Sentences with phrase «potboiler into»

Mr. Redford has found his own visually eloquent way to turn the potboiler into a panorama, with a deep - seated love for the Montana landscape against which his rapturously beautiful film unfolds.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

They are intrigued when a new couple moves into the flat below theirs, especially when they find out that their new neighbours are also expecting a baby... The Ones Below functions well as a untaxing potboiler.

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.

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

Toss into the mix a great cast including James McAvoy, Mark Strong, Andrea Riseborough, Peter Mullan and David Morrissey and this little potboiler could come out nowhere in 2012 to be a major genre surprise.

Doc would be correct, of course, and as the plot of Thomas Pynchon's potboiler pastiche Inherent Vice grinds into high gear, he'll run afoul of several alive - folks - thought - dead, mysterious cults, more mysterious cartels, crazy drugs, loaded guns, subversives, countersubversives, obscure nautical laws, a band of dentists gone bad, and, worst of all, he will witness firsthand the slow strangulation of a certain dream of free living at the hands of nefarious historical forces.

What begins as a dirge for the institutions of physical and emotional wealth diverges midway into something of a competent yet vague potboiler before finding its slow rhythm again at the end.

Your sleuth's inner life can lift your mystery from straightforward genre potboiler status, into a more elevated «breakthrough» bestseller status.