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On another level, it was a kinetic, gleefully violent film about futuristic soldiers trying to eradicate an army of giant alien bugs.

«Drive» is a violent film about lunatics who kill for money without thinking twice.

Jennifer Lawrence's newest star vehicle is far from a crowd - pleaser — it's a lurid, violent film about a spy who has her life ripped out from under her.

John Ford, showcasing his pride of his Irish heritage, made this emotional and realistically violent film about the 1916 Easter Rebellion of Irish patriots revolting against their British rulers.

Not exact matches

The government's proposal will not ban violent pornography that doesn't include penetration (and it's important to remember we're only talking about hardcore porn, not normal films, documentaries, or art).

What's clear is that Gibson has made a film about family, faith, love and forgiveness all put to the test in an arena of violent conflict - a movie you don't want to miss.

VIOLENCE / GORE 8 - A great deal of talk about violent acts which have occurred makes the film psychologically violent.

(Think Emily Blunt and a cigarette lighter...) The movie also finds its emotional core in that dilapidated old farmhouse, and, rather gracefully for such a hard - charging, violent film, slowly becomes a story about the cyclical effects of neglect and regret.

What we get is a collection of moderately violent action set - pieces untroubled by humour or broader coherence... Forster, who directed the Bond film Quantum of Solace, has done his best to piece together a story from these incompatible parts, but the final product has an elaborate uselessness about it, like a broken teapot glued back together with the missing pieces replaced by parts of a vacuum cleaner.

Until a cathartically violent ending, Pearce only sporadically brings Moll's anxieties to a proper boil, as this is a film about sexual fear that's skittish about mining the drama enacted by the central couple between the figurative sheets.

No surprise, perhaps, as Denis's film is the sort of thing usually discussed as a «minor,» the appellation usually applied to movies about love and intimacy, topics of almost universal relevance, as opposed to «major» works that indulge in the overblown oversimplification of barely understood historical periods, interminable «sculpting with time,» or the espousal of revolutionary creeds to well - heeled film festival audiences who know in their secret hearts that they will never in their lives participate in a violent uprising of any kind.

The festival programme continues until Sunday 20 November with a number of other film and documentary premieres, including Driving with Selvi, the story of a former child bride, who escapes her violent marriage and becomes South India's first female taxi driver and The Innocents a compelling French drama about a young doctor becoming the sole hope for an isolated convent.

So says professional killer Jackie Cogan at one point in Killing Them Softly, the third film by New Zealander Andrew Dominik - and considering the filmmaker's efforts to establish a connection between the events in the movie and the economic crisis started in the late 2000s thanks to the greed and lack of scruples of Wall Street, it is easy to see Cogan as an ordinary employee of any company complaining about the lack of vision of his bosses and, on the other hand, the big bankers as Armani - dressing versions of the violent mobsters who inhabit the crime section of the newspapers.

Following the exploits of the Paris police department's «child protection unit,» Polisse (which screened early on) helped to establish this year's Croisette - spanning theme of children in peril, which could be found to varying extents in fellow Competition entries Michael (kidnapping and pedophilia), Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin (teenage sociopathy), Aki Kaurismäki's universally admired Le Havre (illegal immigration), and the Dardenne Brothers» Grand Jury Prize co-winner The Kid with a Bike (child abandonment); in the Directors» Fortnight entry Play (bullying); and in just about every film at the 50th - anniversary edition of the Critics» Week, from French actress - director Valérie Donzelli's opening - night Declaration of War (pediatric cancer) to Israeli actress - director Hagar Ben Asher's The Slut (pedophilia again), the fact - based 17 Girls (teen pregnancy), and the profoundly disturbing Snowtown, which recalled Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer in its verité sketch of Australian serial killer John Bunting, who lured local youths into aiding and abetting his violent crimes throughout the NineAbout Kevin (teenage sociopathy), Aki Kaurismäki's universally admired Le Havre (illegal immigration), and the Dardenne Brothers» Grand Jury Prize co-winner The Kid with a Bike (child abandonment); in the Directors» Fortnight entry Play (bullying); and in just about every film at the 50th - anniversary edition of the Critics» Week, from French actress - director Valérie Donzelli's opening - night Declaration of War (pediatric cancer) to Israeli actress - director Hagar Ben Asher's The Slut (pedophilia again), the fact - based 17 Girls (teen pregnancy), and the profoundly disturbing Snowtown, which recalled Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer in its verité sketch of Australian serial killer John Bunting, who lured local youths into aiding and abetting his violent crimes throughout the Nineabout every film at the 50th - anniversary edition of the Critics» Week, from French actress - director Valérie Donzelli's opening - night Declaration of War (pediatric cancer) to Israeli actress - director Hagar Ben Asher's The Slut (pedophilia again), the fact - based 17 Girls (teen pregnancy), and the profoundly disturbing Snowtown, which recalled Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer in its verité sketch of Australian serial killer John Bunting, who lured local youths into aiding and abetting his violent crimes throughout the Nineties.

(remix) music video by Danger Mouse and Jemini; deleted scenes and alternative takes, five in total, including an alternative ending (9 min) with a less subtle conversation between Richard and Mark, but a haunting final image of Richard with Anthony; images from Anjan Sarkars graphic novel animation matched to actual dialogue from the films soundtrack (the scene where Herbie first sees the elephant); In Shanes Shoes (24 min) documentary featuring the premiere at the 2004 Edinburgh Film Festival, interviews with Shane Meadows about run - ins with violent gangs in his youth, and on - location clowning; Northern Soul (26 min) also made by Meadows in 2004, and starring Toby Kebbell as an aspiring wrestler with no actual wrestling experience or talent - this comic short is as amateurish as its protagonist, and serves only to show how much better Dead Mans Shoes is.

This films is certainly going to be more of an acquired taste than a lot of films, but I thought it was a damn good film about 4 vastly different people from different provinces driven to pretty violent acts.

«Revenge» star Matilda Lutz tells Playboy about wearing just a bikini to shoot the very violent film

Last winter, J.C. Chandor «s A Most Violent Year ($ 5.7 M domestic B.O.) about the 1980s oil - truck wars in Gotham, won honors from the National Board of Review for best film, actor (Isaac) and supporting actress (Jessica Chastain).

For a thriller about cannibals, this Mexican film is more of an unsettlingly violent drama than an all - out horror movie.

A MOST VIOLENT YEAR is a film about ambition, optimism, and the American dream.

Even by Ben Wheatley's genre - busting standards, this film is a triumph, centring on comedy and romance in a road movie about two violent serial killers.

The documentary is mainly comprised of interviews, many with the director himself in his apartment, but the highlight for most will be the scene of Tarantino and De Palma talking about the similarities in their careers of having to deal with public attention regarding the violent content in their films (this comes after an extended sequence featuring Tarantino explaining his love for De Palma, which includes a personal scrapbook of printed interviews and a description of the influence that Casualties of War had on certain elements in Reservoir Dogs).

It's round - about journey to the big - screen was a logical conclusion, and while the first was praised as playfully ridiculous and a violent tongue - in - cheek satire on Mexploitation films, this sequel is a long, drawn - out series of mind - numbing beheadings, choppings, limb - hackings and gore - splattering scenes that would make a death camp survivor long for the good old days.

Not exactly what you'd expect of a «foreign» Russian film, Night Watch may have subtitles, but it is a violent, action - packed fantasy flick about «battle between Light and Darkness», that old Hollywood plot standby.

Which, in cineplex terms, means an odd couple of releases set in different (but equally violent) eras of Russia; an outstanding Israeli film about grief; and not one, not two, but three sci - fi - inflected blockbusters.

I just made a film about women, with women protagonists... I decided that I'd made enough films about violent men, and I wanted to do a film with only women in the film, and so I did this story because my wife would only go to L.A. if we had to travel out of Copenhagen.

No matter the quality of Gibson's performance therein, the film's dissection of a fractured soul can only reinforce audience reservations about a screen icon now better known for obscene and violent telephone calls than manic action movie roles and Oscar - winning epics.

There are the brutally violent films that boast about their battles to secure an R rating before the unrated DVD renders them irrelevant.

In a youth film culture that has embraced increasingly violent and sadistic horror films, especially those that linger on acts of inhuman brutality and excruciatingly endured mutilations (quite accurately dubbed «torture porn»), what's not to like about a film about a silent butcher who bludgeons the passengers of a late - night subway ride, preps the carcasses like slaughtered cattle and hangs them like sides of beef?

The Orchard has debuted an official trailer for the film Super Dark Times, an indie thriller about a group of teens whose friendships is tested by a violent tragedy involving a samurai sword.

And whether or not you sauntered back into the daylight thinking those films had had anything meaningful to say about the human capacity for violence, you had to admit it was hard to shake their crude, violent images out of your head.

Brian De Palma directs this essential gangster film about a rags to riches Cuban immigrant (Al Pacino) and his violent rise to the top of one of Miami's largest, most...

Matthew Vaughn's new film about an elite intelligence service combines winking spy - film tropes with impeccably choreographed (and very violent) action.

Brian De Palma directs this essential gangster film about a rags to riches Cuban immigrant (Al Pacino) and his violent rise to the top of one of Miami's largest, most dangerous drug cartels.

We just heard about Vincent Cassel joining the cast of Bourne 5, and now we've got a new trailer for Partisan, the creepy - looking film that features Cassel as a sort of cult leader who acts as head of a closed community and trains young urchins to do his bidding, which is often violent.

Among the most unnerving films about domestic violence ever committed to screen, The Entity opens with a violent rape by an invisible assailant.

It's about as basic a a film can get, and if it weren't so violent, it might be a passable family flick.

A Fantastic Woman (Blu - ray) Details: 2017, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Rated: R, language, sexual content, nudity, a violent assault The lowdown: This Chilean feature, honored as best foreign - language film at the 90th Academy Awards, is a stunning and well - crafted drama about an individual's right to live her life as she sees fit, despite the prejudice and scorn of others.

The film is about a New York art curator whose quest to find out who killed her brother dovetails with an obsession for collecting the violent drawings of New Orleans outsider artist Roy Ferdinand.

Assault on Precinct 13, loosely based on the 1976 film of the same name written and directed by John Carpenter, is a gritty, violent journey that's about twice as good as you'd expect it to be.

In addition to this film about idiots, it's very violent and contains vivid sexual acts.

Relative to other very violent PG - 13 films, the carnage depicted here is muted with fast camera moves and cuts to another scene just as a knife or sword is about to do its bidding.

The personification of all of his mother's fear, guilt and anxiety about motherhood, Kevin's arrival signals the abrupt end of a once carefree life for Eva (Tilda Swinton)-- and the film subsequently deals with the story of Kevin's youthful progress towards a catastrophically violent incident at his high - school that has devastating, and fatal, repercussions for everyone around him.

B The Birth of a Nation Available on DVD and Blu - ray Largely considered one of the most controversial films of all time, D.W. Griffith's monumental 1915 film about the Civil War and violent racism in America has been newly mastered in HD from its original 35 mm elements.

What's so interesting about it is that Magi stars Michael Madsen, Stephen Baldwin and Brianne Davis in what looks like an incredibly nutty and violent genre film.

Best known to audiences as the violent vigilante Rorschach in Zack Snyder's Watchmen film, the actor spoke to Screen Rant at the convention about the role he plays in the adaptation, and how different and surreal the shoot was when compared to a typical production:

That the resulting film is excellent viewing distracts from how challenging this adaptation about an orphan, a dreamcatching giant, his violent brethren and the Queen of England must have actually been to bring to life....

These are women who want to survive, and these are films about making do, keeping it together when you have been emotionally rewired on a fundamental level by a violent physical trauma.

Bottom line, the film has an all - star cast, violent and thrilling action, and a fair amount of humor, but something about the story and execution feels off, not put together correctly or explained well enough.

The fact A Most Violent Year can have those timely connections now is why saying less and showing more about «what your movie means» can be so valuable for a film of this kind.