Sentences with phrase «buddy picture»

There are going to be so many female road pictures, female buddy pictures, just more movies starring women because it struck such a nerve.

Paying affectionate homage to gritty buddy pictures of the 1970s, this bluesy character piece stars Ben Mendelsohn and Ryan Reynolds as two quite different individuals sharing the same, crippling compulsion.

The Sting is a great buddy picture, a tightly plotted con - man caper with wonderful, bittersweet performances from a great ensemble cast.

As is true in most buddy pictures, the real love in This Means War is between FDR and Tuck.

Apart from the wince - inducing moments, The Intouchables is often a pleasant buddy picture.

The great eccentric buddy picture brought forth Howard Hessman's best - ever performance, the character that would get Crispin Glover kicked off Letterman, and an opportunity for Karen Black to shine again as a loser's irritated ex-wife.

Co-starring Lucky Logan's Jack Quaid (who once again gets kicked around), Rampage is a bi-polar buddy picture that teases complaint cowardice and rewards righteous banter while making a mockery out of the nonsense - spouting scientists trying to explain — in a coherent manner — why this mutation is occurring.

Made 15 years after The Room turned them into cult stars, their irreverent new buddy picture capitalizes on their pop culture personas to craft a satisfyingly strange adventure about a mortician and a homeless man looking to turn their luck around.

And Tommy Lee Jones tries his hand at an offbeat Western buddy picture.

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It's an odd couple buddy picture, but not odd enough to generate hilarity or consistent interest as good ole boy Mitch (Earl Lynn Nelson) takes charge of his depressed Aussie friend, Colin (Paul Eenhoorn).

by Walter Chaw An unlikely romance, an unlikely road movie, and an unlikely buddy picture all in one that somehow works (and with a surplus of charm and sweetness), Joel Hopkins's debut feature Jump Tomorrow could be described as either Harold Lloyd by way of Jacques Tati or Jim Jarmusch by way of Thirties screwball.

The Trip - The premise may be thin and it's simply a severe trimming of a TV show, but this travelogue buddy picture is still mighty appealing on the fun, well - captured chemistry of Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon.

Classic buddy pictures typically threw together mismatched protagonists who slowly became friends: Martin Brest's Midnight Run is the gold standard of the genre, and looks like Citizen Kane next to this thing.

But in this hash of sub-Apatovian buddy picture beats, his performance never rises above a superficial impression.

Instead, it «s a by - the - numbers buddy picture - tracing the burgeoning bond of affection between a down - and - out detective (Bruce Willis) and a cashiered pro quarterback (Damon Wayans) as they investigate a murder linked to a sports - betting scheme - that «s distinguished mainly by its shrewd exploitation of the deepest fears and fantasies of the action audience.

Much of the film plays like an oddball buddy picture — think Nolte and Murphy in 48 Hours, or Bogart and Hepburn in The African Queen.

However, a buddy picture is not a profile picture — keep the focus solely on you and smile warmly.

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The detectives (who also happen to be brothers - in - law) arrive in Paris (though budget constraints forced a good deal of the overseas filming to be done in Prague), and what ensues is a lighthearted romp that can't decide if it wants to be sweet or funny or a buddy picture or a comic whodunnit.

Still, Paul McGuigan's film invites us, not just to the headspace of the mad doctor, but to the bond between scientist and assistant, because VF is, at its heart, a buddy picture.

Mark Ruffalo has previously described Thor: Ragnarok as a «universal road movie» and «buddy picture» between Thor and Bruce Banner / the Hulk, and according to a new Entertainment Tonight interview with the actor, you're going to see a lot of Hulk action in the trilogy - capper.

Above all else, though, the film demonstrates just how much a buddy picture improves when you cast actual buddies as its leads.

It also manages to hit the bull's eye as a splatter horror film, an ode to Romero, a buddy picture, and an authentic romantic comedy.

Starring Michael Fassbender («12 Years a Slave») and Kodi Smit - McPhee («Dawn of the Planet of the Apes»), Slow West is a serious look at the plight of mistreated Native Americans and the dreams of youth, a buddy picture and a road movie filled with adventure and a meaningful message, but also replete with cruelty and protracted violence and the blackest of humor, sometimes delivered at inappropriate moments.

He cannily mixes social satire and genre twists in his clever screenplay of an unlikely friendship between two men with more history than they realize; his dialogue has a bite and an unforced wit that hovers somewhere between B - movie gangster dramas and buddy pictures.

Their scenes together are great (like two old war pals chatting over a cup of coffee, or in this case, rum, about their many battle scars), and if Disney did decide to go ahead with a fifth installment, a buddy picture with these two would almost certainly be the way to go.

«Its more about the story in Frozen River, a buddy picture and a new concept and the realities are more decoration in that film, whereas Wendy and Lucy, its the whole film... nothing builds to anything»

Ragnarok only started shooting last month, and construction work is still underway on Asgard sets, so it would seem we can expect to see The Hulk in more of a supporting role, despite Ruffalo previously stating that it would be a «buddy picture» between the God of Thunder and the Green Goliath.

Channing Tatum takes on the lead action role, though he is working with a safety net... the buddy picture element supplied by Jamie Foxx.

That's why the comedy, which begins securely planted in the twin genres of the road movie and the buddy picture, is able to reveal so much heart and truth.

It's a buddy picture, a coming - of - age tale, Superbad, if you will.

Directed by David Mackenzie, Hell or High Water works as a buddy picture and as a classic story of brothers opposite in temperament but tied by fraternal devotion.

Directed by Scottish filmmaker David Mackenzie, Hell or High Water works as a buddy picture for its depiction of Marcus and Alberto, and as a classic story of brothers opposite in temperament but tied by fraternal devotion.

Mix some Magnificent Seven — style violence with the freewheeling comedy of a «buddy picture,» and you get this caterwauling caper novel about a thirtysomething drifter who returns to his hometown in Southern California's Imperial Valley to visit his dying father and winds up going head - to - head with some nasty Mexican drug dealers.