Word: gunplay
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...Donner (Lethal Weapon) and Jane Campion (The Piano)?" One of Hong Kong's few female filmmakers, Hui is best known for character-driven dramas such as July Rhapsody. But partway through Goddess, she gives in to her basic, box-office instinct to deliver what the people want: lots of gunplay...
...create mood, if not emotion. The Fall of Max Payne, one of his 2003 releases, is the closest the games world has yet come to film noir. You can be Payne, a New York cop, or his femme fatale, Mona Sax. Yes, there is plenty of violence and gunplay, but there is also a tender and tragic love story. If Donovan is a part of the malaise of the industry, he may also be a cure...
...rise up and seize control of their neighborhoods. Much of the weekend's violence came in clashes between Coalition troops and Sadr supporters who have occupied police stations and local council offices. Rather than hit-and-run attacks, the Sadrists have taken to the streets, combining mass protest with gunplay in scenes reminiscent of the opening weeks of the Palestinian intifada in the Fall of 2000. That association is far from coincidental - Moqtada has sought to stir up Shiite passions by likening the plight of Iraqis under occupation to that of the Palestinians, and he recently vowed to cooperate with...
...African-American culture becomes a known commodity of the mainstream in music and fashion, Mitchell argues that films by and for African-Americans remain inhibited by financial obstacles. “We’re told that African-Americans only want to see movies where there’s gunplay,” he says. “There are also found wisdoms that a black film will only make so much money, so we can only release it in so many theaters, so we can only spend so much money to make it. And the great thing about...
...between the car chases and gunplay, Chan lays in plenty of the good-natured banter and macho high jinks that are standard issue in buddy-cop pictures from Hong Kong to Hollywood. At one point, Ekin Cheng banishes a junior officer to the inside of a huge fish tank, where the underling must count the number and variety of each fish?while wearing only underwear...