Sentences with phrase «film about the demise»

Ianucci's new film about the demise of the gravedigger of the Russian Revolution is not so much maliciously anticommunist as it is, above all, historically clueless.

Chomet has delivered a deeply melancholy little film about the demise of vaudevillian entertaiment, in visually splendid style.

Not exact matches

All in all, the film is plenty conventional, even in a portrayal of Ancient Rome that is about as thin as a lot of the characterization, and as contrived as the melodramatics which slow down the impact of momentum almost as much as dull and draggy spells, thus making for a script whose shortcomings are challenged well enough by a powerful score, immersively beautiful visual style, solid direction, and strong lead acting for Henry Koster's «The Robe» to stand as an adequately rewarding and very intriguing study on the impact Christ had even on those who brought about his demise.

The troubling thing about the picture beyond its obvious troubling things is that with the impending demise of the Miss America pageant (and with The Donald threatening to acquire it), there is the truism that people share the film's belief that pageants are horse - and - pony shows masquerading as scholarship opportunities and don't care about them unless — and here's the rub — you get the reality show behind - the - scenes of the beauties doing their best to scratch each other's eyes out.

They give good commentary, chatting about this and that without leaving much in the way of dead air, and the fact that the conversation frequently ranges way beyond Chopping Mall to consider other films and pop - culture markers from the era (programmable robot toys, FANGORIA magazine, the long, slow demise of Radio Shack) is frankly a relief given the sheer quantity of content here.

While rumors about the demise of «Inhumans,» the final film in Marvel's Phase 3 arsenal, have been circulating, they have no merit.

At the recent press day, Tarantino and his actors talked about the advantages of shooting in 70 mm, how a Tarantino set differs from other movie sets, how Leigh and Russell played off each other while chained at the hip for 4-1/2 months, why Russell remained in character after his character met his demise, the decision to stay close to the script, Tarantino and Jackson's take on race relations in America, why a period film affords a filmmaker the opportunity to comment on the present in ways a present day film does not, what their filmmaking adventure was like for the veteran actors who have been with Tarantino from the beginning, and why Tarantino doesn't mind dancing on the edge of political correctness.

A long - out - of - print 1975 collection edited by Todd McCarthy and Charles Flynn, Kings of the Bs, contains invaluable information about the evolution and demise of B - films.

As it stands his demise was supposed to make the viewers feel like the stakes were real, but this failed because firstly we all know the big names make it due to Marvel announcing their slate of films, and second because we don't know very much about him.

Though the situations portrayed in film are often exaggerated (few of us would plot to kill our bosses, however often we may dream of their demise), movies and TV shows about workplace dynamics can sometimes be very truthfully reflective of the challenges we face, both as employers and as employees.