The Underworld films are a good example of movies that can play well in January.
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By tradition, the moons of Pluto have names associated with Hades and the underworld.
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Puzo himself had a career that was more varied than his reputation as the underworld scribe suggests.
Leaning against the BMW, he loaded up his saved game, and continued his conquest of the underworld.
Some followers say she is an incarnation of an Aztec goddess of death who ruled the underworld.
These particular Cenotes are now protected by the Mayans, who still believe they are apertures to the underworld.
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Nowhere else have there been so many allegations of cricket match-fixing or of games being linked to the underworld.
You can post your opinion of the so-called "Lord of the Underworld" and read what others have had to say.
Rocks cascade down from the ceiling, and chains rip across the stage as Kratos fights Hades, god of the Underworld.
Dragged down to the underworld, Proserpine ate six pomegranate seeds, meaning she had to stay for six months each year.
It's based on the legend of Orpheus, the musician and poet who journeys to the underworld to bring back his dead wife, Eurydice.
As Mr Steiner has observed, ethnic-Albanian mafia syndicates, many of them rooted in Kosovo, have taken control of the underworld in much of Europe.
Seeing the phantom-like outline of the Dolomites against the night sky, it feels harder to sneer at stories of witches, sorcerers and secret gates to the underworld.
Many believe the murder of top film producer Gulshan Kumar in broad daylight in 1997 was the first real indication of the underworld's growing hold in Bollywood.
As with the rest of the dwarf planet's moons, the organization's asking that the names be associated with Hades (the underworld), with ties to Greek or Roman mythology.
Families thus begin preparations to help the spirits find their way home and to make them welcome, starting with an arch made of bright-yellow marigolds - a symbolic doorway from the underworld.
Earlier in the trial the court heard John Haase, 59, and his nephew Paul Bennett, 44, hatched a plot behind bars in 1993 to con the authorities into thinking they had turned on the underworld.
But one former congressional aide, Cass Weiland, a deeply experienced investigator into such matters, suspects that the amount that securities crooks and con men currently rake in approaches what the underworld reaps from illicit drug dealings.
Many of the show's terra-cotta heads and smaller statues are of Demeter, the goddess of good harvests, or of her daughter Proserpine, forced to become the queen of the underworld when she was abducted by Hades, its king.
When Big Scar Wu arrived in the underworld and word spread of his demise, they renamed him Smiley Cat, much to his chagrin, with the name fuelling his bitterness with every utterance and driving his thirst for revenge.
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He comes to Gotham because the mob there has been broken by Batman, so Penguin sees this as a chance for a new kind of mobster to take control of the underworld in the city as a major arms dealer.
Mr. JASPER: Definitely, and I ended up sort of writing about, you know, the underworld and the struggles of young men, so I was choosing, I guess, between the dark and white to be metaphorical because it was those young men, perhaps even more so than myself, who were going through the most difficult times around me.
"Brick" doesn't try to match that force -- it's a parody, after all, and some of it is very funny. (One of the funniest moments involves the underworld kingpin's cheerful mother.) But its arcane slang, which is meant to be mannered, grows mannered in unintended, off-putting ways, and the performances, though amusing, can be painfully short on energy.
David Wayne brings a hectic pathos to the role of the psychopath at war with his own urges, and an iconic batch of character actors (including Howard Da Silva, Raymond Burr, Luther Adler, Norman Lloyd, Jim Backus, and Glenn Anders) incarnate with streetwise flair the officers of the law and the underworld posse trying to beat them to the killer.
Involved in the criminal underworld since the 1960s, Usoyan had survived at least two previous attempts on his life, one in 1998 and the other in 2010, state-run RIA Novosti reported.
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Starting off the second set of films (or second trilogy) would be Black Mask and his False Face Society, as they take over the Gotham underworld, combining the traditional organized crime with freaks running the gangs and working as the most trusted, deadly members.
The criminal underworld and inter-generational conflict of The Sopranos is to be beamed to mobile phones, following Cingular Wireless ' announcement Thursday that it has inked an exclusive multi-year deal with premium cable TV network HBO to send video clips of hit television shows to mobile phones.
Together, the two of them take on the Los Angeles underworld as the Green Hornet and his sidekick, masked men driving around in an armed vehicle that looks like an insufficiently modified Lincoln Town Car.
Liberty Reserve's origins are obscure, but it had grown into one of the criminal underworld's best known electronic currency systems, used by hackers the world over to discreetly move large sums of money across borders, experts say.
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