Sentences with phrase «film about crime»

But this isn't a film about crime, nor is it really one about poker.

Warner Brothers recently asked scientists working on the South Pole if they would like to speak on a teleconference with Kate Beckinsale, star of Whiteout, a new film about a crime committed at the Amundsen - Scott research station in Antarctica.

Not exact matches

His last two films were dark indie movies (True Crimes and The Bad Batch), and he's been talking publicly about spirituality, philosophy and even the gospel.

And while it's true that every branch of Christianity has been racked with scandal over the years, films like the Oscar - winning Spotlight and Netflix true crime series The Keepers do a much better job of creating compelling art that raises questions about faith and morality.

Knowing of my interest in crime fiction and detective stories my late father - in - law, John Thynne — who had supported Arsenal from before the war — was always talking about a film made in 1939 called The Arsenal Stadium Mystery.

But, without giving too much away because the film isn't yet finished, the documentary is more than just an expose of Spitzer's sex scandal; Gibney also raises numerous questions about the incidents leading up the government's investigation of Spitzer's crime.

And he extols the county's «growing film & television industry,» talks about reconstruction underway on the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum and points to a drop in crime.

I wore this outfit a few days ago, hanging out with my partner in crime, and we then talked about how this outfit reminded us of the look Carrie wears in the first film on new years eve.

I would love to have lunch with Lauren Parsekian Paul, one of the founders of Kind Campaign, a nonprofit that helps educate about the powerful belief in KINDness that brings awareness and healing to the negative and lasting effects of girl - against - girl «crime» through documentary films and school based programs.

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It's a science fiction film that gives you a lot of plot to chew on and some genuine moral dilemmas — about sacrifice, guilt, heinous crimes to protect the greater good and what not.

The film is further enriched by the performances of Jeff Daniels as Abe, the future boss of the crime syndicate, and by Paul Dano as Seth, a friend of Old Joe who fears the loop is about to be closed on him.

And because the film's various characters are left undeveloped beyond their most superficial attributes - ie Foxx's Fleury is the gruff leader, Bateman's Leavitt is the wacky sidekick, etc - it's virtually impossible to care about their efforts at solving the crime (it's even more difficult to muster up any concern for their well - being once things start to get dangerous).

Reservoir Dogs: Bloody Days by Big Star Games is a third - person top - down shooter with few connections to Quentin Tarantino's film other than it being about gangsters with color - coded names; and yet Bloody Days partially succeeds in its aspiration to revive a classic for crime and gangster films, while offering a time - rewind mechanics that helps the game distinct itself from the pool of titles in the top - down shooter category.

He also starred in and received a Golden Globe Award nomination for HBO's dramatic film about the Lindberg baby kidnapping, «Crime of the Century» directed by Mark Rydell.

Then, over the course of a series of more dramatic rebellions, the film reveals more about Moll's past, her capacity to justify violence, and the very real possibility that she might allow a serial killer to get away with his crimes, just so she can be with someone who says he loves her.

«Brother's Keeper» I think, is the first film of its kind that I've seen to allow a very humanist approach, concerned not mainly about hard facts of the crime case, but the indecipherable interior of its main participants: The mentally atrophied Ward brothers.

Typical Warner Brothers Gangster film about 2 guys being released from Sing Sing, one goes straight (Raft) and one goes back to crime (Bogart).

You Were Never Really Here This grim, artful New York crime thriller about a tormented thug - for - hire (a rivetingly contained Joaquin Phoenix) confirms writer - director Lynne Ramsay («We Need to Talk About Kevin») as one of the most exciting and exacting film stylists of her generaabout a tormented thug - for - hire (a rivetingly contained Joaquin Phoenix) confirms writer - director Lynne Ramsay («We Need to Talk About Kevin») as one of the most exciting and exacting film stylists of her generaAbout Kevin») as one of the most exciting and exacting film stylists of her generation.

From beginning to end, it is completely derivative of every film about Hollywood and / or crime that came before.

Goold shoots the film with a fine restraint, never coming off dull or dry in the two - hander and courtroom scenes and never going over the line into exploitative sensationalism for a story about a grisly crime.

He joined us to talk about his attraction to James J. Bulger as a character, his approach to structuring his true crime films, and how the role of media footage and the performative nature of some of his subjects can affect the «case» presented in his documentaries.

If you like films that explore moral dilemmas, such as CHANGING LANES, CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS, and the aforementioned MAGNOLIA and GRAND CANYON, you definitely should give 13 CONVERSATIONS ABOUT ONE THING a viewing.

So says professional killer Jackie Cogan at one point in Killing Them Softly, the third film by New Zealander Andrew Dominik - and considering the filmmaker's efforts to establish a connection between the events in the movie and the economic crisis started in the late 2000s thanks to the greed and lack of scruples of Wall Street, it is easy to see Cogan as an ordinary employee of any company complaining about the lack of vision of his bosses and, on the other hand, the big bankers as Armani - dressing versions of the violent mobsters who inhabit the crime section of the newspapers.

By the end of Joshua Oppenheimer's disturbing documentary The Act Of Killing, it was tough to say if the film's subjects — Indonesian gangsters reenacting their genocidal crimes — felt any remorse about the murders they committed in 1965.

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.

The promos for Alejandro Amenábar's first film since his costly Egyptian epic Agora are cryptic and withholding, which is just right for a story about a detective (Ethan Hawke) trying to solve a deeply buried crime.

Following the exploits of the Paris police department's «child protection unit,» Polisse (which screened early on) helped to establish this year's Croisette - spanning theme of children in peril, which could be found to varying extents in fellow Competition entries Michael (kidnapping and pedophilia), Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin (teenage sociopathy), Aki Kaurismäki's universally admired Le Havre (illegal immigration), and the Dardenne Brothers» Grand Jury Prize co-winner The Kid with a Bike (child abandonment); in the Directors» Fortnight entry Play (bullying); and in just about every film at the 50th - anniversary edition of the Critics» Week, from French actress - director Valérie Donzelli's opening - night Declaration of War (pediatric cancer) to Israeli actress - director Hagar Ben Asher's The Slut (pedophilia again), the fact - based 17 Girls (teen pregnancy), and the profoundly disturbing Snowtown, which recalled Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer in its verité sketch of Australian serial killer John Bunting, who lured local youths into aiding and abetting his violent crimes throughout the NineAbout Kevin (teenage sociopathy), Aki Kaurismäki's universally admired Le Havre (illegal immigration), and the Dardenne Brothers» Grand Jury Prize co-winner The Kid with a Bike (child abandonment); in the Directors» Fortnight entry Play (bullying); and in just about every film at the 50th - anniversary edition of the Critics» Week, from French actress - director Valérie Donzelli's opening - night Declaration of War (pediatric cancer) to Israeli actress - director Hagar Ben Asher's The Slut (pedophilia again), the fact - based 17 Girls (teen pregnancy), and the profoundly disturbing Snowtown, which recalled Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer in its verité sketch of Australian serial killer John Bunting, who lured local youths into aiding and abetting his violent crimes throughout the Nineabout every film at the 50th - anniversary edition of the Critics» Week, from French actress - director Valérie Donzelli's opening - night Declaration of War (pediatric cancer) to Israeli actress - director Hagar Ben Asher's The Slut (pedophilia again), the fact - based 17 Girls (teen pregnancy), and the profoundly disturbing Snowtown, which recalled Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer in its verité sketch of Australian serial killer John Bunting, who lured local youths into aiding and abetting his violent crimes throughout the Nineties.

Green Room, a film about a punk band trapped in a hostile environment when they stumble across a white power group and their crimes, is one of the most realistic cinematic visions of the punk underground since Penelope Spheeris's Suburbia in 1983.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (R for profanity, nudity, violence, drug use and graphic sexuality) Legendary director Sidney Lumet (12 Angry Men, Network, The Verdict) assembles a talented ensemble for this suspenseful crime thriller about two brothers (Philip Seymour Hoffman and Ethan Hawke) whose perfectly planned heist of their parents» (Albert Finney and Rosemary Harris) jewelry store goes horribly wrong when their accomplice improvises with disastrous results during the botched robbery.

But the truth is that a movie about deeply personal obsessions can't work if it doesn't have some of its own, and the prevailing mood of The Current War is indifference; there's no point listing the crimes against the past committed by Michael Mitnick's dramatically inept script, which ends with a tacked - on, emotionally manipulative paean to the wonders of cinem - ah that anyone who cares about film history will likely find insulting.

A crime - flick love story as Pop - conscious as Wright's earlier work but unironic about its romantic core, it will delight the director's fans but requires no film - geek certification...

Gudegast, making his feature directing debut after writing «A Man Apart» and «London Has Fallen,» seems to understand just enough about that element of Mann's film to recreate some of its conflicts — both in terms of crime scenarios and the characters» civilian lives — but lacks the discipline, or maybe skill, to lend them real emotional weight, much less originality.

A film about a man who is always last to the scene of the crime is a solid starting point, but no amount of flashy directing can make up for a weak story.

If you look up the crime thriller «Dark Crimes» online, you'll find that it's listed as a 2016 film, which is curious considering Jim Carrey headlines it and no one really knew anything about until recently.

There's something about the perfect crime that fascinates a film lover like me.

His third film, Mean Streets, is surely his first, as the director teams up with Harvey Keitel and Robert De Niro for a fiery crime drama about a small - time gambler who enlists the help of a friend, who's a rising star in the New York mafia, to help him get out of debt.

An entirely underwhelming horror sequel, The Pact II follows crime - scene cleaner June Abbott (Camilla Luddington) as she begins experiencing nightmares involving the recently - killed Judas killer (Mark Steger)- with certain revelations about June's own past forcing her to reach out to the first film's protagonist (Caity Lotz's Annie).

Little is known about the plot, but a short synopsis posted on casting database site suggests that we can look forward to more of the same: «Picking up where the 2007 film left off with the incompetent underboss Kirill thinking that he and his henchman driver Nikolai really have inherited the throne from his crime - lord father, without knowing that Nikolai is actually a clandestine agent working undercover in Russia's federal security service.»

In this way the film is also a neatly symmetrical morality drama about crime, punishment and redemption, where it is left ultimately to the viewer to decide whether Roy has turned out the winner or the loser.

Pickpocket: I'm trying to catch up and watch some directors I've yet to get around to watching, and I started with Robert Bresson and this film, a combination adaptation of Dostoyevsky's Crime And Punishment and documentary about the art of pickpocketing.

While promoting his latest film, Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot, actor Joaquin Phoenix was asked about reports stating he was in talks to portray the Clown Prince of Crime in Warner Bros. and DC's The Joker origin film.

There's nothing about it to recommend unless you are a very big Sylvester Stallone fan or you really like 80s crime films and want to see this throwback.

In fact, it so desperately wants to capture that beatnik - y place and tone where crime films and swinging London met that it just seems to try too hard, slathering the movie with music, trippy visuals and other elements that just can't make up for the deficit of a weak and blandly told story about a ex-con (Colin Farrell) hired to look after a reclusive young actress (Keira Knightley) who finds himself falling in love, which of course puts himself in direct confrontation with one of London's most vicious gangsters.

The film about an animal rights activist that becomes involved in a string of mysterious crimes has been getting interestingly mixed reviews.

Like those two films, this isn't going to be an exact remake, but rather it will handle similar themes to the first two about the attraction and glorification of a life of crime, before pulling the rug from underneath and watching the gradual fall of our antihero.

Gone are the days when films like Do the Right Thing and Boyz N the Hood resonate with the public about the realities of the racism and crime that tear apart largely African - American communities.

Although this decision might make the film more accessible to a wider audience, as it is easier to understand what Amin does when it seems to be a direct result of information that cuts to his very core, it does weaken the larger political story overall by making the focus more about crimes of passion than it is about crimes against humanity.

Few major story details are confirmed about Gambit, although it's rumored to be a crime / heist film, with supervillain Candra as the primary antagonist.

He prepared for a role just as thoroughly as his future co-star Christian Bale when he put on three stone of muscle to become Bronson in «Bronson» — a biographical crime film about one of England's most dangerous criminals who spent more time in solitary confinement than anywhere else during his lifetime.