Sentences with phrase «potboiler with»

A loss - and - revenge potboiler with Relevant Sociopolitical Pretensions, elevated beyond all reason by Diane Kruger's wounded beast of a great performance, which won her best actress honors at Cannes.

There are always repercussions to the story's brutally violent acts, so while, on the surface, the film is a crackling potboiler with a fatalistic sense of forward momentum, it also deals with the inconsistent beliefs of the senselessness of violence and the at - times necessity for it.

At the end, it's hard to avoid the sense you've watched a grab - bag of horror conceits, a kind of pot - pourri - potboiler with organising principles cooked up to provide a veneer of cohesion.

Not exact matches

he admits that it is «a potboiler,» filled with «exaggerations and errors,» yet it appears to have prompted a doubt that the whole historical, organic, interactive, aesthetic dynamic of progress was benign, that it would survive, or even that it could lead to a wider human flourishing.

Before «99 Homes,» Bahrani made a more conventionally plotted family - farm potboiler, «At Any Price,» with Dennis Quaid and Zac Efron.

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.

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.

Title: A Little Chaos Director: Alan Rickman Release Date: June 26, 2015 Running Time: 117 minutes Language: English Shooting Location (s): England Principal Cast: Alan Rickman, Kate Winslet, Stanley Tucci, Matthias Schoenaerts Screenwriter: Alan Rickman, Jeremy Brock, Alison Deegan Production Company: BBC Films, Bureau, The, K. JAM Media (developed in association with), Lionsgate, Lipsync Productions, Potboiler Productions Distributor: Focus World Official Website Trailer

(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!)

Focus Features» Lia Buman, President of Acquisitions, and Beth Lemberger, Executive Vice President of Business Affairs negotiated the deal with CAA on behalf of Lionsgate UK and Potboiler Productions.

Last year, he got together a dream team of talent — that is, a room full of children — to come up with «Teenage War,» a potboiler starring John Malkovich.

The studio had been around since the twenties but found sudden popularity with the potboiler costume drama.

Kate Winslet's hit rate with Toronto debuts has been patchy over recent years, following schlocky potboiler Labor Day and gardening curio A Little Chaos.

This is a more old - fashioned potboiler, with lots of walking, sit - down meetings, and smoking cigarettes by windows.

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.

It's a Texas Gothic crime thriller sutured to a potboiler melodrama about the existential despair of L.A. socialites in a David Lynchian fashion — though with less surrealism and more coherence.

First - time writer / director J.C. Chandor makes an audacious debut with this taut potboiler and he's got a killer cast to help him: Kevin Spacey, Zachary Quinto, Paul Bettany, Stanley Tucci, Demi Moore, Simon Baker and Jeremy Irons.

A Lionsgate UK & BBC Films presentation in association with LipSync Productions of a Potboiler / The Bureau Production.

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.

Nicole Kidman stuffed her trunks with evening gowns to walk the Palais steps — with Colin Farrell, for Cannes director - winner Sofia Coppola «s Civil War potboiler «The Beguiled» (Focus Features) and Yorgos Lanthimos» «The Killing of a Sacred Deer» (A24), both in Competition, and again for John Cameron Mitchell «s midnighter «How to Talk with Girls at Parties» (A24) and a preview of Jane Campion «s returning Sundance Channel series, «Top of the Lake: China Girl.»

Starting in 1992, when Hanson made a breakthrough of sorts with the kind of trashy potboiler that doesn't usually portend future Oscar success:

From Paris with Love (R for graphic violence, pervasive profanity, drug use and brief sexuality) Political potboiler about an American spy (John Travolta) who joins forces with a low - level employee (Jonathan Rhys - Meyers) of the U.S. embassy to prevent a terrorist attack in Paris.

There's the urban handwringer, the northern version of the post-Katrina New Orleans potboiler, bubbling with barely concealed schadenfreude: Aren't you glad you don't live here?

Still, that book had done so little justice to the characters I had loved — or held in extreme dislike (Ashley Wilkes is second only to the Reverend Dimmesdale on my wimpy literary men hate list)-- on the screen that I never did pick up Gone With the Wind, thinking it would prove another turgid potboiler.

I am a book editor myself, I've worked in the trade now for more than twenty years, and with every kind of book and author, from mass - market potboilers to Miles Franklin winners and everything in between.

With more than one mystery being unraveled simultaneously, The Dry keeps up a brisk pace, is full of surprises, and has the right balance of tension without overindulging in the brutal, tense - suspense formula of many potboilers today.

My reaction to reading this news (in the Guardian newspaper) is that book readers in general remain prolific but nowadays content themselves with grubby bestsellers or popular potboilers marketed by the global giants.