Sentences with phrase «dour tunesmith»

Uneasy about the prospect of moving in with her sort - of boyfriend, Frances finds she's far more in love with her roommate and best friend Sophie (Mickey Sumner), a dour sort who works for Random House despite not being much of a reader.

Director Andrew Dosunmu insists on wallowing in the film's dour nature.

Casino Royale is still colorful, with some very impressive stunt pieces, but always maintains a dour note from beginning to end.

But since we haven't seen that yet it's difficult to think of the director outside the dour confines of his major features.

I was expecting something dark and dour, but Victor Frankenstein is written by Max Landis, who generally writes genre movies with strong humor impulses (like Chronicle and the upcoming American Ultra), and is directed by Paul McGuigan, who's done a lot of the direction for the slick BBC Sherlock.

The assured Abby seemingly has it all figured out, Paul doesn't really care for Jesse, nor the idea of the two of them living together, and the co-dependent Jenny yearns for experience and a life outside the soul - crushing offices of her dad's dour dentistry.

Slumdog Millionaire is a dour film to watch but somehow manages to maintain a heart.

Failing that, it might at least try to be a little less dour.

As it turns out, this is the human - size residence of Suzy Bishop (Kara Hayward), a dour 12 - year - old with sad raccoon eyes who spends her time reading filched library books, listening to Benjamin Britten compositions and peering longingly through an ever - present pair of binoculars.

But sometimes, even the most dour of celebrities has to admit that...

And while their mood may be dour and their outlook grim, perhaps the single biggest silver lining in their cloud of dread may be that such men — men who understand that actions have consequences — exist and are given this great responsibility.

Wet Hot American Summer Director: David Wain Year: 2001 A cult film that's long since surpassed that status, Wet Hot American Summer is a lot of things: It's hilarious; it's perfectly cast; and it's a clear demonstration that Christopher Meloni has more range than simply playing a dour sex crime detective.

Dour, depressing, soul - sucking stuff — if your parents sat you down in front of this, you're entitled to rear back and give them a good healthy smack.

Not only do they make an extraordinary amount of money, but their tone (with the exception with a rare few) are becoming increasingly dour, despite some quips and one - liners to break the tension.

There's no shortage of women who are punished for their transgressions, and the rest of this cramped, dour, suffocating film is just a series of humiliating lashings upon Miss Julie.

They're the two most prominent citizens in the frontier town of Presbyterian Church, which, despite its scenic mountain setting, is shot by Vilmos Zsigmond as relentlessly dour and close, all sepia brown and soaked in palpable stink.

All the while, Jiro and his best friend Honjo (voice of John Krasinski) are struggling both to succeed as engineers and to please their cranky, diminutive boss (voice of Martin Short), one of the few characters in this sometimes dour epic who occasionally serves up some comic relief.

His best roles are the ones that harness that silliness, but even as a dour action hero, Jackman has enough charisma to emerge with his dignity intact.

Last time in this space, I wrote about what may be my least favorite Cannes winner, Maurice Pialat's dour, unproductively difficult religious drama Under The Sun Of Satan.

She plays a dour Soviet envoy who goes to Paris on a mission and awakens to love and romance.

Most vacant of all: Chloë Sevigny's two characters (she plays twins)-- one of whom is a dour - faced chicken slaughterer.»

He shot the movie with a dour atmosphere emphasizing the dread of the movie's plot.

This is as dour and disappointing a potential series conclusion as one could ever (or should I say, never) have hoped for.

Whilst some characters are rendered enough to produce a sense of intrigue, many others fill the background as blandly as the dour grey colour palette.

More personalities means more fun, as the typically dour D.C. Comics universe takes a big leap skyward.

The first meeting between Pierre and Shane strikes an absurdist note so that when the rest of the dour, melancholic film follows it's easy to wonder what we might have been missing.

Sally Hawkins won best actress for her portrayal of the ever optimistic Poppy, and Eddie Marsan won best supporting actor as her dour and prickly driving instructor.

Emmerich is at it again, but instead of disaster porn, he refreshingly gives us the Die Hard clone we were so desperately desiring in Olympus Has Fallen — unlike that film's dour seriousness, and Butler's glower, here we get an almost goofy film wherein Channing Tatum and Jamie Foxx play buddy - cop through the elevator shafts and abandoned rooms of the White House.

There are scenes when he attempts wry humor, to be sure, but they always feel out of place (particularly a scene near the end where he literally slaps down the US surveillance drone program)-- perhaps because everyone else in the film is also really dour.

After a series of commercial comedies like «Pineapple Express» and «Your Highness,» Green has returned to his iconoclastic independent roots lately with quirky dramas like «Prince Avalanche» and last year's dour drama «Joe.»

If most of it is self - serious and dour, this last chunk takes responsibility for the bloodshed and makes the case that peace is only won at great cost: Those who win it are always stained by the atrocities committed in its name.

Anton Corbijn's dour adaptation of John le Carré's typically chilly post-9 / 11 thriller finds Chechen immigrant Issa Karpov (Grigoriy Dobrygin) at large in Hamburg, where he becomes a pawn in a power struggle between bankers, lawyers, and counter-terrorists.

The pencil scene is actually not that good compared to what the Joker does with a glass of water in the Red Hood, and Batman isn't a dour, growly man being led around by the nose by the Joker from crime to crime.

Dour notes aside, rest assured there are plenty of laughs to be had through the film as it continues it foray through all things R - rated, with everything from a sperm bank to night at the improv given the MacFarlane stamp to mostly hilarious results, certainly more that A Million Ways.

Exceedingly grim, even despairing — so much so that Entertainment Weekly's Melissa Maerz publicly renounced it at midseason — «The Leftovers» begins weakly, with two diffuse, dour episodes that scarcely signal the remarkable, stricken work to come.

Once in the backwoods, Melanie: reunites with sour Ma (Mary Kay Place) and dour Pa (Fred Ward), both actors modeling their characters on Grant Wood's necessarily two - dimensional painting «American Gothic»; «outs» poor Bobby Ray (Ethan Embry)-- in the real world, they'd probably have been hung from the same pole flying the Confederate Flag outside the local watering hole; and delivers the most embarrassing monologue since Phoebe Cates's in Gremlins to, of all things, a license plate marking the burial spot of a «coon dog» named after legendary Crimson Tide coach Paul «Bear» Bryant.

While they play like existential slapstick comedies, with a glimmer of hope under all that dour stoicism, The Match Factory Girl (1990) remains Kaurismaki's darkest comedy...

Anton's blind father (Philippe Clay), a dour man who is blissfully ignorant of the hard times, still acts as the establishment's lifeguard, though so few people actually swim there that Anton, always the good if unappreciated son, plays a tape recording of frolicking swimmers to fool him.

Ivan's bosses include a bespectacled, professorial - looking Jeremy Irons as General Korchnoi, Ciarán Hinds as the extremely dour Colonrel Zyuganov, and Charlotte Rampling as the martinet, Rosa Klebb - like «matron» at the school for seduction where Dominika is enrolled after her ballet career crashes to a halt.

Gyllenhaal unquestionably takes us into the darkness with full commitment, but two hours living in this world becomes quite the tedious endeavor when the tone is so hopelessly dour.

In a clear return to the series» characteristic excesses after the somewhat dour Dead Rising 3, you play as Frank West, the wisecracking photo - journalist from the first game.

«Two People» is a mesmerising, enveloping piece (again for solo piano) though is so dour that it will drive as many people away as it attracts.

Christian Bale plays a dour U.S. Cavalry officer ordered in 1892 to escort a dying Cheyenne war chief (Wes Studi) and his family to their tribal land in Montana.

With her bottle - blonde locks, facility with a knife and dour Eastern European playground, Jennifer Lawrence's «Red Sparrow» is seemingly the 2018 version of Charlize Theron's «Atomic Blonde.»

National Public Radio (NPR) film critic Ella Taylor wrote: «It's hard to imagine any but the most dour and humourless taking offense at this essentially sweet - natured movie».

heads - in - the - doorway fanfare seems a little forced, and the casting of Larry David — yes, Larry David — as the ultimate dour, sexless nun, Sister Mary - Mengele, is one of those Farrelly stunts that calls so much attention to itself you're not quite sure if it's funny or just meta - funny.

The American George Clooney's blue period continues with Anton Corbijn's «The American,» an immaculately shot study of loneliness and misanthropy in one dour assassin working a job - maybe his last?

The mood's mostly pretty dour, which leaves the audience particularly grateful for those who provide comic relief: Dave Bautista's growly Drax, who in one scene is practicing the underappreciated art of standing really, really still; Tom Holland's chipper Peter / Spidey, taking it all in with wide eyes; Robert Downey Jr.'s ever - grumpy Tony Stark / Iron Man, who's pretty sick of Peter's pop - culture references (particularly «a really old movie called «Alien»»).

Led by dour, depressive psychologist Dr Ventress (Jennifer Jason Leigh), the band of sisters also includes physicist Josie Radek (Tessa Thompson), geologist Cass Sheppard (Tuva Novotny) and medic Anya Thorensen (Gina Rodriguez).

Her companions on the mission are the dour and creepy - voiced psychologist Dr. Ventress (Jennifer Jason Leigh), paramedic Anya (Gina Rodriguez), geologist Cass (Tuva Novotny), and physicist Josie (Tessa Thompson).