Sentences with phrase «modestly budgeted film»

Although it's refreshing to see a major studio take a gamble on a modestly budgeted film targeted towards adults, «Focus» is so passively mediocre that you can understand why other studios have been afraid to pull the trigger.

The smart, rapid dialogue is sometimes mumbled and other times muffled by ambient sound, and serves as the meat of the modestly budgeted film.

Although it's refreshing to see a major studio take a gamble on a modestly budgeted film targeted towards adults (even if it stars one of the most bankable actors in the world), when that movie is as passively mediocre as «Focus,» you can understand why other studios have been afraid to pull the trigger.

But if the modestly budgeted film (loosely based on journalist Michael Nicholson's factual narrative, «Natasha's Story») lopes along a formulaic, often heavy - handed track, its pictures and subtext make a powerful statement.

Not exact matches

Some employees of an international arms dealer go out into the Hungarian wildeness for a weekend company retreat, only to find themselves menaced by a group of militants who don't like having them around their territory in this modestly budgeted dark comedy / horror film from Christopher Smith, who also directed Black Death (with Sean Bean).

This year at Cannes, the hopes of British success at the festival lay almost entirely on this film's modestly - budgeted shoulders, and with previous success with My Name is Joe and The Wind That Shakes the Barley, Loach could afford to be confident.

Also like those films, something gets lost in the translation, as what might work within the confines of a modestly budgeted Asian film seems all too ridiculous when big stars and budgets get injected into the mix.

Clearly a modestly - budgeted production (on which Alberta, Canada stands in for Montana and Manhattan), 12 Men of Christmas was shot on digital video lacking the resolution of film.

MS: Even though the film was modestly budgeted it is well crafted, especially the special effects.

The animated sequences look about as exquisite as modestly budgeted computer animation can aspire to, but as the film's most prominent image is that of the human face, the real showoffs here are the expertly rendered skin tones.

The British thriller Eye in the Sky is a modestly - budgeted film that is causing some big discussions about the ethics and the repercussions of drone warfare.

Finding Your Feet is another of those modestly budgeted British films aimed at an older audience and, again, it is very much a mixed bag.

The modestly - budgeted film appears in 1.85:1 widescreen and is free of any noticeable imperfections.

Every single ounce of the film's budget is splashed colorfully (but modestly) on the screen, Krasinski and Co. adding even more fuel to the raging appeal of highbrow horror movies, for both studios and audiences alike.

Critics and industry insiders alike have lamented for years the decline of modestly budgeted movies aimed at grownups, the sort of film that was once the backbone of Hollywood.

A Quiet Place, of course, is a modestly budgeted horror film released on a rare weekend free of spandex, tights, and world - saving superhero vs. super-villain slugfests.

The Oath Baltasar Kormákur has had a supremely interesting career with big budget Hollywood films such as Everest and 2 Guns, along with more modestly priced Icelandic affairs such as The Deep.

We passed over a couple of fine animated features (at that point, Avatar was still a dark, threatening mass on the horizon) to give the award to a Venice premiere: Joe Dante's The Hole, a modestly budgeted horror film that displays an effortless mastery of the third dimension.