Sentences with phrase «chase film whose»

Fresh: Riffing on John Carpenter's Starman, writer - director Jeff Nichols has crafted a sci - fi chase film whose gravely naturalistic style adds to its sense of portent.

Riffing on John Carpenter's Starman, writer - director Jeff Nichols has crafted a sci - fi chase film whose gravely naturalistic style adds to its sense of portent.

Not exact matches

CHASING TRANE is the definitive documentary film about an outside - the - box thinker with extraordinary talent whose boundary - shattering music continues to impact and influence people around the world.

Adam Shankman's new film / musical Rock of Ages tells the story of a small town girl Sherrie (Julianne Hough) and a city boy Drew (Diego Boneta), whose separate journeys to chase their dreams of stardom bring them together on the Sunset Strip.

Directed with the equal energy by British director John Hough, whose lean, high - powered action scenes are energized by the dynamic, almost child - like performances of his thrill - addicted characters, it's a classic of seventies speed cinema, where car chase and stunt films were really about rubber hitting — and leaving — the road.

Cutting down to the chase, The Golden Child is one of those films that could have been respectable if they didn't stick in the world's hottest comedian into it, whose fans are going to expect constant wisecracks and irreverence, doing just what he did for another film originally meant to be serious, Murphy's superstar - making Beverly Hills Cop.

«It isn't about the making of the worst movie ever — it's about people chasing the American dream,» says Goldberg, whose production company with Rogen, Point Grey, is making the film.

I chased The Other Side Of Hope with a film whose existential metaphors and appreciation for the drudgery and social habits of working stiffs couldn't be more different from Kaurismäki's droll, Capra-esque humanism: Good Luck (Grade: B), a striking documentary mood - piece by the American experimental director Ben Russell (Let Each One Go Where He May, A Spell To Ward Off The Darkness).

There are also nods to well - known New Zealand works of the 1970s from the likes of Kiwi filmmakers Peter Weir (especially his zoom shots), Geoff Murphy (whose Goodbye Pork Pie inspired the car chase sequences) and Roger Donaldson (elements of his Sleeping Dogs are woven in here), as well as to classic Hollywood action films, from The Terminator to First Blood to The Fugitive to a catchphrase made popular by Michael Bay's Bad Boys 2.

Creevy effectively utilizes the film's locations, especially the German resort town of Monschau, whose narrow, winding streets set the stage for one particularly nail - biting car chase (shades of John Frankenheimer's Ronin).

A film - length commentary by Evans (who, despite being involved in an ever - deepening river of crap since helming the original, has his entire career neatly encapsulated by the two Sandlot films) provides such indispensable nuggets as the fact that a BMX stunt rider («whose name escapes me») performs the stunt riding during the film's extraordinarily boring bike chase sequence and that «this dog could really run!»

It is this array of characters that really give the film its soul, turning it into less of a chase thriller and more of mood - piece that revolves around a (not so sweet) country, whose inhabitants and climate can spell death in an instant.

The Enemy Below (Kino Classics, Blu - ray), a World War II submarine drama based on the novel of the same name by Commander D. A. Rayner, stars Robert Mitchum as Captain Murrell, the newly - appointed commander of an American Destroyer in the South Atlantic, and German star Curd Jürgens making his American film debut as Commander Von Stolberg, a German submarine commander whose mission is imperiled when the American warship gives chase.