There are great directors who
make phenomenal films and then there are the select few that make a film that is truly an experience; they make something more than just a great movie.
Not exact matches
declared the young queen in that
film where Kapur, scribe Michael Hirst, and the
phenomenal Blanchett
made clear that Elizabeth's regime would be undermined if she appeared to be rooster - pecked.
Thematically, «The Stanford Prison Experiment» clearly has a lot to present about not just male aggression but what being imprisoned does to people (Nelsan Ellis is
phenomenal as an ex-con who tells Zimbardo that they need to «teach these boys of privilege what a prison is»), but writer Tim Talbott hits a few too many of the
film's themes repeatedly, just to
make sure you get them.
It's a rare thing to ever see Lawrence unable to properly act, but even in this, she's
phenomenal, and only
makes the
film that much more emotionally resonant when she does deliver the goods in the heat of the moment, and with authenticity.
I would gather that the producers were equally at a loss as to what
made the first
film a
phenomenal success, so to
make sure this second
film captured the essence of the first, no box was left unchecked in trying to recapture the «magic».
BOYHOOD has been a huge critical success and the concept and craft that comes into
making a
film over 12 years with the same cast is truly
phenomenal.
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Hailed by critics as «mesmerizing» (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone), «amazing» (Brian Truitt, USA Today) and «the best
film of the year» (Christopher Orr, The Atlantic), director Denis Villeneuve's (Sicario)
phenomenal tour de force ARRIVAL
makes its home entertainment debut on 4K Ultra HD, Blu - ray, DVD and On Demand February 14, 2017 from Paramount Home Media Distribution.
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Hailed by critics as «mesmerizing» (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone), «amazing» (Brian Truitt, USA Today) and «the best
film of the year» (Christopher Orr, The Atlantic), director Denis Villeneuve's (Sicario)
phenomenal tour de force ARRIVAL
makes its home entertainment debut on 4K Ultra HD, Blu - ray, DVD and On Demand February 14, 2017... [Read More]
The choice
makes sense in theory — combining the dark thriller tones that
made The Hangover a
phenomenal success with the ribald stylings of Schumer and the empowerment fantasies which have
made previous Feig
films as popular as they are.
And so I was ecstatic to hear they were restoring the truly
phenomenal «The Awful Truth,» one of the best
films of its kind ever
made.
Through it all, the relationship of Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), Ron (Rupert Grint), and Hermione (Emma Watson) continues to evolve, and the
phenomenal supporting cast of every actor ever (David Tennant, Alan Rickman, Michael Gambon, Maggie Smith, Warwick Davis, Robbie Coltrane, Brendan Gleeson, Gary Oldman, Ralph Fiennes)
makes the
film phenomenally well acted, even if the pacing suffers severely from an attempt to cram way too much into two and a half hours.
The
phenomenal success of the brand (the first two
films have
made a combined $ 950m at the worldwide box office) continues to fascinate those not fascinated with the books given that the only real tension hinges upon whether high - powered pretty boy Christian Grey and his doe - eyed sex slave will keep doing it or not.
A sumptuous score,
phenomenal cinematography, unsettling sound design, and an increasingly unhinged York work together to
make Altman's
film a cult oddity which never received its rightful due (it does play like the equally relevant rural sister to the unraveling of Catherine Deneuve's urban beauty in Polanski's famous Repulsion).
Much was
made of the
film's striking visual aesthetic, a byproduct of the directors» experience in the world of music videos, but not enough credit has gone the way of Dano and especially Radcliffe, who are both
phenomenal here.
It's a
phenomenal talent, but one that betrays him on The Mother by
making glib the
film's subject matter.
Screen tests for Tobey Maguire (in which he goes Bruce Lee (okay, maybe more like Bruce Li) on a band of thugs bleeped as often as Ozzy Osbourne on MTV), JK Simmons, the CGI Spider - Man (
phenomenal — trust me), and key
make - up and costumes and a lame 3 - minute gag reel finish off the serviceable package, not counting ROM - enabled weblinks, videogame promos, «comic to
film comparison,» and a nifty option to scratch your very own commentary track for Spider - Man.
In that time, I went to tapings of Jeopardy!, an episode of Everybody Loves Raymond and a screening of a new Paul Reiser sitcom that never
made it to TV; met the
phenomenal Michael Weatherly and Sasha Alexander when NCIS was
filming part of an episode at College of the Canyons in Valencia during its second season; and went to the 20th Century Fox lot one evening with an independent filmmaker...
From curator Connie Butler's collaboration with the ONE Archives to the
phenomenal programming — superb
films, live courtyard performances, debauched dance parties (co-hosted by KCRW), KCHUNG Radio's TV studio in the museum lobby, and Piero Golia's live - sculpting project of George Washington's nose from Mt. Rushmore —
Made in L.A. was not to be missed.