Sentences with phrase «crackling script»

It's the crackling script that carries the day here, and the wealth of memorable characters that fill WWII Casablanca with life and energy.

Selling audiences on a baseball movie is hard enough - selling them on a movie about baseball statistics would've been impossible, if not for the presence of Brad Pitt, the comedic talent of Jonah Hill, and a crackling script from Aaron Sorkin, who already won an Oscar for making a Facebook movie into a cultural event.

Aside from Chastain's complexity, what also keeps the crackling script from becoming mannered Sorkin - lite soap opera is an equally adept ensemble surrounding her.

Finally, overblown director Tony Scott (Days of Thunder, Beverly Hills Cop II) hits the right notes with a crackling script by Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs), and a surprisingly effective performance by Christian Slater, all of whom I usually dislike.

Not exact matches

«Snatch,» Crackle's new scripted original drama based loosely on the wildly popular movie of the same name, is set to premiere Thursday, March 16, it was announced today.

Director Ivan Reitman — working from a script by Rajiv Joseph and Scott Rothman — makes that day crackle and come to life from the start.

The formula is a bit of a strain, but it keeps us engaged, mainly because the script crackles with hilariously incisive one - liners and comical gags.

In an alternate mid-80's universe, director Joe Dante's follow - up to his grim Yuletide fairy tale Gremlins would have been Safe Neighborhood, a crisp, crackling, black and bloody Christmas comedy / horror that came to fruition after Dante glimpsed an early draft of Michael Haneke's Funny Games script.

Season one of Crackle's original scripted drama, «Snatch» is available to stream all ten episodes today.

Blacklisted Dalton Trumbo's script crackles with passion and power, all the way to its «crime doesn't pay» conclusion.

What vibrancy there is comes not from the script but from Posey's crackling slyness, Phoenix's lunkish solemnity as Abe (he puts a muscular spin on that perennial Allen figure, the clueless intellectual), the tender glow of Darius Khondji's photography, and the Ramsey Trio Lewis instrumental of «The In Crowd,» which runs throughout, pepping things up nicely.

That said, not all is bleak — screenwriter Robert Rossen («The Hustler») provides a crackling good script with a sly twist, Edith Head designed the costumes, Miklós Rózsa wrote the score, the ideally cast actors nail their parts and there's an upbeat ending.

Though Eisenberg's excessive voiceover narration bogs down the first act, the film quickly evolves into a crackling zombie romp powered by a clever script, goofy physical comedy — the filmmakers get a lot of mileage out of Harrelson's amusingly over-the-top means of dispatching the undead — and the yin - yang comic chemistry of the eternally adorable Eisenberg and good - ol» - boy Harrelson.

With a clever script that successfully updates many Christmas myths and dialogue that crackles with sophisticated wit, this movie offers the kind of pre-holiday experience that parents and children alike will appreciate.»

The whole script crackles with a vibrant Tarantino-esque energy and McDonagh uses swearing with great gusto, lacing his script with offensive one - liners that raise guilty - smiles.

Miller (Capote) directs with intelligence, though not flair, but the script makes up for any flagging energy with crackling Sorkin dialogue and performances that sing with revolutionary fervor.

Scott digs in to a meaty script from David Scarpa (adapting John Person's book) to deliver a highly engaging film filled with tension, insight, stellar performances and crackling relevance.

The script, based on the Sherwood King novel «If I Die Before I Wake,» crackles with noir attitude («Everybody's somebody's fool,» says O'Hara).

Starring Dennis Quaid, Christian Cooke, Kate Bosworth and Cary Elwes, The Art of More is Crackle's first original scripted drama.