Sentences with phrase «straight out of a film»

Stock characters abound: a predictably bitchy Hollywood producer, a prima donna host, a lovestruck straight out of film school camera boy, and uptight religious parents.

For what I presume was a relatively low - budget production I think it was beautifully shot; although there are a few shots that were straight out of film school and they come across as almost too artsy for this film.

The temples look like they are straight out of a film set and of course, they are, most notably the Ta Prohm temple where vines seep out of ancients walls and the jungle trees have taken over.

The Crystal Hall Ballroom, with a terrace and a century - old park surrounded by greenery and blooming flowers, offers a setting straight out of a film set.

Meanwhile LEGO Lord of the Rings expanded on that with a huge version of Middle - Earth to wander around in and dialogue ripped straight out of the film and used in the game.

The game's story follows the film's plotline very closely — so much so in fact that the game's cutscenes are all video sequences taken straight out of the film.

Straight out of a film - set, this witchy Beverly Hills home draws a lot of attention all - year round!

Not exact matches

This slick yacht looks like a supervillians hideout straight out of out of the next 007 film.

«You get to run through your favorite virtual mall department store, pick out everything you've ever dreamed of wearing, put it onto a queue, and it's going to come straight to you,» she says, citing the enviable closet of Cher Horowitz from the 1995 film Clueless.

Sometimes, films leak straight from the studios, which send out hundreds of pre-release DVD «screeners» to awards guilds, reviewers and other industry professionals; these can be used to create high - quality bootlegs.

Controlling electronic devices using your brain may sound like something straight out of a sci - fi film, but it's all in a day's work for Toronto's «little piece of techno - Neverland.»

Even Armando Iannucci, the writer of the political TV satire The Thick Of It, chipped in with a contribution that sounded straight out of the accompanying film In The Loop:» #nickcleggsfault Nick Clegg lived in same town as a seriously ill man and never visited him, though he knows he has a spare kidney.&raquof the political TV satire The Thick Of It, chipped in with a contribution that sounded straight out of the accompanying film In The Loop:» #nickcleggsfault Nick Clegg lived in same town as a seriously ill man and never visited him, though he knows he has a spare kidney.&raquOf It, chipped in with a contribution that sounded straight out of the accompanying film In The Loop:» #nickcleggsfault Nick Clegg lived in same town as a seriously ill man and never visited him, though he knows he has a spare kidney.&raquof the accompanying film In The Loop:» #nickcleggsfault Nick Clegg lived in same town as a seriously ill man and never visited him, though he knows he has a spare kidney.»

«The state's film tax credit job claims are a fiction straight out of the Hollywood productions they're forcing New York taxpayers to finance.

Empire State Development Takes Home Emmy Award for Best Corporate Welfare Reclaim New York Initiative offered the following statement in response to Empire State Development's shameless bragging about taxpayer - financed productions winning Emmy awards: «The state's film tax credit job claims are a fiction straight out of the Hollywood productions they're forcing New York taxpayers to finance.

In what seems like a plot straight out of a low - budget science - fiction film, scientists have revived a giant virus that was buried in Siberian ice for 30,000 years — and it is still infectious.

Kate Beckinsale, star of the new film Love & Friendship based on a Jane Austen novella, reads and reacts to Victorian - era dating advice with the help of a gentleman straight out of the 1800s.

Despite a reunion straight out of Lassie Come Home, a violent animated sequence, in which Beth sees her domesticated pet engaged in the dog eat dog world of the wilderness, exposes a gap that the film doesn't quite cover up.

So three cheers for Megamind for saving us from the dumbed - down, dopey, or straight - up boring animated children's films we've seen march in and out of theaters this year!

This film plays out like more of a drama / horror rather than a straight up horror flick and I really admired that change of pace.

Lets get one thing straight here, this isn't a bad animated film, not really, it just had the HUGE misfortune of coming out after «Madagascar».

This is beautiful film, and a terrible one: devastating to stick out, and yet one of the most remarkable romances ever made, for it takes The Movies» pursuit of love straight through to the very end, through its most profound expression of adoration.

The first seven film outings were sober and straight - faced; the eighth go - round (the first after a 38 - year lapse) does a 180 to shamelessly poke fun of the rules established by the genre.

Despite the best efforts of a game cast (and although it fares much, much better than its immediate predecessor), American Pie Presents The Book of Love primarily comes off as a typically low - rent and flat - out needless straight - to - video endeavor - with the pervasive lack of laughs ultimately exacerbating the film's myriad of problems.

Ayoade respectfully acknowledges his debt to Wes Anderson: The film's log line is straight out of Rushmore.

They're all having a blast, and Dave Franco comes further out of his brother's shadow as the film's straight man, even if the family resemblance is sometimes discombobulating from a dramatic standpoint.

Since «Step by Step» (1991), Jason has provided voices for numerous animated television shows and computer games, appeared in a straight - to - video film, been the voice of Kovu in The Lion King II: Simba's Pride (1998)(V), the voice of Haku in the American dub of Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001), starred in two TV films, and has made guest appearances on some of the most popular American sitcoms out there.

However, the film lacks a solid and straight - to - the - point conclusion, and instead gets glued to a vague ending that would make the writers look like they ran out of good - enough ideas.

With the introductions and bag - packing out of the way from the first film, the new movie jumps straight into the action and doesn't relent until the cliffhanger ending almost three hours later.

Without a proper counterweight, it might have sucked the energy out of the rest of the film, but with Thompson, Latifah, and Gyllenhaal providing the requisite spark, he can mine his exasperated straight - man routine for all it's worth.

He seems the sleekest of straight arrows — which in this film means look out.

A bit more suspense would have gone a long way here, and while director David Gelb, whose prior experience had been in the crowd - pleasing documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi, has turned in a slick - looking feature for one with such a small budget (reportedly, only $ 5 mil), it really can't compete with better films out there in terms of quality, while it's too straight - faced in execution to at least give us some choice b - movie thrills.

The colorful quasi-cel shaded art direction looks straight out of a Hayao Miyazaki film with possibly my favorite art direction of any Zelda since 2003's voyage with Toon Link.

Perhaps if the film played out more as a straight drama with a comical eccentric at its core, a la Reversal of Fortune, this material might have been better served.

And the scene that immediately follows is not even remotely funny — it's straight out of a war film.

Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers throws all of the wonderful character study out the window established in the previous film and just aims straight on for pure terror only, and ultimately misses its mark.

Definitely one of my favourite films so far this year, and sufficiently enjoyable to go out and buy the book straight away.

One of the film's earliest shots even feels like it's ripped straight out of Akira Kurosawa's Dreams, a film in which Scorsese himself performed, evoking authenticity from cinematic history and actual history in even measure.

That scene seems straight out of a 70s creature feature rather than a Steven Spielberg film.

Neil Gaiman, destroyer of dreams, wants to set the record straight for any fans out there who thought his praise of Hiddleston's cheekbones meant the British actor was definitively cast to play Morpheus in the film adaptation of The Sandman.

The unlikable but fascinating characters of Baumbach's films could've come straight out of the pages of Franzen's satirical drama, and vice versa.

It would also be nice to see Whedon tackle a straight - up horror film, since «Cabin in the Woods» (which he co-wrote and produced) sometimes felt more like a heady thesis project than an actual scare - the - shit - out - of - you chiller.

Straight out of the ongoing American Film Market, Bloody Disgusting has a look at sales art from the film starring Paul Ben - Victor, Lainie Kazan, Chelsea Ricketts, John Robinson, and Diane Franklin.

Belonging to the drama, comedy and adventure genre, the film opened to generally positive reviews with praises for its out of the box storyline which has been crafted straight from the animal's perspective and not on how we imagine them to be.

This is the second Carnahan scripted film this year to tackle the tough questions emanating out of the Middle East conflict, coming out shortly after his more straight - forward film, The Kingdom.

Once she's in class, and John hands her a blonde wig straight out of a Wong Kar - wai film and has her pick a new «American» name out of a hat like so many Asians navigating the English - language world before her, the mute and guarded Setsuko discovers she likes being «Lucy,» who can go places and do things her real - life counterpart never could.

Russell attempts a campy exuberance that's brave but brutally out - of - place in a film full of amateurs playing it straight (and Prestons playing it vacuous), leaving the only joy of the piece a soundtrack full of teenyboppers covering all those moldy - oldies from the New Wave (Talking Heads, Til Tuesday, The Cars, The Fixx)»80s.

Downsizing, the new film from Sideways and Nebraska director Alexander Payne, hinges on a premise straight out of a»50s B - movie: What if there was a way to shrink people down to miniature size?

The grainy colors and film footage looks very much straight out of that time period.

(For a film not considered a musical, there are plenty of musical numbers sprinkled through the film, some serious, some straight - out spoofs.)

Ignoring the 20 years that have elapsed since the tragic passing of N.W.A founder Eazy - E the occasion might not seem auspicious, but for anyone who has been keeping track they would hardly describe the film's release as straight out of nowhere.