Sentences with phrase «big fall film»

Not exact matches

This summer's box - office totals have also suffered from the expansion of blockbuster season as a handful of films likely to be among the year's biggest releases are slated to come out this fall, among them best - selling novel adaptation Gone Girl, Christopher Nolan's Interstellar, and the latest Hunger Games installment.

Most fall either on the side of big - budget films that take plenty of artistic liberties with...

Although the stadium idea fell through, Cor would soon land a big state contract to build the $ 14.4 million Central New York film hub in suburban DeWitt.

The pressure off, they're free to make out like teenagers and fall in love, a happy interlude the film covers with smart economy, so as to spend more time on getting to know this «hot grandma» (she's struggling to keep her middle daughter pregnancy - free through high school), as well as the couple's first big fight, occasioned when she wonders why he still doesn't want to sleep with her after nearly 20 dates.

After being showcased in big film festivals like Sundance, Imperial Dreams very quickly fell off the radar after it wasn't picked up by a distributor.

Annihilation, like Alex Garland's previous endeavor (and directorial debut), Ex Machina, falls into the category of films that embrace Big Ideas in ways that presuppose viewers are intelligent and attentive.

Critics have fallen over themselves praising the film and I went into the theater expecting very big things indeed.

With all of my complaints about how this film all too often discards promising plot areas to spark a sense of unevenness, hurrying, outside of that area of storytelling, is hardly a big deal, so what this series really has to worry about is, of course, bloating, because all of this unevenness, as well as repetition, could have perhaps been avoided if this saga wasn't just so blasted overblown, not necessarily to the point of falling flat as too sprawling to stick with, but decidedly to the point of feeling rather overambitious.

The scene effectively conveys the king - of - the - world high of a solid drug rush, and the film has just enough of an edge that I winced each time they hit the glass, convinced that one of them would take that big fall into the canyons of L.A. Elizabeth Hurley, meanwhile, is very pretty and sports a lovely English accent but seems to have been airlifted in from an entirely different movie.

For those who don't know, most studios use the fall film festivals as a kind of launching pad for their big awards contenders.

Before «Once» was such a big deal and became an Academy Award winning film (for Best Song «Falling Slowly» in 2007), I was already a huge fan of the film and its music.

From Mathieu Kassovitz's homeless simpleton in See How They Fall, who must kill in order to protect Jean - Louis Trintignant's kindred wanderer, to Emmanuelle Devos» Carla, a deaf secretary and willing accomplice to Vincent Cassel's big money plans in Read My Lips, to Malik in A Prophet: every one of Audiard's films puts us in the often uncomfortable position of being in characters» shoes.

Johnson himself isn't any stranger to the arena of online game diversifications, having starred within the notorious 2005 big screen version of Doom; a movie that even The Rock has admitted fell sufferer to the notorious online game film «curse».

In March, it's been a different story, with big - budget action films London Has Fallen and Allegiant plus horror titles The Other Side of the Door and The Witch.

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 another big film, Rebel in the Rye (directed and written by Danny Strong and co-starring Nicholas Hoult) coming to theaters this fall, a recent wrap on The Year of Spectacular Men (written by her sister Madelyn Deutch and directed by their mother), and production starting on the Netflix romantic comedy Set It Up, a work drought does not seem to be in Zoey's future.

The decision by Warner Bros to release the film in the fall seems to be a shrewd one, to give it some distance from what could be their other big blockbuster, Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk, which opens on July 21.

And a new trailer is here giving the biggest peek yet at what is one of the fall's biggest films.

Here, buy more about the plot holes may be as big as the craters the earthquakes create but the special effects and the script's knowing nods prevent the film from falling apart.

The film's biggest problem, however, is the messy and overly complex narrative, which tries spinning several different subplots into an intricately woven crime thriller but falls flat on its face in the process.

The film opens on a quick recap of the big early events of Genesis through the fall of Man, leading into a quick prologue wherein Noah as a young man sees his father murdered by descendants of Cain.

Gone Girl — $ 11.1 million [4th week; $ 124 million]-- The fall's biggest hit so far is showing fantastic staying power in its fourth week and by next week will have eclipsed «The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button [Blu - ray]» as Director David Fincher's biggest hit film.

Next fall brings his Tom Hanks - starring hostage drama «Captain Phillips» to the big screen, and just a couple of weeks ago it was reported that his Martin Luther King Jr. film is back on, with the wheels turning to make it his next effort.

The two stars fell in love during filming of the earlier To Have and Have Not, later marrying, and in fact new scenes in The Big Sleep were shot with extra dialogue between them to play up on public awareness of their real - life romance.

As Naomi, the penniless New York City tour guide with whom Arthur falls in love, indie - film darling Greta Gerwig is sweet but tame, the fierce edges she showed in last year's «Greenberg» smoothed and smothered by big - budget blandness.

KW: Judging from your upcoming films, Not Easily Broken with Morris Chestnut, Hurricane Season with Forest Whitaker, and Once Fallen with Ed Harris, it looks like you're about to break very big playing leading ladies with your name appearing at the top of the marquee, especially if you land an Oscar nomination.

LGBTQ representation in films from the seven biggest Hollywood studios fell significantly in 2017 according to a study released Tuesday, May 22, 2018, by the advocacy organization GLAAD.

Once the big twist is finally revealed, the film falls back on by - the - numbers action mayhem, but Twohy knows that's part of the thriller game, too, and he's happy to let A Perfect Getaway go down winking.

A serious - minded and decidedly adult fairy tale about a virginal young woman who learns from her brother (Malcolm McDowell) that they are descended from a race of human - panther hybrids doomed to revert to their murderous feline state while making love to anyone outside of their own bloodline — a problem as she has just fallen in love with a sweet - natured zookeeper (John Heard) who specializes in big cats — this is a film swimming in sex, violence, poetry, philosophy and swanky visuals in such extremes that it always seems to be on the verge of becoming utterly ridiculous but it somehow never goes over the edge into camp because of Schrader's serious - minded handling of the material; it may be nonsense but he never treats it as such.

While «Avengers: Infinity War» has been 10 years in the making, selecting the greatest ensemble of Super Hero characters for the film fell squarely into the laps of directors Anthony and Joe Russo, who were tapped by Kevin Feige to helm the studio's biggest film to date.

Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: Megan Morphs into Monster in Tasteless Zombie Flick Megan Fox's Transformers 2 may have been the biggest box - office hit of the summer, but her new film, Jennifer's Body, has a better chance of becoming the biggest flop of the fall.

The films come from 65 countries ranging from Albania to Argentina, but the festival's big liftoff is its long opening weekend when Hollywood showcases its upcoming wares — the movie equivalent of Paris's fall fashion preview.

For Ruffalo's Bruce Banner who sadly will not get his own solo movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, he got a big role in the fall's Thor: Ragnarok, a film itself which revitalized the Thor sub-franchise and offered major change in the status quo of the MCU.

Yet another day of Avengers: Infinity War's dreamy theatrical run and yet another film falls before the big Disney - Marvel juggernaut.

On first viewing, I mostly loved the film, but had some reservations, but a second viewing recently saw them fall away, even when it came to the biggest of them, Aaron Taylor - Johnson «s turn (first - time round, he felt out of his depth, the second, that seemed to be the exact right approach to the part.

That makes the next big summer movie after those Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, so get ready for the marketing for that film to increase.

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-- Matt P. [LIKED] I kinda liked the initial small story of the film localized to Mr. Six and his impact on his neighbourhood, but it lost me as it got bigger and fell into sentimentality.

There are some big trends of note in the many, many, many films on the docket for the fall.

Long after the form fell out of vogue — and in an era when many big - budget studio films pack the screen with saturated candy colors and in - your - face 3 - D effects — indie filmmakers and even the occasional studio - movie veteran are turning to the monochromatic.

«Downsizing» presents a world that's falling apart — even if Leisureland does boast three Cheesecake Factory locations — but Payne and Taylor bring their trademark acidic empathy; this film may share the darkly ironic «no matter where you go, there you are» message of a film like John Frankenheimer's «Seconds,» but Payne and Taylor clearly believe in the power of people looking outside their own little worlds and taking in the big picture.

All that said, it pays to remind ourselves that while the program last year was starrier, almost all of the big auteurist films fell some way short of expectations («Knight of Cups,» «Queen Of The Desert,» «Every Thing Will Be Fine» respectively) and the true stars emerged elsewhere — in Andrew Haigh «s now Oscar - nominated «45 Years,» in Jafar Panahi «s Golden Bear - winner «Taxi,» Pablo Larraín «s Grand Prix winner «The Club,» and elsewhere.

Though, the fact that the film isn't entirely without obvious merit confuses things even further: Krauss is wryly brilliant as Krauss and delivers the film's biggest laugh with his Herzog - ian reasons for using a wheelchair; Gael Garcia Bernal has a great time as a lecherous member of Laura's delegation, spinning his suitcase with the sneering verve of a cartoon villain who twirls his mustache and gleefully acts smarmy before being felled by his own beleaguered bowels; Herzog's shots of Diablo Blanco, portrayed by Bolivia's real - life Uyuni salt flats, are among the most stunning in any film released this year; Shannon has fun in the impromptu photo shoot that takes place toward the end of the film; and as expected, there's a fascinating push and pull in the battle between human and nature at the heart of the film's central premise.

I think the biggest problem this film faced was the comparison between father and son because people set the bar so high that it ended up falling just short of the expectations.

It's his biggest film in scope and budget, and seemed from a distance as if it could turn out to be his most conventional — at least if it fell into the structural traps that so many biopics do.

Never is the irritable insurance pitchman more chafed than when his prehistoric brethren are stereotyped as mere musclebound cretins with brainpans the size of M&M s. And although the characters in the big - budget, special - effects - laden prehistoric epic «10,000 B.C.» don't exactly fall into that whole «Captain Caveman» mold — they stand upright, they speak English, they wear stylish dreadlocks — movie - goers, Neanderthal or not, likely will find the film's primitive plotting every bit as insulting.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening August 6, 2010 BIG BUDGET FILMS Flipped (PG for mild epithets and mature themes) Puppy love drama about a 2nd grader (Madeline Carroll) whose enduring crush on a cute classmate (Callan McAuliffe) goes unrequited for a half dozen years until the script is flipped when she starts to lose interest just as he finally begins to fall for her.

In keeping with Halloweentown High's pattern of falling short of the first two films, its DVD is a bigger disappointment in the bonus feature department than the double feature release.

The Newell film Harry Potter 4 most resembles, however, is Four Weddings and a Funeral (his conduit to the big time and, consequently, the one he's most likely to cannibalize when handed the golden ticket), in that this third sequel tries to worry itself about the trials of youngsters falling in puppy love, going to their first formals, and learning that there are such things in the world as death and taxes.

Meanwhile, it would appear that the film's minders are opting not to build up buzz via the fall festival track: in this Collider interview, Wahlberg explains that they'll likely skip Toronto and the rest, choosing instead to «go out and go big» with a December release.