Sentences with phrase «tough guy movie»

44 Inch Chest (Image)-- A chamber drama of a tough guy movie, a reunion of former crime partners, but the occasion is personal vengeance: get the guy dating the estranged wife of Ray Winstone's hopelessly in love bastard.

«Beatnik Blues: Investigating Daddy - O» is a brief look at how the film fits into the tough guy movies that were in vogue during the 1950s, with comments from the usual film historians who pop up in Shout!

Not exact matches

The 70 - year - old action movie icon, who's also a former Mr. Universe and governor of California, has played the tough - guy persona for decades.

Abe also did a stint in the movies, capitalizing on his craggy features for tough - guy bits.

That's tough to do for most guys, but I like to equate it to the movie «Happy Gilmore».

Adrien Brody deserves the biggest kudos of the movie for playing a convincing tough guy, shedding the awkward hero image of «King Kong.»

Entitled CAGED (or «C4GED» for this year's program) the day, usually coordinated by Tough Guy Cinema programmer Greg MacLennan and in honor of Cage's 53rd birthday, treats movie - going fans to five, surprise titles all headlined by a memorable Nicolas Cage performance.

Melville took lone warrior mythology from Japanese culture, married it with the tough guy angles of»40s gangster movies, and, along with John Boorman and Point Blank, ushered in a new age of neo noir.

He puts the heart in the movie, a tough guy trying to find his place in the world.

Entering a derelict building, the seasoned tough guys and their rookie junior, who's still haunted by a traumatic childhood dream, do the one thing you should never do in this kind of movie: they split up.

On the civilian front, Mason Weaver (Brie Larson) is a tough, sexy «photojournalist» (a job that exists in the movies, not so much in real life) who senses the story of a lifetime, and Bill has also hired a tracker: former British special forces guy James Conrad (Hiddleston) whose alpha chops are established at the very beginning with a perfunctory fight in a bar.

One of the hoariest action movie plot cliches is the one where a tough guy has to protect a kid against all manner of danger.

Dwayne Johnson is a pretty tough dude who has no problem punching his way through stuff like the Fast And Furious movies and Rampage, but he may have met his match in Jesse Plemons, a guy who also seems to be in everything and also has a knack for effortlessly tearing shit up — like when he killed a guy in Friday Night...

A dirty - cop thriller that never lets its scuzzy urban backdrop and tough - guy characters get in the way of a rocket - fuel plot, «Triple 9» is his most enjoyable and perhaps best movie to date.

It's difficult to understand how a movie about fast cars, tough guys and feisty women could be so little fun to watch.

Gwyneth Paltrow has branded movie tough guy Robert Downey, Jr. a «wimp» over his famous hatred of his Iron Man outfit.The Hollywood beauty plays the...

And we decided that there just weren't enough private - eye movies and not enough old - school tough guys sorts... We managed to create something that over the years failed upwards until we got the right actors and 13 years later we came together.»

Gandolfini shines as the wannabe tough guy who thinks he deserves more respect than he gets, but this is Hardy's movie through and through, delivering an unusually subdued turn that becomes more impressive by the minute as he carefully peels back each layer of his character.

The connection to classic American tough - guy movies isn't always apparent in his celebrated horror films, but it's all over the body of work he produced in relative obscurity before he finally caught a break with Cure.

I'd hate to disillusion anyone, but even the hard - drinking movie tough guy - extraordinaire Bill Holden («Bridge on the River Kwai,» «Network») was, himself, a boy once — a quite callow golden boy, in fact.

Some people refer to this as «the Nose movie», thanks to the scene where Polanski, in a cameo as a tough guy, teaches Nicholson a lesson about sticking his nose where it doesn't belong.

Its characters come from a well - worn stock of war movie stereotypes; along with Wardaddy's tough but honourable leader, we have the god - fearing Bible basher (a fantastic Shia LaBeouf), the token ethnic guy (Michael Pena), the brutish redneck (Jon Bernthal) and, of course, the scared newbie, Norman (Logan), whose innocence is eventually corrupted.

Pick of the Week: John Garfield Day is Tuesday, March 4 A film noir feast: Nine movies with one of the great film noir stars, John Garfield — a quintessential New York City actor and Warner Brothers tough guy, whose movies and roles were full of nerve, chutzpah and street smarts, and who was born in the city, a.k.a. Jacob Julius Garfinkle.

Although That Championship Season is extremely well acted - Keach, in particular, effectively sheds his tough - guy persona to become a guy that's basically a pushover - the movie's theatrical origins remain obvious throughout, both in the dialogue and direction.

Russell (Julian Dennison), early in the movie, is told to make friends with the biggest, toughest guy in the Ice Box, the prison where he and Deadpool wind up after he trashes a few cars and Deadpool shoots yet another dude in the face.

Kit (played by Martin Sheen) insulates himself within the brash shield of a James Dean tough - guy image to the point where, by the end of the movie, all he is concerned with is going out in style.

Nick Lang (Fox) is a popular movie star who joins forces with a tough New York detective (Woods) in order to break out of his «nice guy» screen image.

Stallone explains that he was only given tough guy roles in movies but, he was interested in something bigger.

Stark — played by movie tough guy Broderick Crawford in his Oscar - winning performance — starts out, like a few other Southern demagogues (including George Wallace) as a «man of the people» and a populist.

Christensen will next be seen as part of the tough - guy ensemble of John Luessenhop's «Takers,» which looks like a fun movie in the vein of «Armored» that stars Zoe Saldana and Idris Elba of «The Losers.»

Statham turns both the movie and his own tough - guy persona upside down every time he comes onscreen.

I'm sorry Jason Statham, but when your gravely - voiced tough guy type is put up against villains played by James Franco and Winona Ryder, well, buddy, you're automatically sent to second - tier status in your movie.And the movie in question is Homefront...

So the stuff that worked in the first movie (the Euro enemies, the vengeance plotline) stays, and the stuff that works as original plot devices (opening the playing field to all of New York, having another tough guy character) is just icing on a deliciously explosive cake.

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In this movie, Johnson is his normal tough - guy with a soft heart self.

«And he would always get really emotional in different parts of the movie — my pops, he's a tough guy from Oakland, and I'd always kind of find it funny that my dad would tear up at certain parts of the movie.

Here, a punchy hot - off - the - presses account of the pursuit and capture of John Dillinger provides the story inspiration as tough - guy Cagney gives it to»em good in a movie that's «fast, gutsy, as simplistic and powerful as a tabloid headline» (Geoff Andrew, Time Out Film Guide).

A Bullmastiff was owned by Sylvester Stallone, tough guy and star of the Rambo and Rocky movies.

Basic enemy design is fantastic with bad guys who movie quickly and are tough to hit too big bad powerful creatures who can take tons of damage.

Inspired by literature, avant - garde movies, childhood memories and conversations in smoke filled bar rooms, the Tough Guys create experiences that feel truly fresh and unique.