Sentences with phrase «challenged film does»

Sloppy writing gives savvy movie - cum - music fans the impression that this demographically challenged film doesn't know the difference between Nashville and Austin, or in other words, the schism which divides contemporary country music into its inimical sides: mainstream and alternative, just like rock, or any number of musical genres.

Not exact matches

The question is, when faced with your particular challenge — whether it is researching in a new field, starting a business, producing a film, securing a mentor, advancing an important cause — do you seek the respite of talk or do you face the struggle head - on?

I don't know how much of a delay «Top Chef» has between filming and broadcast, so even if they took up the school lunch challenge, Congress might have already acted * — Agweek says that Sen. Lincoln (D - AR) hopes to hold a markup session in the Senate Agriculture Committee on March 26 (via Slow Food USA) and it is not inconceivable that the new legislation could pass quickly.

Yet there have been serious challenges to releasing the film and the book in the U.K.. That's because Britain does not have the same free speech protections as the United States.

Science shoehorned where it doesn't belong (eg The immune challenges to being born in a stable / the science of any sci - fi TV show or film)

But the meat of the film is an intimate look at the thrills and challenges of May's final servicing mission, shown from the perspective of the astronauts who did the harrowing hands - on work.

This particular experiment touches on one of the most challenging puzzles of neuroscience: How do brain cells recognize items as complicated as a toaster oven, the number nine, a zebra, Bill Clinton, or the film character Rocky?

You film yourself doing 22 push - ups — or however many you can — and post a video to Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or Youtube with the tags # 22Kill (the group that started the challenge) and # 22Pushups (or whatever your number was), to help spread awareness about mental health issues, like PTSD, that can lead to suicide.

This is just my conviction, and opinion, but do see this new film and be changed and challenged whether you are a believer or not.

Try setting him the challenge of finding a nice restaurant for you to go to or film to see — this should be able to show you whether he's just a little lack lustre or whether he simply doesn't really care enough to plan ahead.

Anyone that isn't onboard with either aspect hoping for an over-the-top stoner comedy or a thoughtful dramedy that explores the challenges of parenthood (and adolescence) may find Thurber's film doesn't quite satisfy either extreme.

At what point does the deep discomfort of watching a film, one which casts needed light on a profoundly repulsive practice, become so challenging that it risks alienating the audience it seeks to engage?

What matters to the player is that the game offers NONE TO LITTLE CHALLENGE and looks to film history more than it does to game history.

Equally, if everything fails to work, the film is a slog that perpetually challenges the viewer to engage while offering little reason to do so.

Teenage comedies of this kind don't always have to go down the Porky's route of just being gross or sexist; in fact, the film's ideas about the education system could have been a starting point to challenge such conventions.

To note, the films title is again ridiculous as the monster in question isn't actually a monster, its a mollusk as pointed out in the film, and it didn't challenge the world.

Providing more tug - of - war moments than you might expect, the film champions doing what is best for the child — but shows some of the challenges involved in determining exactly what that course of action maybe.

During this 1 - on - 1 phone interview with Collider, actress and filmmaker Heather Graham talked about wanting to make a movie celebrating women and friendship, the biggest challenges in getting this film going, having her voice heard, as a female filmmaker, what she most enjoyed about playing Honey, putting together this cast, funny moments on set, what she enjoyed about the experience of directing, her hope to do it again, juggling three different writing projects, and doing the British TV series Bliss, from David Cross.

In all fairness, this film does pose a serious challenge to a marketing department, whose job of making it look exciting required a bit of imagination and misrepresentation.

Gone Girl perhaps doesn't challenge him in ways his earlier films haven't, but it clearly engages him and we are the better for it.

Lanthimos knows exactly what he is doing and made this film so that it would challenge us.

The standard wisdom about Orson Welles's 1946 thriller The Stranger — broadly, that it's Welles's weakest film, the runt in his otherwise superlative litter — needs challenging, even if Welles himself seemed mostly disinclined to do so.

The result is a deeply challenging, big budget, female - driven sci - fi film, which begs a question — how did this get made?

On a technical level, multi-Oscar nominated Skyfall cinematographer Roger Deakins has been replaced by Hoyte Van Hoytema - but despite having some acclaimed films on his resume (Let the Right One In, Her, Interstellar), it's clear that Van Hoytema is taking on a new action filmmaking challenge with Spectre, and he doesn't exactly rise to that challenge.

While it doesn't look like a challenge on the acting front, there will surely be some emotion in a film that dives head first into the human psyche.

But most action films do have something of a right wing perspective (especially the super hero genre) in that they are about re-inforcing rather than challenging the status quo.

At the film's press day, appropriately held at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, actress Olivia Cooke spoke to Collider for this exclusive interview about why she wanted to be a part of this project, how she related to her character, just how much the story changed and evolved, re-shooting 50 % of the film, who she'd want to contact with a Ouija board, the most challenging aspect of the shoot, having so much fun with this cast, and why she doesn't think she'd return for a sequel.

and now Red Sparrow have challenged her to do roles that thankfully, she's really good in, but the films themselves don't live up to.

While this film is clearly designed to challenge bigotry in society, it's so entertaining that we don't really mind being preached to.

It's a troubling film to watch in that anytime you see a man bringing himself down it's not easy, and he never really lifts himself up again, but the writer does a decent job of representing an introspective feel without boring the audience which is a very challenging thing to do.

I'm not sure that Michelle has done an independent film like this before, so I'm sure it was a challenge for her as well.»

This very film could be seen as Rock's reinvention and even if he doesn't have one defining role he's trying to live down, he is clearly pursuing artistic relevance, something of a challenge given his track record in film.

Although this minimalist technique is the hallmark of a well - crafted film, it does prove to be a bit of a challenge for the viewer who has to carefully pay attention to the acting on screen while at the same time attempting to read the subtitles!

Perhaps that is unfair, because the young actress has amassed an impressive resume since her graduation from standard Disney fare to more challenging roles in films like «Panic Room» (she replaced Hayden Panettiere and in doing so garnering much comparison to that film's lead, Jodie Foster).

So we're running from him for basically the entire film, so that was a whole new challenge, something that I'd never done before, and... it was fun.

People set themselves the challenge of watching every Woody Allen film a lot, and now someone is doing it on YouTube.

So too does William Oldroyd's darkly disturbing Lady Macbeth, a fascinatingly cerebral and challenging film that does an awful lot with a restricted budget.

His chilling rationalizations are challenged by the film's moral compass and voice of reason, Mike (John Gallagher Jr., doing another loose variation on The Office's Jim Halpert, who he previously mimicked for three seasons on Aaron Sorkin's The Newsroom).

When it comes to bringing the 14th MCU film to the screen, Feige is in no doubt where the unique challenges lay: «Doing justice to the amazing visuals of artist Steve Ditko, who drew the early Dr Strange books.

While more mainstream and commercial films do provide challenging and confrontational examinations of explicit material they are unable, due to financial and social contracts, to fully utilise the confection of sex and violence in truly extreme ways.

He admits that he didn't think «Get Out» would be a major Oscar contender, but it was because of factors outside the actual film — the release date, the challenging subject matter, the fact that February movies aren't usually remembered at the end of the year.

Little Fockers isn't necessarily a better film than Killing Them Softly (I wouldn't watch it again anyway), but because that film doesn't challenge viewers» perceptions, the grade is higher.

Indiewire invited Sundance Film Festival directors to tell us about their films, including what inspired them, the challenges they faced and what they're doing next.

What I didn't know was how much the film was going to challenge and recontextualize my feelings about the book.

One of the dangers of gorging yourself on four or five films per day is festival fatigue, by which I don't mean physical exhaustion (though that happens too) but rather a certain involuntary weariness in the face of so much exacting, challenging, or otherwise «difficult» art cinema.

Boyle and Simon Beaufoy's script does provide many flashbacks and fantasy sequences, so the film isn't confined in the same way as Buried, but all the same this must be the kind of challenge that actors relish.

Every film in the set features standard mono Dolby Digital audio tracks, and though they're not likely to challenge your system with power or dynamics, they feel accurately reproduced for the format and get the job done.

Directed by Joe Wright (Atonement), the film features Jamie Foxx who does a magnificent job in his most challenging outing since Ray.

I sincerely hope the film challenges people to take an introspective look at their lives and see how they fit into the world at large, and see what kinds of positive changes they can make, because in researching for this film we didn't find one person who had met Ernie who hadn't been positively influenced by him.

The CEO provides the demonic foil that any great morality play cries out for, cynically played by Jeremy Irons, but the film still challenges us to ask ourselves what we would do if presented with the same situation, without becoming needlessly preachy.