Sentences with phrase «rogue cop rourke»

A rogue cop.

In this second volume of interconnected short stories, Mosley gives his hero, 59 - year - old ex-con Socrates Fortlow, a new job, a new home, and a new commitment to ridding his Watts neighborhood of a rogue cop.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening November 2, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS American Gangster (R for nudity, sexuality, profanity, violence and pervasive drug content) Oscar - winners Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe square off in this mob saga, set in the Seventies, about the efforts of a rogue cop to bring down a drug lord who's been smuggling heroin to Harlem in the coffins of soldiers who died in Vietnam.

«Rogue Cop: The Noir Connection» (13:47, HD) film historians Alain Silver and James Ursini provide critical analysis comparing The French Connection to the «rogue cop» genre within the noir tradition.

Nonetheless, this does nothing to discourage Greer from continuing the pursuit as a rogue cop.

Tapped to go undercover, Kyle is reassigned to the Special Investigation Section, where he's supposed to take down rogue cop Rourke.

Petrie the shoehorn, fond of ease and convention, dabbles in a trio of crowd - pleasing templates here: Bullock's standard Cinderella bullshit; the rogue cop / angry chief bit (Ernie Hudson with the honours this time around); and the fish - out - of - water intrigue.

Revenge thriller starring Anthony Hopkins as a man haunted by the memory of his daughter's death, who comes to the aid of a young woman who is being viciously harassed by a rogue cop.

It is the rogue cop Hank, a small - town Dirty Harry.

A Queens Supreme Court Justice who claims he was karate chopped by a rogue cop saw his lawsuit against the city body - slammed by a Brooklyn judge.

When will people realize that just as there are good doctors and quacks, good cops and rogue cops, there can also be good religions and bad religions?»

Two major problems, though: the cops (led by Guy Pearce) are all over the family's criminal operations, making it tough for them to maneuver, and when Frecheville's most level - headed «uncle» is assassinated by rogue cops, the gang is left in the care of crazy Ben Mendelsohn, a paranoid, dangerously single - minded fugitive.

The uproar over the murders of black men such as Michael Brown and Eric Garner by police officers are leading criminal justice reform advocates to push legislatures and governors to enact new policies, including the creation of independent prosecutors for cases involving cops as well as the rewrite of use - of - force laws that allow rogue cops to get off scot - free.

By pardoning Arpaio, Trump gives rogue cops and police departments the carte blanche to engage in criminal abuse of immigrants as well as blessed all kinds of police brutality and other violations of civil liberties of all Americans.

While getting milk, going to the bank or getting tested for gonorrhea, you confront a host of miscreants, including al - Qaida terrorists, cannibals, rogue cops and the late former child star Gary Coleman (played by himself).

Not exact matches

The rogue pup was safely transported to San Fransisco Animal Care and Control where he was named Ponch after the motorcycle cop from CHiPs.

If PBA members go beyond passive de-policing and escalate to a confrontational «coup» against the Mayor, the cops could shift from patriarchal enforcers to a rogue agency.

Shayne Gallo inherited the worst police scandal since rogue Kingston cops were burglarizing stores in the mid-Fifties.

A star - studded dud of a B - picture populated with corrupt politicians, rogue psycho cops, noble newspaper reporters and enough posturing to start up a chiropractic clinic.

The conventional crime - time format incinerates everything strange and spirited about the concept, and Lucifer's cop partner (Lauren German)-- the female wet blanket to his male rogue — is a trope that needs to go to hell.

Gangster Squad follows a team of LAPD Officers who go rogue as a secretly assembled team of cops who start to raid mob operations with no limits as to killing criminals in order to stop the infamous gangster, Mickey Cohen, from taking over Los Angeles.

More New Releases: «Bent,» about a shamed former cop who connects a murder case to a government conspiracy involving rogue agents from a top spy agency, starring Karl Urban, Andy García, Sofía Vergara, Vincent Spano, and John Finn.

Written and directed by David Ayers of TRAINING DAY fame, it makes an edgy, gritty, and engrossing film about cops, played by Michael Pena and Jake Gyllenhaal, who are neither corrupt, as in TRAINING DAY, nor of the rogue variety that are out for their own brand of... Read More»

The twist in Lakeview Terrace is that the bigot front and centre is a black man (named after Biblical Abel, no less) and that it's all been genre - mixed in the cop - gone - rogue, Internal Affairs / Unlawful Entry tradition, speaking ultimately to the distinct»70s feeling of paranoia towards authority that's resurfaced in films of the last eight Bush years while trying, with some success, to refocus racism into generalized rage, confusion, frustration, and intolerance.

The original, airing for a half dozen seasons starting in 1977, was a buddy action drama basically revolving around the heroic exploits of a couple of mismatched motorcycle cops, with Ponch often going rogue, much to the chagrin of his relatively - straitlaced partner.

The Chief of Police has no clue a rogue undercover operation is going on under his very nose, while his civilian son is made an honorary cop without any formal training, and after exhibiting nothing but a penchant for borderline criminality himself.

VR continues to be a weird, scary frontier for mainstream media; between the high cost of initial investment, the often - daunting technical requirements, and the tendency to make a non-trivial portion of its install base toss their cookies faster than a rogue Girl Scout on the run from the cops, it's been a dicey...

A huge misunderstanding ensues and the duo become outlaws on the run, being chased by everyone from incompetent cops, child services, rogue game hunters, a lunatic survivalist, and finally the army.

Blade Runner is a terrific reimagining of Dick's post-apocalyptic tale, in which Harrison Ford's bounty hunting cop tracks down three rogue androids who've returned to Earth to wreak vengeance on their creator.

The public should be in solidarity with police officers, not calling out bad cops or demanding reforms of laws governing use - of - deadly - force rules that allow rogue officers to get away with murder.

In New York, this means demanding Gov. Cuomo to veto the bill effectively giving the PBA control over the process for firing rogue and incompetent cops.

What if a cop went rogue and killed an innocent man?

With crooked cops on their trail, the street rogues decide to take on one last heist.

A small team of Raiden's «Chosen Warriors» survives the attack: Mortal Kombat champion Liu Kang and his ally Kung Lao, Special Forces agents Sonya Blade and Jax, the shaman Nightwolf, the riot cop Stryker, the nomadic Kabal, and former Lin Kuei warrior Sub-Zero, who has gone rogue from his clan.