Sentences with phrase «potboiler like»

Not exact matches

While he does capture the essence of those films in his rhythms, the script feels much more like the potboiler John Grisham films prevalent in the 1990s.

(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!)

Although marketed as an action movie, Max Payne runs surprisingly action - free during most scenes, playing more like a brooding potboiler than the exhilarating, pulse - pounding shoot - em - up you'd gather it would be from the video game.

On paper, it looks like a dream, and judging by the freshly premiered international trailer (courtesy of The Guardian), the film appears to be a tightly wound potboiler that might electrify this Oscar season.

This may explain why it looks like two different movies joined together, a large - scale epic and a low - budget potboiler.

At least Planet Terror looks like the sleazy potboilers ground out in narrow «twin» cinemas of old.

Thematically, Hollow feels more like a grungy Lifetime movie, with a hoodie - wearing gal uncovering small - town secrets the dickish townsfolk would much prefer she wouldn't, than a scrappy, indie potboiler.

Without any festival screenings, all we've got to go on for this one is the trailer, which looks like your average B - grade Hollywood potboiler.

However, in this suspiciously - similar political potboiler, the CIA dispatches crack Agent Charlie Wax (John Travolta) from D.C. to the American embassy in Paris where he buddies - up with an ambitious clerk (Jonathan Rhys - Meyers) who has previously only been assigned menial tasks like changing diplomats» license plates.