Sentences with phrase «escapist movie»

There are days when you just need an utterly escapist movie - watching experience.

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And up until the 1980s, my movies were mostly, I guess what you could call «escapist.»

Even in our current age of streaming the latest movies in our living rooms, summer is still seen as the prime season for escapist blockbusters.

The Director of Communications and Audience Engagement will work closely with the CEO to create, curate, and market an expansive collection of film clips (full episodes and movies as well as short clips) focused on bringing light escapist pleasure to the (mostly female) masses.

«I go to artsy movies, too, but sometimes you don't want to admit that you saw the latest shoot -»em - up escapist film.»

Summer is the perfect season for escapist B - movies about man - eating killer sharks, the counterpart to the beach read paperback.

After Dreamworks SKG was launched to great fanfare, its first movie release was an escapist action thriller, 1997's The Peacemaker, starring George Clooney and Nicole Kidman trying to save the world from some rogue Russian army officers who steal some nuclear bombs.

Ready Player One is Steven Spielberg's latest movie, a return to his populist roots and the escapist fantasies for which he is most famous.

After this film, how can we demand movies that present murder as escapist entertainment and still sleep at night?

While horror movies often get shuffled into the «escapist entertainment» corner, a way to escape the world and just let your inner animal hoot and holler at blood and guts for 90 minutes, there are few genres as ready, willing, and effective at actually reflecting our real - world fears and anxieties.

Those who enjoyed that movie thought it an amiable time - killer full of enough escapist laughs and action to sate their yearning for low - overhead entertainment, but they didn't exactly think that two more hours of the same is what is called for.

Police movies so often depend on sheer escapist action that it's fun to find a good one.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening November 23, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS August Rush (PG for slight violence, mild profanity and mature themes) Freddie Highmore stars as the title character in this escapist fantasy about a promising musical prodigy who runs away from an orphanage to New York City to find his parents (Keri Russell and Jonathan Rhys Myers) only to end up living with a Fagin - like wizard (Robin Williams) and lots of other kids in a makeshift shelter in an abandoned theater which was once the Fillmore East.

It was a perfectly fun popcorn movie that was a throwback to old Hollywood musicals and contained what so many recent musicals failed to bring: good escapist fun.

But, it is drags like 2016 that make escapist entertainment like the movies such a vital part of our cultural identity.

It's escapist fun that proves both exciting and engaging, even as the movie evolves from an Ocean's Eleven - style caper into a more routine cat - and - mouse chase.

It makes me wonder whether Scorsese wouldn't have rather gotten rid of the kiddie stuff altogether and focused only on the more grown - up geeky side of it all... except that movie couldn't have been marketed as an escapist holiday treat for families.

He says that Limitless, a movie in which Bradley Cooper takes a miracle drug that allows him to use 100 percent of his brain, and The Lincoln Lawyer, a legal thriller starring Matthew McConaughey, are both perfect escapist date night movies.

Evoking all the things that Michael Bay movies used to be — exciting, a bit ludicurous, and funny — «Pain And Gain» looks like top form, escapist entertainment by the guy who knows who to do it best.

«What I would love is for a generation of kids to have access to these sort of truly, truly escapist adventure movie.

The movie has no added level of profundity; it is still typical escapist entertainment.

Here's the latest international movie poster for the upcoming film «Rise of the Planet of the Apes» by director Rupert Wyatt (The Escapist, Get the Picture, Subterrain) and starring James Franco (Oz: The Great and Powerful, Your Highness), Andy Serkis (The Hobbit: Part 1, The Spider, Freezing Time) and Freida Pinto (Slumdog Millionaire, Trishna).

Movie review: For an audience seeking fluffy, escapist, country - music - tinged romance, the film should hit a sweet spot.

That is who I recommend this movie for: Adults who (hopefully) already have a clearly developed sense of right and wrong and can take this movie for the silly, fun, cartoonish, escapist entertainment that it is.

8:00 pm — TCM — Moguls and Movie Stars: Warriors and Peace Makers TCM's Hollywood History series enters WWII, examining how Hollywood reacted to the war — everything from war - themed films to escapist entertainment to explicitly political films.

Guillermo del Toro's escapist fantasy - romance The Shape of Water was the biggest winner, the story of a young woman's love for a captured sea creature — with best picture and best director, setting the official seal of approval on what is, by any measure, a beautifully made movie to which audiences have responded with distinctively sensual delight.

In terms of escapist entertainment, but the only escape I yearned for during Eragon is the alluring sight of the «Exit» sign on either side of the movie theater screen.

Opening with a close - up of Brian Cox's wonderfully craggy face and Leonard Cohen's «The Partisan» on the soundtrack, prison movie The Escapist promises much... It doesn't quite deliver on that set - up, but deserves kudos for ambition and intensity.

Then we'd get more revelations of what the money was used for — I'm especially drawn to the second page of The Escapist's report where an employee says «deep down, Chris Roberts wants to make movies».

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