Sentences with phrase «of mob hitmen»

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Set in the near future, this thought - provoking, action - filled though inconsistent time - travel tale centers on a mob hitman (Joseph Gordon - Levitt) who kills people sent back in time from the even more distant future, only to hesitate when one of those targets turns out to be his older self (played by Bruce Willis).

Producer / actor Danny Abeckaser plays Dino Lapron, the best friend of real - life mob hitman Richard Kuklinski, in The Iceman, Israeli director Ariel Vromen's fascinating portrait of the notorious contract killer of the 70's and 80's.

Based on the 12th book of James Patterson's series of crime novels, Alex Cross (Tyler Perry, Star Trek) is a homicide detective and psychologist who meets his match with a psychotic mob hitman (Matthew Fox, Lost)...

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.

The picture is very much a product of the early 1960s, oddly enough, in the halcyon twilight of Camelot, when JFK was hiring mob hitmen to overthrow enemy governments and the world was on the brink of molten oblivion.

The Irishman, the upcoming crime drama from director Martin Scorsese, follows a mob hitman as he recalls his possible involvement in the slaying of Jimmy Hoffa (Pacino).

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»).

Of course, this gambit is not cool with the ruling mob and glacially laconic hitman Jackie Cogan (Brad Pitt) is called in to dole out retribution.

An indie dark gangster comedy, the film sticks two mob hitmen, Ray (Colin Farrell) and Ken (Brendan Gleeson) in the storybook tourist destination of Bruges.

Where the films strengths lie, are in the performances; Mafia boss Roy Demeo, is captured ferociously by Ray Liotta, who seems to be the go - to - guy for mob figures these days, and the likes of Chris Evans impresses in an almost unrecognisable role as Robert «Mr. Freezy» Pronge — another hitman that Kuklinski gets involved with.

Guilty of embezzling money from the mob, hitman Dennis Farina arrives at Herk's Miami estate coincidental to the appearance of wastoid Puggy (Lee), who appears to have fashioned an entire Zen religion from the consumption of corn chips.

Sure, the outline of the project — The Irishman, an adaptation of a prosecutor's book on a mob hitman who confessed to killing Jimmy Hoffa — sounds like the two are returning to familiar territory, but I can't think of a more fulfilling director / actor alliance in which to place faith.

Formerly titled «Run All Night» (both generic names if you ask us), the Brad Ingelsby (the upcoming «Out Of The Furnace» with Christian Bale and Casey Affleck)- penned thriller will find Neeson playing a mob hitman who has to take on his boss, protect his family and go on the run from the authorities with his estranged son, all in a single night.

A lot of this was down to the relationship between supernaturally - possessed mob hitman Jackie Estacado and his girlfriend Jenny Romano.

Players assume the role of Shank, a former mob - hitman, on an epic quest for revenge.

Strickland is in keeping with some of Shannon's other memorable villain roles — Prohibition agent Nelson Van Alden in HBO's Boardwalk Empire, legendary mob hitman Richard Kuklinski in 2013's The Iceman, or Kryptonian antagonist General Zod in Zack Snyder's Man of Steel.

Apparently this was rooted in the days of ice boxes, when the «iceman» had a key to the back door and wasn't just a nickname for a mob hitman.