Sentences with phrase «laden film»

It's a remarkable maneuver, turning a big, purple, helmet - wearing brute who is acerbically referred to as «Grimace» at one point in the movie, into the believable force around whom this MacGuffin - laden film revolves.

This isn't the type of special effects - laden film that he's known for, so it's nice to see him using his talents in new ways.

I realize that this is not a thriller or a big budget CGI laden film.

The filters incorporate a bacteria - laden film and are adapted by researchers to accommodate methane production.

Based on the popular Ernest Cline novel, the big - budget, effects - laden film from director Steven Spielberg may give a boost to the nascent virtual - reality headset industry.

Marvel made male - led movies that were also considered «very, very bad» — Green Lantern, Superman Returns and Daredevil received negative reviews — but that didn't stop Marvel from producing more testosterone - laden films.

Apparently banking on the success of such estrogen - laden films as Sex and the City and The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, The Women (a remake of a 1939 movie) features a cast made up entirely of females.

Where other special effects - laden films falter is in their devout seriousness to the material.

Not exact matches

In 1995, when he was manager of Huddersfield Town, he was filmed giving his team a memorable and expletive - laden half time rollocking.

Jhurry was filmed picking up the drug - laden bag from a Rio flight and putting it on a luggage carousel for a flight from Manchester.

Drawing on revealing clips from Panahi's previous films, TINAF reveals not only the realities of artistic censorship, but its firework - laden finale shows how cinema thrives on spontaneity.

Composer Mark Mothersbaugh's synth - laden score captures the vibe of»70s and»80s sci - fi fantasy films effortlessly.

In other words, he's much better at effects - laden set - pieces than character drama, and this film is crying out for more of the latter.

The film isn't really fooling anyone into feeling doom - laden suspense (Paris, after all, is still standing), but the principal performers sell the momentousness of the drama.

Cinematically, Van Winkle made his mark in glossy, big - budget Hollywood genre films, often laden with heavy special effects.

Given that Spielberg only committed to «The Post» in March while already involved in the effects - laden «Ready Player One,» due out early next year, this film had to be made with remarkable speed to meet the 2017 deadline.

Cast as a bounty hunter who is sent to Brazil to retrieve the son of a well - known mob boss (American Pie's Seann William Scott), the film provided Johnson with the sort of opportunity to display his comic flair — a notable talent that was mostly neglected in the special - effects - laden Scorpion King.

Since then he has directed, produced and distributed multiple film and TV projects, including the critically acclaimed FX television series, 30 DAYS, and the films WHERE IN THE WORLD IS OSAMA BIN LADEN?

There's a grey, plodding quality to the film which sidesteps oppressive, doom - laden inevitability and goes straight to slightly dull.

As for the film itself, though Waititi includes aspects that play like genre parody — a montage scored to Leonard Cohen's interpretation of the «Song of the French Partisan» unexpectedly recalling McCabe & Mrs. Miller; a Mad Max - like chase climax; Lukasz Buda, Samuel Scott and Conrad Wedde's 1980s - style synthesizer - laden score — Hunt for the Wilderpeople is ultimately disarming in its innocent sincerity.

Stevens is familiar to most filmgoers, however, for his role as malaprop - laden Indian technical whiz Ben Jabituya in the two Short Circuit films of the late»80s.

While It Comes At Night is without question a horror film, its horrors are more cerebral and internalized than your standard jump - scare laden scary movie.

A slippery stylist, Soderbergh's films hop from genre to genre with creative restlessness appearing to be his defining characteristic whether filming glossy, expensive star laden confections such as the Oceans series or experimenting with digital video and unknown actors on low budget conceits such as Bubble or The Girlfriend Experience.

Rounding out the disc: a giggly film - length commentary laden with unpremeditated double - entendres that reunites cast members Trachtenberg, Panettiere, Trevor Blumas, and Kirsten Olson; pre-menu trailers for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Valiant, My Scene Goes Hollywood: The Movie, and Halloweentown Movies; and additional, menu - based previews of The Muppets Wizard of Oz, Aliens of the Deep, ESPN Sports Figures, and RADIODisney.

Carter Burwell's dramatic, drum - laden score was inspired by that of the 1964 John Frankenheimer film Seven Days in May.

With all three elements in place, the film unravels as the expected CGI - laden mess the trailer promises, rendering dialogue, story and mis - cast star Worthington secondary to fight sequences.

Unsurprisingly, the film's cameo - laden first half is only that: It serves no enjoyable purpose besides providing context-less, heavy - handed exposition.

This is the latest effort from Shawn Levy, best known as the director of the family - friendly, effects - laden «Night at the Museum» franchise, to prove that he can make a film that's smaller and more substantial.

I think it's because they wanted / expected an effects - laden horror film with jump scares and couldn't handle it when they got a movie that relied on great storytelling and acting to deliver the frights.

And with the Steven Spielberg - helmed film adaptation on the horizon, excitement surrounding the nerdy puzzle - laden story is at an all time high.

Get Out is artful in a way a lot of studio films aren't, laden with dread and portent but still leavened by a light, wry touch.

Guy Ritchie's momentum and speed - ramping flourishes distract from the rickety mystery, but I'm not convinced that the old - school detective stories need to be turned into a spectacle - laden action film.

The screenwriters make the assumption that audiences will already have a vested interest in Bond's plight from the very first frame due to the events of Casino Royale, though the shift in the tone of this film to emphasize brutal action and CGI - laden stunt work makes tying the two films together a bit of a chore.

The film launched a new wave of Hong Kong filmmaking and you can feel its influence in everything from Bruce Lee's martial arts thrillers of the 1970s to Jackie Chan's Drunken Master films to the Tsui Hark - led new wave of high energy, special effects laden adventures in 1980s Hong Kong, and of course, the Oscar winning Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Ang Lee's tribute the magical, colorful genre that King Hu reinvented with this film.

What with all the Twilighting going on lately, we should be thankful that once in a while a film like Easy A comes along: a film that honestly and unwaveringly addresses what it means to be a teenage girl in this image laden, information drenched age, rather than resorting to archaic romance fiction techniques with passive heroines who do nothing but wait for inherently violent men to make all the hard decisions.

The Wachowskis and their first - time director James McTeigue (an assistant on all three The Matrix films) successfully layer their agenda within a gripping, puzzle - box story laden with quizzical clues.

If you grew up as a horror film fanatic in the 1980s, you may have run through most of the American slasher flicks and occult thrillers — and then you rented Lucio Fulci's 1980 cult favourite Zombie, which hopefully led you to all sorts of gore - laden apocalyptic mayhem from Italian splatter - slingers like Umberto Lenzi (Nightmare -LRB-...)

Jumanji is a special effects - laden family film that has a simple premise, and delivers enough escapist entertainment to probably keep young and old alike modestly entertained.

The digital effects - laden adaptation of 17th - century Italian fairy tales culled from Giambattista Basile's Pentamerone is a sharp swerve away from the contemporary realism of Gomorrah (2008) and Reality (2012), but the film ultimately comes across as an oleaginous CGI Euro - pudding, with Garrone never quite sure exactly how high to crank the camp - o - meter at any given moment.

Somewhat outside the purview of films that depict present and very - near - future epidemics, but nonetheless worthy of an appreciative final word, is the doom - laden 2010 British film Black Death, set in 1348 England and starring Sean Bean, Eddie Redmayne, and Carice van Houten.

Sure, there's an abrasive desperation that permeates the film, collating in its characters minds, seeping into their very fabric like the cigarette smoke that Halley insists on huffing indoors with her child present, but there is hope laden in Baker's empathic approach.

On a film distributor's dime, when an actor rolls up in a sleek black SUV for an interview it's usually in the vicinity of a red carpet at a big film festival or in front of a swank hotel laden with free - loading junket journalists.

After the vaguely similar Clash of the Titans (well, both films feature Gemma Arterton and the trailers are almost identical) was so awful, I didn't have high hopes for another special effects - laden swords and sandals film.

Chicken Little marks the first wholly Disney produced animated film since their pledge to ditch traditional hand - drawn animation in favor of 3D computer graphics - laden vehicles.

As mentioned, the fine tuned track listing saturates the film, and it is recreated here with solid bass, jangling trebles and sex - laden vocals that feel authentic in live settings, and smooth with as obvious overlapped material.

Rarely has the seemingly unstoppable evil force in a comic - book superhero film been given such a richly dramatic background and so many scenes in which there's actual dialogue and not just CGI - laden battle sequences.

Magic in the Moonlight is whimsical Woody, in the style of Midnight in Paris and earlier films like Alice, but the writing feels rushed and heavy - handed at times, and laden down with clumsy exposition.

Patrick Ness adapts his 2011 children's novel in A Monster Calls, a drama that walks a tightrope between intimate indie character study and effects - laden fantasy film.

These films are flashy but rarely let the editing get too choppy, lest we miss some of the effects - laden visuals.

Never is the irritable insurance pitchman more chafed than when his prehistoric brethren are stereotyped as mere musclebound cretins with brainpans the size of M&M s. And although the characters in the big - budget, special - effects - laden prehistoric epic «10,000 B.C.» don't exactly fall into that whole «Captain Caveman» mold — they stand upright, they speak English, they wear stylish dreadlocks — movie - goers, Neanderthal or not, likely will find the film's primitive plotting every bit as insulting.