Sentences with phrase «as matinee»

FORT WORTH — Fort Worth Opera Festival offers Brief Encounters (April 29 - May 1), three 15 - minute operas, including Avow by Mark Adamo, Again by Jake Heggie and Feel the Tango by Fort Worth Opera's artistic director Joe Illick; Maria de Buenos Aires (April 27 & May 5) by Argentina's tango king Astor Piazzolla; and Gaetano Donizetti's comedy Don Pasquale (April 28 - May 6) in a production that transplants the story to Hollywood, casting Pasquale as a matinee idol who doesn't see that his charms have faded.

Fine as a matinee or rental later Born in China is rated G.

Curtis» performance is an amusing spoof of classic movie heroism and his own status as a matinee idol.

Second - run theaters are another great option for cash - strapped parents; they offer the same advantages as matinees, although they might have an older selection of films.

Not exact matches

Just $ 7 — say, the price of a matinee movie ticket — could give a child a week's worth of food and education, as well as the initial clothing and health supplies needed upon rescue.

The sermon's narrative runs continuously like the old serial matinees at the movies, but the preacher experiences the sermon as an artistic and religious endeavor that must be repeated every week.

Joe Johnson and the Atlanta Hawks are hoping to continue their hot start to the season as they host the Toronto Raptors in a matinee game on NBA TV as part of the league's tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr..

The New York Times once characterized him as a connoisseur of the obvious on the cliché matinee.

Clinton supporters have a chance to score Broadway's hottest ticket with a special fundraising performance of «Hamilton,» scheduled as an extra matinee on July 12.

I could see you wearing them all to a variety of events, such as tea, museum exhibits, a matinee.

A higher budget and a longer running time would have made this even better, but even as it stands, it's a satisfying film in the Saturday - matinee mold.

The third time, in this case, really is the charm, or rather, the Charming, as Rupert Everett's foppish suitor prince from Shrek II now finds himself sadly relegated to dinner - theatre derring - do, fighting a clumsily costumed pseudo-Shrek atop a wooden hobby horse, two shows a night with a weekend matinee.

As directed by John Stevenson, it's a mildly amusing matinee adventure, and superior to Gnomeo and Juliet in every way.

Upon exiting my second viewing on a cloudy matinee Sunday, I found that Malick's vision had rendered our world drab and cheap — as if, assuming we assign The New World a certain legitimacy as history, Captain Christopher Newport's (Christopher Plummer) warnings to his fellow settlers in the film had fallen on deaf ears, allowing America to grow up stunted, deformed, tainted, and gross.

The Legend of Zorro is a Saturday matinee entirely lacking in Saturday - matinee thrills or brevity — what's passable for the first 80 minutes or so becomes intolerable as the movie ticks past the two - hour mark.

Miller's most Pirandellian role was as the «decency league» activist in Matinee (1993) who is actually an actor in the employ of William Castle - like showman John Goodman.

Directed again by longtime Miller fan Dante, Matinee contains a wonderful «in» joke wherein Miller is identified as a fraud via his photograph in a Famous Monsters of Filmland - type fanzine — the very sort of publication which canonized Miller throughout the 1970s.

For sheer entertainment value, though, little in Cannes could best Michel Hazanavicius's The Artist, a black - and - white silent movie about the end of silent movies, starring the rubber - faced Jean Dujardin (a veteran of Hazanavicius's hilarious OSS 117 spy - movie send - ups) as a vain Hollywood matinee idol who digs in his heels and refuses to adapt to talking pictures.

The festival will present two classic French films by master director Jean - Pierre Melville, Léon Morin, Priest and The Red Circle, as well as a number of school matinees with Educational Kits organised by the festival in partnership with the Irish Film Institute (IFI), which provide an ideal French cinematic experience to the young audience.

It isn't the comedy of the summer, I'd even go so far as to say that I don't think we really had a «comedy of the summer» this summer, that it hoped it would be, but it's a fair enough distraction to warrant a nice matinee viewing.

George Segal gets the biggest role as Peter Gusenberg, a ruthless Moran gunman in a tempestuous affair with a showgirl (Jean Hale), and Clint Ritchie is Capone's favored lieutenant Jack McGurn, a young, ambitious guy with matinee idol looks and an initiative that earns him the job of planning and executing the Moran hit.

As directed by John Stevenson («Kung Fu Panda»), it's a mildly amusing matinee adventure, and superior to «Gnomeo and Juliet» in every way.

Regressive as it is, Men in Black 3 more or less works as a lazy matinee, or as a friend put it, an adequate «Doctor Who» episode.

Though Robert Redford may be the very platonic ideal of a movie star — a matinee idol from films such as «Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,» «The Sting,» «The Way We Were,» «The Electric Horseman» and «Out of Africa» — he has of late been involved with smaller - scale, socially conscious dramas.

Just as another of this summer's superhero movies, X-Men: First Class, established its own identity by sporting 1960s fashions, Captain America: The First Avenger (it's firsty work, coming up with superhero subtitles) is set during the Second World War, and it's true to the two - fisted, square - jawed spirit of a 1940s Saturday matinee serial.

Some impressive Terminator - type special effects, various plot holes, kung - fu derring - do and action as well as some wooden acting by the muscles from Brussels make for Saturday matinee entertainment, but little else.

But no one fulfills his duty better than that lanky slice of wry known as Bill Nighy, who plays an aging matinee idol making hay as younger thespians are otherwise engaged.

Set against the backdrop of the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, Matinee stars John Goodman (Arachnophobia / 10 Cloverfield Lane) as Lawrence Woolsey, a movie producer / promoter who is plugging his new movie Mant!

The report suggests that Fantastic Beasts could do slightly better, as the film is seeing Doctor Strange - like matinees - perhaps lifting the film to a $ 75 + million opening.

It's that ability to subsume himself in a character despite matinee idol looks that will serve him well in future, as will a surprisingly light comic touch, given full vent in one of the film's standout scenes — Lizewski's delusional De Niro moment in front of his bedroom mirror.

As Joe Dante points out in one of the special features, major movie studios just don't make films like Matinee because they don't know how to market them.

Unlikely scenarios (including the central love story) are established just to be rebuked in matinee idol moments (and the scene in which Watson finally dumps cad Bill (Dominic West) is an inexplicable graft from Dying Young), and by the end of Mona Lisa Smile the only thing curious is how the picture manages to cast all men as either philandering jerks or ciphers with dicks, while all subplots (one of them concerning philandering Giselle) are summarily dropped just as they threaten to provide the piece with something like depth and humanity.

Affleck's on - screen appeal, as it were, was always rooted in a matinee idol's identification and a nimble sense of cleverly apportioned timing, and maybe that's why it makes sense to some to cast him as a smooth, glad - handing politician.

A higher budget and a longer running time would have made this even better, but even as it stands, it's a satisfying film in the Saturday - matinee mold, with interesting characters and engaging (if not always convincing) special effects.

Pattinson was as familiar a matinee - idol name as any male actor in the world — and seemingly trapped forever in his role as the sullen vampire Edward.

This week Damion abandons us as Douglas and I welcome a guest, Hatter from The Dark of the Matinee, as we talk about those movies so bad they're good and toe famed documentary Best Worst Movie.

Even as a throwaway blockbuster it barely makes its bid for matinee glory.

Hoffman, who was no matinee idol figure with his tubby, lumpy build and limp blond hair, made his career mostly as a character actor.

As Gheorghe, Alec Secareanu brings matinee - idol looks, easy charm, and palpable thoughtfulness to bear.

In others, as when he and Grahame catch an afternoon matinee of Ridley Scott's Alien, she takes the reins, loudly guffawing at all the stomach - bursting gore while Turner and the rest of the audience cower in fright.

All these years later, this affectionate tribute to old Hollywood and innocent matinee westerns is just as funny, thanks to a knowing script (by Steve Martin, Lorne Michaels and Randy Newman), engaging performances (by Martin, Chevy Chase and Martin Short) and Landis» savvy direction, which is larger than life in all the ways that those original westerns were.

I remember seeing HOW THE WEST WAS WON from the front row of the Majestic Theater in Downtown Dallas as a 7 - year - old when my older brother's scout pack was taken there for a Saturday matinee.

I will say that Edwards» Godzilla is vastly superior to the Emmerich film and even with its flaws is at least worth a matinee as long as your are a fan of the King of Monsters and not of the actors involved.

Veteran director Joe Dante, who had a nice run from the late»70s to late»90s with films such as «The Howling,» «Gremlins» and «Matinee,» attracted a decent cast and conjures up a nice milieu for «Burying the Ex» - horror shops, goth dance clubs and the like.

General Admission: $ 11.50 Matinees: $ 9.50 for shows starting before 5:00 PM Students: $ 9.50 with valid student ID Military: $ 9.50 with valid ID Seniors: $ 8.50 Children < 12: $ 8.50 Double Features (i.e. two films screening back - to - back and listed as a «double feature»): $ 14 general admission; $ 12 students, seniors, and children.

But, if one can get past the overblown nature of the script, Sahara is a fun movie, which plays as an unapologetic Saturday matinee popcorn flick.

Los Angeles Opera The Los Angeles Opera supports local arts programs with special matinees of children's operas for students as well as community - wide initiatives.

The alley wasn't as dark as Danny would've liked, and Evan was driving him crazy, spinning the snub - nose like a cowboy in some Sunday matinee.

As adept with Jamaican vernacular as she is at revealing the internal machinations of a fading and bloated matinee idol, Margaret Cezair - Thompson weaves a saga of a mother and daughter finding their way in a nation struggling to rise to the challenge of independencAs adept with Jamaican vernacular as she is at revealing the internal machinations of a fading and bloated matinee idol, Margaret Cezair - Thompson weaves a saga of a mother and daughter finding their way in a nation struggling to rise to the challenge of independencas she is at revealing the internal machinations of a fading and bloated matinee idol, Margaret Cezair - Thompson weaves a saga of a mother and daughter finding their way in a nation struggling to rise to the challenge of independence.

Financial supporting can be as easy a making a planned pledge each month for a little as $ 5 a month, the price of one cup of coffee at a coffee house, less than lunch at a fast food restaurant and even less than a matinee ticket for a movie.