Sentences with phrase «serious film about»

It sounds like a serious film about two troubled middle - school boys.

These two trends reach a new height in Man of Steel — the film desperately wants to be taken seriously as an important serious film about a serious hero who is not a goofy boy scout in brightly colored pajamas.

Broadbent added: «This is a serious film about Longford and his relationship with Hindley and how that reveals -LSB-...]

Toby Jones (The Painted Veil, Mrs. Henderson Presents) as Karl Rove and Jeffrey Wright (The Invasion, Casino Royale) as Colin Powell also look much smaller than their real - life counterparts, and more mannered, seeming like they would be more at home in an «SNL» skit than in a serious film about these public figures.

The content you see in the trailer not - withstanding, War Dogs is another serious film about corruption.

Yes, it was about a group of guys drinking the night away and accidentally taking drugs that made them forget everything about the night before, but it never became a serious film about drug abuse.

And that's important, because despite being a fairly serious film about love, loss and family, «Kubo and the Two Strings» goes about telling its simple but layered story with such child - like optimism that it resonates even stronger as a result.

This was actually quite a serious film about a Chinese American man struggling with his identity.

It's a serious film about pain, in which no one intentionally inflicts it.

A serious film about an important subject seems like an important film, even if the effort falls far short of the target.

Not exact matches

In an interview with the Patheos blog Sister Rose at the Movie, he said that the film was, «a meditation on doubt, faith, a serious study about belief» and discussed how it impacted his own personal faith.

David was also the producer of «An Inconvenient Truth,» and just as that film served as a wake - up call for climate change, «Fed Up» hopes to similarly educate the public about the serious flaws in our food system and how the food and beverage industries have a vested interest in maintaining a status quo that puts profits over our collective health — and often with the assistance of the federal government.

After getting some blowback for criticizing a program that indirectly benefited her as Miranda Hobbes in the two Sex and the City movies (actors» salaries are not eligible for the subsidies, and the long - running TV show completed filming before the program was created), she made it clear she was serious about the issue, as the New York Post reported:

Once the fear has passed, just in time for nap, visual and musical style are sometimes played in an immersive fashion by highlights in a directorial performance by Nicolas Winding Refn that bring some life to the film, though not as much as John Turturro's inspired lead performance, which does about as much as anything in bring the final product to the brink of decency, which is ultimately defied by the serious underdevelopment, overambition, monotonously unfocused dragging and near - punishingly dull atmospheric dryness that back a questionable drawn non-plot concept, and drive «Fear X» into mediocrity, in spite of highlights than can't quite obscure the many shortcomings.

I would not recommend this film to most people - but if you're up for a VERY non-narrative film (think two and a half hour poem) about life's most serious questions, then you might find Tree of Life (especially the 2nd act) one of the most

I would not recommend this film to most people - but if you're up for a VERY non-narrative film (think two and a half hour poem) about life's most serious questions, then you might find Tree of Life (especially the 2nd act) one of the most beautiful and moving films you'll see this year.

«The Help» in its attempt to be palatable to all audience glosses over a lot of the real serious themes the film is about.

Where plenty of more serious - minded modern films would try to build a relevant message into this plot about the dangers of unchecked corporate power, lax regulations, or genetic experiments, Rampage seems to consciously make the antagonists as shrill and unrealistic as possible, to avoid any unfortunate associations with reality.

Nothing in the film is real enough to care about past the moment, or serious enough to trouble an audience's sleep.

A serious, large - budget treatment of Rabe's exploits and a moving, terrific film about trying to maintain one's decency amidst horrors.

Sometimes, a confusing atmosphere can actually enhance a film about drug addiction (see: Trainspotting), but here it is a serious distraction.

Another amazing thing that comes out of this is that after watching the film, the most people can say about Alexander is that he was bisexual (back when sexuality mattered little) and he had serious mommy and daddy problems (amusingly enough, Jolie is only one year older than Farrell).

I think the main reason that many people were really skeptical about the film was probably due to how a superhero film probably wouldn't do as well as it could or wouldn't be as serious as it could be since it takes place in the 40s during WWII and sine Captain america, was more of a piece for its time when it was made, so people felt that the Nazi shtick would probably get old after a while, especially since it had been done in so many films and video games prior.

-- a serious, socially responsible film about human suffering.

One quibble I have with the film is that it occasionally gets confused whether it wants to be a serious drama or a comedy - but that's just a minor complaint to be made about an otherwise tremendously effective film.

It's some serious blue collar blues, but that's what Bale seemed to like about this film.

Actually, novelty and sentimentality aside, all the D. Craig Bonds are by far the best Bond films, if you are being serious about this (nothing against Connery, who is one of my mentors).

Weighty stuff for a supposed period comedy about film industry magic, and it gives this movie a serious edge it quite frankly didn't need.

The real stars of the film are the supporting cast of stereotypes the dopey Mexican, the thieving black guy and good with computers serious Russian who make sure the film maintains its humor and remembers that ultimately its a film about a man who hangs around with ants.

I never would have thought a film about football, depression and dancing could be this engaging and easy - going, despite of the serious undertones.

It bets the house on them, gambling on the possibility that an old - fashioned morality play asking Big Questions about faith, activism, and the futility of trying to save the world will pay off in a moment when even serious American cinema — i.e. films unconcerned with Skywalkers or Infinity Stones — comes at least partially steeped in irony.

For anyone who longs for stylistically informed, spiritually serious films for and about religious people, First Reformed is a forgotten wish finally come true.

Starring Lena Headey and Ian Hart, it was a drama about an 18 - year - old waitress (Headey) who becomes involved with a young raver (Hart) who introduces her to ecstasy and drug dealing.Shortly after making Loved Up, Cattaneo received the script for The Full Monty and, drawn both to its obvious humor and more serious economic undertones, immediately set about getting it made into a film.

``; John Rabe»; is a serious, large - budget treatment of Rabe's exploits and a moving, terrific film about trying to maintain one's decency amidst horrors.

-- Erik Lundegaard is serious about wanting a feature - length film about Martin Luther King, Jr. starring Jeffrey Wright.

But that's not the big surprise about the film: this story of an arrogant, over-the-hill slugger (Mac) who comes out of retirement to chalk up his 3000th hit is more of a serious sports film than a knee - slapping comedy, and Mac gets a rare opportunity to showcase his true dramatic range as an actor.

Paul Thomas Anderson, who directed «Phantom Thread,» hopes his star Daniel Day - Lewis isn't serious about the film being his last.

Actually, I never thought about my «bad» «bad» (the double quoted «bad» s is not a typo) Star Trek review reflecting badly on Film Junk as a serious site for film criticism.

If you don't like this movie, it's going to be hard for us to have any serious conversations about film, be it Kubrick, Fellini, Hitchcock or Bay» be it gothic romance, Fordian westerns, The French New Wave or the Dogme95 movement.

Like many big - screen dramas about serious issues, the strengths of the film come primarily from the quality of the acting and the believability of the resolutions.

Mostly very serious, with that unmistakable «golden age» film music sensibility that just about lived on in 1960, it's a very strong score now given the kind of release it deserves for the first time.

It's tempting to attribute the leaden weight of cliché in Possession to some kind of wicked LaBute barb about the zombie - march of most modern romances, but I fear that the film is deadly serious in its Harlequin intentions.

Wahlberg recently spoke to MTV about the film, which is still in development, and continues to suggest that it's going to be pretty serious in tone, comparing it to a Scorsese classic.

However, «The Monuments Men,» also directed by Clooney, looks tonally very different from those relatively serious - minded political thrillers, with the rather fine trailer showcasing an unusually gentle, humorous tone for a film about World War II.

The film also sheds a lot of its comic wit in favour of a more sombre and serious tone that emerges almost out of nowhere followed by a simple and easy conclusion that seems formulaic in its message about speaking truthfully to find proper artistic rewards.

Xiu Xiu: The Sent - Down Girl hasn't always received the same critical respect as the»90s other major films about the Cultural Revolution, in part because it was harmfully assumed that director Joan Chen — who was and still is best known to the Western world for her playing Josie Packard in Twin Peaks — was not a «serious» artist whose work deserved to be considered in the same breath as that of Tian Zhuangzhuang (The Blue Kite) or Zhang Yimou (To Live).

He also mentioned «A film about a bunch of Black ladies that are solving pretty serious problems for the War Department.»

The couple is Jenn (Missy Peregrym) and Alex (Jeff Roop), and the film starts with them driving from the city to the countryside in a montage that establishes they are comfortable with each other — enough to have a little inside joke about a song he loves and she hates, moments of silence without feeling obligated to talk, and, in general, enough patience to last a lengthy road trip without getting into a serious fight over the little things.

One of the many great parts about living in Los Angeles is the wealth of repertory theaters offering an array of eclectic fare for serious film lovers.

There are serious things at work here, the film is funny but it's also about how selfish addictive people are and how much of an illness is and how it's dangerous to rely too much on nostalgia, that it might indicate that there's something wrong with your present.