Sentences with phrase «potboilers as»

Kahanamoku attempted to cash in on his fame by appearing in such Hollywood potboilers as Lord Jim (1926) and the Mascot serial The Isle of Sunken Gold (1927), but screen producers saw him mostly as an exotic villain or the odd South Seas Island native and true stardom eluded him.

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As for the balls, that's where the story takes on the sheen of a Hollywood potboiler: a talented protege oversteps his bounds and is thrown out of the company he helped build alongside a man he considered a father figure.

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.

Many of his mainstream film appearances have been in comedy potboilers unworthy of his talents: exceptions include De Palma's Phantom of the Paradise (1974) in which Graham was both funny and ferocious as the Rocky Horror - ish «Beef,» and Louis Malle's Pretty Baby (1978), in which he was cast as Highpockets, Susan Sarandon's scuzzy, abusive boyfriend.

, nearly forgotten mistress, Jeanie Macpherson, this Biblical churning potboiler is just as good, and maybe better in spots, than what came later.

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.

What was once a mediocre military whodunit potboiler becomes a thrilling and unbelievable action vehicle as Jackie delivers three truly incredible action sequences each of which is worth the price of admission to this film.

A moody, evocative potboiler that steadily builds a head of steam, «Hell or High Water» is sharp as a leather strap cracked against bare skin in the Texas sun.

In 1965, Repulsion was greeted as a brilliant, grisly potboiler that gave the thirty - two - year - old Polish filmmaker Roman Polanski commercial entree to the West.

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.

Rickman's first film as director since 1997's The Winter Guest is produced by Gail Egan and Andrea Calderwood for Potboiler Productions and Bertrand Faivre for The Bureau.

Few have had as varied and rich a career as Jacques Perrin, whose resume includes appearing in and co-producing the classic political thriller Z for Costa - Gavras, making an extended cameo in the French potboiler THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE WOLF, and making fascinating films in homage to the natural world.

If all it took to be a great thriller were edge - of - your - seat theatrics, ARLINGTON ROAD would be a sure - classic, as the impressively taut direction by Pellington and believable performances by Bridges and Robbins turn up the potboiler of intensity.

The film is intentionally noxious, centered as it is around a vulgar potboiler...

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.

«Masters of Sex,» which premieres Sunday on Showtime, takes as its subject Dr. William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the authors of «Human Sexual Response,» «Human Sexual Inadequacy» and other medical potboilers of the 20th century.

DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: Coen Brothers Screwball Comedy Comes to DVD Here, the Coen Brothers serve up a screwball comedy which might best be described as a combination sex farce and political potboiler.

You might rightly classify this drama as a «woman - in - peril» potboiler.

As the title promises, the post-Civil War potboiler has scoundrels — eight, at least — circling each other and, eventually, pouncing and bleeding.

It's action filmmaking as controlled demolition — and the best train potboiler since Steven Seagal's Under Siege 2: Dark Territory.

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.

«Wild Card» represents the second attempt by Goldman («All the President's Men,» «The Princess Bride») and producer Cassian Elwes to fashion a movie from the writer's 1985 paperback potboiler, «Heat,» about the various entanglements of one Nick Escalante, a seen - better - days Philip Marlowe type working as a bodyguard - for - hire in the bowels of Sin City.

Raajneeti (Unrated) Political potboiler, set in Bhopal, India, about a fiercely fought election campaign where influence - peddling and corruption are the norms, and where treachery and manipulation are routinely used as weapons.

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.

MGS3 is also a good entry point - it's a prequel set in the 60s, so it's probably the game that works best as a standalone Cold War potboiler without much concern for the series» baroque mythology.