Sentences with phrase «poker movie in»

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It can be as simple as conversation over coffee, poker night with friends, movie night, pretty much anything as long as their in a company of good friends or that special someone.

You can practically smell the cigarette smoke and bourbon - soaked desperation wafting through «Mississippi Grind,» a nicely observed throwback of a road movie about a pair of gambling addicts en route from Dubuque, Iowa, to a high - stakes poker game in New Orleans.

First of all, in my opinion this isn't a poker movie - for me as a poker enthusiast, this movie has poker in it, but mainly it is about Molly running a game for rich people and one of those people trying to use the situation to make money and ruin other people lives.

Leone's liberal use of widescreen shots in conjunction with extreme close - ups gives the movie an epic quality that is matched in scope by a skeletal narrative structure that breathes with a poker - faced mood, tone, and personality.

Forget Rounders — here's a poker movie to go all - in on.

It's the kind of movie that starts out strong (in this case with a terrific scene where Mendelsohn and Reynolds meet at a poker table) and seems capable of toppling over into a pile of disappointment at any moment; its characters are similarly perched.

And even though the film is not a «poker movie,» per se, Sorkin has managed to shoot the various poker scenes in novel ways that rival what you might see on ESPN, explain the game as it is happening, and watch it all from the inside.

She ends up working for a douchebag movie producer, anonymized as «Dean Keith» (Jeremy Strong, The Big Short), who plays in an exclusive poker game at the «Cobra Lounge», the barely - disguised Viper Room.

In a movie about con - men and gamblers, Ryan Reynolds and Ben Mendelsohn feature as a pair of «oddball strangers» who hit the road together to try to make a high - stakes poker tournament in New OrleanIn a movie about con - men and gamblers, Ryan Reynolds and Ben Mendelsohn feature as a pair of «oddball strangers» who hit the road together to try to make a high - stakes poker tournament in New Orleanin New Orleans.

A number of movies helmed solely by men are also tackling feminist themes, as with Lelio's «Disobedience,» or Aaron Sorkin's «Molly's Game,» in which the Oscar - winning screenwriter makes his directorial debut with a poker - world drama centered on real - life competitor Molly Bloom, played by Jessica Chastain.

Molly's Game is the true story of the rise, fall and redemption of Molly Bloom, who by the age of 26 was dubbed the «Poker Princess» for organizing high - stakes poker games in Los Angeles and New York for movie stars, athletes, and rich businessPoker Princess» for organizing high - stakes poker games in Los Angeles and New York for movie stars, athletes, and rich businesspoker games in Los Angeles and New York for movie stars, athletes, and rich business men.

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In the role of Molly Bloom for the movie «Molly's Game,» Jessica Chastain plays a woman navigating her way through the male - dominated world of high - stakes underground poker.

Adapted from the autobiography of the woman who ran one of the highest - end floating poker games in the country, «Molly's» is unfailingly intelligent and a good, deep study of a clever female beating an overwhelmingly male game — until she doesn't, then sabotages herself by clinging to an ethical chimera that the movie doesn't convince us is worth the cost.

The only carefree flirtation in the movie comes between a snappy, confident card player (Joseph Gordon - Levitt) and a friendly stripper (Julia Garner), but once he beats Senator Roark at poker — well, you get the picture.

OK, I made that last part up, but has anyone else noticed that the print poster explanations for movie ratings are often hilarious in their completely earnest, poker - faced straightforwardness?

For Molly's Game, Sorkin ventures into new territory, on two fronts: He's written a poker movie, and for the first time, he's directed it too, with Jessica Chastain and Idris Elba turning in fun, dynamic performances.

You had so many real poker players cast as themselves - did they rush to you to be in the movie, or did you cast them?

What I tried to do is begin the movie with a scene where a young man walks into a pawn shop - we see him gesturing, and demonstrating all of the skills he will later show at the poker table: He is seductive and in a way bullshitting.

Still, in addition to her earlier films, it was nice to see her do an occasional later movie like 1985 ′ s «Malice in Wonderland,» 1987 ′ s «Poker Alice» and a television version of «Sweet Bird of Youth» opposite Mark Harmon in 1989.

Bloom ran an ongoing and illegal high - stakes poker game in Los Angeles and then New York in the first decade of the new millennium; she ultimately fell afoul of federal prosecutors, narrowly avoided jail, wrote a book, and here's the inevitable movie, not only scripted by Sorkin but directed by him in his behind - the - camera debut.

It's enough to forgive him for his part in making televised poker a multibillion - dollar industry and giving us not one, not two, not three, not four, but five Transformers movies (and counting).