Sentences with phrase «road movie as»

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.

The writer - director, Shana Feste, who made the 2010 Gwyneth Paltrow vehicle «Country Strong,» knows how to stage a road movie as soft - edged psychodrama, without getting bogged down in dumb plot developments.

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.

Not exact matches

No matter how much Netflix spent to buy, say, a movie about a road trip to pick up a lounge chair (yeah, we didn't see The Puffy Chair either), others could turn around and distribute it just as easily.

Jobs: At the Code Conference yesterday, venture investor Marc Andreessen argued that self - driving cars will actually create jobs, not kill them, just as cars led to jobs for road - pavers, as well as jobs related to the rise in restaurants, movie theaters, motels, and the suburbs more generally.

Warner Bros. and Mad Max: Fury Road walked away from Sunday night as the biggest winners at the 88th Academy Awards — at least, in terms of the movie's overall awards tally.

It's beautiful but desolate, making it the perfect backdrop for «Fury Road» — especially because the movie used as little CGI and green screen as possible.

«Mad Max: Fury Road,» which delves into what the world could potentially become after a nuclear apocalypse, could go down in history as the best action movie of all time.

While, as McGraw reminds us, «a movie is not a driver's manual for the road of life,» Tarantino and Theology has opened up to its readers several concrete ways of appreciating Tarantino's peculiar form of religious devotion.

That movie, for all it's exhilarating presentation of youthful life on the road as you experience those who make music which can speak to large audiences, is nonetheless all about how you ought to get sucked into the rock «n roll way of life (albeit eschewing the drugs and sex part of it) because somehow rock «n roll is supposedly important.

Sure, Fury Road is somewhat light on plot, as most of the dialogue is shouted over revving engines, but it's revolutionary for an action movie in both its artistry and its strong female characters.

I saw the movie «the Road» which was brutal, as you said.

In movies as varied as the dead serious The Road, the uplifting family picture The Blind Side, the biting comedy The Invention of Lying and even James Cameron's sci - fi opus...

Many in Hollywood say they see the spiritual - memoir - turned - movie as the next hot genre, suggesting there are ongoing talks about turning Lauren Winner's «Girl Meets God» into a romantic comedy, Ian Cron's «Jesus, My Father, the CIA, and Me» into an action flick, Anne Lamott's «Traveling Mercies» into an indie road trip film, Kathleen Norris» «The Cloister Walk» into something really creepy involving monks.»

He played significant roles in the movie industry such as «Inception,» «Mad Max: Fury Road, ««Warrior,» and the «The Dark Knight Rises.»

I love taking road trips & watching movies and live bands as much as I love a relaxing night in on the couch.

You can do better than another dinner - and - movie date: These unique, creative, and cool - as - hell anniversary date ideas — from road trips to theme parks

In 1993 alone, she was seen as the hero's cousin / inamorata in Ethan Frome; the strung - out heroine in the stylishly violent road movie True Romance; and the hero's lesbian sister in Inside Monkey Zetterland.

«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.

This movie starts off with a prison bus going down a empty stretch of road and on the other side the only car insight driven by one Dr Douglas Madsen as these two come closer and closer together something happens that sends the Dr's car to collide with the prison bus freeing four prisoners who decide to take the good Dr hostage and retreat to a remote cabin in the woods that just happens to be home of a family that is more dangerous then the prisoners now with no way out the prisoners and the hostage must fight to stay alive against the people in the cabin.

In episode 301, the third season premiere, Bette and Tina try to rekindle their sexual groove after having a child; road rage grabs hold of Alice as she chases after Dana through the streets of Los Angeles; Helena purchases a movie studio; Jenny returns with a new girlfriend.

Old School, which follows three grown men (Luke Wilson's Mitch, Will Ferrell's Frank, and Vince Vaughn's Beanie) as they turn their house into a fraternity, marks director Todd Phillips» first fictional endeavor since Road Trip, and it's immediately clear that the movie, like that 2000 Tom Green comedy, manages to entertain in spite of a distinct lack of overt laughs.

The screenplay, written by Riko Sakaguchi and Yonebayashi, is based on the 1971 children's novel The Little Broomstick by British author Mary Stewart, and the movie's story seems to exist in a unique place, with the characters appearing British but drawn in that specific style of Japanese animation, while the backdrops look as if they could be set in any place where there are fields and forests and farms and tiny villages down some dirt road.

Theron has been flexing her bona fides as an action star with movies like «Mad Max: Fury Road» and «Atomic Blonde,» but «Tully» is a gentle reminder that she is one of our finest actresses working today.

A screwball road movie set in a middle - of - nowhere town, Kwik Stop suggests «It Happened One Night» as reimagined by David Lynch or Hal Hartley.

Todd Phillips (Road Trip, Old School) directed this low - brow but sporadically inspired movie, and it has already earned a reputation as the boundary - pushing comedy movie of the summer, thanks to word of mouth and clever preview trailers.

Built as a road movie in its first hour of footage, the film accompanies a truck driver on his way from Kosovo to Belgrade... It's in the whole of this journey where the film seems more robust... [Full review in Spanish]

Perhaps to make up for a perceived dearth of strip - club scenes in the original among audiences who came to see a celebrity Chippendales act but got a character - driven dramedy instead, this installment promises a raucous road - trip movie as Mike and his pectorally blessed friends travel to Myrtle Beach to perform in an all - male revue.

He has produced movies such as Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, American Sniper and Mad Max: Fury Road.

During this recent interview to discuss the TV version of Zombieland, co-creators and executive producers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick talked about the journey from TV series to movie and now back to TV pilot, what it's been like to work with Amazon, what motivated the decision to have the same characters from the movie on the TV show, how they envision it as a road show, how much gore they can have, what Kirk Ward (who was originally cast as Tallahassee before being replaced by Woody Harrelson) brings to this version of the character, what led them to the 30 - minute format, whether they could have any surprise cameos (Bill Murray made a very memorable one in the film), what will determine whether the pilot is successful enough to go to series, and when they might know if they're picked up.

Mystique's character has become even more interesting, as we see her caught between the sweet Raven from First Class, yet on the road to becoming the genocidal terrorist from Singer's movies.

Doomsdays is a meticulously crafted, devilishly funny road movie on foot (though cars do play a role as the smash - able victims of Bruho's rage).

: Perhaps the experts in road - movie treatments, we affectionately think back to examples such as About Schmidt and Sideways and think the prospects for this project are very good indeed.

This is essentially a road movie, following the drug - fuelled exploits of FH (we'll follow the lead of the end credits and call him that from now on) as he drives around in a Volkswagen with girlfriend Michelle (Samantha Morton), bumping into the weird and wonderful characters who populate America's Midwest along the way.

Worshipping alongside Abrams this year at the altar of Spielberg are Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, who co-wrote and starred in the alien road movie Paul, as well as Joe Cornish (of Adam & Joe), whose Attack the Block transposed the kids - and - aliens mixture of vintage Spielberg to a south London housing estate.

As far as we can tell, it's not even been published yet but Warner Bros has already snapped up the movie rights for THE ROAD HOME by Michael Armour and they're setting it up for Leonardo DiCaprio, who's supposed to be on a long break isn't hAs far as we can tell, it's not even been published yet but Warner Bros has already snapped up the movie rights for THE ROAD HOME by Michael Armour and they're setting it up for Leonardo DiCaprio, who's supposed to be on a long break isn't has we can tell, it's not even been published yet but Warner Bros has already snapped up the movie rights for THE ROAD HOME by Michael Armour and they're setting it up for Leonardo DiCaprio, who's supposed to be on a long break isn't he?

When Hannibal decides to take his conquest on the road from Carthage to Rome via the Alps, taking the elephants gives him some troubles — but not as much trouble as this movie had at the box office.

But since the new film from writer - director Jeff Nichols (Take Shelter, Mud) works best as a very strange road - trip movie, that cliché feels apropos.

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There's shades of «Fast and the Furious» and «Mad Max: Fury Road» as cars flip, tumble down mountains, and even leap across rooftops, but all with the casualty buffer of a kids movie.

5 London Road Critics are hailing Damien Chazelle's La La Land as a rebirth of the American movie musical, and a beguiling piece of screen magic it is.

Seemingly spliced together from a fuzzy home movies, Fraud tracks a carefree family as they commit a destructive act of insurance fraud and head on the lam like a summer road trip.

Logan is basically a road trip movie disguised as a super hero film.

One of those movies is Sebastián Silva's Crystal Fairy, starring Michael Cera as a young man who invites a total stranger to come on his road trip to Chile.

WHY: «We're the Millers» is every bit as formulaic as the typical road trip movie, but the cast makes up for those generic story beats with some winning performances, and they all pull their weight equally.

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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.

Reichardt describes the film, shot on 16 mm, as «a road movie without the road, a love story without the love, and a crime story without the crime.»

Red Hill also forms part of the «Shock Corridor» section, with Gregg Araki's Kaboom (described as Twin Peaks, Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Donnie Darko combined), absurdist road movie Rubber and Mexican cannibal flick We Are What We Are also on the bill.

According to Deadline, details have been finalized for indie distributor Open Road Films and production and financing company Endgame Entertainment to partner on the U.S. release of Oliver Stone «s Edward Snowden movie, which will star Joseph Gordon - Levitt as the NSA whistleblower, also the subject of Laura Poitras «Oscar documentary frontrunner Citizenfour.