Sentences with phrase «novel kind of movie»

The Lincoln Lawyer is a quintessential airport - novel kind of movie, possessing no great qualities or ambitions.

Not exact matches

- go to football games - attend an opera - play cards - watch any kind of movie at the theater or in your home - own a television - listen to rock, country western, or Mozart - invest in the stock market - observe Christmas with a decorated tree - decorate and hide Easter eggs - read mystery novels

Fans of Suzanne Collins» novel, of course, know that that is exactly how this movie needed to be made; it's just surprising to see a studio show that kind of discipline when they normally are, shall we say, going all Tex Avery with the big dollar sign eyeballs.

Written and directed by Dee Rees from a labyrinthine novel by Hillary Jordan, it's the kind of movie they rarely make any more — heavy on plot and character development and more literary than cinematic — but so skillfully directed, photographed and acted that it sucks you into its powerful emotional storyline from the start and holds interest to the finish.

But we'll have to wait and see if Will Ferrell will star... A movie version of John le Carré's 2010 novel Our Kind of Traitor has just started shooting, helmed by veteran British TV and Nanny McPhee Returns director Susanna White, hot off HBO and the BBC's Parade's End, not to mention four episodes of Generation Kill.

It's almost the kind of movie, indeed, to blast loose a detective - novel fan from Ross Macdonald.

«Characters like Spider - Man or Batman or James Bond or Iron Man, who have been around for so long and are always refreshed in comic books or novels or movies, you don't necessarily get that kind of an endpoint — and we wanted to do that, which is what these next two Avengers films are.»

Based on a Daphne Du Maurier novel and made a year before Hitchcock's Oscar - winning movie of Du Maurier's «Rebecca,» the film introduces Maureen O'Hara as Mary, a headstrong young Irish woman (is there any other kind?)

This is the kind of thing you'd expect on a women's cable network movie - of - the - week, and screenwriter Allison Burnett (working from, what I've heard, a more meta - fictional novel by Charles Baxter; this kind of circumstantial plotting might actually work as meta - fiction) takes a kind of dopey sincerity about the whole thing.

Which explains, for you, all the text pop ups throughout the movie, and the flashing lights, because, if you actually pick up a comic book or graphic novel, you'll notice all the action panels and even the normal ones too, have text pop ups, and flashy kind of drawing.

There are several kinds of movies based on novels.

Track of the Cat William Wellman, USA, 1954, 35 mm, 102m Mitchum reunited with his Story of G.I. Joe director William Wellman («I was very, very fond of him,» Mitchum said of Wellman, «and he tolerated me») for a different kind of movie, based on a Walter Van Tilburg Clark novel, about a homesteading family in snow country whose livestock is being destroyed by a roaming mountain lion.

The third feature from Anton Corbijn, the movie is based on a John Le Carre novel and is infused with the kind of grimy atmosphere which characterised Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.

It's also not the kind of movie that would normally interest me, but between the casting of Shailene Woodley and the almost unanimous admiration for the John Green novel on which it's based, there's a certain air to the project that suggests it'll be much better than the typical young adult book adaptation.

A novel or movie may depend on this linearity to convey the narrative arc, which is essential to its form, but this can present an impediment to more instructional kinds of media.