Sentences with phrase «builds upon the film»

Outside TV's «A Life in Proximity» series builds upon the film and takes a deeper dive into the stories that Steele's project tells.

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The movie certainly builds upon themes that Christ - followers might find challenging and counter-intuitive to western culture, but certainly in an insightful way that's also benefitted by some impressive voice acting and unbelievable set pieces you won't expect from a stop - motion film.

«This expansion will help create hundreds of good - paying jobs, generating millions of dollars to local businesses and further build upon New York's booming film industry.

A bill that would build upon the state's film tax credit has been sent to Cuomo's desk for signing or vetoing.

Building upon previous work on fluid and viscous sheet simulation also done at Columbia Computer Graphics Group, Zheng has developed a new viscous sheet simulation method to model the color film stretch during the hydrographic printing process.

Gillespie smartly uses the known and builds upon it with context and some style, using «modern day» Tonya, Jeff and LaVona among others as interview subjects for a documentary of sorts that frames the film, but also has the characters speak into the camera in non-interview segments to help give Tonya some humanity, or at least make sure you have a better idea about all of her story and life coming out and you did going in.

An emotionally heavy and truly moving film, Dawn is an absolute marvel of modern science fiction, building upon the strong and unmovable foundations Rise of the Planet of the Apes had left earlier.

Even though the subtext here about the genocidal lies that great civilizations are invariably built upon threatens to deflate the film's soufflé texture, the Marvel Universe's unshakeable faith in the clear delineation between good and evil luckily prevents Ragnarok from ever truly buying what Hela's selling.

Elizabeth: The Golden Age doesn't offer anything new, and it doesn't feel like it builds enough upon the previous film to be a worthwhile endeavour.

As he tells Dr. Madeleine Swann (Léa Seydoux, «The Lobster»), Bond never stops to think about what he does, but the film does think about it, creating a sober and intriguing engagement with the character and his legacy that builds upon the concerns of «Skyfall.»

Shane Meadows» previous film «Once Upon a Time in the Midlands» (2002) was, as its title would suggest, an attempt to transplant the American western onto English soil — but the hybrid which emerged was a disappointing romantic comedy that almost ruined the director's reputation (carefully built upon the improvised do - it - yourself naturalism of his 1997 debut «Twenty Four Seven» and his 1999 follow - up «A Room for Romeo Brass&raquUpon a Time in the Midlands» (2002) was, as its title would suggest, an attempt to transplant the American western onto English soil — but the hybrid which emerged was a disappointing romantic comedy that almost ruined the director's reputation (carefully built upon the improvised do - it - yourself naturalism of his 1997 debut «Twenty Four Seven» and his 1999 follow - up «A Room for Romeo Brass&raquupon the improvised do - it - yourself naturalism of his 1997 debut «Twenty Four Seven» and his 1999 follow - up «A Room for Romeo Brass»).

Ten years later, working from an adaptation of the caper novel by W.R. Burnett scripted in collaboration with the author, he essentially launched the heist film as a genre of its own and set the blueprint that all subsequent heist dramas built upon.

The film builds upon ideas presented in Civil War and in comic books by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby dating back to 1966.

«Fast & Furious 6» (2013) 69 percent: With high - octane humor and terrific action scenes, this film builds upon the winning blockbuster formula that made «Fast 5» a critical and commercial success — a formula that depends on Diesel being in the center of the action.

In the education of aspiring filmmakers, when every single bit of available information builds upon the artist's craft and know - how, vital role was played by countless prize film magazines.

However, the problem is that the film adheres to the worst parts of the book, namely, its ridiculous premise and sketchy details, building upon a house of cards that could collapse once any amount of pressure is exerted on its flimsy, edgeless design.

Marvel's newest film, Thor: Ragnarok (directed by Taika Waititi and written by Eric Pearson, Craig Kyle and Christopher Yost), is filled to the brim with references to Marvel Comics and, as it builds upon the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it is also filled with references to other Marvel films.

Still, it's frustrating that this couldn't just build upon the satisfactory original DVD and become the film's definitive release.

Therefore, this year's The Divergent Series: Insurgent aims to build upon the audience of the first film.

If there's one aspect that prevents Bolt's outstanding screenplay from quite reaching the dizzying pedestal upon which Spielberg places it, it lies in its overstatement of Lawrence's contradictions, the «no one ever knew him» assertion with which the film begins, building towards the answer, «least of all Lawrence himself».

The last of 2013 is upon us and I've been shoveling in just about as many films from the year as I can, building towards my awaiting best of / worst of lists and the second annual Silver Screen Riot Awards.

Luckily, the marriage of Martin Scorsese — the unofficial mafia whisperer in modern cinema — alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, Jack Nicholson, Matt Damon, Vera Farmiga, Martin Sheen, Alec Baldwin, and Mark Wahlberg, builds upon the strength of the original film by injecting gritty realism, eliminating somber black - and - white flashbacks, and providing a grim bookend that doesn't occur in the Hong Kong film.

The heart of the film is in the number of scenes just between the two women, with Tully nudging out bits of truth about Marlo's relationship with her kids and husband that the older woman seems wary to admit lest it suggest that her suburban lifestyle is built upon a lie, or is something to be ashamed of.

Combined, they build up to a tense finale that relies as much upon the film's supporting cast as the overall premise.

Using all era derived dialogue, natural light, and few special effects, the film instead builds a thick atmosphere upon an era of toxic religious fervor.

Beyond is a sense a hybrid film, building upon JJ Abrams» previous two films, while hearkening back to the days of the Original Series.

He punctuates the building dread with a handful of jump scares — usually really effective ones — but the film is not reliant upon this gimmick.

Credit goes to co writer / director Walt Becker for giving the film the right look and energy for which to build a farce upon, and even if we've seen this story in various forms before, the hip music and cast chemistry give the film a feeling of freshness that is crucial.

Although the film ends with a hopeful note about putting the past behind and building upon happiness for the future, the downsides of pat characterizations is that we never get the sense that the burdens they carry and flaws in their character will ever allow them anything more then a temporary lift up out of the abyss of misanthropy.

The character's introduction in Captain America: Civil War (more on that later) is built upon here as the film does a fantastic job of showing audiences Peter's teenage earnestness that it makes it feel more like a coming - of - age film than a superhero blockbuster.

The truly spectacular action sequences never falter, more seamlessly blending live - action performance and stunt work to CGI marvels: a rampaging battle staged on the side of a building and a runaway train sequence easily trounce the efforts of the first film, and Raimi's effects team (again supervised by John Dykstra) also subtly improves upon the hero's web - slinging transit high above the city streets.

Made at a cost of only $ 10.5 million, the film began to build slowly but eventually took in almost $ 15 million in North America, then about half that upon re-release in the slightly shorter version (141 minutes) in 1972.

The disarming directness and seeming simplicity of Reichardt's direction can lull you into thinking that there isn't anything going on, when in fact the film is built on a multiplicity of details and insights, never commented upon but essential to understanding the character and her situation.

They left the confines of privileged suburbia, turned to the action on the streets, and built upon the world introduced in the first film.

Like the couple's previous exercises in garish mockery (Napoleon Dynamite, Nacho Libre, Gentlemen Broncos), this new film is built upon the notion that blue - collar folks with bad haircuts, worse wardrobes and naive idealism should be teased to the hilt.

Instead, it is remarkable for its foundation, for all of the substantive storytelling infrastructure that Kusama builds the film upon in the first place.

Comparatively, Rees will serve to build upon her work past work in directing the 2015 HBO bio-pic Bessie - which starred Queen Latifah as legendary blues performer Bessie Smith - with the impending release of Mudbound, making the film a production that no Netflix subscriber will want to miss out on seeing for themselves.

Hornaday, a former film choreographer whose resume dates back to Flashdance and ABC Afterschool Specials, knows enough to pay tribute to Ferris Bueller's Day Off with a nearly shot - for - shot scene recreation and to Disney's Flight of the Navigator, a wonderfully random screening subject (sadly not excerpted) upon which Dylan and Josh begin building their friendship.

And now, after 40 years of building upon these themes, Verhoeven is giving us his best film.

Although Age of Ultron is at times awkwardly shoehorned into the timeline of the larger Marvel film universe, Whedon is able to build upon the strong foundation he's already put in place, laying down a challenge to DC's upcoming Justice League films as well as his successors in the Avengers franchise moving forward....

Beginning after the events of The Avengers film, Loki calls upon Doctor Doom to capture the Silver Surfer and harvest Cosmic Cubes from his board to build a powerful superweapon.

Directed by Derek Cianfrance, who also co-wrote the script, the film allows its characters to develop as authentic people by providing foundations upon which the actors can build highly convincing emotions.

Then, the film picks up where The Two Towers left off, steadily building upon itself as the entire world of Middle Earth prepares for war.

It would be unfair to ask any other film to mix insight with carnage but again the Diablo Cody pedigree is built upon such knowing play with conventions; Jennifer's Body has the necessary structure to outdo not only Scream with the genre self - awareness but also Heathers with a look at the «scorched earth» dynamics of high school existence heightened by a string of murders.

The film manages to build significantly upon and outdo Neil Jordan's recent Byzantium in terms of clawing back the genre from its more recent...

It's a deft act of performance - in - reverse, stripping away the character rather than building upon it, and it's arguably the showiest, most expansive turn we've yet seen in a Mike Leigh film.

Rather than reconfigure the heritage of Nigeria or South Africa in order to tell its story of heart - shaped superpower plants, retractable bulletproof suits, and the technologies built upon the alien metal vibranium, the film shows how the world sees Wakanda, as a hidden, developing nation low on resources.

While there is a lot of MCU history and future that is built upon the foundation of this film, so much of it is underdeveloped or unexplored in the movie.

Layers build upon themselves and become more compressed, which ultimately shrink the area of the lens and harden it to create a cloudy film.

The designers at Naughty Dog have absorbed the vernacular of film and then built upon it productively, not slavishly, to create something wondrous.