Sentences with phrase «at lesser film»

Sadly, The Humbling (from the novel by Philip Roth, scripted by Buck Henry and directed by Barry Levinson) went to video on demand, while Manglehorn (directed by David Gordon Green) is still trying to drum up attention at lesser film festivals.

Not exact matches

In fact, of those eight films, five of them have made less at the box office than Crash, which is currently the fifth - lowest grossing film of the past four decades (in terms of sales adjusted for inflation).

Captain America: The Winter Soldier, this year's top - grossing film so far, came out in early - April and the scattering of big movies around the calendar is one reason why all 2014 films have only grossed about 5.4 % less than all films had last year at this point.

But all varieties of horror flick are easily identifiable at this point, whether they're spooky, low - budget films (numerous); viscera - stained slasher movies (more numerous); quick - cut zombie flicks (even more numerous); macabre sci - fi, floating - in - space efforts (somewhat less numerous than they should be); sexualized vampiric tales (I trip over one of these whenever I get the newspaper); films of the more critically favored retro - mashup variety (Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's Death Proof plus Planet Terror feature Grindhouse); or foreign entries of the psychological horror variety (the works of Dario Argento, of course; Alexandre Aja's films, which have their defenders; and Juan Antonio Bayona's El Orfanato, which only someone who truly dislikes cinema can dismiss).

But unlike other films with more direct Christian messages, churches are much less likely to buy out theaters in bulk as they did for «Son of God» and «God's Not Dead,» a move that brought those films big returns at the box office.

The Katan - Ex microlayer film excels in increased pallet stability at elevated temperatures, uses 30 percent less material per pallet and reduces damage products during transportation by 80 percent.

Less than twenty years later, the hotel established by Lucien Barrière on the Croisette was at the forefront of the beginnings of a cinematic event that became the most important film festival in the world — the Cannes Film Festival.

FOM can use the footage to customise and edit replays, using the cameras to focus on whatever action is happening at the time and missing far less, because every car will be filming everything that's happening around it, all the time.

There's a little less film on Jackson than most of his peers at the top of the class, but his play in 2017 was so good that there shouldn't be many questions about him.

After dropping off the kids at a fun, supervised, they found a beautiful rocky place to film a vlog, right next to the ocean no less.

Slightly more gadolinium in the films led to flipping of the magnetic spin; slightly less led to spin precession at room temperature.

Critic Consensus: Decidedly slower and less limber than the Olympic runners at the center of its story, the film nevertheless manages to make effectively stirring use of its spiritual and patriotic themes.

Less Is More, More is Less: In his second feature film, photographer - turned - director Anton Corbijn tries his best to match Clooney's hostile stillness with distance of his own, but his attempts at visual nuance inadvertently come off as conspicuous filmmaking choices overly fraught with meaning.

Cut by Benson and original editor Kristina Boden, this shortened and combined version premiered at Cannes in May, where it received a less - enthusiastic response than the original films.

Little appears to be filmed for the movie itself, or at least within the last decade, and the caliber tends to be less than a Bravo profile.

Critics Consensus: Decidedly slower and less limber than the Olympic runners at the center of its story, the film nevertheless manages to make effectively stirring use of its spiritual and patriotic themes.

Katja's decision to not commit suicide is tonally pivotal to the film, as this is the juncture at which she becomes less a character than a symbol of the fury and impotency that white nationalists conjure in their victims.

The film gradually thaws out the stark, frozen mystery at its heart, but the warm - blooded, breathing truth of Linda's life is no less tragic than that of her cold death.

With these three films, Spielberg has crafted something like a Trilogy of Good Decisions, in which, at pivotal moments in our nation's history, more or less decent people took the opportunity to make the right choices based on fundamental beliefs in foundational American values.

The film has about five sets and they never feel like they connect together, but this is less an attempt at disorienting the viewer than simply cutting corners; the grisly, overdone lighting, meanwhile, makes you want to hide behind your fingers for all the wrong reasons.

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.

But Annihilation really hits its stride at the point where lesser films jump the shark.

Oddly, Hot Girls Wanted made me less mad at the porn sites and purveyors themselves than at films like Taken, Don Jon, and Pretty Woman.

The film unfolds at a deliberate pace, with a soundtrack occupied less by dialogue than by the sounds of water flowing and crickets chirping.

By the time we get to the bar scene, we're willing them to get with things so much that we don't really mind whether they grow as people or not, and at the end of the film everything goes (more or less) back to the way things were.

Their star quality has been recognized by no less an entity than Vice Media who, some months after the film won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, announced «plans to launch an extensive transmedia cross-promotion and social - media outreach campaign to capitalize on its following» with distributor Magnolia Pictures, per a May Variety item.

The trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson's eighth feature - length film dropped less than 30 minutes ago and cinephiles are already frothing at the mouth.

With this second film, the story is pulling in more of the Katniss» motivation (less romance, more protecting those she loves at any cost) and the societal politics that was such an important undercurrent of the book series.

But given the criminal milieu at hand, nothing less would have seemed plausible, or equal to the heightened, sordid sensibility Mr. Johnson creates in the film's opening moments and maintains right up to an ending that is among the more perverse in recent memory.

It's the right film at the right time, a cathartic moment in which audiences will shed tears for a little machine made of silicon and aluminium, wrapped in tin foil and running on less computing power than our smartphones, yet which will outlive us all — perhaps by billions of years.

To give you some idea of what Harvey and Bob think of Charles Burnett's The Glass Shield, they blocked the film's release for a full year, forced Burnett to write and direct a less blunt and despairing ending after some test - marketing, refused to let the original version be shown at a Burnett retrospective in New York, and finally, after sending Burnett on a few interviews, shoved the picture out earlier this month.

By remaking a film that won the Grand Prix at Cannes less than a decade earlier, Lee has undertaken a serious challenge.

10 Items or Less is a likeable film with a handful of delightful moments, but at the same time, why does it waste so much time, ours and theirs, in an effort that has no theme, plot or purpose?

It's the combination of character development, action and pure emotion that drives the film, where even secondary characters have motivations; a wonderful moment a lesser film would have cut for time finds the shapeshifting Mystique (Rebecca Romijn) propositioning Wolverine, at first disguising herself as Wolvie's crush, Jean Grey (Famke Janssen), then purring, «No one has left scars like you.»

This can detract from the pacing at some points, especially since the film tends to intercut between the revelations of Harry's past, and his friends» efforts to destroy the items which, by comparison, seem far less integral to the plot.

Free jazz: looking at some of the Nikkatsu auteur's lesser - known (but characteristically manic) films

Peppered with a near - constant barrage of footnotes on the lower third of the frame identifying whatever varietal of crop viewers happen to be observing at a given moment, the film is insistent in its efforts to stoke interest in gardening and pruning, yet it stops short of bridging the gap for those less inherently spellbound by soil, roots, and branches.

In the film, it works beautifully in the dress that makes use of an antique piece of Flemish (Brussels) lace, but less so in the dress Alma models with a lace apron at the skirt for the fashion show.

For a film that explicitly tells you it's about the importance of women in the workplace (when Catrin's apartment building is destroyed by a German bomb, she more or less turns to the camera to say, «If I wasn't at work, I would have been killed!»)

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.

At its best, the film is just a bunch of guys who just enjoy each others company, nothing more, nothing less.

In addition to the three - day «Citizen Kane» workshop, I did a Q&A with the actor Jason Patric after a screening of James Foley's «After Dark, My Sweet» (1990), a modern film noir that made both of the Best Ten lists on «Siskel & Ebert,» but sank so quickly at the box office that it never played Chicago and grossed less than $ 2 million.

This movie is bad enough for non-techies as a thriller, but if you know anything at all about computers the film is nothing less than a brutal assault of stupidity on all of your senses of such magnitude, the government should also crack down on MGM for releasing it.

(remix) music video by Danger Mouse and Jemini; deleted scenes and alternative takes, five in total, including an alternative ending (9 min) with a less subtle conversation between Richard and Mark, but a haunting final image of Richard with Anthony; images from Anjan Sarkars graphic novel animation matched to actual dialogue from the films soundtrack (the scene where Herbie first sees the elephant); In Shanes Shoes (24 min) documentary featuring the premiere at the 2004 Edinburgh Film Festival, interviews with Shane Meadows about run - ins with violent gangs in his youth, and on - location clowning; Northern Soul (26 min) also made by Meadows in 2004, and starring Toby Kebbell as an aspiring wrestler with no actual wrestling experience or talent - this comic short is as amateurish as its protagonist, and serves only to show how much better Dead Mans Shoes is.

The supporting cast is made up mostly lesser known actors, or at least faces you don't instantly recognize, giving the film an authenticity that adds to the mystique.

The film opens on Christmas 1947 at a party where affluent Palestinian woman Hind Husseini (Hiam Abbass, best known to Western viewers from The Visitor, though she also appeared briefly in Munich) interacts genially with everyone from the English hostess (a briefly seen Vanessa Redgrave) to an American soldier (slightly less brief Willem Dafoe).

Take a peek at trailers for each of the films below to maybe, just maybe help you figure out what your ballot is going to look and just which film might emerge victorious when the Oscars bow in less than a month.

Less certain to return this time, or at least not yet confirmed: Jon Favreau, who played bodyguard Happy Hogan as well as directing the first two movies (Favreau also has beef with Marvel, according to many reports from the second film), or Sam Rockwell, who played villain Justin Hammer.

Heineman admits he's no traditional war reporter, yet Cartel Land is unmistakable boots - on - the - ground film journalism, made at evident risk of his life — with no less than three running machine gun battles — to capture moments of brutality and lost morals.

We're less than two weeks away from The Strangers: Prey at Night, a follow - up to Bryan Bertino's home invasion film that...