Sentences with phrase «budget war»

While a technologically sound low - budget war movie, it had the potential — and the right creative team — to be something far more.

The ensuing permanent budget wars will not be pretty.

A surprisingly public budget war is erupting among Tory ministers: they all want austerity — but not on their turf.

President Barack Obama and the Republican - led Congress reached an agreement last December on a 2 - year spending plan that was supposed to lead to a temporary truce in the annual federal budget wars.

These include defense, veterans, housing for the poor, and federal aid to education — all better organized and financed and more combative than science in fighting budget wars.

Dracula Untold is certainly one of this month's most anticipated films; not just because it retells Dracula's origins by way of a stylized big - budget war epic, but also since it could be the first brick in Universal's rebooted Shared Monster Movie Universe.

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So it's more than a little surprising to see Liman's name on the credits for «The Wall,» a gritty, low - budget war movie featuring limited violence, more talking than action and a mere three characters, one of whom is unconscious for most of the movie and another who never appears on camera at all.

A key battle in this budget war will be over taxes, specifically a surcharge on individuals reporting more than $ 1 million a year in income that was first enacted in 2009 and extended in 2011.

As the smoke clears from the opening congressional salvos in the 2013 budget wars, the Obama Administration finds itself with the unexpected — but not entirely unpleasant — job of deciding how to respond to legislators» preliminary plans to give some science programs more money than the White House had requested.

Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson turn in a bizarre and hilarious essay film in the guise of a behind - the - scenes feature on a big - budget war movie.

Let's hope it survives the budget wars.