he sets out to avenge his brother's death.

The new film was set in present day and follows a determined L.A. police officer who sets out to reveal the truth about the brutal murders of innocent people by one of her fellow cops.

Woody Harrelson took a beating as well, THR saying this about his new film Rampart: «The sheer repetitiveness of his evil dissipates whatever fascination this dirty cop provokes.»

Q: The film is very much about taking sides: white against black, husband against wife, parent against child, cop against citizen, Man railing against God.

Watch him take a trip to our film closet, where he sings the praises of Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni in Ettore Scola's A Special Day, cops to never having seen Robert Altman's 3 Women, and talks about his own role in the rehabilitation of Michael Curtiz's The Breaking Point and Luis García Berlanga's The Executioner.

George Miller's film is an outrageous exploiter drawing intelligently on everything from Death Race 2000 to Straw Dogs for its JG Ballard - ish story about a future where cops and Hell's Angels stage protracted guerrilla warfare around what's left of a hapless civilian population.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening November 2, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS American Gangster (R for nudity, sexuality, profanity, violence and pervasive drug content) Oscar - winners Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe square off in this mob saga, set in the Seventies, about the efforts of a rogue cop to bring down a drug lord who's been smuggling heroin to Harlem in the coffins of soldiers who died in Vietnam.