Sentences with phrase «mob movie by»
Another Boston - set Irish mob movie by the name of The Departed exists, and it gets the job done so much better.
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They are lorded over by Lazlo Gogolak (Kevin Pollak), the father of the mob boss Oz and Jimmy eliminated in the previous movie.
Boaz Yakin, who directs and co-wrote the movie, is known for his most recent «Safe,» about a girl with a numerical code buried in her head who is pursued by a Russian mob and corrupt New York City cops.
(Olive, Blu - ray, DVD)(1950), directed by Cy Enfield, is one of the great lynch mob movies ever made and one of the most caustic social commentaries of anxiety and fear, set in the disillusionment of the American Dream in the post-war years and dosed with sociopathic anger.
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.
«Set in the»70s with a creative tone similar to Casino, it involves the last days before studios were taken over by conglomerates, when they were run by wily entrepreneurs, and where there was a mob influence, drugs, sex, excess, casting couches, and some of the best movies made in the 20th century.
Just a handful of semi-attached major movie stars — Al Pacino, Harvey Keitel, and Robert De Niro, who was saluted by the festival Monday night with a screening of Weinstein Co.'s mainstream Roberto Doran biopic «Hands of Stone,» co-starring Edgar Ramirez — and auteur Martin Scorsese directing a mob hitman script by Oscar - winner Steve Zaillian («Schindler's List»).
When Greg Sestero, who plays Mark, attended a screening a year after the movie's release, he says he was» mobbed» by fans.
This cult favorite TV movie about a mentally challenged man who's wrongfully killed by a lynch mob while dressed as a scarecrow and seemingly returns from the grave for revenge smartly keeps things low key but still manages to deliver (non-explicit) thrills, buoyed by the scene eating of perennial love - to - hate - him bad guy Charles Durning.
A movie with Melissa McCarthy called «The Kitchen» will be about mob wives who pick up their imprisoned husbands» duties in 1970s New York, while «The Oath,» a satirical thriller written and directed by «The Mindy Project» star Ike Barinholtz, centers on citizens who have to take an oath of loyalty in a politically divided America.
OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening November 2, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS American Gangster (R for nudity, sexuality, profanity, violence and pervasive drug content) Oscar - winners Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe square off in this mob saga, set in the Seventies, about the efforts of a rogue cop to bring down a drug lord who's been smuggling heroin to Harlem in the coffins of soldiers who died in Vietnam.
For readers who love a little humor with their murder: The Fame Thief by Timothy Hallinan Junior Bender, a P.I. and former burglar, is hired by Irwin Dressler, a movie king and former mob boss, to solve a Hollywood cold case.