Sentences with phrase «seedy underworld of»

Growing up in the seedy underworld of the arcade scene in the early 90s, I've a certain love for fighting games that continues to this day.

Set in the seedy underworld of Japan's criminal empire, it focuses on balancing life as a father, friend, family man, and Yakuza boss.

Now he lives off the grid, and hides from his dark past in the seedy underworld of Pattaya, Thailand.

Now, he struggles to stay off the grid, and hides from his dark past in the seedy underworld of Pattaya, Thailand.

Yet there's just enough oomph from the screenplay to make this an absorbing (if flawed) look into the seedy underworld of two - bit crooks.

So, before you can say «heel toe heel toe», he's signing up for a ballroom class and allowing slightly - aloof teacher Paulina (Jennifer Lopez) to lead him into a not - very - seedy underworld of sequins, large hair and frighteningly white teeth.

Set in the seedy underworld of 1970s Los Angeles, Joaquin Phoenix stars as Larry «Doc» Sportello, a pothead private investigator who receives a visit one night from his free - spirited ex-girlfriend, Shasta Fay Hepworth (Katherine Waterson), requesting help with a personal matter.

Set just before the events of Episode II, Bounty Hunter takes you through the seedier underworlds of the prequel era and ultimately sets up why Fett became the template that the entire Republic Clone Army was based on.

Not exact matches

But that's when everything goes horribly wrong in a blaze of bullets, blood and glorious ruin in the seedy underworld backstreets of Chicago.

With his friends, he is trapped in a seedy urban underworld in spite of the efforts of his family to get him clean, even against his will.

His world is turned around when his gangster brother Mike (Jason Isaacs) returns to «The Hill» to regain control of the seedy underworld.

The dark city of Terminal certainly seems like a nightmarish criminal underworld, a fanciful updating of classic crime story conventions: the grimy motel, the seedy strip club, and so on.

Cavalcanti's British underworld is a suitably seedy atmosphere of shadowy alleys, foggy waterfront dives, and claustrophobic underground clubs, and he matches the dark urban underworld setting with taut direction and tight editing.

Two years later, director Nicolas Winding Refn and star Ryan Gosling have joined forces yet again, for another tale of violence in a seedy underworld.

Director Nicolas Winding Refn crafted an incredible, stylized vision of the seedy Los Angeles underworld, filled with jaw - dropping scenes of tension.

Dennis Hopper (Easy Rider) oozes quirky menace as an amoral American art dealer who entangles a terminally ill German everyman, played by Bruno Ganz (Wings of Desire), in a seedy criminal underworld as revenge for a personal slight — but when the two become embroiled in an ever - deepening murder plot, they form an unlikely bond.

Knowing that there will be many combing the area for the airplane, Jared must find a way to get enough money to fund additional underwater research, without drawing the suspicions of local treasure hunters, the authorities, and the seedy underworld types that were expecting their shipment of blow.

No film has ever caught the seedy but graceful pool - hall underworld better: the angles, the pockets, the incredible shots, the immaculate tables, the cigarettes and booze culture, the click of the pool balls, and the bravura of the hustlers and sharks hard at their game.

Enjoyed the seedy realism, the underworld conflicts, the stupid and irrational behaviour of the protagonists.

Matthew Heineman's documentary Cartel Land was a shock to the system, taking us deep into the belly of the border drug war, and Sicario serves as a perfect narrative companion, exploring the seedy underworld through a more poetic, explicitly violent lens.

London Heist appears to be a first - person shooter (FPS) set in the seedy underbelly of the London underworld, very similar to The Getaway, a previous title by the same studio made for the PlayStation 2.

But for open - world junkies who've already explored the game's interpretation of the seedy Hong Kong underworld, the dearth of any new material and the presence of a several residual failings means that returning players might be better of waiting to see how the upcoming Triad Wars turns out.