Sentences with phrase «mob films of»

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.»

Not exact matches

«The American ambassador to Libya and three of his staff members were murdered by a raging mob in Benghazi, Libya, possibly under the cover of protests against a film mocking the Muslim Prophet Muhammad,» Ali writes.

Olson was cast in a short film about the 1931 kidnapping of Fred Blumer, then owner of Blumer Brewing Co. in Monroe, Wis.The story goes that after realizing they wouldn't get much ransom money, the mob members released Blumer, charging him a week's worth of room and board.

They would be in uproar upon learning that a mob had tried to physically force its way into an American television studio and blocked the roads outside, trying to prevent the filming of a political debate which featured a robust and forthright atheist.

Filming in Taipei and Paris (and allegedly annoyed by the constant interruptions of paparazzi during the late night shootings on the Chinese island), Besson hones in on Choi Min - sik as Kang, the leader of a large drug mob intent on selling drugs, though for what purpose we don't know.

A mid -»90s gangster epic that hopscotches from Brooklyn to Miami and Cali to Moscow, the film tells the story of three friends who set out to hustle the Russian mob, the Cali cartel and the DEA for the score of a lifetime.

Quite typical of the mob style films of it?s time, but for me not enough storyline to separate this from any other mob movie of it?s day.

Gibson has made a big, bold, nightmarishly beautiful film not just about the dawn of the Christian faith, but about the awful tendency of human communities (wherever and whenever in the world they may exist) toward self - preservation, intolerance and mob rule.

Cast as a bounty hunter who is sent to Brazil to retrieve the son of a well - known mob boss (American Pie's Seann William Scott), the film provided Johnson with the sort of opportunity to display his comic flair — a notable talent that was mostly neglected in the special - effects - laden Scorpion King.

The film is set in the 1930s and revolves around families with some involvement of the mob.

Too many reviewers want to play politics instead of reviewing the film and all the usual anti Spielberg mob venting their spleen.

Based on the 2001 book «Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob,» the film tells the true story of how Whitey Bulger, the brother of a Massachusetts state senator and the most infamous notorious criminal in South Boston, became an FBI informant to take down the Italian mob that was invading his territoMob,» the film tells the true story of how Whitey Bulger, the brother of a Massachusetts state senator and the most infamous notorious criminal in South Boston, became an FBI informant to take down the Italian mob that was invading his territomob that was invading his territory.

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.

The iconic film followed the violent lives of two mob hit men, a boxer, a gangster's wife, and a pair of diner bandits on the road to redemption.

Glenn Ford is the bland family man cop driven over the edge when the mob violently kills his wife in a hit meant for him (the scene is the first of the film's explosive eruptions of violence that tear through the placid poise of normalcy).

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.

A star of the Harry Potter films was today sentenced to two years in prison for being part of a violent mob which took to the streets during last summer's riots in London.

I was wondering what you guys would think of a sequel to THE GODFATHER PART III taking place in modern day in which the grandson of Michael Corleone is forced into the family business paralleling the arch of the first film in which Michael was forced into the mob.

This is his fifth collaboration with star Leonardo DiCaprio, but marks just his second feature shot digitally and combines a loosely mob - inflected story with a topical, high - finance setting, and so overall the film promises to deliver an exciting blend of the old and the new from the director.

And though we're always eager to see a new Assayas film (or miniseries), the announcement of The Wasp Network means that the status of his repeatedly delayed Chicago mob movie Idol's Eye may once again be in the air.

After teasing a number of different ambitious projects in 2017 — including an adaptation of Fernando Morais» nonfiction book The Last Soldiers Of The Cold War: The Story Of the Cuban Five and a slightly re-cast version of Idol's Eye, his perpetually stalled Chicago mob thriller — Assayas ultimately went with a previously unannounced project about the French publishing industry as his next filof different ambitious projects in 2017 — including an adaptation of Fernando Morais» nonfiction book The Last Soldiers Of The Cold War: The Story Of the Cuban Five and a slightly re-cast version of Idol's Eye, his perpetually stalled Chicago mob thriller — Assayas ultimately went with a previously unannounced project about the French publishing industry as his next filof Fernando Morais» nonfiction book The Last Soldiers Of The Cold War: The Story Of the Cuban Five and a slightly re-cast version of Idol's Eye, his perpetually stalled Chicago mob thriller — Assayas ultimately went with a previously unannounced project about the French publishing industry as his next filOf The Cold War: The Story Of the Cuban Five and a slightly re-cast version of Idol's Eye, his perpetually stalled Chicago mob thriller — Assayas ultimately went with a previously unannounced project about the French publishing industry as his next filOf the Cuban Five and a slightly re-cast version of Idol's Eye, his perpetually stalled Chicago mob thriller — Assayas ultimately went with a previously unannounced project about the French publishing industry as his next filof Idol's Eye, his perpetually stalled Chicago mob thriller — Assayas ultimately went with a previously unannounced project about the French publishing industry as his next film.

Based on the 2001 book Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob by Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill, the film is just as much about FBI agent John Connolly (played by Joel Edgerton) as it is about Bulger.

So said mob - debtcollector - turned - movie - producer Chili Palmer (John Travolta) in Get Shorty (1996), Barry Sonnenfeld's hilarious film adaptation of Elmore Leonard's Hollywood - baiting novel.

I wasn't a big fan of Richard Curtis's sappy - silly «Love, Actually,» but the writer - director's new fact - based film, «Pirate Radio» has moments of gleeful anarchism drawing on many hallowed sources of English comedy, including «The Goon Show,» the «Carry On» movies, and Ealing Studio comedies such as «The Lavender Hill Mob.»

The film features Brad Pitt as a mob enforcer on the trail of a couple guys (Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn) who ripped off the wrong card game.

Directed by Fritz Lang on a modest budget, the 1953 crime drama stars Glenn Ford as the workaday family - man cop driven over the edge when the mob violently kills his wife in a hit meant for him (the scene is the first of the film's explosive eruptions of violence that tear through the poise of normalcy).

A mid -»90s gangster epic that hopscotches from Brooklyn to Miami and Cali to Moscow, the film tells the true story of three friends who set out to hustle the Russian mob, the Cali cartel and the DEA for the score of a lifetime.

That style is so strenuously presented, whipped into a creamy foam of guns, Rolling Stones tracks, and expensive cars, that it manages to get by mostly on vapors, anchored by the film's pitch - black presentation of London's mob underworld.

When I made my list of most anticipated movies of 2012, one of the films I immediately realized I'd left out of consideration was Andrew Dominik «s Cogan's Trade, which stars Brad Pitt as a mob heavy on the trail of a couple junkies who ripped off the wrong poker game.

The film stars Brad Pitt playing a mob enforcer who must investigate the robbery of a high stakes poker game.

«Magic City,» the filmed - in - Miami Starz network series about a mobbed - up luxury hotel and the political and cultural turmoil of the Miami - Havana nexus in 1959, has been canceled, according to a report in the entertainment trade publication Variety...

From director Ron Shelton (of Bull Durham, White Men Can't Jump, Tin Cup) the film is about an ex-FBI agent and an ex-mob lawyer in the witness protection program who have to get over their petty old folks» home rivalry in order to save themselves from a mob hit.

I've always been a huge fan of crime drama, whether it is Scorsese's classic mafia film GoodFellas, or the groundbreaking HBO series The Sopranos, in which James Gandolfini portrayed the iconic mob boss Tony Soprano.

The film is the story of a woman whose mob boss ex-boyfriend decides he wants her killed.

And the film gurgles with several resonant themes, from the evolution of crime (bank - robbers to inter-state mobs) to the way cops spend more chasing robbers than the robbers actually steal.

When you think of the Golden Globe Awards, you don't generally associate a film that involves a flock of Las Vegas - bound man - boys getting into all kinds of trouble with hookers, tigers, and a Chinese mob boss (oh, my!)

The other aspect of the film that is so unnerving is the way evil exists in plain sight, perhaps at the peripheral of our collective vision, but there to be seen, barely trying to disguise itself, be it corrupt cops or the Russian mob out to make an example of someone.

In key sequences, the film pits a mob of howling white reactionaries who think the circus is disgusting and immoral against Barnum's multicultural, gender - bending, and body - type - diverse band of «Others.»

A far cry from the genre and exploitative films Corman is known for, The Intruder holds up as a pretty gripping and frightening tale of contagious racism and mob mentality.

WHAT: Set over the course of several decades, the film tells the real - life story of Robert Kuklinski (Michael Shannon), a devoted husband and father of two who secretly worked as a contract killer for the mob, murdering more than 100 people before finally being arrested.

The inciting incident of the film, an audacious robbery of a mobbed - up poker game, was among the year's most unnerving suspense setpieces.

Salvo tells the story of a mob enforcer who foils an attack on his employer and tracks the man who did it only to encounter said Mafioso's blind sister, Rita, en route and opt not to murder her along with her brother, which in turn leads to the titular Salvo encountering an existential crisis that forms the core of the film.

The film sees the Australian filmmaker uses the frame of a crime story — about two low - level criminals (Scoot McNairy & Ben Mendelsohn) who rip off a mob card game, and the enforcer (Brad Pitt) tasked with taking them out — to tackle the 2008 financial collapse and bailout, and many took issue with a perceived unsubtlety in his approach.

It's a confusing, slick film that can't quite decide what it's after; do we want to focus on Gere and his music dreams, the dancers and the fate of the infamous Cotton Club — or is this purely a mob movie that claims Gere and the infinitely moldable Cage in its clutches?

A late - film crowd scene wherein an angry mob of protesters has assembled roars in the rear speakers.

However, as Lieutenant Gordon promised at the end of the previous film The Joker (Heath Ledger) is around causing all sorts of chaos, and now with Batman cornering the mob The Joker has been let loose on him.

Director Andrew Dominik's third feature film after «Chopper» and «The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford,» 2012's Killing Them Softly is a brutal tale of mob politics based on George V. Higgins» 1974 novel «Cogan's Trade.»

Lynching mobs, beatings, and a very gruesome scene of a man who has been burned to death on a cross all contribute to the harrowing visual messages of this film.

However, in order to score the big fish, Joe has to convince Steven to film his Arizona pic in Providence, Rhode Island, in the heart of the mob action, and Steven is so desperate for his big chance, he willingly accepts such a preposterous notion.