Sentences with phrase «like james»

«Kingsman» shows characters discussing spy movies and deciding what about their present circumstances is and isn't like a James Bond picture.

By hiring unique and bold stylistic directors like James Gunn (Guardians of the Galaxy), Taika Waititi (Thor: Ragnarok) and Ryan Coogler (Black Panther), Marvel is committing to new voices and to letting them tell stories in their own ways.

Like James Bond, Nick preferred his martinis shaken, not stirred, and his prodigious consumption hindered neither his investigative prowess nor his witty repartee.

Though it doesn't really seem like James Franco would be much of an adversary for Jason Statham, the thriller Homefront has pitted them against each other.

He can't link his action sequences like James Cameron (supremely, Aliens) or pace them like John McTiernan (Die Hard.)

Even established, long - running film franchises like the James Bond films have never really concerned themselves much with continuity.

The change in tone isn't radical, but it's still pervasive; while Hans Zimmer scored Howard's previous Brown adaptations with generic strings, here he goes for faux - vintage synths that occasionally sound like James Horner's score for Commando, minus the steel drums.

With almost no relationship to the book beyond honouring its concept of a conflagration told in vignettes, it feels almost exactly like James L. Brooks's I'll Do Anything, which began life as a musical and ended up, after extensive reshoots and careening budget overages, song - free, yet whole somehow despite the trauma.

Someone like James White must go on.

Yeah, that sounds like a James Ellroy story, doesn't it?

In a nutshell: Atomic Blonde is about a badass, bisexual British secret agent who fights like John Wick and seduces like James Bond who travels to Germany days before the fall of the Berlin Wall to recover some stolen intelligence.

Ben has graduated from the police academy and wants to become a detective just like James.

Moviegoers rooted for villains like James Cagney in White Heat and Angels with Dirty Faces, but Al Pacino's performance as Michael Corleone goes far darker places.

I haven't mentioned the execrable dialogue, which sounds suspiciously like James Cameron's attempts at English.

Featuring talent blended from Lee's colleagues and indie - film lights like James Franco, Lili Taylor, and former Rollergirl herself, Graham, it looked poised to be a Boogie Nights for our time, tricking out a character study as bona - fide authentic gawk at the Prurient States of America.

Rookie lawman Ben Barber (played by Kevin Hart) aspires to become a detective like James Payton (played by Ice Cube), his future brother - in - law.

As digital animation grows more advanced each year, big - time filmmakers like James Cameron and JJ Abrams are embracing the (relatively) new form of acting known as motion capture performance.

But through on - camera interviews with the comic himself — as well as discussions with friends and admirers like James L. Brooks, Jim Carrey, Conan O'Brien, Bob Saget, Jerry Seinfeld, Sarah Silverman, and more — the film tries to trace not only his enormous impact on comedy, but also the man himself and how he evolved through the decades into someone actively working to open himself up to the world and the people around him.

We relate to her as we relate to everyman, like James Stewart in It's a Wonderful Life (1946).

The fight scenes were well choreographed, as it looked like James did his own stunts.

«And Danny can now afford to add the finishing touches to his latest project without the prospect of a clash with a monster project like James Bond.»

buried beneath two - thousand feet of Antarctic ice, visions of Howard Hawks's The Thing and Karl Freund's The Mummy dance happily in the head while the Queen Alien is awakened via Tesla Coil like James Whale's Bride.

This quiet period before «Star Wars» has allowed some of the indie and prestige titles to thrive in limited releases and expansions, like James Franco's «The Disaster Artist.»

Actors like James Cagney, Edward G. Robinson and Humphrey Bogart were in almost every gangster picture made in that era.

That, teamed with taut editing, allows the episode to overcome the potential awkwardness of its design, without someone like James Lipton or Charlie Rose to facilitate.

The nature of the film doesn't allow him to ever really let fly with anything explosive, and he doesn't pull off the spooky unease with quite the aplomb that people like James Horner and Christopher Young have done in recent times for similar films.

Anyone who has heard about the dual - film next sequel (and anyone who stays into the credits of this film), will know that these little buggers will all weigh heavily in the future against a purple guy who likes floating space furniture and sounds a lot like James Brolin.

If I were to cast an action movie that's got some dramatic tension (so not just a shoot»em up kind of flick), I'd cast Alan Rickman or Timothy Dalton opposite a young actor like James McAvoy or Tom Hardy as a villain.

(I have no problem philosophically with this approach, which can be dramatically effective in a documentary like James Marsh's «Man on Wire.»)

Sounds an awful lot like James White to me, but I'm willing to see what Shannon can do.

Adrien Brody does a pretty good job staying on screen for the entire film by himself much like James Franco in 127 Hours and Ryan Reynolds in Buried.

One would hope that these films will rise above their own tropes and not turn into a lumbering ball of self - referencing with little substance like the James Bond series.

7) The Conjuring (2013)-- I hate movies that pull the «Based on a True Story» card, but leave it to a horror geek like James Wan to win me over.

Much like James Horner's score, there's something off with the casting.

Occasionally, it seems like James Liston's photography is good, but then it's obvious he just knows how to give that impression.

That's a shame, because in the hands of a more accomplished director like James Wan, «Winchester» could have been something truly special.

Nor because, the presence of Pierce Brosnan notwithstanding, it strews action set - pieces like a James Bond movie — it doesn't, though a drive through drizzly New England woods is more riveting than most movie car chases.

RS - w: First of all, I really like James Cagney, but regarding the pattern of performances, I saw Hwang Jung - min's main protagonist character as a Lee Marvin character.

As T'Challa pursues Ulysses Klaue around the world while using amazing gadgets, it feels a lot like a James Bond movie.

«I'm like James Dean.»

What You Need To Know: The French are obsessed with director James Gray, so naturally, writer / director / actor Guillaume Canet («Little White Lies») tapped Gray to help him write the screenplay of what sounds very much like a James Gray film (one could argue it sounds like the premise of «We Own The Night»).

As for the «coming soon» section, there are some films that we've seen at festivals and that will arrive at some point but don't have firmed - up release dates yet so we didn't add them, like James Gray's «The Immigrant,» Jim Jarmusch's «Only Lovers Left Alive» and Jim Mickle «s deliciously atmospheric, slow - build cannibal horror remake «We Are What We Are.»

Crow: despite looking exactly like James Callis, not played by James Callis.

Meanwhile, speaking to the outlet, director J.A. Bayona teased an exciting opening to the sequel, stating that: «Fallen Kingdom stars with a massive action piece that feels like a James Bond prologue.

He's kind of like our James Bond, so I'm really looking forward to it.

It's more like if there is humor, it's more like James Bond.»

He is not like Owen Wilson, likes to make the character silly but lovely, nor like the James Franco's style of acting, nor like Steve Carell's favorite awkward style acting.

Continuing its effort to rid the TV world of hideous old people like James Roday and Jeffrey Donovan in favor of hip, new youngsters, USA looks to be ending White Collar after its upcoming sixth season.

With the inclusion of a visionary horror director like James Wan, this will be a very different franchise indeed.

Some people like James Franco as Hugh Hefner show up in cameo size appearances.