Sentences with phrase «film machismo»

Not exact matches

This is almost surprising given that the narrative film takes place exclusively in a large prison in the Dominican Republic, alternating machismo with romance in a wholly believable way and with the two principal lovebirds exuding quite a bit of chemistry for inmates with little physical contact.

I've heard derision of this film over at IMDB, partly over the minor connection it draws between the sports - culture in America and the connection with wartime machismo.

Expect big hats, big guns, epic machismo, rampant misogyny, incredible music and a whole lot of harsh language when the film drops in late summer.

So actors Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lem me, Paul Soter, Erik Stolhanske and Jay Chandrasekhar, who also directs the film, don the uniforms, the hats and the brain - dead machismo to protect the border.

The book and the film on which it's based share a tone of hipster sexual frustration metaphor in the Jay McInerney mold, here caged, as it usually is, in pumped - up bodies trying not to seem gay so as to ease admittance into these exclusive cults of machismo and sadomasochism.

He'd better hope they're not the types who dig westerns (films about the law of the gun, machismo, etc), as his new one is a riff on this most American of genres.

As a film, it takes all these elements and jacks them up with steroids and machismo.

This is the kind of film that in the wrong hands could have been a painfully tedious exercise in American military gung ho machismo, but thankfully McQuarrie makes sure that it never takes itself too seriously and making Cruise's character a rather cowardly, inept soldier works wonders for his likeability.

Frankie is surrounded by machismo, which makes his struggle to come to terms with his homosexuality all the more understandable without Hittman turning the film into a heavy - handed «issues» movie.

How is male machismo depicted in this film?

Mostly occurring in a hideout as the robbers of a failed heist attempt return one by one, each telling their version of the story, it's a machismo, testosterone - soaked, violent film of the sort that guys love.

To be fair, McDonagh has plenty on his mind, from an anatomy of film violence (how much is too much is the implicit question) to an essay in machismo that deliberately places women at the margins.

On its 30th anniversary, Kenji Fujishima writes about James Cameron's «Aliens,» and its subversive approach to machismo in film.

The films Mamet has directed range from sophomoric (House of Games) to grating (State and Main) to just incompetent (Heist), though Spartan reminds the most of one he only wrote: the wilderness howler The Edge, with its machismo over-examined and placed in a context that isn't allegorical as it must be, but hardboiled realism as it can't be.

Clearly looking to avoid the «that's not how it's done» barbs slung at Zero Dark Thirty, Berg spent a month embedded with a SEAL team in Iraq, and his film offers no apologies for its abundant machismo or respectful salute.

But it's the soaring central love story that makes the film sing: this is an old - school romance, all lingering glances and bold declarations, petticoats, pouting and heaving machismo.

The script has taken rather a trim in comparison, this film concentrating on machismo and gunplay rather than the more artful and character driven original; the result is that Eastwood's gunslinger comes across as more of a cynical operator than Mifune's aimless but moralistic samurai, and the build up has a brisk, almost rushed feel about it.

The loss of Walker provides an elegiac tone for the movie that happily replaces the machismo and ego - butting contests of the rest of the films; characters realize that family is more important than action.

Jeff Bridges must be commended for his fresh interpretation of the roguish Rooster Cogburn as an endearing contradiction of machismo and vulnerability which actually enables you to forget about John Wayne after the film's first five minutes or so.

This is the first time Stallone directed one of his own «Rambo» scripts, and the film feels infused with his particular brand of cartoonishly monosyllabic machismo, which is perversely a virtue.