Sentences with phrase «escapist fare»

One can communicate philosophic questions but one can also communicate pornography and escapist fare.

It's still escapist fare, though the series» cartoon violence has become more graphic and the language a bit saltier.

The adventure itself is the film's main selling point, and if you enjoy historical pieces and don't mind the inaccuracy that runs rampant in Hollywood releases, it's not bas as popcorn escapist fare.

is primarily recommended primarily for 1980s enthusiasts, fans of Edwards or Fiorentino, and viewers just looking for some modest escapist fare; it's a waste of time for everyone else.

Mindless escapist fare designed with the attention - deficit millennials in mind.

The dark film was a departure for MGM — known for upbeat, lavish, escapist fare — but the studio's production chief Dore Schary ushered in a period of social consciousness for the company, notes Drew Casper, film scholar and author of «Post-War Hollywood Cinema 1946 - 1962,» in his DVD commentary.

THE EQUALIZER is non-ironic escapist fare superbly acted and directed.

He would return to the era in later films, most notably his hugely successful drama Twenty - Four Eyes (1954), but immediately after Morning for the Osone Family, he dived into escapist fare that better showed off his range, from the poetic romance The Girl I Loved (1946) to the noirish thriller Woman (1948) to the comedy Here's to the Young Lady (1949) to the ghost story Yotsuya kaidan (1949).

No Hughes - directed film is without some pathos, but The Breakfast Club skews more towards drama and realism than Hughes» typically more escapist fare.

In conflict with the popular wag that people are stupider now than they've ever been, the excrescent original was also defended as good old - fashioned escapist fare.

It's handsome, large - scale escapist fare - and has as its costar the formidable, versatile Kristin Scott Thomas.

Akshat Verma's script is imaginative and funny, the film's stars are engaging and Delhi Belly adds up to pleasing escapist fare.

It's bleak and difficult to watch at times — certainly not traditional escapist fare — yet also intellectually challenging and visually stimulating for those with patience.

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But below you'll find a further 50, generally made up of more escapist / popcorn - y blockbuster fare.

RECOMMENDATION: Ultimately Hunter Prey is acceptable straight - to - DVD fare for genre fans looking for some undemanding escapist action.

This high - budget (supposedly $ 135 million) summer - blockbuster escapist film is dull formulaic fare that has a questionable history premise, a star who does not light up the screen with charisma (Matthew McConaughey), a foreign - born female lead (Penélope Cruz) as eye candy who struggles with the English language to a point where it's an unwelcome distraction, and a tiresome and silly plot line to fill in the gaps while the adventurers are involved in their all too familiar set action pieces.