Sentences with phrase «road movie»

A sweet road movie with all the appropriate highs and lows, this film is at its best when it showcases the astonishing musical talents of its leads.
The American road movie has a long and grand history.
Truly great road movies all use their familiar structure to explore some deeper truth or set of ideas.
Like all good road movies, it's the journey not the destination that gives this movie its entertainment value.
In this post-apocalyptic road movie an unstoppable virus has wiped out most of humanity and destroyed civilization.
Best - case scenario: An unusual road movie that also functions as a master class in creativity and self - expression despite personal danger and seemingly impossible odds.
It's a goofy road movie with some nice gags.
A very emotional road movie that uses its locations in the best way possible.
This is a great adventure, it's a teen road movie and crime drama sort of movie.
An unpleasant and hardly entertaining creepy horror road movie that comes up as vacant as an empty room.
This could be like any other frantic road movie, yet might just be something special with these two forces of nature at the wheel.
A colleague dubbed this a «holistic road movie».
Thomas Newman's scored a few strange films in his time, and one of them is Josh and Sam, a kind of road movie in which two boys try to escape to Canada to avoid living in Florida with their father.
Mississippi Grind has a distinct seventies feel; blurs the genre of road movie with addiction drama.
The film is an offbeat road movie about a devout Christian wife (Harris) who sets off to find her dying husband's biological son - a grubby 23 - year - old she knew nothing about (O'Leary).
Ristaino's favorite film is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy («I love the dry humor»), so you get an idea of what inspired him to make as road movie as his first full - length venture.
Characters form an unlikely bond in road movie set in a lawless Australian outback sometime in the near future
The Mirando Corporation, run by the eccentric CEO Lucy Mirando (Swinton), reclaims Okja, who they view as their property, and this brings the film into a second act that shifts gears again, now into road movie / adventure mode ---- with coming - of - age fundamentals ---- as Mija, now in cahoots with members of the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), heads from Korea to New York.
Emotionally intense road movie by the director of the prize - winning Ratcatcher.
A smash hit on the drive - in circuit, Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry was a key film in the post-Easy Rider road movie genre, for although it retained the explosive fatalism of the others within the movement, it did away with their taciturn, enigmatic protagonists.
Join Oli and Kat as they discuss the latest rumoured plot details on the Hulk and Thor buddy road movie set in space, whether there will ever be a DC Movie and TV Universe crossover and what enormous Justice League villain tease just happened in an officially released Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice set -LSB-...]
«Mississippi Grind» is part road movie, part character study, assembling Ben Mendelsohn and Ryan Reynolds as two externally opposite, but internally related gamblers whose styles complement each other enough to embark on a road trip down the Mississippi in hopes of luck - supported fortune.
It's an American road movie where the sense of America is not in the places they visit, but in the tenor of the conversations between the central trio; the way they bicker, joke and reminisce about everything from their time in the forces to the merits of Eminem — think Slacker among the Marines.
It is her bar - room dance that marks the film's handbreak - turn from road movie to splatter - iffic horror.
An ultra-stylised road movie filled with black humour, violence and pop - culture references to Elvis and The Wizard of Oz, it is was both booed and applauded when it won the prestigious Palme d'Or award at the Cannes Film Festival.
Official Premise: Adapted from the picaresque novel by Barry Gifford, writer - director David Lynch's Wild at Heart (1990) is a scarifying road movie starring Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern as Sailor and Lula, a pair of star - crossed lovers pursued across the American landscape by all manner of horrors.
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«Thelma & Louise» is a rare thrill - a gleefully offbeat road movie in which two women, instead of the usual footloose fellas, exult in the heady freedom of America's lonesome highways.
Jérôme Reybaud's assured feature debut is «an erotic road movie like no other» (Film Society of Lincoln Center) and an «ode to cruising writ large» (Slant).
The coming - of - age tale, the on - the - run road movie, the buddy comedy, the boy's adventure story — all genres that require a steady hand and a singular sensibility, and all of which you'll find in Taika Waititi's goofy, giddy mash - up about two fugitives fleeing authorities in the New Zealand bush.
WILD AT HEART (1990) Fri, May 26, 10:00 p.m.; Sun, May 28, 9:00 p.m.; Wed, May 31, 9:35 p.m.; Thurs, June 1, 9:00 p.m. Absurdist humor punctuates this thriller cum road movie cum love story cum perverse homage to THE WIZARD OF OZ.
Michel Gondry directs Microbe and Gasoline, a French road movie built on a lawn mower engine by two imaginative schoolboys.
Janet Maslin of The New York Times called the movie «a vibrant, grisly, gleefully amoral road movie directed by Tony Scott and dominated by the machismo of Quentin Tarantino,» adding that it was sure to offend a good - sized segment of the moviegoing population.»
That approach was both the novelty and the frustration of «Monsters,» in which the monsters themselves were almost incidental, providing atmospheric and visual garnish for a badly acted road movie, in which a photojournalist went deep into territory overrun by the squid - like aliens to extract an endangered young woman.
Also during Married... With Children's run, Applegate appeared in the female road movie Across the Moon (1994), mutilated rock musician - drama Vibrations (1995), and as the town whore in Walter Hill's underrated Western Wild Bill (1995).
If you are looking for a well - acted and directed rebellious road movie then you should dig «On the Road» quite a bit.
Jeff Nichols» brilliant «Midnight Special» weaves relatable themes of parental responsibility and faith in that which is traditionally unexplainable into a sci - fi road movie, with echoes of John Carpenter, Steven Spielberg, and Stephen King bouncing throughout.
(Her American Honey, a U.S. - set road movie featuring Shia Labeouf, was favored for the Palme in some critical corners, though not our own.)
Speaking with Empire this week, Ruffalo said the libretto for «Thor: Ragnarok», which Australia will double as Outer - Space for, reminds him of a good old fashioned universal road movie.
The movie quickly settles into the well - covered terrain of most road movies — the friction that comes with putting humans in confined spaces for long hours, especially when the RV breaks down.
With its gorgeous widescreen compositions and sophisticated look at American male obsession, this stripped - down narrative from maverick director Monte Hellman is one of the artistic high points of 1970s cinema, and possibly the greatest road movie ever made.
Jim Mickle's indie Stake Land was one of 2010's best horror films — its post-apocalyptic road movie structure was familiar, but its gritty use of vampires (instead of, say, zombies) was distinctive.
The likable bonus short Home Road Movies adds some value to a Film Movement DVD that is light, routine, and adequate.
An odd amalgam of the post Easy Rider road movie and The Exorcist (William Friedkin, 1973) spawned satanist - horror flick, the southern gothic of Race With the Devil represents the shift of the Easy Rider ethos: for where once the protagonists were scruffy, long - haired misfits, now it is company men and their family units that are the «other» in the rural patriot strongholds.
The bigger picture is warning against xenophobia and selective dehumanization packed in a comically - tragic road movie of two oldtimers reflecting on their life.
Ultra low - budget yet effective road movie as Alice, an awkward «New Hampshah» teenager, travels to Florida with a seemingly normal Southern couple near their fifties.

Phrases with «road movie»

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