Sentences with phrase «of crime caper»

The 2010 IGF winner has spent a few years getting a spit and a polish, and the result is a top - down, pixellated mashup of every crime caper you've ever fallen in love with.

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.

Peyton Reed «s Marvel origin story didn't feel like most comic book movies because of its crime caper tropes.

Not exact matches

I love crime novels and I love crime stories, I like heist and caper kind of stories and I thought, «Hey, why not do a caper on the moon?»

Also at 9 a.m., the New York City Bar Association holds a White Collar Crime Conference, with speakers including Deputy AG Sally Yates, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Robert Capers, U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut Deirdre Daly, and Sullivan & Cromwell's Karen Patton Seymour, 42 W. 44th St., Manhattan.

A coolly familiar Belgian crime caper is lent a sheen of unexpected authenticity by its ex-gangster co-writerdirector.

The following year, he traveled into the realm of slick international caper with a supporting role in The Thomas Crown Affair, and then returned to his New York roots to portray the leader of organized crime in the Bronx in Spike Lee's Summer of Sam.

The trio decide to follow a life of crime yet at their best they are inept petty thieves whose every caper becomes a comedic calamity.

Provided you can get past its improbable premise, this madcap crime caper's trio of talented leading ladies manage to provide enough moments of mirth to make the rest of this raucous romp worthwhile.

Got ta love that classic film poster though huh, just like «The Rocketeer» they really capture the essence of the old style crime caper and dare devil hero aspect.

When the movie morphs from a story of mutual healing into a crime - fighting caper, it goes off track.

But it's also just a straight forward, traditional, albeit formulaic ansd predictable crime caper following the exploits of federal agents, or G Men as they strive to bring the major criminals across the country to justice.

Ahead of its US release next month, a poster and trailer have arrived online for the upcoming crime caper Lowlife.

Ensemble comedies are a mainstay of classic cinema — from crime capers to family drama - comedies, the sub-genre is a tricky one to get right — but nothing lights up the screen quite like a cast that just click.

In celebration of Wes Anderson's latest film — the crime caper THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL — we're thrilled to feature a few of everyone's favorite crime flicks of all time!

(In Cantonese with subtitles) Ladron Que Roba a Ladron (PG - 13 for profanity and sexuality) Crime caper about a couple of career crooks (Fernando Colunga and Miguel Varoni) who come out of retirement to rob a TV infomercial guru (Saul Lisazo) who has made millions by selling worthless health products to poor Latino day laborers.

Steven Soderbergh's big - screen projects are a testament to his love of a good crime caper.

Snatch The Rupert Grint - led remake of Guy Ritchie's crime caper film «Snatch» has already shot its second season, and now Crackle have announced a September premiere and released a first look clip.

Despite some disappointing numbers Strong has done himself no harm at all in 2008, quietly acting both Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe off the screen in Body of Lies alongside a measured performance in Guy Ritchie's comeback crime caper RocknRolla.

The Tarantino crime comedy is, in many ways, a lost art — the flood of bloody, witty, ensemble - driven capers in the late»90s gave audiences everything from The Way of the Gun to The Big Hit.

But it does so by substituting one seductive narrative for another: She was a victim of a feckless, abusive husband, Jeff (Stan), whose story is played here as a Coen brothers - style crime caper about a dumb man, with even dumber friends.

Rating: 4/10 — somehow grabbing an extra point just by virtue of how barmy it all is, Once Upon a Time in Venice is a low - brow crime caper that contains way too much bad acting, way too much bad dialogue, and way too much bad everything else; but somehow it's a movie you can laugh with instead of at, and it's a movie that has to be seen to be believed... on so many levels.

This crime caper is a vivid dispatch from the struggling margins of Trump's America — and an opportunity for Robert Pattinson to show some newfound swagger

The Golden Globe and SAG - winning actress starred in the 2016 crime comedy caper «The Nice Guys» and has a big role in 2017's «Fifty Shades Darker,» the buzzy sequel to «Fifty Shades of Grey.»

Kid Cannabis (Unrated) Idaho crime caper revisiting the real - life exploits of an 18 year - old, high school dropout (Jonathan Daniel Brown) who quit his job as a pizza delivery boy to build a multimillion dollar Marijuana empire.

With the one - two punch of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch in 1998 and 2000, respectively, it was clear that a bold new crime caper director had entered the industry.

by Walter Chaw Completed about a year after John Boorman's infinitely superior The General, Thaddeus O'Sullivan's Ordinary Decent Criminal is a sporadic «fictionalizing» of the life of Irish crime boss Martin Cahill that dresses up Cahill's exploits with slick visuals while attempting the unsavory task of doing exactly what The General was accused of doing: making urban terrorism and torture whimsical caper fare.

With Pulp Fiction out of the way, John Travolta took his first steps toward cashing in on his newly - regained cool with the lead role in this consistently enjoyable crime caper.

With less than two months to go until the release of Steven Soderbergh's Logan Lucky, a new UK trailer has arrived online for the upcoming crime caper which stars Channing Tatum, Daniel Craig, Riley Keough, and Adam Driver; check it out below after the official synopsis... Trying to reverse a family curse, brothers Jimmy (Channing Tatum)-LSB-...]

I know it's full of mostly unlikable people (except that I totally love Dwayne Johnson so damn much in this) but there's something incredibly entertaining about Bay taking a break from robots to give us a glossy, laugh - out - loud funny, muscle men, Miami - set crime caper.

Sold to audiences as a laugh - a-minute crime caper it very quickly becomes evident it is nothing of the sort, but what it is is something wonderful.

This would be the second remake of Norman Jewison's classic crime caper, following John McTiernan's take on the material in the late 1990s.

Out of Sight is a sexy crime caper for adults — boy, don't you wish they made more of those?

THR is reporting that the brilliant performer, who also did some impressive work in last year's botched Fantastic Four remake, will next be starring in a remake of The Thomas Crown Affair, the famous, seductive crime caper from Norman Jewison in 1968.

Although the animation film on everyone's lips at Berlinale is undoubtedly Isle of Dogs, for those who like their plucky heroes a little more amphibian, a charming Swedish crime caper by the name of Gordon & Paddy is here to satisfy that niche.

In one of the most - discussed titles screening at TIFF, director Adam Leon sets us up on a sketchy errand to deliver a package, and winds up painting a romantic crime caper with a young man and woman.

And though David O. Russell has been on a nomination hot streak of late, with American Hustle capping a trio of Best Director nominations over the last four years for the filmmaker, his chances, which seemed much higher back when his crime caper stormed onto the scene last December, have since fizzled along with the film.

We have a diverse set of premieres this week: a medical slice - of - life drama, a legal drama posing as a crime caper (or is it a crime caper posing as a...

This wouldn't be such a glaring issue were there, in fact, much of a plot to start with, but in an attempt to side - step accusations of retreading old ground, screenwriter Kay Cannon opts to stumble from musical comedy to crime caper and back.

Shane Black sets a pair of sound - hearted good - bad guys off on the trail of a missing porn star in a crime caper that's touched by Anderson, Altman and Hiassen

WHY: A north - of - the - border crime caper that plays like a poor man's «Ocean's Eleven» (right down to the jazzy musical score and fast - cut montages), «The Art of the Steal» is not only incredibly forgettable, but it offers nothing new to the genre.

The four player co-op «crime caper» title has players working together to steal some loot - each person taking the role of a unique class.

The Pink Panther 2 (PG for suggestive humor, action and mild epithets) Steve Martin reprises the title role as the bumbling Jacques Clouseau for a comic crime caper which has the hapless inspector traversing the globe in search of the international jewel thief who has purloined the priceless Pink Panther diamond.

It's no surprise then that «Lock, Stock» is one of the best crime capers in recent memory.

Also new this week: «Tower Heist» (Universal), a caper comedy for the modern economy, stars Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Matthew Broderick and Tea Leoni (Blu - ray and DVD, plus Digital Download and On Demand); «London Boulevard» (Sony), a crime drama with Colin Farrell and Keira Knightly (Blu - ray, DVD and Digital Download, available at Redbox kiosks); «The Son of No One» (Anchor Bay), a cop drama with Channing Tatum, Tracy Morgan, and Al Pacino (Blu - ray and DVD, available at Redbox kiosks); and «The Way» (ARC Entertainment), an inspirational drama with Martin Sheen (DVD and VOD, available at Redbox kiosks).

Shane Black sets a pair of sound - hearted good - bad guys off on the trail of a missing porn star in a crime caper that's touched by Anderson, Altman and Hiaasen

The Two Faces of January is a classical told crime caper centered around a pair of on - the - lamb scalawags and the one vixen they both are vying for.

uy Ritchie hasn't exactly done a great job convincing his critics that he can make something other than the hyper - stylized crime capers he's known for, so it's a bit surprising that a major studio would entrust to him one of the most popular literary characters of all time.

(In German, Spanish, French and English with subtitles) Yonkers Joe (R for profanity and sexual references) Chazz Palmintieri handles the title role in this crime caper about a con man whose plans to execute the perfect scam are interrupted when he has to take custody of his son (Tom Guiry) with Down Syndrome.

The debut feature from Zachary Sluser, The Driftless Area's moods and machinations fall curiously between a Coen Brothers crime caper, the existential mysteries of a Krysztof Kieslowski film, and the hypnotic bewilderment of Herk Harvey's cult classic Carnival of Souls.