Sentences with phrase «bonding over the films»

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Those who believe News International is ultimately a criminal organization, the sort of multi-billion pound empire that exists in a James Bond film, see these meetings as proof of the pernicious control that Rupert Murdoch seeks to exercise over British politicians of every party.

From December markets where you can wander with your date and warm up with mulled wine, seasonal film screenings where you can bond over your favourite Christmas movies, Canada is awash with ways to fall in love this winter.

After having a laugh at my expense, we found a suitable substitute and bonded over our love of raw fish and Bradley Cooper films, and I regressed to a high school kid with butterflies in his stomach when she laid her head on my shoulder during the movie.

If you only watch Bond films for the car chases and fight scenes, rest assured they are still exhilirating enough to allow you to gloss over the plot holes.

The important issues raised by the film - centered on the cultural, racial and moral struggle that took place on the American frontier - are glossed over in favor of a juvenile fantasy of male bonding around the campfire.

Chronicling that magic of how perfect strangers can connect so intimately over a short period of time and analyzing that indescribable feeling that creates a strong, trusting bond between two people - a bond that will inevitably turn to love - Linklater's films provide a nice template for how to both simply and intricately weave together the innocence of falling for someone and the complex emotions that will inevitably come with circumstance.

We learn early in the film that Brian and his now deceased dad once bonded over trivia tidbits and a college student quiz show called «University Challenge.»

In the lead - up to the film's release, there were rumblings that Bridesmaids was a straight rip - off of The Hangover, in which a male wedding party bonds over roofies, tasers and Tyson.

I really miss John Barry, after his departure from Bond we had to make do with some adequate scores over several years even from David Arnold, then along came a new Bond in the form of Mr Craig and wow DA really found the formula for Bond and composed two truly magnificent scores if only he could have done Skyfall, that said lets give Thomas Newman a chance see the film with the score then listen to the score as stand alone then we can judge, one thing, I really wish just once they could use John Barry's brilliant 007 theme in a sequence just for old times sake and as a tribute to the man that gave Bond so much.

Based on the books by Michael Bond, he's become a longtime treasure over in England, which might be why the first film didn't do as well at the domestic box office.

Granted, James Bond films are all about formula, but it's hard to get worked up over by - the - numbers ski stunts when, contrary to the famous line, somebody has done it better — Bond himself, in fact, in the film from which that song came, The Spy Who Loved Me.

The film's centerpiece, in which the two come together over a lip - sync rendition of Jefferson Starship's «Nothing's Gon na Stop Us Now», is as crowd - pleasing a moment as any you'll see on screen this year and a testament to the fact that no matter how much Maggie and Milo can dig their claws into one another they will always have a bond that no one can manage to break or fully understand.

The two bond personally and professionally over family problems and a common worship of Beckham, and when director / co-writer Gurinder Chadha starts maximizing the various triangles to keep the film's momentum going, they even fall for the same guy — their coach, Joe (Jonathan Rhys - Meyers).

Having played their characters over multiple films the cast have clearly bonded with their on screen counterparts, but now that the series is over what did Liam Hemsworth, Josh Hutcherson, Sam Claflin and the rest admire most about the likes of Gale, Peeta and Finnick?

John LOGAN, who wrote Gladiator and who has been winning acclaim for his sublime script for the forthcoming film Coriolanus, has long toiled over the Bond 23 script.

The film's simple plot of these four individuals bonding over this new Neighbourhood Watch team mixed in with an alien invasion keeps things low - key enough that the intensely amazing aforementioned riffing nature work so well.

Whether they are fighting over relationships or bonding over dinner, the two families at the heart of «The Oranges» make this film worth seeing.

Christopher Nolan's production company, Syncopy, has recently signed on to produce the 25th film in the James Bond series, and as such speculation is rife over whether Nolan might fancy taking the helm himself.

THR reports that Charlie Countryman director Fredrik Bond is in negotiations to helm the follow - up London Has Fallen, taking over for Antoine Fuqua who directed the first film.

(Scenes in which he and Hoffman unexpectedly bond over such shared characteristics as being terrible at pool and loving films like «Legal Eagles» are warmly crafted showcases for both men, even as they work in a slightly lower register from the rest of the feature.)

Whereas Casino Royale took risks, Quantum of Solace runs mostly on the engine created from its predecessor, including being one of the only entries in the entire Bond run to continue a storyline left over from a previous film.

The car chase over the ice is the highlight of the film, Bond finally getting a bad guy with a car just as dangerous as his.

Rosamund Pike might be a stronger actress, but she feels like she has been looking over what the last 19 films of Bond girls had done, rather than finding an original take on the stock character.

The beautiful women from the James Bond films have intrigued us in many ways over the years, but seeing them join in on the action wielding all sorts of guns definitely added to the sex appeal.

After the two form an unbreakable bond, Joey is purchased by Captain Nicholls (Tom Hiddleston, Thor) and from this point on Spielberg's film follows this beautiful equine creature throughout the years that WWI prevailed over Europe.

Set over one summer, the film follows precocious six - year - old Moonee as she courts mischief and adventure with her ragtag playmates and bonds with her rebellious but caring mother, all while living in the shadows of Walt Disney World.

Liman's approach to film - making, that is actually shooting each scene himself, lends to the film's raw element, choosing hand - held camera scenes over lush wide pans so characteristic of the Bond films.

It's not as perfect as those other two outings, but arguably no Bond films are, and it's certainly an improvement over «Quantum of Solace.»

Rather than putting style over substance, its style was the substance, director Matthew Vaughn pulling out every trick in the book to poke fun at the stuffy clichés of Bond - era spy films while leaning hard into its R rating to sometimes grotesque results.

The friendship between Brooklyn bros Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) and James Buchanan «Bucky» Barnes (Sebastian Stan) threatened to fall apart over the course of the film's explosive events, though, in the end, their lifelong bond endured.

Naomie Harris and Berenice Marlohe play two very different female characters in director Sam Mendes» entry in the franchise, but both actresses are aware of how the female role in the Bond films has changed over the years.

: For all of the body parts that Stephen King has torn asunder in his numerous books and film adaptations, it's ironic that two of the most beloved movies ever about male bonding come from his book «Different Seasons» — a «Body» that spawned the CSI Our Gang of «Stand By Me,» and the prison breakout that lay behind «Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption,» Wisely shortened to the last three titles by writer - filmmaker Frank Darabont, this 1994 classic of an unbreakable man slowly chiseling his way out of a Maine hellhole over the course of decades stands as not only the most soulful film in an understandably macho prison break genre, but also as a film that many rightfully consider to be one of the best movies ever made.

The press conference for the new James Bond film went over just as well as movie fans anticipated.

At the Los Angeles press day for the film Tina Fey, Amy Poehler and Maya Rudolph shared with us what's made their work bonds so strong over the year and how sometimes the best form of family you can make is... [Read more...]

Controversy over the depiction of water - boarding torture techniques during interrogations defused most of its Academy chances save for a tie with the James Bond film «Skyfall» for Best Sound Editing.

Born in 1933, in York, England, composer John Barry is known the world over for his work on the James Bond series, beginning in 1963 with FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE and scoring nearly all of the Bond films up until 1987 with THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS.

But it's true that Wiseau and Sestero really did bond over the Rebel Without a Cause actor — in fact, one of The Room's most famous lines is an homage to that very film.

Nighy and Mortimer have just a couple of scenes together, but they're easily the film's best: both actors sink gratifyingly into the nuances of this incipient friendship, bond over books you actually believe they've read, and give the film its best hope of doing Fitzgerald justice.

They are the beating heart that drives everything that transpires over the course of the film, this bond that develops between the two concrete and sincere.

There are moments that seem almost overwhelming in their intensity; the first moments in the outside world, the touch of a real dog, the understanding that everyone else carried on with a normal life, the shared bond over breakfast cereal but everything feels so natural and unforced that the film carries you gently through them.

If the film were described as a tutorial on MBS (Mortgage - backed Securities), CDO (Collateralized Debt Obligations), Credit Default Swaps, Tranches, Bond Ratings, and Sub-Prime ARMs, most people's eyes would glaze over and they would keep skimming for showtimes of other new movie releases.

Ricky Church continues his countdown to Spectre with a review of Quantum of Solace... Though the James Bond series is over 20 films long, it is very rare any of them contain continuity references to the previous films.

Bond, James Bond has been associated with some cracking cars over the course of his 23 film outings, doing wonders for Aston Martin's bottom line in the process.

Taryn Simon's Birds of the West Indies serves as a meticulous and mesmerizing meditation on materialism, masculinity and geopolitical movements over the course of the last fifty years, via the vehicles, weapons, and women that have featured in Bond films during the same period of time.

1967 and 1983 were great years for James Bond fans — the film franchise spans over fifty years, but those two years are the only ones that saw two film releases within the same year, Casino Royale and You Only Live Twice in 1967 and Octopussy and Never Say Never Again in 1983.