Sentences with phrase «work in a bad movie»

If you're a fan of Selma Blair, or even Max Beesley, perhaps you might like seeing them deliver good work in a bad movie enough to watch it at least once, but it's quite a sacrifice you're making if you do.

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We felt as if we had been playing parts in a fascinating movie that suddenly took a bad turn, in which we had worked like dogs for two weeks to produce something really spectacular and then were written out of the script.»

Favorite Movie I feel so bad for my poor husband, but since I've been so busy with work, school, and home life (plus the blog) we haven't had a date night in awhile.

There is not a bad performance in this movie, and even the least of the actors is delivering solid, awards - worthy work.

It's not that the joke is bad in and of itself, well I mean it is, it just doesn't work in the type of movie that this clearly wants to be.

Some of the jokes fall flat, others are badly telegraphed and it weaves in and out of being a documentary and just a film to the point of distraction but it ' s hard for me to dislike the movie since I ' ve worked with people like this especially the director, Harry Penderecki... only not as likeable.

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The early stuff involving Sam Childers» evolution from bad boy biker to reformed Christian is fairly interesting, but once he arrives in Africa on his first goodwill trip, the movie begins to lose steam as it falls into a repetitive cycle that jumps back and forth between Childers» home life in Pennsylvania and doing God's work in Africa.

You can see how all that plays out in the first Sleepless trailer that debuted last fall, but now a clip from the movie has debuted, showing us the tense, cheeky relationship that Jamie Foxx has with Michelle Monaghan, who works in internal affairs and has no idea that Foxx is just pretending to be a corrupt cop as part of his job, and isn't actually as bad as some of his colleagues.

The organization is dedicated to supporting film work by and about women — both in front of and behind the cameras — through intra-group promotional activities, outreach programs and by presenting the annual AWFJ EDA Awards in recognition of outstanding accomplishments (the best and worst) by and about women in the movies.

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There are minor detours through warmth and humanity (Descas displays real tenderness, which speaks to his and Denis splendid working relationship and all the wonderful movies they've made over the years) but the real meat of this is watching Binoche reach her limit with the worst men in France.

The movie begins with a scene of meth cookers at work in the dead of night; a masked man with a gun tells us that an American father and son who studied chemistry taught them to make the drug (shades of «Breaking Bad»).

The movie, then, edges into the territory of the Farrellys» post-Dumb & Dumber work, when their high - concepts glinted with tragedy (think of Stuck on You's conjoined twins risking death or, worse, solitude, by surgically separating), although in and of themselves Harry and Lloyd can't support the weight of pathos.

It's really too bad that some of Franco's best work (I'm taking your word for it) is spent in a movie that so few people will see.

Yet, I must take the road less traveled as a movie reviewer here because, in truth, Xanadu is one of those films that, despite all of the naysayers and evidence of a bad movie against it, still manages to work its magic on me.

Like so many movies profiled in this series, «Joe» is a deeply personal work, with a risky, even heedless style that baffled and alienated many viewers at the time, including critics who declared it one of the worst films of its year.

You work in metaphors through lights and composition, and the worst thing for me is to see a movie that doesn't have that.

Kaecilius works for someone else far worse than he, and in the climax of Scott Derrickson's Phase Three movie, one of the most powerful mystics in the Marvel Universe makes his epic debut.

That doesn't mean the movie's bad — in fact, quite the contrary — but while the decision to pair off the various crew members is a clever idea, it takes away from the group dynamic that worked so well in the first two films.

It's because of this that I feel incredibly sorry for Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan, since they do try to work with what they got, and they're aren't necessarily that bad in the movie.

Alba had a whole lot more to say on the subject of working in film, including some choice bits about how first time directors are responsible for her worst movies and how great actors don't need to pay attention to scripts: «Good actors never use the script unless it's amazing writing.

The bad news: With the exceptions of these films from women, John Hughes movies with Molly Ringwald, «9 to 5,» «Terms of Endearment,» «Moonstruck,» «Working Girl» and «Driving Miss Daisy,» it's hard to find a leading lady in a mainstream film.

When: March 16th Why: Though they haven't always had the good fortune to work with big - name talent, the Duplass brothers have yet to make a bad movie in their short but impressive directing careers.

But even in her worst movies, Kidman is never the problem; her performances rise above whatever dreck they're in, as if her supreme self - possession as a performer inoculated her against the toxic material she was working with.

In one of the emails leaked in the cyber attack on Sony late last year, Marvel boss Ike Perlmutter explained to Sony CEO Michael Lynton why female superhero movies just don't work, referencing flops like Elektra («very, very bad»), Catwoman («a disaster») and Supergirl («another disaster»In one of the emails leaked in the cyber attack on Sony late last year, Marvel boss Ike Perlmutter explained to Sony CEO Michael Lynton why female superhero movies just don't work, referencing flops like Elektra («very, very bad»), Catwoman («a disaster») and Supergirl («another disaster»in the cyber attack on Sony late last year, Marvel boss Ike Perlmutter explained to Sony CEO Michael Lynton why female superhero movies just don't work, referencing flops like Elektra («very, very bad»), Catwoman («a disaster») and Supergirl («another disaster»).

Starring Nicolas Cage at his absolute Cage - iest and under the leadership of «Crank» directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, working their high - octane, balls - to - the - wall action movie magic, this has become a movie that sits firmly in the «so bad it's good» camp.

He'd done more work than a lot of the other independent directors that made the leap, having made three features (Brick, The Brothers Bloom and Looper) and directed some very well received episodes of Breaking Bad, but it's hard to imagine any of that adequately prepared him for directing the middle chapter of the new trilogy in biggest franchise in movie history for the biggest studio on the planet.

Lots of bad stuff happens to honest, hard - working Rust Belt folk in «Little Accidents,» a sensitive and well - meaning but rather ordinary melodrama that wouldn't have seemed out of place as a network movie - of - the - week circa 1985.

The Alliance of Women Film Journalists, Inc. (AWFJ), a not - for - profit corporation, is an association of professional female movie critics, reporters and feature writers working in print, broadcast and online media, dedicated to supporting work by and about women — both in front of and behind the cameras — through intra-group promotional activities, outreach programs and by presenting annual EDA Awards in recognition of outstanding accomplishments (the best and worst) by and about women in the movies, and EDA Awards at selected film festivals throughout the year.

This movie, in which marriage seems like hard work, at best, and a nightmare at worst?

Winchester is in keeping with the brothers» recent work in that it's a standard haunted house genre movie that fails to leave a strong impression, good or bad.

He's not usually bad in that bad work, but come on... he's made some really stupid movies.

In Bob's classroom, there's a theological discussion (The movie doesn't hide its religious bent, but it doesn't preach, either) about the age - old questions of «why bad things happen to good people» and «why people who work hard don't always succeed.»

«The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside «The Room,» the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made» was based upon Sestero's work as an actor in the 2003 cult film «The Room.»

One part intimate old school Western recalling William Wyler's The Big Country, another reveling in the Italian Spaghetti theatrics directors like Sergio Leone (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly) and Sergio Corbucci (The Big Silence) practically invented, the movie's most obvious comparison might actually be the works of playwright Tennessee Williams, the scenario at hand owing more to Cat on a Hot Tin Roof than it does Once Upon a Time in the West or Shane.

ABOUT THE ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS: AWFJ, a not - for - profit corporation, is an international association of professional female movie critics, reporters and feature writers working in print, broadcast and online media, dedicated to raising the volume on women's voices in the film community by broadening opportunities for women who write about film and supporting films by and about women — both in front of and behind the cameras — through intra-group promotional activities, outreach programs and by presenting EDA awards in recognition of outstanding accomplishments (the best and worst) by and about women in the movies.

In a year in which veteran directors whom I have consistently respected turned out work that I loathed (The Tree of Life and Hugo were two of 2011's worst movies) or that couldn't even get me to the theater (Almodóvar, Cronenberg, von Trier), I was very happy to see veterans like Herzog, Weir, and Breillat turn out work that kept them on their toeIn a year in which veteran directors whom I have consistently respected turned out work that I loathed (The Tree of Life and Hugo were two of 2011's worst movies) or that couldn't even get me to the theater (Almodóvar, Cronenberg, von Trier), I was very happy to see veterans like Herzog, Weir, and Breillat turn out work that kept them on their toein which veteran directors whom I have consistently respected turned out work that I loathed (The Tree of Life and Hugo were two of 2011's worst movies) or that couldn't even get me to the theater (Almodóvar, Cronenberg, von Trier), I was very happy to see veterans like Herzog, Weir, and Breillat turn out work that kept them on their toes.

The first film at least bested the latter - day Bond movies in plastic spy - movie pleasures — spiffy gadgets, goofy bad guys, over-compensating production design — and had a more or less consistent narrative, with working - class English delinquent Gary «Eggsy» Unwin (Taron Egerton) learning to become an agent of Kingsman, a shadowy «independent» intelligence agency disguised as a Savile Row tailor shop, under the tutelage of gentleman spy Harry Hart (Colin Firth).

AWFJ is dedicated to raising awareness about women's perspectives on film and to supporting work by and about women — both in front of and behind the cameras — through intra-group promotional activities, outreach programs, and by presenting the annual EDA Awards in recognition of outstanding accomplishments (the best and worst) by and about women in the movies.

2 wherein he details how Clark Kent is the alien Superman's commentary on the human race could be transplanted onto an analysis of Fulci's career: Fulci's movies are bumbling messes of astonishingly bad camerawork (there are more «dramatic» zooms in his work than in the entire run of «Starsky & Hutch») spiced liberally with his thoughts regarding how women are meant to be pierced in any number of ways to fuel the purpose, good or vengeful, of men.

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«One thing we can't do in China is heist movies because people doing bad things can't get away with them; the censorship you have to deal with is the challenge of working in Asia.

Whilst many have already given credit to the originality of the central plot about a curse being passed on by having sex, let us not forget the works of directors such as David Cronenberg and, if you want to go even more bizarre, Frank Henenlotter, who have both made films involving the distortion of sex and the idea of sex being the conduit for bad things to happen, And granted, the actual threat in It Follows is a supernatural one rather than one of the body turning on itself, but how many curse movies have there been since Ringu convinced us all that video tapes were credible vessels for evil beings from other dimensions to cross over and kill us?

As a study of such monumental privilege, the movie works to a certain degree, but it's hindered by the screenplay's insistence on seeing the worst possible scenario of Ted's role in the accident and its immediate aftermath.

Maybe it's because we've seen him play such ordinary guys in films like «Frank» and «Brooklyn», but young (too young) Domhnall Gleeson channelling a fascist leader as General Hux, one of the heads of The First Order (the movie's bad guys, successors to the Empire), didn't work for us.

I've been in the grip of a bad cold for almost 4 days; I somehow managed to work a little bit on my blog, but I hadn't seen a movie since Tuesday (which in my book is about a century).

The fourth, too, now that we know that Overlord, the zombie WWII movie Bad Robot's had in the works for a while is a Cloverfield film (Julius Avery directs, and it's written by Billy Ray).

Not a bad trick, and it works much better these days than it did in the pioneering era of DVD remasters, when «multichannel» mixes of mono movies were often an embarrassment to all concerned.

THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES is not a bad movie but after the epic build - up in THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG, we're thrown bang in the middle of the action and, for me, it doesn't work very well.