Sentences with phrase «dark character»

Speaking of dark characters, pound for pound many of the most entertaining films in the festival are the ones with film noir roots.

The men like such dark characters, which help to create more courageous and brutal appearance.

The game offers a journey of non-stop action with amazing graphics and dark character designs.

The big drawing point of this set is the inclusion of five Dark character figures, which serves as a starter pack for the game.

Antonio Campos and Rebecca Hall's dark character study follows Christine Chubbuck during the final days before her suicide on national television.

Smith compares the film to dark character pieces of the 70's while Walker talks about his editing style of holding on a shot for maximum effect.

Whether it's a serial killer, a bomb disposal expert or an investigative journalist in the political thriller movie Kill the Messenger, actor Jeremy Renner likes playing dark characters and ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances

The Kindle Fire comes with a solid set of reading tools that offers very good controls for changing font type and size, line spacing, margins and what Kindle calls color mode — three selections that let you change whether you want dark characters against a light background or light characters against a dark background, and the contrast level.

Though he'd built up a strong reputation among critics and cineastes in the 1960s with darker character work in films like Cast a Dark Shadow (1955) and the daring masterpiece Victim (1961), he was best known to the public as Simon Sparrow, the heartthrob comic lead in Doctor in the House (1954) and four subsequent sequels.

Starring John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson and Uma Thurman, this masterpiece of crime cinema is perhaps the director's most acclaimed film and the one that once and for all positioned him as a master storyteller with a predilection for dark characters.

He appears to be a cliché at first but a much darker character lurks beneath the surface.»

In addition to it having a very enjoyable balance between dark character drama and campy fun, it is also a delightful Christmas movie.

Overwatch is earnest, a little goofy, and even though it's more focused on Pixar - style warmth than TF2's slightly darker character humour, it still has that cheesy, superhero appeal.

He has plenty of reasons to be enraged with this character, and it could be interesting to see him return as a grown up, darker character who is driven by revenge.

Taken together, these findings explain why visual acuity is commonly measured with dark characters on light backgrounds and why visual resolution is lower for lights, as already noted by Leonardo da Vinci and Galileo Galilei when judging the size of light objects in paintings and the dark sky.

Filled with deep characters and original plots, the series also takes a darker

Just when it seemed that he was to be permanently relegated to playing supporting and dark character roles on stage and screen, Matthau won the part of irretrievably slavish sportswriter Oscar Madison in the first Broadway production of Neil Simon's The Odd Couple (1965).

She mentions that there are many likeable characters in the game, but due to the fact that Metal Gear Solid 5 is quite dark some characters might not appeal to some.

Without a doubt the biggest comedy star of the nineties, starting with THE CABLE GUY, the star started exploring darker characters,...

Baby Driver has enough subplots with adopted blind fathers, nightmarish flashbacks and dark character motivations, without the need for Lily James (Cinderella) flirting around a diner.

When her relationship with Jerome begins its inevitable decline, the theme of sadomasochism is introduced and we see the boy who was once Billy Elliot (Jamie Bell, as the Kafkaesque «K») playing one of Lars Von Trier «s darkest characters ever.

Indeed, given the breadth and variety of convincing, dark characters at the heart of novels by the likes of Stephen King, Clive Barker and, now, Saul Black, one can only hope these writers are able to maintain good emotional and mental health.

Caim is a very dark character and only a hero in the most tentative of senses.

The upcoming «Resident Evil 7 Biohazard» will include several combat scenarios from one - on - one fights to multiple opponents with the main antagonists described as darker characters.

The effect is vibrantly polyphonic: On the banners, big, dark characters float and pulsate over dense fields of smaller, lighter ones.

In the narrative competition was Christine, Antonio Campos's dark character study, featuring a largely unrecognizable Rebecca Hall as the tragic figure.

Bale's Batman is a much darker character than that portrayed by Michael Keaton or George Clooney, and the angular Lamborghini suits the troubled Bruce Wayne's billionaire lifestyle perfectly.

-- a complex, comic, and dark character drama about cross-cultural exchange.

Though there are few solid jump moments and a few genuine scares in Dracula Untold, it is, essentially, just another superhero origin story — albeit for a slightly darker character than usual.

He has plenty of reasons to be enraged with this character, and it could be interesting to see him return as a grown up, darker character who is driven by revenge.

Master cinematographer Caleb Deschanel («The Right Stuff,» «The Passion of the Christ») uses an unnatural amount of light inside that home on wheels, almost as if the world is too bright for these dark characters.

Two episodes so far and all it involves is weird sex scenes and dark characters.

The scenes with Ren and Rey are particularly intriguing, as Adam Driver has fully stepped into his dark character, giving a riveting performance.

Batman is a dark character against dark backgrounds, here using the shadows as an ally in a way the Nolan movies don't seem to understand.

It's also really nice to see Samuel L. Jackson's inherent weirdness get used in a dark character.

Final Verdict: A wonderfully gripping surprise buried in the archives of Youtube, boasting a dark character piece and an outstanding turn from Nina Taylor.

It's unusual to see Chiwetel Ejiofor playing a dark character and he was great as was Anthony Mackie - though they were all brill.

After writing the script for Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler, Robert Siegel makes his directorial debut with Big Fan, a dark character study about an obsessed football fan who gets beaten up by his favourite player.

The movie flirts with the idea of her being a darker character («a survivor») but it never fully commits to that arc, making for a frustrating and disappointing resolution to her and Han's storyline.

Known for playing challenging and dark characters, she was in Natural Born Killers, From Dusk Til Dawn and Kalifornia.

According to Deadline, the dark character - driven drama will focus on the, ``... remaining few residents of this ghost town [that] are determined to preserve their homes but remain unaware of the evil that is slowly making its way to the surface.

By the end it feels like it was an attempt to make it a dark character study that is a little harder hitting.

Was he happy to play this dark character?

It's surprising that Clowes (who adapted his own graphic novel, expanding it into a story that takes place over years instead of the graphic novel's single day) and director Craig Johnson chose to soften the book's harsher edge, as it's clear that Harrelson — obviously enjoying himself here — could have easily handled a darker character arc.

I completely expected to dislike Harry Potter 2 (as I disdain the films of Chris Columbus in general and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's / Philosopher's Stone in particular), but the picture is more winningly indicative of screenwriter Steve Kloves's (The Fabulous Baker Boys, Flesh and Bone) dark character studies than of Columbus's childish desire for frothy restorations of a nuclear order.

A lot of that blame falls on Michelle Morgan's awful screenplay, which can't seem to decide what kind of movie it wants to be, teetering between broad comedy and a darker character piece.

And in this extended version which is longer by about twelve minutes you get a better feel for what makes up the darker characters in the movie and what they are like.

It is here that the Kindle story takes on a darker character.

Even one of the darker characters of the original books Arvid — thief and assassin — has realized that paladins are trouble and Paks has caused unintentional ripples across the world.