Sentences with phrase «pleasant diversion»

Jurassic World Rated PG - 13 for intense sequences of science - fiction violence and peril Available on DVD, Blu - ray and Blu - ray 3D Likely to hod the 2015 box office record until Hunger Games and Star Wars come down the track, Jurassic World was the surprise box office smash of the summer and a very pleasant diversion from some other deeply disappointing tentpoles.

Here we have a performance - and atmosphere - driven film that will provide a more - than - pleasant diversion for the Labor Day Weekend and beyond.

It's not like the film is hollow — hidden at its heart, in fact, is a struggle for the soul of Hollywood — it's just that it feels more like a series of pleasant diversions rather than a single, solid journey.

As you might suspect, it is more than a mildly pleasant diversion on a gray English afternoon.

We can't replicate the personality and character of those eclectic brick - and - mortar newsstands that are pleasant diversions whenever exploring a city (such as the one in the lead image, which is located in the London Borough of Croydon), but we'll do our best to keep things lively and interesting.

The resort is unique in offering an unparalleled portfolio of pleasant diversions, from the highbrow to the high - octane.

Still, it is a pleasant diversion and Martin Freeman captures the Bilbo Baggins character, mostly.

Basically it's just a pleasant diversion to get at what believers believe and why they believe.

The challenges, the creativity, and the camaraderie all combine to make it a pleasant diversion.

We do this to relax our mind and give it a pleasant diversion.

It's a pleasant diversion filled with great eye candy.

It all adds up to a pleasant diversion, but you might wish this cinematic bonbon offered something closer to a meal.

In this serious company, Russ Tamblyn is a pleasant diversion, providing level - headed reactions to all the portentious dialogue.

The script, by Ed Solomon and Chris Matheson, relies too heavily on the building animosity between Danielson and Whitefeather to be more than a pleasant diversion.

With the usually terrific Emily Blunt starring as an alcoholic divorcée and a supporting cast that includes Rebecca Ferguson, Justin Theroux, Haley Bennett, Luke Evans, The Girl on the Train could be a pleasant diversion.

breezes by with ease, and while it isn't the funniest film you may have seen, it is amiable and sweet enough to watch for a pleasant diversion.

Seventeen years later, indie filmmaker Miguel Arteta has delivered the film version, and while the novel's cult may prove hard to please, Youth in Revolt is a pleasant diversion from the lowest - common - denominator, airbrushed Hollywood teen sex comedy.

While You Were Sleeping breezes by with ease, and while it isn't the funniest film you may have seen, it is amiable and sweet enough to watch for a pleasant diversion.

It offers a pleasant diversion that can be entertaining, but it's really not much of a movie.

For anyone who has an entire decade's worth of affection for and history with this gang, that's just enough to make Reunion an inessential but pleasant diversion.

As familiar and predictable as The Last Castle is, it is a pleasant diversion for those who want a movie force - fed to them.

All the same, Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams is agreeably substantive and charmingly resourceful, a pleasant diversion for late summer that won't actually make your children gaffed and appreciably stupider.

«For Holly, Ditto and Meredith, without whose love, support — and pleasant diversions — this book might have been completed many months earlier.»

Thankfully, Renata and Diego have a pleasant diversion from all of this indecision over money: the impending birth of their first child.

All in all, the recent price surge was really just a pleasant diversion — KDR still has nothing tangible to show for itself (in the way of booked reserves, or resources).

It was a pleasant diversion to learn more about their lives and origins.

It is a pleasant diversion after a day at Naue Beach and open every day except Mondays from noon to 8:00 pm.

There is not much to do but it is a pleasant diversion from sailing the high seas.

These interesting activities provide a pleasant diversion from the main gameplay.

On a difficulty curve, it was positioned around taxing - but - not - that - taxing which made it a pleasant diversion from the usual brainkilling puzzle fuckery of something like Cosmic Express (Draknek, 2016), a previous squeeze.

Taking a break by surfing the Internet, while a pleasant diversion, is not giving our brains or eyes a rest.

For many a New York Mets fan (myself included), some courtroom drama might be a pleasant diversion from yet another season that started off with high hopes but appears to be headed rapidly downhill.