Sentences with phrase «entertaining movies made»

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Worse, when I actually did have time to indulge in something entertaining — reading a book, watching a movie or attending a college football game — it was almost impossible for me to fully enjoy the experience due to the gnawing guilt that I was not at trade show or making a sales call or reconciling the financials.

Over the weekend I watched the Wolf on Wall Street, a highly entertaining movie about the «investment firm» Stratton Oakmont, which carried out pump and dump schemes and made millions off of its clients in the 1980s and»90s.

Sure, Nic Cage has made some truly terrible movies, but Matchstick Men manages to capture his manic energy and use it to create a deeply entertaining mystery drama with surprising twists and an unexpected emotional punch.

As a Christian dad who wants to make sure I'm not allowing my kids to entertain themselves with ungodly trash, I've done my share of searching for Christian movie reviews.

When my husband is home or my kids are entertained with a movie or something else, I really do enjoy how putting on makeup makes me feel.

«Art advancing science at the nanoscale: What happens when two scientists set out to make a movie to entertain the public?

Most networks play rerun or old movies during the summer, making it a perfect time to get lost in an entertaining book.

The acting was good, the story was interesting, the movie was well made and it was pretty entertaining.

W. Somerset Maugham's novels and short stories may not count as literature, but they have made for some very entertaining movies, «Quartet» high among them.

Charming and entertaining, Flirting, have a captivating script, acting and a good direction that make the audience watch Duigan's movie from the beginning to his end.

This movie has lots of twists and turns which make it interesting and entertaining to watch.

Writer / director James Cameron has made his fair share of groundbreaking, great movies, but pound for pound True Lies is his most flat - out entertaining.

The only thing is that the movie isn't exactly scary, which doesn't make it any less entertaining.

A very funny movie, poorly made and kind of silly, but I thought it was fun and entertaining to see anyway.

The acting was okay for the most part (Marsden and Perabo were pretty good but Glenn and Thornton gave two of the most wooden performances I've seen recently), the attacks by the bear were not that well made but it could've been worse but, ultimately, the movie is entertaining and in the end you really care for the 3 main characters (Perabo, Marsden, Jane).

Now I like the first Hoodwinked movie very much, and for a low budget CG film its very funny and keeps you entertained, so when I heard they were going to make a bigger budgeted 3 - D sequel I was interested, but the better CG doesn't add to how poorly this film was made, the CG may be better, but the lip synching is terrible and the voice acting isn't that good.

The movie is so well made, and so compelling as a portrait of a man at war with himself, that, right up until the end, many people will probably be entertained by its intricately preposterous story.

In addition to being incredibly well - made and culturally significant, this movie is also wildly engaging and entertaining.

And although the movie admittedly does grow more and more entertaining as Will makes his way to a posh, exclusive part of town, In Time is, in its second half, saddled with an increasingly stagnant vibe that's compounded by an emphasis on underwhelming subplots (eg the continuing exploits of several time thieves).

It deserves all the noms in the Oscars especially McKay who i think was a tremendous genius in picking up a theme so difficult and yet making this movie super entertaining, funny and also clever!

The movie never glamorizes drug use but at the same time never really seems to go out of its way to not make it entertaining.

Lasse Halstrom has made his most entertaining movie since What's Eating Gilbert Grape with a true story thats immensely intriguing, very funny and rich in characters.

The trouble for Tonya is that most people aren't interested in learning about it until someone exhumes it in the form of a riotously entertaining movie, slaps some very obvious classic rock cues on the soundtrack in order to make the scenes of abuse more appealing, and lets a sex symbol like Margot Robbie dirty herself down to play the lead.

Although it has some big, big problems, mostly the believability of this kind of situation, this movie is clearly made to be entertaining, and for that it largely succeeds.

A good documentary is entertaining, educational, informative and usually makes you leave the theater thinking long after the movie has ended.

This entertaining first spin - off from the Harry Potter movies is both inventive and familiar — and Eddie Redmayne makes an endearing new wizarding lead.

Kat's English assignment, which provides the movie's title, is a sweet finish to an entertaining movie — and makes 10 Things I Hate About You quite likable.

I mean... makes sense to me, a movie entertains me... it probably deserves a higher score.

When the writers on The Simpsons needed a generic - sounding movie for Marge and Homer to see, sans kids, they came up with «The Stockholm Affair,» a spy thriller plotted enough to make Marge feel smart, but with enough action to entertain Homer.

A great film, and certainly one of the most entertaining movies ever made, directed by Alfred Hitchcock at his peak.

The godfather of modern gonzo filmmaking addresses American slavery and race relations the same way he has addressed other sensitive issues: by making a boisterously entertaining movie that couldn't be less interested in sensitivity.

Short version: Although at times it felt like a made - for - TV movie, a far better film than the first and more entertaining than the super-serious Spider - man 3.

Which is a damn shame, because it's a highly entertaining, efficiently made action flick that's better put together than most movies that choke up the multiplex.

As much as I'm not looking forward to the converted 3D that I'll have to suffer through with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows Part 1 I do see that movies in 3D can be more than a gimmick and can make the movie more entertaining than if I saw them just in 2D.

david j. moore chats with filmmaker Jonathan Mostow... Filmmaker Jonathan Mostow has been making some incredibly entertaining films since his early days, directing such made - for TV movies as Flight of Black Eagle, but it was his film Breakdown, starring Kurt Russell and J.T. Walsh that really put him on the map.

But to me, just because a movie looks great, doesn't make it entertaining.

It's one of the most purely entertaining movies he ever made, and it can be watched over and over again with no diminution of pleasure.

The realistic portrayal of children in this movie (thanks mainly to Scardino's natural abilities to look and sound like a real child) and the sensitive script help make The Indian In The Cupboard a worthwhile entertaining and educational experience for the entire family.

At the recent press day, cast members Nick Robinson, Katherine Langford, Alexandra Shipp, Keiynan Lonsdale, Jorge Lendeborg Jr. and Natasha Rothwell (who plays the kids» drama teacher), along with director Greg Berlanti, talked about making this thoroughly entertaining and important movie.

Excellent production values, a superb cast and an entertaining story make eCupid a great movie that LGBT audiences have been waiting for.

Rating: 7/10 — it's easy to forget that there are other animation studios in Japan beside Studio Ghibli (here it's Madhouse), but despite some obvious flaws, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time is a positive reminder; engaging and unpretentious, it's a movie that treats its more serious themes with genuine integrity, while adding a lively sense of humour, all of which makes for an entertaining, if not entirely polished, viewing experience.

For all its shortcomings, though, The Simpsons Movie offers enough yuks to make it an entertaining experience.

For the most part, Detective Pikachu lovingly plays with the idea of a gumshoe detective story by way of Pokémon and treads the line between lighthearted fun and campy storytelling in an entertaining way — which makes all the more sense given that the game will be getting a movie adaptation with Ryan Reynolds.

Certainly that makes The Bleeder an entertaining movie and helps avoid melodramatic traps that could have dragged the whole thing down.

Not that Marvel hasn't made some very entertaining movies.

The Hollywood B - movie factory is truly in dire straits if it can't make something entertaining out of Pathfinder.

Rating: 5/10 — a man (Lowery) drives across country after the death of his brother and gives a lift to a woman (Lane) who tricks him into being the getaway driver in a bank robbery, a situation that sees him on the run from the police but determined to prove his innocence; a gritty, hard - boiled film noir, They Made Me a Killer adds enough incident to its basic plot to keep viewers entertained from start to finish without really adding anything new or overly impressive to the mix, but it does have a brash performance from Lowery, and Thomas's direction ensures it's another solid effort from Paramount's B - movie unit, Pine - Thomas.

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Whether the title is a direct reference to the sound the world would make if it was suddenly blown apart or if it's the metaphoric noise a young person makes upon entering the sexually confusing world of post-high school education, either way Araki has crafted an entertaining, violently funny movie that's amongst his best work yet.

Granted, the movie isn't without its flaws (particularly when it comes to basic common sense and logic, like in the climactic dino battle at the end), but it's an entertaining piece of fan service that makes up for having to suffer through the last two sequels.