Sentences with phrase «less a movie about»

Yesterday I am watching more a less a movie about a child and today its old men.

Less a movie about the inner workings of politics than a biography, Citizen Kane is a portrait of the kind of American icon who seeks power in all the arenas of American life — through wealth, fame, the voice of the media and the votes of the public.

Hollywood, beset by scandal in 2017, wouldn't mind backing a movie about the power of the free press as a sideswipe at an unpopular president, much less a movie about the power of the free press that might be the most feminist film Spielberg has ever made.

Not exact matches

Just like we're about to learn what happens when you price low - end Linux computers at less than a movie ticket, and what happens when you give millions of developers access to a few terabytes of memory.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier, this year's top - grossing film so far, came out in early - April and the scattering of big movies around the calendar is one reason why all 2014 films have only grossed about 5.4 % less than all films had last year at this point.

«Come summer, I'll feel less stress about stopping work early to go to a barbecue or movie because I know, come autumn, I'll be hunkering down,» he reflects.

I think the issues with the movie extended beyond Twitter; the new voters I've talked to are less enthusiastic about it than the ones you've talked to (New Yorkers, you know), and it sounds like we've both heard from at least some voters who are drawing a bright line between the performances (thumbs up) and the movie (thumbs sideways).

McDormand, Rockwell, and Woody Harrelson are so good in Three Billboards that I think a lot of voters have totally forgotten the less successful aspects of the movie: How every white character is immensely colorful but every black one is a cipher, that whole thing about Woody Harrelson's big dick (stop!

That's according to Streep (and more or less backed up by history), who aired some of this laundry while presenting an award to Emma Thompson, who just starred in Saving Mr. Banks, a movie about Disney himself.

I love watching animated movies in theaters full of children where I feel less insecure about laughing super-loud and gasping at scary scenes.

Secondly, you infuse your movie with a healthy dose of John Hughes, making it less about Spider - Man, a guy who also happens to be a high schooler; and more about Peter Parker, a high schooler who happens to have super powers.

Even people with less than a high school education today recognize the priority of the brain over the blood, so much so in fact, that in the movie, Hannibal (about a cannibalistic serial killer), the thought of slicing out tiny parts of a person's brain, cooking them in a pan, and serving the pieces to that person to eat has become in the public's mind a more disturbing image than, say, serving a person a glass of their own blood to drink, which appears relatively tame in comparison.

I'm firmly ensconced in the middle class and will pay less for a good round of golf than I will to take my family to a football game, and about the same as to take them to a movie anymore.

After listening to the first couple of episodes of their podcast, I wanted to chat to JK & Charlie about how they think their relationship has changed since they became parents (spoiler alert: they get less sleep, watch more Pixar movies and go on «date nights» rather than just go out).

As Harris freely admits, their intimate time is more about cuddling, watching movies and playing games than sex but their marriage is no less a real marriage than anyone else's.

DiMaio, the former Bexar County medical examiner, estimated that the price of a good medical examiner's office is about $ 2.50 per person per year, «which is probably less than what you pay for a Coca - Cola in a movie theater.»

So the next time a friend raves about the movie he chose and is less enthusiastic about the just - as - good one that you chose, you might be able to chalk it up to his basic learning circuitry and a genetic difference that affects it.

While men focus less on reading about a potential date's future goals and favorite movies than women do, they still care about the information on your internet dating profile.

While there's possibility — imagine a movie about Tommy actually going crazy — the longer this flick goes, the less fun it is.

You should stay current in your flirting; attempting to connect with a potential date over last year's movies is far less successful than talking about movies that are of the moment.

What did impress me about Who Framed Roger Rabbit even at a young age was the converging of cartoon stars from Disney, Warner Brothers, and elsewhere, all in one movie, animated more or less as they looked in the late»40s.

I feel secure in proclaiming its artistry but less so about my interpretation of what actually happens in this movie.

Studios who care more about money and less about substance and artistic distinction certainly had their tentacles in when this movie was getting greenlighted.

Perhaps that says more about my memory and less about the movie, who knows?

Had he had a slightly less obvious, more subtle, and smarter script to work with; who knows what we'd be saying about Hopkins as it pertains to this movie.

Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World - Movie Review By Joan Alperin Schwartz First, the perks about knowing that planet Earth will no longer exist in 21 days... At the office, every day is now casual Friday... You can have mindless sex without worrying about disease or incest and... when asked, «What are you doing the rest of your life», you can respond in one sentence or less.

Die - hard fans will be thrilled with the extensive interviews and concert footage; as a more casual fan, after an hour I had learned almost everything I ever wanted to know about the man and was ready for the filmmakers to wrap it up — I was shocked to realize I was less than halfway through the movie.

If you like dark comedies which tell a certain truth about the less cheerful side of life, give this movie a chance.

Driftwood is presented and promoted as a horror movie with psychological elements, and while this is true, it undersells what is an effective psycho thriller, less about gore and horror, more about story and character.

You've never heard of her much less even care why there's a movie about her?

The Big Sick plays less like a great movie than a platform for its appealing tone, but it's so well acted and dense with insights into the culture clash at its center that nothing about the central dynamic is strained.

It would have been far less «cinematic,» but a movie about the transition of Petit into senior citizenship would have been a doozy, too.

Clocking in at just less than 3 hours, «Django Unchained» is about 40 minutes longer than a B - movie - Western - comedy has any right to be.

Brilliant comment: «The movie was less about giant robots and more about a dumb looking guy and his bad acting girl friend.»

This movie is all about Mark Felt, the man who was the «Deep Throat» confidential informant, and it's a bit less than terrific.

Perfect is a trashy movie about women jumping up and down in leotards, but it's also more (and less) than that, a look at the wages of the free press.

The less said about whatever Christopher Eccleston was attempting to accomplish in that movie, the better.

Incidentally, the movie becomes a memoir of the 1970s, a time at once more innocent and yet more daring, less fearful about breaking rules.

If Parker had aimed more at capturing the author's unique voice, and worried less about getting the details right, his movie might have been extraordinary as well.

The movie was less about giant robots and more about a dumb looking guy and his bad acting girl friend.

People are far less likely to trash the movie if asked about it as they emerge from the theater (and they still have the ticket stub in their pocket) than they are a few days later, when they are more likely to look back on it as a trial - by - fire bonding experience, and yowl about how hilariously awful it was to sit through.

It's actually a surprisingly accurate representation of the movie: it's about women beating each other down while men watch on passively, and it features very strong performances, but the strongest of them come from the comparatively less well known names.

In the hands of a lesser filmmaker, «Lady Bird» would be a movie all about the trials and tribulations leading up to the magnificent creation of «Me,» as in «Moi,» as in the glorious, wonderful person who made the movie.

This movie is bad enough for non-techies as a thriller, but if you know anything at all about computers the film is nothing less than a brutal assault of stupidity on all of your senses of such magnitude, the government should also crack down on MGM for releasing it.

Oren Moverman «s «Rampart» was a firecracker of a cop movie, one that was less about «cop» and more about character, with Woody Harrelson giving the performance of a lifetime, and Robin Wright and Brie Larson, among an outstanding supporting cast, matching him nicely.

One of the best things I can say about this new movie is that the 48 frames - per - second technology is a lot less distracting this time around.

Assumedly aware that he's making a movie about one of the less inherently cinematic of sporting events, director Janus Metz compensates with a lot of bombastic, jittery style, amplifying the crunch of flashbulbs to a deafening roar, restlessly skittering his camera around, generally taking notes from Ron Howard's Rush playbook.

The good parts are worth sitting through the slow parts — particularly if, like me, you're a sucker for the genre to begin with — but it feels less a giddy merger of what's great about TV and movies than a reluctant alliance.

Caviezel's expectedly strong work goes a long way towards keeping things tolerable even through Outlander's less - than - enthralling stretches, while the fantastic battle sequence that transpires at about the one - hour mark virtually justifies the movie's entire existence.

Despite what it shows us, these movies are rarely about more leading to less.