Sentences with phrase «small budget movie»

Sometimes I also write my thoughts on the smaller budgeted movies that hit video on demand and direct - to - home video releases.

Not exact matches

We sat down with our kids and looked closely at their day - to - day lives and then decided on what we would pay for such as clothing, cell phone plans and after - school activities and sports fees and then gave them a budget for the rest such as entertainment (the price of a movie ticket once a month), gifts (birthdays, holidays, church), their craving for school cafeteria food — which we capped at twice a week — plus a small stipend.

What began a few years ago as a trickle of small independent films shot in and around Kingston has of late turned into a veritable flood, including big - budget productions with real movie stars, thanks to a new tax break and efforts by local officials to woo and accommodate the industry.

However, the budgets that are allowed by the TV stations are small — especially when compared to movie budgets.

At last year's Sundance Film Festival, this small - budget indie garnered rave reviews and the award for the best science - themed movie.

However, I can't help but think that the pressures of creating a big - budget «event» movie after two small comedies - Pee - Wee's Big Adventure and Beetlejuice - may have affected his work, because Batman consistently seemed vaguely unsure of itself.

Just like Get Out, the movie was produced with a small budget yet the result was damn good.

Though her roles are generally small, but for the occasional lead in low - budget movies, Estevez continues to find steady employment.

A bit more suspense would have gone a long way here, and while director David Gelb, whose prior experience had been in the crowd - pleasing documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi, has turned in a slick - looking feature for one with such a small budget (reportedly, only $ 5 mil), it really can't compete with better films out there in terms of quality, while it's too straight - faced in execution to at least give us some choice b - movie thrills.

Scoring noticeably fewer films than before, he has concentrated on big - budget studio material at the expense of everything else, seeming to leave behind the smaller movies with which he attracted much of the praise afforded him over the years.

While Stake Land II is clearly working on a small budget, the filmmakers do all they can to deliver a fast - moving post-apocalyptic «quest» movie full of gory vampire attacks, colorful stock character archetypes, and a slyly surly attitude.

Stephen Frears» directorial debut Gumshoe, a cockeyed detective film starring Albert Finney as a small - time bingo caller who plays at being a private detective for fun and ends up in the middle of a real mystery, and Arch Oboler's 1951 end - of - the - world drama Five, a low budget, high concept film he produced independently, also arrive under the «Martini Movies» imprint.

You never know how low - budget movies from small studios will look on Blu - ray, but Punching Henry looks good.

As for a Cloverfield 2, success wouldn't be a sure thing, even with a small budget, as the original film's reception was far loss positive amongst audiences than a similarly Internet - buzzing and viral marketed movie like Saw.

It is a little rough around the edges and there is an argument to be made that the relative lack of directorial flair makes the film feel too conventional but those points are only really relevant when comparing it to Argento's later works, and after all, this was his first movie and there are plenty of filmmakers out there at the twilight of their careers who would love to make a thriller as tight and effective as this with everything available at their disposal, let alone the small budget and restrictions that Dario Argento had to work with.

Among the most well reviewed of the X-Men movies, Deadpool also made the most money of any of them, despite having had the smallest budget.

On a very small budget, but with tons of passion for filmmaking, an unknown director would make one of the most classic cult films of all time that not only was a head of its time, but would become the number one movie responsible for a genre.

By Pete Hammond hollywoodnews.com: What does it say about the current state of Hollywood that movies with gargantuan budgets, big stars and endless hype are, as of the turn of the new year, being rated anywhere from disappointing to disasters, while smaller films from directors not exactly known -LSB-...]

Ultimately this is a small movie, a relaxed and cheery bit of nostalgia that probably should have been made on a fraction of the budget.

Garant and Lennon, who have made plenty of money writing major studio films like Night at the Museum, put this movie together independently on a small budget.

Not to mention, Blumhouse Productions knows how to make movies with a small budget which is exactly what's needed as less money forces more creativity to make a better, quality film.

The movie does have some pretty impressive production design considering its presumably small budget, so it's a shame to see all that hard work wasted on a director more interested in unnecessary visual flourishes (like a POV shot from a water bucket) than focusing on important things like character and story.

At the film's recent press day, Mirren revealed her approach to the role, what it was like having the opportunity to improvise on set, acting opposite the renowned Puri and what the two share in common, what she looks for in a project, why the director is an important consideration, why she likes to alternate between big movies and smaller low budget films, her lifelong attraction to French culture, her latest film that she's currently shooting with director Simon Curtis entitled «Woman in Gold,» and her upcoming biopic, «Trumbo,» with Bryan Cranston about blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo.

As well as working on big budget Hollywood Movies such as Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Naomie Harris (Jane) continues to choose challenging and exciting roles in smaller and more diverse films such as THE FIRST GRADER.

For a low - fi indie movie, there are some great things at play — strong performances, an enticing script, mounting suspense, a huge payoff — even though some of the trappings of small budgets features don't escape Manson Family Vacation «s grasp.

Directors making small low - budget movies outside the system may not reach a huge audience, but they also don't have to worry about earning the number of detractors that the few household name helmers have.

Fruitvale was a small, low - budget independent film, but it garnered enough attention for Coogler and enough confidence in his abilities that he landed a much higher - profile movie for his next project.

Although «Unsane» might require an unusual taste for both high and lowbrow cinema, and its approach may strike celluloid purists as anathema (fear not, Chris Nolan, there's still a place for actual film in the hearts of most movie lovers), Soderbergh's 27th film strikes as an immediate cult hit — the kind whose small budget will ensure success ad infinitum.

What used to be the most popular genre in mainstream movies is now mainly the preserve of smaller budget films with more adult themes, and they don't come more «adult» than this latest bloody saga.

Away We Go is the kind of movie you would expect a first time writer / director to have made, on a small budget.

Something of a small miracle, «The Way Way Back» is such a refreshing, smartly enjoyable reprieve from the summer movie season's barrage of superhero fare and big - budget blockbusters that you feel blue when it must come to an end.

«You'll see that the scale is much bigger, and that's because the first movie had a small $ 58 million budget.

While I love his big budget Hollywood movies, I also love his smaller films, where he can explore interesting characters against the backdrop of something unusual.

Fruitvale Station showed the world Coogler can create an all star movie with a small budget, and Creed showed Coogler can handle the pressure of recreating a sinking movie franchise with box office hit numbers.

Mudbound is beautifully shot, well - acted, and surprisingly sweeping for a movie with a relatively small budget of $ 10 million; if it's guilty of anything, it's perhaps trying to do too much at once, which is understandable given its novelistic scope.

This is where the $ 18 million budget, a very small amount by contemporary blockbuster / genre - movie standards, comes in handy — no overblown CGI instead of genuine character moments here.

This meant making a superhero movie on a very small budget — and one slashed at the last second at that.

It is even worse when it's based on a popular IP like a TV show, movie or comic since they the handheld version is delegated with the smallest budget.»

There will always be big - budget games, just as in the movie world there are smaller, independent films and the blockbuster releases.

They should also make more movies that are good with a small budget.

You had a first - time director dealing with a compressed pre-production schedule, and a smaller than average budget for the effects - driven science fiction movie.

In the 2011 biographical movie about Oakland Athletics» general manager Billy Beane's efforts to assemble a winning team from a small budget, Brad Pitt starred as the guy who employed the assistance of a number - crunching economist to use data and analytics to put together a competitive team despite having less money than most other major league teams — about one third that of the New York Yankees.

The Expendables 3 is a good example of a high - budget movie with dialog that sounds like it was recorded in a small cardboard box.

Common has a small budget for its residents to run these events, and at one of its buildings, tenants established a book club and movie nights.