Sentences with phrase «of popcorn entertainment»

It's also an engaging piece of popcorn entertainment.

The Rampage adaptation reunites Johnson with his Journey 2: The Mysterious Island and San Andreas director Brad Peyton for another spectacle - fueled pice of popcorn entertainment.

Blood & Treasure, is keeping in line with CBS» brand of popcorn entertainment series for the summer.

Though I feel that Transcendence was a missed opportunity for Pfister, I still took away something from this film, and it's certainly a lot deeper and thought provoking than 99 % of the popcorn entertainment that arrives in theaters each week.

Thanks to that rousing third act, good performances, and a few fine moments of suspense, «Jurassic World» succeeds as an enjoyable piece of popcorn entertainment, in spite of its troubled first hour.

As it is, the film is a mildly diverting piece of popcorn entertainment, but it would have gone down a lot more smoothly had it not been too «clever» for its own good.

Robert Zemeckis typically makes big pieces of popcorn entertainment.

Although «The Walk» succeeds mainly as a slice of popcorn entertainment rather than a potential Oscar contender, it's a really well - made movie that works both as a celebration of Petit's once - in - a-lifetime performance and a tribute to the World Trade Center.

I can't exactly say that Catching Fire is «fun,» then, but with its excellent sociological sci - fi speculation and solid adventure, it's enormously rewarding and provocative drama in the guise of popcorn entertainment.

Not exact matches

I would then eat popcorn as I watch the evening news since I would have the excellent entertainment of our wackadoo fundies killing their wackadoo fundies.

The «coup,» as Petit called it, is plenty thrilling on its own; seeing these men infiltrate the building, talk their way to the top, and race against the clock to get the wire in place is the stuff of first - rate popcorn entertainment.

Let me start off my review with saying that I have come to view the Transformers films as nothing more than mindless entertainment, popcorn flicks of the summer to pass the time.

But there is room for that kind of thing alongside true stories, moving dramas, popcorn entertainment for the masses, and generic genre fare.

In other words, this is perfect popcorn entertainment, and it'll make for some wonderfully frothy counter-programming to Age of Ultron.

HollywoodNews.com: If not for the fact that it were a remake of a beloved 1971 Sam Peckinpah film, Rod Lurie's Straw Dogs would be a prime example of what we claim we want in our popcorn entertainment.

Final Verdict: Age of Ultron is good, perhaps a little too stuck in formula, but it hits the right spots to act as good popcorn entertainment.

It's not good when this sort of boisterous lack of introspection infects our newspapers and news programs, certainly — and it's not good when it's in our «popcorn» entertainments, either.

* Will there a bigger, better blast of pure, unpretentious, popcorn entertainment this holiday season?

If the senseless deaths of innocent bystanders — staged for your entertainment — cause you no pangs of conscience, however, then sit back, relax, grab the popcorn, and enjoy the ride.

Enough chatter about «Battle Royale» it's time to check it out for yourself because thanks to Madman Entertainment The Popcorn Junkie has five copies of «Battle Royale: the director's cut» on DVD to giveaway.

Thanks to Roadshow Entertainment The Popcorn Junkie have five copies of «Our Idiot Brother» on Blu - Ray to giveaway.

The first Guardians was about as good as it gets for straight up popcorn entertainment and this looks like more of the same, which is more than all right with me.

Don't play it for its hokey and forgettable story, but instead dip into Dead Rising 3 whenever you want some mindless, delightfully excessive popcorn entertainment, as Capcom goes all out with the (then) new hardware to offer more elaborate weaponry, over-the-top chaos, and hundreds upon hundreds of zombies.

The Martian is exactly the kind of grand - scale popcorn entertainment Hollywood excels at, but has recently lost sight of in this age of self - consuming franchise saturation, and it absolutely deserves its place here as one's of the year's best films.

In the end, I can't really say I liked The Fast and the Furious, but would recommend it as worth renting if you like dumb, popcorn entertainment with loads of eye and ear candy and little taxation on your mind.

Fresh: It's uniquely satisfying popcorn entertainment, a triumphant trifecta of subject matter, talent and timing.

The»90s were the heyday for John Grisham, Jack Ryan, and films like The Fugitive, well - made populist popcorn entertainment that was succeeded by the sleeker, hollow, more frantic and sometimes Hong Kong - inspired thrills of Jerry Bruckheimer productions helmed by the likes of Michael Bay and Tony Scott.

William Friedkin's classic adaptation of a William Peter Blatty novel was pitched as popcorn entertainment for nervous Christians, whereas director Cristian Mungiu's embellishment of a true story (from the «non-fiction novels» by Tatiana Niculescu Bran) ultimately laments superstition, ignorance and indifference.

While not offering much in the way of engrossing and emotionally involving human drama, Twister does deliver all the exciting, exhilarating popcorn thrills one would expect from an action blockbuster, making it ideal summer escapist entertainment that should cause a storm of business at the box office.

It seems to have potential as decent effects - heavy popcorn entertainment, and the film won't overlap too much with the other titles during the 2013 Winter Holiday frame (except for a little holdover from earlier in the month called The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug)-- but, as always, we'll have to wait and see...

It obviously had no right to be as good as it is, and Phil Lord and Christopher Miller continue to be the kings of making things that should suck not suck, but the best thing about The Lego Movie is how well it demonstrates that «popcorn movies» can be subversive and intelligent without compromising entertainment factor.

San Andreas was an absolute blast in terms of top - notch popcorn entertainment, and while this movie may pile on the cheese a little more with its cartoon villains — particularly Akerman's bitchy, hard - nosed top - level executive and Morgan's brilliantly performed modern cowboy, there's as much fun to be had, if not more.

Ready Player One, based on the bestseller of the same name, is a pandering, crassly commercial victory of intellectual property law that's also, in its best moments, grand popcorn entertainment, made with skill and wit and even sincerity.

This crime and the loss of her entire family has defined her whole life and here is a group ready to pull up popcorn and listen to her tale as if it were for their entertainment.

Instead, the filmmakers embrace those qualities and that brings the film right on the cusp of parody and passable popcorn entertainment.

It's the family bond of the characters, even above the palpable suspense, that makes A Quiet Place rewarding popcorn entertainment.

I don't know about you, but when I've just shelled out $ 10 a ticket and I'm kicking back with my bucket of over-priced popcorn, Milk Duds and $ 4 Coke, the last thing I like to see is some whiny message about the tragedy of the entertainment industry getting robbed by piracy.