Sentences with phrase «odd films in»

As a novice in the ways of the London Film Festival, I'm not only amazed by the scope and scale of the thing (350 - odd films in just under a fortnight), but aghast at the thought of all the backroom work that goes into it.

The latter three characters are tonally different than our main Avengers — the aubergine - skinned, floating Vision makes even a hero like the Hulk look pedestrian — and their inclusion means that Age of Ultron «is an odd film in some ways,» Whedon said.

Not exact matches

Eklund, on the heels of a controversial, year - long stint in California as an adult film star under the name Tag Eriksson, got to work taking odd jobs and hawking paninis outside the set of David Letterman's Late Show.

And because I'm a sort of odd bloke, I decided to throw a juicer in the back of a truck, hire a camera crew to follow me as I drove across the United States, and make a movie about it — Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead, a documentary film about my journey.

The odd start to the evening was designed to be eaten as the film — Trading Places — began, with Dan Ackroyd, one of the two main characters, being delivered breakfast in bed by his butler.

On the other hand, I really enjoyed seeing the odd, feral - looking beauty Mireille Enos (of TV's «The Killing») as Pitt's on - screen wife; I wish she had more to do in the film than hunker onboard an aircraft carrier with their kids, hoping the zombies won't learn how to swim.

(It always struck me as odd that these obvious real - life brothers do not play bothers in the film.)

The fourth film, Goblet of Fire, was ably but unmemorably directed by Mike Newell (who, in a truly odd coincidence, is scheduled in 2012 to become, with Cuarón, the second Potter director to release an adaptation of Great Expectations).

There's also the priest, who had an affair years ago and fathered a bastard child whom Jack meets, but the secret really serves no purpose save for making the priest a man who understands the psychological trauma in harboring dark secrets — a clichéd archetype in better films such as Odd Man Out (1947), or rendered more interminable in clunkers like Prayer for the Dying (1987).

While Klein reportedly did not wish to be a part of the film, the absence of any mention of his character seems odd, especially given that Shannon Elizabeth's Nadia is mentioned briefly in the film, though her character does not appear.

The way that is shown in the film is very odd and humorous, which sets the tone for the rest of the film.

This odd couple heart - to - heart gets a plausible rationale later in the film, but all that's needed to accept it at the start is the understanding that they're tight chums.

«Miles Ahead,» actor - director Don Cheadle's unconventional film about the jazz trumpeter Miles Davis, is odd and audacious — in other words, the kind of movie you should make if you're going to make a movie about the revolutionary and unconventional musician.

The urgency might seem odd for a film about events of almost 50 years ago, but for the parallels with today's tussle over history in all its drafts, first, second and final.

In the end, it is a fine film with what should have been a dramatically effective ending, that I was not connected to at all, due to its odd pacing and underdeveloped story.

Edgerton soon began scoring starring roles, headlining the disappointing 2011 remake of The Thing, starring opposite Jennifer Garner in the family film The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012) and playing a predominate role in the Academy Award - nominated Zero Dark Thirty (2012).

The unmistakable chemistry at play between the well - mannered, erudite Lemmon and the sharp - tongued, earthy Matthau exploded when they were paired onscreen, and was on particularly brilliant display in the hit film version of The Odd Couple (1967).

Even without these odd lapses in logic, Coco simply feels predictable, a factor exacerbated by its connections to other films — and I don't just mean Book of Life.

After the painfully one - sided sexual adventure of the first film, in which she met Christian and was brutally exposed to his odd habits, and after Christian's even nastier control - freakishness in the ill - conceived «50 Shades Darker,» Ana is at last able to demand to hold the reins from time to time — a narrative turn that manages to frame their marriage as an empowering structure for women: now enclosed in the gilded cage of their union, Ana can pull on the rope that Christian had tied around her neck.

In this very odd world, many questions will be dying to be answered, and while most of them are, it is the true beauty that keeps you guessing when the film concludes.

I may be reading too much into this film in a vain attempt to search for any sort of meaning, but there was one storyline that left me feeling odd.

Sure, they may have popped up in the odd film to give a solid dramatic performance, or cameo in a comedy, but the real magic from seeing these actors on - screen just is not the same anymore.

In any other film, such an approach would feel like a massive let - down - and considering Miyazaki's running theme of pacifism, it seems like an odd thing to build towards.

And as a lightly nostalgic ode to a particular place and time, Robespierre and co-writer Elisabeth Holm's film can be subtly wonderful, particularly in its quintessential New York City moments involving odd and nosy background characters.

The real value of the documentary from Douglas McGrath lies in charting Nichols» creative trajectory from the staging and improvisation lessons learned with comedy partner Elaine May, through collaborations with playwright Neil Simon on «Barefoot in the Park» and «The Odd Couple,» and the director's first two feature films, both legendary — «Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?»

It is a bit odd to point that last part out, given that the film celebrates the Day of the Dead, but then again, there is a lot of odd charm in this film that may be overstuffed with ideas, but is so lighthearted and fun, it is easy to look over some minor flaws, when it comes down to supporting a nice little animated film such as this.

Overall, the mix is well done and breathes new life into this near 30 year - old film, but it's still odd that the original mono track wasn't thrown in for good measure.

Praise for the ensemble is unanimous, and Jennifer Lawrence gets the bulk of the kudos in what THR describes as «a film as odd as it is charming.»

Fernandez felt grateful for the opportunity, but reportedly hated the job itself so much that he hearkened off for the greener pastures of acting.Fernandez landed his first formal acting assignments as a guest star on episodes of the network series Cold Case and Jericho in 2006 and 2007, but truly came into his own as a star of low - medium budgeted independent films such as director Marc - Andre Samson's taut thriller Interstate (2006)(as a young man trying desperately to reach his girlfriend in Los Angeles, but waylaid by drugs and the trappings of an odd motel), and directors Lucky McKee and Trygve Diesen's violent psychological thriller Red (as a disturbed young man who plays the role of accomplice in killing a senior citizen's dog).

This is one of many sequences of visual ambition and tone in Under The Skin, the most excitingly odd film to arrive this year.

For «Mission: Impossible,» director Brian De Palma (an odd choice, considering all the gory films in his mostly R - rated filmography, most famously «The Untouchables») also has three elaborate action set - pieces — a suspenseful caper set at a posh party, an intense break - in at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., and a ridiculous but nonetheless thrilling chase on top of a bullet train that is speeding from London to Paris.

Despite so many elements that work in «Bridesmaids,» there is an odd rhythm to the film like some of Apatow's recent work.

She recreated this role for the 1968 film version of Odd Couple, and for the subsequent TV series, which premiered in 1970.

The whole film is ridiculous and is almost soft silly MTV porn, the werewolf characters all walk around topless and in shorts all the time which is kinda odd.

But in an odd twist of movie - making fate, neither of the ponytailed twins lifts this film above wait - for - video status.

One of the most impressive things of Bahrani and Bahareh Azimi «s script is that it sets up scenes which could have followed into much more dramatic outcomes but the writers chose to take the road less traveled and in an odd way, by taking the less dramatic approach, the film removes itself that much further from the majority of indie films that concern themselves with cramming the most amount of drama into the least amount of time.

Dark and Stormy Night is a conglomeration of decades of «old dark house» clichés into a single film, where the greedy relatives of an eccentric millionaire (joined by two hardboiled reporters, a couple of odd servants, a madwoman in the attic and a frustrated cabbie who just wants his 37 cents) gather for the reading of the will.

What the film lacks is genuine suspense, because for all of its twists and turns, the set - up never reels us in effectively enough to bother paying attention when things become odd, and all interest is jettisoned in time for the epilogue where all is supposed to be explained.

With Netflix distributing odd and offbeat movies like Okja and I Don't Feel At Home in This World Anymore, could it become a new haven for indie film?

Starring Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling as an odd couple of private detectives, the film sees them embroiled in a mystery involving porn, catalytic converters and kids too smart for their own good.

They don't even really make a big deal out of gayness in this version, which is odd, but this is a dumbed down and less interesting version of the same story, which would be fine if it took advantage of having actors who don't even have to act if they can dance in a film like this.

His relationship with the odd boy out, Gerner (Makepeace, My Bodyguard), might be one of the more touching mentor performances I've seen in such a fluff film.

This is part five in a popular franchise, but it's in an odd place: last installment «On Stranger Tides» was the only film in the series to fail to cross $ 300 million domestic.

Looking back, it's sort of odd that Bryan Bertino's home invasion film, The Strangers, never got a sequel back when it was released in 2008.

In one of the film's odder scenes, she tells Max, rhapsodically, how Charlie almost beat the number - one boxing contender («He was beautiful,» she says).

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But director and co-writer Nadine Labaki's storytelling is impeccable in the story proper, and the film attains a real emotional sweep, enough to paper over technical cracks and excuse the odd lurch into sentimentalism.

Michael Mann's films are odd to me in the sense that (aside from Heat), I do not love any of them.

Odd camera angles and over-the-top performances don't really suit this series and they definitely don't work in this film.

That rule was in effect when I popped in the 1968 film version of The Odd Couple, Neil Simon's popular Broadway play about two divorced men — one a neat freak, the other a slob — who come to share an apartment.