Sentences with phrase «than this film offers»

Those who celebrate Guy Fawkes or V for Vendetta often do so with a far more right - wing perspective than the film offered (Moore himself is an anarchist).

These are two very different things, and you'd have a difficult time finding a better look than this film offers.

Not exact matches

More than 5,000 fashion pros and groupies will visit the grounds, which offer plenty to see between shows, including film screenings and multiple galleries.

For most of the films that were offered in both two and three dimensions this summer, the enhanced versions accounted for less than 50 % of opening weekend revenues.

«It may be that film or technology products are aiming for more breakthrough products or are offering more complicated rewards (a completed movie or gadget, rather than a band t - shirt), and are thus at a higher risk of failure,» says Mollick.

The app offers more editing capabilities than Instagram, and each filter preset is designed to emulate the effect of an old - school film camera.

About Condé Nast Entertainment: Condé Nast Entertainment (CNE) is a division of Condé Nast that focuses on the development, production, and distribution of original television, feature film, and digital video offerings based on the company's iconic media brands, which for more than one hundred years have created the world's greatest content for the world's most influential audiences.

put evidence on film that he is fully recovered from his injury, increasing his value and setting him up for more offers next year than he received this year.

Rather than write this type of review, I wanted to offer my personal take on the film as a parent of a child with concussions and as concussion educator, and why I think parents should see Head Games.

New York offers more tax breaks than any other state and is home to 21 percent of film production, after California's 52 percent.

Granted, Vickie didn't have a lot to do in this film other than scream and be rescued by Batman, but still, she offered little presence or zest to the movie.

The film offers little more depth about the writer than his Wikipedia article and considerably less than one would get from reading the semi-autobiographical The Catcher in the Rye.

The inclusion of an absurd yet thoroughly captivating celebrity cameo, which essentially stands as a high point within the entire series, perpetuates Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb's better - than - expected third - act atmosphere, although, unfortunately, director Shawn Levy ensures that the film concludes with a whimper by offering up an excessively sappy final stretch that just goes on and on - with this underwhelming climax confirming the movie's place as an almost passable concluding entry in a seriously forgettable trilogy.

Reservoir Dogs: Bloody Days by Big Star Games is a third - person top - down shooter with few connections to Quentin Tarantino's film other than it being about gangsters with color - coded names; and yet Bloody Days partially succeeds in its aspiration to revive a classic for crime and gangster films, while offering a time - rewind mechanics that helps the game distinct itself from the pool of titles in the top - down shooter category.

Very Bad Things features a pretty terrific cast; while it features no real «big time» stars other than Cameron Diaz - who only achieved that status upon the release of Mary, which happened after this film was already done - it offers a very solid list of quality actors.

They ought to be a whole lot scarier than they are in this tepid genre offering from director Robert Harmon, whose debut film «The Hitcher» set a high bar for screen terror in the 1980s.

What matters to the player is that the game offers NONE TO LITTLE CHALLENGE and looks to film history more than it does to game history.

This is a good film that offers more than the usual amusement - park ride.

The film offers interesting characters, but raises more questions than it answers, leaving the film in a bit of a meandering spot.

Though infused with impressive bursts of style, Johannes Roberts» 47 Meters Down is, for the most part, a disappointingly generic offering that contains few elements designed to capture and sustain one's interest - with the film's less - than - captivating opening stretch, which establishes the somewhat one - dimensional protagonists, unable to cultivate the atmosphere of abject suspense that director Johannes Roberts is clearly striving for.

Though his action figured resembled a gorilla more than Joseph, the film got him unbelievable exposure and the offers started flooding in.

Rather than exhilaration, this bilious film offers only entrapment and despair.

Social progress could be enacted with greater ease in the 1860s than the 2010s, the film implies, because bribes were offered and accepted with greater directness and precision.

Romantic comedies don't usually offer lively soundfields, but this film's emphasis on music allowed it to open up more than expected.

Instead, this is closer to an art house film than a mainstream offering and the hue and cry from those expecting the summer's next big blockbuster will be loud indeed.

The final result is a hopelessly uneven endeavor that's good for a few laughs but little else, with the film's almost total absence of palpable scares cementing its place as a less - than - stellar horror offering.

Rather than make a standard biopic about the most famous First Lady in American history, this film centres on just a few days in her life to offer some telling insights not only into the...

A critical essay by Sandy Flitterman - Lewis is also included, offering deeper analysis of the films than Varda's deliberately open - ended discussions.

Working through an enormous canon of cinematic influences in a far more satisfying way than Carax's glib offering (Gomes» titular allusion to Murnau is no coincidence), Melbourne's resplendent Forum Theatre proved a fittingly grand venue for Gomes» expansive vision: this film is a joy to watch.

Although a bit slowly - paced, A Single Shot is a highly atmospheric and suspenseful movie, having more to offer than a simple action film.

If you pay attention, you can get a much better — dare - I - say — education than any film school could ever offer.

But, again, the film doesn't offer much more than a watered down version of the original, and it doesn't have the poignancy of that film, and probably won't until a cast member either achieves fame or OD's.

While many action films rely more heavily on their stunts than on their characters, «Faster» had the potential to offer a balanced mix of both.

Deceptively clever and possessing an innate understanding for the follies of human nature, the film is a romantic comedy that offers up more thoughtful questions than one with pre-conceived judgments may expect.

An extended cut of the film's previously - released trailer (see above) offers a better look at Hazel's daily life, via a talk with her parents - one that's rather different than the conversations most teens have with their mom and dad - as well as an extra moment or two between she and the young Augustus Waters (Elgort): a teen amputee and bone cancer survivor, whose thirst for life and upbeat personality make it all but impossible for Hazel to be immune to his charms (or so the trailer informs us, anyway).

Those like me accustomed to seeing the Indiana Jones films in the wonder of degraded pan-and-scan videocassettes should rejoice at the sight of these DVDs, which offer higher resolution and preserve the considerable frame width in anamorphic widescreen transfers nearer to 2.35:1 than the 2.20:1 aspect ratios widely cited.

Though it's evident that Marina comes from a different class than most of the film's other characters, A Fantastic Woman is withholding about her background and family — and this would be less of a problem if Lelio and co-screenwriter Gonzalo Maza offered her much in the way of motivation or aspirations.

The jury decision, he revealed, came only after some old - fashioned horse - trading: Bille August's «Pelle the Conqueror» won over Chris Menges» «A World Apart» in a 6 - 4 vote, but jury president Ettore Scola only got the «World Apart» supporters to stop arguing when he offered to not only give that film the Grand Jury Prize (second prize), but also let its lead actresses share the best - actress award, making it the only film to win more than one prize.

That's pretty prolific for someone who offers up quality work each and every time out, rather than coasting on simplicity like a few other hard - working film music composers out there.

Disneynature films never offer picture and sound any less than superb.

Despite a couple less than stellar offerings I have faith in Pixar — the lovely Oscar - nominated short film La Luna that is included in this set proves they can still achieve greatness.

But while director Oliver Hirschbiegel («DasExperiment») very effectively takes youdeep inside Nazi Germany's crumbling heart and brings many infamous momentsacutely to life, his film doesn't offer much in the way of new insight.The script is more of a textbook play - by - play than an examination of impulsesand psyches, and while the Hirschbiegel and his cast add those dimensionsthrough their fine work, it seems the only way he could invest the audiencein these events was by seeking out a sympathetic minor character — inthe person of Hitler's young secretary, Traudl Junge (Alexandra Maria Lara)-- and beef up her significance.

There is less detail and clarity than many Blu - rays offer, but it's important to remember that the film is 25 years old and had a production budget of just $ 6 million (to put the latter number into context, fellow 1986 Charlie Sheen movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off cost the same amount).

Ross offers something in his film adaptation of the novel that Collins, writing with Katniss's voice, never could: the experience of watching the Hunger Games, rather than being a contestant in them.

And any time spent thinking about how ridiculous what they're actually talking about is, is still more entertaining than some of the antics the supporting characters get up to, be it John Malkovich trying to kung fu a robot or a former Special Forces soldier complaining stress or all the running he was having to do, or dear God anything having to do with Sam's parents who offer nothing to the film but reminders why they shouldn't be in it.

If CRIMSON PEAK offered nothing more than the creepiest bathtub specter since THE SHINING, it would still qualify as a monstrously entertaining film.

This is one film that only relies on jump scares to scare you, and time and time again you find yourself more bored than enjoying yourself due to the fact that it is a poorly constructed horror film that doesn't offer anything remarkable for genre fans looking for something really interesting to watch.

Perhaps if the rest of the film would've continued such provocation there would be something to follow here, but despite an interesting cast, «Dark Crimes» offers very little more than a flat film weighed down by a sterile and melancholy aura.

That would be only slightly more silly than the actual storyline (hmm, a «Step Up» /» Pacific Rim» crossover — I offer this idea freely, noting that there is a promise of a third chapter at the end of the film).

These are the things that should have easily been figured out at the script stage before the film was handed over to a weaker director like Chadwick, who basically conveys the story as given to him and doesn't offer much more than that.