Sentences with phrase «ruled by gangster»
Just by hinting at the existence of moral knowledge, Dawkins gives us reason to doubt that we actually do live in a world ruled by gangster genes.
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Directed by the insanely prolific Hong Kong action veteran Wong Jing, Chasing the Dragon (China, 2017) is the filmmaker's crime epic, a historical drama that charts the rise and fall of two notorious gangsters who thrived in the rampant corruption enabled by Britain's colonial rule of Hong Kong in the 1960s.
Foreign Affairs: the crime epic Chasing the Dragon (China, 2017, not rated, with subtitles) charts the rise and fall of two notorious gangsters (played by Chinese superstars Donnie Yen and Andy Lau) who thrived in the rampant corruption of Britain's colonial rule of Hong Kong in the 1960s.
In this 1975 release, John Wayne plays Jim Brannigan, a «play by my own rules» Chicago Cop who is sent to groovy 70's London to bring back the notorious gangster Ben Larkin (played by Dirty Harry's mayor John Vernon).
With not a single named character, Hill's noir is populated with monikers and soubriquets all reminiscent of Prohibition - era gangsters, a world ruled by people all vying for the same cocktail of money and power.
But he finds himself passing through a city overrun with vermin and ruled by the gnarliest of them all: a psychopathic gangster and his two despicable sons.