Sentences with phrase «dark dramatic film»

After catching the attention of critics and fans with acclaimed performances in the TV series Kingdom and the dark dramatic film Goat, Nick Jonas is turning to action comedy with Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle,...

Not exact matches

Even in the deep dramatic films, we've found there's a real concerted effort to look at empathy for dark subjects and the characters in them.»

While some moviegoers might wish for the film to speed past the dramatic buildup, the wait will undoubtedly be worth it: the final hour of Dark of the Moon is an all - out action fest, with some of the coolest visuals ever put to film.

It's a nice tease of what to expect from Streep's dark portrayal, and it comes in the middle of an extended dinner sequence that acts as the fantastic dramatic centerpiece of the film.

But Christopher Nolan made a realistic superhero film that is both dramatic and dark and a whole lot of fun.

But while the film does maintain a dramatic edge to it, there's still a healthy amount of dark humor injected into Sestero's memoir, and should subsequently be a part of the film, which is also directed by its star James Franco.

«The film satisfies the dramatic and salacious stuff that interested me, but it also had an emotional resonance to it that I felt didn't just make it a dark and nihilistic story,» Edgerton told Entertainment Weekly about the project.

Other than branching out to the darker side of comedy (think Inherent Vice or maybe Marley & Me), Owen Wilson rarely leaves his comfortable broad and quirky comedies for more dramatic films.

Heineman crafts the film with a confidence and intense focus that results in a tight, dark, and powerful narrative that's almost too dramatic to be true.

His next film, Manglehorn, will continue the director's dramatic streak by telling the story of an aging, ordinary guy (played by Al Pacino) with a dark past that comes back to haunt him.

Prickly, acerbic, and not without its rough edges, it's an enjoyably dark humored film wisely settling for small moments of emotional realism rather than exaggerated dramatic flair or tragicomic satire of its flawed characters.

The film tries to balance dramatic themes and dark comedy, and although that certainly works for some films, it does not work here.

The film itself has a remarkably dramatic edge to it, moreso than the previous films, with the buddy comedy peppering in dark undertones of adolescent trauma, the dullness of adult life, and the frustration inherent to drug abuse and depression.

It's as though the film never can not decide if it wants to be a serious, thematically rich movie or a dramatic film with some dark comedic elements.

Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy proved that comic book adaptations could be just as dramatic and heavy as non-genre films, Marvel Studios jumpstarted a massive interconnected series of superhero movies that were significantly more colorful and humorous, and audiences have been turning out to both kinds of superhero films in droves.

Take two «Saturday Night Live» alums like Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader and throw them into a dark, dreary, dramatic setting, and that sounds like the perfect Sundance film to me.

Reitman's new film, Men, Women & Children (read Matt's review here), is a dark, dramatic tale of human relationships in the internet age, and while the technology angle is the hook, the film isn't really about that at all.

The Lives of Others finds a surprising amount of humour in such dark times, and this perhaps lessens the film's dramatic impact.

What's weird is how the game depicts the way in which members of the audience are drawn toward the film; adult males correspond to the dark blue stars on an actor's card that represent his or her dramatic acting skills, while women are drawn in by the red stars that correspond to character acting, and children are lured by comedic acting displayed as green stars.

The dramatic use of light and dark by «Ancona» (USA) immediately conveys the information that this is a mystery novel (one of only two written by Frederick Faust under this pseudonym) and echoes the film noir genre of the period.

He or she turns away from the genitalia, facing the canvas on the next wall — a picture - within - a-picture that we are told references Lars Von Trier's 2000 award - winning musical - dramatic film Dancer in the Dark.