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And, strangely enough, he bears a slight resemblance to Reno (Jimmy Laine, aka writer-director Abel Ferrara), the starving artist driven to madness in "The Driller Killer."
The biggest thing that won me over with NCIS was, like JAG, the show isn't driven by the things that happen to the characters but more about how they handle the issues and relate to each other to solve the problems.
An excellent slice-of-life flick set in backstreet-under-the-bridge-and-by-the-railroad-tracks Jersey, "HB" is a riveting watch for those into character driven dramas about working class people.
This is a fantastic movie, driven primarily by Lancaster's embodiment of the character of Valdez - a town constable who kills an innocent man in self-defense, only to then become the subject of constant abuse by the slain's pursuer.
I can see why it might not appeal to some people, being character driven rather than having children being chased by rampant birds or someone being attacked by a serial killer in an old lady's wig.
are supposed to be sexually driven.
Together they attempt to save Andrew Stevens who is being driven insane by the inability to control his gift.
In each fight, the good guy is driven from the scene and makes a miraculous return.
Lithgow in particular is good as a scientist driven mad by the eighth dimension.
Tho the strangely preternatural rat co-star is indeed of 'UNKNOWN ORIGIN', it sounds more like a sci-fi title than a movie about Peter Weller being driven insane by an escalating rat problem in his house.
I know I sure sighed with relief that Liu Jian (played with subtle excellence by Jet Li) wasn't driven by some emotionally haunting past, like the death of a wife and child, as is so typical in super-cop action films.
There has been criticism on the high content of violence, and has been categorized as instigating, but it's actually quite obvious that it's just a satiric view of contemporary "personal success" driven society.
Compared with many war films that covered America's involvement with Vietnam, "Go Tell the Spartans' didn't set the world alight due to its very understated style and low-scale resources, but because of centering towards a steady character/situation driven story, it remained an thoughtfully harrowing and toughly grim account showing that there were no heroes, or anything to gain from this war.
This ego driven piece of garbage was just intolerable.
I can safely recommend it to admirers of story & atmosphere driven horror films.
Kudos are also in order for the uniformly fine acting from a first-rate cast: Bettany is genuinely riveting and terrifying as the severely driven and psychotic main character, Thewlis likewise impresses as one smooth operator, McDowell makes the most out of one of his best more recent roles, the ravishing Saffron Burrows exudes pure class as Freddie's brassy singer moll Karen, plus there are nice supporting contributions by Kenneth Cranham as the wise Tommy, Jamie Foreman as hot-headed rival hoodlum Lennie Taylor, Eddie Marsan as sniveling toad Eddie Miller, Andrew Lincoln as vicious hit-man Maxie King, and Doug Allen as the brutish Mad John.
The tale of an an aging movie actress, over 40, put out to pasture by the major studios, and driven by loneliness to alcoholism and then to child abuse didn't strike me in the least bit amusing.
The specific points of such a parallel biography need not be driven into the ground here -- suffice it to say that one can imagine a young Francis telling his younger, equally visionary associate and design nut George Lucas (executive producing here) to grow a beard -- just as Jeff Bridges, in a career-highlight performance, tells his engineer played by Elias Koteas.
Meanwhile, ALL (as it seems) of the invitees are meandering around NYC killing time until the party begins, having really meaningful conversations about nothing, and, at one point or another, getting into the cab driven by Dave Chapelle.
The central characters, Alexis and Eleni first meet as children driven together by the destruction of the town of Odessa, Greece, during World War I.
This was a good character driven story about a degenerate gambler that pushes it too far.
Bela here plays a hypnotist/magician named Leonide, who comes with his dwarf companion Angelo Rossitto (who appeared with Bela in 1942's infinitely superior film "The Corpse Vanishes") to cousin George Zucco's house, where George's daughter-in-law is being driven insane by a mysterious masked personage.
The affable Arnold plays a likeable two-bit carnival owner in need of money who carjacks a gaggle of kids on their way to school in a van driven by Paymer.
The skipper is suspected of committing 'foul play' on a rival and sinks to the bottom of a bottle and the port he meets and is tricked into a cruise by the women in is obviously Gibraltar (old Morris 1300 driven by port officials, scene showing the Rock).
Throw in an old estate with jungle animals, a maimed veiled lady (possibly borrowed from The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger)a murderous husband, a wife driven mad and all other sorts of wackiness that not only was never in the original story, but which just makes the whole piece unwieldy and a mess.
This movie starts out promising - a professor whose career and personal life are driven by his fascination with the hedonistic side of American sexuality confronts the one thing that will put an end to his pursuits: he's getting old.
The only way I could describe it to someone who really was interested in knowing is as a chain of events involving a bunch of sick and sad people all driven by the mere presence of the doll to do things that no rational person would consider - and do nothing very interesting at all in the process.
The darkish, grim European dock/waterfront slightly lightened up a bit by a red convertible car, driven by Nastassja.
Obvious punchlines and despicable characters may work for Adult Swim's collection of poorly drawn and incoherent plot driven cartoons, but fails miserably for this TBS reject.
If it weren't for the fact that I had driven a friend to the theater and had met others there for the sneak preview also, I would have left in the middle of it.
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