Sentences with phrase «deliver escapist»

However, Caruso and screenwriters Landon (Another Day in Paradise) and Ellsworth (Red Eye) aren't exactly setting their sights too high, employing a mixture of teen comedies, romance, and paranoid thriller elements solely to deliver escapist cheap thrills.

Definately not an Oscar contender, but in a year of mediocre to awful films, this one manages to entertain and serves to deliver some escapist entertainment to the public.

Not exact matches

Like the original, The Escapists 2 delivers both a creative and challenging videogame that will keep fans of the first game busy for a long time to come.

Director Brad Peyton has proven to be a frequent collaborator of Johnson's (San Andreas, Journey 2: The Mysterious Island), and however it turns out, we're hopeful that Rampage will turn out at least to deliver the pure escapist entertainment we crave.

It's escapist entertainment with a genuine heart and playfulness and when it's called upon to be exciting, it has some excellent set - pieces that Spielberg is more than able to handle.The late Melissa Mathison's screenplay has a tendency to wander and the film could have been tighter but the visual effects are astonishing and Rylance and Clement really deliver the goods in the acting stakes.

Jumanji is a special effects - laden family film that has a simple premise, and delivers enough escapist entertainment to probably keep young and old alike modestly entertained.

While not offering much in the way of engrossing and emotionally involving human drama, Twister does deliver all the exciting, exhilarating popcorn thrills one would expect from an action blockbuster, making it ideal summer escapist entertainment that should cause a storm of business at the box office.

While Kathryn Bigelow, Tom Hooper and Quentin Tarantino duke it for Oscar honors with their newest films, «Jack Reacher» and «The Hobbit» promise to deliver pure escapist entertainment.

This set the new template that would be followed by the next three installments: impossible international shenanigans anchored by likable performances that delivered on inventive set pieces while remaining pure escapist fodder.

Opening with a close - up of Brian Cox's wonderfully craggy face and Leonard Cohen's «The Partisan» on the soundtrack, prison movie The Escapist promises much... It doesn't quite deliver on that set - up, but deserves kudos for ambition and intensity.

Fast forward over two years later, and not only have most of what was written in The Escapist stories and my blogs come to pass, but still, neither of the two promised games (Star Citizen and Squadron 42) have been delivered to backers.