Sentences with phrase «unchained as»

Three years after a boycott was begun by Venice Unchained as part of a campaign to keep chain stores off Abbot Kinney Blvd., Pinkberry, at 1410 AKB, has thrown in the towel.

I loved Django Unchained as much as the next person but the only reason Zero Dark Thirty did not win was became of the so - called controversy around it.

They previewed new footage from Tarantino's Django Unchained as well as Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master and David O. Russell's Silver Linings Playbook, with Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence.

This edition features two new images from Django Unchained as well as the movie poster for the film...

While I agree very much with Eric Snider's assessment of Django Unchained as «lesser Tarantino» - I place it above on Death Proof on my own personal rankings - I also agree with his further assertion that it is a...

It's possibly too early to proclaim Django Unchained as my favourite Tarantino film; a few more viewings may be necessary.

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Unlike chain restaurants, the new eclectic design feels more like an independent restaurant — as in Mexican unchained,» said Lockwood.

Now this uber talented monster has been unchained from Fisher's shackles and is free to dominate as its talent level dictates it should.

As Andy Beckett stated, «If history repeats, which it rarely does exactly, we should expect the Unchaining of Britannia to commence in 2019.»

The idea is to unchain people from their desks and the bureaucracy; as well as get them to think that they've also got act like a diplomat when at home in London.

Britannia Unchained backs the current government's deficit reduction strategy as a vital first step to restoring economic growth.

Unchained base reads on self - assembling DNA nanoarrays have recently emerged as a promising approach to low - cost, high - quality resequencing of human genomes.

He was known for his starring roles in such action classics as Hercules (1959), Hercules Unchained (1960), and The Last Days of Pompeii (1960).

«Django Unchained» is «Blazing Saddles» with a body count, a positively incendiary entertainment about America's greatest shame, the personal and social toll of slavery, and like Tarantino's last film, «Inglourious Basterds,» this is a case of history being remixed in a way that makes more emotional sense to Tarantino as a storyteller.

Touted as a love story, the suggestion itself is a sentiment funnier than 90 % of all the jokes in «Django Unchained» because its dispassionate approach has nary a feeling.

As the 2010's approached, Washington soon found herself a bonified star, remaining adored and in demand due to performances in high profile features like Django Unchained and her star turn as Olivia Pope in ABC's smash hit ScandaAs the 2010's approached, Washington soon found herself a bonified star, remaining adored and in demand due to performances in high profile features like Django Unchained and her star turn as Olivia Pope in ABC's smash hit Scandaas Olivia Pope in ABC's smash hit Scandal.

As such we thought we'd try something a little different with three takes on «Django Unchained» from The Playlist staff that are generally pretty divergent.

Django Unchained is an epic film with a simple and straightforward story that is as entertaining as they come; for all the hyper - explosive and bloody bullet hits, the film shines in its more quieter moments, where an actor like Christoph Waltz can excel in his charm or Samuel L. Jackson can ooze with ill - intent.

Overall, it's easy to appreciate the screwy, lurid atmosphere, but even as Tarantino's enthusiasm is characteristically infectious, it eventually grows tiresome.Basically, the experience boils down to this: Accept «Django Unchained» on its own gonzo terms and it's a marvelously enjoyable piece of subversive entertainment — for a little while.

Tarantino may not be unchained here so much as he is unraveled, but sometimes this needs to happen so that an artist can find new ways to pull it together again.

A day after its two major Golden Globes, Django Unchained sold out on to standby lines as the last of the Museum of Modern Art's Oscar - touted «The Contenders.»

As a picture ostensibly about love, revenge and the ugliness of slavery, «Django Unchained» has almost zero subtext and is a largely soulless bloodbath, in which the history of pain and retribution is coupled carelessly with a cool soundtrack and some verbose dialogue.

Without revealing too much, the faux climax in «Django Unchained,» which can possibly be described as part one of the three extended third act parts, doesn't have stakes to sell the sizzle.

I will say that Django Unchained is a beautifully constructed film in which, as Tarantino has said, Django goes from being a slave to being not only a free man, but a professional — a bounty hunter, trained by Schulz and become his partner.

As such, «Django Unchained» isn't much of an adaptation for the screen as it is a completely faithful distended adaptation of a screenplay that reads better as a booAs such, «Django Unchained» isn't much of an adaptation for the screen as it is a completely faithful distended adaptation of a screenplay that reads better as a booas it is a completely faithful distended adaptation of a screenplay that reads better as a booas a book.

Yeah, I enjoyed «Django Unchained» and «Skyfall» more, but as a whole, «Life of Pi» covers all the bases of what makes a real solid film.

The greatness of Django Unchained, however, comes not from its nods to Corbucci and Leone, its prodigious reliance upon Ennio Morricone compositions, its deliciously evil villains, blood - spattered vengeance or comic inserts (though an early scene in which the newly freed Django picks an outfit to pose as Dr. King Schultz's valet is endearingly funny).

I don't like Unchained quite as much as its immediate predecessor, but it still offers a vivid, satisfying adventure that reminds us that few filmmakers today can match the mastery shown by Tarantino.

Like many westerns, «Django Unchained» latches onto a simple, stark picture of good and evil, and takes homicidal vengeance as the highest — if not the only — form of justice.

Regardless of whether anybody believes that about Tarantino's previous films or not, it is difficult to accuse him of misusing the word in Django Unchained where it is directly tied to the calculated way that black people were viewed as sub-human, even to the extent that some of them believed it themselves.

DiCaprio clearly relishes the opportunity of playing such a hideous, evil character - when he sneers with stained, grotty teeth it's as unsettling as anything else in Django Unchained.

Of course, it's a coincidence that Django Unchained arrives in the same season as Steven Spielberg's Lincoln, the second of two Spielberg films about slavery (after 1997's Amistad) that never expose audiences to the harsh realities of plantation life?

There is also a Quentin Tarantino featurette as well as a Django Unchained soundtrack spot.

And if «Django Unchained» is not better, it is arguably more radical, both as cinema and as (fanciful) history.

«It's better than «Lincoln,»» my teenage daughter said, as the end credits rolled at a screening of Quentin Tarantino's «Django Unchained.»

It's just one example of how «Django Unchained» is one of those films that works on multiple levels, either as pure escapist entertainment or as something deeper.

«Django Unchained» took over 130 days to film, and it seems as though all of that film wound up on screen.

As such, «Django Unchained» is obviously a companion to «Inglourious Basterds,» in which Mr. Tarantino had the audacity to turn the Nazi war against the Jews into the backdrop for a farcical, ultraviolent caper.

But, as it is, the second half of Django Unchained is often over-confident and tiresomely inaccessible.

As expected, Django Unchained is brutal, remarkably so, with copious amounts of splattery violence splashing across the screen - to be honest I'm surprised the film got away with an MA rating here in Australia.

While revenge narratives are often highly problematic in the way they represent certain aspects of society as deserving a violent death, Tarantino creates revenge narratives against characters that nobody in their right mind would sympathise with — Nazis in Inglourious Basterds and now sadistic slave owners in Django Unchained.

Rather than the gleeful gratuitousness that Tarantino employed in Django Unchained, there is reason to this assault on our senses, as McQueen's sequences present a subtle range of emotional responses to such cruelty and injustice, in both black and white characters.

Though we've yet to see Django Unchained, all the trailers and marketing material point to Leonardo DiCaprio giving one hell of a performance as plantation owner Calvin Candie.

Of course Tarantino is still a terrific writer / director, and Waltz, DiCaprio and Jackson are all worthy of awards for their brilliant performances, but Django Unchained doesn't come close to matching the same level of giddy amazement as Inglourious Basterds.

This is the writer - director's take on the promise of American ideals, even more so than Django Unchained, for which it was originally intended as a sequel.

mmm... a protagonist who complete dominates a long film to the detriment of context and the other players in the story (though the abolitionist, limping senator with the black lover does gets close to stealing the show, and is rather more interesting than the hammily - acted Lincoln); Day - Lewis acts like he's focused on getting an Oscar rather than bringing a human being to life - Lincoln as portrayed is a strangely zombie character, an intelligent, articulate zombie, but still a zombie; I greatly appreciate Spielberg's attempt to deal with political process and I appreciate the lack of «action» but somehow the context is missing and after seeing the film I know some more facts but very little about what makes these politicians tick; and the lighting is way too stylised, beautiful but unremittingly unreal, so the film falls between the stools of docufiction and costume drama, with costume drama winning out; and the second subject of the film - slavery - is almost complete absent (unlike Django Unchained) except as a verbal abstraction

In material, Tarantino repeatedly proved he hasn't slowed in defying his critics since «Django Unchained», and he displayed the same quality in showmanship as well.

Les Miserables and Django Unchained have taken the top 2 and 3 spots as the highest ranking Christmas releases EVER!

On Tuesday, Tarantino told Deadline that Waltz never received the script (neither did Tarantino favorite Samuel L. Jackson), which he personally handed to Dern and Reservoir Dogs stars Michael Madsen and Tim Roth, as well as Django Unchained producer Reginald Hudlin and two other people.»

Universal City, California, February 15, 2016 — Jamie Foxx (Django Unchained, White House Down) stars as an undercover homicide detective seeking revenge on his son's kidnappers in the must - see action film Sleepless, available on Digital HD on April 4, 2017 and on Blu - ray ™, DVD and On Demand on April 18, 2017 from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.