Sentences with phrase «very middling film»

Dances with Wolves is ultimately a very middling film.

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But I found yours to be softer on top (hers had a thin crispy, crackly film on top) and, and I also found yours to be very delicate — it cracked down the middle when I was wrapping it in plastic after inverting and reverting again.

Furthermore, what effects do these actions have on the citizens caught in the middle of something so ugly and dangerous (a subplot that very few directors have the skill to weave into the grander scheme of things, let alone winding up allowing for some of the strongest takeaways from the film).

«We filmed the beginning of the film at the very end of our shooting schedule: Late January in the middle of Sweden, Ostersund.

Abandoning the 48 frames - per - second process he used for «An Unexpected Journey» (a process that gave the film an amazing clarity but was very distracting), Jackson and his crew have fashioned a two and a half hour thrill ride that takes audiences into Middle Earth and the secrets enclosed inside.

I've been enjoying a lot of the Trailblazing Women programming myself but since we're in the middle of Schocktober, I thought I'd set aside some time to highlight some of my favorite horror films and thrillers directed by women who have left their macabre mark on a genre that many mistakenly assume is not very female friendly.

Rather than invite you to a pity party, the film takes you on an introspective journey of a very faulted middle - aged man that has some tough choices to make.

While that film felt like a seamless fusion of the middle - aged malaise seen in Greenberg with the youthful energy and aimless freedom of Frances Ha, his newest feature, Mistress America, is very much back in the realm of the latter.

Spall, who played the very different part of the restaurant owner in Life Is Sweet, magisterially conveys a sense of goodness, and Jean - Baptiste in a much less showy part pulls off a rare feat in a Mike Leigh film: she escapes the writer - director's usual caricatural scorn for the middle class.

Dropped into the middle of the action, there's very little information given as to what's come before and I liked this... too many films waste precious moments spoon - feeding audiences everything they think we need to know when actually, if the script and performances are strong enough, we can usually figure out enough to get by.

TIFF doesn't go overboard with awards, but because it is a public festival in the middle of a big city, the Audience Award is one of the most important awards they give out because it not only indicates which film is truly spectacular, but it means it also plays very well with general audiences.

Selected by Chile to represent the country in the Best Foreign Language category at the Oscars, this moving, funny, very human film about a middle - aged woman and the obstacles that prevent a full and rich love life has a terrific shot at making the final five nominees.

But, narratively speaking, Armipour's film delves far deeper, more specifically challenging the place of women in Middle Eastern society, where a woman walking home alone is the very definition of immorality.

During Saturday's press junket for the film, leading man Alden Ehrenreich was in the middle of an interview with Entertainment Tonight when he got interrupted by a very special visitor.

My only real issues with the film came towards the middle half and the very end.

Post 9/11 the film world hasn't dealt with war in a very successful way, and apart from some notable exceptions (The Hurt Locker and In the Valley of Elah) films tackling the Middle East and America's military involvement have been both critical and commercial disappointments.

When David (Luke Wilson) and Amy Fox's (Kate Beckinsale) car breaks down in the middle of nowhere, they are forced to spend the night at the only motel around, with only the TV to entertain them... until they discover that the low - budget slasher videos they find in their room were all filmed in the very room they're sitting in.

Very quietly (and to disappointingly middling box - office), we got the best Star Trek movie of the revived franchise this year, with a thrilling adventure yarn that served as a fine tribute to series stars Leonard Nimoy and Anton Yelchin, who both died before the film was released.

I am shocked that the film maintains a respectable 7.3 user rating on IMDb (higher than the likes of Amistad and War of the Worlds) and even a fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes (albeit by the skin of its teeth with a middling 61 % all - critics approval and a very mediocre average rating of 6.2 / 10).

The real world sets also looked a bit middling budget and not very much like Ohio, I think the van chase was filmed in Birmingham and the police cars were Peugeots, neither of which are very American.

• The Toronto film fest took its first steps yesterday so, with Anne in the middle of things, she charts the differences between these three very different festivals and discusses what she's looking forward to at TIFF.

One very useful aspect of Denby's film criticism, apart from its beautifully chiseled prose style, is the way it reliably, often hilariously, reflects a middle - class or upper - class blindness to the world everyone else inhabits.

The middle of the film is where the characters begin to relax into themselves, and in the last third it becomes very grand and cinematic using a lot of crane shots.

There is the fact that the movie was created in CinemaScope, the wider aspect ratio with which film responded to television, a screen format briefly very popular, mostly in the middle of the 1950s.

The road trip itself is a vague oddity of an extended sequence — if one will permit the metaphor, an off - key bridge in the middle of a song — in a film that, up until that point, has so clearly defined a very specific predicament for a very specific person in a very specific time and place.

Near the middle of the film, our characters» digital avatars take a detour into a recreation of a very famous movie's very famous setting that is truly stunning to behold; this incredible sequence makes «Ready Player One» almost worth seeing by itself.

It's a very good film and deserving of awards, but if we're talking about a 70 % white male middle - aged Academy we have to think about what movies directed by women those voters respond to, and they are responding to this one.

The studio just released a brand new movie still featuring Jessica Biel and Colin Farrell in the upcoming action film «Total Recall» by director Len Wiseman (Hawaii Five - 0, Live Free or Die Hard, Underworld) and starring Kate Beckinsale (Happy Holidays, Katherine Sloane, Underworld 4: New Dawn), Colin Farrell (Phone Booth, Alexander, Horrible Bosses), Jessica Biel (The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, The A-Team), Bill Nighy (Jack and the Giant Killer, Clash of the Titans 2), Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad, Malcolm in the Middle), Ethan Hawke (Moby Dick, Boyhood, Daybreakers) and John Cho (Star Trek 2, A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas).

Most importantly, the entire staff and community of Roosevelt Middle School in San Francisco were very supportive of this film.

TEACH, a new film by Waiting for Superman director Davis Guggenheim, profiles four very different elementary, middle, and high school teachers and their public school classrooms.