Sentences with phrase «modern romance films»

The Vow bests plenty of modern romance films unfunny and mushy, but not enough to qualify as an enjoyable time.

A litmus test: if you find that you enjoy revisiting sweeping modern romance films like Titanic and The Notebook, you owe it to yourself to give Somewhere in Time a try, especially as it contains elements that both films have emulated.

Not exact matches

As the struggle with Voldemort suggests, the premise of the story is allegorical — good / light against evil / dark — with obvious revivals of the genre traditions of British heroic legend and medieval romance, even though the films have modern elements.

Agora proves that it is entire possible to have an old - school blockbuster (and I am talking Cecil B. DeMille and Alan Mann spectacle films with casts of thousands wearing togas and swords) coupled with science, mathematics and commentary on modern times nudge shoulders with romance, upheaval and politics of antiquity.

● SIGNATURE MOVE, by Jennifer Reeder, finds common ground between a closeted Muslim lawyer (Fawzia Mirza) and a free - spirited Chicana bookstore owner in this heartfelt and funny film about how modern romance can arise from a path steeped in tradition.

It's tempting to attribute the leaden weight of cliché in Possession to some kind of wicked LaBute barb about the zombie - march of most modern romances, but I fear that the film is deadly serious in its Harlequin intentions.

The film, which chronicles the infamous romance of King Edward VII and Wallis Simpson, juxtaposes it with the «modern» love trials and tribulations of Abbie Cornish, torn between a jerky husband and a sweet security guard (guess which one Isaac plays).

Ultimately, Meet the Parents is one of the funniest comedies I've seen since Annie Hall, a film with which it shares a wry sensibility about modern romance.

The film takes one of the modern world's most compelling tragedies and uses it to tell a fairy tale romance that bridges a class divide.

And being a twenty - somethin like its two main characters, the film displayed some very revealing truths about modern - day young romance.

Perhaps the closest thing imaginable to a modern day Ernst Lubitsch film, Love & Friendship sees puffed - up gentry adorned in lace - trimmed garments (colour - coded as to the capacity of their imagination) trying to get their prissy minds around the concept of modern romance.

It has essentially EVERYTHING your standard / substandard Mutant Reviewers from Hell reader would ever desire in a film: Michael Cera, the hot / fun «it» girls from various cult (non --RRB- smashes of recent years, a thoroughly modern perspective towards diversity and human acceptance of differences, video game - inspired fight scenes, an uplifting and resonate (which is to say»80s film - like) romance, and a rockin» soundtrack.

That's because the wryly amusing look at the foibles of middle - age modern romance by filmmaker Nicole Holofcener («Please Give,» «Friends With Money») happens to be the second - to - last film with James Gandolfini in the cast.

The exhibition will include Levinthal's series of photographs of toy cowboys and soldiers created at Yale, on view for the first time since his thesis exhibition, along with photographs from his well - known Modern Romance series in which he used isolated tiny doll figurines to create melodramatic mises - en - scene reminiscent of Edward Hopper paintings and film noir.

The exhibition will include Levinthal's series of photographs of toy cowboys and soldiers created at Yale, on view for the first time since his thesis exhibition, along with photographs from his well - known Modern Romance series in which he used isolated tiny doll figurines to create melodramatic mises - en - scéne reminiscent of Edward Hopper paintings and film noir.

But film festivals, like other old - school distribution methods, shouldn't be forgotten in our modern - day romance with the internet.