Sentences with phrase «run road films»

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mystery, and while the revelations late in the film are shocking, the road to get there is arduous and drawn - out (the 2 hour running time feels inflated.)

The film opens on a hit - and - run, unseen by us but signaled by the screech of brakes intruding into the hush of night on a winding country road.

Rebecca Ferguson (Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation) and Abbey Lee (Mad Max: Fury Road) were also in the running; Ferguson dropped out of the running in favor of another film.

If beating advance ticket sales for previous buzzed - about superhero films are like flipping over cars during a late - night road chase sequence in a movie trailer, then Black Panther is like... Black Panther, leaping ahead of those vehicles while a Run The Jewels track plays behind it.

Edward's novel provides the film with its dark soul, the story of Tony Hastings (also played by Jake Gyllenhaal) and his wife Laura (Isla Fisher) & daughter India (Elle Bamber), who run into trouble when traveling through some back country Texas roads late at night, you know the type they make movies about how not to ever drive down.

The suffocating dread you feel throughout the film's lengthy run time, culminating in a quiet, lonely drive down a secluded forest road, always feels earned and manages to reinforce the central themes in a strong way.

Per the standards long established in the road trip buddy comedy (a subgenre also embodied by films like Midnight Run and Tommy Boy), the mismatched men of course endure high - spirited adventure and outrageous obstacles en route to their destination.

Yet instead of keeping this a tightly wound yarn of imprisonment and escape, Verbinski — working from a script by Justin Haythe («The Lone Ranger,» «Revolutionary Road»)-- opts for something bigger, grander and more operatic, sending the film wildly off the rails over the course of its far - too - long 146 - minute running time.

Sexual awkwardness among people bonded in holy matrimony is the running theme of this recent Sundance fave, written and directed by Patrick Brice (Creep) and produced by discomfort - loving indie filmmaker Mark Duplass (who's been down this road many times in films he and his brother, Jay, have directed).

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.

The two have a lot in common: They're both tough and independent (aside from leaning on one another), and there's a running gag throughout the film where the two yell at each other as though they're strangers when they encounter one another on the road.

His films («The Road,» «The Proposition») tend to focus on violent worlds, and how characters embrace, accept or run from their environment.

At its best, the film from screenwriter Anthony Jaswinski and director Jaume Collet - Serra («Non-Stop,» «Run All Night») is as close to a pure action film that mainstream cinema has seen since «Mad Max: Fury Road.»

We sat down with her at TIFF to run down the film's long road to release.

com或 [phone] x 602 。 INTERMISSION Films, videos and photographic works by Lucas and Jason Ajemian, Cheng Ran, Maya Deren, Jesper Just, Alex Prager, Hiraki Sawa, Yinka Shonibare MBE February 19 through March 9, 2011 James Cohan Gallery Shanghai 1 / F, Building 1, Lane 1, No. 170 Yue Yang Road, Shanghai James Cohan Gallery Shanghai is pleased to present Intermission, a three - week program of international films and videos from February 19 to March 9, 2011.

The film - maker Isaac Julien made the early running with his two shorts The Long Road to Mazatlan and Vagabondia.