Sentences with phrase «about making the film despite»

It was the bullying aspect of the novel that deeply resonated with Alfredson's own experiences growing up, and set about making the film despite a lack of familiarity with the horror genre.

Blu - ray Highlight: There are only two extras on the disc, but the audio commentary with writer / director Dito Montiel and executive producer / editor Jake Pushinsky offers up some interesting nuggets about making the film despite the long stretches of silence.

Not exact matches

But despite maintaining a level of jocularity about the premise, the film manages the impressive trick of making an ant - sized superhero as exciting and thrilling as that of any other MCU character.

«I Give it a Year»: «Borat» scribe Dan Mazer makes his feature film directing debut with this romantic comedy about a young couple (Rose Byrne and Rafe Spall) who are doing their best to stay married despite the doubts of their friends and relatives.

13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi embodies about what you'd expect out of a marriage between the political firestorm that is Benghazi and Michael Bay, the action director everyone seems to love to hate, despite the fact his films make hundreds of millions of dollars.

This is despite a ruling from the US Figure Skating Association that says she knew about the attack beforehand, making the film feel almost sympathetic towards her.

All the same, and despite Sunada's transparent determination to make her film a comprehensive overview of Studio Ghibli, this is ultimately a documentary about one man.

Holofcener's last film «Please Give» ended up on many of our year - end lists in 2009, so while we're not expecting «big things» exactly — that's hard to say about small scale dramas about regular people — we are, as usual, excited and grateful that we live in a world where, despite all the tentpole tendencies, there's still a very viable space for Holofcener to make movies.

And, despite what I'm sure was against Worthington's wishes (he spoke out very negatively about an appearance in the first film), Bubo the owl makes another appearance here.

The film is the brainchild (mmmm... brains) of Luke Thompson and Clara Nellist, both Ph.D. students in physics, who despite having no filmmaking experience decided that, dammit, they were going to make a film about exposure to the Higgs Boson particle turning people into zombies.

John Addley's Alexander Hamilton (1931) is a very major attempt by Warner bros. at the time to make a prestige historical film about how the first Treasury Secretary of the United States created his legacy and helped establish the financial power of the country in the long term despite a secret scandal threatening to ruin his life and reputation.

There's an adorable awkwardness in the two, despite their maturity and intellect, giving them humility and presenting us with that adolescent awkwardness that without it would just make this film about local politics.

This is a film about female gender roles made by a male director, who doesn't seem to know much about female gender roles, despite the script being written by a woman.

It's about loving to love those things, which makes Steven Spielberg's film adaptation of the bestselling novel feel hollow despite — or maybe because of — the relentless pop culture references it throws at you.

Despite it's many tries, the film fails to establish any kind of family chemistry and thus fails to make the audience care about it's characters.

But where recent films like Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and A Most Wanted Man are absorbing, smartly crafted espionage dramas, Red Sparrow only manages to bring the same amount of intrigue in short bursts and does so without making any significant statements about the current political landscape, despite how deeply ingrained the Russian narrative is in today's 24 - hour news cycle.

If a group of decidedly anti-social tolls decided to make a film about relationships despite lacking any working knowledge in the areas of human behavior, cinematic craft or the basic cadences of the English language, what they might come up with would only begin to approximate what Wiseau slapped together.

The whole crew is back, and acquit themselves well for the most part — Karl Urban is as crotchety as ever as Bones, Simon Pegg gets more to do in Scotty's expanded role, Zoe Saldana manages to kick ass as Uhura (despite the unfortunate need to make much of her role in the film about her lover's quarrel with Spock), and so on.

While the storyline is relatively simple, and one that has been a staple of Hollywood classics since the beginning of commercial films (this is a movie about movies, after all), the complexity of the characterizations, coupled with the technically proficient presentation despite the multitudinous moving pieces involved, makes it all feel fresh and new in the modern era.

But he and Nolte just about make the film work in the end, despite its marked structural similarities to Wild and in a way that is only likely to appeal to core Bryson fans.

That's also about the only crass joke «Obvious Child» doesn't make, but it's also worth noting that despite its fearlessness and fake - tough bravado, the film never takes its circumstances or consequences lightly; Slate's Donna Stern is cracking wise because if she didn't, she'd probably just crack.

Let me tell you my story, which is — despite making a Oscar - nominated film about The Witness — I did not 100 % it.

Three films from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and United Arab Emirates, made from different perspectives, tell stories about how domestic / migrant workers struggle to pursue a better work / life balance and personal development, despite the limitations of time in everyday life.

The CEO of thin film solar company Miasole, John Carrington, made a very public to - do last year about how Miasole needed a large partner to commercialize and scale — this year Miasole sold for $ 30 million in a firesale to China's Hanergy, despite that it raised hundreds of millions of dollars in VC money.