Sentences with phrase «excellent films get»

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While the whole film is excellent, I return time and again to one scene - an unlikely Hollywood moment where we get to seeDanny Devito give us a lesson in evangelism.

Marsden Wagner, MD, who is interviewed in the film, makes an excellent point about childbirth saying, «It's got to be like it is when you make love with someone.

It's excellent for what he needed to do to get ready for the movie role — a bodybuilding type workout that packed muscle where it mattered for film (chest, shoulders, arms) while giving a good strength base with squats and deadlifts (and making sure Wolverine wasn't walking on chicken legs).

I've never been a fan, as a rule of horror movies, however, the trailer drew me to this one and i'm glad it did, the awful acting we usually get in horror movies wasn't there this time round, in fact, the whole cast were excellent, the special effects were really very good and the humorous, intelligent dialogue (another thing you don't usually get in horrors) was brilliant, loved the film, Chris Hemsworth, although with less to do in this than he does in Thor, was great in it too.

Sweden's excellent Force Majeure is the huge omission here, as that film has been cleaning up on the awards circuit (along with Ida, which did get nominated).

That's about it, sometimes the film can be a mixed bag but once the story gets to the heart of the matter, it ends up becoming a strong film with an excellent performance from Martina Gusman.

Ryan Phillippe is routinely excellent (he has the ultimate «BS face», also seen in «Breach») and the film doesn't get too pretentious because it's evident it's just a fun little movie.

Both stars are already receiving great praise for their roles, and under the watchful eye of Anton Corbijn whose excellent Control captured later Joy Division singer Ian Curtis so profoundly, it's safe to assume we'll be getting a touching, insightful, and rather beautiful film.

Part of this comes from the excellent characterizations provided throughout the film, with many archetypical elements of Hispanic women getting together for a tug - of - war between old - fashioned values and the new independent spirit.

Though directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller have gained considerable notoriety in recent years with excellent films like 21 Jump Street and The LEGO Movie, the duo actually got their start in television with the short - lived animated series Clone High.

This would seem like an insurmountable contradiction, but Jason Reitman's film fleshes out the character, Ryan Bingham, with shadings and subtlety, and Clooney gets excellent support from co-stars Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick.

Contrast and color presentation is excellent - you get the romantic feel of the film's sunny, colorful setting without ever becoming overwhelmed by possible «glaring» whites or a too - bright palette.

He gets to the heart of what the film is so excellent at portraying: that the discussion of identity in popular media can be thorough, articulate and perception shifting; that women's voices are an interesting and vital part of the narrative; and that young, or unsung talents can prove their worth on their own terms — approval not needed.

Another excellent Alfred — Alfred Enoch, of the Harry Potter films and American TV series How to Get Away with Murder — succeeds Eddie Redmayne as Rothko's assistant, forming a compelling duo in this 90 - minute meditation on the nature, process and purpose of art.

While the joke about two tourists near Keswick on a killing spree has the potential to get old the fact that the real laughs in the film are rooted in excellent characterisation and clever dialogue means the film is surprising and fresh right down to its final bleak twist.

As if she still needs to prove how consummately excellent she is, Cotillard tacks on some more buzz scenes to her flashy resume and gets away with claiming the film's most coherent (and therefore effective) monologues.

Tom Hanks apparently championed the film during pre-production when it seemed that the film wouldn't get made, but apart from that we have a bunch of — uniformly excellent — actors whose names don't usually appear above the titles on movie posters.

The film received excellent reviews (including our own), and while many assumed that legal issues would prevent it from ever getting distribution, experts have since suggested that everything Moore does falls within fair use.

Shakespearean at heart, Coogler's film mixes royal melodrama with big spectacle and sometimes the excellent small - scale elements get overwhelmed by the humdrum larger routine hard at work.

and the film is from the undervalued but excellent writer / director Mike Mills (Beginners) Demanders looks back at My Beautiful Laundrette which recently got a Criterion release Variety happy news: Season 2 of Transparent arrives in time for Christmas i09 Ridley Scott still planning on filming a Prometheus sequel next year.

Whatever is the reason for my interest, that's for me and my therapist to sort out, but I do believe that there's no better primer film to help get a cursory understanding of the Hollywood Blacklist and its impact than Martin Ritt's excellent and disarming dramedy, The Front, recently released on Blu - Ray and DVD from Twilight Time.

She's already filmed her next five roles: as previously discussed she'll play the showy small role of James Brown's mom in Get On Up (August, 2014); she's excellent as a college professor in The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby Pts 1 and 2 (release date still TBA but I saw it at TIFF); she's in Michael Mann's thriller Cyber (January, 2015) with Chris Hemsworth as the headliner and supposedly her role is large there as an FBI agent; She'll headline Shonda Rhimes TV series «How To Get Away With Murder» and if it gets picked up past the pilot, don't expect to see her on your movie screens for awhile; The other leading role is Lila & Eve (she plays Lila) but her co-star is... (wait for it)... Jennifer Lopez?

Ridley Scott wisely plays it very low - key from the get - go, leaving the film to play out in the more than capable hands of his actors and he's rewarded with three excellent performances.

With «Robin Hood,» generations unfamiliar with the Technicolor look can get a really good sampling of why film historians and cinematographers rave and are overcome with a peculiar nostalgia for the color schemes that literally glow, as evidenced from interviews with cinematographers Jack Cardiff and Vittorio Storaro in the excellent documentary on Disc 2, «Glorious Technicolor,» an overview of the company and key personnel, derived from Fred Basten's 1980 book.

Hard and intense for most of the film, your surround sound will get an excellent workout.

Unfortunately, the film is severely miscast save Cuba Gooding Jr. (As Good as it Gets, Jerry Maguire), who's excellent, with Williams and Sciorra delivering little in the chemistry department.

It's Got: Gripping action, classic film score, excellent performance by Wes Studi, gorgeous cinematography

Also, Ledger was excellent as The Joker and truly deserved the acclaim - and awards - he got for the film.»

Tom Hiddlestone continues to prove why Loki is Marvel's greatest asset, because as soon as he enters the film, it gets a lot more interesting, thanks in part to his excellent chemistry with Chris Hemsworth.

Writer - director Coogler (who directed Jordan in the excellent «Fruitvale Station» in 2013) takes a chance in revisiting so many familiar and beloved touchstones from previous «Rocky» films, from the training sequences to another journey up the stone steps at the entrance of the Philadelphia Museum of Art to the introduction of yet another colorful, seemingly indestructible champion — this time one «Pretty» Ricky Conlan (Anthony Bellew), an undefeated, undisputed light - heavyweight from Great Britain who is getting one last fight before he's off to prison.

I really like Woody Harrelson and I thought the director's previous effort «The Skeleton Twins» was an excellent movie, but this film seemed to get pretty bad reviews overall so I didn't get all that interested in it.

The best playing in flashback comes from the excellent Howle, who gives Tony a dreamy timidity that lifts the film immensely — not least because of the distance we have to travel to get to the crabby, disappointed figure cut by Broadbent.

Godzilla gets a lot right, hiring excellent actors even in bit parts to sell every inch of the story, focusing on characters, the emotional stakes of the leads and even embracing the atomic - age fears and allegories that the Toho Studio films utilized while putting a modern - spin on them — the casualties and cost of life within such disasters (there is a 9 / 11-esque disaster - porn tinge to the film, but it's certainly not as thoughtless as it is in «Man Of Steel»).

Unfortunately, the film's insistent, convoluted plot constantly gets in the way of its aesthetically pleasing scenes and excellent action sequences so that it becomes a bit of a chore to get through.

strange very talky thriller... very good acting by all... a film of style over substance I think... good soundtrack and an excellent slow - motion action sequence when someone gets shot in a car but has a very ABRUBT ending that confuses!

Moonlight's triumph at last year's Academy Awards proved that excellent cinema can, on occasion, get noticed amid the film industry's white, straight, male hegemony, but so what?

The actress added that she did get to work with «extraordinary actress» Kristin Scott Thomas (she of the excellent ringlet bangs in Darkest Hour) in the film.

He even found a way to make excellent use of longtime collaborator Michael Rooker, who gets quite a bit to do as the mohawked space pirate Yondu, including one of the film's best moments.

What is hype, the excellent marketing Disney (which owns Marvel) telling fans who were already going to buy a ticket and love the film without seeing it to get excited?

The director does an excellent job in setting up the idea and enforcing it but the film begins to drag just a bit as we continuously get these examples of control.

I'm actually quite satisfied with this year's set of awards, as many of the stand out films got recognized, though that's not to say there are many, many other excellent films from the festival.

by Walter Chaw Stephen Herek's return to the realm of dope - head fantasy (his second and perhaps most remembered film is Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure) gets off to a smashing start.

Fans of Jordan Peele's excellent directorial debut, Get Out, have wasted no time trying to suss out the film's multiple layers and hidden meanings.

As we approach the end of the year and enter awards season, get ready for more excellent films.

The film does an excellent job at building sympathy for Eddie, to the point it's hard to watch him continually get hurt and fail.

This category rocks because it recognizes two excellent films that should've gotten much more love: Ex Machina, Alex Garland's sci - fi puzzle box starring Domhall Gleason, Oscar Isaac, and Alicia Vikander as an artificial - intelligence femme fatale; and Straight Outta Compton, the gangsta - rap origin story that had the power to pop a cap in the #OscarsSoWhite narrative, had the A.M.P.A.S. voting body only answered its pager call.

Burning like a sparkler at the film's center, though, was poised and petite Nicole Beharie, whose excellent breakthrough performance in the leading role unfortunately got buried in the rubble of the movie's missteps.

A Cat in Paris, which I recently reviewed, was an excellent foreign film that snuck in with an Oscar nom, but the best of all of the category is finally getting a blu - ray release this week.

«An excellent opportunity for the audience to get «firsthand insight into an industry that is currently reinventing itself between music, film and social media, shaking up the global entertainment landscape along the way,» says Gamehotel executive producer Tina Cassani.

When we got hands on with the game we were reminded of excellent titles such as The Legend of Zelda, Journey, Ico, and even the Studio Ghibli animated films through the game's lovely aesthetics, gameplay, and its open world.