Sentences with phrase «engaging film based»

Australian director John Curran achieves a rare interweaving of the darkly poetical and raspy, cockeyed comedy in «Praise,» an oddly engaging film based on Andrew McGahan's novel.

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But there's absolutely no flow to the film's screenplay - which is based on a series of short stories by J.T. LeRoy - as it lurches from one vignette to the next, without any thought to keeping the audience engaged.

That spirit of giddy flippancy keeps the film pleasantly engaging, but it also practically ensures that, unlike the books on which it's based, Peter Rabbit is rather unlikely to be recalled with misty - eyed adoration by the time the year's out, much less over a century after its creation.

There was the audience's in the pure fun of the film, based on Tony Stark's in the physical exhilaration of flying, the mental exhilaration of finding a task to engage his mind and spirit so entirely, and the spiritual exhilaration of meaningful and sustaining engagement with the world.

Apparently it's already been and gone from British cinemas, but I don't remember noticing it was there; a pity, because it sounds quite engaging, the kind of lighthearted caper film which used to come from these shores on a frequent basis in days gone by.

I am not interested to see the film (based on the general trend of mashing multiple stories into an incoherent mush than a single engaging story) but the critique here seems to miss a lot of reasons why this film fails as a Batman or Superman film.

The ultimate goal is two-fold: package a winning family film built around The Rock that will increase his fan base, while also giving us a movie that crosses over demographics such that dads and sons, mothers and daughters, and even just the kids or adults alone can sit through the movie and be engaged enough to follow along entertained.

Based on Mary Norton's classic novel The Borrowers, this film features striking animation and a story that's rich, detailed and full of vividly engaging characters.

Perhaps it was because this film purports to be journalistically true, and is told in a breathless patriotic manner, that I find its support of tactics in which no nation based on freedom and integrity should engage intolerable.

Written by Liz Hannah and Josh Singer («Spotlight») and based on The Washington Post Publisher Katharine «Kay» Graham's memoir «Personal History» which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998, the film dramatizes the struggle within the newspaper over whether or not to publish the highly controversial Pentagon Papers in June, 1971 and it is an engaging and often exciting look.

Shamelessly crowd - pleasing, this warmly engaging film is based on a remarkable true story.

Comparisons will immediately be drawn between Divergent and The Hunger Games, as both are dystopian sci - fi film series based on a trilogy of young adult novels written by women, featuring teenage female protagonists in an action - thriller scenario leading a rebellion against a corrupt and manipulative government force, while also engaging in a bit of romance on the side.

God's Land, Preston Miller's alternately languorous and engaging film about a Texas - based Taiwanese cult awaiting the end of days, walks a fine line between satire and earnestness, but the project...

Based on the real life tale featured in author Tim Crothers» book The Queen of Katwe: One Girl's Triumphant Path to Becoming a Chess Champion, the film engages your head and heart in equal measure.

While not a surprising film, in that the story unfolds in expected ways, Mr. Holmes, based on the book A Slight Trick of the Mind by Mitch Cullin, is still an engaging film, sure to please even the most discerning Holmes fan.

is a nice, small film with good performances and engaging direction, worth the trip for those who love fact - based historical dramas with lots of sweeping shots of the landscape, and who are more interested in the little personal stories than the great historical ones found in all the text books.

Rabbit - Proof Fence is a nice, small film with good performances and engaging direction, worth the trip for those who love fact - based historical dramas with lots of sweeping shots of the landscape, and who are more interested in the little personal stories than the great historical ones found in all the text books.

I've never really cared about how based in fact, or not, a film is, as long as it can stand on its own, be entertaining and engaging, which this movie does.

The Free Zone is a series of programs based on the socially engaged contemporary film production aimed at addressing current social and political issues f...

Kiss the Girls is a film based on the James Patterson bestseller, slickly directed by Gary Fleder (Impostor, Runaway Jury), and relatively engaging until about the final third of the film.

Chilean - born Ruiz is a director whose love of storytelling and narrative play is often more engaging than the films themselves but with Mysteries of Lisbon, an epic based on a classic Portuguese novel (one yet untranslated into English), his engagement with the characters and their defining stories guides his direction, and his graceful camerawork and unerring eye for images both classical (like paintings in a cinematic frame) and fluid (his camera moves with purpose and grace) are in the service of the trajectories of the characters.

AsiaBound students to India include nursing students volunteering in New Delhi based orphanages; international development studies with students engaging themselves with community based non-government organisations in Bangalore; and emerging Australian producers, writers and directors experiencing India's vibrant television and film production.

So I know things will take a dive when I make the move out of Select... but it's okay, I'll be ready because I'm building deep with developing a loyal, engaged reader base and capturing them on my email list,, building broad by reaching into new markets (audiobooks, trad pub deals, film and tv) and high by developing new projects in new genres.

Every locale from Kamino to Starkiller Base is painstakingly authentic to the films, whether you're engaging in epic 40 - player battles across land and air or brawling it out in Heroes vs. Villains mode.

In a spirit of cinematic dialogue with her three London exhibitions this Spring, Tacita Dean has invited Los Angeles - based curator and archivist Mark Toscano to select and present three programmes of 16 mm films by various artists, each one engaging with one of the themes of her exhibitions.

For his residency at the Hammer, Shaw is conducting research for upcoming film and studio - based projects that engage particular features of California history, sociology, and geography, including skateboarding culture and architecture, and West Coast spiritual cults of the late twentieth century.

In addition to engaging with new art - making processes, Hamilton evokes the poetic theme of memory — even, in one work based on vintage film stills, the gothic preoccupation with ghosts.

Engaging with the idea that adaptation is necessary for survival, the artists in this exhibition present films, sculpture and text - based works that reflect on new and hybrid forms of architecture, technology, biology and language.

Since the early 1990s, she has created a wide range of film, video, and installation - based works whose sculptural forms engage spatial perception in physical, as well as conceptual, terms.

In this engaging and visually stimulating presentation, California - based author Colleen Patrick - Goudreau shares a variety of film clips, pieces of literature, and works of visual art that will change the lens through which we view animals in the arts.

Warren founded Whoop De Do, a nonprofit with which she engages community groups to stage elaborate DIY performances and exhibitions and creates films based on historic paintings.

Searching for alternatives to museum - based exhibition practices, the artists in this exhibition sought to engage directly with local communities, often incorporating popular strategies from film, architecture, and theater, and grappling with political oppression.

Heidi (1992), based on the 1880 eponymous children's book of Joanna Spyri, for instance, is an hour - long film Kelley made collaboratively with artist Paul McCarthy using techniques borrowed from horror movies, in which rubber life - size figures of Heidi, her best friend Peter (a goat - herder), and her grandfather, clumsily bump into one another and engage in sexual acts.

Every locale from Kamino to Starkiller Base is painstakingly authentic to the films, whether you're engaging in epic 40 - player battles across land and air or brawling it out in Heroes vs. Villains mode.