Sentences with phrase «gumshoe guy»
By forcing these two characters — along with gumshoe Guy Lapointe (Johnny Depp), who also appeared in Tusk — to do battle with a malefactor from Canada's past, Yoga Hosers is meant, to some degree, to chronicle the two girls» increasing awareness of a world outside their narrow fame - obsessed purview.
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The story of ultra-macho Los Angeles gumshoe Mike Hammer (Ralph Meeker) smiting bad guys and spurning women as he wrestles with a whodunit is a tad misogynistic, but I'll let that pass because this is a portrayal of a rough and violent, sometimes sadistic, world overall.
They're all here: the dame in peril, the sexy femme fatale, the handicapped mob boss and the gumshoe whose quick wits are bound to put him in the bad guys» sights — it's just that they also happen to be teenagers.
More slapstick than gumshoe, The Nice Guys is at its best when riffing broadly on the chaotic chemistry between its chalk - and - cheese male stars.