Sentences with phrase «esque film»

In structure, it's the least «Die Hard» - esque film, really discarding the whole singular location thing (which one could argue «Vengeance» did but McTiernan used NYC so well it didn't matter).

Not exact matches

The movie is affectionate without exactly being infectious, and Browne, who begins his film with the Michael Moore — esque revelation that Americans bowl in greater numbers than they vote, disappoints by not devoting more attention to bowling in its amateur incarnations.

Many handsome leading men lose their seductive confidence as they grow older, but Bachchan is such a industry - defining star that he can do (and often has done) whatever he wants, whether it's scowling pensively throughout a trilogy of «Godfather» - esque gangster films («Sarkar,» «Sarkar Raj» and «Sarkar 3») or playing a Cyrano de Bergerac - like bum who lends his commanding baritone voice to a struggling young movie star whose natural voice isn't sexy enough («Shamitabh»).

Just about any film that explores the question that all of us ponder about what happens to us after we die already starts with built - in intrigue, and while Flatliners eventually becomes a relatively standard «Twilight Zone» - esque story about dealing with the guilt and remorse of one's past to resolve one's future, it's certainly a movie that stands out as quite different in style and, to some extent, subject matter than most anything that Hollywood had churned out before.

At first, Panahi announces that he is going to act out some scenes from the film he was planning to make at the time of his arrest — a Romeo and Juliet — esque love story involving a girl herself kept under lock and key by her strict parents.

The main problem is that with the exception of the great catalog of songs, the film isn't terribly interesting, barely scratching the surface with its «Behind the Music» - esque narrative.

I'm not sure anyone in movie history runs as well as Widmark runs in this film, pulling Donald O'Connor - esque twists and turns that send his limbs flailing about in silhouette, and then ducking around a corner and pressing himself flat against the wall, as though wishing he could disappear into the bricks themselves.

The beauty of the finished film is also hinted at, and while we hate to launch into a tired Malick comparison, this small sliver certainly delivered on any «Badlands» - esque expectations we may have had.

Serving as a «Jurassic World» - esque combined sequel and refresh, the movie stays in the world of the first three films but follows all new...

Though the «sex equals death» rule isn't as prominent in modern horror movies that defy those decades - old tropes, «It Follows» is very much a retro homage to «70s and «80s genre classics, from the «Halloween» - esque synth score, to the striking similarities to «Nightmare on Elm Street,» both in Jay's perpetual helplessness and the film's dreamlike atmosphere.

Essentially, it's now 10 years after the last film, when Idris Elba sacrificed himself to close a suboceanic conduit between our universe and one filled with Toho Studios — esque giant monsters called Kaiju.

And while the film's love story seemed to be on a hopeless trajectory to make me gag, the «Roman Holiday» - esque climax is very redeeming.

However, its first - person perspective — the film consists entirely of the Blair Witch — esque found footage of a television cameraman — gives it the initially realistic charge of an on - the - ground quarantine - panic drama.

From the fun, «24» - esque «stop the terrorist attack» plot to the film's impressively choreographed stunt sequences, not to mention some damn fine actors (even if some of them are severely underutilised and don't have much to work with), «Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit» is an enjoyable and likeable jaunt.

Reichardt's new film — a three - part Raymond Carver — esque drama — obliquely touches on all of these threads, demonstrating the director's keenness and one - of - a-kind sympathy for outsiders.

A disquieting «Salo «- esque trailer got initial buzz growing about the film in which Browning plays a student who drifts into prostitution and finds her niche as a woman who is drugged into sleep while men do to her what she can't remember the next morning.

«Shanghai is one of those oddball films that just doesn't seem to fit anywhere.tmpplchld A derivative, muddled «Casablanca» - esque World War II spy thriller helmed by the reasonably accomplished Mikael H fstrom («Evil,» «Derailed,» «The Rite»), who...

Happily, if you're too lazy to think up something to actually do with your family, there are at least a few films the whole crew can enjoy this winter — particularly if your progeny are into «Harry Potter» - esque fantasy adventure.