Sentences with phrase «between big films»

Most movie stars like to take breaks between big films, but they don't necessarily want to stop making money.

Not exact matches

That's where the big difference is between yesterday's film integration and today's telecom / broadcast situation.

In between those films he agreed to star in pal Ben Stiller's 2008 comedy «Tropic Thunder» as the overweight, bigger - than - life movie exec Les Grossman.

Joseph Gordon - Levitt has always sort of hovered between being indie film phenom and a big budget movie star.

«We have had films like Tunde Kelani's Abeni feature at the festival as well as Half of a Yellow Sun, which is a collaboration between Nigeria and the UK, but I think this is an opportunity to do more and to go bigger.

Serving as an MP between 1987 - 2010 and 2012 - 2015 he was also a contestant on Celebrity Big Brother and more recently brought out a film about Tony Blair.

The main difference between Ultimate and other emulsions is that its silver bromide grains are extremely fine — around 10 nanometers across, or 1/10 to 1/100 as big as the grains in ordinary film.

The biggest difference between the live TV taping and regular filming — besides the producer's inability to edit after the fact, of course — is the setting.

Since then, he's bounced back and forth between good films (Big Eyes) and bad (Dark Shadows).

Even the biggest film fan would acknowledge that it's very difficult to get to know someone when conversation is forbidden until the credits roll, but at a concert there's plenty of time to chat between songs, while the songs themselves help to fill any awkward silences.

The film follows the usual trajectory of such a familiar tale, but its focus is on the beats in between such a story's big moments.

As the film reaches for its finale (the big fight to the end between Harry and Voldemort), the film stumbles just a wee bit because, in the big battle prior to the final conflict, several

Later he stages four simultaneous, forgettable battles in the film's biggest fight sequence — and even that moment is deflated by Deadpool himself, who interrupts the action to announce the movie's big VFX clash between entirely computer - generated characters.

Co-starring Survivor contestant turned thespian Colleen Haskell, Schneider's tale of a car accident victim imbued with superhuman powers after being pieced back together with animal organs kept the low - brow rolling while marking his territory among the ranks of the more successful transitions from SNL player to big screen star.Later, in the 2000s, Schneider frequently alternated between starring in his own films (The Hot Chick, Duece Bigalow: European Gigolo), and supporting his old pal Sandler (The Longest Yard, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry), with few on either side truly managing to ignite the box office or his career momentum.

The first feature from Rupert Goold, artistic director of London's Almeida Theatre, the film owes a dramatic and stylistic debt to Capote, another stage veteran's big - screen debut about the complicated relationship between a prisoner facing a murder rap and the writer looking to capitalize on his experiences.

Stone's misguided efforts to turn Alexander into a drama of Shakespearean proportions undoubtedly plays a big role in the film's wildly uneven tone, which flits wildly between talky period piece and flamboyant melodrama (often within the space of a few scenes).

From an opening scene in a prison fist fight to a staunchly bland climax finding him lost in an «unknown» realm when he's forced to shrink himself to fit between molecules (something resembling the resting place of Big Hero 6 mixed with the twilight hour of James Wan's «further»), Scott Lang is never a fully fashioned personality, some accidental prototype linked with schlocky zeal to the film's other do - gooder via a conflicted father / daughter bond.

So says professional killer Jackie Cogan at one point in Killing Them Softly, the third film by New Zealander Andrew Dominik - and considering the filmmaker's efforts to establish a connection between the events in the movie and the economic crisis started in the late 2000s thanks to the greed and lack of scruples of Wall Street, it is easy to see Cogan as an ordinary employee of any company complaining about the lack of vision of his bosses and, on the other hand, the big bankers as Armani - dressing versions of the violent mobsters who inhabit the crime section of the newspapers.

The Big Sick is based on the real - life courtship between the film's writers, Kumail Nanjiani (who also stars) and Emily V. Gordon.

The director discusses his latest film, Manglehorn, starring Al Pacino, his work on commercials influencing his feature films, themes that recur through his work, and the difference between his indie films and those with bigger budgets.

Below are some of the biggest trends shared between the 70 feature - length films playing at the festival this year.

A big fan of adventure both on the big screen and off, I split my time between writing film reviews and updating my travel blog.

LMD: The film asks where one might draw a line between Adam's reactions due to his condition and those of his personality, which comes to a head during his and Beth's big fight.

A precursor to Adam Sandler's «dopey guy with a big heart wins out in the end» films, Tommy Boy is all the more amusing because of the on screen / off screen camaraderie between Spade and Farley.

But casting him in a double role seems a big misstep in the film, as it is difficult to find the logical connection between the two characters.

One thing you should know about the Reader's year - end film rankings is that, from time immemorial, we've limited the candidates to movies that premiered locally between January 1 and December 31 — that's why Toni Erdmann, a big awards favorite in 2016, wasn't eligible until this year, and a handful of highly touted films premiering on the coasts now to qualify for the Oscars (such as Paul Thomas Anderson's Phantom Thread and Michael Haneke's Happy End) won't be considered until 2018.

Hall Pass and Take Me Home Tonight aren't powerhouses by any means, but between their presence and two other films boasting big names entering the competition, Just Go With It could suffer a 50 % fall.

With a ramshackle plot that appears to have been cooked up after drawing deep on the Dude's biggest bong, the film pinballs between awol movie stars, red - scare nightmares and Bikini Atoll bomb tests, while raising important questions of whether God is still angry («what, he got over it?»)

I was a big fan of Leigh's Happy - Go - Lucky with Sally Hawkins and I can see a lot of similarities between the two films.

The biggest strength of the film is its ability to walk the line between reality and supernatural.

In an age where inexpensive, high - quality digital cameras have nominally evened the playing field between the big and small screens, Louis CK's show is one of the precious few that has any right being called «cinematic,» unfurling as a series of short films united by their maker's curiosity regarding family, pop culture and the contours of his narrow worldview.

The biggest difference between Carver's fiction and Altman's film is that while the sexual and ethical tensions that are rife throughout the stories rarely come to the surface, they find collective and catastrophic catharsis in Short Cuts's earthshaking finale.

God of War Not Rated Rotten Tomatoes Score: 88 % On DVD and Blu - ray I do love me some big Asian epics so I was ready to dive into this lavishly produced film about a 16th century war between Japanese pirates and the Chinese as the pirates attempt to invade the Chinese coastline.

It's the same spastic - type kids with the same silly jokes, and if there is one big difference between the two films, it's that the second film doesn't have the added benefit of being a nostalgia film extolling the virtue of the grand national pastime, baseball.

Initially something of a mystery, the playable teaser from Hideo Kojima and film director Guillermo del Toro captivated the gaming community; but eventually amounted to nothing more than a big tease, with the highly publicised breakup between Kojima and Konami.

Eastwood's appearance is clearly the biggest attraction here, which was filmed in between the Sergio Leone «Dollars» trilogy.

The most resonant roles for women centered on the sometimes loving, frequently fraught relationships between mother and daughter as displayed in such films as «The Florida Project» (where the roles were played by Bria Vinaite and Brooklynn Kimberly Prince); «Marjorie Prime» (Lois Smith and Geena Davis); «The Big Sick» (Holly Hunter and Zoe Kazan); and «Lady Bird» (Laurie Metcalf and Saoirse Ronan).

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening December 7, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS Atonement (R for profanity, sexuality and disturbing war images) Decades - spanning romance drama, opening in England in 1935, about the budding relationship between a rich girl (Keira Knightley) and the son (James McAvoy) of her family's maid aborted when he is falsely accused of a crime by her jealous younger sister (Saoirse Ronan).

At a conference at the film's Los Angeles press junket, co-stars Dwayne Johnson, Jeffrey Dean Morgan (who plays Agent Russell) and Joe Manganiello (who plays Burke, the leader of a team of mercenaries sent to stop one of the animals) talked about breaking the video game to movie curse, the ambition of filmmaker Brad Peyton, the relationship between Davis and George, the gorilla, being big animal lovers themselves, and the influence of Jurassic Park.

Michael Fassbender has been attached to numerous franchises in the past five years alone, between his work as Magneto in the X-Men films, David in Prometheus and Alien: Covenant and Aguilar in Assassin's Creed, but he missed out on one that would have been the biggest of them all.

Chang would continue to establish herself as a writer / director throughout the 1990s, making six films in - between small film roles and an occasional bigger role like the one in Ang Lee's Eat Drink Man Woman.

The winning new teen romp Superbad was written by Evan Goldberg and Judd Apatow's protégé Seth Rogen, and directed by The Daytrippers» Greg Mottola, but it still feels like the concluding film in Apatow's trilogy of raunchy, big - hearted, improvisation - heavy comedies about man - children torn between the pleasures of eternal adolescence and the relentless pull of adult responsibility.

'' For instance, we built jungle sets at Leavesden Studios where Harry Potter was filmed and then we went to South Africa and created — and this is the biggest difference between this and the other movie — an entire village in South Africa, south of Durban.

Civil War was also partly filmed with IMAX cameras and the movie in general tends to feel big, visually - speaking, in - between its action sequences and many establishing shots of locations around the globe (as well as the massive title font that's used to identify each individual change in location)- making IMAX the preferable viewing format for Civil War.

Adapting the novel for the big screen, director Taylor - Johnson has had to navigate a high wire between its hard - core pornographic elements, its global popularity, criticism of its sexual violence and film as a profitable commercial venture.

There is a big difference between a film that takes it's time to reveal itself slowly and one which moves slowly because it's dragging things out to hit a certain running time.

The Mountain Between Us is a curious little film — it's low on big moments, not really interested in big dramatic stuff.

Avengers: Infinity War is set to wrap production on July 14th, but that doesn't mean the cast and crew will be getting a big break between films.

However, there is a big difference between a film that takes it's time to reveal itself slowly and one which moves slowly because it's dragging things out to hit a certain running time.

Technically, for Coogler, the biggest difference between filming «Fruitvale Station» and filming «Black Panther» was the equipment.