Sentences with phrase «familiar kind of film»

It is a very good version of a very familiar kind of film, which is never a bad idea where the academy is concerned.

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For those of you familiar with A24, you know what kind of high quality films they're capable of pumping out.

Born in precisely the kind of small - town American setting so familiar from his films, David Lynch spent his childhood David Lynch news and opinion Chats with Terry Manning and Dan Vallor, Plus Jesse Cook, Ensemble Mik Nawooj, Vincent Colbert, Ships Have Sailed, Dead

I kind of feel like people are more familiar with this film's music, especially the stirring theme song than the actual movie itself.

The songs are familiar but more importantly they're kind of perfect songs within the context of the scenes, God knows I was singing «Gloria» in my head for a few days after seeing the film.

Among the familiar faces that pop up here, sometimes in multiple roles, are Udo Kier, Mathieu Amalric, Caroline Dhavernas, Geraldine Chaplin, Maria de Mederios and the divine Charlotte Rampling, an actress whose entire career has been dedicated to the kind of risk - taking spirit that this film celebrates in every single scene.

Complete with jabs at social - media marketing, this is one of the film's few extended jokes likely to go over the collective heads of very young auds, but it's the kind of absurdly exaggerated everyday detail — complete with the repurposing of familiar gadgetry — on which Aardman's comic brand is built.

I think they should have taken elements of both previous films and then thrown in some new story arcs for a familiar but ultimately new kind of sci - fi adventure.

If you're not familiar with the film, the story centers on a bear (voiced by Ben Whishaw) who is lost at Paddington Station in London, adopted by a kind family, and then sets out in search of an explorer who inspired his family to visit London years before.

Sterling Hayden stars as the mastermind and familiar film noir faces Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Jay C. Flippen, Marie Windsor and Ted De Corsia co-star, with stand - out supporting performances by Elisha Cook Jr. (perfectly pathetic as a mousy cuckold manipulated by the scheming Windsor) and Timothy Carey (in a small role as a sharpshooter with a different kind of assignment).

It's kind of astonishing that there hasn't been a film quite like Liam Gavin's A Dark Song yet — it's a premise so simple and familiar that the genre has done it countless times, just not quite like this.

It's an honest, but simplistic line — and that kind of sums up this well - intentioned but all too familiar film.

The film is more or less a love letter to New York City but it isn't a tourist kind of movie that takes viewers to all the overly familiar landmarks — it is more like a New York movie who live there every day.

If you're any kind of sci - fi fan, you're already familiar with the work of director Duncan Jones, whose low - buget tour de force «Moon» was one of the best - reviewed films of 2009, as well as a one - man acting showcase for Sam Rockwell.

Released to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Kennedy's assassination, Parkland is more of a «companion piece» kind of film, certainly not the kind of film one would choose to watch without being intimately familiar with the Kennedy assassination.

Ahead of the its release, fans were wondering if there would be a Logan post-credits scene and were picking apart rumors, wondering if we'd be seeing any other familiar faces beyond Logan and Patrick Stewart's Professor X. Well, it turns out that there's an extra scene at the beginning of the film that wasn't included in early press previews, and another Marvel character does appear in Logan... kind of.

It's the kind of film that is initially tempting to dismiss, the kind of overly familiar action schlock you'd expect to find lurking towards the bottom of a Netflix search gone on way too long.

Strong plays John, a «memory detective», which is apparently a kind of shrink who walks around in other people's memories (in a style familiar to viewers of TV» sHannibal), and whose visions are therefore easily translated to film.

But between Michael Giacchino's inspired interpretations of Lalo Schifrin's familiar theme and the film centering on a kind of dysfunctional family of four, there are some hints of The Incredibles, which is certainly not a bad thing.

The new film based on the troll dolls creates a different kind of universe that incorporates mythic trolls and blends that with the more familiar dolls.

This is the point the film falls into the familiar traps of this kind of over-the-top adventure, and I have to confess the setup was more satisfying than the payoff.

The set - up is the kind we've seen many times before, but while the hilarity of the moment initially seems indicative of just what Bayer is about to bring to the table, it eventually reveals itself to be emblematic of the film itself: familiar trappings, gussied up with a fresh script from screenwriter Lauryn Kahn.

Sometimes only minimally altering her appearance, she has taken familiar representations of female sexuality from film, art, pornography, fashion, and fairy tales and created an impressive gallery of women of all shapes, sizes, classes, periods, and styles that together form a kind of pathology of womanhood.

Two paintings in the exhibition feature Buzz Lightyear and Woody, computer - animated stars of the 1995 film Toy Story, while two others include a helix logo made of colored pixels, a new icon of the kind now familiar from computer screens and handheld devices.