Sentences with phrase «films pieced together»

Not exact matches

You tend to patch together a picture from films / TV / reading all the pregnancy info you can get your hands on, as well as piecing together things other people tell you.

To provide the viewer means to piece together and understand the storyline, key scenes repeat at certain intervals throughout the film.

I made this decision on my own, inspired by a film and based on information pieced together from films and reputable sources on the internet.

The DVD even contains the oft - forgotten «In Search of Dr. Seuss», a full 90 - minute film which is basically a series of set - pieces linking a whole bunch of Seuss's stories together into something approximating a coherent narrative.

What we get is a collection of moderately violent action set - pieces untroubled by humour or broader coherence... Forster, who directed the Bond film Quantum of Solace, has done his best to piece together a story from these incompatible parts, but the final product has an elaborate uselessness about it, like a broken teapot glued back together with the missing pieces replaced by parts of a vacuum cleaner.

The film - which follows a trio of friends (Bradley Cooper's Phil, Ed Helms» Stu, and Zach Galifianakis» Alan) as they attempt to piece together just what transpired during a pal's drunken bachelor party (where it inevitably becomes clear that said pal has mysteriously vanished)- strikes all of the wrong notes virtually from the get - go, as screenwriters Jon Lucas and Scott Moore offer up a series of broadly - portrayed caricatures that could only exist within just such a low - rent comedy (with Galifianakis» aggressively off - the - wall turn as Alan undoubtedly the most apt example of this).

A love story between Tina, a customs agent with an extraordinary sense of smell, and Vore, who introduces her to her true self, the film is «mesmerising in its initial oddness and develops into a complex, richly satisfying piece of storytelling in which all the seemingly jagged, awkward edges eventually fit smoothly together,» according to Allan Hunter of Screen Daily.

Co-starring Survivor contestant turned thespian Colleen Haskell, Schneider's tale of a car accident victim imbued with superhuman powers after being pieced back together with animal organs kept the low - brow rolling while marking his territory among the ranks of the more successful transitions from SNL player to big screen star.Later, in the 2000s, Schneider frequently alternated between starring in his own films (The Hot Chick, Duece Bigalow: European Gigolo), and supporting his old pal Sandler (The Longest Yard, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry), with few on either side truly managing to ignite the box office or his career momentum.

Coogler ups the intrigue as the film plays, with each new piece of the puzzle put together to deliver impact, and to change what we know about these characters in ways that give the entire story a surprising amount of nuance, given the amount of characters to follow, as well as the wider scope of the international politics.

Director Leitch, a former stunt pro lauded for his inventive action, never reaches the dynamic virtuosity of his previous films but ably pieces together a midpoint set piece set on wheels, tracking a speeding convoy through a busy city center.

Actors Benedict Cumberbatch and Toby Jones, who portray Charles» supporters in this film, also star together in another period piece, Amazing Grace, where they find themselves on opposite sides of the debate over England's involvement in the slave trade.

In piecing together the why and how of the Templars» decline showrunner Dominic Minghella and his writing team lazily paste together a collage of conceits familiar to any sword and / or sorcery fan — and many of those films did a better job at selling such a story.

This ragged collection of gags and sketch fragments was reportedly pieced together from an incoherent mass of footage by ace film doctor Ralph Rosenblum.

Pieced together like a crime picture, but marked with the bloody thumbprint of the horror genre, the film tells of newly engaged couple Sam (Harriet Dyer) and Ian (Ian Meadows), who discover an abandoned tent and evidence of a multiple murder.

Shortly afterward, Zhao began filming him and his friends and family, gradually piecing together the lightly fictionalized story of one Brady Blackburn and his difficult physical and emotional recovery.

That's the issue I've been grappling with all week as I try to piece together my review for «Under the Skin,» the latest film by director Jonathan Glazer.

It's easy to piece together when you hit the film's climax, but while experiencing the rest of the film, it's too tough to connect the dots to appreciate certain scenes in the moment.

«It wasn't until I saw Greta talk about the film and making it and putting it together, and how all of this came from her and she's done something brilliant that people truly love and it's a great piece of work that I thought, «Oh yeah, I do want to do this now and maybe I could actually do it,»» Ronan adds.

Except, in piecing together its under - developed, gimmick - fuelled mystery, the film's primary motivation is showmanship rather than substance.

At the film festival: Bruce LaBruce's subversive masterpiece, Gerontophilia, a lovely rom - com in which everybody fucks one another across all age and gender borders — desire shall bind us together; Juno Mak's Rigor Mortis, a touching albeit grim look at loss and damnation in the form of a Chinese hopping - vampire movie, with many a nod to the subgenre's clichés and conventions; Jealousy, Philippe Garrel's latest tale of love ground down by the mill of daily life, raw and naked even by his ascetic standards; Hayao Miyazaki's troublesome The Wind Rises, which frames the story of a fighter - plane designer as a grand romance of struggle and failure, with animation's supreme living master contemplating the price mankind can sometimes pay in the name of one dreamer's self - fulfillment, and the willful blindness and egocentricity it takes to realize one's vision; and finally to Yorgos Lanthimos's Necktie and Athina Rachel Tsangari's 24 Frames Per Century, their contributions to the Venice 70: Future Reloaded omnibus, not to mention the untitled pieces by Jean - Marie Straub, Monte Hellman, Amit Dutta, and Haile Gerima.

Sounds like Ivan Reitman, Dan Aykroyd and everyone involved in Ghostbusters are putting the pieces together to do something truly big once the Feig film hits.

Also, there's reportedly a sneak peek at Ant - Man & The Wasp, as well as a piece called «Marvel Studios the First Ten Years: Connecting the Universe» that will likely offer a pretty cool look at all of the films released so far and how they work together.

This darkly funny and eerily relevant 1982 cult classic about how to stop worrying and love the bomb is pieced together from government - produced educational and training films, newsreels and... More

Secondly, the film's plot is pieced together like crap.

Thank You for Your Service is a harrowing, honest and beautifully acted film about lives blown to bits and then put back together; not entirely, not immediately, but piece by tiny piece.

There's very little exposition in the film and things end up piecing together as it goes.

Being that this is Turing's story, it's easy for the other actors to get lost in the background but even if they do from time to time, each one is an important piece in putting together the ultimate picture that Tyldum's film draws together.

Even the few redeeming aspects like Armie Hammer «s endearing performance and director Gore Verbinski «s skill at putting together set pieces can't stop the film from feeling like being dragged through the desert rather than a rousing ride through canyons and vistas.

The pieces fit together well enough for a cohesive single narrative, but the odd shifts of interest lead one to imagine that DreamWorks split their resources into four groups and each were responsible for making an entertaining quarter - film.

At its core, the film is a low - key thriller and detective story, stripped down and singularly unique, the film follows a brother and sister as they try to piece together the disappearance of the brother's ex-girlfriend.

A chase film with tinges of science fiction in the margins, this is a thriller that does not burden its audience or overcomplicate its narrative with extraneous exposition, allowing you as the viewer to piece many of its mysteries together yourself.

The rest of the film was basically just bits and pieces of other, better, Woody Allen films all chopped up and mixed together.

This feels like a Cliff's Notes production, with pieces of six different — and sadly better — films cobbled together into a single story.

Haneke's films often involve an element of puzzle - solving, of piecing together the necessary information from the smallest of clues, and so it proves here, as the film opens with a secretly - filmed Snapchat sequence (including disparaging comments) of a woman getting ready for bed that will only reveal its true significance later on.

The film has it all — sex, drugs, rock «n roll, and even a little violence — but what's most impressive is the manner in which Scorsese pieces it all together, breaking a number of traditional filmmaking rules along the way.

It's also close in feel to Brett Morgen's 30 for 30 documentary on OJ Simpson's famous Bronco chase, and, like that film, Berg slowly pieces together the action of the day — a minute's silence for the Newtown massacre's victims, the Red Sox's home game — to give a sense of a calm before the chaos.

Sharp - eyed viewers spotting her amongst Victorian New York's glitterati would be able to piece together that the time travel conceit of the film will come full circle.

Fearing that they may be the next victims in what appears to be a snuff film ring, David and Amy must work together to try to find a way out of their predicament in one piece.

Over the course of director Terrence Malick's career, it's become abundantly clear that he isn't one for hastily working through any stage of production and delivering a quickly pieced together finished film.

Backstage's Great Perforamnces issue, on newsstands Dec. 6, will feature a piece on her discussing her craft, Knightley also took the time to speak frankly on several other topics, including how she often dies on film; how Wright was resistant to casting her in «Pride and Prejudice,» their first film together; and how her Mr. Darcy in that movie, Matthew Macfadyen, almost played her abuser in a public service advertisement.

I'm not one who typically notices anything wrong with the technical side of movies; yet even I, after the film, could envision the editing room as the team pieced together moments.

As the pieces of the puzzle come together the audience is so far detached from the film that the outcome doesn't matter.

In turn, I used so much effort trying to put the few pieces together that I was able to decipher, that ultimately, the only sensation the film left me with was exhaustion.

The film cuts back and forth in a non-traditional biopic way to put the pieces of the Harding puzzle together.

Here is a film so intensely heinous on every possible level — irreparably disjointed, cobbled together from disparate pieces the filmmakers seemingly concocted on the set — that I was dangerously close to...

This newly pieced together version of Clive Barker's own adaptation of his book Cabal, created from footage found on a VHS work print, the «Cabal Cut» of Nightbreed is not quite a «lost masterpiece» but it's interesting to see the painstaking work gone into restoring the film to what more closely resembles Barker's vision.

Her films always resist the urge to turn subtext into text, trusting the audience to piece together the experience for themselves.

All of this shows on the screen as The Wolfman comes across as a pieced - together film of disjointed scenes with glaring tonal shifts that makes for unsatisfactory viewing — all sewn together like Frankenstein's monster.

At least four directors helmed pieces of the film, including Michael Powell (this was his color film debut), which is held together by the glorious art direction by William Cameron Menzies, who creates an amazing world for the fantastical wonders of flying carpets, mechanical horses, and a fifty foot genie with a bellowing laugh.

Many reviews have stated that the The Mummy is simply a series of mind - numbing action set - pieces strung together into a feature - length film.