Sentences with phrase «maligned film»

This much - maligned film is actually a fine adventure, full of action and with plenty of great characters.

ALBANY — SUNY Polytechnic Institute's much maligned film hub outside of Syracuse has never paid rent on the $ 15 million building since it opened in 2015, according to a lawsuit filed by the landlord seeking nearly $ 1 million in unpaid obligations.

Not exact matches

Given that it is a Star Wars film, Solo is almost guaranteed to do well at the box office — even the much maligned prequel films broke records.

Her previous films, the sprite High Season and the whimsical Rough Magic, were technically sound productions (though, in the case of Rough Magic, narratively poor too) that showed she was more than a notable screenwriter (of the maligned but underrated Michaelangelo Antonioni epic Zabriskie Point) and famous spouse (of Italian auteur Bernardo Bertolucci).

Scout Tafoya celebrates two underrated Prince films in his latest video essay about maligned masterpieces.

All things considered, I got more fun out of the much maligned earlier attempt of bringing characters from the show to film, Boris and Natasha.

He kicked off the most successful decade of his film career with a performance as Wimpy in the much - maligned Robert Altman musical comedy Popeye (1980).

By comparison, the critically maligned Britney Spears film Crossroads (released the same year) made over twice that much.

TITUS Julie Taymor creates a visually arrest ing film around Shakespeare's much - maligned «Titus Andronicus,» which emerges as a brilliant black comedy.

I'm aware that this is all beginning to sound a bit like a defence rather than a review, and it's because Curtis films seem to be so automatically maligned, and enjoying them seen as weak, and maybe even a bit morally repugnant.

Perhaps due to the choices to cover older works, they're more able than ever to produce intelligent, thoughtful, and informative criticism — while this article maligns their production value as no better than «the average Youtube video,» editing a video review to provide context via clips of the film is a step beyond what the vast majority of populist or even academic film criticism has done in the past, let alone other related films in the genre and in the director's oeuvre for context.

Kebbel then graduated from the small to the big screen with a series of turns in high - profile but (unfortunately) consistently schlocky and critically maligned Hollywood films.

This sequel is more religious thriller than superhero film, though the directing duo of Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor (whose other credits include Gamer and the maligned Jonah Hex screenplay) make it look like a car commercial, with their jerky handheld digital video, odd angles, and hollow showiness.

Based on a novel by José Saramago, it's set in one of the most blandly unthreatening cities on the planet, Toronto, which in this film becomes an angry and malign metropolis.

Dumbo The much maligned elephant will show his ears in the new film directed by Tim Burton (who also helmed the live action Alice In Wonderland), and written by Ehren Kruger (Transformers sequels).

We also get an epilogue that functions as an eleventh - hour subversion of all that was accomplished in the first film — the excuse Disney completists have been waiting for to avoid watching the justly - maligned, albeit kind of gorgeous, Atlantis: The Lost Empire.

In my humble opinion, Xanadu is quite possibly one of the most underrated and overly - maligned of the films to stem from the disco era.

Other films meriting mention include Robert Altman «s final picture, «A Prairie Home Companion ``; Mel Gibson «s Aztec - thriller, «Apocalypto ``; Tom Tykwer «s kinetic (perhaps too kinetic) «Perfume: The Story of a Murderer ``; John Cameron Mitchell «s low - budget erotica,» Shortbus ``; Richard Linklater's live - action rotoscoped Philip K. Dick adaptation «A Scanner Darkly ``; Spike Lee «s biggest commercial hit, the entertaining heist film, «Inside Man ``; Michael Mann «s flawed, but interesting «Miami Vice ``; Bryan Singer «s unfairly maligned «Superman Returns; «Nicole Holofcener «s wryly observational «Friends with Money,» the over-estimated, but enlivening horror «The Descent,» and «13 Tzameti.»

Right off the bat, I love Wes Anderson; THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS is one of my favourite ever films and the much maligned THE DARJEELING...

Woody's perennial punching bag, the much maligned hypnosis comedy is mockable on title alone, but the film now represents a marker in a filmography rife with sea changes, downshifts and resuscitations.

It was a particularly heartening year for homegrown cinema, as the oft - maligned UK film industry produced such gems as Andrew Haigh's 45 Years, Daniel and Matthew Wolfe's Catch Me Daddy, Debbie Tucker Green's Second Coming, and Rufus Norris's ambitious stage - to - screen transfer London Road.The cream of the crop for me, however, was Carol Morley's infinitely intriguing The Falling, a film that echoed the best work of Nic Roeg and established its director as one of the most exciting talents of her generation.

That the first film's primary target / model was Scream and that this one's is Jan DeBont's justly maligned remake of The Haunting says everything about Scary Movie 2's creative bankruptcy.

Despite being more aesthetically pleasing than Michael Bay's garishly executed Pearl Harbour, Nolan's big film in service of a small story has more in common with that much - maligned war pic than more serious minded award season contenders of past years like Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan, Peter Weir's Gallipoli or Terence Malick's The Thin Red Line.

It's bitchy, compulsive Nic who holds the center together, and if The Kids Are All Right can be said to have a gay sensibility at all, it lies in the film's rousing defense of one of the most maligned figures in American cinema — the strong mother.

The film's action scenes are also competently done (if not exactly up to those in last summer's unfairly maligned sci - fi adventure from Fox, Titan A.E.).

Perhaps even the world was not ready for Last Action Hero (it is underrated and unfairly maligned in my opinion) and there needed to be a the ridiculous number of comic - book fantasies (and Coen Brothers and Wes Anderson films) to get to this point.

But more importantly, that sequel to the Rosetta stone of the modern sci - fi / horror / action film (combining not one, not two, but three maligned genres) also earned Sigourney Weaver an Oscar nomination for Best Actress — a confirmation that the Academy could look past a long - held horror bias to celebrate superb genre performances.

«First Reformed,» which played at the Venice and Telluride film festivals before arriving in Toronto, is an exceptional return to form for Schrader after several much - maligned disappointments («The Canyons,» «Dying of the Light»).

What's more, it's refreshing to hear the young filmmaker talk honestly and passionately about such a traditionally maligned industry, while also finding a moment to namedrop Downey's Putney Swope and ruminate on the state of modern action films.

Jamie Bell feels «bitterly disappointed» about the «Fantastic Four» movie.The 31 - year - old actor played the Thing in the much - maligned superhero film in 2015, and despite the passing of time, Jamie still harbours regrets about the movie.He...

Director Raja Gosnell is no stranger to this much - maligned genre, with two live - action «Scooby Doo» films under his belt, as well as «Beverly Hills Chihuahua» (cutely referenced when a white chihuahua laments that «nobody makes talking - animal movies anymore»).

Near the end of Edward Yang's unjustly maligned 1996 film Mahjong, a teenage boy is humiliated by a group of older women, and he starts to cry.

The film begs comparison to the much maligned DC superhero standoff Batman V Superman for obvious reasons.

Documenting the evil growing inside two ten - year old twins, writer - director Christopher Denham's Home Movie creates a completely believable film in the much - maligned found footage genre, using mostly faux - Camcorder footage shot during holidays or special celebrations — those times when people do actually film things they want to keep as memories.

This is a masterpiece that seems to have been forgotten by history or marginalized as a mere political statement and unfairly maligned by reactionaries who either haven't seen the film or didn't bother paying attention to it.

The one exception is Joseph Cross, who after starring in the much - maligned Christmas family film Jack Frost, dabbled in television, and has since returned to films, appearing in movies like Untraceable, Milk, and Steven Spielberg and Daniel Day - Lewis» upcoming Lincoln.

Not the most likely or inspiring choice for the job, Bill Condon (Dreamgirls, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn) takes the helm of this $ 160 million production with a script attributed to Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower, the film adaptation of Rent) and Disney DTV veteran Evan Spiliotopoulos (whose more recent credits include the maligned not - quite - tentpoles Hercules starring Dwayne Johnson and The Huntsman: Winter's War).

A Daredevil reboot, following the much - maligned 2003 film starring Ben Affleck, has been in talks for a number of years.

Susan, someone needs to defend the much - maligned lemmings, so I'll step into the breach: Lemmings do not voluntarily run off cliffs — that was a staged scene in a 1950s Disney film.

Travers «spent the rest of her life maligning what she saw as the maudlin mess her Mary Poppins had become on the big screen», and when she agreed to a stage an adaptation in the 1990s, she insisted, right there in her last will and testament, that no Americans, and certainly no one who had been involved in that dreadful Disney film, would be allowed to participate.»)