Sentences with phrase «serious film like»

Even in a deathly serious film like Shame, Michael Fassbender always looks like he could break into a cocky smirk at a moment's notice.

The Robert Downey Jr. persona would find it difficult to get away with weighty, profound statements (in an «entertainment,» anyway — a more serious film like «Zodiac» is another matter).

Director Török is well known in Hungarian film circles, though you might not guess he would direct a serious film like this given his 2001 «Moscow Square,» about high school kids who don't give a hoot about Hungarian politics as they are into parties, girls, and graduation.

Silly and therefore a step back from his serious films like Drug War or Election!)

Not exact matches

I mean I know you love it and soak it up, but have you ever, like, wanted to go out and make, like, a super serious film and branch out a little bit?

If there were still serious arguments and reputable scientists that challenge anthropogenic global warming, surely film - makers like Durkin would have found and presented them?

«The Shape of Things» marks the last good film LaBute has made (for whatever reason he moves on to goofy Hollywood thrillers like «The Wicker Man» and «Lakeview Terrace» and the embarrassing «Death at a Funeral» remake - one would think those films were from a totally different human all together; my bet is he became a drug addict because no one looses such talent so quickly) but this wonderful, tricky and rewarding series of films is well worth your serious time and attention.

What I learned from the unambitious, snore inducing and hardly original film, is to always expect the unexpected, to always be prepared, and that usually goofy disaster pics (like Zombieland - 2009) are more fun watches than the ones that try to be so serious.

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

The sweetness of the first stories seems now entirely gone, with this one adopting a much more serious tone, and Yates manages to condense the longest (and weakest) book into a decent film even if it feels more like a transition chapter between the fourth and sixth chapters.

Knaggs» career reached a peak in the mid -»40s, when he worked in supporting roles in ambitious major studio films such as None but the Lonely Heart (a fascinating but failed attempt at a serious drama by Cary Grant) and unusual independently made features like Douglas Sirk's early Hollywood effort Thieves» Holiday, while also making the rounds of such popular medium - budget Universal Pictures productions as House of Dracula, The Invisible Man's Revenge, and Terror By Night.

Cake starts off like an edgy indie film and wraps up like one of the more serious episodes of Friends.

When the discussion gets deep and serious, however, on the extent of Hepburn's stone - like character, the verbiage is necessarily highly abstract and the film slows to a toddle.

Into this season of the Serious Movie, when every other film seems to speak to the troubled times in which we actually live, the fact - based, yet farcical «The Disaster Artist» blows like a fresh breeze, throwing open a window through which we may escape, briefly, from ugly reality.

Braff's attitude on religion remains unclear by the end of the film, with the film initially seeming as critical as something like The Coen Bros A SERIOUS MAN, although he backs off later on.

It's little transgressions like these that keep Spielberg from making a 100 percent successful «serious» film.

If Verhoeven's intention was to make a satire of Las Vegas as a place of exploitation and hypocrisy then his film is brilliant, but it does feel like he is trying to make something serious, which makes its hilarious campy vibe come off as trashy and completely unintentional.

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.

I do like serious, dark films, but when it comes to the Snow White legend, I was hoping for something more in the middle ground that both films missed.

Lastly, the vampire genre has hit mainstream audiences with cheesy teenage romance films like Twilight, making vampire based films hard to take serious.

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

Just like «Mud,» however, «Joe» has some serious pacing issues — not because it's a slow burn, but because it's easily 20 minutes too long — and that ultimately hinders the film from being as great as it could have been.

Also starring William H. Macy and Joan Allen the film looks like it should elicit some serious emotion.

But from the third film (2004's «Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban») onward, the series - like the books - has become ever more mature, serious and downright dark.

This film is so more serious and relatable than his previous ones, and I'm not sure how I like it.

Later on, he made films on serious issues like the Holocaust, terrorism, war and human rights.

It's insanely awful, but the film plays it serious, so that it feels like something you'd find in a Tommy Wiseau film.

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.

This film is meant for those who like horror in serious doses.

No cast yet (and good luck strying ot out Stockard / Olivia / John) but it's aiming for 2015 Serious Film my friend Michael liked Match, the Tribeca film starring Patrick Stewart I reviewed yesterday, a helluva lot more than me so it's worth sharing an opposing opinion First Showing footage from Russell Crowe's directorial debut, The Water Diviner Empire the WB triples down on director Zach Snyder giving in both the Man of Steel sequel and the Justice League movie (but why?

Amidst those early signs of viewer interest (Blade), franchise launches (X-Men), moments of director / source material synergy (Raimi's Spider - Man) and 18 or so MCU films, Deadpool is recognizable as a triumph of perseverance and (baby) hand - in - glove casting, as well as proof that R - rated superheroing is viable at the box office (which in turn smoothed the way for more serious takes like Logan).

The teaser trailer certainly makes the film look like an embarrassment of riches, with the entire cast seemingly having the time (and hairstyles) of their lives, and if anyone can walk the fine line between serious drama and screwball comedy, and deliver something that audiences and critics alike will love, it's Russell.

I could understand someone using the pseudo intellectual line on Michael Haneke's films, like The White Ribbon (even though I liked that one too), but I don't see that applying to A Serious Man.

A wonderful actor, we loved him in films like «Hugo «and «A Serious Man `.

Between Steven Spielberg's reverential directing and Daniel Day Lewis» amazing performance, the film felt like a loving tribute to Abraham Lincoln, the most exciting history lesson ever and a serious award contender in every year - end category.

The film, like the family, doesn't take Grandpa or the subject matter serious enough.

Disturbing and brilliant as it is for drawing the audience into Bickle's head, a film like Taxi Driver still exists safely within the realm of serious drama.

You might have noticed that indie horror is having a moment, with recent films like The Witch, It Follows, The Babadook and Goodnight Mommy pointing towards a growing trend in more serious, mood - driven storytelling which doesn't rely on cheap scares and lazy cliche to get its message across.

Jennifer Lawrence in a serious movie is starting to feel like an automatic nomination (she's getting that Meryl Streep nomination thing going), but will enough Academy fogies sit through one of Aronofsky's dark and dirty cautionary tales to make the film itself a player?

Visual foreshadowing for tragic narrative turns are so pointed in this film that more often then not, it feels like a calculated articulation of what a serious prestige picture should like instead of an organic and rewarding drama.

Finally, those 4 Oscars for the Matrix seem like a lifetime ago, and none of their other films have really gotten serious Oscar contention.

Like Haneke's film, The Wild Pear Tree represents a serious attempt to grapple with the difficult issues of the day, and like it, The Wild Pear Tree demands that we meet the film on its terms, rather than making any compromise with our lazier viewing habLike Haneke's film, The Wild Pear Tree represents a serious attempt to grapple with the difficult issues of the day, and like it, The Wild Pear Tree demands that we meet the film on its terms, rather than making any compromise with our lazier viewing hablike it, The Wild Pear Tree demands that we meet the film on its terms, rather than making any compromise with our lazier viewing habits.

Although this isn't a serious film, it bounces off serious coming - of - age issues (like losing your virginity, the perfect analog to the vampire mythos) in ways that make sense and add to the gathering doom that ties all the tautly - paced, beautifully - staged set - pieces together.

Despite being more aesthetically pleasing than Michael Bay's garishly executed Pearl Harbour, Nolan's big film in service of a small story has more in common with that much - maligned war pic than more serious minded award season contenders of past years like Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan, Peter Weir's Gallipoli or Terence Malick's The Thin Red Line.

Although Vikander has spent the majority of her acting career so far appearing in «serious» films like 2015's The Danish Girl, for which she won her Oscar, she carries with her from childhood an affection for the cinematic tradition Tomb Raider taps into.

But if Buena Vista's idea of audience - drawing films are projects like The Other Sister, the Mouse is in serious trouble.

We'll have a much clearer idea of how serious a candidate the film is in the next few months, but for now it looks like Tom Hooper is back in a very big way.

If you're serious about horror films, you'll be bored out of your mind, and if you're the kind of idiot who likes this sort of thing, you're not reading this, anyway.

In this case, A Serious Man actually does feel a little bit like their last film Burn After Reading in that it's something of a dark comedy.