Sentences with phrase «film as cold»

She goes on for 5 minutes judging a director's films as cold, heartless and lacking humility and ends her tirade with» i want to see the film and I can judge it objectively.»

Not exact matches

Zoos would be regarded as barbaric as 14th century prisons, and we would subordinate our own desires for immortality to the cold hard reality of an uncaring Universe in which every species on the planet lives in a narrow 7 mile wide soap film below which there is 1,000 degree magma and above which there is the near absolute - zero vacuum of outer space.

Dr Strangelove (1964) Also known as How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, the film satirises Cold War tensions.

As the days get darker and the nights grow colder, one of the most blissful things you can do this time of year is to spend the evening watching a classic romantic - comedy film.

The «Batman» television show (1966 - 1968) cast a long, pop art - infused, camp shadow over the property and, after the big budget failures of a series of superhero films in the 1980s (some more campy than others) such as Howard the Duck (1986), WB apparently had cold feet.

Because Charlie is a much colder fish than the lugs played by Sylvester Stallone and Mickey Rourke (I would have preferred Russell Crowe or the younger Mel Gibson as Charlie), the character is a bit of a problem for the film.

Too muted and pensive to work as a thriller, too withdrawn to be a character study, and too cold to evoke any sympathy, the film is instead a dull and alienating exercise in how to take a strong actor and interesting premise and mostly waste them.

Just as films about misunderstood benevolent aliens in the 1950s (The Day the Earth Stood Still, It Came from Outer Space) were calling for an end to the Cold War us - and - them mentality, District 9 is likewise making a strong statement about the damage that can be done when refugees are treated with suspicion before being given any compassion.

To top it all off, the film has one of the most uncomfortable, cold - as - ice movie kisses I've ever seen.

the script is linear and actually makes sense, but it's such a cold film that it only works as a procedural film, much in the way The Day of the Jackal (1973) dealt with icy characters from opposing sides eventually converging in a climax.

The film's nightmarish, appropriately trippy visuals (particularly in Renton's «cold turkey» montage), a memorable rock and dance - tinged soundtrack and Boyle's undeniable ability to maintaining the story's momentum and manic energy seals Trainspotting's position as a striking, emotional and affecting viewing experience.

The cast is game, the production design is impressive and a few surprises await — but even as things heat up, the film somehow remains cold.

I can see why as it is a cold little sequence but these small quirks make you chuckle these days, adds spice to the film when you look out for the infamous bits.

In a special league with other spy thrillers such as The Third Man and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, director Lawrence has fashioned a thrill - a-minute hijinks film that takes place both in the West and in Moscow (with Budapest substituting for the Russian capital).

There was a cold, brutal logic to the Games as they were portrayed in the first film.

Not only does this film resurrect old Cold War red menace paranoia to paint the villainous Decepticons as Commies, but it also evokes a lot of contemporary xenophobia towards a vague notion of what lies in the Middle East.

It's a modest film for those sci - fi connoisseurs who flip out over paranoiac Cold War flicks about outsiders as dangerous foes.

The film reveals itself as something vacuous and cold, a bizarrely seductive pseudo-thriller lacking a thoroughly worked - out payoff.

What made the first film work as well as it did was the way Hirst took and reworked historical facts to suit the rise (or decline, depending on your point of view) of an innocent, love - hungry young woman into a cold, sometimes cruel statue of a queen.

Fernandez felt grateful for the opportunity, but reportedly hated the job itself so much that he hearkened off for the greener pastures of acting.Fernandez landed his first formal acting assignments as a guest star on episodes of the network series Cold Case and Jericho in 2006 and 2007, but truly came into his own as a star of low - medium budgeted independent films such as director Marc - Andre Samson's taut thriller Interstate (2006)(as a young man trying desperately to reach his girlfriend in Los Angeles, but waylaid by drugs and the trappings of an odd motel), and directors Lucky McKee and Trygve Diesen's violent psychological thriller Red (as a disturbed young man who plays the role of accomplice in killing a senior citizen's dog).

There are a handful of tense scenes in Eddie Coyle too, such as the cold and calculated bank heists and a stake out at a train station which ends in a brief flash of Yates» car chase handling skills, but these aren't what really make the film shine.

Obviously a cold war parable, the film arguably has as its best quality its sound design, which finds through an ominous thrum of silence a rattlesnake rattle in the noise the baddies produce once they finally emerge from their smouldering crater.

While the cast plays well in their respective roles, the standout performance of the film goes to Christina Ricci (The Opposite of Sex, Pecker) as the straight - faced and cold - hearted Wednesday.

Likewise, Woody Harrelson's alcoholic detective is never invited in from the cold of the periphery, even though he's involved in one of the film's best sequences featuring Michael K. Williams as a drag queen named Sweet Pea.

Based on the Vince Flynn novel of the same name, the film stars Dylan O'Brien as Mitch Rapp, a CIA black ops recruit who comes under the instruction of a Cold War veteran, played by Michael Keaton.

In his film, the fashion industry comes across as a cold, sterile and brutal place.

Errol Flynn and Olivia De Havilland made eight films together, including the stone - cold classic «The Adventures Of Robin Hood,» while Bob Hope and Bing Crosby starred in the successful «Road To...» series, and Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis had a profitable comic partnership as well.

As the film progresses, Lanthimos tortures the audience further with cold, composed Kubrickian camera moves, but he remembers to alleviate the tension with humour — you won't forget the saddest, funniest handjob in recent cinema memory.

Still, Madden's film, which is based on the 2007 Israeli drama «Ha - Hov,» is an overwhelmingly icy one, built as it is on deep, dark shadows, cold stone buildings and a layer of Eastern bloc grime.

The whizzing sound of cars flying from one speaker to the next during the film's motorcycle chase is treated with as much care as the subtle rumble of the Airbus from the film's cold open.

I appreciate that very much, and I know that Haynes is criticized by some because of the texture or quality of his films, because of the emphasis that he lays on costumes and gestures, suggesting that he can be perhaps too superficial or not deep enough or cold or chilly as I've read in some reviews.

While the trailer has some great editing to reveal this as a spy thriller, the film itself unfortunately is nothing more than a messy saga of sex, lies, murder, and fake Russian accents all thrown together in a two - and - a-half hour drudge through the cold Eastern European winter.

The film stars the voices of Kodi Smit - McPhee, Anna Kendrick, Christopher Mintz - Platz, Casey Affleck, John Goodman, Bernard Hill, Jeff Garlin, Tempestt Bledsoe, Tucker Albrizzi, and Elaine Stritch as the grandma with the very cold feet, Fell and Butler co-directed from Butler «s script.

Developed separately from the Millar - penned comic on which it's loosely based, Vaughn's film improves on that version in just about every way, delivering a smarter (but no less absurd) take on Cold War - era spy movies that embraces as many genre conventions as it breaks.

A five - minute featurette called «Greetings From Bull Mountain» is the standard five - minute B - roll / soft - sell interview errata that features a few additional male buttock shots; «King of the Mountain» is a two - minute music video that splices action sequences from the film together with bloopers and sets it to music (something resurrected in feature - length form by this year's ESPN's X-movie); and nine chapter - encoded deleted scenes (blissfully sans commentary and running between fifteen seconds and a minute, each) are essentially long «comedy» shticks that prove for as bad as Out Cold was, it could have been even worse.

As the film traces the rivalry between Hunt and Lauda throughout the better part of the 1970s, it becomes clear that the filmmakers prefer to focus on Hunt's swaggering charm and daring rather than Lauda's cold technical brilliance and precision.

After teasing a number of different ambitious projects in 2017 — including an adaptation of Fernando Morais» nonfiction book The Last Soldiers Of The Cold War: The Story Of the Cuban Five and a slightly re-cast version of Idol's Eye, his perpetually stalled Chicago mob thriller — Assayas ultimately went with a previously unannounced project about the French publishing industry as his next film.

Nicole Kidman is being mentioned as a possibility for «Cold Mountain,» but I'm lukewarm on the film and think the other three nominees will be Jennifer Connelly, for «The House of Sand and Fog» (they respect her transition from sexpot to serious actress) and Patricia Clarkson for the low - profile but much appreciated «The Station Agent.»

Tom Hanks stars in the film as James Donovan, an insurance lawyer who was pushed headfirst into the frosty depths of the Cold War when he had to negotiate for the release of downed U2 spy plane pilot Gary Powers (Austin Stowell) after the airman was shot down over Russia.

Dated even as it arrived by Bosworth's feathered two - tone mullet and composer Sylvester Levay's scorching soft - metal guitar, Stone Cold tries to bed down among superior action films by cribbing the end of Die Hard wholesale.

The film is told primarily through her point of view as the cameras hover within an inch of her face, gauging her reaction as she awakens in a cold, bare room chained to a pipe.

In some ways it plays like a sardonic post-script to their great success, The Third Man, in others a transition film between the gritty but heroic espionage thrillers of the forties and fifties and the far more ambivalent and skeptical work of John Le Carre, as seen in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold just a few years later.

There are also those who classify Anthony Minghella «s «Cold Mountain» as a western, in which case it could qualify, but it feels more of a war film / epic journey / love story to us.

As sophisticated as del Toro can be in blending the supernatural with the sexy (the eroticism here will catch you off guard), this film's Cold War intrigue plays like a high schooler's book reporAs sophisticated as del Toro can be in blending the supernatural with the sexy (the eroticism here will catch you off guard), this film's Cold War intrigue plays like a high schooler's book reporas del Toro can be in blending the supernatural with the sexy (the eroticism here will catch you off guard), this film's Cold War intrigue plays like a high schooler's book report.

Many of us already knew, going into Saturday night's show, that Pawel Pawlikowski's «Cold War,» Alice Rohrwacher's «Happy as Lazzaro,» Spike Lee's «BlacKkKlansman,» Nadine Labaki's «Capernaum» and Hirokazu Kore - eda's «Shoplifters» were certain to go home with awards, though which film would win what remained a mystery.

«The film will offer the viewer a unique look into two larger - than - life figures who served as the catalysts for one of the most defining moments in our history, the end of the Cold War,» said Scott Free prexy Ridley Scott («Black Rain»), who serves as one of the producers.

Although this film is a stone - cold classic, it does contain many of the trappings of 30s - 40s era movies that haven't aged well, such as a corny original score and some broad jokes based on cliches that fall pretty flat.

Cinematographer Oliver Wood (The Honeymoon Killers, Face / Off) brings a beautiful European feel to the film, draping it in grays and blues, but clearly establishing the cold and the scenery as well — precisely the opposite effect he achieved in his warm, pastel «Miami Vice» television work.

Besides Newman, who, as Ebert noted, was taking an active hand in shaping and developing a fairly consistent character archetype over several years and films, they included co-screenwriter Frank Pierson, who would go on to write Dog Day Afternoon; cinematographer Conrad Hall (In Cold Blood, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Fat City, Marathon Man); editor Sam O'Steen (Carnal Knowledge, Chinatown); and sound mixer Larry Jost, who would work with O'Steen on those two films and then go on to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest — a movie that is in many ways Cool Hand Luke's spiritual cousin.

The decision came after 8 rounds of voting involving a close runoff among several top films including Guillermo del Toro's THE SHAPE OF WATER about the rescue of an alien creature from the clutches of cruel scientists in a cold war with the Russians, and also earned a BEST ACTRESS AWARD for Sally Hawkins as a mute cleaning lady whose sympathetic performance spoke volumes.