Sentences with phrase «on cop movies»

Starring Alexander Skarsgård and Michael Peña as two cops on the trail of some villainous scum, the movie puts a raucous and hilarious spin on cop movies by making the leads crooked cops, much...

I guess the previous movies I did before were easier to pinpoint: Shaun of the Dead is a riff on zombie movies, and Hot Fuzz is a riff on cop movies.

Not exact matches

The buddy - cop film, with elements of «Lord of the Rings» - style fantasy, only got positive reviews from 12 % of top movie critics on Rotten Tomatoes.

The way many of us view the death of Jesus on the cross is like some poorly scripted «Good Cop, Bad Cop» scene from a crime thriller movie, except now it is «Good God, Bad God.»

Now, in an unexpected twist, the LA Times reports that a folding knife was found by a construction worker at Simpson's mansion and was handed over to an off - duty cop from the traffic division who was working security on a nearby movie shoot.

Fortunately, these philosophical arguments play out in a pretty solid cop drama, executing well on the high octane car chases, shootouts and action sequences that keep the public coming back to cop movies for decades.

Ayer has developed a knack for exploring deep themes while keeping your pulse pounding, which is likely why Netflix appointed him to take the reins on their most expensive and ambitious movie to date, reportedly sinking between $ 90 - 100M into this cop / fantasy hybrid.

Linebackers Steve Ache and Jeff Paine were in the NFL in the same year but not on the same defense, and thus never inspired the Stallone & Van Damme buddy - cop movie Ache & Paine that we're still pining to see.

Naked Gun 2 1/2, which is a perversely, though funny, movie really about environmental regulation; and it's a Leslie Nielsen movie, and he is a cop who is basically been called upon to protect, in a fictional Bush administration, the president has decided we're going to have a whole new fuel system which isn't going to be nuclear or kind of fossil fuels, coal and oil — it is going to be based on alternatives.

Clashes between actresses on the set of Jenny's movie somehow lead to a night of lesbian Turkish oil wrestling that ends with a visit from the cops; the hard - case colonel in charge of prosecuting Tasha's case arrives on base.

On a purely visceral level, Training Day is easily the most exciting movie out there right now, but as a morality tale with anything large on its mind, it's a cop - ouOn a purely visceral level, Training Day is easily the most exciting movie out there right now, but as a morality tale with anything large on its mind, it's a cop - ouon its mind, it's a cop - out.

On the first day of production on Hank Moody's latest movie «Santa Monica Cop,» Stu has brought back his «F — king and Punching» director in hopes of creating a cinematic masterpiece, but Hank's rendezvous with the film's leading lady puts his relationship with Sam in jeopardOn the first day of production on Hank Moody's latest movie «Santa Monica Cop,» Stu has brought back his «F — king and Punching» director in hopes of creating a cinematic masterpiece, but Hank's rendezvous with the film's leading lady puts his relationship with Sam in jeopardon Hank Moody's latest movie «Santa Monica Cop,» Stu has brought back his «F — king and Punching» director in hopes of creating a cinematic masterpiece, but Hank's rendezvous with the film's leading lady puts his relationship with Sam in jeopardy.

Based on James Ellroy's novel about the movie industry, corrupt cops, tabloid journalism, gangsters and sexual obsessions of every stripe, L.A. Confidential is set in 1950's Los Angeles.

While not a bad movie, you could tell it was trying to cop from On the Waterfront a bit.

It'd be a far more interesting movie without the detective... it's a conventional, commercial cop / killer movie when he's on screen and an edgy, passionate one without him.

Fans of the TV series regularly appearing on «Comedy Central» already know what to expect from this feature - length film, showcasing more of the same parody of «COPS» as if starring the gang from the Police Academy movies.

Director: Edgar Wright Cast: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Martin Freeman Edgar Wright's follow - up to «Shaun of the Dead» is a bigger, busier, slightly less focused ramble through small - town cop - movie clichés, but it might just be the better film, benefiting from a script packed with smart one - liners and neat riffs on everything from Hammer horror to cosy ITV dramas.

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After making his movie debut in director Hal Ashby's final film 8 Million Ways to Die (1985), Lister spent the rest of the 1980s working primarily in A and B movies heavy on action, including Runaway Train (1985), Beverly Hills Cop II (1987), and Walter Hill's Extreme Prejudice (1987).

On another level, the film is an overly glossy, ostensibly intellectual but deliberately trite mass - market romance (from the screenplay written by Pierce) about a reporter and a movie star falling in love while she shadows him on the set of yet another movie (in which he plays a cop along side Brad Pitt) for a magazine fluff piece profile she's writinOn another level, the film is an overly glossy, ostensibly intellectual but deliberately trite mass - market romance (from the screenplay written by Pierce) about a reporter and a movie star falling in love while she shadows him on the set of yet another movie (in which he plays a cop along side Brad Pitt) for a magazine fluff piece profile she's writinon the set of yet another movie (in which he plays a cop along side Brad Pitt) for a magazine fluff piece profile she's writing.

Neither the novel nor the movie puts much emphasis on the cops - and - robbers aspect.

In bringing some aspects of «found footage» into an action movie following two street cops on their daily grind, Ayer has managed to find another layer of realism that makes his films so enjoyable.

Here's two more movie posters for the upcoming horror film «Red State» written and directed by Kevin Smith (Clerks) and starring John Goodman (Thicker, Pope Joan), Kyle Gallner (A Nightmare on Elm Street, Jennifer's Body), Michael Angarano (Noah's Ark: The New Beginning, The Forbidden Kingdom), Stephen Root (Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, True Blood), Kevin Pollak (Cop Out, Middle Men), Melissa Leo (Welcome to the Rileys), Ralph Garman (Family Guy) and Anna Gunn (Breaking Bad).

For fans of superhero cinema, that's amazing news, given that on the strength of «Cop Car's» early buzz and his previous film «Clown,» Watts landed the coveted job directing the next Spider - Man movie, co-produced by Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures.

Framed in flashback, as captive Los Angeles private investigator Ned Cruz (Banderas) gets grilled by a trio of possibly dirty cops (Thomas Kretschmann, William Fichtner, Delroy Lindo), the movie centers on the labyrinthine business inquiries Ned conducts on behalf of a just - paroled Russian boxer, Anton Protopov (Robert Maillet, of Sherlock Holmes).

All this ought to make for a refreshingly new twist on the buddy cop movie, but instead it is just a confusing mess.

Since 2012's cop movie «End of Watch,» Gyllenhaal has been on a creative roll between «Prisoners,» «Nightcrawler,» «Southpaw» and the upcoming «Everest.»

That sets the scene for the directorial debut for both actor Edmond O'Brien, who also stars as Detective Lt. Barney Nolan, the violent, angry cop, and producer Howard W. Koch, who apprenticed as an assistant on (among others) the early B - movie film noirs of Anthony Mann.

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He's graced the small screen on several occasions, popping up on everything from Frasier to SeaQuest 2032, including a gang of cop / crime - related shows and TV movies from the mid-80s and 90s (Miami Vice, Hunter, Law & Order, Homicide: Life on the Street, Walker, Texas Ranger, NYPD Blue, New York Undercover, and Oz).

Yet Kick - Ass isn't a satire so much as a shrine — a celebration of not simply what we love when we go to the movies, but also what the movies inspire us to be on drowsy Saturday afternoons, drunk on Mexican stand - offs, cops and killers acting like brothers, and physics that bend just enough to allow our heroes to run on walls, dodging bullets in their dark sunglasses.

Following the critical success of Good Time, The Safdie Brothers have been busily capitalising on their moment, directing a music video for Jay Z and announcing that they will be remaking classic «buddy cop» movie 48 Hours.

This being the take on the «Buddy Cop» genre of action movies, is well scripted and the physical comedy is simply amazing.

Headline: Cops Struggle to Juggle Careers and Fatherhood in Faith - Based Family Flick When Pastor Alex Kendrick read a report back in 2003 alleging that movies had become more of an influence on impressionable young minds than the church, he decided to do something about it.

Lord and Miller were reportedly so busy making «The LEGO Movie» that they didn't have time to do script revisions on the buddy cop comedy, and that was a major oversight on their part, because «22 Jump Street» is a fitfully funny sequel that lacks the surprise factor of its predecessor.

Vikram Murthi writes about John Michael McDonagh's nihilistic new buddy cop movie «War on Everyone» in this week's critic - at - large column.

cop Steve Burns (Al Pacino) is asked before going undercover in William Friedkin's dirty - scary thriller about a serial murderer preying on gay men in late - Seventies New York — in which everyone looks like Al Pacino, all the victims as well as the killer, which is why he's recruited: he's bait (and the movie keeps hinting — fuck — he might also be the killer).

But this ostensible satire on American cops, crime movies, American values or lack thereof, intellectualism and anti-intellectualism, racism, and so on, is so hackneyed, tired, labored and overstuffed with contempt not only for all of its targets but also its own self that one gets the feeling that the talented Mr. McDonagh has gone mad with rage.

According to Paramount the new Beverly Hills Cop movie centers on Axel Foley (Eddie Mur...

According to the Michigan Film Office, producers are now hiring crew to work on the upcoming «Beverly Hills Cop 4» movie while it films in Detroit, Michigan.

According to Paramount the new Beverly Hills Cop movie centers on Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) as he returns back to the mean streets of Detroit during the coldest winter in years.

Bradley Cooper is the cop intent on bringing him down and... That's all you can say about the movie's plot without threatening to ruin some of the many wonderful twists and turns.

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We find the usual cop movie archetypes and story development; nothing on display here allows the film to break free from its genre constraints.

Cop Out is close to watchable on the merits of its stars, but the script is so lazy — and it's so utterly impossible to invest in the characters or the nominal reality of the plot — that the movie becomes something of an endurance test.

The movie begins on the morning of April 15, 2013 and introduces several of the key players involved in the tragic event, including Boston cop Sgt. Tommy Saunders (Wahlberg), Chinese exchange student Dun Meng (Jimmy O. Yang), Watertown police officer Sgt. Jeffrey Pugliese (J.K. Simmons) and the bombers themselves, Kyrgyzstani - American brothers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev (Alex Wolff and Themo Melikidze, respectively), who detonate the homemade bombs about four hours into the race and then return home to watch the ensuing chaos on TV.

Instead, the movie prefers to concentrate on basic cop melodrama; the unique negotiator aspects fail to make a substantial impact much of the time.

One of the most thuddingly unfunny sequences is the «movie - quoting bad cop» opening scene, which the Blu - ray's behind - the - scenes material identifies as a laugh - filled day for cast and crew that didn't translate to any fun for the audience (the lower energy unused opening scene found on the Blu - ray is much funnier in Smith's patented «shooting the shit» style).

Also newly featured this week, classic cop - and - car - chase movie Bullitt, on TCM on Saturday.

Which begs to ask the question, if you can watch one of the best dirty cop dramas for free on television, why bother paying for a second - rate version at the movies?