Sentences with phrase «movies as mystery»

In recent years Ben has starred in such hit movies as Mystery Men (1999), Keeping the Faith (2000) and Meet the Parents (2000).

Not exact matches

Place seems in its reality transformed, and by the mystery of the movie as an art form.

In Mystery Men, a movie from a few years back, William H. Macy, Ben Stiller and Hank Azaria starred as a trio of lesser superheroes with fairly unimpressive superpowers.

When we watch and talk about television shows and movies this way, we treat them as if they were merely puzzles to be put together, mysteries to be solved, data to be sorted.

The movie follows grizzled D.C. reporter Cal McAffrey (Russell Crowe) and his rakishly tousled mane, vaguely reminiscent of Hoffman's in All the President's Men, as he works to uncover the mystery behind the death of the staff assistant of close friend U.S. congressman Stephen Collins (Ben Affleck).

For reasons that defy logic, the excellent This Island Earth was held up for ridicule as an allegedly bad movie in the film version of TV's Mystery Science Theater.

It's only as the film inevitably segues into its mystery - oriented midsection that it slowly - but - surely becomes a seriously dull piece of work, as there's simply nothing interesting or intriguing about the gang's ongoing investigation into what happened - with the tediousness of this stretch exacerbated by the unpleasant and downright seedy nature of the movie's locale.

If you were Angelina Jolie, you might take it as a sign that your career is in trouble when you star in a grade - Z serial - killer mystery — and people still think of it as an Ashley Judd movie.

Anchored by a sensational Charlotte Rampling as its lead, the movie combines Haigh's perceptive style with shades of Mike Leigh's «Another Year» to create a quietly moving and deceptively tragic look at aging romance haunted by past mysteries.

A superhero movie with the looseness of a Mad magazine parody remains a viable idea, as demonstrated by the underrated Mystery Men and, of course, Deadpool.

The best ones — the earlier Thin Man movies, Manhattan Murder Mystery, True Lies and The Incredibles, to name some — use intrigue - filled plots essentially as elaborate pretexts to probe and poke at the human relationships at their center.

Fresh from film school, an enthusiastic young runner starts work on a low budget zombie movie only to run into the first day from hell as a mystery illness starts to turn the extras on set into the bona fide undead.

In embracing its identity as a tacky horror movie, and totally scrapping the murder mystery angle that made the original so wobbly, it manages to be a darn sight more fun to watch.

Disaster Movie follows the comic misadventures of a group of ridiculously attractive twenty - somethings during one fateful night as they try to make their way to safety while every known natural disaster and catastrophic event - asteroids, twisters, earthquakes, the works — hits the city and their path as they try to solve a series of mysteries to end the rampant destruction.

For a while, it's a happy movie with a teasing mystery to it, as it churns through two lives coming together, in a period when people hadn't yet learned to make light of their passions.

As usual, there are a bunch of Netflix originals, including some movies that debuted at the SXSW Film Festival, new episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000, a new comedy special from Louis C.K., a new season of The Get Down and more.

It's a movie that has an attitude problem it couldn't resolve as easily as it did the mystery to Mona's death.

Stephen Frears» directorial debut Gumshoe, a cockeyed detective film starring Albert Finney as a small - time bingo caller who plays at being a private detective for fun and ends up in the middle of a real mystery, and Arch Oboler's 1951 end - of - the - world drama Five, a low budget, high concept film he produced independently, also arrive under the «Martini Movies» imprint.

Doc obliges, as Doc does with many people in the film, but the movie never really cares about solving this mystery.

If, on the other hand, you enjoy a Tarantino - scripted conversation or two or five — particularly in a period piece where the characters can't make references to movies or TV shows — «The Hateful Eight» may well engage you as a darkly funny locked - door mystery that's in no hurry to show its hand.

Of course, exactly how she'll fit in remains a mystery at this pint as the studio (in this case Warner Bros., though Sony will release the movie in the UK) has locked down the details.

It may feature science fiction tropes such as being set in some alternate universe in which human cloning existed since the 1960s as well as clones being harvested for their organs, hardly an original idea (see the 1979 movie The Clonus Horror, which was understandably spoofed by Mystery Science Theater 3000).

A break - in at Democratic National Committee headquarters by five men in the early 1970s creates a stir, and what follows is as atmospheric and dramatic as watching a proper mystery movie.

What could have been «It Follows» instead becomes a Nancy Drew movie, exploring a mystery you simply don't care about, laden with fake frights (dog barking, umbrella opening) and Vincent D'Onofrio as a blind graveyard caretaker.

The movie joins him in his advancing years, as Asa Butterfield «s title moppet discovers him running a shop during his mystery - laden quest involving a mechanical man.

However, it's a minor annoyance compared to how much the movie gets right, because for as divisive as the ending may be, «10 Cloverfield Lane» still manages to deliver a riveting cinematic experience that demonstrates the true power of Abrams» «mystery box» philosophy.

That sets up the rest of the movie, which is essentially one extended chase scene, as Russell, Dun and Kim Cattrall plunge headlong into the mysteries beneath Chinatown.

Here's a synopsis of the movie: What starts out as a lavish train ride through Europe quickly unfolds into one of the most stylish, suspenseful and thrilling mysteries ever told.

It's a film that plays out as a mystery, gradually unpeeling itself to reach a charred core, except that one can't help but notice you'll keep unpeeling long after the movie is over.

Oscar Isaac provides a little mystery as another agent who may or may not be trying to kill Cross in the beginning of the movie.

That's where Frank the Bastard finds itself, since despite having a mysterious title and a mysterious premise (a young woman confronts her past when she returns to the creepy commune she grew up in), the movie just spins its wheels as it looks for the dullest way to finally admit the pitiful details of its mystery plot.

As such, she's the perfect partner in mystery for the hardly less opaque Binoche in this cryptic, restlessly circling movie of multiple perspectives — possibly the most intriguing yet from the always unpredictable Assayas.

Though it might have been imagined as a murder - mystery for movie buffs, what the picture succeeds in being is a flat and slightly off - putting costume drama for director Bogdanovich.

Deadpool's never been known much as a detective, but it looks as if one of the mysteries surrounding his upcoming movie has been solved.

It's no mystery that Donald Terras is excited about the recent discovery of a long - lost movie filmed in Chicago starring stage actor William Gillette as Sherlock Holmes.

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And when his 1958 masterpiece «Vertigo» — that eerie romantic chiller starring James Stewart as a detective afraid of heights and Kim Novak as the beautiful mystery woman for whom he falls — was recently voted the best movie of all time, finally beating out runner - up «Citizen Kane» in the Sight and Sound film poll, it was a recognition that was probably as much for Hitchcock's entire oeuvre.

Though it's not nearly as great as it could've been due to a slow first act, once the mystery at the center of the story is revealed, the movie eventually hits its stride, even if that means suspending your disbelief at times.

As with some of his previous movies, Morris isn't exactly after answers here, but rather to simply explore the mystery of the various versions of this story that circulated; McKinney tells one version, while journalists tell another.

At its best, the film functions as a Hitchcockian haunted house movie with a palpable air of mystery, intrigue, elegant set pieces and offers up exquisite period details.

This year's secret screening — the mystery movie scheduled for a «TBA» slot on Tuesday evening at the Egyptian Theatre, just as Nymphomaniac: Volume...

David Lynch's Mulholland Drive contends that the answer to the eternal struggle between what is real and what is fantasy comes in the form of a Keatsian confusion — it's the difference between Adam's dream and Eve rendered flesh, blurred in the mind of the creator and his audience.A film is a dream of the director made tangible, a conceit familiar from the fourth wall - breaking in Ingmar Bergman's Persona (banishing any mystery there might have been regarding the visual references to that film in Lynch's piece), and a movie's characters therefore become projections of its maker's sublimated longing (clarifying too the auteur's use of wardrobe and colour schemes from Hitchcock's meditation on objectification, Vertigo, as well as those of his first collaboration with inamorata Tippi Hedren, The Birds).

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Shot mostly in shadow to shroud the creature in mystery (and to de-emphasize any seams in its suit), the film sports a decidedly blue / orange palette as befitting a movie about a night - walking demon with a pumpkin for a parent, and its extremes have been dynamically preserved for the first time on video.

For playing man as she plays machine, and for not disappointing a movie that builds its mysteries around her.

Not much of a mystery, as the title gives up the supernatural goods, which takes whatever mystery the screenplay tries to employ and jettisons it in favor of tepid horror movie formula.

That's not to say that Mystery Men has nothing to offer: it features some nice comic book style production designs of a Gotham - like city that can be described as a mixture between the Batman movies and Metropolis, but reminded me more of the excellent Watchmen graphic novel by Alan Moore and David Gibbons.

As for the reported two new mystery Marvel movie slots announced by the studio, there are several potential options ranging from Gambit to a Deadpool sequel.

As the director of The Help, Tate Taylor may seem like an odd choice to make a movie based on Paula Hawkins» sexy mystery thriller bestseller.