Sentences with phrase «film at least look»

This goes some way toward making the film at least look like it belongs on a cinema screen even if the rest of the film screams TV.

Not exact matches

As teased in at least one of the promos for «Avengers: Infinity War,» at one point in the film, Doctor Strange uses the Time Stone to look ahead into the future of the Avengers and their fight against Thanos.

does come across as a film trying to overcome that gray area by at least telling Tommy's story in a way that doesn't look down on him.

To its credit, The Disaster Artist does come across as a film trying to overcome that gray area by at least telling Tommy's story in a way that doesn't look down on him.

I've watched several of Davenports game films and he looks average, you'd think he have at least 12 sacks vs small schools teams.

Mix in a blender for at least 20 seconds until the drink is frothy and looks like a creamy latte without a film of oil on the surface.

So maybe the film isn't garnering rave reviews, but at least we get to look at Bad Gal RiRi wearing lots of jaw - dropping fashion.

Rather than take on the entire movie — which includes an inexplicable ending, piss - poor greenscreen, and at least a dozen other noxious elements — let's look at the two most infamous moments, which represent everything wrong about this film.

I look forward to more collaborations between Hazanavicius and Dujardin, as they have now made at least three films together, all of which I have found light and captivating.

Having already directed the first two (and superior) X-Men films, Singer shows a level of comfort with both the material and the cast, and he contributes at least one brilliant comic set piece in which new mutant Quicksilver (Evan Peters) lays waste to a kitchen full of security guards in languorous, Matrix - style bullet time (it looks gorgeous and has the slapstick choreography of a Three Stooges routine).

I could not find any indication whether this series was shot on film or digital, but it at least keeps the film - like look of most current dramatic TV productions.

For a film with a $ 150 million budget to look like television is unconscionable and it seems absurd that no one was able to convince Jackson not to adopt the format, or at least not to try it out on a franchise with so much riding on it.

Obviously, fans of the Broadway show will be interested at least to see how it looks and feels on film.

A bit more suspense would have gone a long way here, and while director David Gelb, whose prior experience had been in the crowd - pleasing documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi, has turned in a slick - looking feature for one with such a small budget (reportedly, only $ 5 mil), it really can't compete with better films out there in terms of quality, while it's too straight - faced in execution to at least give us some choice b - movie thrills.

One can at least say that the film has never looked this good on home video.

All of this in mind, the film does look good and perhaps a step up from the first film, at least in the technical department.

That's our convoluted way of saying that The A.V. Club looked both high and low for the best scenes of 2015, culling from a whole spectrum of films — some likely to appear on this week's best - movies - of - the - year list, others unlikely to appear on any such list, and at least one certain to get called out in our public shaming of the year's worst movies.

Diesel's Xander Cage is the least - interesting element here, but that's okay, because the film surrounds him with super-cool supporting characters played by super-cool actors, including Tony Jaa, who gets to bob his head to music at a funeral, and Ruby Rose, who doesn't have a whole lot to do but still looks incredibly badass anyway.

OUR TAKE: The trailer looks like a mix of so many other horror movies - and we're not sure our horror interest will extend beyond the Halloween holiday (at least not for this film).

Much as Michael Mann's Public Enemies created a disconnect by looking like home video at certain points, the period simply requires film, or at least it does for right now with digital photography still figuring out how to look good with the entire color spectrum.

What You Need To Know: Things were looking up at DreamWorks Animation for a while, but of late, their slate has been a little disappointing, with «Rise of the Guardians» marking the least successful film in the company's recent history.

Rockwell looks young for 47, but his nearly thirty - year career in film creates — for me, at least — an insurmountable age gap when casting him as the star of Pitch Perfect's love interest.

Although there's the usual selection of premieres, at least half of the screenings this year are retrospectives: a look at 1928, the last great year of silent film; personal selections from the festival's guest programmers over the years, and a salute to black - and - white cinematography.

A combination of low budget, crappy CGI and uninspired shot composition means that this film is not in the least bit flashy to look at.

With our own experience of the books (hey, we have nieces) being that # 2 is actually the best of the trilogy in expanding the mythology to a more resonant plane while still retaining the visceral excitement of the first, and with the director who'll be responsible for the taking the franchise home now in the hot seat (Francis Lawrence, replacing Gary Ross), we're hopeful for a film that at least partially deserves its inevitably blockbusting box office, and the trailer makes it look like it may.

The Dissolve: I didn't realize how much time was passing in the film until Robin reveals that she's pregnant, though she isn't showing, and then when we see her again, she has a baby that looks at least six months old.

I wish I could say this question was neat to ponder in an abstract sci - fi way, but the near future for film looks kind of dystopian, at least as we have traditionally understood the medium.

It has everything you expect from one of his films: poetic, sometimes ridiculously so, voiceovers, long shots of nature being nature (or not), very little dialogue and a way of looking at a familiar subject that I, at least, had never quite thought of before.

It looks as though the US will not be the first market to see the film, as at least two markets have announced June release dates.

Then for our middle segment, we look at the results of the US election and ask the least - existentially terrifying question many cinephiles have been asking themselves this past weeks: what does film do now?

Not only do they think they can get this thing looking as good as at least Toy Story 2 (a movie that still holds up), but they also brought in Oscar - winning composer Alan Menken (Beauty and the Beast) to write original music for the film.

Look, we get it: internet movie trailer culture is a problem for big film studios, since they'd presumably like to maintain at least a little bit of mystery around their high - profile films.

However, given that the subject is, to say the least, touchy, the fact that this film was even made is worthy of at least some kudos to Maher for having the guts to potentially offend the vast majority of people in the country, and perhaps the world, with his expression of doubt in their beliefs and his own belief that, though many individuals have found great benefit from the ancient scriptures, religion ultimately does more harm than good when looking at it in its totality from a global historical scale.

I would say Phone Booth is at least worth a look due to being an interesting idea for thriller, as well as for its attention - grabbing style which works magic on a purely visceral level, much in the way it did in the similarly implausible film, Joy Ride.

Black and white films can look sensational in high definition, at least as impressive as well - done color releases from decades... [Read more...]

I saw more DVNR than other reviewers seem to be seeing (at least, grain is all but absent, which doesn't jibe with the picture having been shot in Super35), but fear not: Changing Lanes doesn't look anywhere near as processed as the Mountain's concurrent BD issues of the Star Trek film series.

Overrated 21 Jump Street Critics and audiences have learned not to expect much from feature - film adaptations of half - forgotten television shows from the»80s, so at least some of the excitement that greeted 21 Jump Street seems attributable to shock that the film wasn't anywhere near as bad as it looked.

As teased in at least one of the promos for Avengers: Infinity War, at one point in the film, Doctor Strange uses the Time Stone to look ahead into the future of the Avengers and their fight against Thanos.

Perhaps it was inevitable that anything following «Thriller» would be considered a commercial disappointment, at least comparatively speaking, but with the disappointing box office returns of 1985's «Into the Night» coming immediately after the controversy of actor Vic Morrow having been killed during the filming of Landis's segment in «Twilight Zone: The Movie,» it's fair to suggest that Landis was probably looking forward to an upturn in his fortunes.

He has the creative eye that's needed to at least know what he wants his film to look like even if the script is lacking.

The films don't demonstrate much acting chops (and that's the case for every actor on board, they're basically a spoof of soap operas, however, maybe a little too close to home), but clearly, she's at least got the look and physique that has convinced the «Wonder Woman» show producers.

Considered by many in the know to be a good introduction to Straub - Huillet, the film at least gives subscribers a chance to sample the two before having to look to more illicit means to see the rest of their work.

Although «Safe» looks eerily similar to just about every film to come out of the Jason Statham Factory of Ass - Kicking since the original «Transporter,» at least his movies are rarely dull, and that has a lot to do with Statham's seemingly endless supply of charisma.

Unlike the last few years, there are now at least three films that have a very good chance of winning the Best Picture trophy at the Oscar ceremony in February, and it looks like we'll be witness to a pretty intense fight to the finish line.

Jeff Bridges may be doing a variant on his True Grit voice for his role in Seventh Son, but if this fantasy action adventure film is made up of recycled parts, at least they look like they've been assembled in a lively fashion.

I liked Headlead's last film, Bachelorette, but this, with name - checks for Aaron Sorkin and Game of Thrones, seems smug and overindulged, with several scenes feeling like they've been improvised way past a point when that's a good thing, while Sudeikis looks at least five years too old.

Much of the film looks visually striking especially on the big screen, so at least there's that to hold your attention on a purely aesthetic level.

But he's also very funny — and so luxuriantly, chirpily foul - mouthed that, on a couple of occasions, I fancy I see the rather demure ladies lunching at a nearby table looking aghast, not least when he announces that the most important lesson he has learned as an actor is to remember that, even if you're the star of a film, you're always part of a team.

Going back in time also proves a neat way of resurrecting the pleasures of the earlier films — not least the spiffing banter of battling X-Wing pilots, the Lego - like look of the Star Destroyers and the sight of Darth Vader at his most furious.

Now, while the quality of his films will still remain to be seen (he's only had two), it does look as if at the very least, we've got a director who simply likes to take his time in between projects.