Sentences with phrase «films in the genre apart»

The movie doesn't seem very different from the other films in the genre apart from its premise, and while that formula worked for David Gordon Green's «Pineapple Express,» that was mainly as a result of some excellent chemistry between the two leads.

Not exact matches

With an astoundingly funny vein of dark comedy running through the entire film, this film sets itself apart as a treatise of the horror genre, something that Scream accomplished a decade previously but Cabin in the Woods elevates to another level.

This is what sets this film apart others in the genre.

In the hours surrounding teaser trailer, Trank and screenwriter Simon Kinberg talked with Collider, Empire Online and Yahoo! Movies about their frame of mind for the film and setting it apart from what they see as the commodified superhero action genre.

It's a story of Native American culture that's also a thriller and a story of empowerment, and in an era in which so many genre films look alike, it's so refreshing to see something like «Mohawk» that stands apart from the crowd.

The script came from Alex Garland, who wrote the novel on which The Beach was based, and while those two films are miles apart in terms of budgets and genres, they have surprisingly similar themes.

With this film, Guest nails down his command of the comedy mocumentary, a genre he helped to invent by co-writing and starring in «This Is Spinal Tap» (about a rock band coming apart at the seams) and by writing, directing and starring in «Waiting For Guffman» (about a small town hiring an allegedly hotshot Broadway director for its 150th anniversary pageant).

More often than not, it resembles a formulaic, over-sentimentalized made - for - TV movie that lacks the big talent, great writing, and efficient character development to help set it apart from other films in its genre (not to mention the fact that it's overlong and way too bland to resonate on an actual emotional level.