Sentences with phrase «animal films like»

Directed by Ken Kwapis in a hyperbolic jump - cut style matched twitch - for - twitch by a score by the late Miles Goodman, whose oom - pah - pah legacy, sadly, lives on in other kid and animal films like K - 9 and Problem Child, the film is a jittery, discombobulated mess.

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It will showcase films on things like women's rights, education, animal welfare, sustainable living and technology.

If you haven't tried one yourself, you've surely seen them all over Instagram: those white or animal - printed masks that make the wearer look like the villain in a horror film.

The idea at Etude House is that makeup is a form of play, and so every store is designed to look like a life - size doll house, filled with toylike cosmetics: hand cream in dispensers shaped like cute animals and face masks with tongue - in - cheek promises to make you look like a black - and - white film star.

You can bundle up with a blue knit beanie and a down jacket just like Noomi Rapace as she bundled up while filming «Animal Rescue» in NYC.

i prefer not to talk about myself but here goes... i am 175 cm with blond hair and ive studied architecture.i like taking long walks because i like natures surroundings, i adore animals, going to the beach (summer of course hanging out with friends watching films and reading books about philosophy and phsycology.

Originally from Yorkshire interests watching sport, like varIed range of music, love films, love my animals.

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And while the film definitely has a silly side to it (McConaughey's character even has a nasty run of bad luck with animals biting him), it's hardly comparable to a genre classic like «There's Something About Mary.»

With its mix of live - action and hyper - real animal animation, Peter Rabbit plays like a country cousin to Paul King's Paddington films, similarly balancing slapstick, absurdism, and a touch of gross - out humor, though without King's transcendently oddball sensibility.

Meanwhile, the film is full of anthropomorphic animals and magical critters, some of whom work for witches» academy (including boar - like chefs who prepare elaborate meat dishes, seemingly oblivious to the cannibalistic connotations) while others are captives of Doctor Dee's dastardly experiments.

Whereas in «Deliverance», the person of perceived lower class asserts his dominance by violating Bobby («squeal like a pig») in the woods, therefore transforming class struggle into class warfare: Gina (Kiele Sanchez), a Georgian just like the hicks in the Boorman film, intimidates Cliff and Cydney when the country woman processes a goat into food, where she violates the animal (that Nick, played by Timothy Olyphant, had slain) with her hands for its innards.

I love stupid school films like Loose Screws, Screwballs, Joy Sticks (doesn't quite count, but should), Animal House and its many rip offs, and heck, I even loved Road Trip and Van WIlder (except for the dog cum scene).

... like the wasteoid who trails off mid-sentence to get lost in the cover art for Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavilion, [Nima] Nourizadeh has trouble concentrating on a single organizing narrative mode for his film.

The film is given an opportunity to shrewdly poke fun at cable news, specifically Fox News (their new home is run by a cocky Aussie), as Ron uncannily becomes a purveyor of sensationalist non-news stories like car chases and cute animals while Veronica can't make an interview with Yasser Arafat grab anyone's attention.

Nocturnal Animals — I still can't believe how much I liked this film.

Australian actor Joel Edgerton has been starring in movies for 20 years, from homegrown hits like Erskineville Kings (1999) to playing Luke Skywalker's uncle in the Star Wars prequel trilogy to acclaimed films like Animal...

His latest, Nocturnal Animals, sounds like a real trip, almost like two films in one that, according to critics, calls to mind the works of Douglas Sirk, Alfred Hitchcock, and Sam Peckinpah.

In his introduction, Mankiewicz reminded the audience how «Animal House» and cinematic progeny like «Caddyshack» (1980) «forever changed the face of film comedy.»

«They are like predatory animals that can't control themselves,» Visual effects supervisor John Nelson («Iron Man «-RRB- told EW about the undead on this film.

While there are standout examples — like Darren Aronofsky's disorienting, eye - opening Requiem for a Dream, or the achingly beautiful narratives of animated animal - people addicts in BoJack Horseman — sagas like this one usually work better on the page than on the screen; the brief gloss of film can make drug use seem rather too appealing, while the idea of spending eight TV seasons with an addict seems rather unappealing.

Under the masterful direction of Hayao Miyazaki, this animated film brings to life an enchanted, smoke - belching castle that plods about the countryside like a great lumbering animal.

Known for his roles in action films like The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and The Lone Ranger, Hammer has also had smaller roles in indies like Nocturnal Animals and The Social Network.

This film looks no different as all of the animals look adorable and the premise looks like it could be full of deeper lessons.

The correlation of children without a positive, moral influence isn't lost on the animal like behavior portrayed in the film.

And yet, you can't totally blame him, as the film's first trailer plays up both Peter's naughty behavior (now, with a weird, contemporary edge) and how it inspires the other animals around him to act out, like by throwing a party in McGregor's house and totally destroying it in the process.

Despite the ambition associated with his recent work — their formal grandeur, volcanic performances and evocation of American history — it's easy to overlook that films like There Will Be Blood and The Master were more often than not hysterically funny in their parodies of the human animal.

Like Galileo in this film, Lassie is another exceptionally smart animal that ultimately saves the day.

Stan is likely best known for his role in the Marvel movies as Bucky Barnes / The Winter Soldier, but his career has spanned from Gossip Girl to underrated TV gems like NBC's ill - fated Kings and USA's Political Animals to films like Ricki and the Flash, The Martian, and The Bronze, where he played a hyper - competitive gymnastics coach with his eyes on the Olympics.

Also like previous Disney animated films, there are some cute and funny animal characters that will steal your heart, among them a dimwitted chicken and the cutest piglet you've ever seen.

Over time, the Lampoon name was licensed off to many horrible film properties, but in better days it brought films like «Animal House» and «Vacation» to the big screen.

Like Mondomanila, Sentimental Animal (d. Wu Quan) contained some disturbing scenes, but I think the festival catalogue did the film a disservice.

Some of my all - time favorite Sundance films from years past are Drake Doremus» Like Crazy (from last year), Marc Webb's 500 Days of Summer, David Michôd's Animal Kingdom, Derek Cianfrance's Blue Valentine, Adam Elliot's Mary & Max, Max Mayer's Adam, Duncan Jones» Moon, Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman's Catfish, Rodrigo Cortés» Buried, and many others.

It's telling how much the film sees the creeps as animals drawn to mischief like mice to hunks of cheese; The Giggler, for one, just couldn't help himself.

It just puts monsters on display like zoo animals, then mostly looks away when it's time to turn them loose in either a sad (and failed) attempt to win a PG - 13 rating or more likely an attempt to pander to every audience except the horror audience that would see right through it, and instantly, as another slam on genre films by a larded gentry too delicate to see them first.

The post-apocalyptic film included crazy visuals, like mutated anthropomorphic animals, and a villainous performance by Malcolm McDowell.

Though the Vietnam War portion does have its moments (like the introduction of Adam Baldwin's Animal Mother), it's what ultimately stands in the way of «Full Metal Jacket» being the definitive film on the subject, even if some people might tell you otherwise.

Beyond also benefits from looking more like Star Trek as it uses more galactic species and creatures in various animal, alien, and human forms than the other two films.

Babe proved talking animal films can work, but Racing Stripes only goes to show that without a good story and rich characterizations, you'll end up like the racehorses — running around in circles.

Though the National Lampoon is no longer in circulation, its legacy is undeniable: From Saturday Night Live to The Onion to, of course, films like Animal House and Vacation, it's had major impact on modern American comedy.

The second trailer for Tom Ford's sublime sophomore feature, Nocturnal Animals is cut out of order compared to the actual film, but feels like it is more «in order» than the first trailer.

My inherent mistrust of the decade that gave us disco fever and pet rocks aside, it's not like there haven't been late 70s / early 80s films with unlikable characters and minimalist storylines that I've enjoyed — Animal House and Caddyshack spring to mind.

A far cry from his mainstream - friendly films like The Notebook, the picture makes up for potentially alienating moments by stockpiling sensationalist ingredients like sex, drugs and family members who morph into farm animals at the dinner table.

It's also a strikingly involving screenplay by Dennis Lehane, an author known for flashier thrillers like Mystic River and Shutter Island (this is his first film script, based on his short story Animal Rescue).

The film portrays her as a woman so damaged in early life, so beaten down by daily existence, that although her crimes are not forgivable, her actions are like the flailings of a wounded animal.

We now have the international trailer for the film that is said to exemplify the new Nordic Twilight movement — a wave of intelligent, character driven genre pictures including the likes of Let the Right One IN and When Animals Dream.

Like other films in the series, the narrator (this time out its John Krasinski) gives an ongoing story for each of the animals and their struggle to survive.

Some of my all - time favorite Sundance films from years past are Beasts of the Southern Wild, Drake Doremus» Like Crazy, Marc Webb's 500 Days of Summer, David Michôd's Animal Kingdom, Derek Cianfrance's Blue Valentine, Adam Elliot's Mary & Max, Max Mayer's Adam, Duncan Jones» Moon, Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman's Catfish, Rodrigo Cortés» Buried, and many others.

The art house elements of Demon are obvious, from the glossy, perfectly framed neon visuals to the haute couture — borrowed from fashion houses like Schiaparelli and Yves Saint Laurent — to thematic touches like the presence of predator animals strewn throughout the film.

If you are going to have films like Animal House and Diner in your background, the idea of ensemble will follow wherever you go.