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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.

What I will spoil is the fact that this new picture, which stars De Niro as a gangster - turned - informant and seeks to pay homage to great mob movies of the past, is an utter waste of time.

Not exact matches

It's almost as if this is an 85 - minute movie about the mob and a 30 - minute story about racial violence north of the Mason - Dixon line are just smashed together.

If I may, although in its inception, zombie mythology focused solely on the living dead, however with the additions to zombie myth, zombies can now be alive or dead depending on the movie or show you are watching, really as long as it's a mob of people who have lost their humanity and are cannibals are considered zombies at this point.

Think of the payments that are strong - armed from a business owner in a classic mob movie — that's extortion.

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«World War Z» explodes right after the opening scenes, in which we see warnings that things are going awry: news reports of feral animals and dead dolphins, roving mobs and rioters — the usual premonitory noise that opens any disaster movie.

«Laugh Killer Laugh» is a tired parody that seems to have been constructed from received notions of noir and mob movies.

There is something to Scott Foundas's contention that the movie reaches beyond the obvious 9/11 references to become a comprehensive catalog of modern terrors: a river of corpses evokes Rwanda, mob scenes recall the urban riots of the tumultuous last century, the march of zombified survivors an echo of the Holocaust.

Not a typical mob movie, they are more of a side story.

Sure the plot is a bit clichéd (good cop infiltrates mob, bad cop infiltrates FBI), but this movie definitely sets itself apart from any of the similar flicks.

Director Jonathan Demme has an impossibly rich CV of female empowerment («Married to the Mob»), musical euphoria («Stop Making Sense») and failed American dreams («Melvin and Howard»), and this movie lets him do everything he's terrific at.

The movie followed two lovers, Clarence (Christian Slater) and Alabama (Patricia Arquette), who tried to navigate the turbulent waters of a mob heist and elopement whilst contending with all the hassles that usually surround such endeavors (surprised parents, hit men, cops, Bronson Pinchot).

Whenever discussion of the greatest mob movies come up, The Godfather I and II and Goodfellas are rightfully mentioned.

They are lorded over by Lazlo Gogolak (Kevin Pollak), the father of the mob boss Oz and Jimmy eliminated in the previous movie.

Another Boston - set Irish mob movie by the name of The Departed exists, and it gets the job done so much better.

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.

Rockwell motivates Farrell even further when he takes the dog of temperamental mob boss Woody Harrelson, whose subsequent hunt for the heroes sends them out to desert, where they continue to collaborate on ideas for the movie.

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While Goodfellas might be the mob movie everyone considers the best, My Blue Heaven does have the benefit of also getting its details straight from the source himself.

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.

His script has a screenwriter (Colin Farrell) trying to write a movie while his friend (Sam Rockwell) teams up with a dog kidnapper (Christopher Walken) to steal the dog of a mob boss (Woody Harrelson) who is dating a beautiful women (Olga Kurylenko) with an ulterior motive.

Executive producer Martin Scorsese and director Nick Sandow («Orange Is The New Black») weave a fascinating tale of a man obsessed with mob movies (Vincent Piazza) and his wife (recent Oscar winner Patricia Arquette) as they chase drugs and money in efforts to recreate the lifestyle.

(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.

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.»

If you ever watch a mob movie and wonder what characters find so seductive in such ugly lifestyles, Infernal Affairs answers your curiosities with crime that pays — in luxury, in respect, in the kinesthetic satisfaction of a job well done.

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.

Fleder directed one of my all - time favourite mob movies in the...

The movie centers on the Manzonis, a mob family who are relocated to Normandy, France as part of the witness protection program, though they soon find that leaving their old, violent, retaliatory ways behind is harder than they expected.

«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»).

The movie is split between Bulger's rise and that of corrupt FBI agent John Connelly (Joel Edgerton), a childhood friend of Bulger and his brother, Billy (Benedict Cumberbatch, doing a not - awful Boston accent), who profited from Bulger informing on the Italian mob for him.

«Belle» is big and fun, «The Mob Song» really conveys Gaston's menace, and «Gaston» is set to be one of the movie's crowning moments, with some bright and engaging performances.

What threatens to yank us away from the tight grip of Depp's performance is the material, which is never wholly original and is downright second - rate when it practices mob - movie mimicry.

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?

Cooper and writers Mark Mallouk and Jez Butterworth use familiar tropes from the mob - movie lexicon to make the story palatable to wide audiences, and in doing so strip the story of all its strangeness.

is one of the great lynch mob movies ever made and one of the most caustic social commentaries of anxiety and fear.

It's a standard mafia double - cross movie with a mob boss and henchmen and small - time drug trafficking and an underling that tries to get away with murder, but transposed to Louisiana — where we're told the drug of choice is «hillbilly crack.»

The new «Star Wars» movie has positive reviews from a majority of professional critics and is hardly a «difficult» proposition, but an online mob of fans hates it with the fervor of true believers confronting an apostate.

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.

Involved are the mob, a Las Vegas hotel owner, a woman who makes fake ID's, a group of punk kids, and a guy who spends most of the movie with his right arm severed.

Most of the movie takes place over the course of one fateful evening, where the local mob, or at least what appears to be them, ends up killing a room full of undercover cops.

Starring opposite one another in mob movie Gotti, the two are also here to celebrate Travolta's 40th anniversary of Grease with a public screening for fans on the Croisette beach.

A big swing and a huge miss (one of few) for A24, Revenge of the Green Dragons is a straightforward and crass mob movie following a pair of brothers scaling the ranks of a legendary Chinatown gang in 1980's New York.

Ginny, whose tether to reality has grown dangerously thin, begins to suspect that something is afoot with Mickey and Carolina, and after a broad gesture to demonstrate her affection triggers Mickey's fear of commitment, she sees the mob goons who have been searching for Carolina throughout the entire movie about to close in on her and does nothing to prevent her death.

After Married to the Mob, she would make one of my personal favorite guilty pleasure movies, Tequila Sunrise.

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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.