Sentences with phrase «rather than a feature film»

With choppy editing, and odd camera movements, this feels more like a hyperkinetic Music Video rather than a feature film.

The surprise isn't that, of the three, the film falls somewhere between good and bad; it's that Chase has made a film that is so loudly and clearly screaming to be a television series rather than a feature film.

Though it's not a slam dunk like the filmmaker's 2010 effort, To the Wonder is a fascinating portrait of love, infidelity, and mistakes that plays more like a tone poem rather than a feature film.

Not exact matches

Two years before March would win an Academy Award for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde he was just beginning to get featured film roles rather than parts as an extra.

A surprisingly good Star Trek movie that actually feels like a feature film rather than an extended television episode.

At the same time, DreamWorks still has yet to make a film to put them on a par with Pixar in terms of being able to make animated family films that will last the test of time as classics in their genre, rather than populist features that work primarily in the here and now.

It could've been considered a risk, placing the fortunes of a debut feature film in the hands of a single central character, rather than an ensemble.

While the story is entertaining enough, it's numerous lulls and predictability felt too often like a lifetime movie rather than a big screen feature film.

Of course, ample scenes of motorcycles hurtling around corners at horrific speeds are included across the film's 104 minute running time, however the emphasis on the riders rather than the race grounds the feature in the relatable quest of chasing a dream.

That said, the film never quite succeeds in justifying that it had to be told as a feature rather than as a TV movie.

Even with those absences in mind, however, the bonus features are rather comprehensive and certainly much more than even most Oscar winning films get.

Yet rather than see anti-Semitism in the film, one could just as easily criticize it for ultra-Zionist revisionism, featuring baseball bat - armed Jewish supermen, macho enough to make even David Mamet proud, taking matters into their own hands.

Mills are featured as locations in two other Hitchcock films, Young and Innocent and The Manxman, though these are grain mills with turning water - wheels rather than rotating blades.

A real movie lover's movie, The Aviator sees Martin Scorsese bring a touch of panache to this Howard Hughes biopic, which features probably Leonardo DiCaprio's best performance to date (though he does look rather too young for most of the film) and a host of other fine performances, none finer than Cate Blanchett, who is mesmerising as Katherine Hepburn (though never quite so mesmerising as Hepburn herself was).

That scene seems straight out of a 70s creature feature rather than a Steven Spielberg film.

Whether this dynamic can last much longer is another question, for after two feature films this will start to get dull sooner rather than later.

Borrowing from Takashi Miike's Audition (seminal J Horror film) source material, Nicolas Pesce had time to dress, finesse his highly anticipated sophomore film and boy did he deliver with what comes across as a Cronenberg's Crash like love story featured in hotel room spaces rather than car wreckage and works as an homage to a plethora of influential filmmakers including De Palma and the Giallo set.

The film is Anderson's best live - action feature — his best feature, period — since Rushmore, in part because, like that film, it takes as its primary subject matter odd, precocious children, rather than the damaged and dissatisfied adults they will one day become.

The characters aren't flat, the film isn't dull, it's vibrant and flashy and entertaining and a rather remarkable feature directing debut for Gordon - Levitt, better than I was expecting.

While the headline of my review for David Lowery's feature debut was «Ain't Them Bodies Saints Sure Is Pretty, But It Ain't Quite Divine» I do think it's a film that folks really need to get out and see as I'd rather have more American indies like this than The Spectacular Now or Kings Of Summer.

An adaptation of the Nobel Prize - winning author José Saramago's novel «The Double» (and not the thematically similar Dostoyevsky book of the same name which confusingly, features elsewhere on this list) this psychological thriller sounds a little bit more damaged and arthouse than Villeneuve's aforementioned studio film and given uncompromising nature of that picture, we're rather psyched to see how «Enemy» turns out.

Much of the middle film plays more like an episode of a TV series rather than a $ 200 - million - dollar feature film.

Coming off the wonderful sports documentary Lenny Cooke why did you decide to make this a feature film rather than a straight up documentary?

«Happy Christmas» also features Mark Webber and — naturally — Lena Dunham, filling out a cast of rather famous faces, much more in line with «Drinking Buddies» than the director's earlier, lower - profile films.

For the feature's first forty - five minutes or so, the new film plays out like an introduction to a new cinematic series rather than a third chapter in one.

There was a variety of guerilla - style close - ups that made the film feel like a documentary rather than a feature.

The Critic's Week sidebar, which runs separately but concurrently to the main festival, features films from China, Vietnam, Iran, Palestine, France, Italy, Germany, and Serbia, with nine films in total being judged by festival - goers, rather than a jury.

The Star Trek Beyond teaser does indeed have a decidedly «un-Star Trek - y» feel, selling the movie as more of a Fast & Furious - style sci - fi / action film that features Star Trek characters - rather than a Star Trek movie that includes more action and comedy, a la Abrams» Star Trek and its sequel, Star Trek Into Darkness.

From his second feature, 2008's Tony Manero, about a Saturday Night Fever - obsessed killer in»70s Chile, up to his forthcoming film, the poetic Neruda (out in the UK in April), Larraín has made character studies that trust audiences to search the sweep of a film for meaning, using the formal potential of cinema to explore what people are like, rather than saddling an actor with revelatory baggage.

This first feature film from director and co-writer Jeremy Garelick has an interesting premise... a much better premise than HITCH... and benefits from an on screen connection between Hart and Josh Gad, despite scene after scene taking the cheap laugh rather than the smart one.

The story sounds like the simplest of things, but Benson sets himself loftier goals and achieves them like he's been directing feature length films for ages rather than tackling his very first one.

The film is about an orphaned dinosaur who befriends a young human boy, and reportedly features relatively little dialogue as the two communicate through action and expression rather than words.

There isn't enough story here to sustain a full - length feature, and Shyamalan probably would have been better served making this the first short in an anthology film (indeed, it is rather reminiscent of a «Twilight Zone» episode, «Five Characters in Search of an Exit»), rather than stretch it out with weaker side stories and needless characters.

Rather than just another raunchy R - rated comedy featuring women instead of men, the film had a great deal of sympathy for its beleaguered trio of mothers played by Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell, and Kathryn Hahn.

Munro Leaf's children's classic The Story Of Ferdinand, about a pacifist bull who'd rather smell flowers than chase after matadors, gets the big - screen treatment in an animated film that features the voices of John Cena, Kate McKinnon, and, uh, Peyton Manning.

Therefore, most of the film features Tony Stark the «real» person, rather than Iron Man the alter ego that threatens to symbolically consume Stark.

Andy Serkis» feature directorial debut, Breathe, is a film that is emotionally exhausting to watch and it is one that would have best been served as a documentary rather than what could easily be described as an expensive home movie.

Often, the films seem to have been made as companion works to the books, rather than as complete, stand - alone features with their own interpretation of the source material.

Rather than simply being a retread of the film's story, the Play Set features its own story that takes place in the wildly imaginative world of Riley's mind.

While its inclusion is worthwhile, it's best to view it on its own in the Bonus Features section rather than play it along with the rest of the film (that option is presented after selecting «Play» from the main menu).

Johnny Depp and Michelle Pfeiffer are featured, and in a way, this gives us a different look at the film rather than the staged first look with the entire cast from last year.

Unlike the ambitious gangster or mob film, reputable prison dramas tend to feature a protagonist that is closer to us, a person thrown to hell rather than embodying it, nakedly amidst wolves as opposed to running with them.

An impressive feat that the film was actually shot in just 21 days but I feel like it was better off as a short - story rather than a full length feature.

Slither is a rarity in today's feature film climate, and lovingly embraces its sillier moments, rather than laughing them off or dressing them up in fancy VFX.

Rather than produce some new features that enhance one's understanding and appreciation of both the film and its creation, Disney has spent money on remixed song music videos, childish set - top games, and a new musical number (an addition they foolishly feel is necessary to get people to repurchase the movie on a new format).

Too often, though, the result feels like a pair of talented visual and film artists» distant elevator pitch for a feature, a portfolio of their respective aesthetic inclinations and intellectual influences rather than a cohesive text with something pressing to say about loss and detritus.

We briefly mentioned the then - upcoming film Baggage Claim as an example of a movie, written and directed by an African - American filmmaker, that exists outside of any perceived «black genre» (whatever that means), which is really just a comedy that happens to feature African - Americans rather than whites of European descent.

In other Marvel Comic - Con news, the studio revealed that the Brie Larson - starring Captain Marvel would take place in the 1990s and precede the first Iron Man film — Samuel L. Jackson's Nick Fury will have two eyes rather than the eye patch — and that Ant - Man and The Wasp will feature Michelle Pfieffer as Janet Van Dyne.

The film also features a plethora of cameo appearances by celebrities Neil deGrasse Tyson, Anderson Cooper, Brooke Baldwin, Soledad O'Brien, Nancy Grace and Dana Bash who merely distract from rather than advance the plot.

But rather than just being a static ad that leads to a click - through for the film, Fox was even more creative and ran interactive features, including fanfiction of the book in its film - named Wattpad account.