Sentences with phrase «story type film»

I am not usually one to gush about a romance love story type film.

Not exact matches

And it's heartening to find that Doctor Strange is the type of film that invites practical story interpretation for Christ - followers, in that it invites a challenge to the worldview that this earth is all that matters.

The movies are a spinoff of the Harry Potter novels and films, and stars Eddie Redmayne as a man named Newt Scamander, who unleashes all types of magical mischief into the world, 70 years before the story of Harry Potter begins.

So well - paced, well - executed, and helming one of the most needed stories in such a long time, «Detachment» is the type of film that is right up my alley.

However it just plays more like an extended episode and not really the type of story line the fans want to see in an X files film.

The film's digitally enhanced visuals recall Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, sporting the kind of mid-to-upper range, highly respectable cast that has become de rigeur for this type of story — Emma Thompson standing in for Meryl Streep, Will Ferrell for Jim Carrey.

This is the type of film that relies on clichés to create an interesting story.

Flanagan's horror is full - blooded once it does take hold, but Before I Wake's story elevates it above other films of this type.

With both actors performing against type — Jonah Hill in particular is known for melodramatic roles in «The Wolf of Wall Street,» about a financial tycoon, and «Moneyball,» about the use of technology in baseball — «True Story» is a gripping, fascinating film, a psychological thriller without the melodrama we associate with highly commercial works.

Fredrik Edfeldt's feature debut is the type of film I long for and rarely get: a beautifully shot film which captures as much emotion and story from silence as it does from any dialogue.

Juliet is supposedly in Guernsey to write a story about the Society for The Times of London, which seems an odd prospect all - round, but this isn't the type of film which is supposed to stand up to much logic.

Muller is particularly illuminating when discussing Otto Preminger's formal inventiveness — his long, subtle takes, his ability to create compositions that essentially edit the film within the camera — and the various noir «types» that inhabit the narrative, such as the «bad cop» or the sickly neighbor who, in Muller's words, is often «waiting around to be a plot point in a crime story.»

Apparently this film is «inspired by the life stories» of two brothers who consider themselves «party creators» at these types of family functions.

It isn't a good film by any conventional stretch, but doesn't disappoint because, given the type of story that it is, it could have been far worse.

Table 19 may be a bit too slow for some people to appreciate this type of film, but the amazing ensemble cast and great writing amplifies the amazing art of storytelling, reaffirming that there are interesting and unique stories out there that don't involve super heroes, or the next big Hollywood trend.

It feels appropriate for the type of story the film is telling.

He's accumulated fans and critical plaudits with each of the films he's written and directed to date — «Shotgun Stories» (2007), «Take Shelter» (2011), «Mud» (2012)-- each of them calling upon the formidable presence of Nichols» towering thespian totem Michael Shannon; each of them set in the American south and paying close attention to the area's natural landscapes; each of them dealing with masculinity in the context of father - son relationships of biological and non-biological types.

Every sub-genre of film, every specific type of story that falls into a much broader category, has to have itself shaken up every once in a while.

The film is shot wholly inside the interior of Ivan's car and takes place in one night (as these types of stories do).

The film has so many stories it wants to tell that each one is perhaps understandably underdeveloped, relying on familiar types and star power to give them power.

Synopsis: Screen legends Gregory Peck (On the Beach) and Richard Widmark (Road House) co-star in this brilliantly cast western epic featuring an unusually fine story and magnificent direction by the great William Wellman (The Ox - Bow Incident)-- unleashing dramatic power seldom found in this type of film.

Edward's novel provides the film with its dark soul, the story of Tony Hastings (also played by Jake Gyllenhaal) and his wife Laura (Isla Fisher) & daughter India (Elle Bamber), who run into trouble when traveling through some back country Texas roads late at night, you know the type they make movies about how not to ever drive down.

While the love story may be superficial and comedic, there are some deeper and more intricate characters included than those usually found in this type of film.

Obviously the specific degree to which setting informs a film depends on the movie, but how much of your reaction to the script was maybe based on the feeling that this could be a chocolate - and - peanut - butter type of fit, that [a vampire] story told in Las Vegas could be interesting?

The film presents two novelists, one (Medeiros) returning from Japan with an adventure story she has not completed, the other (Laszlo Kovacs) in Japan, shown typing his next novel, and who apparently protected her during her stay and helped her fly back to France (she had become entangled in the theft of confidential documents and was kept captive, then chased by hoodlums after her escape).

Since the budget here was considerably lower than most films of this type, Ross draws outside the lines by making this story in the absurd world of Panem seem taken from the very reality shows that they hold so dear.

«Participant has rapidly expanded both the size and the scope of our film and television content slates, and we are fortunate to have such an immensely capable team to lay the foundation that allows us to tell impactful stories across all types of media.

It is a very cool story with a very hilarious Borat - Ozzy type character... this is just a great movie and since it's a comedy but achieves so much more... maybe it should win best film awards... I feel excited for the cast but also for the original the room cast... I hope somethings good comes to them other than just Greg and Tommy...

The film unfolds over one afternoon, and the story has the dark, elegant efficiency of a fable — the old and scary type.

From the producers of the Harry Potter films, but much darker, the story centers around a socially disconnected girl named Barbara Thorson (Madison Wolfe) who lives half in reality and half in a fantasy type world where she battles giants.

While such earlier films of the type as We're Not Married and O.Henry's Full House, both from 1952, and which I wrote about in US # 34 and US # 40, respectively, tells each story successively, Allen intercuts between all four.

These are not Hollywood type films, but all have heart, soul, a wonderful story and amazing characters.

It's a type of story that's been told before, but Saulnier makes the crucial decision not to turn Blue Ruin into an out - and - out farce about criminal incompetence; instead, the film's hero is occasionally resourceful, occasionally inept, and at all times out of his depth.

In fact the film never makes up its mind about Peter's destiny, as so much seems chance, but it feels like at one point this was way more of a Joseph Campbell / Hero's Journey - type story than it ended up.

With an awareness that the story of the film is just as interesting (probably more so) that the film itself, the trailer utilizes lengthy explanatory titles explaining the context, lists the main casts members by the type of injuries they received and also introduces one of 2015's best taglines via «no animals were harmed... 70 members of cast and crew were.»

His last two films, 2013's Exit Elena and this year's Soft in the Head, are both brisk sprints of familial and social dysfunction, but one gets the sense that these types of stories are happening all over, and with his next film, Uncertain Terms, already slated to premiere at this year's Los Angeles Film Festival, it's clear Silver is anxious to tell them.

No more details need be provided, just know that the story and the people are twisted and demented, and the violence and sexuality are the type that make a film tough to watch at times.

The film is open to the type of criticism that Terrence Malick routinely receives (you know the one about glorious cinematography and paper - thin story).

Doremus» previous film, «Spooner,» was an overly precious, thinly imagined mumblecore - type love story centered around a guy, played by Matthew Lillard, whose life has basically failed to launch, personally and professionally.

Let's face it, the guy had been using a lot the same actors, the same visual style, the same sense of humour and the same types of stories for the past 4 films.

Although a true story the film plays out as one big cliché with the characters playing to a general type instead of any with individual merit, this unfortunately overshadows any room there might have been for character development.

Tarzan harkened back to the type of films Disney made in the early»90s which mixed a variety of genres and story elements to create something distinctly Disney.

This is the type of film where the performances stand out overall, compared to the story itself.

The film will continue the story of Clary Fray (Lily Collins), who learns in City Of Bones that she's a Shadowhunter who can see and fight demons and is introduced to a whole new world of monsters, werewolves and other supernatural types she never knew existed.

Phantom Thread, as its writer - director made clear in comments after the film was shown to industry types in New York on November 26, is Anderson's idea of a love story.

Challenge your students to think of a book, film or play that doesn't fit one of these seven story types.

Louis Zamperini's story is the type of sweeping saga that practically begs for a film adaptation — as Hillenbrand told us herself in an interview, «So much of his life is spectacular — his races, air combat, a plane crash, his time on the raft — and would translate beautifully to film.»

Whether through stories envisioned and developed simultaneously for books, audio and film or using technology to create new types of narratives.

Hubbard / Birchler introduce this decaying, skeletal, three - sided facade as a main character in their story, which also depicts a film crew documenting its current - day condition alongside images of a 1955 Warner Brothers secretary as she types the location contract for the yet - to - be-created, soon - to - be-iconic Hollywood motion picture.

Williams usually pairs an image of a model, say, or a dishwasher or a stack of Ritter chocolate bars, with a lengthy title delineating the picture's back story, from the objects depicted to the place they were photographed to the type of film stock used.