Sentences with phrase «dramatic thriller plays»

While this slick dramatic thriller plays with some intriguing ideas and themes, it never actually...

While this slick dramatic thriller plays with some intriguing ideas and themes, it never actually breaks the surface, relying on silly plotting and simplistic moralising.

Not exact matches

Synopsis: Based on real events the dramatic thriller Argo chronicles the life - or - death covert operation to rescue six Americans which unfolded behind the scenes of the Iran hostage crisis focusing on the little - known role that the CIA and Hollywood played - information that was not declassified until many years after the event.

The Movie: The idea of George Clooney playing a (mostly) silent assassin holed up in the Italian countryside with gorgeous European women sounds like recipe for a solid dramatic experience, so why Focus Features is marketing «The American» as some sort of action thriller when in fact it's an arty European film, will throw some moviegoers off and just outright anger others.

He proved ridiculously endearing as a grizzled, broken - down, beer - swilling little league coach with a marshmallow heart in The Bad News Bears (1976), and further expressed his comic persona in such comedies as 1993's Dennis the Menace, in which he played the cantankerous Mr. Wilson, and the romantic comedy I.Q. (1994), which cast him as Albert Einstein.Though many of his roles were of the comic variety, Matthau occasionally returned to his dramatic roots with ventures such as the crime thriller Charley Varrick (1973) and The Taking of Pelham 1, 2, 3 (1974).

Highlights include Welcome to Leith, a documentary following the actions of a white supremacist in a small town that plays like a thriller, and the more lighthearted but still dramatic Top Spin, which examines the cutthroat world of competitive ping pong.

Kemp launched into print modeling as well, appearing in a widely seen campaign for The Gap, then segued into acting with parts in Stephen Sommers» Victorian - era supernatural thriller Van Helsing (2004) and Renny Harlin's lurid psychological thriller Mindhunters (2005), opposite Val Kilmer and LL Cool J. Kemp deftly merged his ballroom finesse and his dramatic evocations with prominent billing in Jon M. Chu's dance - themed urban drama Step Up 2 the Streets (2008); he played Blake Collins, the proprietor of a dance school who finds his chief proclivity — an utter contempt for street dancing — upstaged by the arrival of a brash and talented young newcomer at his school.

But it doesn't get bogged down in them, and thanks to Curran, it plays like a dramatic thriller.

There's a terrific sense of menace in this gothic dramatic thriller, which plays on the story's fantasy elements to take us into a teen girl's troubled imagination.

Using a combination of a great score, sleek but beautiful cinematography, and a story that plays with the discovery of something that could change everything, writer & director J.C. Chandor crafts a dramatic thriller that does put you on the edge of your seat while waiting to see how everything plays out on the eve of a financial meltdown that we're all very familiar with.

Olivia Wilde, Evan Peters and Mark Duplass play with science trying to bring back the dead in the dramatic thriller «The Lazarus Effect,» directed by David Gelb.

In the dramatic thriller The Boy Next Door, Jennifer Lopez plays a recently divorced high school teacher who gives into friendly flirtations with her son's handsome friend.

With a more conscientious budget and featuring comedians rather than dramatic actors, can Game Night pull off a low - budget thriller played for laughs while suspending disbelief?

The handling of the BDSM sex play is dreadfully cliched in terms of structure (3 heated romps and a final dramatic one); however, the actual presentation of the «love scenes» recalls the style of director Adrian Lyne (Unfaithful, Nine 1/2 Weeks), favoring artsy close - ups of human form, curve and the intimate sensations of touch, feel and response, rather than the raw carnality seen in something like Basic Instinct (my generation's landmark erotic thriller movie).

Alongside Owen playing to type, they provide the film with its dramatic impetus, turning a standard game of IRA - infused cat and mouse into a solid slow - burn thriller.

The movie follows that same path, the woman, Michelle (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), and the man, Howard (John Goodman), playing out a the kind of small - scale dramatic thriller that comes along all too rarely.

Plus, Steven Spielberg's «West Side Story» is holding open casting calls in Orlando and New York City, a feature needs Tagalog - speaking leads, and a dramatic thriller needs a cello - playing actor and a body double.