Sentences with phrase «films revelled»

[It] seems reluctant to use the potentials for astute comic strip philosophy that all the other films revelled in to a greater or lesser extent.

Loosely adapted from a Neil Gaiman short story (and co-starring Nicole Kidman as a punk queen impresario called Boadicea), the film revels in its own shambolic style, turning the England of 1977 into a sort of queer - friendly fringe musical fantasia where anything goes.

At least the festival's closing film revelled in the joy of cinematic creativity.

Despite an over-long, scene - setting opening and serious, set - piece conclusion, the film revels in the characters» enjoyable experimentation with their powers, with a sense of fun immediately apparent.

The concept is good: we haven't had anything in the Transylvanian camp genre recently, and this film revels in the silly accents and extravagant castles.

Even ignoring the abysmal premise, the film revels in sub-standard rom - com territory, with only the cast of note.

Eventually the film opens up and we go more toward the traditional action genre, but for awhile the film revels in on the ledge paranoia.

While the film revels in its frat boy humor and irreverent satire, it does wallow in the cheesiest of period trappings including disco, shag haircuts and sadly, a misogyny that comes with the territory.

Best characterised as a melding of «Allo «Allo with Star Trek, the film revels in broad performances and a high - school kind of kitsch that's endearing enough and would have taken the film to Galaxy Quest levels if it only had some decent gags.

Though not every artist in the exhibition bares his direct influence, this celebration masquerading as institutional critique places K - HOLE and DIS thoroughly in the tradition of Trecartin, whose films both revel in the fact of digital life and sinisterly document its chaos.

Not exact matches

The stars and celebrities of food and fashion television, video, film and radio are preparing to revel in San Francisco on February 11th at their own one - of - a-kind awards show, the 7th Annual TASTE AWARDS.

Award - winning film - maker Martin Scorsese directs the true story of New York stockbroker Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his journey from pursuing the American dream to revelling in corporate greed.

A glamorous, alluring entertainment that revels in the artifice of Hollywood while exposing its corrupt heart, L.A. Confidential pays stylish homage to some of the great film noirs of the distant and recent past.

Disturbing too, yes, and wholly wrong in almost each and every scene, but the film so revels in its own gleeful debauchery that it's infectious... if you've got the stomach for it.

Finally for all the film's ridiculousness — enshrined in that cheesy - as - cheddar prologue spoken by Mako — Milius resists the temptation to play the silliness self - consciously (as say Stephen Sommers would), but revels in the earnestness of Conan's personal quest for revenge against Thulsa Doom.

And while a close look at Wiseau's film would make Franco's tribute more meaningful, «The Disaster Artist» largely works because it brings us closer to Tommy while reveling in the same ingredients that have turned him into an icon.

Realism and earnestness are discarded at every point in the film, as Fargeat fashions a cartoon of leering carnage, reveling in her willingness to do whatever she damn well pleases.

This is one of those mainstream America films that revels in posing a great Moral Question (in this case: Should I be a good person?)

Wrapped up in nurse's garb throughout most of the film, the ebullient Clara Bow is permitted a sequence in which, disguised as a Parisian floozie while trying to rescue a revelling Rogers, she displays a great deal of epidermis.

Half the film, written by Coogler and Aaron Covington, revels in cliches, skillfully.

Yet when the film stays within the confines of Brad's wry voice and claustrophobically narrow worldview — revelling in the contradictions of his alternating tenderness and resentment towards his son, a talented musician seemingly all but guaranteed to surpass him professionally — it makes for a reasonably charming character study: «Enlightened» - lite.

Set in the late 70s, the film positively revels in an exaggerated version of the era — so much smog, so much hair — and the Los Angeles setting means that it gets to mimic all the detective fiction of which Black's always been such a fan.

The film constantly wavers between a thriller and a horror, with some sections being something of which Hitchcock would have been proud, and others revelling in graphic gore.

Revelling in its biting discourse against the evils of our socially surveilled world, the film sees everyone hit rock bottom — and all because of one man's desire to prove himself to a bunch of strangers in cyberspace.

At first glance, some might label the movie slight due to its complete lack of concern for plotting, but any film which allows the viewer to breathe in so deeply, to revel in its dark spaces and eclectic moods is anything but.

Stung knows it's a bonkers film and it revels in that madness.

Both films pit superhero against superhero where the villain is reveling in the shadows.

Glastonbury (15) Running time: 135 min *** Julian Temple's loving documentary may at first appear to be aimed at the sort of music fan who prefers Glasto streamed live to their TV.But this collection of archive and commissioned footage from 36 years of England's greatest music festival is likely to appeal more to diehard fans than non-festival-goers, since it revels in precisely the eccentricities that makes the armchair people dive for cover.Most of this film is a structureless, rambling celebration of Glastonbury's boozy, hedonistic, liberated, political and frequently bonkers character rather than of the actual music: great if you were at the party, presumably less great if you weren't.

The Muppet Christmas Carol has been loved for a generation, a generation who are now passing that love on to their children and still revelling in the warmth and guiltless pleasure the film brings.

Director Todd Louiso, screenwriter Gordy Hoffman, and star Philip Seymour Hoffman play nicely off each other in a feature - length commentary in which the film seems to reveal itself anew to the self - effacing trio, who revel in psychoanalyzing Love Liza's characters and, when you get down to it, defending them.

Waters» film aptly mocks the gallows frenzy of the murderer - celebrity, reveling in the grotesque pleasure derived from these monsters we hail as pop culture icons.

The «7» knows what kind of film it is and it not only revels in it but it excels when it goes all in despite the predictable nature of Westerns and their clichés of which this possesses many.

Not that the film doesn't revel in cheesiness, but compared to other films of its ilk, it manages to at least avoid drowning in the cheese.

Fragoso: Mud, in contrast to a film like Take Shelter — which sort of revels in the psychological horrors of Michael Shannon's character — is a bit of a lighter film.

Paul Thomas Anderson's latest film, Phantom Thread, a portrait of a fictional fashion designer in the couture scene of 1955 London, indulges in similar revels, placing the film firmly in the tradition of the melodramatic women's pictures of the 1940s: it's filled with achingly vivid close - ups (Anderson also shot the film) of shining colored threads, needles piercing thick fabric, rough - edged hand - sewn labels, intricate lace patterns, and rich cloth falling in sculptural folds.

Whereas Hitchcock's films put his sympathetic blonde women in peril and appeared to punish them for their apparent «transgressions» (particularly for asserting their independence), as in late period Hitchcock films like Psycho (1960), The Birds (1963) and Marnie (1964), Verhoeven seems to revel in showing the Blonde women in his films command the screen, dictate the narrative and overcome their persecutors.

Where much talk of film culture necessarily targets the social conditions enabled (and disabled) by government, institutions, big business, etc, an older tradition in film criticism takes a step away from this «materialist» fray, to revel in the visions of special auteurs.

The film is at its best in long, wordless sequences that revel in the undisturbed power of nature absent the influences of man, and situate the characters within a world that is alien just because it has remained untouched.

The film underlines the dissociative effects of entertainment cultdom is the most obvious terms, and inadvertently dampens what little joy it revels in its own pop culture fantasia.

Both About Time and Ruby Sparks are about manipulation, but where Kazan makes sure to consider the dark side of it all, Curtis revels in About Time's Britishness and charm, confronting these themes through a completely different lens that further marginalizes McAdams» character and then skips off into the sunset with the sort of weepy feel good climax you expect from a film with Richard Curtis» name on it.

Obvious Child felt like a revelation in the wake of a festival that had distressingly begun to favor glamorously stripped - down Hollywood stars posturing in films that reveled in cheap nostalgia and grating quirkiness.

I feel as though any weaknesses this film has it somehow revels in it, and makes it work in a positive light.

Revel in its unalloyed campy gloss and you'll find a formulaic but funny film with two extremely likeable female leads in Kendrick and Rebel Wilson.

The film is his strongest film to date and revels in his stylistic flourishes.

Like the first film, Paranormal Activity 2 revels in the creepiness of relatable domestic oddities and proceeds to uncover the terror in heightening such disturbances with the suggestion that some greater force is at work.

The director, who previously to this film, reveled in chronicling the moments «between» the real story beats, decided to tell a tale of an eastern dandy, prophetically named William Blake, who makes a series of mistakes starting with taking an accounting job across the country in a frontier town named Machine.

It's a spoof that's not very funny, a boring action film, a movie that revels in stereotypes while trying to make fun of them.

Refn knows exactly what he's doing — he's in on the joke — and he revels in the sensory pleasures of film as an art form (the score by Cliff Martinez, who also did Drive, is practically a character here).

The camera revels so much in their various musical, cinematic and comic - book loves that it's easy to think the films celebrate a total immersion into pop culture.

Like what Steven Soderbergh's The Good German did for Michael Curtiz films, Gangster Squad revels in its ability to challenge a cleaner cinematic image of gangster violence with more R - rated content.