Sentences with phrase «as the film takes»

It was a problem which Paramount, the studio behind Noah, ran into as the film took shape.

As the film takes us from star - capped frontier panoramas to squalid urban trailers, Haigh and Danish cinematographer Magnus Joenck focus on Charley in nearly every frame, so that his desperation becomes ours.

It's about the feeling of Rocky Horror and, as the film took on this cult second life, the audience who is feeling it.

A good plot twist ending is wasted as the film takes no time to get an audience involved with Statham's heroic arc.

The movie has great time era sets pieces as the film takes the audience from a dystopian future to a realistic version of 1973 that includes wardrobe, hairstyles, and music.

It's a fascinating look at how detailed their notes and visions are as the film takes shape in their minds.

Kathryn Bigelow, Michel Hazanavicius and the Coen Bros. all won in the Big Apple the same year as their films took Best Picture from NYFCC critics and eventually the Oscars.

The Leisure Seeker certainly capitalizes on some bait and switch advertising, as the films takes a wacky turn and heads in a direction that's both predictable and unwelcome.

But even as the film takes its cues from the classic British publisher, 2000AD is drawing from the movie to entice fans of the film to the comics line.

The winning streak continued for Martin McDonagh's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri as the film took home three awards at this Sunday's London Film Critics Awards.

Leigh clearly relishes her character's villainy, almost as much as the film takes pleasure in raking her over the coals, subjecting her to constant verbal abuse, beatings, and much worse (I'll steer clear of specifics to avoid spoiling the film's incredibly demented conclusion).

But as the film takes deeper and darker turns, it also becomes something special, something unflinchingly honest, something that will punch you in the gut AND touch your heart.

We're honestly a little surprised that Nicolas Pesce «s highly anticipated sophomore film didn't drop in 2017 as filming took place earlier in the year.

All the filler is here, as the film takes its time sparking its revolution.

Of all the characters, Thanos has a proper arc from beginning to end as the film takes the old adage that the villain is the hero of their own story and applies that with the Mad Titan.

Not exact matches

He wanted to work on films, but those jobs were scarce, so he took a job as an assistant at a small talent - management company called BKEG, owned by former comedian and comedy manager Barry Katz.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film's tone will be in the same vein as The Social Network, a dramatic take on the triumphs and betrayals of the people involved in Facebook's founding.

But despite a successful business career, Cooper has taken time out leading up to the Super Bowl to film some segments as a reporter for «The Dan Patrick Show.»

From singing show tunes in Grease to playing a ruthless hitman in Pulp Fiction, Travolta's talent has transcended many decades as he continues to take on A-list roles in blockbuster films.

«I think my movie, personally, is one of the most important films that have ever been made in America... I don't know if anyone is going to see it, but I feel the film is going to take care of itself in time and be around as long as there are films.»

Jannard, a camera nut, had persuaded him to look into what it would take to build a digital video camera whose output would look as good as film — and be much smaller and cheaper than a film camera to boot.

So can this film be taken as another medium being inspired by a video game?

The Senate further allows firms to accelerate alternative minimum tax or research credits instead of taking bonus depreciation, and includes film or videotape as property that qualifies for the depreciation.

While he had a great time as the superhero, he says it took over three hours each day to do the makeup for the film.

Eklund, on the heels of a controversial, year - long stint in California as an adult film star under the name Tag Eriksson, got to work taking odd jobs and hawking paninis outside the set of David Letterman's Late Show.

Peirone took inspiration from Jean - Paul Sartre's play No Exit, about the hell experienced by three people trapped in a room, as well as such haunting films as The Shining, Mulholland Drive, and Heavenly Creatures.

Taking Tarantino's films as they come — filthy, crude, and vicious — these thirteen essays provide some thought - provoking approaches to seeing Christian theology through Tarantino's lens.

And so as you can see, which I have reason to fear you will not see in the film, the message of Coriolanus tends to be conservative: republican politics is beset from the get - go by tragic flaws, and the only programmatic political lessons one might take (which includes the lesson that conditions will seldom let you succeed at applying them) are aristocratic - republican ones.

After winning a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her wild - eyed turn as a mental patient in Girl, Interrupted, she attempted a few other serious acting roles but only seemed to find blockbuster success when she took on the lead role in the feature - film adaptation of the video game Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.

I took this from a discussion of Jesus» bloodline that is in wikipedia - «Differing and contradictory versions of a Jesus bloodline hypothesis have been promoted by numerous books, websites and films of non-fiction and fiction in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, which have almost all been dismissed as works of pseudohistory and conspiracy theory.

Groups of young friends who go to see some of the more death - focused horror films in vogue of late will routinely take bets on which stock character will face a grisly end soonest, as when viewing the Final Destination series» a film series that is, essentially, the apex of the set - piece disaster horror movie as orchestrated by MacGyver.

The first in a series of Star Wars «anthology» films — which are in addition to the new Star Wars trilogy — Rogue One takes place before the events of the original film, as a group of rebels try to steal the Death Star.

Most of all, the experience has been gratifying, as God has taken the story he first caused to be lived out in my experiences, and now is blessing others by its retelling in this first - class feature film.

Item: the film clearly portrays Llewyn as considering whether to spontaneously take the off - ramp to Akron, where he has every reason to think his two - year old child is.

Furthermore, they can easily parody the whole position so that (as one critic, a friend of mine who is not unsympathetic to the wider process conceptuality, has phrased it) talk about divine memory may be taken as nothing more than indicating God's continually re-playing some old film or continually listening to some old soundtrack.

As early as the spring of 1980, the ministry began dubbing the film's sound track into other languages to take the cinematic Jesus abroaAs early as the spring of 1980, the ministry began dubbing the film's sound track into other languages to take the cinematic Jesus abroaas the spring of 1980, the ministry began dubbing the film's sound track into other languages to take the cinematic Jesus abroad.

He emphasized that Campus Crusade's mission of getting «the message of Christ to everybody» took priority: «I think [Heyman] hoped that we would have gone on in the lucrative markets of the world to get the Genesis films and the Gospel of Luke out as teaching tools.

They would say that John has taken the same sort of spiritual «licence» with the actual events of Jesus, as a consortium of film directors might take with some heroic theme from history, an heroic theme perhaps from the Bible itself.

While Marvel's earlier films dazzled with stories of great power from great men, women acted merely as props, but Marvel has taken a giant leap forward in female representation.

Deniers, as both Lipstadt and Vidal - Naquet show, seem to have an endless supply of polemical tricks and dodges: they simply discount Jewish testimony out of hand as lie or fantasy; inculpatory testimony from the Nazis themselves is said to have been coerced by the triumphant Allies; documents confirming such testimony are said to be forgeries; Nazi statements and memoranda about the Final Solution are taken at face value if they are euphemistically phrased, but are interpreted as hyperbolic or figurative if they are blunt and explicit; photographs and films of executions are dismissed as fakes.

Yes, the action takes place at a Northeastern liberal arts college, «Seven Oaks,» but as I'll argue elsewhere, one of the film's points is how remarkably dumbed - down a place this generalized lib - ed college is once you scratch the surface.

He's already copied one Kevin Costner film (Dances with Wolves); might as well take on Waterworld too...

The idea of a plucky band of rebels taking on the overwhelming force of the «Empire», in a film produced by an American film agency, was quickly used as a neat piece of propaganda.

Another time, my Songbook will take Morrison and The Doors on their own terms, analyzing their words and music, but as for The Doors, I say that it stands, despite its lack of conventional plot and Stone's perhaps conflicted conception, as one of our best films on popular music, and the most insightful one about rock's founding revolution.

There are a few powerful quotes in the film that express the courage it takes to tell the truth as well as its risks and dangers.

-- upcoming Oz - themed films), as well as impending adult takes on the Little Mermaid, Peter Pan, another Hansel and Gretel movie, two Sleeping Beauty movies, two Pinocchio movies and an Arabian Nights update.

Speaking about the film recently in Los Angeles, Cera — who in this film, takes some refreshingly bold steps away from his usual one - note nerd persona — and co - writer / director Edgar Wright (who also did the zany cult classics Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz) discussed the meaning of the film, the stretching Cera had to go through for the role, and the way in which the film's hyperkinetic action sequences are really just the same as the dance scenes in Grease or a Gene Kelly movie.

Later, God the Father takes on the form of a Native American wiseman (Graham Greene), and leads Mack on a New - Agey «healing trail to bring closure to [his] journey» — the most egregious example of racial essentialism in a film that takes shallow assumptions about foreign cultures as its starting point.

A: It's easy to tell on the first page if a film is taking its characters seriously, rather than as punchlines in and of themselves.

In his third major film as a director, M. Night Shyamalan takes our fears to an extraterrestrial level.