Sentences with phrase «little potboiler»
Money Monster proves to be quite the entertaining little potboiler.
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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.
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.
Alas, this dismal little potboiler delivers only tedium.
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Although 2000 AD starts out as a routine potboiler espionage thriller of little significance, it gets supercharged about halfway through into an exciting actioner worth watching.
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
Kate Winslet's hit rate with Toronto debuts has been patchy over recent years, following schlocky potboiler Labor Day and gardening curio A Little Chaos.
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.