Sentences with phrase «in potboilers»

Not exact matches

The real - life potboiler that finds television network HBO in agony about whether to pay $ 7.5 million in ransom to protect its intellectual property continues to roil.

It lives on in regime - approved melodramas and potboilers that mimic the old ones.

The material is well served by director Roman Polanski, who knows well how to instill a subtle, claustrophobic sense of dread in an audience and has put together a rather elegant potboiler.

Many of his mainstream film appearances have been in comedy potboilers unworthy of his talents: exceptions include De Palma's Phantom of the Paradise (1974) in which Graham was both funny and ferocious as the Rocky Horror - ish «Beef,» and Louis Malle's Pretty Baby (1978), in which he was cast as Highpockets, Susan Sarandon's scuzzy, abusive boyfriend.

, nearly forgotten mistress, Jeanie Macpherson, this Biblical churning potboiler is just as good, and maybe better in spots, than what came later.

If someone left «1984,» «Fahrenheit 451,» «Brave New World,» «Gattaca» and the Sylvester Stallone potboilers «Judge Dredd» and «Demolition Man» out in the sun and threw the runny glop onto a movie screen, it would still be a better picture than Equilibrium, a movie that could be stupider only if it were longer.

Kahanamoku attempted to cash in on his fame by appearing in such Hollywood potboilers as Lord Jim (1926) and the Mascot serial The Isle of Sunken Gold (1927), but screen producers saw him mostly as an exotic villain or the odd South Seas Island native and true stardom eluded him.

7 Women is, in actuality, a great film whose potboiler plot masks an incisive inquiry into the battle of the sexes.

Title: A Little Chaos Director: Alan Rickman Release Date: June 26, 2015 Running Time: 117 minutes Language: English Shooting Location (s): England Principal Cast: Alan Rickman, Kate Winslet, Stanley Tucci, Matthias Schoenaerts Screenwriter: Alan Rickman, Jeremy Brock, Alison Deegan Production Company: BBC Films, Bureau, The, K. JAM Media (developed in association with), Lionsgate, Lipsync Productions, Potboiler Productions Distributor: Focus World Official Website Trailer

While he does capture the essence of those films in his rhythms, the script feels much more like the potboiler John Grisham films prevalent in the 1990s.

A moody, evocative potboiler that steadily builds a head of steam, «Hell or High Water» is sharp as a leather strap cracked against bare skin in the Texas sun.

Made in USA: Radcliffe Infiltrates Neo-Nazi Faction in Solid Potboiler Daniel Radcliffe impresses once again in...

(Consider also the film that would yet nobble it of a Jury Award, João Pedro Rodrigues» Morrer Como Um Homem [To Die Like a Man]: early on in that overesteemed, if beautifully lensed, potboiler, a discussion about the merits of sex reassignment surgery occurs while one of the two trans - characters involved deliberates over whether to buy some orchids... Always with the fucking orchids!)

In 1965, Repulsion was greeted as a brilliant, grisly potboiler that gave the thirty - two - year - old Polish filmmaker Roman Polanski commercial entree to the West.

In 1964 he directed the first of three comedy thrillers he considers potboilers.

«Marshall» is not a soup - to - nuts biography of one of the most significant figures in U.S. legal history, but a legal potboiler dependent on teamwork.

In applying the aesthetics of the New Hollywood to his potboiler plot, Spielberg made a classic out of genre material.

It's the world's most inappropriate Harlequin romance novel: a heavy - breather of a potboiler for Judy Blume's audience of babysitters and old men in long coats.

Few have had as varied and rich a career as Jacques Perrin, whose resume includes appearing in and co-producing the classic political thriller Z for Costa - Gavras, making an extended cameo in the French potboiler THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE WOLF, and making fascinating films in homage to the natural world.

It's part potboiler, part harlequin romance, and part gothic horror — but even playing in familiar tropes, the film feels entirely unique.

Alicia Vikander, Christoph Waltz and Judi Dench all find themselves lost in a beleaguered adaptation of a 17th - century potboiler that gradually turns into a far - fetched soap opera

There is good to be found in Spectre, but it's buried beneath three feet of potboiler muck and sandwiched in six inches of narrative grizzle.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening October 7, 2011 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Ides of March (R for pervasive profanity) George Clooney wrote, directed and co-stars in this adaptation of the play «Farragut North,» a political potboiler about an idealistic press secretary (Ryan Gosling) who compromises a presidential candidate's prospects by becoming embroiled in a scandal while on the campaign trail.

The best thing going for this needlessly - complex potboiler is the chemistry generated periodically by Clive Owen and Julia Roberts, reunited on screen for the first time since appearing opposite each other in Closer in 2004.

You might rightly classify this drama as a «woman - in - peril» potboiler.

Their scenes early in the movie set a flame under what is — at that moment — an already effectively paced and shot little potboiler about a man dedicated to the law and another driven to break the law because of the cracks in the system of said law.

Toss into the mix a great cast including James McAvoy, Mark Strong, Andrea Riseborough, Peter Mullan and David Morrissey and this little potboiler could come out nowhere in 2012 to be a major genre surprise.

At least Planet Terror looks like the sleazy potboilers ground out in narrow «twin» cinemas of old.

It's a Texas Gothic crime thriller sutured to a potboiler melodrama about the existential despair of L.A. socialites in a David Lynchian fashion — though with less surrealism and more coherence.

In the midst of this potboiler lands the three criminals, who mastermind a bank job that involves hiding out at an Amish farm.

«Wild Card» represents the second attempt by Goldman («All the President's Men,» «The Princess Bride») and producer Cassian Elwes to fashion a movie from the writer's 1985 paperback potboiler, «Heat,» about the various entanglements of one Nick Escalante, a seen - better - days Philip Marlowe type working as a bodyguard - for - hire in the bowels of Sin City.

A Lionsgate UK & BBC Films presentation in association with LipSync Productions of a Potboiler / The Bureau Production.

The most important aspect of a potboiler movie is that the pot has to keep boiling, gaining in intensity rather than losing it.

There's Meryl Streep (or Michael Keaton, or Rachel McAdams or Rooney Mara) strolling down Colorado Avenue, the main drag in this former mining town, not too many miles from the ranch on which Quentin Tarantino recently shot much of his snowy post-Civil War potboiler «The Hateful Eight.»

However, in this suspiciously - similar political potboiler, the CIA dispatches crack Agent Charlie Wax (John Travolta) from D.C. to the American embassy in Paris where he buddies - up with an ambitious clerk (Jonathan Rhys - Meyers) who has previously only been assigned menial tasks like changing diplomats» license plates.

Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: Spacey Stars in Seriocomic Potboiler Revisiting Abramoff Scandal Jack Abramoff (Kevin Spacey) was a veteran Washington, DC lobbyist whose outrageous exploits made even members of his own shady profession blush.

Nicole Kidman stuffed her trunks with evening gowns to walk the Palais steps — with Colin Farrell, for Cannes director - winner Sofia Coppola «s Civil War potboiler «The Beguiled» (Focus Features) and Yorgos Lanthimos» «The Killing of a Sacred Deer» (A24), both in Competition, and again for John Cameron Mitchell «s midnighter «How to Talk with Girls at Parties» (A24) and a preview of Jane Campion «s returning Sundance Channel series, «Top of the Lake: China Girl.»

Rendition (R for profanity and violence, including torture) Political potboiler about a CIA Agent (Jake Gyllenhaal) who comes to question the unorthodox methods being employed by the Agency in the war on terrorism while he's participating in the detention and interrogation of an Egyptian - born engineer (Omar Metwalley) married to an American citizen (Reese Witherspoon).

Raajneeti (Unrated) Political potboiler, set in Bhopal, India, about a fiercely fought election campaign where influence - peddling and corruption are the norms, and where treachery and manipulation are routinely used as weapons.

Shot on the cheap and loosely based on the Manson cult murders, which were still big news when the film was being shot in 1971, it's a potboiler about a serial - killing biker gang of women in thrall to a presumably charismatic, self - styled guru calling himself Satán.

Starting in 1992, when Hanson made a breakthrough of sorts with the kind of trashy potboiler that doesn't usually portend future Oscar success:

Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: Owen and Watts Wasted in Overly - Ambitious Political Potboiler Was Run Lola Run a fluke or what?

From Paris with Love (R for graphic violence, pervasive profanity, drug use and brief sexuality) Political potboiler about an American spy (John Travolta) who joins forces with a low - level employee (Jonathan Rhys - Meyers) of the U.S. embassy to prevent a terrorist attack in Paris.

Case in point, The International, an overly - ambitious political potboiler starring Clive Owen and Naomi Watts.

Still, that book had done so little justice to the characters I had loved — or held in extreme dislike (Ashley Wilkes is second only to the Reverend Dimmesdale on my wimpy literary men hate list)-- on the screen that I never did pick up Gone With the Wind, thinking it would prove another turgid potboiler.

I am a book editor myself, I've worked in the trade now for more than twenty years, and with every kind of book and author, from mass - market potboilers to Miles Franklin winners and everything in between.

With more than one mystery being unraveled simultaneously, The Dry keeps up a brisk pace, is full of surprises, and has the right balance of tension without overindulging in the brutal, tense - suspense formula of many potboilers today.

My reaction to reading this news (in the Guardian newspaper) is that book readers in general remain prolific but nowadays content themselves with grubby bestsellers or popular potboilers marketed by the global giants.

I've spent the day reading a self - published sci - fi potboiler — first in a trilogy — that I bought in the Amazon Kindle store after reading the entire sample.

MGS3 is also a good entry point - it's a prequel set in the 60s, so it's probably the game that works best as a standalone Cold War potboiler without much concern for the series» baroque mythology.