Sentences with phrase «film about corruption»

Michael Clayton: A legal thriller, Michael Clayton is a film about the corruption and darkness that characterises the shady entity we call «system».

The content you see in the trailer not - withstanding, War Dogs is another serious film about corruption.

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

Not exact matches

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This is just a bad film that tried to say something about social injustice, the class differences between the rich and the poor, the unfair loss of welfare programs, the inhibiting cost of health insurance that is falsely being blamed on the government when it is the fault of insurance companies why the rates are so high, the hypocrisies of the Gulf War, and the failure of the media to be more responsive in covering all the political corruption.

The third film ties very closely with the third film, as well as being a general thematic capper to the trilogy about institutional corruption.

As anyone who knows anything about LA, its police organization has had long standing problems with corruption and racism, but the film never addresses that even though one can see the roots of it in the material.

As the story progresses, the film also shifts strangely from a riveting exploration of a power couple with a pioneering spirit to a more melodramatic thriller about corruption and murder.

Helmed by Oren Moverman, it explores the state of the LAPD circa the late»90s but, despite what its title suggests, the film isn't about the infamous Rampart scandal — an umbrella term for the widespread corruption that occurred inside the Division's anti-gang unit (offenses ranged from unprovoked shootings, planting of evidence, narcotics possession, bank robbery, and perjury)-- but instead it's set whilst the events were still current.

Godless was just one of two Bulgarian films about modern - day crime and corruption in the post-Soviet state, with the other, Slava (Glory), from Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov, who had impressed with Urok (The Lesson, 2014).

The Ides of March is essentially a film about the inevitability of corruption.

It's a film about police corruption and partners learning to trust one another and the ways in which unbridled, excess masculinity can serve as a shield against the difficulties of modernity.

One could be forgiven for assuming a film about political corruption made in the 1930's could have nothing to say in these more sophisticated times, but that would be to downplay the significance of Frank Capra's classic.

This political comedy about the exposing of corruption in Washington was among the top grossing films of 1939.

Set in the early 1970s, the film itself resembles a 70s thriller, a time where films about heists and political corruption were all the rage.

Both films are about media corruption, with Buscemi playing journalists at opposite ends of the food chain.

The 38 - year - old actor stars in the film about a New York stockbroker who refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration.

The film details the last three months of the life of the director (played here by Massimo Ranieri), when he was completing Salò, writing Petrolio (an exposé about political corruption at the highest level), and becoming involved with Pino Pelosi.

(which this film seems to be aping) were talking about true crime and corruption it felt real, this stars Dwayne Johnson.

The film is not just Elvish and scenery and an awkwardly telepathic Galadriel, but also about the power of corruption.

But this is not a film about political corruption, it's a film charting Jane's realisation that what she is doing has far - reaching negative ramifications and whether revealing a newfound caring - sharing side would be too little too late.

She's a strong, female hero in a day and age when such a concept appears to have never had its time, and the film is a rich, tense thriller about corruption, manipulation, and identity.

One could argue the tonal disconnect between an act of terrorism and comedy, and yet the injection of some quips and the odd running joke about a producer obsessed with balls turns out to be one of the film's greatest weapons, moreso than the overly familiar stench of disdain and dissidence as a poorly planned hostage stunt yields a much more complex discussion about class structure and the corruption of the American financial system.

Those who want to know more about rum - running, bootlegging, and the Green Mountain state might seek out Adam Krakowski's recently published Vermont Prohibition: Teetotalers, Bootleggers and Corruption or Jay Craven's critically praised independent film Disappearances.

Eric Brown says forget about Avatar, we should all go see the Sundance film, Casino Jack and the United States of Money, a wild tale about Jack Abramoff, campaign finance, political corruption, and «sex slaves in the Mariana Islands.»