Sentences with phrase «film with a wit»

With a giant god like hand, Whedon destroys viewer expectation by carefully crafting the perfect satire film with a wit, intelligence and depth that is often lacking in the films it makes fun of.

However, unlike something like Doomsday which simply ripped off old films with no wit or subtlety, this film actually develops upon its ideas.

If you like silly horror films, then you'll most likely want to watch this film.Veteran horror director Steve Miner (Friday The 13th Part 2, 3, House, Halloween H20) directs this film with wit, and Minder definitely knows how to craft a good, fun, B movie style creature film.

In a gig seemingly born out of his voicing the titular hero of Wreck - It Ralph, John C. Reilly narrates the film with wit and fun.

Here's a kids» animated film with wit, charm and one - liners.

Not exact matches

The path she takes meanders alongside a stream and over train tracks, not far from where hundreds of people converge during the company's summer «bike - in movie» events, gathering on the lawn to enjoy films paired with fine beers — like New Belgium's flagship Fat Tire Amber Ale, the organic wheat offering Mothership Wit and La Folie, a sour ale aged in the large French oak barrels that loom behind the bottling site.

Here's a list of films for young girls — movies that show strong female characters with the kind of energy, intelligence, wit, and initiative our daughters hope to develop themselves.

With Beatriz at Dinner, the prolific duo confirm their talent for social commentary and incisive wit after more than a decade of close collaborations, including indie films (Star Maps, Chuck & Buck, The Good Girl) and TV series (Freaks and Geeks and HBO's Enlightened).

Nevertheless, despite the frequent confusion that accompanies the watching of these films, the long view reveals a series that has remained focused on characters, feeling and filmmaking craft, while often telling this classically inspired story with wit and nuance.

«Just Go with It» has major problems with its lack of wit and exhausted repeated jokes, but thankfully, Aniston's performance is able to boost up the comedy in the film; adding to an amount that ranks higher than many other films that try the same formula of comedy as of this film With Sandler's and Aniston's connection being believable, «Just Go with It» manages to hit the mark for several adults and teens to enwith It» has major problems with its lack of wit and exhausted repeated jokes, but thankfully, Aniston's performance is able to boost up the comedy in the film; adding to an amount that ranks higher than many other films that try the same formula of comedy as of this film With Sandler's and Aniston's connection being believable, «Just Go with It» manages to hit the mark for several adults and teens to enwith its lack of wit and exhausted repeated jokes, but thankfully, Aniston's performance is able to boost up the comedy in the film; adding to an amount that ranks higher than many other films that try the same formula of comedy as of this film With Sandler's and Aniston's connection being believable, «Just Go with It» manages to hit the mark for several adults and teens to enWith Sandler's and Aniston's connection being believable, «Just Go with It» manages to hit the mark for several adults and teens to enwith It» manages to hit the mark for several adults and teens to enjoy.

The film - making may hardly be groundbreaking, but this story is more relevant than ever, and it is told with wit, precision and understated passion.

The film boasts an impressive vocal ensemble — Kiefer Sutherland (as the respected lion leader, Samson), Greg Cipes (as Samson's son, Ryan), Jim Belushi (as Benny, the street savvy squirrel and Samson's best friend), Janeane Garofalo (as a quick - witted giraffe), Richard Kind (as a dim - witted anaconda), William Shatner (as a wicked wildebeest), and Eddie Izzard (as Nigel, an acerbic koala)-- along with cutting edge animation, and a story filled with hilarious situations.

What I saw in my several viewings was an embracing yet acerbic melange of genres polished to a single piece through a screenplay larded with wit, superb filming, and masterful performances.

Definitions of family, love and friendship all get put to the test with wit and warmth in The Kids Are All Right, one of the year's most honest and endearing films.

There is indeed a certain immersion value even within the film's style, subtle though it may be, and when it comes to substance, no matter how thinly or formulaically it goes handled, it carries a potential that is reflected in the film carrying wit and dramatic elements as a portrait on man's interactions with his environment and his peers, anchored by memorable characters who are themselves anchored by memorable performances.

Django Unchained is a long, powerful film, its dramatic brush strokes broad and colourful, its psychological points made with considerable subtlety and wit.

The short - statured, middle - aged Haven, who throughout the film is always dressed in white with rhinestones and gaudy designs, is distracted by the unauthorized entrance into the control room audience of a BBC journalist Opal (Geraldine Chaplin), a flea - market dressed, tattered, nit - wit, opinionated reporter who is «doing a documentary on Nashville» and lugging a tape recorder at her side.

McCarthy plays that kind of scene with enough style, confidence and wit to pitch the jokes past the straight men, and the film is an example of her doing what she does best.

Chang Chia - lu's intricate script bristles with wit and suspense; the film from start to finish is a terrific entertainment.

With all these safety features built in, this 1985 film is too well padded to qualify as genuinely radical wit, but in an even - toned, TV sort of way it's mildly amusing and inventive throughout.

Recruited by an old chum (Peter Boyle) to help find an exotic prostitute missing in Chinatown, Hammett enlists his implausibly gorgeous neighbor (Marilu Henner) to play Girl Friday as he matches wits with colorful actors including Jack Nance («Eraserhead» and other David Lynch works), David Patrick Kelly (whose strangled voice is an interesting counterpart to his iconic «Come out to play - yi - yay» taunt from «The Warriors»), Roy Kinnear and a few old - timers from film noir's heyday (the scene with Sylvia Sidney is especially good).

Its comparatively simple first act remains a good example of how to apply the horror elements of the Silent Hill games to film with a degree of elegance and wit, and for a solid 35 minutes, it's an atmospheric film about a mother whose deeply maternal desire to help her daughter inadvertently places her in danger, and the need for Radha Mitchell's Rose to find her daughter when she goes missing provides a cogent and palatable, if somewhat slight, emotional basis from which the proceeding action can spring.

He's made a science fiction film with verve, imagination and even a little wit.

Filled with wit, heart, real human drama, and a lot of love, «Danny Collins» is a terrific film.

While David Fincher's film underlined the sharp wit and moral ambiguity of Gone Girl, this latest Flynn adaptation starts off with the handicap of a less gripping yarn, combined with the uneven track record of director Gilles Paquet - Brenner (Sarah's Key, Walled In).

Formerly known as Loomis Fargo, the film is based on the true story of four dim - witted Southerners who pulled off one of the biggest heists in American history by robbing a Loomis Fargo truck and making away with nearly $ 20 million.

Paddington is more on the order of one of Pixar's better films, only with the British wit of Aardman Animations.

The Bond series already had two films under its belt by the time 007 matched wits with Gert Fröbe's precious - metal obsessive, but the third time was the charm.

Even with the solid work behind the camera, the times when the film truly comes to life occur when Langella and Sheen are together on the screen, especially in their battle of wits in their recreation of real - life argumentation.

Judging by the film's latest trailer, this new movie has traces of the hip wit found in Neustadter and Weber's (500) Days of Summer screenplay, with poignance and philosophy similar to that found in the pair's script for their previous teen romance tale, The Spectacular Now (which also costarred Woodley).

With The Angels «Share, Loach has once again unearthed a few rare gems among his mainly amateur cast, and the resulting film is a triumphant vehicle for the charisma and wit of these young actors.

It's not as gloomy as DC's recent efforts (few films are) and judicious doses of wit and charm relieve the angst and the smashing: Iron Man addresses Winter Soldier with «Hey, Manchurian Candidate», Spider - Man irritates senior heroes with «Remember that really old film The Empire Strikes Back?»

Fans of Jason Statham will no doubt have some fun with Killer Elite and there's one show - stopping moment in the first Statham / Owen brawl that will certainly get a reaction from audiences, but for anyone looking for either an over-the-top action flick or a smart - witted political thriller, the film fails to live up to the sum of its respective parts.

Told with wry wit and gritty honesty, this film explores London's dark sexual netherworld.

Constructed with glorious stop - motion animation and a strong sense of dry wit, the film blindsided me with its ingenuity and spirit.

Michael Curtiz's Casablanca, though, is not the only film to draw its soul from Julien Duvivier's 1937 masterpiece — with the French New Wave directors alone, the movie became a centerpiece of a marriage between the moodiness of French Renoir and the quick - wit of American Hawks.

The trio in the house are a different combination of those in Fincher's film, but are executed with far less wit and cleverness.

An amusingly trashy rip - off of Jaws, the Roger Corman - produced Piranha marked the directorial debut of the great Joe Dante who has always infused his films with such wit and charm that any other shortcomings can easily be forgiven, and the same can be said here.

And while it's far from mainstream, it's also packed with more wit, passion and invention than all of the films in...

«Full of charm and wit, with a little mystery thrown in for good measure, APPLESAUCE is a rare and very original take on the relationship drama and mystery genres, excelling quite well in both... It's a film that keeps its viewer wondering what will happen next, from the very opening of the film, to the moment the credits roll, and is by far Tukel's best work yet.»

The happiest of matrimonies the film presents is that between the director and his source material; Stillman, who established himself as a master of upper - caste repartee with films like Metropolitan (90) and The Last Days of Disco (98), feels more at home in Austen's wit - driven world than ever before.

Trying to make up for a lack of genuine wit, this film adopts a frenetic pace with a constant stream of jokes and action.

Full of wit and charm, and with Sean Connery and Donald Sutherland perfectly cast as a pair of Victorian rogues, the film is a highly - entertaining caper, making one wish Crichton tackled this kind of lighthearted fare a little more frequently.

The first film's strengths lie in the concision of its world - building and the wit with which it establishes its underground criminal network.

The film opens majestically, with great wit, as the director himself plays a man magically transported from a hotel room to a cinema hall, where he gazes down upon an audience enraptured by moving images from the 1890s.

Like its predecessor, «Paddington 2» is a clever delight of visual invention and wit; this sequel draws particularly from the films of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton for its ingenious slapstick action set pieces, while the screenplay by director Paul King and Simon Farnaby packs the dialogue with fun wordplay and tiny details that pay off in major comic ways.

You may, at first, balk at the notion of murder as comedy, but Kind Hearts and Coronets carries out its grim duties with such cheer that you surrender morality to Hamer's comedy and guffaw at the film's dry British wit and gallows humor.

The source material is unusual for Austen in this sense, privileging wit and style over romance or basic morality, but it's perfectly in keeping with the spirit of The Last Days of Disco, the last film to pair Chloë Savigny and Kate Beckinsale.

Heady material that deals with serious philosophical and spiritual matters, the Archers nevertheless navigate the film with down - to - earth wit and charm, helped tremendously by a likeable cast lead by Niven, Hunter and Roger Livesey.

Tracing inspiration to a yarn from one of Giovanni Boccaccio's collected 14th century novellas in The Decameron, the new ensemble film from Jeff Baena wraps it religious habit up with wit, erotica, and practical jokes from Italian prose translated into a modern vernacular.