Sentences with phrase «on films like sex»

As a director, Anders» work on films like Sex Drive and That's My Boy has been poor example of his comedic vision; Horrible Bosses 2 may be his strongest film yet (relatively speaking), but like his other efforts, it's hard to judge if the best stuff is flowing from the director or his comedic star (s).

Not exact matches

Olson and Boise chose plaintiffs on the basis of same - sex couples who behaved just like everyone else, and the still shots of their homes and family photographs interspersed through the film show all the trimmings of a wholesome American family.

(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!)

Though a PG - 13 slasher film is like the equivalent of sex with clothes on, «Happy Death Day» gets around that hurdle by being less of a straight - up slasher and more of a darkly comedic murder - mystery that just so happens to involve a temporal loop and a knife - wielding masked killer.

And sometimes the joke is on art film snobs who can't understand why Soderbergh, the artuer behind left - field flicks like «Schitzopolis,» «The Limey» and «sex, lies & videotape,» would have ever «gone Hollywood» to begin with.

The film is a gauzy, dream - like account of one man's journey through memory and his own attitudes, as circumstances cause him to alter his perspective on the opposite sex.

On the other hand, its bouts of lurid violence and voyeuristic sex feel as if they've been dragged in from somewhere trashier, like the Taken films or something with Sylvester Stallone in it.Jennifer plays Dominika Egorova, formerly a star dancer at Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet who is forced to quit after a bone - crunching onstage collision.

Like Andrew Haigh's film Weekend, Keep the Lights On is one of the best romantic films of the decade — gay or straight — depicting intimacy, sex, jealousy and love with sensuality and authenticity.

The latter film was unlucky to miss out on a Best Film nod, although Martin Scorsese is nominated as Best Director, which suggested that BAFTA voters - like their Oscar brethren, reportedly - were a little shocked at the sex and drugs and stockbroking in the film.

Amazon, which has fewer restrictions on content than the networks (much like Netflix and cable channels such as HBO) seems a much more natural fit for a show which will no doubt aim to channel the same sultry sex appeal as the film.

While both films are somewhat lowbrow sex comedies, there is just no justice in this world that a horrible film like Tomcats could get a theatrical release, when a surprisingly funny take on the fear of getting married heads straight to video.

Filmed with handicams, starring a pair of art - house favorites, and scored by blog buzz band Grizzly Bear, «Blue Valentine» couldn't look like more of a stereotypical indie romance if it tried — but who wants to ring in the New Year with hopeful thoughts for 2011 and a round of «Auld Lang Syne,» when you can head to the theater and watch Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams getting it on in this bleak romantic drama, already the center of a ratings controversy over the NC - 17 the MPAA slapped on it for an «emotionally intense» sex scene?

The reason that I put Battle of the Sexes high on my own list was that it seemed like a film no one I spoke with hated.

Whether he's burning through dozens of flubbed takes in front of an exhausted crew (including Seth Rogen as the exasperated script supervisor), insisting on filming a sex scene with his leading lady (Ari Graynor) with all of the members of the cast present, or getting a personal toilet installed in the middle of the soundstage, Wiseau struts his private despotate of fake brick walls like a perfect parody of directorial hubris.

Paintings and prints frequently carry particular meaning within Petzold's films, as examples of the ancient tradition of ekphrasis, probably none more so than in Phoenix's immediate predecessor Barbara (2012) with its conspicuous Rembrandt print, but likewise in much earlier works like Die Beischlafdiebin (The Sex Thief, 1998) with a Gerard Richter on the wall — another artist conspicuously engaged with multiple forms of peculiarly German afterness.4

Take It Out In Trade plays like a cross between Russ Meyer and John Waters, full of digressions — at three separate points throughout the film, the main character takes himself on a «vacation» that consist of peeping at naked women through potted plants in front of posters for various far - flung locales — and extensive full - frontal nudity and simulated sex.

While thematically LaBruce's films are all variations on the theme of queer punk negation and radical sex critique, his foray into the world of zombie - porn in the 2000s represents a stylistic shift from the frequently didactic, manifesto - like approach of his earlier films, to the metaphorical and allegorical style that typifies the zombie genre.

If the film did focus on the story, we wouldn't have fun scenes like Nick Frost trying to trick a groupie into having sex with Carl instead of him, by switching the lights off.

It came on the heels of a number of stories concerning double standards with perceptions of oral sex in films like «Blue Valentine» and «Black Swan,» and actor Ryan Gosling has certainly been vocal about his feelings on the matter.

Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy «s film is undoubtedly a difficult watch, featuring an abortion, some graphic scenes of sex and bloody violence, and the eerie quietness in which it's all carried out is less a comment on deafness than a clever way of making us examine the idea of a closed system which, «Lord of the Flies «- like, refers only to itself.

Since then, Koechner has appeared on several TV series, including «The Naked Truck and T - Bones Show,» «The Office» (he plays Todd Packer), and ABC's short - lived sitcom «Hank,» but his most notable roles have been in films like «Talledega Nights,» «Get Smart,» «Sex Drive,» and, most recently, «Tenure,» co-starring Luke Wilson.

Nina Simone on the edge, sex at a trucking stop, land art and a coffin road: the artist's new film Stoneymollan Trail is like stepping inside another person's brain.

'' I intended this piece as both playful and serious: it looks like an adult sex toy, but it is also a serious comment on patriarchy, and the objectification of the female body in the media, by what film theorist Laura Mulvey called the «male gaze».