Sentences with phrase «populated with»

Populated with utterly convincing nonprofessional actors (casting alone accounted for years of pre-production), the film gains its force through a steady accretion of seemingly minor incidents and inconspicuous subtexts.

To pull this off, Mendez must assemble a real production office in Hollywood, populated with makeup artist John Chambers (John Goodman) and producer Lester Siegel (Alan Arkin).

Hosoda's vision of the internet's alternative universe was also populated with imaginative characters, whereas this one is mainly made up of pop culture references, like an incel version of Snow Crash.»

It is a popcorn movie dripping with arthouse flair, and populated with intriguing and complex characters, be they real or performed.

by Bill Chambers The partnership of Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin yielded a giant box office hit last time out with their alien invasion picture Independence Day, a film critically dissed in large part because it was populated with stereotypes: we knew who the smart guy was because he wore glasses and a pocket - protector; who the gay guy was because Harvey Fierstein's dialogue was set to flaming; who the hero was because he promised to «whoop E.T.'s ass.»

While «Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels,» «Snatch» and «RocknRolla» were all populated with unusually large casts of characters and multiple plotlines, «Sherlock Holmes» is pretty straightforward in the story it's trying to tell.

And while the answers may not be as satisfying and / or as cut - and - dried as many of us would like (especially those who do have kids), the journey — while a bit long and convoluted at times (it is sort of a «Gone Baby Gone» meets «The Silence of the Lambs «-RRB--- it is nevertheless fascinating and populated with terrific performances, so don't be surprised if the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences comes calling with a few nods next January.

The movie is populated with finely tuned supporting performances (many of them by British or Irish actors, playing Bostonians not at all badly).

The film is populated with a good supporting cast with Brian Co and Sean Bean playing the military heavies in straight - man roles.

What would awards season be without a lavish historical European period piece populated with legendary thespians?

She hasn't made a movie in a long time The Wire Archer will return to its spying roots next season after an experimental latest season Vulture Whoa, I hadn't heard about this (because I don't watch ESPN) but on Monday's they're reairing those Battle of the Network Stars specials that were so popular in the 70s and 80s - a precursor to modern shows like Dancing With the Stars only populated with less has - beens and more stars that were actually popular at that moment showing off their athleticism Empire pics from Denzel Washington as The Equalizer.

Expect the von Trier trademarks: a visually magnificent display populated with shame, gender politics, sexuality, religion, all led by a wounded female who can not fit in this world.

What would it be like to have a world populated with dolls, puppets and stuffed animals?

Inside, you'll find it home to a nightmare mirror of our own Earth, populated with demons dying to meet you.

For one, it's revealed early on that the police department, while populated with its fair share of knuckleheads and racists, didn't so much botch the investigation as run into dead ends — there just wasn't much evidence to go on.

For starters, it's revealed early on that Ebbing's police department, while populated with its fair share of knuckleheads and racists, didn't so much bungle the investigation as run into dead ends — there just wasn't much evidence to go on.

The lobbies were sparsely populated with players of variable eagerness.

Laughably over-staged (talky scenes take place at batting cages, below circus trapezes and while jogging) and populated with stereotypes (Fisher Stevens plays a greasy, deceptive record - label scout), the film seems to have made from a My First Movie do - it - yourself kit purchased by the director (a veteran of music videos, and it shows) from a street vendor on Hollywood and Vine.

Perhaps even more impressively, though, Osder's film doubles as a moving, engrossing courtroom thriller populated with unexpected heroes and fascinating, nuanced insights into how human beings behave in a crisis.

As in Disney Infinity 1.0, the basic Toy Box level begins as a simple rectangular plane of land, ready to be populated with purpose.

Although it might appear on paper that this it a movie that could be heavily populated with ideas, when you actually take a look for yourself, you'll come to find that it is as false and as vacant as the fictitious locales from which the film derives its title.

The sense of wonder is long gone, replaced by a generic monster movie populated with dull, idiotic characters.

There is something about Ned that can easily not only make the viewer want to be a better person, but to see the world through Ned «s eyes, populated with the fine human beings Ned assumes populate it.

It initially seems like another Rob Zombie boo-fest, populated with dirt - covered witches, throbbing music and other diabolical elements.

by Walter Chaw In a summer redolent with superhero melodramas, Seabiscuit, a Golden Age bodice - twister about a plucky boy and his intrepid horse populated with a cast of good - looking cut - outs to fill out the good - looking backgrounds, isn't even the most interesting.

Last week, in the inaugural S.A.M., I scrutinized the unlikelihood that Best Actor will be populated with ZERO former nominees.

The most revisited location is a consuming pond populated with eerily - lit cypress trees — it looks as though beasts far scarier than alligators reside among them in these waters.

The landscape of «Nebraska» is populated with such well - known actors as Bruce Dern and Stacy Keach as well as retired farmers making their debuts who live in the town of Plainview, Neb., where most of the film was shot.

Take a closer look, however, and it's a room populated with elephants.

If they'd had the money for it, Marty would've raced a mushroom cloud through an atomic test site populated with mannequins and model homes; in optional commentary, Bob Gale is grateful the studio wouldn't bankroll it, since it forced them to get creative.

The randomly generated maps are built with more than 11,000 unique room configurations, each populated with a nearly endless variety of enemies, items, challenges and secrets.

Meanwhile Play Sets offer a much sweeter deal, not only unlocking new characters but an entire standalone world populated with story - driven missions and challenges that usually clock in at around 6 - 8 hours.

It would be disingenuous to say that Norman Jewison's sweat - dappled southern policier gains a chilling relevance at a time when then the White House is being populated with white supremacist yahoos, because the film's power was evident long prior to the world going very wrong indeed.

Sure, NoES 2010 does a few things right — insomnia is always frightening, some key moments are recreated, and I must say, it's refreshing in a slasher / horror movie populated with teens to not be all about the naked.

The rest of the Earth is populated with hoards of descendants from Cain, another son of Adam, who committed the world's first murder.

Released days before Halloween, Undead Nightmare features the world of Red Dead Redemption populated with zombies.

In the film Boston is depicted as bleak and grey but populated with colourful characters — Irish gangsters, long - haired gun - runners, over-sexed Mafia henchmen and the like.

DeathSmiles II is more akin to The Nightmare Before Christmas with a Halloween - meets - Christmas type vibe populated with bullet - hell - shooting Lolita girls in petticoats.

b) it's populated with people who believe in something, which gets little respect, especially if one doesn't or can't share those beliefs: (1) religious faith and (2) an ardent hunger for badly, urgently, needed social change.

If it wasn't quite the match of the fright fests that were being made over in Europe during this decade (Nosferatu, Haxan), it was certainly one of the most epic American undertakings this side of D.W. Griffith and Cecil B. DeMille, with the Paris Opera and surrounding streets beautifully recreated on the studio lot and populated with that literal cast of thousands.

It's odd because you can see the goings - on for every weight class outside of your fighter's, and the cards are populated with matches for every division, but the lack of bouts featuring Ronda Rousey and company are sorely absent.

Later, during a party populated with well - turned out lesbians, Tom reveals that he moonlights as a gigolo and suggests that Pierre might try the same.

We live in an age where innovation and originality win the lion's share of critical praise, even though a list of our most popular and financially successful films is increasingly populated with remakes and sequels.

They are assembled from a number of sections, which can repeat fairly often, and then populated with enemies and treasure.

Shrek, an ogre, has his swamp suddenly populated with fairy - tale characters.

The film is rooted in Hollywood classicism, populated with idiosyncratic characters who have plenty of room to speak and interact in between the action / horror set pieces.

It is a solemn look at the not - so - quiet life in the Appalachian region; a story that's as laced with brilliant performances as it is populated with shots of its gorgeous, rustic backdrop.

Trains will be used to travel across the world at a quicker pace, and players will remain fully mobile when on a train, which will be populated with NPCs for the sake of realism.

In lieu of his missing family, Sumida lives surrounded by a colorful clan of vagabonds, populated with familiar character actors from Sono's Cold Fish and Guilty of Romance, and seemingly inspired more by European Theater of the Absurd than the original manga.

While it might be frustrating to have sat through nearly 300 minutes of television only to realize not much has happened, the Duffer Brothers have constructed such a rich, vibrant universe and populated it with such entertaining characters — those kids really are a hoot — that it's still fun to go along for the ride, slower though it is.