Sentences with phrase «age films like»

Lady Bird recalls coming - of - age films like Pretty in Pink or The Slums of Beverly Hills, in that it's about a teenage girl growing up with fewer advantages than their peers, who don't think twice about their limitless credit cards or the luxury cars they're entitled to own on their 16th birthday.

Not exact matches

With those two films showing potential weaknesses, there is room for a surprise winner like Get Out, the horror film about racism, or the coming - of - age LGBTQ romance Call Me By Your Name, among others.

From the Inside Out - «Making Avengers: Age of Ultron»: A 20 - minute video going back 18 months showing what it was like on set of the film in Italy and Seoul, Sourth Korea; a look at the Avengers Tower; some of the behind - the - scenes early visual effects of Ultron; early concept work for Quicksilver, the Hulk, and Vision; and more.

The path she takes meanders alongside a stream and over train tracks, not far from where hundreds of people converge during the company's summer «bike - in movie» events, gathering on the lawn to enjoy films paired with fine beers — like New Belgium's flagship Fat Tire Amber Ale, the organic wheat offering Mothership Wit and La Folie, a sour ale aged in the large French oak barrels that loom behind the bottling site.

Father John Misty's thoughtful musicality and self - aware lyrics on I Love You, Honeybear played out more like the score of a coming - of - age film than an album.

The film, which hits theaters February 16, is a modern twist on a romantic comedy (boy and girl meet, fall in love, but then break up, and are suddenly reunited, ending up in that awkward stage where they have to debate whether to wave hello while taking out the trash), but it's also a particularly female spin on the coming of age story, the likes of which we're only beginning to see onscreen as more women carve out a place for themselves in writer's rooms and director's chairs.

Last week my best friend and I went to see Age of Adaline, which, although wasn't mind blowingly amazing, was still a film worth seeing if you love Blake Lively, and like movies with a good message and beautiful cinematography.

However, much like it's wise - cracking protagonist, age as been kind to this bizarre 1987 family - film.

The film wasn't great, but I had a really lovely night, and would recommend some of the other outdoor movies the British Film Institute are screening this summer, especially if, like me, you grew up watching the film Grease with the iconic Drive - Thru movie date scene... something it's otherwise very hard to recreate, living in the UK in this day and age.

If a 38 year old man dated a 52 year old woman the age difference would be big if a 15 year old boy dated a 29 year old woman it would be wrong it would be like the film Big Susan was 26 when she dated Josh who she thought was 30 but was actually 12 imagine if Josh told her the truth that would have been trouble.

As the Golden Age of Hollywood faded, glorious old - school films like Ben - Hur began to give way to the grittier, wised - up work of those like Billy Wilder, creating a tension between impish youth and pompous elders.

This wouldn't feel so tone deaf and backwards if the film did a better job of making Thomas feel like a living, breathing human being rather than some misguided, coming - of - age hipster creep.

The film is by no means terribly long, at least when you compare it to its 1969 musical counterpart, so it's not like storytelling drags its feet for ages, but make no mistake, the fact of the matter is that plotting's structure is something of a mess that meanders along repetitiously and, well, is to be expected, because, really, where does this story have to go?

Seven Samurai has badly aged on film, there are blotches everywhere, it is grainy, it looks like a piece of shit, and it has this lower fps.

Although Lassie may seem like a unusual film for Morton to appear in, she has a history of working in family friendly fare having provided the voice for Ruby in the Max and Ruby animated television series based on the popular children's books by Rosemary Wells.In 2007 she appeared as Mary Stuart in Elizabeth: The Golden Age, and appeared in the Ian Curtis biopic Control.

Con it can be slow some times If you like coming age films, click flicks or really moving films, you should give this a try.

Don't get me wrong, I like to punk out on more than a few occasions, but it's interesting to look back at a time in which the talent was getting commercial promotion, because in this day and age, you have to go either underground or, well, bona fide prog - rock to find real quality music, though not necessarily quality film.

This film may seem like a movie that is only full understood by someone over the age of 50, but anyone who enjoys likeable chemistry, a relaxing story, or slice - of - life storytelling, the you may just find yourself enjoying A Walk in the Woods quite a bit.

The Puffy Chair is the funniest, saddest and most emotionally honest «romantic comedy» to come along in years, even if I've yet to encounter many over the age of about 35 who like the film, or even get it.

That said, this is very much her film, and Fifty Shades Freed — written, like the last installment, by James's husband, Niall Leonard — demonstrates a genuine self - awareness of the strange hypocrisies she's forced to submit to as she attempts to drag Christian out of the Victorian era and pull him into an age of nontraditional gender roles, just as she's also prodding him to what's posited as his ultimate relinquishment of power and dominance: fatherhood.

Moss» striking performance led many viewers to question where she had been all these years; like many other fledgling Hollywood actresses, she had done time as a model and an actress in second - rate films while waiting for her big break.Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, on August 21, 1967, Moss decided that she wanted to be an actress at an early age.

But like the best work of Aardman, these touches or little sight gags take a back seat to the plot, and the film still works whatever age or however culture - literate you may be.

Much like the kids in this movie who come of age, so too does Robert Kirbyson's skill as a writer - director in his debut film Snowmen.

Elizabeth: The Golden Age doesn't offer anything new, and it doesn't feel like it builds enough upon the previous film to be a worthwhile endeavour.

At least I now know what my tolerance level will be like for the eventual European coming - of - age horror film set at a waxing station.

Well regarded among horror fans, Alice Sweet Alice has aged surprisingly well and stands up to repeated viewings like many of the best films of the seventies, particularly with its look and style.

And, while I'm growing a bit weary of her, I enjoyed Leslie Mann as the mother of some of these girls, and she nails the modern day new - age philosophy of parenting «these type» of girls to a T. All in all this is a glossy and fun film that will satisfy, but doesn't leave a strong legacy like the kind the characters aspie to have, Regardless, I dug it and think you should check it out.

The film definitely tries to cover as much ground as it can (It begins when Charlie is 5 in a London music hall and plows through the rest of his life, ending shortly before his death in Vevey, Switzerland, on Christmas Day 1977, at the age of 88) but in doing so abandons depth and development — so much so that the film inevitably feels like a bunch of glossy broad strokes.

The film segues breezily between various episodes from Piaf's life — such as her lover, French boxer Marcel Cerdan's (Jean - Pierre Martins) championship bout in mid -»40s New York; her period in Hollywood during the»50s; Piaf's abandonment as a young girl by her contortionist father (and earlier by her mother, a street singer); her brushes with the law as an adult; and her 1951 car accident and subsequent morphine addiction that caused her to age well beyond her years and left her barely mobile; and, through it all, her ability (like Billie Holiday) to funnel personal tragedy and emotional struggles into her vocalizations — dazzling audiences in the process.

The film jumps back and forth over the course of just a few weeks, but the way Portman plays the sullen Jackie in the wake of what has happened looks like she's aged years.

Like a lot of adolescent protagonists in modern coming - of - age films, Christine talks too often and too blithely, but Marion is a formidable sparring partner: «How did I raise such a snob?»

In the post-Moonlight age (and with nominations this year for gay - themed films such as Call Me By Your Name, or those with mild gay content like Lady Bird), we thought it might be time to look back at 10 LGBTQ movies that despite deserving some Academy Awards love got no Oscar nomination (including one — believe it or not — from 2017!).

After Submarine made my Top 10 Films of 2011, hearing that the film's young star Craig Roberts was starring in another coming - of - age romance sounded like just what the doctor ordered.

Soderbergh's cinematography is, as ever, superb — a shot of Carano and Tatum in the LED light of an airport departure lounge has the world - weary blearily - lit hum of a John Le Carre film updated for our digital age, while a climactic fight under the morning sun on the beachside shore feels like someone dropped a Donnie Yen battle into a Michelangelo Antonioni art film.

These traits replicate the models of films like Funny Face and Charade, late studio era vehicles that Stanley Donen made with ageing stars Fred Astaire and Cary Grant.

Lady Bird, a coming - of - age story starring Saoirse Ronan that The A.V. Club's own A.A. Dowd said is «so funny, perceptive, and truthful that it makes most other films about adolescence look like little more than lessons in cliché.»

Simon Pegg played a great aging goth and while the film seemed to be treating addiction a bit too flippantly at first, it turned around and halted everything like a scratched record when you were least expecting it.

Yes, I've seen some happy films this year, some of which were incredible, but films like Toy Story 2 was ground into a form that could be accessible to all ages (for the record, I actually do think that Toy Story 2 is the superior film), and The Straight Story was too serene to ever be thought of as having much zeal.

This seemingly innocuous film is socializing young children into violence as a way to solve problems from a very early age, much like other animated films, such as «Wreck - It - Ralph» in 2012.

Due to the age of the film and print, the film mostly looks like but a little soft focus in some scenes.

I liked Driving Lessons, a sharp, engaging, and amusing comedy / drama that does well as a coming - of - age film, family drama, and unlikely friendship tale.

Having been responsible for this, it looks like Steven Spielberg (at the ripe age of 71) isn't in any mood for changing as Ready Player One — his 33rd film — is still an example of the big brand of entertainment that he's now synonymous with.

Just like its tireless star, the fifth installment of the 19 - year - old Mission: Impossible film franchise is sprier, tighter, and more energetic than its age might suggest.

Pacino plays Simon Axler, a fading 65 - year - old stage and film actor (who looks and acts more like Pacino's real age of 74).

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.

Based on this first extended glimpse, The Avengers: Age Of Ultron looks like it could be shaping up to become one of the most exciting and challenging superhero films we've seen so far from Marvel.

(The elderly Ventura's claim to be «19 years, 3 months old» when asked his age early in the film connects directly to a later scene in an abandoned factory; mentions of a revolution that at first seem like science fiction are eventually revealed to be memories of the mid-1970s intruding into the present.

Having thrived and evolved for eight consecutive decades in the public imagination - in prose and graphics, on the big screen and small, in games and properties of all kinds - Conan's exploits in the Hyborian Age now come alive like never before in a colossal 3D action - adventure film.

The latter three characters are tonally different than our main Avengers — the aubergine - skinned, floating Vision makes even a hero like the Hulk look pedestrian — and their inclusion means that Age of Ultron «is an odd film in some ways,» Whedon said.

The shorter pieces, which take on various aspects of the film, the story, production and special effects details (like the use of miniatures, which has become a rarity in the CGI age), range from under two minutes to just over twelve minutes.