Sentences with phrase «back directed his shot»

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U.S. forces in Syria have already faced direct threats from Syrian and Iranian - backed forces, leading to the shoot - down of Iranian drones and a Syrian jet last year, as well as to tensions with Russia.

From public pot shots by then chief executive and co-founder Rahul Yadav, directed at the company's investors and board members, which led to his ouster later, to high cash burn, the once revered startup has been struggling to get back on its feet.

I like to think of myself as a fairly rational individual, which is why what has and is going on at Arsenal confounds me... little wonder people have gone so far as to suggest that Wenger is actually sabotaging the club... one only needs to look at our starting 11 to stoke the flames of conspiracy... just think of the perceived importance of this game, considering the loss to Stoke, the historically significance of the two teams involved, the controversy that swirled around our two meetings last season, the proximity to the closing of the window and the general disdain being directed towards the manager once again... how is it even possible that you wouldn't come to Anfield with all guns blazing... not a single shot on target, with the back - up keeper in no less... where were the new signings?

Over the past few years Monaghan has shot lead roles in back - to - back films for The Weinstein Company, including Phillip Noyce's THE GIVER, opposite Meryl Streep and Jeff Bridges, and the 2017 release AMITYVILLE: THE AWAKENING, directed by Franck Khalfoun.

Rawson Thurber wrote and directed the surprise hit, but this time around Clay Tarver is on script duty and there's no word on whether Thurber will be back to call the shots.

Turner is naturally back, alongside Tye Sheridan (Scott Summer / Cyclops), Kodi Smit - McPhee (Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler) and Alexandra Shipp (Ororo Munroe / Storm) for a film written and to be directed by Simon Kinberg, due to kick off shooting this summer.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

The «Select Scenes Commentary with Sally Potter» is not an audio commentary track but a ten - minute featurette of Potter discussing a few elements of the film in detail, such as the scenes of Orlando's asides to the camera (her cinematic version of the direct address sequences from the novel, but pared back through the shooting until there are only a few, very brief addresses, «a sort of complicity» she calls it) and the casting of Quentin Crisp («He is the true queen of England, he's my idea of royalty,» she confesses, as she describes his presence as way to turn the idea of sex and gender on its head right from the beginning).

Back in December, Omega Underground revealed that Sony's The Crow reboot directed by Corin Hardy and starring Jason Momoa would shoot in Budapest, Hungary.

He shot the art - heist thriller Trance in late 2011, took a break to direct the London Olympics opening ceremony in 2012, and is now back at work putting the finishing touches on Trance.

To a western audience, Riyadh might feel almost as alien as the Bathtub, and Al - Mansour shoots the city, and the world, with both the back - of - the - hand expertise of an insider, and the careful eye of an outsider (she went to film school in the U.S, and had to direct mostly from the back of a van, lest she be seen doing the job in public).

With Brad Bird back directing, this could be the shot of life that Pixar needs to come back to life.

Set to be released late last year, «Phone Booth,» directed by Joel Schumacher, was held back only weeks before its release due to the DC sniper shootings.

Matthew Vaughn was slated to direct the last X-Men movie, X-Men: Last Stand, but backed out just a few weeks before shooting began, and was replaced by Brett Ratner.

I don't think Mr. Cooper was directing his tweet specifically at me (since I have never made that statement), but I took the bait and tweeted back that a consumer proposal is not the same as bankruptcy, so perhaps it was time to shoot a video so we could each explain our position.

Hollywood has been using Kaua`i as a back lot for feature movies since 1933, when the film WHITE HEAT, directed by Lois Weber, was shot on the island.

The camera also directs towards the person reviving you too, which is a huge annoyance, as it means you generally respawn with the Helghast shooting you in the back.

Roberts shot back — after asking the chair, Arlen Specter, not to recess until he'd answered — with direct answers: The movies Dr. Zhivago and North by Northwest.