Sentences with phrase «smart film in the genre»

Not exact matches

del Toro said, «For the longest time, I've hoped to find an environment in which I can distribute, nurture and produce new voices in smart, inventive genre films and channel my own.

Developed separately from the Millar - penned comic on which it's loosely based, Vaughn's film improves on that version in just about every way, delivering a smarter (but no less absurd) take on Cold War - era spy movies that embraces as many genre conventions as it breaks.

Featuring the best work from Carrey and McGregor in years (and a reminder of Carrey's phenomenal and chameleonic talents when given the right material), a smart and witty script adapted by the directors from McVicker's novel, and a cracking pace that neither hurries nor languishes, it combines the highlights of the heist and escape genres with dashes of dark humour and irreverence to create a film best described as a wicked delight.

«One of the smartest and most terrifying films in years, the film reinvents the genre by putting a fresh twist on home - invasion horror.

6) «The Red Turtle» Smart Rating: 90.48 Release date: Friday, January 20, 2017 Genre: Adventure, animated Starring: Ryûnosuke Kamiki, Mone Kamishiraishi, Etsuko Ichihara Description: In this acclaimed animated film, a massive sea turtle destroys a stranded man's raft every time he tries to sail away from a tropical island.

But it's an objectionable turn of phrase, implying a certain intrinsically lowly or shameful status to genre film - making in itself: there are good horror movies and bad ones, smart horror movies and stupid ones, and the critical distinction seems clear enough without needing to delineate and elevate a separate subgenre on the basis of class and quality alone.

In a film culture where genre storytelling all too often boils down to the stock gimmicks used over and over again with special effects or high concept twists to hide the familiarity, this is so refreshingly old school smart that it feels almost new.

Now, that might mean a movie that's marginally less dopey than most mainstream films that deal with the occult, but in the days of this and Rosemary's Baby, etc., the emphasis was much more on smart than on genre.

Hollywood pro William Wellman directed more than 80 films in every genre over the course of four decades, but for my money, he was never more interesting than in the early sound era, where his energy and audacity powered over a dozen short, sharp, street - smart films filled with saucy sexiness and startling violence and mixed with varying measures of social commentary.

While this is an IFC release, this is not smart film making in the least, but it can be described as an innovative and peculiar way to represent the zombie genre, with loads of laughs and I - can't - believe - they - just - did - that moments.

One of the smartest and most terrifying films in years, YOU»RE NEXT reinvents the genre by putting a fresh twist on home - invasion horror.