Sentences with phrase «quirky little movie»

Not exact matches

People will despise this movie for its quirky dialogue and its over-exposed lead, but given a chance, Jennifer's Body is entertaining, a little bit different, and deserves better than it's gotten, despite some obvious flaws.

Odd to see a character that was just a one - note bit part get his own movie, but Steve Carell (Little Miss Sunshine, Over the Hedge) continues playing the quirky newscaster from Bruce Almighty, oh, for about a couple of minutes.

There's little doubt that Real Time's admittedly intriguing premise initially seems as though it's going to be squandered by writer / director Randall Cole, as the filmmaker generally stresses hopelessly quirky situations and conversations that grow increasingly tiresome as the movie progresses.

CHERISH is a definite guilty pleasure, the kind of movie that makes very little sense, but has such quirky charm that you may end up loving anyway.

Chadha, whose last film The Viceroy's House tackled the tragic causes and epic scale of the partition of India, said she hopes Blinded by the Light will, by contrast, mix a little of the quirky British humour of some of her earlier films, such as Bhaji on the Beach (1993) and Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008) with the lively energy of 1980s high - school movies written by John Hughes such as Pretty in Pink and The Breakfast Club.

It's similar to, but not nearly as much of a comedy as that other «Sunshine» movie with an Albuquerque, New Mexico setting, Little Miss Sunshine, with its dysfunctional family anchored by the dryly quirky paternal Alan Arkin (Firewall, Thirteen Conversations About One Thing).

Wholly derivative, as most modern Westerns tend to be, this manages to be entertaining due to its likeable cast, and some wonderfully quirky writing, which was co-written by none other than John Carpenter, director of other genre - busting B - movies like Big Trouble in Little China and Assault on Precinct 13.

Victor Frankenstein (voiced by Charlie Tahan) doesn't have many friends beyond his loving dog Sparky, whom he makes the star of his quirky little home movies.

Searchlight will seek to emulate the Sundance - launched success it had in the past with the likes of «Napoleon Dynamite» and «Little Miss Sunshine» — other movies with quirky and appealing lead characters — but will need to sell a film that at heart is far more of a quiet drama than it might appear.

In recent years John Malkovich has starred in a run of quirky little indie movies, most de The Great Buck Howard, Film