Sentences with phrase «vein of films like»

Not exact matches

The film looks true much like The Hurt Locker but the story is much more in the vein of Americana.

George A. Romero mined this vein of terror in nearly all of his films, but the thematic undercurrent of an enemy that looks exactly like your friend has arguably never been more well - mined for horror as it is in «The Thing.»

Reiner is charming, Marshall endearing, and while most probably have never heard of it, it is definitely worth seeking out for fans who like awkward friendship films in the Annie Hall and When Harry Met Sally vein.

Ever since the first film hit it big in 2008, studio executives have been snapping up young adult novels in the hope of hitting the same vein, but, aside from «The Hunger Games» the handful of attempts that have hit theaters so far, like «Beastly» and «I Am Number Four,» mostly disappeared without a trace, and not just because they starred Alex Pettyfer.

This looks like a thriller in the vein of Baghead, another Duplass Brothers film, more than a horror from the Blumhouse guys, but I'm still down to check it out.

The film's politics are often glib and reductive — it doesn't have a keen interest in the Lebanese people or the history of the region — but, if you like spycraft stories in the vein of John le Carré's work, this is a briskly paced, occasionally clever thriller featuring a winning performance from Hamm, who has struggled to find the right star vehicle since the end of Mad Men.

Out of Sundance, the film was described as the new Solaris, in the same veins of brainy sci - fi like 2001 and Sunshine.

Much of the film plays like a standard inner - city melodrama in the vein of «Menace II Society,» the previous Hughes Brothers picture.

You don't have to be intimately familiar with the life or works of Truman Capote to fully enjoy Capote as a film, as Miller does a very good job in setting up the movie and making it seem like a straightforward drama, much in the same vein that Capote himself was able to do with the events of «In Cold Blood».

But compared to the formal radicalism of earlier cinematic memoirs like Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) and The Long Day Closes (1992), this latest film from the great British auteur continues more in the classical vein of recent films like The House of Mirth (2000) and The Deep Blue Sea (2011).

In the vein of crime classics like Mean Streets and Infernal Affairs, this film follows two immigrant friends, Sonny and Steven, who survive the hard streets of New York in the 1980s by joining Chinatown gang The Green Dragons.

But their voices, each singularly delicate, precise, and calculated in unique ways, are especially fitting for the Merchant Ivory adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day, where you can see the aristocracy that reigns in films like Gosford Park and The Rules of the Game — or, more fittingly, other Edwardian set period feasts of the Merchant Ivory vein — looks stale and seems to crumble.

It sounds like another action - packed heist film is on the way, in the vein of predecessors such as Heat and The Town.

Why, the film noir, one of the richest veins in our movie mines, bears a French moniker; and French cinéastes have emulated that particular tradition time and again, from the commercial likes of Borsalino to the more personal genre work of the recently deceased Jean - Pierre Melville to the radically stylized, self - aware poetry of Godard's Breathless, Band of Outsiders, Alphaville, and Pierrot le fou.

In the same vein, the final segment of film, «The Studio,» stages a Dada - like revolt, in which the artist employs various surrounding objects in a madcap, ritualized performance.