Sentences with phrase «well as gangsters»

As well as the gangsters, the single innocent person will die, but the ten people the gangster was going to kill will live.

Not exact matches

He rose to fame as bandleader at Harlem's Cotton Club, run by gangster Owney Madden, where well - heeled white patrons would go «slumming» and enjoy (in the words of a Harold Arlen song that made its debut at the club):

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The movie, which follows Phil (Bradley Cooper), Stu (Ed Helms), and Alan (Zach Galifianakis) as they're forced to track down Ken Jeong's nefarious Mr. Chow by a ruthless gangster (John Goodman's Marshall), is actually at its best in its opening half hour, as filmmaker Todd Phillips has infused the proceedings with an affable feel that compensates for the lack of wholeheartedly funny elements.

Be it Enos reprising her thankless wife role from «Gangster Squad,» to Ludi Boeken as an exposition - dumping Mossad agent, to Peter Capaldi and Ruth Negga as scientists so thankless they're literally credited as Scientists despite being central to the third act, most of the players that crop up on Pitt's travels are perfunctory at best (to say nothing of Matthew Fox, inexplicably fifth - billed in a part that's not so much a cameo as a day - player gig — presumably he has more left on the cutting room floor).

It has a reasonably tight script and is well cast, with Warner Baxter playing the lawyer and Myrna Loy as the gangster's moll, a «bad girl» with glittering eyes who he quite understandably falls for.

There's a tonal dissonance here: The gangster - movie dialogue of these different groups, as well as a somewhat lame late movie shoot - out, feel far removed from the terse, beautifully choreographed pandemonium of the film's first act.

A typically crass and sexist gangster comedy from Eddie Murphy that's nowhere near as good as A Rage In Harlem (which is only average itself...)

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After being typecast as a gangster he gradually expanded the scope of his roles, and, in the»40s, gave memorable «good guy» performances as in a number of psychological dramas; he played federal agents, scientists, Biblical characters, business men, bank clerks, among other characters.

Both films feature in the Best Picture lineup, as does «Public Enemy Number One,» a sprawling biopic of gangster Jacques Mesrine that has been a local box - office smash and leads all nominees with 10 bids.

I'd say the true star of the film is Josh Brolin, who has proved in the past few years that he can do many things, such as giving an Oscar - caliber performance in Milk (which also stars Gangster Squad's Sean Penn), do an uncanny Tommy Lee Jones impression in Men In Black III, and proves here that he can dish up a good dash of old - fashioned rough - and - tough heroism.

SING stars Academy Award winner Matthew McConaughey as Buster Moon, an eternally optimistic koala who puts on the world's greatest singing competition to save his crumbling theater; Academy Award winner Reese Witherspoon as Rosita, an overworked and underappreciated mother of 25 piglets desperate to unleash her inner diva; Scarlett Johansson as Ash, a punk rock porcupine with a beautiful voice behind her prickly exterior; Taron Egerton as Johnny, a young gangster gorilla looking to break free of his family's felonies; as well as Seth MacFarlane, John C. Reilly, and Grammy Award - nominated Tori Kelly.

In an interview Rudolph helpfully singled out an Altman film he worked on as assistant director, The Long Goodbye — a much better film, one that can accommodate in its gallery of gargoyles a tragic figure like Sterling Hayden's alcoholic novelist as well as a nightmarishly comic one like Mark Rydell's Jewish gangster.

Its characteristics are unmistakable: rapid - fire dialogue with quips flying as often as bullets, a cadre of contemporary character actors playing gangster, and a deep well of edgy cynicism on which to hang these affectations.

Lou Diamond Phillips plays the young carjacker and mechanic, Ruben Blades has more of a stereotypical role admittedly as the Latino gangster type but damn if he doesn't do it well with those vibrant tones of his.

Director, co-writer and co-producer Kim Jee - woon is one of the country's best filmmakers (of the gangster picture A Bittersweet Life and the outstanding horror film A Tale of Two Sisters, sloppily remade here as The Uninvited) and brings his double - barreled love of Italian - made spaghetti Westerns to the fray.

The Brazilian star who played a favela gangster on film and sang Bowie in Portuguese says he makes music to get people thinking as well as dancing

Steiger is the gangster, who at the urging of his partners in crime, decides to ice the girl he loves for the good of his operation as a whole and piece of mind.

The quotes pouring from these characters makes them impossible to dislike, taking all the best qualities of the British gangster movie, while not over-indulging as the genre is oft to do.

And although Netflix clearly wants to secure that first Academy Award Win for Best Picture — and could possible achieve that with Martin Scorsese's forthcoming gangster flick, The Irishman — they're still in the business of putting as many eyeballs on their projects as possible.

It's directed by Robert Siodmak, who made more film noirs than any other director, and it is one of his darkest, a gangster drama seeped in shadows, corruption, and psychosis, with Victor Mature (in what I believe is his best noir role) a as Lt. Candella, an Italian - American police detective who takes the pursuit of small - time gangster Martin Rome (Richard Conte) personally.

LEONARDO DICAPRIO, «Live By Night» — The reigning Best Actor recipient joins Ben Affleck as producers on his «Argo» follow - up, a 1920s gangster / action / crime / drama.

Despite sharing Ritchie's fascination with»70s revisionism and rough men calling each other cunts, London Boulevard inevitably has more in common with the Mike Hodges school of steely English gangsters, positioning Farrell as a modern - day acolyte to Michael Caine's genteel bruisers: well - mannered and polite, but ready to smack a woman or two around if it comes down to it.

He cleverly pulled off a fun Geoffrey Chaucer in Brian Helgeland's A Knight's Tale as well as the vicious title character in McGuigan's Gangster No. 1.

But maybe this is understandable, as that is a convention of gangster movies, and aside from that the film tackles racism and homophobia in a well - intentioned way.

Instead, as we see in the account of his rise to criminal kingpin and «fall» to infamy American Gangster, Lucas used his power and keen business sense to make a fine life for those close to him and a hell for those unfortunate enough not to be supported by him or to have the means to do any better on their own.

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.

They settled for a period gangster film loosely based on Dashiell Hammett's The Glass Key (also the inspiration for Yojimbo and A Fistful of Dollars) with elements from the author's Red Harvest (which gave Blood Simple its title) thrown in as well.

Both Robinson and Fred MacMurray played roles against type (Robinson gained notoriety for his role as a gangster in Little Caesar (1930), and MacMurray had previously played genial, lightweight, good - guy roles in comedies)- and their performances represented some of their best career work.

The movie might best be described as a relentlessly - haunting saga of Shakespearean proportions, only arriving overlaid with many of the generic elements of the gratuitously - gruesome gangster genre.

Cary Joji Fukunaga's crime drama follows a Honduran teenager whose search for a better life becomes interlaced with a Mexican gangster as they travel through the Latin American countryside in an attempt to make it across the US - Mexico border.

Ryan Gosling fairs better in Gangster Squad but he is more known as a guy who takes off his shirt in the movies than for any acting skills.

Yes, Johnny Depp is very good as Boston gangster James «Whitey» Bulger, but we've seen him do so many transformations at this point that there's nothing special about this one.

Enjoyable for a good 15 minutes or so, mostly due to the scene - stealing powers of the adorable, much - coveted kitty whose name gives the movie its title, this is otherwise a stale, repetitive effort whose one - joke premise — two suburban buddies forced to pass themselves off as gangsters in a grimy underworld where they clearly don't belong — never achieves comic liftoff, much less the richly subversive dimensions typical of Key and Peele's best work.

«Chin» is anchored by its two wonderful lead performers, Corey Stoll playing the somewhat dim but well - intentioned pugilist Bud and Billy Crudup, who appears as the quietly menacing gangster.

; RED DUST, the TRC courtroom drama starring Hilary Swank; the stylish Cape Flats gangster film, DOLLARS AND WHITE PIPES; the record - breaking box office performers MAMA JACK and MR. BONES, starring South Africa's number one box office star, Leon Schuster; THE LONG RUN starring Armin Muehler - Stahl (SHINE); THE THEORY OF FLIGHT starring Academy Award ® winning Kenneth Branagh and Helena Bonham Carter; BRAVO TWO ZERO, (as co-producer), a BBC co-production starring Sean Bean, based on Andy McNab's best - selling book of the same title.

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.

Three of cinema's finest veteran actors headline this comic crime - caper, as Al Pacino's recently released gangster Val is reunited with two former best pals...

Knowing full well that the wand is only going to lead to trouble, Ward and Jakoby make hard decisions as they attempt to survive against gangsters, corrupt cops, and a radical trio of elves led by Noomi Rapace.

Based on Infernal Affairs, a finely complex Asian policier from 2002 (this is ten times better), the plotting has much the same wit as Face / Off, with DiCaprio's precarious dive mirrored by the spectacular rise of a clean - cut detective (Damon, equally well cast), secretly compromising the force for the benefit of his decadent gangster patron (an unhinged Nicholson, which is saying a lot).

Evoking the effortless cool also seen in Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs — another film about heists and gangsters yet little violence or crime on screen as well as the past - coming - to - roost of Jonathan Glazer's Sexy Beast and probably a young Jim Jarmusch.

Nuanced applies as well to Macdonald's body of work, whether as a bereft parent in Child, a woman threatened by a hired killer in No Country for Old Men, a gangster's wife in Boardwalk Empire or, yes, even the naive maid she played in «Gosford Park.»

There was also a tie in the voting Sunday for best supporting actor, with the honors going to James Franco as a rapper / gangster named Alien in «Spring Breakers» and to Jared Leto as a transsexual suffering from AIDS in «Dallas Buyers Club.»

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.

Earlier in that same year, Edward G. Robinson had made a splash in Little Caesar and became associated with gangster roles as well.