Sentences with phrase «mob film»
A "mob film" refers to a type of movie that focuses on the criminal underworld and organized crime, typically involving gangs or mafias. It often portrays the lives of mobsters, their activities, and the conflicts they face. Full definition
But first, it's going to have to do a lot more than deliver a captivating pilot episode — one that was directed by Martin Scorsese, the man behind some of the best mob films of the last 20 years — if it ever hopes to reach the same level as «The Sopranos.»
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It should have been the real blast - off for Joanou's career, but instead, it came and went in a heart - beat, with none of the marketing muscle the studio promised behind it, as well as an unfortunately scheduled release date, timed the same week as Scorsese's seminal mob film Goodfellas.
For instance, after the 2012 Aurora theater massacre during the midnight showing of Warner Bros» The Dark Knight Rises (where my cousin was murdered along with 11 others), the same studio was readying to release the period mob film Gangster Squad.
Most mob films have you on the edge of your seat at least once throughout their running times but «The Iceman» never really manages to do that.
This film could have used the Scorsese treatment, the master of epic mob films.
The mob film based on Charles Brandt's 2004 book I Heard You Paint Houses, about Frank «The Irishman» Sheeran (De Niro), a hitman who was purported to kill Teamster leader Jimmy Hoffa, has had a troubled path to production because of Scorsese's insistence on using de-aging technologies for the majority of the film — techniques that have been used sparingly in movies like The Curious Case of Benjamin Button or Marvel films.
The most influential movie of the past 30 years (see Pulp Fiction, The Sopranos, etc.), Scorsese's monumental rise - and - fall chronicle of mob informer Henry Hill is the last word on mob films and the myth of criminal chic.
Unlike the ambitious gangster or mob film, reputable prison dramas tend to feature a protagonist that is closer to us, a person thrown to hell rather than embodying it, nakedly amidst wolves as opposed to running with them.