Sentences with phrase «buddy road movies»

Just like the two other buddy road movies, Bateman and McCarthy have to try to figure out how to get along without their clashing personalities getting in the way.

Apocalyptic ticking - clock thrillers / buddy road movies are nothing new — Miracle Mile, The Road, and Seeking a Friend for the End of the World are stronger examples — but they're rarely done with the kind of fearlessness, originality, or emotional honesty that writer - director Zak Hilditch delivers with These Final Hours.

Mark Ruffalo has previously described Thor: Ragnarok as «an intergalactic buddy road movie with Banner and Thor.»

As I watched it I realized that it was basically an American race - relations movie disguised as a stoner buddy road movie.

Richard Linklater's Last Flag Flying, an unofficial sequel to Hal Ashby's 1973 film The Last Detail, is similarly a buddy road movie that blends humour, pathos and subversive cynicism about the damage done to men who become soldiers.

Director Hannah Fidell sounds like she's making a stark turn from the tone of her 2013 Sundance film «A Teacher» with this buddy road movie, but it's more who she cast as the buddies that makes it sound promising: Tony Revolori and Jason Mantzoukas.

Not exact matches

That kid was put in a buddy road trip movie with Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart, acted her ass off and totally made the movie.

He's right, of course; it's just that most animated movies that aren't made by Bird's compatriots at Pixar aim for that broad, middle - of - the - road buddy comedy bulls - eye.

Sixteen months after the blockbuster's debut, director Todd Phillips has one of this year's most anticipated movies in the forthcoming buddy road comedy Due Date, all three leads have moved past their vaguely familiar stage to a reasonable degree of stardom, the savvily - greenlit The Hangover 2 has begun shooting, and Warner Home Video has just reissued the film in Extreme Edition DVD and Blu - ray sets.

In this buddy dramedy - cum - road movie, he's a middle - aged gambler who finds a soul mate in Ryan Reynolds — the latter of whom may be starting his official Ryanaissance period thanks to his stellar portrayal of a professional smooth talker.

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Sestero and Wiseau play a drifter and a mortician, respectively, in a strange buddy / road / heist movie that also appears to involve gold, Frankensteins, and murder.

Disguised as a buddy, road movie, Mississippi Grind is an intense and intimate story of addiction that reveals the gritty details of a lifetime gambler when he's paired up with one Read More →

; the World Premiere of Chanya Button's debut feature BURN BURN BURN starring Downton Abbey's Laura Carmichael, which takes the road trip buddy movie on its own smart, female - centric spin; Ali F. Mostafa's FROM A TO B, a «dramedy» following three estranged childhood companions who embark on a road trip to commemorate the fifth anniversary of a friend's death and offers a new perspective on life in the Gulf and Middle East; Paul Weitz's GRANDMA, a supremely enjoyable «road movie» starring Lily Tomlin as the gloriously profane septuagenarian whose curt words and emotional armour can't quite mask her broken heart; Bao Nguyen's Saturday Night Live documentary LIVE FROM NEW YORK!

The reason is we didn't have high hope for Patrick Hughes, who directed Expendables 3, and this road trip buddy movie undoubtedly survives on individual performances (by Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L. Jackson) and character chemistry.

Never mind that one buddy, Sal Nealon (Bryan Cranston) is a raging extrovert, Larry «Doc» Shepherd (Steve Carell) a decent and quiet fellow, and Reverend Richard Mueller (Laurence Fishburne) a bridge between the two, one who in reverend garb can barely tolerate cussin» but who opens up during this road movie.

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

The buddy movie about Karl Rove and Lee Atwater's college years follows the future political consultants on a cross-country road trip to Washington, D.C.

So let's say that is indeed what would happen if there was no ice age to wipe out the dinosaurs, the whole movie is basically a buddy road trip flick.

Gondry's second film to be cast with young unknowns — following his 2012 South Bronx ensemble piece The We and the I — Microbe and Gasoline is a gentle contemplation of male friendship and the dreams of adolescence, in the form of a road / buddy movie that, unusually for Gondry, is only sometimes overtly goofy.

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.

A whole lot of plot ensues — an entertaining mix of buddy movie, road trip, Clash of the Titans, archetypal quest and a coming - of - age tale about misfits making their way despite, or because of, absent parents.

But this is no documentary, part road - trip, part buddy movie, the two British comedians spend most of the film trying to outdo each others» impressions of Anthony Hopkins and Sean Connery.

Gerry is a middle - aged heterosexual still aching for his ex-wife; still, he's romantically smitten with Curtis, the way that straight men spark for each other in buddy movies, especially of the road or gambling variety, and Mississippi Grind is both of these.

While delightfully contemporary, Tangerine throws back to road movies and buddy comedy.

The coming - of - age tale, the on - the - run road movie, the buddy comedy, the boy's adventure story — all genres that require a steady hand and a singular sensibility, and all of which you'll find in Taika Waititi's goofy, giddy mash - up about two fugitives fleeing authorities in the New Zealand bush.

Puiu's darkly funny take on the American road movie is both low - key buddy comedy and a sharp critique of life in Romania at the dawn of the 21st century.

Alison Bagnall's Funny Bunny is a shaggy buddy dramedy about a road trip that doesn't seem to take its characters much of anywhere, in the tradition of the low - budget American road movie that must often elide the potentially money - burning trip undertaken by the protagonists so as to emphasize merely the embarking point and the destination.

In Bruce Van Dusen's American indie road movie, «Backseat,» the uptight intellectual who digs into psychology and philosophy for his small talk and the 10 - watt buddy who embraces urban legend as cultural fact hit the road, in the ugliest car on the planet, to meet actor Donald Sutherland in Montreal.

Philomena is a road movie, a mystery, a buddy comedy and a tragedy which excels in every manner.

The third movie in Thor series stars Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Cate Blanchett, Idris Elba, Jeff Goldblum, Tessa Thompson, Karl Urban with Mark Ruffalo and Anthony Hopkins, in what's been described as something close to an intergalactic buddy / road movie.