Sentences with phrase «heist picture»

The Bank Job delivers all the pleasures expected from a crime - heist picture.

Desperate (1947), a bare - knuckle heist picture, is Anthony Mann's first real film noir and a stand - out B - movie, starring Steve Brodie and great second - tier noir heavy Raymond Burr.

Expanding on that film's opening crawl («Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans to the Empire's ultimate weapon»), Rogue One looks to perhaps strip away the space opera pomp and circumstance of the main films and revel a bit more in distinct genre filmmaking, in this case a good old fashioned heist picture.

It's yet another heist picture from a director who is very fond of stories about professional thieves and or elaborately planned ambitious crimes.

Ten more: S. Craig Zahler's Brawl in Cell Block 99, a violent yarn with an indomitable Vince Vaughn performance; BPM, a moving look at AIDS activists in Paris; Before I Fall, a teen Groundhog Day; Luca Guadagnino's Call Me by Your Name, a lush holiday at an Italian villa; Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk, with its ingenious time - shifting narrative; Alexander Payne's social comedy Downsizing; William Oldroyd's Lady Macbeth, a period piece with bite; the uneven but lively satire The Square; Steven Soderbergh's clever heist picture Logan Lucky; and the Twilight Zone vibe of The Killing of a Sacred Deer.

The film borrows the shape of Soderbergh's Ocean's Eleven series in its devotion to the old formula of the heist picture.

The film becomes a biting critique of American culture in 1960s, a heist picture, a tale of Cold War - era espionage, a monster movie, a fairy tale, and, perhaps above all else, a tender love story between two unlikely lovers.

This week's releases include an over-the-top comedy; a Western that defies tradition; a movie that puts a smile on everyone's face; a musical in high - def; and a gritty but intricate heist picture.

But the pursuit, while still very much an important element, takes a back seat to what is essentially a tightly wound heist picture, as Don, Vardhaan, and a few new recruits (including Kunal Kapoor as a computer hacker and Lara Dutta as Don's latest right - hand moll) plot a potentially game - changing robbery in Berlin — the game of which is, naturally, constantly in flux with its players» self - serving interests and shifting allegiances.

Roadblock (Warner Archive) opens with a set - up that promises a femme fatale siren thriller and a heist picture, and in its own way it defies both genres, or at least it takes a different twist.

Solo works more as a heist picture than Rogue One, but neither can resist throwing its schemers into armed combat as soon as possible.

I heard director Edgar Wright call his film a soundtrack with a movie attached — a perfect description of the heist picture for which he selected a series of songs, then wrote each scene to fit the songs.

A few years after the great Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Paul Newman and Robert Redford reteamed with director George Roy Hill for this - an intricately crafted and wonderfully structured con artist / heist picture filled with tons of twists and turns, and entertainment value out the wazoo.

Russell and Rivers propose utopian communities and spiritual / aesthetic ecstasy as alternatives; Reichardt's approach is more cynical and existential: she reinvigorates well - worn conventions from film noir and heist pictures to analyse the problems of radical political action in the era of late capitalism.

Not exact matches

This is due to similarities in the code used in the online heist and in an earlier breach of Sony Pictures, according to two insiders quoted by Bloomberg and who asked to remain unidentified since the matter has not gone public.

The Forger is a moderately entertaining, low - key combination heist film, crime picture and family drama.

«The Vault» is a combination heist and horror picture; and it's the rare genre mash - up where each element's equally strong.

Sundance describes it as a «delightful dramatic comedy, a buddy picture, and, for good measure, a heist film.»

«The Hurricane Heist» Distributor: Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures Budget (if reported): $ 35M Release Date: March 9 Opening Theater Count: 2,402 Opening Average: $ 1,259 Current Gross: $ 6,115,825

Voltage Pictures has released first trailer for the TIFF selected American Heist, which is a cliche of a crime thriller inside a generic slice of convention.

Three of Tinsel Town's brightest stars are about to secure the dough to make their next motion pictures *: Sony Pictures and 20th Century Fox will team up to finance and distribute George Clooney «s WWII - era art heist drama Monumepictures *: Sony Pictures and 20th Century Fox will team up to finance and distribute George Clooney «s WWII - era art heist drama MonumePictures and 20th Century Fox will team up to finance and distribute George Clooney «s WWII - era art heist drama Monuments Men.

It picks up for good once Murphy enters the picture halfway through, and it benefits from some nice ensemble work, but no thought or care seems to have gone into the heist at the movie's core: it's a big, dumb, blunt instrument of a plan.

Other films meriting mention include Robert Altman «s final picture, «A Prairie Home Companion ``; Mel Gibson «s Aztec - thriller, «Apocalypto ``; Tom Tykwer «s kinetic (perhaps too kinetic) «Perfume: The Story of a Murderer ``; John Cameron Mitchell «s low - budget erotica,» Shortbus ``; Richard Linklater's live - action rotoscoped Philip K. Dick adaptation «A Scanner Darkly ``; Spike Lee «s biggest commercial hit, the entertaining heist film, «Inside Man ``; Michael Mann «s flawed, but interesting «Miami Vice ``; Bryan Singer «s unfairly maligned «Superman Returns; «Nicole Holofcener «s wryly observational «Friends with Money,» the over-estimated, but enlivening horror «The Descent,» and «13 Tzameti.»

The heist thriller «Den of Thieves,» from Universal Pictures, debuted at No. 3 overall and No. 4 on the Blu - ray chart after a $ 45 million haul at the domestic box office.

John Cassavetes was doing his Orson Welles thing — by that I mean acting in whatever movie paid well so he could finance his own, personal productions — when he took the lead in an Italian mob picture / heist movie hybrid shot in large part on location in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Las Vegas.

Voltage Pictures has released an international trailer for American Heist, an upcoming crime thriller from director Sarik Andreasyan, which stars Hayden Christensen (Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith) and Adrien Brody (The Grand Budapest Hotel); check it out here... American Heist features a cast that also includes Jordana Brewster (Fast & Furious -LSB-...]

Universal Pictures has released a full Hi - Res photo gallery for the upcoming Brett Ratner comedy, Tower Heist.

Tower Heist is like a sweet child who draws a terrible picture of your house, but he doesn't know any better and just wants you to be impressed.

Last week, we reported that Universal Pictures had made the controversial decision to release Brett Ratner's Tower Heist on Video on Demand only three weeks after the film had hit theaters.

But there's almost an «Inception» - like twist when hypnotherapy sessions start to blur the lines of reality and move the enigmatic picture beyond a simple heist film.

In «SuperCon» he plays a beloved but hateful genre - picture star — think Ron Perlman / Bruce Campbell / Shatner — whose bounty for autographs becomes the target of a group of convention - goers planning a heist.

The Paris - born daughter of a Folies Bergère dancer and a restaurateur, Moreau started out as a stage actress at the Comédie - Française before earning supporting roles in B pictures and crime dramas in the fifties — the most often recalled now being Jacques Becker's captivating 1954 heist thriller Touchez pas au grisbi, with Jean Gabin.

In the evening, Summer of Darkness deepens the shadows with Jules Dassin's «Brute Force» (a definitive prison picture), Robert Siodmak's «Criss Cross» and John Huston's «The Asphalt Jungle «(two definitive heist thrillers), Anthony Mann's «Desperate «(a definitive B chase movie) and Hitchcock's «The Wrong Man.»

FilmRise picked up North American rights to Redwire Pictures» supernatural heist thriller, described as The Town meets The Sixth Sense, which is being sold worldwide by Content Media.

Wright's latest high - octane motion picture, Baby Driver, is a foul - mouthed, ultra-violent spin on the heist thriller, the whole thing playing like some sort of whimsical hybrid of Walter Hill's The Driver, Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly's Singin» in the Rain and Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs.

It has been noted that the weekend take for Tower Heist has been labeled as a disappointment for Universal Pictures.

You'll also find storyboard - to - scene splitscreen comparisons for the «Bank Heist» and «Potter's Field» sequences (note how unlike the storyboard panels the finished shots are), as well as a «producing workshop» with Arnold and Anne Kopelson that's genuinely informative in that they distinguish between the various types of producers credited at the beginning of every motion picture.

Now, after a four - year hiatus, this prolific director returned with another heist movie — but not in the same urbane vein as most of the crime caper pictures he's made.