Sentences with phrase «at least interesting films»

As Cannes rolls along there are a lot of new images and trailers for great, or at least interesting films.

Not exact matches

Even if the action and thriller elements fall short of the intended mark, there's never a point when the film fails to at least maintain interest, even when it becomes a bit obvious where things are going to lead.

It's ultimately clear, however, that Fear and Desire simply isn't able to justify its feature - length running time (ie the whole thing feels padded - out even at 61 minutes), with the movie's less - than - consistent vibe paving the way for a second half that could hardly be less interesting or anti-climactic - which does, in the end, confirm the film's place as a fairly ineffective first effort that does, at least, highlight the eye - catching visual sensibilities of its preternaturally - talented director.

And that's not to say that this film had to have super complex characters, but at least give us something just a little more interesting to invest ourselves in these people.

Obviously, fans of the Broadway show will be interested at least to see how it looks and feels on film.

While Freddy's Revenge isn't really in keeping with the first film in the nature of Freddy, whose powers seem to now come with the house, it still has an interesting premise and at least takes a direction that makes it less of a rehash of the first film than other slasher film sequels have been.

Diesel's Xander Cage is the least - interesting element here, but that's okay, because the film surrounds him with super-cool supporting characters played by super-cool actors, including Tony Jaa, who gets to bob his head to music at a funeral, and Ruby Rose, who doesn't have a whole lot to do but still looks incredibly badass anyway.

I'm not incredibly familiar with Warner Bros.» line of DC animated films, but they seem to do well and, at the very least, keep things interesting by introducing twists on the superheroes as in Gods and Monsters.

There is energy, though, and an interesting main premise, but the reason Fred Claus ends up being another misfire is that a film with this much budget, along with Vince Vaughn (The Break - Up, Mr. and Mrs. Smith) front and center, should have at least a handful of belly laughs.

OUR TAKE: The trailer looks like a mix of so many other horror movies - and we're not sure our horror interest will extend beyond the Halloween holiday (at least not for this film).

Rockwell looks young for 47, but his nearly thirty - year career in film creates — for me, at least — an insurmountable age gap when casting him as the star of Pitch Perfect's love interest.

Franco also directed the film, imbuing his docu - dramedy with an interesting bit of irony by directing himself in a very good movie where he plays the real life director (at least according to the credits) of a famously bad movie.

At least this restraint keeps the film interesting.

With that being said, it's no wonder that Disney ventured into more live action films and computer animated features, which at least brings much more interesting ideas, concepts and storylines to a film.

I realize that I'm in the minority of people who don't think this isn't really that good of a movie, although I'll admit, it did hold my interest enough for me to think it still worthwhile, which for a film about chess means it deserves at least some props.

Nevertheless, that statement should do nothing to detour those interested in the film from checking it out and / or at least giving Steve's video interviews with Johnny Depp, Armie Hammer, producer Jerry Bruckheimer, Gore Verbinski, William Fichtner (who talks about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), and Ruth Wilson a fair shake.

I would say Phone Booth is at least worth a look due to being an interesting idea for thriller, as well as for its attention - grabbing style which works magic on a purely visceral level, much in the way it did in the similarly implausible film, Joy Ride.

The screenplay sheds some interesting insights to Norman's psyche, yet somehow it is a tad boring to witness events that are of little surprise to anyone that has seen at least the first film in the series.

An Education — I'd expect that a film about a young girl in 1962 who's so infatuated with the life of the Parisian intellectual (jazz, cigarettes, New Wave movies) that she dates an older man to have at least a sense of why that Parisian lifestyle is so interesting.

Note: It was a weak year for interesting credit sequences but at least some films tried something beyond simple text with pretty design elements (The Martian, Carol, Creed) or manic visuals (Me & Earl and the Dying Girl, Ant - Man) with various degrees of success.

But, going off this cast at least, Golden Circle has the potential to be a very interesting film.

Seeing the final edit of the film will be especially interesting in this case because at least one role has now been completely cut.

I have already seen Catfish (and absolutely loved it) but the other 9 movies all seem like must - see's or at least an interesting movie to watch so I appreciate you taking the time to make us aware of these films!

Perhaps the most widely polarizing film in recent memory, Kill List, a kitchen - sink drama meets surreal cult horror hybrid, confirmed at least one thing for everyone who walked out of the theater, both awed and annoyed alike: Whether for good or for ill, Ben Wheatley is one of Britain's most interesting contemporary filmmakers.

Tom Green's follow - up to Gareth Edwards» inventive «Monsters» does at least attempt something interesting: Just as the first film fused monster - movie sci - fi paranoia with a gentle indie love story to become an offbeat take on genre, «Dark Continent» basically wants to be a war movie with vague sci - fi elements.

Notwithstanding the recent interest, at least among the cinephile set, in such films as this year's Cannes Grand Prix winner Old Boy (Park Chan - wook, 2003), and Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (Kim Ki - duk, 2003), Korean cinema remains an unknown quantity to most filmgoers.

Running a scant ninety - two minutes, at least sixty of them consist of people frantically yelling at one another in the hopes the profanity — largely in front of a toddler, who's always finding and playing with a dildo as the film's running joke — keeps the viewer's interest.

I'm very interested in this film, at least these guys did something out of love for the movies.

This is not to say that the film as a whole is a failure by any means — however, it will be up to the individual viewer to figure out for themselves whether it is an okay movie containing a few too many hiccups to keep it from completely pulling together or a not - so - good movie with enough strong individual elements to hold one's interest for at least most of its running time.

The fact that the Star Trek film series is now diverging into two paths is an interesting move on Paramount's part, but if you've been enjoying the adventures of the alternate Enterprise crew, you can now look forward to them starring in at least one more tale.

,» this one has been reduced to a race between No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood, by most accounts the only two films that have (at least should have) a stake on the Best Picture prize, and if I discount The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, in spite of its interest in the ALSKDJFHGZMZNCBVQPOWIUEYRT's of our language, it's because Julian Schnabel's own use of the Caps Lock function behind the camera is the star of that fashion show.

Even with its unimpressive story and its over-reliance on Peter Parker's parents as a plot device, the charm of Garfield and Stone persevered enough to make the film interesting at the very least and at times even something resembling a film that deserves praise.

For a while at least, Brian Goodman's film does find some mildly interesting ways to distinguish itself from Stephen King's novel (and Rob Reiner's movie).

But, rather refreshingly, the film finds new angles of approach, or at least ones that aren't too well worn, reshaping huge chunks of Alien and sizable portions of Gravity to form something bracing and scary and interesting, a B - movie with brains.

While the film ultimately loses interest for me, I try to include at least one family film in every column, and it should be noted that my three sons adore this movie.

This feels like the film - version of I Am Legend that filmmakers have struggled with at least three times and all failed in somewhat interesting ways (The best of which, The Last Man On Earth, starred Vincent Prince struggling with a very tiny European budget).

Her stoic, icy visage and the moderately inviting visuals of her section at least serve as a sedative to the flat crime saga the film is more interested with.

DVD Extras Quite an interesting director's commentary, video intro from film critic Leonard Maltin and a trailer - not a great deal but it's something at least DVD Extras Rating: 6/10

I'm not opposed to pushing boundaries and making an edgier family film — to that end, Singer's vision is at least valid and interesting.

However, it is Depp's subdued performance that anchors the film into something interesting, always keeping the mysteries of his thoughts hidden, and making this otherwise formulaic film have at least the semblance of depth.

Astaire's way too old for Hepburn, and the dancing doesn't especially stand out (though there's an interesting overthetop Beat parody Hepburn performs in a club), at least relative to some of Donen's other films like Singin» In The Rain or Royal Wedding.

In some cases, the filmmaker's methods have, themselves, replicated the mad genius of those of Herzog's protagonists (the story of the filming of Fitzcarraldo, as profiled in Les Blank's documentary Burden of Dreams, is at least as interesting as the movie, itself).

The ad also identifies his interests as «Godard films and masturbation,» presumably at least half mental.

We know that popular films portray women lawyers as mad women, monstrous, or at the very least, less positively than men lawyers, and research demonstrates that women negotiators have less success than men negotiators when they are acting in their own interests.