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It is movingly fitting that one of the only superhuman - based films centered on women (in this case, generations of women with Gugu Mbatha - Raw and her growing star power, underrated television character actor Lorraine Toussaint, and youngster Saniyya Sidney bonding and making amends while also going even further back reading ancestral passages from a handed diary) focuses -LSB-...]
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Like Parker's film, Hacksaw Ridge is also based on a true story with faith at the center.
While zipping around Earth several hundred miles above the planet's surface, European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano drove a 220 - pound (100 kilograms) rover across a moon - mimicking landscape here at NASA's Ames Research Center, even ordering the robot to deploy a simulated film - based radio telescope antenna.
As in «Infernal Affairs,» the Andrew Lau film upon which «The Departed» is based, the action centers on the two cops» attempts to uncover each other's identities while protecting their own secrets.
The former music video director's first feature film since 2004's Birth is based on the satirical debut novel by Michel Faber, which centers on an extraterrestrial who comes to Scotland to pick up unsuspecting hitchhikers and bring them to her corporate bosses for use as meat.
The point is not trivial, either, as Dirk is the center of 17 super-popular Clive Cussler adventure novels on which the film is based.
Published quarterly, the issues are based on «symposiums,» which center on filmmakers or themes that reflect current events or are hitched to particular approaches to film, such as close readings of the use of color.
Based on the novel Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli, the film centers on Simon (Nick Robinson), a high - school teenager with a pretty chill life.
Based on a popular podcast, and filmed in Georgia, the six - episode series centers on spooky, fact - based tales from hisBased on a popular podcast, and filmed in Georgia, the six - episode series centers on spooky, fact - based tales from hisbased tales from history.
Based on the novel of the same name by Humberto Constantini, this film adaptation from directors Francisco Marquez and Andrea Testa was a Un Certain Regard contender at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival and plays this week at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
The film centers on Clancy's popular protagonist Jack Ryan, a CIA analyst who in previous films based on Clancy's work has investigated a renegade Soviet submarine (The Hunt for Red October), protected his family from IRA members (Patriot Games), and helped bring an end to a Colombian drug cartel (Clear and Present Danger).
Based on the book by Andy Weir, the film centers on «an astronaut who becomes stranded on Mars and must figure out how to stay alive long enough to get back home.»
Loosely based on Agatha Christie's classic mystery novel Ten Little Indians, the film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger and centers on a DEA task...
The film is based on the novel by Hunter S. Thompson and centers on a journalist who makes his way down to Puerto Rico for a life of...
Based off of screenwriter Will Reiser's real - life experience with cancer, the film centers around a young man named Adam and how he, and his friends and family cope with an abbreviated Five Stages Of Grief — shock, denial, resistance and acceptance.
Based on the novel by Matthew Quick, the film centers on a former teacher (Cooper) who moves home after being released from a mental institution.
Based on the Japanese film, Midnight Sun centers on Katie, a 17 - year - old sheltered since childhood and confined to her house during the day by a rare disease that makes even the smallest amount of sunlight deadly.
Based off Finkel's book of these experiences, the film centers on their dynamic and Finkel's personal sacrifices pursuing the mystery.
Based off of screenwriter Will Reiser's real - life experience with cancer, the film centers around a young man named Adam and how he, and his friends and family cope with an abbreviated Five Stages Of Grief — shock, denial, resistance...
The series, based on the 2014 Bong Joon Ho film, takes place seven years after the world has become a frozen wasteland and centers on a small band of people who inhabit a gigantic, perpetually moving train that circles the globe.
«Snowpiercer,» based on the 2014 Bong Joon Ho film, takes place seven years after the world has become a frozen wasteland and centers on a small band of people who inhabit a gigantic, perpetually moving train that circles the globe.
All the parts fit together — like the hand - forged computer at the center of the story — in The Imitation Game, a thoroughly absorbing film based on the life of Alan Turing, who helped crack the notorious German enigma code during World War II.
Starring Idris Elba and newcomer Abraham Attah, the film is based on the novel by Uzodinma Iweala, centering on the young Agu (Attah), a child soldier tragically separated from his family and forced to join a band of rebels in the civil war of an African country led by Commandant (Elba) who takes in... Read
The film, based on a true story, centers on a CIA agent (Affleck) who attempts to rescue six Americans trapped in the home of the Canadian ambassador during the...
Based on the thrill - ride film, «From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series» is a supernatural crime saga centered around bank robber, Seth Gecko (Cotrona) and his violent, unpredictable brother, Richard «Richie» Gecko (Holtz), who are wanted by the FBI and Texas Rangers Earl McGraw (Johnson) and Freddie Gonzalez (Garcia) after a bank heist left several people dead.
The film is based off the 1960s - 70s cult TV series, and centers on vampire Barnabas Collins» (Johnny Depp) attempt to reintegrate with his descendants after having been buried for 200 years.
Almost every scene could have served as the basis for a short film, at the very least, almost every character leapt off the screen, and could have been followed for a film of their own, not least Anna Paquin «s maddening (but entirely sympathetic) self - centered drama queen Lisa Cohen.
World Trade Center isn't that film, though; for all the A-level big screen talent involved, its mawkish manipulation is no different than any typically trite TV - movie based on a real - life tragedy.
Starring Agyness Deyn, Peter Mullan and Kevin Guthrie, the film is based on Scottish author Lewis Grassic Gibbon's 1932 classic of the same name and centers on a young woman as she deals with the impending First World War.
After discussing Scott's viewpoint on his film and the kind of music he had in mind, Nitzsche went off to his studio to compose the music, creating a predominantly synth - based score, centered around a beautiful love theme.
Bennett Miller «s film, which is based on the true story, centers on du Pont, a paranoid schizophrenic wrestling fanatic and heir to the massive du Pont chemical fortune.
Fittingly, then, Jolie ceded the stage to Loung Ung, whose wartime memoir is the basis of the film, and to two of the young actors, Sreymoch Sareum and Kimhak Mun, who play the children at the center of the harrowing work - camp story.
Based on Michael Faber's acclaimed sci - fi novel, the film's premise is to good to pass up: supposedly existential in tone, the tale centers on an alien (intriguingly played by Scarlett Johansson, who will also be in Toronto with Joseph Gordon - Levitt's directorial debut «Don Jon») sent to earth on a mysterious mission to capture men.
Based on a true story told in a bestselling 2010 book, this film centers on the Burpos, a family of four from the small town of Imperial, Nebraska.
Based on Agatha Christie's classic mystery novel And Then There Were None, the film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger and centers on a DEA task force...
The scandal at the center of the story may seem a little trite (and as an interview with Clooney and producing partner Grant Heslov reveals, it's probably the biggest difference between the film version and the Beau Williamson stage play that it's based on), but you can hardly fault «The Ides of March» for relying on such a tried and trusted premise when real - life politics are just as dirty.
Based on a Stephanie Meyer (Twilight Franchise) novel, this film centers on a young woman who becomes an alien with the hopes she will take over Earth.
The top 10 Boston - based films, ranked by US box - office receipts, includes the Sox - centered «Fever Pitch,» according to Turner Classic Movies and IMDB.com.
«Josie and the Pussycats» (2001) Rachael Leigh Cook lead the fictional band at the center of the film — based on the comic strip of the same name — and got to belt out some great songs as a result!
The Dolby 5.1 soundtrack is fine, with no problems to report on, though the mix is largely front / center - based and only really boosted by Ford's bird hunting scene and plenty of female pop tunes (full list here; despite the film's title and tagline, there's as much as Oasis here as in Definitely Maybe, which is none).
Based on the trailer, it looks like Friedkin is going for a more Michael Moore / Morgan Spurlock approach to documentary, centering himself as a character in the film.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Warner Bros. film is expected to be based on DC's «Birds of Prey» property, which centers on a female - led team that debuted in the comics in 1995 and has included characters over the years such as Barbara Gordon / Batgirl, Poison Ivy, Catwoman and Katana (who was played by Karen Fukuhara in the 2016 movie «Suicide Squad»).
Arad is one of the reasons that comic book - based films are currently the hottest thing in the industry with every comic property now being bought up by studios left, right and center... including comics that haven't even hit the shelves yet.
Presentation: September 22, 2015 7:30 - 10:00 pm 18th Street Arts Center Curator's Lounge 1639 18th Street Santa Monica, CA 90404 Filmmaker J. Louise Makary, who is currently at 18th Street on a Philadelphia - based Pew Fellowship, makes films that...
FotoFocus has provided support to the Cincinnati Film Society project presented at the Cincinnati Art Museum; the Fractured Atlas lens - based project in Havana, Cuba; the screening of the film Punctured by artist, William E. Jones, at the Arles Photography Festival in southern France; the FotoFocus Symposium «Mapplethorpe + 25» held this past fall at the Contemporary Arts Center; and the symposium's follow up discussion at the New Museum in New York.
In the last room of Regen Projects is a sculptural theatre entitled Range Week, where the earlier movies Center Jenny (filmed at Fitch and Trecartin's Los Angeles - based studio) and Junior War (a movie Trecartin pieced together from footage he shot while in high school) are shown.
«Review: Bradford Young, New York, at Bethel Tabernacle AME Church» by Miriam Atkin Art in America Miriam Atkin takes a look back at «Bynum Cutler,» Bradford Young's three - channel film on view at the Bethel Tabernacle AME Church in Crown Heights, Brooklyn during «Black Radical Brooklyn: Funkgodjazzmedicine,» the community - based exhibition co-organized by Creative Time and the Weeksville Heritage Center.
He is also a highly celebrated filmmaker, particularly of films centered on single subjects including Basquiat (1996); Before Night Falls (2000, based on the memoir of writer Reinaldo Arenas); and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007, based on the life of actor and author Jean - Dominque Bauby).
New York gallerygoers, on - the - cusp artists and fashion notables flooded Chelsea's Center 548 on Monday for a night of performances — both musical and non — and art auctions to benefit Ballroom Marfa, the highly - esteemed nonprofit space for contemporary art, film and music based in Marfa, Texas.
Their next show, entitled SWF Seeking Same, is loosely based on the 1992 film later retitled Single White Female, and centers around the idea of obsession and the double.