Sentences with phrase «turn as gangster»

Still, she's frigging Olivier compared to Jerry Hall's turn as gangster moll Alicia.

Not exact matches

In the film «The Godfather,» Vito Corleone explains to a fellow gangster that the politicians on his payroll would turn against him if he went into the narcotics business and got out of gambling, «which they regard as a harmless vice.»

Brad Pitt (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Burn After Reading) stars as Gerry Lane, a former field investigator for the United Nations who finds himself running for his life in Philadelphia, along with his wife (Enos, Gangster Squad) and two daughters, as a major viral pandemic that causes infected people to turn into raging, mindless «zombies» whose only purpose is to infect the uninfected by biting them.

Director Arthur Penn, at his peak, turned the movie into an ironic blend of twisted love story, dark comedy, caustic social portrait and breezy romantic crime thriller, with Bonnie and Clyde as a pair of deadly innocents, caught up in the poverty of the Depression and the turbulence of the»30s gangster period.

She made her film debut in Brian DePalma's 1987 gangster flick The Untouchables and went on to become the darling of the indie film world with her stunning turn in 1998's High Art, followed by strong roles in such lauded films as Far from Heaven, The Station Agent, and Pieces of April.

Granddad was hired as a supervising consultant on the film, but did not agree with Coppola's burning desire to turn it into his gangster film.

Lee Valmassy has a lot of fun letting loose as the gleefully farcical villain (a mohawked, golden - grilled gangster who only wears jumpsuits), and Art Hsu turns in a scene - stealing performance as the hero's duck - loving sidekick, but while fans of bad movies might appreciate what «The FP» has to offer, it's not exactly the ready - made cult classic that it's so desperately trying to be.

Driving through Philadelphia with his wife Karin (Mireille Enos, «Gangster Squad») and daughters (Abigail Hargrove and Sterling Jerins), uneasiness spreads as a routine traffic slowdown turns into a zombie feeding frenzy.

Where else can you get a sexually liberal (and white hot) Barbara Stanwyck, Jimmy Cagney as a gangster - turned - movie - star (I know, I know) and Eleanor Powell proving -LSB-...]

Young auteurs took the western, the detective movie, the sci - fi flick, the gangster film, and even the «inspirational teacher» genre, and turned them into films as smart and subversive as those below.

The career spans his seminal TV series turns Luther and The Wire, movies like Beasts of No Nation, American Gangster, Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom, Thor: Ragnarok and Molly's Game, as well as his second career as Big Driis the Londoner, an accomplished DJ.

The big story, however, is the cast, which includes former Disney stars Vanessa Hudgens and Selena Gomez trying to break free from their squeaky clean images with more adult roles, and James Franco continuing his bizarre acting career with a turn as a cornrowed, gold - toothed wannabe gangster that should make the movie worth seeing whether it's good or not.

His turn as the charismatic, somewhat socially inept, gangster is one of the more relatable strands of the film, despite him being a contracted killer.

Dane DeHaan is the sleeper stand - out as a crippled friend of the brothers; Gary Oldman turns up to play, adorably, at American gangster.

Following in the director's tradition of creating stories that are more complicated than they need to be, Tom Wilkinson stars as Lenny Cole, an old school gangster turned businessman who's made his millions in real estate.

He's playing Shia LaBoeuf «s rickets - stricken best friend in John Hillcoat «s Prohibition - era gangster tale «Lawless,» and will follow that up swiftly with Derek Cianfrance «s crime tale «The Place Beyond the Pines,» in which he'll star in the film's final segment as the son of Ryan Gosling «s motorcycle stunt rider, continuing the generational feud with the son of the cop - turned politician (Bradley Cooper) who tormented his father.

Larry Drake, best known as loveable man - child Benny Stulwicz on the hit NBC drama L.A. Law, surprised audiences with his witty turn as sadistic gangster Robert Durant, while Colin Friels is suitably slimy as the real - estate developer with designs on Julie.

Set in 1949 Los Angeles, the picture, which claims to be «based on a true story» but turns out to be as authentic as The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, finds William Parker (Nick Nolte), the city's controversial chief of police (who didn't actually obtain the post until a year after the movie's setting, but never mind), deciding that the best way to stop gangster Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) from taking over the entire city is to organize an elite team to work outside the law in an attempt to bring him down.

The player follows Nairi, a troubled upper class girl, and Rex, a gangster - turned - scholar, as they uncover a dark mystery involving the mysterious Tower of the oasis city of Shirin.

He has often played men who can find humor in difficult circumstances — think of his fire - breathing turn as the villainous Detective Harris in Training Day, or the charming criminal Frank Lucas in American Gangster — but he's never really done a straight comedy.

What I will spoil is the fact that this new picture, which stars De Niro as a gangster - turned - informant and seeks to pay homage to great mob movies of the past, is an utter waste of time.

I have not seen the original film, but on her own merits (despite a distracting accent, which also marred her otherwise strong Last Dance work), Stone delivers an appropriately steely but warmly comedic turn as the title character, a gangster's (Jeremy Northam) ex-girlfriend who takes under her wing a young boy (newcomer Jean - Luke Figueroa) whose family was killed by the gangster's crew.

In turn, The Blackstone also became known as the location of Chicago gangster Al Capone's barbershop, nestled below street level in a «barbershop» lounge that still remains today.

Nairi is a cute point and click adventure puzzle game, and follows the titular character as she, along with gangster - turned - scholar, Rex the rat, uncover a dark mystery surrounding the Tower of the oasis city of Shirin.