Sentences with phrase «spirit of those films here»

While I wasn't much of a fan of Young Detective Dee, the first film and Flying Swords Of Dragon Gate were substantial hits in my book and Tsui certainly recaptures the energy and spirit of those films here.

Not exact matches

But to complain that nothing much happens here or ponder the film's curiously tame view of university life (Rodney Dangerfield would most definitely get no respect here) is to miss the point of the movie, which is to serve as a vehicle for McCarthy, spotlighting her warm, screwball spirit and irrepressible physical comedy.

Among the familiar faces that pop up here, sometimes in multiple roles, are Udo Kier, Mathieu Amalric, Caroline Dhavernas, Geraldine Chaplin, Maria de Mederios and the divine Charlotte Rampling, an actress whose entire career has been dedicated to the kind of risk - taking spirit that this film celebrates in every single scene.

Anderson — who's become even more of an actors» director in his last few films than he was already — is at the peak of his powers here, ironically but appropriately directing «Vice» in such a way that phrases like «peak of his powers» (and other language connoting masculine swagger or preening mastery) seem contrary to the spirit of the thing.

Splitting the difference, the Brenners seek out Elise, first seen here as a widow who's turned her back on the spirit world after venturing there in search of her late husband and bringing back some unwanted ghostly baggage on the return (a revelation that directly ties the new film to its predecessors).

One of the main problems here is that the film lacks any striking focal point — there's evil evident, right enough, but when the only form it takes is a levitating oinker, a self - jamming door and an imaginary kiddie called «Jody», it's pretty difficult to enter into the spirit of things.

I usually write short film reviews but in the spirit of stretching things (and attention spans) beyond breaking point, here are my thoughts on the third and final Hobbit movie.

I don't think it's the greatest of the 25 titles listed here, but it's an inarguably fine film that embodies the restless spirit of mid-1990s Britain from its whip - smart dialogue to its mega-selling soundtrack: its lightning - in - a-bottle blend of thrilling cinema and social document assures immortality.

What the director has kept is the earthy and ethereal treatment of redheads, here former 007 beauty Olga Kurylenko, who like Jessica Chastain before her, gets the chance to both soar and suffer (the shadowy yin to the free - spirited yang) over the course of the films run - time.

Fellini stood here at the dividing point between the neorealism of his earlier films (like «La Strada») and the carnival visuals of his extravagant later ones («Juliet of the Spirits,» «Amarcord»).

Lucas is credited here as an exec producer and as the writer of the film's story, which follows the romantic misadventures of two tiny, spirited princesses in the magical Fairy Kingdom: pointy - eared, purple - winged Marianne (voiced by Evan Rachel Wood) and her younger sister, Dawn (Meredith Anne Bull).

Here's the latest official movie poster for the upcoming action film «Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance» aka Ghost Rider 2 by directors Mark Neveldine (Crank: High Voltage, Crank, Gamer) and Brian Taylor and starring Nicolas Cage (Drive Angry 3D, Trespass, The Croods), Violante Placido (The American, Sleepless), Idris Elba (Thor, The Big C), Ciaran Hinds (Above Suspicion: Deadly Intent, The Woman in Black) and Christopher Lambert (The Chauffeur, Highlander).

Marking his feature film debut, We Are Still Here is a ghostly tale of vengeful spirits and dark secrets, all of which are wrapped up in a lonely old home buried under a blanket of snow.

Here are some really cool animated action sequences from the upcoming film «Ghost Rider: Spirit of...

Not only did it not break records here, but the film never expanded beyond 202 theaters and did not even gross $ 5 million, ending up with less than half of what Spirited did.

Here's a list of some of our favorite frightening films to get you into the Halloween spirit.

Rawson Marshall Thurber, responsible for Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, was tasked to direct this film and also unfortunately this feels nothing like the spirited, «we're screwed but we're going to still enjoy the moment anyway» brand of humor that washed over Dodgeball «s cliched storyline; the direction here feels hesitant, unsure and quite frankly amateurish.

To have Dunaway here on Opening Night will be a spectacular moment for Dallas, and to have Paxton here in spirit, was a must to anyone that knows anything about this film festival's history and the people that are a part of it.»

It's important to note, however, two major differences in the awards shows» best picture eligibility: to qualify for the Spirit Awards a film must have a budget of under 20 million dollars, and unlike the Academy Awards, here films without a theatrical release which have screened at a handful of the most prestigious festivals are eligible.

Here, we talk about the spirit of easy collaboration in New York of the 1970s and»80s, how the original film resonates with today's plugged - in audiences, and the analogy between games of chance and life...

By bringing the symbolic ceremony to Reconciliation Place, Canberra, the spirit of Big Bill Neidjie will also be symbolically released here, where the film of the Old Man's final mourning ceremony is in safe keeping at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.