Sentences with phrase «of sports flick»
Terrio's script — which, admittedly, isn't all that bad until envisioned by junior - slump maestro Ben Affleck — will compete alongside newfound Academy favorite David O. Russell, who made impressive genre soup out of Matthew Quick's novel, delivering a romantic comedy by way of sports flick, family saga, and mental - illness dramedy.
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Kante's journey from the suburbs of Paris, to within touching distance of Premier League glory at the East Midlands club is straight out of the material for an inspiring sports flick.
The Human Alley Cat traceur Mark Toorock If you watched the 2006 James Bond flick Casino Royale, you saw the sport of parkour in the opening chase sequence.
Shawn Levy, who directed such lucrative disasters as the Steve Martin remakes of The Pink Panther and Cheaper by the Dozen, has been brought in by Steven Spielberg to make this conflation of The Champ (the 1931 tearjerker about a drunken boxer redeemed by his long - estranged son, Jackie Cooper) and Rollerball, the futuristic action flick built around a violent popular sport.
This is a sports film and a gangster flick in one, teased with the satire of a mockumentary but fueled by the frisson that this all happened pretty much as articulated.
If you love Bruce Lee flicks and the current craze for sports comedies (think Dodgeball meets Shaolin Soccer), you're probably the kind of person who will enjoy this the most.
Carter is no stranger to high - school sports drama, helming the 2005 inspirational basketball flick, Coach Carter (which is set in nearby Richmond, CA), and even starting off his behind - the - scenes role by directing several episodes of the high - school basketball TV show he appeared in as a regular cast member, «The White Shadow».
What follows is a predictable underdog sports flick chock full of training sequences and bathroom humor with a few moments of true beauty and pure comedy.
Dunaway and Wood's primary focus seems to be a brief commentary on all the manner of genres that Linklater has tackled: Sports flick, Bad News Bears; Period piece, Me and Orson Welles; Western, The Newton Boys and Sci - Fi, A Scanner Darkly all get a look in while highlighting his lack of pretension and his ability to dig deeper into more meaningful and intelligent projects.
Showing once and for all that Burt Reynolds (Smokey and the Bandit, Hooper) can act if he shaves off his moustache, The Longest Yard is a mixture of two genres, the sophomoric sports film and the sadistic prison flick, both of which were enjoying a heyday in the exploitative decade of the 1970s.
This is a glowing example of everything wrong with formulaic sports flicks.
Part Aliens, part Terminator, and featuring a brotherly duo sporting the battle - hardened backbone of history's most famous Last Action Hero, Contra's unique brew of «80s action flicks meets trigger - happy gameplay quickly proved a masterclass in both 2D run «n gun side - scrollers and bromance beatdowns the world over.
It sports a great soundtrack full of cover songs (everybody from The Pixies to The Eurhythmics gets a trip through the revamp machine) and Björk to comment (cleverly, I guess) on how every idea in the film is ripped off from other flicks as varied as Ghost in the Shell, Hellboy, the Lord of the Rings flicks, Kill Bill, Sin City, and — why not?
The picture is akin to non-alcoholic beer and decaffeinated coffee — a thrill-less thriller, slash-less slasher flick, and nudity-less German exploitation film (that at least keeps its water sports), the worst thing about The Pool is the amazing breadth of its banality.
Unless you've got an intense curiosity to see it or a soft spot for either sports films or parody flicks, your best course of action would be to avoid The Comebacks on DVD altogether.
Overall, a fine addition to the recent genre of socially - conscious sports flicks highlighting individual triumphs not merely in and of themselves, but for the collective meaning of those historic moments to the masses of black people ever in search of civil rights.
In sum, The Express amounts to a fine addition to the recent genre of socially - conscious sports flicks (ala Glory Road, The Great Debaters and Meet the Titans) which highlight individual triumphs not merely in and of themselves, but for the collective meaning of those historic moments to the masses of black people ever in search of civil rights.
Although almost three - quarters of the film moves to the sound of drums, the images in one's mind veer more towards drill sergeant movies, sports flicks and cult initiation rites.
Set in Palermo, the film has a distinctly neo-Western vibe to it, as well as sporting the less indirect influences of 2005's South African hood - flick Tsotsi and Léon.
Patrice Leconte returns with «Une Promesse,» starring Rebecca Hall, Alan Rickman and «Game Of Thrones» star Richard Madden, while Alex Gibney investigates the most famous present - day sporting cheat with «The Armstrong Lie,» Frederick Wiseman looks into what goes on «At Berkeley,» and Ti West and his gang reunite for another horror flick, «The Sacrament.»
Part ethnic comedy and part romance, Bend It Like Beckham is also an exhilarating sports flick, with plenty of training montages and all the action of a soccer game edited down to 45 seconds worth of quick cuts.
Marvel isn't wrong — it is a very diverse brand, and its Captain America: Civil War releasing on May 6 sports a robust ensemble cast with many actors of color, for a blockbuster superhero flick.
No accident that»94 sported flicks like Forrest Gump, True Lies, Quiz Show, In The Mouth of Madness, Disclosure, Cemetery Man, and Natural Born Killers — all marking this turn towards a collective perceptual reorganization around an idea that the fundamental way we tell each other stories is irrevocably corrupt and completely corruptible.
Personally speaking, I like these sorts of sports movies, but there are two things which makes Blackball a poor example of how to make an outrageous sports flick.
Still, you could certainly do a whole lot worse in terms of a contemporary teen slasher flick; any movie that throws in both a Ferris Bueller's Day Off reference and a cameo appearance by Gary Cole (sporting a British accent, no less!)
This fun, sweet and engaging flick mixed Rain Man with a dash of Big Lebowksi to create this terrific melange of gangster flick, sports drama and character piece.
While Ginger Snaps is too uneven to be described as a good film on the whole, those who enjoy teen horror of today (The Faculty, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and the aforementioned Buffy), will probably take readily to this lesser known flick in the mini-genre, mostly because it sports more quality in terms of acting, directing and writing.
John Lee Hancock «s modest list of directorial credits, includes 2009's The Blind Side, which earned a Best Picture nomination, and another inspirational sports flick, The Rookie (2002).
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While sporting an impressive cast of competent actors and a blank check of a budget to spend on sets and special effects, first - time director Kinka Usher and screenwriter Neil Cuthbert (The Adventures of Pluto Nash, Hocus Pocus) seem to do everything they can to make Mystery Men the most painfully unfunny and unoriginal comic book flick done since Batman and Robin.
This gruesome splatter flick directed by Antoine Fuqua trades in profanity, ethnic slurs and gratuitous violence in service of a high attrition - rate crime whodunit designed for the blood sport demo.
Underdog tales, last - minute wins, and the development of camaraderie on a once - polarized team are all important factors in some of the greatest sports flicks of all time, and lucky for us, Netflix understands this.
In his new fight - flick Bleed for This, writer - director Ben Younger — best known for the Mamet-esque white - collar crime drama Boiler Room — achieves a better result focusing on one of Durán's more colorful opponents: Vinny «The Pazmanian Devil» Paz (née Pazienza), whose comeback from a catastrophic injury seems more far - fetched than any sports flick's faux - inspirational contrivance.
In track mode the car lowers by 50 mm at the flick of a switch, and the springs effectively become 100 per cent stiffer than in sport mode.
Very pleased up to now, but still looking for the turbo you say is in the engine in your review, its the only place I can see it mentioned in any reviews I believe you are mistaken, very gentle and lethargic in ECO mode but much more lively with a flick of the gear lever into sport mode, very good economy
If you love driving and want to have your share of fun, flick the sports suspension switch and the suspension now stiffens up.
The latest game builds on a slew of successful PikPok sports titles including Flick Kick Football Legends, Flick Kick Field Goal, and Slam Dunk King.
The display changes colour when you flick the car into sport mode, shows you the status of battery re-charge, how much available power you're using and where the threshold is for the engine to kick in when you're driving in comfort mode - which sees the car deciding whether it needs electric motor, petrol engine, or both.