Sentences with phrase «film sightseers»

But writer - director - star Alice Lowe, who previously co-wrote and acted in Ben Wheatley's 2012 film Sightseers, takes prenatal terror in a new direction with Prevenge, in which an unborn child bids its expectant mother to commit a string of murders.

Not exact matches

While English comedies of this sort can go the way of cute and light Feel Good Brit Flick (an often way too saccharine genre), they can also produce generally winning films like «Billy Elliot» and «The Full Monty,» and production company Big Talk have an excellent track record, with «Shaun Of The Dead,» «Attack The Block» and «Sightseers» among their triumphs.

«To be the closing film is a great honour,» said Wheatley in a statement, whose profile has been in rapid ascent over the past few years, with Sightseers and High - Rise both screening in previous London Film Festivals.

High - Rise will be the director's fifth feature film effort — coming off the heels of the rather eccentric A Field in England — and has the potential to live up to Kill List and Sightseers, easily two of the best post-millennium horror movies bar none.

The film is describes as a cops vs aliens action film, a major passion project for the Kill List and Sightseers filmmaker.

Alice Lowe, co-writer of Ben Wheatley's Sightseers, has made her directorial debut with Prevenge, a darkly satirical slasher film in which she plays a pregnant woman who is convinced her foetus is ordering her to kill

Sightseers, his latest offering coming close on the heels of Kill List, has more in common with that first film than with his sophomore effort, returning to the sort of wildly juxtaposed humour with which he made his initial impact.

It's the latest film from High Rise and Sightseers director Ben Wheatley.

What Sightseers gets right where Seven Psychopaths (out today and reviewed here) gets it wrong is that this film does not try to admonish itself for including violence, and incidentally is much less indulgent in the violence, along with having a much more coherent plot with better direction, writing, acting, and presumably better catering too.

The genius (yes, I'll break out the «G» word) behind films like Kill List, Sightseers, and High - Rise has been a favorite of mine for years, leaping between genres while maintaining his signature dark comedy and unflinching ability to sell genuine pain and terror.

FREE FIRE Director: Ben Wheatley Starring: Cillian Murphy, Brie Larson, Armie Hammer, Sam Riley, Jack Reynor, Sharlto Copley, Babou Cesasy Director Ben Wheatley, best known for High - Rise and Sightseers, is back with a taught shoot out style film set in the late 1970s.

Kill List and Sightseers director Ben Wheatley's A Field in England is drastically different from the British filmmaker's previous works, to the point that fans of his other films are having a difficult time wrapping their tastes — and minds — around this new one.

Unlike Kill List, Sightseers contains no sudden third - act narrative pivots intended to disarm or disorient, and one never has the sense that a second, tonally discordant film is lurking somewhere deep beneath the primary one's obvious veneer.

Note: Certain films like Upstream Color (being self - distributed), Stoker, The East, Life According to Sam, Jobs, The Gatekeepers, No, Sightseers and Mud already had distribution secured before the festival began.

With his third film, Sightseers, director Ben Wheatley has clearly defined his wheelhouse.

He did so again with 2012's brilliant black comedy Sightseers, blending elements of horror and dark English satire, and once more in 2013's wildly experimental, black and white historical drama / «horror» film A Field in England, though to lesser effect.

Ben Wheatley directed the amazing Kill List (and I can't wait for Sightseers) so I'm stoked that director's planned cops - and - monsters film,...

His fascination with the unpredictable and his unvarnished style of filmmaking make his films stand apart from much of what we see these days and Sightseers is definitely no exception.

While a much smaller film than his previous one, Sightseers is still extremely well made that switches from different tones at a speed that you almost never see from directors.

I really did not think I would take to Sightseers as much as I did, most of the film I was thinking — «what the hell is going on» — but the last few scenes had me in stitches.

Sightseers (C)-- «Before Sightseers began director Ben Wheatley addressed the audience, pronouncing all you need to make a movie — at least in the context of this film — is «sex, a dog, and a pencil.»

Together they form almost a heroic bond, reminding of quirky buddy films like Ben Wheatley's The Sightseers or even James Gunn's Super.

Adapted from J.G. Ballard's 1975 novel of the same name by Amy Jump and directed by Ben Wheatley (a duo whose past collaborations include Kill List and Sightseers), High - Rise is not your average film.

Opening the night was the (perhaps misleadingly titled) Outstanding British Film category which eschewed recognition of daring and original films such as Berberian Sound Studio and Sightseers in favour of Anna Karenina and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, along with this year's winner - the 23rd entry in the Bond franchise - Skyfall.

Thus we were graced with the 5 - hour Bollywood gangster - epic Gangs of Wasseypur, the Korean anime Dwae - ji - ui wang (The King of Pigs), the Chinese period film Dangerous Liaisons, and British horror - comedy Sightseers (well, Britain can seem strangely distant in the eyes of a Parisian).

Written, directed, and starring Alice Lowe (SIGHTSEERS) the film is from a singular voice, which comes across in the film's offbeat tone and pacing.

Alice Lowe, who cameos in The Ghoul (pictured above), moved from co-writing and starring in Wheatley's most atypical film, Sightseers, to directing the dark pregnant serial - killer comedy Prevenge (while herself heavily pregnant).