Sentences with phrase «sophomore effort would make»

The message was clear: Hollywood was listening, and the industry was anxious to see if the duo's sophomore effort would make or break them.

Not exact matches

Sightseers, his latest offering coming close on the heels of Kill List, has more in common with that first film than with his sophomore effort, returning to the sort of wildly juxtaposed humour with which he made his initial impact.

Six years on, Granik looks to have repeated the feat with her sophomore effort, but has made a better film in the process.

Movie review: Deadpool 2 Ryan Reynolds still has the magical combination of charm and smarm that makes Deadpool unique in the superhero universe, but this highly self - aware sophomore effort feels like being at a party where everyone is taking selfies.

But those in the know have been keeping tabs on Nichols since his breakout sophomore effort, the provocative apocalypse tale Take Shelter, and over these three films (also including his debut, Shotgun Stories, and the moderately successful and excellent Mud), he has established himself as a strong Southern voice on the independent scene, the sort of director who makes you sit up and take notice whenever he announces a new project.

Bill Pohlad, a producer who has overseen such films as Brokeback Mountain, Into the Wild, Tree of Life, and 12 Years a Slave, as well as the musically inclined biopic The Runaways, makes his directorial debut (technically a sophomore effort as his original debut was canned in the early 1990s) with a biopic of The Beach Boys» Brian Wilson that, while not a perfect film, is an interesting and sometimes illuminating portrait of an artist as a young and older man.