Sentences with phrase «quality films these days»

Samuel Brace on the rise of VOD... Sometimes you have to go off the beaten path to find quality films these days.

The Marvel cinematic universe has been churning out quality film and quality film these days.

Not exact matches

The films» rampaging innocence and invention seem worlds apart in quality from most of what passes these days as family entertainment.

Don't get me wrong, I like to punk out on more than a few occasions, but it's interesting to look back at a time in which the talent was getting commercial promotion, because in this day and age, you have to go either underground or, well, bona fide prog - rock to find real quality music, though not necessarily quality film.

Where the film's strength lies is in its quality footage of the Seventies, accentuating the footage with the music of the day.

Even the films I like from this year I do nt have clear memories of (I saw Women in Love when I was way too young for it in the 1980s), don't truly love (big Altman fan but MASH, is more of a «like»), or I love them more for their historical value or genre personality than for actual quality (Boys in the Band, Aristocrats, Bloody Mama, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever).

There's been a lot of talk about comic book movie fatigue these days, but the people at Marvel Studios clearly aren't letting that affect their productivity, because just like fellow Disney - owned company Pixar, they've continued to deliver the same high - quality films as when they started.

If there's any day that potentially tops Saturday for film quality, it's the one that follows.

We can only hope that one day they release the full cut of the film to properly see if those missing scenes will turn this mediocrity into the quality film it seems to be.

It's not often I am surprised by the quality of a film these days, so it means something when I am caught off guard by how much I enjoy certain features.

Since C&B is a part of a non-profit organization and relies exclusively on its readership's financial support to live to write another day, the short films we consider to be high - quality will be chosen and their authors will be offered to choose from either the Basic or the Premium C&B treatment package.

Beirut is a higher quality film than the recent 7 Days in Entebbe, both in performance and delivery.

Not forgetting the quality Will Ferrell cameo as Chazz, who was the notorious albeit deluded man who invented «the rules of wedding crashing,» or the beautiful montage of half - naked women being bedded in the film's earlygoing set to the classic celebratory song «Shout,» Wedding Crashers has assured its place among the great raunchy comedies of modern day filmmaking.

In a year made of horror films that have delivered more unintentional laughter than genuine scares, As Above, So Below fits the bill as exactly the kind of low - budget, lower - quality flick you'd see released on the big screen for the Labor Day weekend.

And the film exhibits a timeless quality that is breathtaking when compared with other efforts of its day.

That might not say much about the quality of the film, but Jonathan Levine has crafted a fun, light - hearted take on Romeo & Juliet (even going so far as to name the characters R and Julie) that could just be the right movie for the upcoming Valentine's Day.

Creating a film that is highly sensory, they have placed Eva somewhere between her memories and the present - day, giving the film a hallucinatory, dream - like quality.

Wong's best films are highly specific in their examinations of the desire for connection — one character channels his loneliness into the collection of pineapple cans, another rearranges the apartment of the object of her desire, another recasts his life and loves as a sci - fi adventure story — and Days of Being Wild, for all its admirable qualities, is comparatively lacking in that specificity.

As his first romantic drama (and borderline romantic comedy, really), the film shows the shrewd command of form and tone he brings to all of his projects, and with actors the quality of Day - Lewis and Krieps leading the way, he honestly doesn't need to do much to make something fascinating and alluring and gratifying all at once.

Over the past 10 days, we were extremely impressed by the high quality of the work presented, but in the end we were the most moved by the following 5 films.

Or Donald Sutherland and Jamie Foxx popping up and giving the film some semblance of quality before Day and Sudeikis ruin another scene.

This movie is ridden with plot holes, it has an unacceptable amount of logic issues, Mystique's costume is distractingly fake and silly looking, Anna Paquin gets a title card yet is in five seconds of the movie, multiple story beats are repeated and the narrative puts into question everything that's happened in previous «X-Men» films, but, if you can get past the fact that the «Days of Future Past» narrative is downright ridiculous, you can still enjoy some of the mindless, summer fun — and Quicksilver's sequences, because that's high quality cinema right there.

Those not satisfied with standard DVD quality will be pleased to know that, like most new films, Stardust is offered day - and - date in high definition on the Paramount - preferred HD DVD format.

Leslie Nielsen is a grandpa at an Independence Day family barbecue telling his grandchildren a tale that opens in the hills of Afghanistan where three Taliban Keystone Kops are frustrated with the poor quality of their recruitment film.

Turns out that's just how films are made these days, but the quality of CGI has improved so much, that it almost doesn't matter anymore.

Love Actually may not be quite as stuffed a turkey as more recent holiday disasters like New Year's Eve or Valentine's Day — here's a hint: if you want a quality bit of entertainment, you'd do well to stay away from films named after a holiday — nor is it quite as blatant in its commercialization of those holidays.

While relatively low - budget, this is the director's biggest film to date — there's no shaky camerawork or poor sound quality here, and working, notable actors are seemingly getting working day rates.

The picture quality varies based on the source; for instance, a «Happy Days» clip look atrocious and the old short films are beat - up.

Expecting depth and great quality across all facets of any particular film these days is asking for more than what anybody seems to want to give.

With bulletproof performances of Cliff Robertson (Charly) and Geneviève Bujold (Anne of the Thousand Days), De Palma told a highly cinematic, Hitchcockian mystery with style, class and more than enough unique quality for the film to be able to stand solidly on its own feet, regardless of the similarities it shares with Vertigo, an inspiration that both De Palma and his screenwriter Paul Schrader acknowledged from the very get - go.

A rousing — and, in light of recent events, a little bittersweet — story of women conquering patriarchy (for a day, anyway), the film, from Little Miss Sunshine directors Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton, has a righteous kick that excuses a lot of its hokier qualities.

A DAY IN THE COUNTRY By Donald Chase Claude Chabrol at 60: the reigning classicist of the French New Wave ventures into Tradition of Quality territory to film Flaubert's Madame Bovary.

They've developed this concept even further by demonstrating that a scene can be shot, captured, edited and rendered to film production quality in minutes instead of days or weeks.

I shot a role of film at each hour of the day to get a base image for each hour with a haphazard, immediate quality.

With a particular emphasis on photography, but also including other forms of artistic expression such as painting, video, film, performance and installation art from the 1960s to the present day, Haunted is co-curated by Jennifer Blessing, Curator of Photography, and Nat Trotman, Associate Curator, both from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, and reveals the extraordinary quality of the photographic and new media works in the Guggenheim Collections.

«The environment is on everyone's mind these days and that was clearly evident in the quantity and quality of the films submitted to this year's festival.