Sentences with phrase «subplot featuring»

TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL: An enjoyable dramedy that also puts forward the rare romantic subplot featuring actors not in their 20's or 30's, The Meddler has something a bit unique to offer the marketplace.

They're both under pressure to deliver stories to their respective news services, but instead of spending some time examining how they build a friendship that can withstand the reality of their work, we get a romantic subplot featuring Martin Freeman as a war photographer.

The subplot featuring Robert Downey Jr. and Patricia Clarkson as secretly married CBS employees (such alliances were against the network's rules) seems shoehorned in.

The picture sputters when its leads aren't onscreen — the subplot featuring T.I. and Genesis Rodriguez is feeble — but such downtime is infrequent enough that momentum is never entirely lost.

Not exact matches

In 2001, music categorized as ccm accounted for more than $ 1 billion in sales — up 12 percent in a year when the recording industry as a whole took a downturn, Newsweek ran a cover story on «Jesus Rock» and HBO's The Sopranos featured a humorous subplot about the mob family trying to get in on the action.

The movie is dense with cameos by sports figures, such as broadcaster Roy Firestone, Dallas quarterback Troy Aikman and Bengals running back Ki - Jana Carter, and features a tangy subplot surrounding 1995's No. 1 NFL draft pick.

The movie, which marks the feature debut of writer - director Kate Barker - Froyland, has the low - key appeal of «Once,» with its extended scenes of music and drama - free romantic subplot.

This strand features a number of sepia - toned flashbacks that tell the backstory of Eddie and Tanya's relationship from their university days to the present, as well as a subplot tracing Eddie's relationship with a childhood friend (and potential lover) Amanda (Sarah Wynter), who he sees, by chance, every nine - and - a-half years.

James Tynion IV has done remarkable work crafting compelling drama around the Bat - family with his Detective Comics run, taking cues from the Chris Claremont school of superhero storytelling to build a dense narrative featuring a big cast of characters, each with their own subplots.

(It's been rumored that some of these photo sessions, notably one involving a woman disfigured in an auto accident, represent subplots Leigh eliminated when the story started getting too long and unwieldy; another photo session features Alison Steadman, Leigh's recently divorced wife of many years, who starred in many of his previous pictures.)

The film features a swimming subplot that involves Hawkins doing some major underwater action to rescue Paddington.

«Ted 2» features another subplot in which Donny (Giovanni Ribisi), the creepy dad from the original «Ted,» tries to kidnap the bear at New York Comic - Con to present him to the head of Hasbro (John Carroll Lynch) as the basis for mass production.

Spanning five seasons and several made - for - TV movies from 1993 through 1998, it told a single epic narrative featuring a host of characters and their several interweaving subplots.

Under special features, find ten imminently disposable deleted scenes, including an alternate opening that introduces an elided subplot revolving around a group of art dealers who scope out David Wark on Madeleine's behalf.

The Blu - ray looks superb, as a digital production of this magnitude should, and presents the R - rated «Ultimate Edition» features 30 minutes of additional footage not included in the original theatrical version and the extra scenes fill in subplots and supporting characters cut from the two - and - a-half hour theatrical version.

Sadly, we still do not get anything featuring Chris Cooper, whose character and subplot wound up being cut from the film.

The film, said to be in the vein of «Pulp Fiction», features a subplot about the Manson murders, with Margot Robbie set to play Sharon Tate.

Many of the subplots, especially those not featuring main characters, were underwhelming.

X-Men director Bryan Singer has promised that the «Rogue Cut» offers fans a «different experience» to the film they saw in cinemas last year, with 17 minutes of unseen footage featuring a subplot involving Anna Paquin's character Rogue.

There is also a major romantic subplot that almost feels like it wandered in from another movie, featuring singer Nicki Minaj, who steals every scene as Draya, a buxom stylist trying to tempt Calvin's friend Rashad (Common) away from his hard - working wife, Terri (the singularly named Eve).

The film starts off clumsily, a scene in a music shop where Richard (Efron) meets Gretta (Zoe Kazan) features stilted dialogue and an uncomfortably obvious telegraphing of a romantic subplot (though it would turn out to be more of a structural hallmark).

Army of One's romantic subplot illustrates why King of Comedy was better off not being weighed down by a half hour of scenes featuring Rupert Pupkin's arbitrary love interest (played by, I du n no, Maria Conchita Alonso) about how, as a woman of a certain age who's been banged around by life a bit, she's lucky to have a good - hearted, if someone eccentric ambitious young show business striver like Pupkin in her life.

The film also features a surprising number of intriguing subplots, including a love triangle involving Nat, Joanna and Cotton; Ayyash and his mother's (Natasha Gordon) becoming homeless, Nat's neglected granddaughter (Melanie Freeman) craving quality time with her grampa, and Ayyash's antagonizing a vengeful drug dealer (Ian Hart).

(Untitled) features a romantic subplot that's distracting and predictable, but watching Goldberg maintain composure alongside absurd (and absurdly rich) artists, especially a hustler played by the Vinnie Jones, will ring true throughout any metropolitan art scene.

The film also features a couple of cute subplots, one involving a nosy zookeeper (Clark Gregg) determined to rescue the penguins, the other, about an owner (Angela Lansbury) reluctant to sell Popper the Tavern on the Green restaurant.

The screenplay is slapstick - heavy, with subplots that feel like fillers just to get the thin concept to a feature - length.

That's never truer than in the final batch of episodes featuring Bill Paxton as a traitorous S.H.I.E.L.D. agent working for Hydra — a subplot that was introduced concurrently with the theatrical release of «Captain America: The Winter Soldier.»

The subplot of the end of her parents» marriage also resolves itself more - or-less halfway through — there's a terrific short film in here somewhere, but it's hardly feature material.

Whiplash is only the second feature film by director Damien Chazelle, and therefore isn't perfectly polished with a few odd moments and a weak subplot involving a girl Andrew is pursuing.

Sure, there is this «who is Carl's father» subplot and the government are always getting that little bit closer to catching these guys, but that feels shoved in the background more than an active feature of the movie.

And for some rather inexplicable reason Amanda Seyfried features in a subplot that complicates the already feverish plot.

In place of Begin Again's insufferably starry - eyed music - industry idealism (where the big innovation that gets record producer Mark Ruffalo jazzed up is selling an album for a pittance and spending nothing on promotion), Sing Street features characters who don't really know what they're doing, to results both hilarious — check out their music video costuming — and poignant, as with Jack Reynor's older - brother subplot.

Atmospherically shot to perfectly mimic nineteenth - century Paris and featuring a subplot about two feuding ballet dancers, this is an exquisite production.

Midwest Book Review's MBR Bookwatch features a fantastic review of Saving Grace in its February 2013 issue: ``... an exciting tale that combines twisting investigative and legal subplots with a character seeking redemption... an exhilarating mystery with a touch of voodoo.»

Featuring strategic real - time combat, the remastered title also keeps the original deep Item Creation System and Private Action system that explores character relationships and subplots for a richer and more rewarding story, and Blindside battle system, which fuses evasion and offense.

Gameplay comes down to exploration of a virtual city and completing a string of story missions, featuring many subplots.