Not exact matches
Writing a recent column predicting the nominees for the crafts categories (cinematography, production design,
film editing and the like), I
kept typing the name
of one movie over and over again: «Mad Max: Fury...
That's the
type of film I'm working on right now and those are the
types of films I want to
keep making.
These are the
types of movies I hope Hollywood
keeps getting opportunities to make, and I hope the final
film lives up to this brief tease.
The title
of the
film foreshadows some pretty clear implications about the
type of character she plays, and the
film hinges on Pugh's ability to sell the addicting freedom that comes from being on her own when her husband leaves her at home, and the belief that she can, will and must do whatever is necessary to
keep the life to which she has grown accustomed.
These characters aren't limited to Californian residents because you have encountered or might even be one
of these
types of people, giving the
film an almost personalized relevance that
keeps you engaged even when the events become cringeworthy.
This is the
type of film that often shows up on TCM in later months, so I would
keep an eye out for it there if you're interested.
This Youtube channel is entirely temporary, only to gain a small audience and maybe some money I could use to
keep it going, but I hope to eventually do the
type of thing you do now, the directing, writing, or maybe acting my own feature
films.
It's the
type of film where a standoff in the streets and a public cop beating
keeps your interest thanks to a homeless man with a rusted broadsword and a centaur in SWAT gear.
The
film presents two novelists, one (Medeiros) returning from Japan with an adventure story she has not completed, the other (Laszlo Kovacs) in Japan, shown
typing his next novel, and who apparently protected her during her stay and helped her fly back to France (she had become entangled in the theft
of confidential documents and was
kept captive, then chased by hoodlums after her escape).
Director Espinosa isn't reinventing anything here — the character
types are familiar, the sequence
of events is largely predictable, the design
of the alien creature lacks an H.R. Giger or Rob Bottin to make it pop — but he still finds opportunities for flourishes that
keep his
film from lapsing into a rote genre exercise.
Where a lot
of films of this
type feel like a comedy sketch drawn out long past being funny, «Talladega Nights»
keeps working all the way up the end without dropping its ironic and absurdist tone, and ends up being not just a good comedy but a fairly satisfying sports
film as well, neither
of which is that easy to do.
A terrific cast along with stylish direction by Minghella
keep the
film fresh, and add nifty thematic twists to an otherwise old - fashioned
type of suspense yarn.
My only gripe really was some
of the superhero dreams sequences at the beginning
of the
film were perhaps more in
keeping with the
type of slapstick airhead humour Stiller exercised in Zoolander and was perhaps a little ill fitting for Walter Mitty.
It follows every twist and turn
of the action on - screen and so can be a little schizophrenic, but the composer manages to
keep it impressively musical and it never seems quite so disjointed as most scores for this
type of film are.
Still, the
film is good enough to
keep all the Marvel Comics crazed audiences out there deliriously happy while
keeping the rest
of us earthbound
types in moderate thralldom.