Sentences with phrase «little big films»

Tomboy is one of those little big films whose simplicity and concision suggest the excess of meaning that language (cinematic or otherwise) could never account for.

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The film features a little - known cast whose biggest names are the British actors Mark Rylance and Simon Pegg.

The little vulgar newsshoprint freebie that started in Montreal back in 1994 now has more than 800 full - time employees in 34 countries making books, films, video, magazines, events and music, all funded through partnerships with some of the globe's biggest brands.

Before they made it big, movies like Juno, Little Miss Sunshine and The Last King of Scotland seemed like films that would end up in the long tail.

It comes right out of Disney's film productions, a place where we meet animated «real - life» versions of goodness personified (Snow White, the third Little Pig, Dumbo, Pollyanna) and the essence of evil (the Wicked Queen, the Big Bad Wolf)-- and thus learn to divide the world into good and evil, watching goodness triumph with a smile and a song.

A prolific film and TV actress, Dern has been nominated for dozens of awards — including winning a Emmy in 2017 for «best supporting actress» for her role in Big Little Lies.

«In 1969, on my last big trip for the AAU,» Toomey said, «two weight men, Jon Cole and George Frenn, took film all during our little junket.

All in the family: the little sister sports a white lace blouse and skirt from her big sisters» line The Row and sweet flat sandals to a photocall for her film Martha Marcy May Marlene.

Then there's the fresh, delicious menu that showcases gorgeous local ingredients, and the cocktail list, which is the perfect mix of creativity and humour (one cocktail, Big Flavours in Little China, is described as a `' tribute to the greatest movie ever filmed in Vancouver or anywhere else.»).

In the end, the movie is still a musical, entirely sung through with little or no spoken dialogue scenes, filmed on a big theatrical set.

While those who enjoyed the Brooks book will likely be chagrined at seeing little of what they enjoyed show up on the big screen, taking World War Z on its own terms as a Hollywood blockbuster, there's still enough entertainment value to be had for those who are OK with the fact that the film doesn't represent the book.

It's just a shame that the little gems that stick out in memory so heavily, don't reflect the end product that «Mississippi Grind» has to offer; the film is at its core, a so - so gambler, who hits it big but doesn't know when to walk away, overplaying his hand and leaving with a much smaller windfall.

Though the theme of resentment plays a big part in the film, Tom's emotional transformation is taken a little too far, to the point that you're not even sure if you like the main characters anymore.

For those who don't mind a little blood & gore and a lot of profanity, Free Fire is a superior alternative to the big - name, bloated action films hogging the largest screens in most multiplexes.

The bigger issue: How could a film with Elba and McConaughey have so little swagger?

Full Moon in Blue Water is such a likable film in so many little ways that you want to forgive it for being so bad in so many big ones.

But by far the biggest blunder is in how seriously it takes itself; a little campiness and a self - deprecating sense of humour would have gone a long way to making the film a lot more likeable.

Park has described his niche as being the little guy in the Disney - dominated world of animation, which provides rather amusing subtext to the film, which represents Aardman's biggest undertaking in its 40 - plus - year history.

Throw in Myrna Loy and you have a very fun movie with 3 actors at the top of their game.The film is about a test pilot (Gable) and his trusty mechanic (Tracy) who meet a girl (Loy) and how the strain of a test pilot's life affects them all.The film is a little long, but the action is well done.The acting is the main reason to watch this film, and if your are a fan of the big three, then you will have a good time.

But while this comment may be true of some Carpenter films - like Big Trouble in Little China - it does not take the context into account.

This is also where I found my biggest complaint with the film, seeing as its runtime was a little long for its type of storytelling.

It is a little out there because it is a film from Joel and Ethan Coen, but besides that, The Big Lebowski was still pretty good.

Marketed on the shoulders of big names that are little more than extended cameos in the film (Jonah Hill feels more featured in the trailer than the actual film, if you can believe it), there are bit players given as much room to play as the stars.

At the same time, Uchida is responsible for some of the most remarkable swordplay films of the 1950s and»60s; his five - film Musashi Miyamoto epic (not screened at MOMA), starring Kinnosuke Nakamura in the title role and Ken Takakura as his arch-nemesis Kojiro, surpasses the better - known Inagaki Samurai Trilogy starring Toshiro Mifune in terms of both drama and swordplay, yet remains little - known in the West (despite its availability on DVD in the U.S.) After the BAM retrospective (and others) in 2008, most of Uchida's films remained unscreened and undistributed in America, so with MOMA's bigger series recently ending, it's time again to encourage distributors like the Criterion Collection, Kino Lorber, and Arrow Video to bring out more of the director's masterpieces, both for critical reconsideration and for those whom the veteran filmmaker will be a major new discovery.

Much of the revulsion to the film is little more than backlash for the «American Idol» pop star oversaturation, not wanting what has become a national obsession on the small screen to start spilling over onto the big.

The fist half of Vollrath's film unfolds with great tension but loses a little steam once it makes its big reveal.

There is an attempt at some sort of twist ending, a la M. Night Shyamalan, but even this adds so very little to the story as a whole, and comes off like a gimmick just to give the film a «big reveal» even if it doesn't really merit one.

Look at Halloween, The Fog, The Thing, Big Trouble in Little China, They Live, and this review's subject, Escape from New York: That's quite a run of films that are well remembered by many fans today, even if they didn't all set the box office ablaze.

, valued laughs over character or theme, and preferred a thousand little gags over a few big laughs (it had no comedic set pieces; the film was the set piece).

Tangents aside, Big Hero 6, directed by Don Hall and Chris Williams, is an adaptation of a little known Marvel comic, about a 14 - year - old boy called Hiro (spectacularly mispronounced as «Hero» by seemingly everyone, bar one character in the film), a total robotics prodigy, with genius level intellect, who participates in underground robot fighting.

I'm all for something a little meatier like Sinister, who could become the big franchise antagonist to replace Magneto possibly spanning multiple films.

Thus, little time is dedicated to the show, with more spent detailing the evolution from Iron Man into one big interconnected film universe.

And while the storyline, characters and sets could only come from the quirky imaginations of the Coen brothers, the film remains critical and engaged with the world we live in — a world where the little guy struggles to change their own tough situation, let alone the world at large, and the big ones who don't give a damn.

That little nugget aside, the film became Rohmer's first big critical and commercial success both in France and in the United States.

In timing and content, Amistad is a little Oscar baity, but a bigger reason than that and Spielberg's recent victories for its minor contender status may simply be that 1997 was an unusually strong year for film.

The biggest disappointment in the film was how little the character of Juliette (Felicity Jones) was actually used.

My Life as a Dog: Criterion Collection Unrated Available on DVD and Blu - ray Swedish with English Subtitles Before cranking out hit films like The Cider House Rules and Chocolat, Swedish director Lasse Holstrom hit the scene big - time with this little indie about a boy who goes on a journey of discovery when he is sent away to give his dying mother some rest.

(This is his second film; his first was a wonderfully corny little romantic comedy called «Big Eden,» which came out in 2000.)

The drawback is that Kunis never seems to actually buy into the mythos and world that were supposed to come out of all the green screen and CGI work; Tatum, by comparison, seems to be deep into a drama that feels out of place in a big popcorn film, and his character has little humor or charm underneath the brooding, gruff attitude, campy facial prosthetics and drag - style makeup work.

There were a handful of comedy films to premiere at Sundance this past year, including The Big Sick, Ingrid Goes West, Landline, and The Little Hours.

TUC opened its doors in 2010 with a double bill of Clue: The Movie and Big Trouble in Little China and will close September with screenings of apocalyptic horror film Night of the Comet and concert Doc, The Last Waltz.

He hits up the same sharp - dressed guy three times for a little help (director John Huston, in one of the many classic cameos in his films), receives a tongue - lashing, and hunches down a little more, recouping a little bit of «big» in offering a cigarette to Curtin, another Yankee down - and - outer on a park bench.

They're filming the much - anticipated second season of the HBO smash, Big Little Lies.

Looking over the stretch that included Midnight Cowboy, Little Big Man, All the President's Men, Marathon Man, Kramer vs. Kramer, and Tootsie, Hoffman is practically the only thing these films have in common.

Richard Linklater may be the biggest maker of little films in American cinema.

There are walking tours of the city devoted to the film, showcasing sites like Thrift Town, or the big blue house that serves as Lady Bird's dream home, and the city's tourism board have called the film «a little gem that drops out of the sky.»

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As challenging, as Amy was, Newton hadn't yet gotten the scripts for Season 2 of Big Little Lies when she filmed the miniseries.

The film didn't have very big stars (except, of course, Brian Cox, the biggest star of all), and there seemed to be very little buzz surrounding the flick.

The Nugget is a mild - mannered Australian film that fits right in with the type of comedies they generally make, full of likeably daft little guys that discover they like the simple lives they lead, almost losing it all when something bigger comes along.