Sentences with phrase «film carries forth»

As an action flick, it isn't awful, but it is rather routine most of the time, and some of the special effects, make - up and design work look more at home in a semi-comic romp than in the dramatic setting that this film carries forth.

Not exact matches

Based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Joe Hill (a.k.a Stephen King's son), «Horns» is a unique horror flick about the devil inside us all, and the film, adapted by one of the genre's true prankster geniuses (Alexandre Aja of «Piranha 3D» infamy), carries forth the same nutzo spirit of the book, which is equal parts love story, murder mystery, and supernatural, metaphysical nightmare.

Another involves the marital happiness of one of its characters, Simple Simon (O'Dowd, «the IT Crowd») whose relationship and nuptials are barely set up before we have feel - good scenes of partying and marriage, only to follow it up with seeing the young man's heart crushed in a wholly manufactured and not terribly funny gag that his bride (January Jones, We Are Marshall) only is using him to get closer to the object of her obsession, the flamboyantly popular DJ Gavin Cavanagh (Ifans, Garfield 2), is, like many scenes in what is a lengthy film for its type, not only a needless and long side distraction, but there's no payoff in either laughs or carrying forth the themes.

Ingmar Bergman's 1996 classic Persona may not have been the first film to tackle it, but it is certainly among the most impactful, establishing so many of the tropes that have carried forth to the present day.

In a 2005 interview with Jay Sanders, published in Bomb, Conrad said of that era, «[I] t seemed to me the time had come to just skip right ahead and carry the whole formalist premise out toward an endgame, where the necessary logical extreme that had already occurred in painting and in performance and so forth years earlier could be exercised in film.»