Sentences with phrase «of potboiler»

The most important aspect of a potboiler movie is that the pot has to keep boiling, gaining in intensity rather than losing it.

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In the midst of this potboiler lands the three criminals, who mastermind a bank job that involves hiding out at an Amish farm.

City by the Sea is a bit of a potboiler, set on very slow simmer.

There is good to be found in Spectre, but it's buried beneath three feet of potboiler muck and sandwiched in six inches of narrative grizzle.

It's the world's most inappropriate Harlequin romance novel: a heavy - breather of a potboiler for Judy Blume's audience of babysitters and old men in long coats.

Beside the flood of potboilers and analyses, another genre has flourished: personal narratives of exploration, such as John David Morley's Pictures from the Water Trade, Alan Booth's The Roads to Sata and Leslie Downer's more sentimental, televised journeys into Japan's deep north.

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As for the balls, that's where the story takes on the sheen of a Hollywood potboiler: a talented protege oversteps his bounds and is thrown out of the company he helped build alongside a man he considered a father figure.

Evangelical speaker Dave Hunt, coauthor of the evangelical potboiler The Seduction of Christianity, has even tried to link the movement to New Age phenomena.

Among the reissues of old standards and a largish crop of filio - pietistic potboilers are a number of...

he admits that it is «a potboiler,» filled with «exaggerations and errors,» yet it appears to have prompted a doubt that the whole historical, organic, interactive, aesthetic dynamic of progress was benign, that it would survive, or even that it could lead to a wider human flourishing.

Bulworth is a headstrong dervish of a film, caroming this way and that from high comedy to lowbrow urban potboiler to impassioned tract.

The material is well served by director Roman Polanski, who knows well how to instill a subtle, claustrophobic sense of dread in an audience and has put together a rather elegant potboiler.

At the end, it's hard to avoid the sense you've watched a grab - bag of horror conceits, a kind of pot - pourri - potboiler with organising principles cooked up to provide a veneer of cohesion.

Valley of the Dolls was a proudly sleazy potboiler that sold 26 million copies and had readers wondering which characters matched up to which real - life show - biz figures.

Many of the plot points echo those that might have anchored a forgotten black - and - white potboiler.

Many of his mainstream film appearances have been in comedy potboilers unworthy of his talents: exceptions include De Palma's Phantom of the Paradise (1974) in which Graham was both funny and ferocious as the Rocky Horror - ish «Beef,» and Louis Malle's Pretty Baby (1978), in which he was cast as Highpockets, Susan Sarandon's scuzzy, abusive boyfriend.

Jo Nesbo's Harry Hole series is comprised of page - turning, airport - blockbuster Scandi crime potboilers; Alfredson scorches the seventh, The Snowman, with such art - house intensity that it eventually melts into an exhausted puddle.

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is an impressive potboiler.

Kahanamoku attempted to cash in on his fame by appearing in such Hollywood potboilers as Lord Jim (1926) and the Mascot serial The Isle of Sunken Gold (1927), but screen producers saw him mostly as an exotic villain or the odd South Seas Island native and true stardom eluded him.

7 Women is, in actuality, a great film whose potboiler plot masks an incisive inquiry into the battle of the sexes.

Although 2000 AD starts out as a routine potboiler espionage thriller of little significance, it gets supercharged about halfway through into an exciting actioner worth watching.

The action takes place during the making of a small - budget potboiler film, HOME FOR PURIM, that no one is taking seriously, not even the folks making it, until an internet rumor surfaces that one of the cast is giving an Oscar - worthy performance.

While he does capture the essence of those films in his rhythms, the script feels much more like the potboiler John Grisham films prevalent in the 1990s.

What was once a mediocre military whodunit potboiler becomes a thrilling and unbelievable action vehicle as Jackie delivers three truly incredible action sequences each of which is worth the price of admission to this film.

A moody, evocative potboiler that steadily builds a head of steam, «Hell or High Water» is sharp as a leather strap cracked against bare skin in the Texas sun.

(Consider also the film that would yet nobble it of a Jury Award, João Pedro Rodrigues» Morrer Como Um Homem [To Die Like a Man]: early on in that overesteemed, if beautifully lensed, potboiler, a discussion about the merits of sex reassignment surgery occurs while one of the two trans - characters involved deliberates over whether to buy some orchids... Always with the fucking orchids!)

In 1964 he directed the first of three comedy thrillers he considers potboilers.

Overall, though, Split is a solid example of the type of elevated B - movie potboiler at which Shyamalan excels, and to which he thankfully seems to be re-committing his energies.

«Marshall» is not a soup - to - nuts biography of one of the most significant figures in U.S. legal history, but a legal potboiler dependent on teamwork.

Overall, we thought that «Split is a solid example of the type of elevated B - movie potboiler at which Shyamalan excels.»

In applying the aesthetics of the New Hollywood to his potboiler plot, Spielberg made a classic out of genre material.

Focus Features» Lia Buman, President of Acquisitions, and Beth Lemberger, Executive Vice President of Business Affairs negotiated the deal with CAA on behalf of Lionsgate UK and Potboiler Productions.

Few have had as varied and rich a career as Jacques Perrin, whose resume includes appearing in and co-producing the classic political thriller Z for Costa - Gavras, making an extended cameo in the French potboiler THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE WOLF, and making fascinating films in homage to the natural world.

If all it took to be a great thriller were edge - of - your - seat theatrics, ARLINGTON ROAD would be a sure - classic, as the impressively taut direction by Pellington and believable performances by Bridges and Robbins turn up the potboiler of intensity.

On paper, it looks like a dream, and judging by the freshly premiered international trailer (courtesy of The Guardian), the film appears to be a tightly wound potboiler that might electrify this Oscar season.

Throw the always welcome Liev Schreiber into the mix, and you have a recipe for one of the most exciting, edge - of - your - seat potboilers seen this year.

Last year, he got together a dream team of talent — that is, a room full of children — to come up with «Teenage War,» a potboiler starring John Malkovich.

Alicia Vikander, Christoph Waltz and Judi Dench all find themselves lost in a beleaguered adaptation of a 17th - century potboiler that gradually turns into a far - fetched soap opera

«Masters of Sex,» which premieres Sunday on Showtime, takes as its subject Dr. William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the authors of «Human Sexual Response,» «Human Sexual Inadequacy» and other medical potboilers of the 20th century.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening October 7, 2011 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Ides of March (R for pervasive profanity) George Clooney wrote, directed and co-stars in this adaptation of the play «Farragut North,» a political potboiler about an idealistic press secretary (Ryan Gosling) who compromises a presidential candidate's prospects by becoming embroiled in a scandal while on the campaign trail.

«Zemeckis and screenwriter Steven Knight tread a carefully wrought path that negotiates between wartime drama, spy - thriller potboiler, and domestic fluff, while steering well clear of comedy (this is, thankfully, not a fresh spin on MR. AND MRS. SMITH).»

Laurie Boeder is a lifelong movie fan and professional writer who especially loves the fabulous Hollywood films of the»40s,»50s and»60s, and has a soft spot for screwball comedies, cheesy old sci - fi, and old - fashioned patriotic potboilers.

Their scenes early in the movie set a flame under what is — at that moment — an already effectively paced and shot little potboiler about a man dedicated to the law and another driven to break the law because of the cracks in the system of said law.

There are always repercussions to the story's brutally violent acts, so while, on the surface, the film is a crackling potboiler with a fatalistic sense of forward momentum, it also deals with the inconsistent beliefs of the senselessness of violence and the at - times necessity for it.

This is a more old - fashioned potboiler, with lots of walking, sit - down meetings, and smoking cigarettes by windows.

What You Need To Know: Director Brad Furman wasn't really a name that many of us knew, but thanks to «The Lincoln Lawyer,» a pretty enjoyable, sleazy potboiler, his name landed on the map pretty fast.

Whereas Grisham's southern potboilers are driven by plot, suspense, and applications of the law, The Judge, an original screenplay attributed to director David Dobkin, Gran Torino's Nick Schenk, and newcomer Bill Dubuque, substitutes small - town sentimentality for those elements.

The film is set during the post-production of a fictional, third - tier exploitation flick, the kind of revenge - of - the - witch potboiler Lucio Fulci could have knocked out during his prolific heyday.

At least Planet Terror looks like the sleazy potboilers ground out in narrow «twin» cinemas of old.