Sentences with phrase «urban crime»

This theory has been influential in urban crime management ever since, even if there are debates about its effectiveness.

It was the first in what would become a long tradition of urban crime dramas produced by Warner Bros..

The Giggler sequence is the stuff of cult legend, but the larger picture of urban crime is what makes Death Wish 3 transcendently, gloriously, surreally offensive and compelling.

Open Road has had success with urban crime movies like «End of Watch,» and next year you're releasing John Hillcoat «s crime thriller «Triple 9.»

Without a word spoken, the first two shots in Thief, Michael Mann's groundbreaking 1981 feature debut, announce a simultaneously grim and dreamlike vision that seems, in retrospect, perfectly poised between the great urban crime films of the 1970s and the formal aesthetics of the 1980s — the «style decade» that Mann's subsequent cinema and television work did so much to help shape.

Featuring urban crime fights, the game will go through a storyline that is apparently based on cops and robbers.

Featuring urban crime fights, the game will go through a storyline that is apparently based on cops and robbers.

The Justice Department escalated its fight with big cities and other jurisdictions over immigration on Friday, suggesting that illegal immigration is increasing urban crime and threatening to pull grant funding from uncooperative jurisdictions.

She attributes the change to becoming educated by people like Mayor Bloomberg about the influence of illegal guns on urban crime.

It turns out he also has the eye of an artist: if the scene doesn't quite tell the story Nina needs — urban crime threatening innocent suburbanites — he is more than willing to enhance the picture.

Benny and Josh Safdie's Good Time is a gritty urban crime drama in which Robert Pattinson's Connie Nikas masterminds a Queens bank robbery — although it is quickly apparent Connie is no master nor does he have much of a mind.

The Departed (2006), Martin Scorsese's return to American urban crime cinema, became the biggest hit of his career and earned him his very first Academy Award for Best Director.

There are many variables transpiring in the gritty, yet grating, urban crime flick Proud Mary that want desperately to embrace themes of unconventional motherly instincts and clichéd street-wise mayhem.

Two childhood friends growing up in poverty in south Boston come under the influence of a local crime boss, only to strike out on their own when he is caught and imprisoned by the F.B.I. Despite the marketing that features explosions and SWAT teams galore (neither of which actually appear in the film) What Doesn't Kill You is a character - driven drama set in the world of petty urban crime.

Hey everyone, the other»90s throwback we have for Day Four in Decades is a review by Anand of Demanded Critical Reviews, which talks about the 1997 urban crime thriller L.A. Confidential.

It's interesting to hear him explain his appeal and approach to this film, following a career of directing urban crime dramas, as well as his discussion about changes made for the theatrical cut.

The plot of Jim Jarmusch's Ghost Dog could easily be ripped from a standard urban crime film: a hitman (Forest Whitaker, superbly subtle) working for the mob has his employer turn on him when a hit goes awry.

«A City Caught in the Crossfire,» reads the tagline, entering this film into the generic urban crime genre and doing little to quell expectations of ridiculousness.

Some whites undoubtedly moved because they resisted sending their children to schools with a majority of blacks, some moved because they economically were able to and preferred the suburbs, and some feared growing urban crime in the 1960s and 1970s.

The most startling and thought - provoking example is definitely the unexpected reduction in US urban crime that occurred towards the end of the 2

I received plenty of emails skeptical of the idea that some 40 year old executive might want to manage a crime family from his Android phone, and in doing, drive a component of the open world urban crime game his son was playing.

With urban crime declining across the country and former prosecutor Rudy Giuliani running the city with an iron hand, the streets of Gotham appear to be safe again — the fruit, we're told, of unceasing vigilance.

Rothko shared with the French an appetite for urban crime fiction, and big noir themes such as destiny and chance are not without relevance to his philosophic interests.»

With 2006's urban crime drama Kidulthood, actor - writer Noel Clarke gave us a scabrous portrait of a west London far removed from the fairytale version propagated in Richard Curtis romcoms.

Just as they're settling in to London life, they learn the hard way about the harsh realities of urban crime.

I recently read Roger Ebert's review of a urban crime picture «Clockers» (A film I greatly disliked) he wrote something true from the results of black on black drugs and violence.

Though directed in different style, thematically, this period movie is a companion piece to King of New York and The Bad Lieutenant, forming an urban crime trilogy and representing Ferrara's best work.

The writer / director has recruited grime artist Stormzy for the final instalment in his urban crime saga.

It's the traffic jam scene from Office Space transferred onto an urban crime drama.

This urban crime drama is intense and gritty.

Lee's movies have examined race relations, colorism in the black community, the role of media in contemporary life, urban crime and poverty, and other political issues from his perch at «Da World Headquarters of 40 Acres and Mule Filmworks located in the home of his beloved borough of Brooklyn.

The film has some of the greatest black and white images ever filmed, dramatic lighting and sharp shadows, everything you think of as the noir style, only instead of an urban crime drama, it's used to powerful effect to create a nightmare of a fairy tale.

Returning characters Gnomeo (James McAvoy), Juliet (Emily Blunt), and their garden menagerie have been uprooted from to the country to the city, and just as they're settling into London life, they learn the hard way about the harsh realities of urban crime.

An urban crime drama and a supernatural sci - fi action adventure.

Producer, director, writer and actor Spike Lee creates provocative films that explore race relations, political issues and urban crime and violence.