Sentences with phrase «good handful of films»

Adam Deacon A good handful of films out this year and yet the only roles I am likely to have seen Deacon in are the two separate characters he's played on Casualty.

Not exact matches

Comcast's (cmcsa) Universal Studios held the previous single - year box office record, which it set just last year, and the studio has a handful of sequels from franchises that have recently produced billion - dollar films on deck for 2017 — The Fate of the Furious and Despicable Me 3 — as well as the sequel to last year's sleeper hit, Fifty Shades of Grey.

This summer's box - office totals have also suffered from the expansion of blockbuster season as a handful of films likely to be among the year's biggest releases are slated to come out this fall, among them best - selling novel adaptation Gone Girl, Christopher Nolan's Interstellar, and the latest Hunger Games installment.

There's a deliciously scandalous film to be made out of Lady Windemer's Fan, and there are a handful of moments when A Good Woman achieves a level of classy and bitingly funny melodrama.

The Social Network shares creative DNA with a handful of classic, zeitgeist - savvy films like Network and All the President's Men, as well as more recent fare such as The Insider and Michael Clayton.

A handful of the Marvel movies have been quite good but «Black Panther» is the first one that feels like a passion project; it can be felt in just about every moment of the film.

Sicario is a well written story, however the film does fall short in some scenes with slow moving plot points and a handful of unnecessary scenes.

Despite the (squandered) presence of Stephen Merchant («The Office» UK) and a handful of jokes that were likely improvised, there is no good reason to see this film.

If the recent crop of low - budget, intimate war films featuring a handful of actors in limited locations tells us anything, it's that studios are desperate to ensure that they get a better return on investment than a full - blown, star - studded action spectacle.

As always, complementing the festival's Official Selection is the Cannes Classics sidebar, the annual showcase of new restorations of older films, as well as a handful of cinema - focused documentaries.

My best guess right now is that if the film does well and is a real contender, look for the major nominations to come through, along with 2 acting citations, and a handful of techs.

Captain America: Civil War was smart enough to act as a soft origin story for Black Panther, using a handful of well - placed scenes to introduce the character among the melee of the rest of the film, so that when Black Panther proper came out, we were already more or less up to speed.

Directed by Mel Gibson (Braveheart)-- who funded the film himself and co-wrote the screenplay — The Passion of the Christ uses flashbacks to substantiate a handful of pertinent moments in Jesus» life and teachings, such as the Sermon on the Mount and the Last Supper, as well as his relationships with his mother and his disciples.

Everyone's reasonably charming in «Get Smart,» but the film only has a handful of laugh - out - loud jokes, and Johnson isn't used very well (when he's used at all).

With only a handful of big territories left to release the film, it's time to check it with how well it's tracking.

That said, done well, a film starring more than a handful of household names (think Traffic, The Player) is a luxury to watch.

The film is helmed by Joel David Moore, who is better known for his acting work in films like Avatar, Dodgeball, and Grandma's Boy than his handful of indie directing credits.

She may be very good in «Albert Nobbs» — though for reasons I can't pinpoint, I don't quite trust the film — but if the performance proves sufficient to build a campaign on, few will vote for her without a handful of previous roles in mind.

That being said, this seems to be the year in which Hollywood is cleaning its house and exorcising its demons, and it so happens that there are plenty of films in contention that align with the righteous indignation against prejudice and victimization, as well as a handful of female - centered masterpieces.

«Felony» Though he's best known as an actor, Joel Edgerton has written a handful of films during his career, most of them shorts.

It's not my favourite SNL feature length film — Blues Brothers you have my heart — but it definitely is worth mentioning in the handful of good ones out there.

Yet a handful of twists, garnered from some of the genre's best, bring an element of suspense to this otherwise typical teen horror film.

: Heaven Knows What played extremely well with the IONCINEMA team — our Jordan M. Smith called the film an «open - hearted, rawly bellicose realization of addiction has only been graced on celluloid but a handful of times, making the Safdie's film a new exemplar of narcotic cinema for the ages,» the directing team plus regular contributor Bronstein are undoubtedly at the top of their game early into their filmography.

But after a handful of screenings of Moonlight over the past nine months, it's quite obvious that the film (not to mention its surprise Best Picture win) will age spectacularly well.

There was a handful of very good films in competition this year.

Then after that we heard that the band Anvil were being recruited to play themselves in the film and I think it was about then that the room really started spinning for a good handful of folk.

The best of the bunch is «Dreamcatcher,» which I broke out into a standalone piece, but here are my thoughts on a handful of the notable other non-fiction films in the U.S. and World Documentary programs.

From the film that beat «Citizen Kane» to Best Picture to the time «Harry and the Hendersons» walked away with a handful of gold, here are all the Academy's biggest blunders in one handy list.

Only die - hard series fans will find any of this distracting, as the film works just as well as a standalone spy adventure as it does an entry in Bond canon, delivering most of the goods anyone might expect while also offering a handful of new twists to keep it from being just another entertaining - but - forgettable entry.

After following up her TV debut with a number of appearances in television commercials and music videos, Penelope went on to star in a handful of critically acclaimed Spanish films that brought home a number of Spanish Oscars and even an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.

After a handful of unmemorable performances in films like Knowing and Adam, Byrne is finally opting to stick with a genre that works quite well for her — comedy.

Ably assisted by screenwriter Mike Carey, adapting his own bestseller from 2014, their film takes the elaborately overdone zombie genre and resuscitates it, while also taking and revamping a handful of well - established genre tropes ---- apocalypse premise, creepy kids, mad scientists ---- and tweaks them in eccentric and imaginative new ways.

There is one really revealing line in The Danish Girl, spoken by childhood best friend Hans Axgil (Matthias Schoenaerts) at a train station, like a classic film noir goodbye: «I've only liked a handful of people in my life, and you've been two of them.»

The humor is actually a bit better, and I found myself amused on a handful of occasions at the parodies and pop culture references that are sprinkled throughout the film.

The film's immersive depiction of the misery of plantation life as well as hangings, near - lynchings, whippings, a rape and numerous other scenes of brutal punishment proved too much for a handful of academy members Sunday night, though the mid-screening walkouts were minimal.

There are a handful of moments which make Handsome Siblings worth putting up with the muck, the best of which is the setup to, and action within, the tournament itself near the end of the film.

It's been over a decade since Ingmar Bergman muse Liv Ullmann has been behind the camera with the actress - director staying relatively quiet throughout featuring only in a handful of film roles as well.

After the film Gravity picked up a handful of Oscars, including for best cinematography and best visual effects, Nasa releases images of the real thing

As well as these films, I would also like to give a special mention to a handful of other releases which, owing to my desire to keep my list to 10 titles, did not quite make the cut.

A handful of hyperkinetic action set pieces, some marvelous supporting turns (from Jon Hamm, Jamie Foxx, Kevin Spacey) and an untouchably pitch - perfect soundtrack all combine for one of this summer's best films.

A big three - time winner at the Sundance Film Festival, here is a film with talent, sophistication, humor, and sensitivity rolled into a joyous, grief - cleansing, heart - lifting 90 minutes that earns both good word - of - mouth and positions itself for year - end acclaim on more than a handful of top - ten best lists.

The Weinstein Company acquired the film back in September 2011, showed it at Sundance 2012, and eventually released it to just a handful of US theaters last fall, conceding this was too strange for a wide release and not good enough to warrant an awards campaign (at least not at the risk of the studio's three genuine contenders).

THe Recruit might please those who haven't seen the handful of films that it draws a good deal of its plot from (Spy Game for instance), as there are some curveballs thrown in here and there to keep you on your toes.

Director Davis Guggenheim «s follow - up to the Oscar - winning An Inconvenient Truth, the film works as a sort of three - for - one biography, with just a handful of glancing, macro-analytical insights scattered and tossed in for good measure.

October is looking to be one of the best months of the year for independently minded film in the U.S., if only because a handful of titles that have been some of the most anticipated and talked about (and controversial)...

A handful of new narrative films garnered attention from festivalgoers in Telluride, but, it was the ones rooted in reality, like Lady Bird, that were among the best of this year's offerings.

Still, there were a handful of amazing films, a lot of really good ones and just two or three total duds.

Certain Women moves, as all Reichardt's films do, at a languid pace, and a handful of characters — notably Williams's — could be a little better developed.

«The Deep Blue Sea» (Toronto — no current US distribution) One of many on this list looking for a buyer, Terence Davies's latest is one of a handful of films that could put actress Rachel Weisz in the thick of the Best Actress competition this year.

Punctuated by a handful of well - observed scenes that belong in a better film (including a hypnotic close - up of Huppert's face that seems to last an eternity), it's ultimately a flat, ineffectual affair that goes off with a whimper rather than a bang.