Sentences with phrase «set against the movie»

Graham has much to say here, and it's entirely possible that it's simply too much when set against the movie's bright tone and light touch.

It seems I'm not the only one with a set against the movie... and book.

Not exact matches

The movie is just hard to watch, with so much ugliness and heartbreak set against the backdrop of Spielberg's saccharine, Disney-esque environment.

Imagine «Beyond the Black Rainbow» set against the pallid backdrop of «Mad Max: Fury Road» and you'll start to understand how this queasy little movie manages to keep us engaged for so much longer than it should.

It's no slight against Coralie Fargeat's vivid, vicious Revenge — a film that will set midnight movie devotees cheering for generations — that you've probably seen every scene in it before, in some form or another.

The only reason for setting the movie in 1969 is as a reaction against the personal and political liberation of the time.

The movie's release date has been set for March 8, 2013, which means it is currently going up against Neil Blomkamp's Elysium.

The movie, set in 8th - century Norway, follows alien warrior Kainan (Jim Caviezel) as he crash lands on Earth along with a fearsome creature known as the Moorwen, with the bulk of the storyline detailing Kainan's efforts at insinuating himself within a local Viking tribe and leading their subsequent charge against the aforementioned creature.

by Walter Chaw A painfully amateurish reworking of Play It to the Bone set against the turgid, redneck world of backyard wrestling, Robert Boris's Backyard Dogs is the kind of head - scratcher that makes filmmakers of folks who never realized that making a movie was this easy.

Post-apocalpse settings are all the rage in movies these days (see: certain portions of X-Men: Days of Future Past, the entirety of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, and so forth)- and one such upcoming film, which unfolds against the backdrop of a not so bright tomorrow, is Korean filmmaker Joon - ho Bong's Snowpiercer.

Whether she's staring the camera out, battling against fierce winds for a silent movie - ish set - piece, or jumping on an enemy's car in a rare show of anger, Vega brooks no doubt in her immersion, nor in her ability to sell every mood - swing without forcing her hand.

But with these two movies — one set against the backdrop of the movie biz, the other in the music scene — shooting last year back - to - back, we can only imagine the unbelievable stack of footage Malick's teams of editors are sorting through, as they cut half the cast out and help him find the movie and tone he wants.

Just as history is written by the victors, screenplays for Hollywood movies about inspirational, real - life stories set against the backdrop of seemingly unbearable adversity are almost exclusively written about the survivors.

Suzy, who alternates between immersion in young adult novels about magical orphans and violent outbursts against her parents and her schoolmates, carries the modern world (the movie is set in 1965) with her in the form of a portable record player and a single Françoise Hardy recording.

The film is based on a true story, and the tone of the movie is set right away as we watch footage from a cell phone camera of the policy brutality against the real life Grant and his friends by the Bay Area Rapid Transit officers.

Fox has pushed the new Fantastic Four movie back from March 6th to June 19th, 2015, where it will face - off against Disney / Pixar's new original project, Inside Out (a film set inside the mind of a young girl).

If Fox, Bryan Singer and Matthew Vaughn ever wanted to up the action ante and deliver what would one of the most ambitious action set pieces seen in a comic book movie, having the X-Men (the original trilogy's team and that of the First Class quasi-prequel) face off against an army of Sentinels would be the way to do it.

Matinée is a nostalgic, warm - hearted look back at a more innocent age, as a movie producer comes to a small town to promote his latest daft technology in the cinema, all set against the backdrop of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Set against the backdrop of the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, Matinee stars John Goodman (Arachnophobia / 10 Cloverfield Lane) as Lawrence Woolsey, a movie producer / promoter who is plugging his new movie Mant!

The 16x9 main menu sets an appropriate mood, with clips from the movie rotating against a white background while text from McCandless» journal is written on the screen.

A tale drawn in no small part from Potter's own life, the movie follows two young girls through a coming - of - age story set against the early»60s backdrop of nuclear disarmament protests and the Cuban missile crisis.

The movie, which is set for release on May 4, 2018, sees the heroes fight against Thanos who has come to Earth to recover the Infinity Stones.

The movie is set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1963.

Think of Red Dawn as taking place in a retrofitted 1961 — a time not long after the bloom had fallen off the Castro rose, when Uncle Joe was almost dead but not quite, and nothing was cooler than cleft - chin, movie - ready Presidents set up against the steadily - encroaching Hun.

The movie, a complex story set against the war on drug cartels, was directed by Denis Villeneuve and shot by 12 - time Oscar nominee Roger Deakins.

As this is both an adaptation and the opening chapter in a larger saga, there are many subplots, foreshadowings and other developments that the movie introduces but fails to explain or resolve - a detriment when set against the need for a film to tell a complete standalone story.

Setting the events to a ticking clock is a bit of a stroke of genius on screenwriter George Gatin «s behalf as this provides the perfect framework for a movie about fast cars driving fast that has little to offer outside of the temptation of increasingly sleeker, and more European, cars set against an Imogen Poots stripping down layers by the ten minute marker.

Set against the backdrop of the 2004 tsunami that devastated large portions of coastal southern Asia, The Impossible relates the ordeal of a family of Spanish survivors (changed in the movie to British tourists to increase the international appeal) as they struggle to be reunited in the catastrophe's aftermath.

For his romantic roundelay Trust the Man, a New York - set movie very much in the vein of Woody Allen, Edward Burns and early David O. Russell (see review here), writer - director Bart Freundlich did his best myna bird impression — «gathering stuff from my life that I thought was funny, about the way you relate to your wife and kids, or conversations with friends about the ways that they relate to those topics,» he explains by phone — and then shaping and pruning them down, grinding them up against the age - old pressures of temptation and fear of commitment.

But like father, like daughter: When the school bully pushes Maddy too far on the playground one day, she fights back with a few Bourne - worthy movies, setting off a chain reaction that leads the boy's humiliated, meth - head mother (Kate Bosworth) to sic her swamp kingpin brother Gator (James Franco) on Broker, who proves so invincible against all comers that it piques Gator's curiosity.

The movie is set in a small town on the border between Vermont, U.S.A. and Canada, with the super troopers facing off against a team of similarly goofy Canadian mounties after discovering that the town is actually on American soil.

Universal has set a May 20, 2016 release date for this comedy, which goes up against The Angry Birds Movie and The Nice Guys.

Diego Luna also went on to highlight the importance of the diverse cast in Rogue One, and the movie's choice to cast diverse actors in heroic roles that are set apart from the extremist, fascist government that they're fighting against.

The 16x9 main menu is a somewhat odd, choppy montage of clips from the movie, cut out and set against an artsy, animated background as the memorable theme plays.

by Jefferson Robbins If THE DISSOLVE had lasted, Keith Phipps's fine recurring genre feature «The Laser Age» might have gotten around to the SF subcategory of Nature Gone Wild — the movies that set animals against humanity, such as The Swarm, Night of the Lepus, Squirm, and Prophecy (The Monster Movie).

The actors are set against completely unconvincing green screen backdrops or walk in long helicopter shots through the snowy mountains (a tableau that will be overly familiar to anyone who's seen a fantasy epic in the last five years (the fact that most of the movie is shot in New Zealand makes the effect more apparent)-RRB-.

WHY: It's a shame that «Mustang» had to compete with Best Foreign Language juggernaut «Son of Saul» at this year's Academy Awards, because the Turkish drama (although it was technically France's official submission) is a beautiful but tragic movie about a group of free - spirited young women pushing back against the oppressive, misogynistic older generations set in their ways.

The result is either a wonderfully Expressionistic, abstract look at the nature of the rapidly emasculating man set against the road - trip atmosphere of the American 70s, or a sweet horror movie about man vs. truck, however you want to look at it!

Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan specializes in slow - burn narratives set against poetically desolate landscapes, but his movies always have a clear direction.

Though it's refreshing to see a movie set against the backdrop of segregated America that focuses more on the barrier - breaking achievements of its subjects than the atrocities of the period, it's not afraid to tackle serious themes like racism and sexism either.

It makes more sense to say Hong made a film in each of 2010,» 11, ’12 and» 13, and that those films should be ranked (if we're going to rank films) against the other films made that year (and set aside the fact that movies aren't always initially released the year they were made, for it's possible to go too far down the rabbit hole).

Expect Pixar's jubilant toe - tapper Coco to compete against the Angelina Jolie - produced, Afghanistan - set drama The Breadwinner, the animated Vincent van Gogh biopic Loving Vincent, a movie about a boss who is also a baby, and a movie about a Batman who is also a Lego.

But I'm sure you looked at the movie through a perfectly «objective» set of lens... Oh and resisting authority is completely patriotic unless it is against global warming, abortions, and affirmative action right?

Egerton goes through the job interview from hell, pitted against a bunch of Oxford and Cambridge Bond wannabes and thrown out of helicopters without a parachute, while Firth sets his attention to possible megalomaniac, Richmond Valentine (Samuel L. Jackson is literally the only actor that springs to mind when it comes to handling a bad guy in Vaughn's wackiest movie yet — the man is phenomenal here).

Indeed, movies and the wonder they inspire, «like seeing dreams in the middle of the day,» are central to the story, and Selznick expresses an obvious passion for cinema in ways both visual (successive pictures, set against black frames as if projected on a darkened screen, mimic slow zooms and dramatic cuts) and thematic (the convoluted plot involves director Georges Méliès, particularly his fanciful 1902 masterpiece, A Trip to the Moon.)

As a movie fan, I can't how many times I've seen a man or woman wronged by the villain before setting out to gain vengeance against the perpetrator, their friends, their family, their dog and anyone within a several mile radius.

The mostly male audiences have been attracted to the real - world settings, blockbuster action sequences that resemble those of big budget movies, and extensive online options that let them compete against other players via the Internet.

The Rise Against the Empire Play Set includes Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia in their Disney Infinity 3.0 representation, along with the Play Set piece that will take you through iconic moments in Star Wars Episodes IV - VI, featuring characters, vehicles and locations from the classic movies.

«A B - movie, with A-movie aspirations,» Mad Max is George Miller's cult classic dystopian action movie set against the striking Australian outback (The Guardian).

In her artworks, she pulled figures from movie posters, magazines, and advertisements, and set them against boldly colored painted backgrounds.