Sentences with phrase «of heist flicks»

Billed as a modern spin - off to the George Clooney led Ocean's Eleven series of heist flicks, the cast list alone is enough to leave you reeling with anticipation, with Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, Mindy Kaling, Sarah Paulson, Rihanna, and Helena Bonham Carter all involved as part of the ensemble effort.

, Side Effects, or the climaxes of heist flicks like Ocean's Eleven and Logan Lucky) is a natural fit for psychological horror.

Director Nick Park brings a love of heist flicks and Alfred Hitchcock thrillers to this tale of a deadpan penguin who drives a wedge between man and dog as part of a nefarious plot that includes a robotic pair of pants and the most hilariously peculiar train chase in movie history.

Reminiscent of a heist flick, the film does a first - rate job recreating Petit's harrowing walk, allowing us to decide whether his walk is art or merely calculated insanity.

At its core, Bad Santa is a mix of heist flick and a black comedy, with Thornton (Intolerable Cruelty, Bandits) playing Willie, a man who has no interest in being a mall Santa, save for the fact that it allows himself and his diminutive elf assistant (Cox, Date Movie) some time to case the place for a safe and figure out a way to crack it before Christmas.

I think I like that it's more of a heist flick than a street racing movie.

Not exact matches

The second act of the film finds Petit and his allies casing the twin towers, making sure that they know everything about the tower that's still under construction — the workers» schedules, which areas give access to staircases, which elevators are best to use... Essentially, The Walk becomes a heist flick in the middle — and like all good heist flicks, everything goes like clockwork until it doesn't.

The Walk is flawed — it tries to be three different kinds of movie (charming biography, heist flick, epic achievement story) and not every moment works completely, but it doesn't really matter.

A true «good bad flick» has to catch us off guard with its audacity and ridiculousness, and too much of The Hurricane Heist is rote.

Directors put comedic spins on heist films and called them capers, allowing us to laugh at the absurdity of a group of fairly inept individuals attempting to pull off such a massive robbery, and some flicks even started leaving out certain acts to allow us to fill in the blanks and create a more compelling, unique story.

The heist flick rose to fame in the 1950s, but we'd already been enjoying a slew of stories involving thievery, scams, and capers since the 1930s.

When they are not on screen together, the heist flick loses some of its luster.

It's an unlikely heist flick that serves as Brando's Pick of the Month with little in the way of star -LSB-...]

In that 2001 remake Soderbergh pretty much wrote his own set of rules for a heist flick and would follow them through two sequels.

Part heist flick and part history lesson, Closer to the Moon is best viewed as an entertaining, albeit flawed, entry in the sub-sub-genre of films about the aftermath of WWII.

As a heist flick, the pacing's all wrong, and the denouement feels unsatisfying simply because you're left wondering what the point of it all was.

Fresh and very funny animated flick about a man named Gru who is planning the biggest heist of all time: he wants to steal the moon!

Baby Driver is an action flick that features a young savant of a car driver known as Baby (Ansel Elgort) who is hired by an ambitious crime boss (Kevin Spacey) to pilot the getaway car for Doc's heists.

Three of what seem to be the hardest working directors in Hong Kong have teamed together for Triangle, a heist flick that never pauses for breath.

Aniston is also eyeing a heist flick written by her close pal Justin Theroux, and Sudeikis is already booked up for part of the summer shooting «Relanxious.»

It's not as original or enjoyable as Eleven, but Thirteen still delivers a mostly winning heist flick with its mix of guys, gadgets, and gambling presented in a slick and stylish manner by Steven Soderbergh and the talent - filled cast.

Style is the substance of Edgar Wright's heist flick, synching music with getaway mayhem to literally turn the genre on its ear.»

A screwball - tinged heist flick that not so much feeds «eat the rich» feelings which might be surging in the zeitgeist at the moment as offer up a divergent, flight - of - fancy caper for the middle - aged, The Love Punch plays out like a reimagining of The Parent Trap by way of Ocean's Eleven, and minus the kids.

Dignan, the twentysomething fuck - up played by Owen Wilson who leads his friends into this folly, fancies himself a gangster out of a»70s heist flick.

Any successful heist flick succeeds or fails on the basis of two key components.

But it's nice to have him officially back in business with Logan Lucky, a star - studded heist flick that calls to mind some of the eclectic director's most popular work even if it falters a bit at the end.

Loosely based on the true tale of the infamous 1971 bank heist on Baker Street, London, The Bank Job is a mildly effective political thriller and heist flick that only generates honest interest if you take into account the events and conversations of the film as actually what happened.

It all adds up to a heist flick that's more of a musical than most musicals.

Here he's in a heist flick (from Michael Radford, The Merchant of Venice) co-starring Demi Moore.

The gender - reversed remake trend looks to hit paydirt with this play on Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's Eleven movies — and just as those Rat - Pack throwback heist flicks doubled as tributes to contemporary movie - star glamour, this spin - off offers up three of Hollywood's biggest actresses (Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, and Anne Hathaway) in place of the Clooney / Pitt / Damon trifecta.

One such effort is The Leonardo Job, a heist flick that Twohy wrote about the theft of a «lost» painting by Leonardo da Vinci.

One can understand that when the remake of another hip ensemble - cast heist flick, The Italian Job, would land on his lap, Wahlberg might jump at the chance, and although the supporting cast isn't as impressive as that of Ocean's, these lesser - known players are up to the task, and they have a proven director of comedy and action in F. Gary Gray (Fridays, The Negotiator) to make this as hip and fun an action - packed romp as possible.

The Italian Job isn't exactly blessed with the most proven of screenwriting teams in Donna and Wayne Powers (Deep Blue Sea, Valentine), but in all fairness, points aren't scored in a heist flick from sparkling conversation.

Transposing the milieu from glitz to grits, Steven Soderbergh's LOGAN LUCKY does more set an intricate heist flick in the backroads of Appalachia, it also makes a sly statement about class, culture, and our preconceived notions about those two things.

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Ben Affleck returns home to Boston for his sophomore directing effort The Town, a new heist flick that returns him to a similarly gritty Beantown milieu as that of his acclaimed feature directing debut, 2007's Gone Baby Gone.

A race of treasure heisting, a ballet of gnome flicking, and a natural disaster of very unbecoming behavior, this game is unlike any other!