Sentences with phrase «hands on films like»

Too bad it's apparently very hard for Criterion to get its hands on films like this and Cronenberg's Shivers (They Came from Within is still a much better title).

Not exact matches

On the other hand, will increasingly secular young Americans flock to see films that look and sound like sermons?

I saw quite a few where I saw the throw on the film and was like don't do it and they were completed but then I saw others where I would cringe and then throw my hands up like I saw that coming.

not really making the news, the atmosphere on last wednesday was really strange, silent, step by step to normal football, but you can't throw away your thoughts immediately, I just got a glimpse of Enkes personality during a film of him shown before the match, I can't realize how hard it must be for his wife to lose him, tomorrow the players of Germans first Bundesliga will wear a black ribbon again, but I think it won't affect the atmosphere like it has with the national team despite of Hannover of course, people will be enthousiastic again, but there is the idea of an «Enke donation» which I like, will keep his name alive, will take some positive emotions on this tragedy and a kind of appeal for everyone to reflect the important things of life and control your own behaviour, I hope so at least, and I hope his wife will cope with that situation, and again: it was really hard for the German nationl team to play under these circumstances, to lose someone close in this way is hard to deal with, on the other hand it causes a close solidarity feeling I think, but of course the world will not change, things are returning to the old soon, but nonetheless for me this tragedy is a kind of human wake - up call, at least a call and then you continue

I'm always worried about what cream / lotion products to buy because it has to pass two tests a) does my husband like the smell b) does it leave a slime film on my hands sounds like it passed the second test!

I, on the other hand, went into the BBC newsroom the other day to find teams of young producers laughing at archive film reports from 17 years ago of a young political correspondent looking nothing like he does now.

On the one hand, emotional manipulation has always been at the heart of our cultural artefacts; in fact, we have always lauded the best artists, writers, film - makers, composers and the like for their seamless skills in moving us and enlarging our horizons.

I'm no longer happy with the single lifestyle, missing the simple things, hold hands down the street and cuddles on the sofa: — RRB - I excise regularly, love watching films, like the odd drink with great conversation.

On the one hand, the film can repeat all the basic rhythms of the first film, either with the main character being replaced (so that the journey appears to be new) or by the stakes being raised (so that it feels like the action is more significant).

There's something to be admired about a film that can gracefully defy simple genre categorization but Submergence feels like a clumsy melange, a confused adaptation made by people who don't seem quite sure what they have on their hands.

As it happens, the Ireland - based studio was also responsible for producing world - class Oscar nominees «The Secret of Kells» and «Song of the Sea,» and though Nora Twomey worked on both films, «The Breadwinner» marks her solo directing debut, employing a similarly bold graphic style in its telling («hand - drawn» via a program called TVPaint), augmented by colorful story - within - the - story interludes designed to look like stop - motion.

While the film is not a barrier - breaking melancholy landmark like «Unforgiven,» they share a mature, tight, grounded approach to heavy subjects and a critical commentary on hand - me - down western tropes.

On one hand, «Toy Story» had long since cornered the sincere ode - to - childhood - playthings approach, while the «Transformers» and «G.I. Joe» movies went the overkill route, all but obliterating the notion that those bombastic adventures could in any way relate to how kids use the related toy products, and treating them more like the afterthought tie - ins «Star Wars» and other films typically support.

To me, this review and the last few comments seem like a complete misreading of the film - based, as one earlier commentator stated, on Haneke's earlier work and his particular way of making movies, rather than the actual movie at hand and its context.

On the other hand, to call Amour Haneke's most sentimental film is a little like declaring To the Wonder the Terrence Malick film with the greatest amount of camcorder footage.

The success of the film led to a job directing the 1989 big - budget version of Batman; a darkly lavish, gothic production, the film proved to be a huge hit, securing Burton a place on the roster of A-list directors.His next film, 1990's Edward Scissorhands was the tongue - in - cheek gothic tale of an artificial boy put together by a benign scientist, who dies before he can complete the boy; as a result, the fabricated youth has hedge clipper - like scissors for hands.

Deadline reports that the Jungle Cruise movie will be an Indiana Jones - like action - adventure, and Collet - Serra was very much interested in getting his hands on a film of its nature, a potential franchise that he will be able to mould around an A-list Hollywood star like Johnson.

Philip Glass (The Illusionist, Undertow) coats the film with his usual whimsical style, and though the film might be deemed as too slight in its subject matter to merit such heavy - handed compositions, the music is actually completely in keeping with the tragic allusions underneath, with motifs based on magic (wizard hats, old cats, strands of hair, and gold stars tie in to the coven - like relationship of the women) as well as Biblical references (Sheba is short for Bathsheba, the Old Testament woman seduced; Barbara's last name is Covett, and covet she most certainly does).

And while, on one hand, a Dukes of Hazzard film in the Peckinpah mold sounds totally ridiculous, it also sounds like the sort of ridiculous movie I'd watch without a second thought.

Occasionally, it veers into fantasy, with hand - drawn illustrations on top of the film stock when the narrative slides toward musical numbers, often comical covers of songs like the Talking Heads» «Psycho Killer» and Iggy Pop's «The Passenger» staged on public transit.

On the other hand, if this sounds like your vision of hell, and you like your life just the way it is, thank you, then you might not find Marston's film quite so compelling.

On the one hand, the film seems like it could be fun in a gleefully ridiculous, over-the-top way — bombs!

On the other hand, films like «Superbad» have displayed Hill's skill at playing awkward characters.

On the other hand, a # 1.60 m UK debut for a relatively low - budget genre film, essentially populated by three actors, none of them marquee names, and largely set in a basement — most studios would like the economics of that proposition.

This wild concept of chaos reigning in a suburban neighborhood has its edge reduced by its incomplete image of characters, an aspect that affected Get Him to the Greek in the past, and has made for slower moments in other Stoller films (on the other hand, when characters were solid like in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, they lead to a great introduction for a bare - all Jason Segel).

Like in the past, their work together has proven to be effective once again as we're handed a film that's marvelous to lay eyes on.

But then The Wrestler on film is much like the real thing — scripted moments come with the territory, but in the right hands the end result can become a different kind of spectacle entirely.

On the other hand, its bouts of lurid violence and voyeuristic sex feel as if they've been dragged in from somewhere trashier, like the Taken films or something with Sylvester Stallone in it.Jennifer plays Dominika Egorova, formerly a star dancer at Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet who is forced to quit after a bone - crunching onstage collision.

On the other hand, the DD 1.0 mono audio is a major disappointment, given the musical nature of the second half of the film (and the acerbic sound - editing of the first, which recalls Walter Murch's early experiments in noise - as - wallpaper)-- it all sounds like a sausage forced through the eye of a needle, and as sharp - eared observers have pointed out elsewhere, the trademark line «Here's to Old England!»

Teasing, «My hand strength is like vice grips,» the action stars reveals images of himself filming fight scenes on the set of «Jumanji.»

If fans of the highly successful film about the rap group who revolutionized music would like to get your hands on one for themselves, send your name and address to [email protected] while supplies last.

His screenplays for Sicario and Hell or High Water are both thoughtful, intense spins on both the crime genre and the Western, and in the hands of gifted directors like Denis Villeneuve and David Mackenzie, respectively, they've become outstanding films.

It's nearly all in the hands of Marique (Rose McGowan), Zym's daughter, who is easily the most outrageous character in the film, from her partially shaved scalp to the Freddy Krueger - like blade extensions on her fingers.

Dramatically neutered by its cumbersome reliance on vapid expositional flashbacks, the film focuses on Jane Ballad (Natalie Portman), holed up in a faraway ranch in the sandy outlands of New Mexico where she awaits her fate at the hands of dastardly John Bishop (Ewan McGregor, looking like a pearly - white descendent of Lee Van Cleef).

Longtime readers of the site know that I like to take matters into my own hands by putting together a mock awards ceremony, a post in which I break down overwhelm my poor readers with my ramblings on several different aspects of the year in film.

Director Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted) produced the flick, which was helmed by Chris Gorak — who worked in the art department on films like Fight Club and Minority Report before he first tried his hand at directing with the 2006 thriller, Right at Your Door.

On the other hand, it appears that Cumming and Leigh might have become too enamored of seeing their friends in their movie, as this film is padded to excess with quaint but wholly unnecessary moments that bog the film down to a sloth - like crawl long before it gets to the merciful end.

Bringing in a new hero, on the other hand, provides Peter with someone to mentor himself and flips the script of the first film, giving Spider - Man a perspective on what it was like to look up to Iron Man and the rest of Earth's Mightiest Heroes.

Mendes» film takes an interesting «hands off» approach to the politics of the situation, or wars in general, and instead focuses simply on what it's like to be a combatant.

All the parts fit together — like the hand - forged computer at the center of the story — in The Imitation Game, a thoroughly absorbing film based on the life of Alan Turing, who helped crack the notorious German enigma code during World War II.

* Asked how he feels about going from very small indie films to a massive, effects - driven fantasy / comedy, Green said: «Well, just like probably all of you guys like to see different kinds of movies every week — a little of this, a little of that — it's fun professionally to, like, get in the ring and design creatures and have guys in suits and puppets and just, y ’ know, bring in all this stuff... I remember when I was a kid, and if something like «Behind The Scenes of Return of The Jedi» would come on, I'd just be glued to the screen, wishing that one day I'd be able to get my hands dirty doing something like that.

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Cruz, on the other hand, is one of my favorites NINE is a film, like many she has done in the U.S. including Blow and Vanilla Sky that does not pay her justice.

Aside from an excruciatingly mannered early scene in which Angela and Ricky's Aunt Martha (Desiree Gould) comes on like Parker Posey chewing tinfoil while scraping a knife against a glass bottle with one hand and dragging her fingernails down a chalkboard with the other, the rest of the film is pretty plain: Sleepaway Camp is shot like a 1970s TV sitcom, and as a look back at anno domini 1983, it has a documentary quality.

Due Date, on the other hand, like most of Phillips» films, earns its R rating.

He shot the film in Utah in 1989, relying largely on local residents like Hardy, who was handed a lead partwith no prior acting experience.

It's been on the rise in the United States for about decade, with films like Ramin Bahrani's Chop Shop (2007) and Kelly Reichardt's Wendy and Lucy (2008) employing a natural and semi-observational style that focuses on characters and situations rather than heavy - handed plots to tell their stories about America's downtrodden poor.

On the one hand, the historical stuff is fascinating (and is good enough to wish that Egoyan had been able to secure funding to film an entire movie like that), but the sequences featuring Raffi explaining the conflict to Plummer's character feels more like a history lesson than anything else.

This is a shame since, much like the first film, this sequel managed to flawlessly combine creative and visually stunning action sequences (with a strong focus on practical effects over CGI), cool characters, and a well - told storyline that wouldn't have been nearly as interesting in another filmmaker's hands.

The DD 5.1 remix of the previous edition is ported over, on the other hand, and remains front - heavy and unimaginative, much like the film itself.