Sentences with phrase «by other characters in the film»

Not exact matches

Meanwhile, Vox recently floated the idea of Fox going all - in on Deadpool by launching a film series, similar to Disney's The Avengers series, that would see his character team up with others from the X-Men comics to form a group known in comic books as the Uncanny X-Force.

Lions Gate Entertainment (No. 54) has had box office success with two major franchises: The Twilight series (produced by Summit Entertainment, a Lions Gate subsidiary) and Hunger Games, which have much in common as they are both film adaptations of bestselling young adult book series, are fantastical (one is about vampires and the other about a futuristic dystopia), and are anchored by a dynamic young female character (portrayed by Kristen Stewart in Twilight, Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games).

Director Tom Dey's film is yet another by - the - numbers romantic comedy where the same tired escapades ensue, including one character's climactic discovery of the other's secret (in this case, when Tripp finds out about Paula's career as a female Hitch), and their eventual reunion at the end.

Deathly Hallows is more heavily steeped in Potter mythology than any of the other films, and as a result less diehard viewers may find themselves confused by the frequent references to earlier events or unseen characters.

In fact, the film's most powerful moments occur when other characters show empathy toward the boy — most notably in a scene where he is caught trying to dine - and - dash, and his fate is decided by a waitresIn fact, the film's most powerful moments occur when other characters show empathy toward the boy — most notably in a scene where he is caught trying to dine - and - dash, and his fate is decided by a waitresin a scene where he is caught trying to dine - and - dash, and his fate is decided by a waitress.

Written and directed by Karen Leigh Hopkins, the film's tone looks to be all over the place, but it's good to see James Badge Dale as something other than a supporting character in an action blockbuster.

Most of Lady Bird's teen characters are united by these and other populist totems (in one adorable departure from a world of cultural verisimilitude, Sacramento seems to be a haven for Stephen Sondheim nuts), but the film finds them increasingly aware of the highly visible class markers that separate them.

The foundation of the film, as well as the foundation for most of the other characters in the film, is the happily married couple of Tom and Gerri, played by the terrific Jim Broadbent and Ruth Sheen.

Unfolding like Roman Polanski's take on «The King of Marvin Gardens» while simultaneously serving as a suitable spiritual sequel to the director's debut, «Afterschool,» in which the male desire to connect meaningfully with others is frayed and warped by life experience, «Simon Killer» is Antonio Campos» latest chilly, chilling character study, with Corbet effectively replacing Ezra Miller, who led the previous film, as a neuroscience major who studied how the eyes and the brain relate, but has a seriously loose wire between his own brain and his heart.

Aside from the well - noted fact that more superior long - form drama (and comedy) can be found on television than in cinemas, the two most interesting motion picture experiences I had in 2012 were in galleries: The Clock (Christian Marclay, 2010), a staggering and hypnotic achievement of which I still have some of its 24 hours to catch up with, and two multi-screen installations by Candice Breitz: «Him» and «Her» in which many scenes from the films of Jack Nicholson (in Him) and Meryl Streep (in Her), isolate the actors from their filmic background leaving the actors to speak to and interrogate each other across space and time on many themes of character, identity, success, failure, anger and disappointment.

Real - life stuntwoman Zoe Bell (who doubled for Uma Thurman in «Kill Bill» and Lucy Lawless in «Xena: Warrior Princess») and Tracie Thoms (whose role would have been played by Pam Grier or Samuel L. Jackson in any other movie) deliver great performances throughout their half of the film, but it's Kurt Russell who walks away with «Death Proof» as Stuntman Mike, yet another excellent addition to his rogue's gallery of classic characters.

The movie is nominally seen through the eyes of Hitler's naïve secretary Junge (Lara) who has become attracted by Hitler's magnetic personality cult, but the film finds time to draw in several other characters to give different impressions of life in the dying city.

Then there's other such unclassifiable ephemera as the McLuhanesque meltdown My Name Is Bruce, the 2007 film in which Evil Dead's only continuing star, Bruce Campbell, plays himself, hired to fight a demon by fans who erroneously believe he's as handy with a chainsaw as the character he plays.

The film opens on the island of Themyscira, a paradise island created by the god Zeus and hidden from the real world by a protective shield, and the film stays there for a while as we follow Diana from curious little girl to fully trained warrior princess but once Steve Trevor's fighter plane crashes there and Diana realises there is a war being fought in world she does not know of that is not too far away then we swiftly get brought into London in 1918 and this shift from fantasy into a «real world» scenario gives the film a greater sense of depth, and when combined with characters that you actually care about then Wonder Woman is head and shoulders above all of the other DCEU movies on the strength of that alone.

Although the leader of this new incarnation of these iconic characters does remain on board as producer, he quickly departed the director's seat in favor of that other epic space saga (the one he not so secretly always favored), and was replaced by Justin Lin, who is most known for directing four of the Fast & Furious films.

The film operates chiefly as a character piece: on the one side is a group of left - wing radicals fronted by Brigitte Kuhlmann (Pike) and Wilfried Böse (Daniel Brühl); on the other sits Israel's top brass including Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (Lior Ashkenazi) and Defence Minister Shimon Peres (Eddie Marsan, late for his The Death of Stalin audition); and in the middle Nonso Anozie emphatically steals the show as Uganda's chuckly despot Idi Amin.

This wild concept of chaos reigning in a suburban neighborhood has its edge reduced by its incomplete image of characters, an aspect that affected Get Him to the Greek in the past, and has made for slower moments in other Stoller films (on the other hand, when characters were solid like in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, they lead to a great introduction for a bare - all Jason Segel).

Those characters then do the same things they did in the other films, confirming the suspicion that this film could have been written by a computer programmed with the plots of the last hundred disaster flicks to make the screen.

In fact, other than Jolie, the film is populated by one - dimensional characters.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening November 23, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS August Rush (PG for slight violence, mild profanity and mature themes) Freddie Highmore stars as the title character in this escapist fantasy about a promising musical prodigy who runs away from an orphanage to New York City to find his parents (Keri Russell and Jonathan Rhys Myers) only to end up living with a Fagin - like wizard (Robin Williams) and lots of other kids in a makeshift shelter in an abandoned theater which was once the Fillmore East.

«Only the Brave» devotes the first half of its 2 hour, 15 minute runtime to allowing us to get to know these three and a few other main characters: firefighter Chris (Taylor Kitsch) and Eric's superior Duane (played by Jeff Bridges, who even does a bit of singing in the film).

If only the low - aiming script by Simon Kinberg (xXx: State of the Union, X-Men 3), rumored to have undergone several rewrites at the hands of others, saw their characters as living, breathing human beings instead of mere comedic devices in the singular big joke the film is built on, and perhaps we would have seen even more fireworks in the romance department.

The other players with whom Adrian interacts, chiefly the three aspiring actresses whom he has tricked into appear in his special film, are also played by actresses (Sonia Teodoriu, Florentina Hariton, Alexandra Stone) who share their character's forenames.

As we all know, Benedict Cumberbatch is to play the title character in Marvel's Phase 3 film Doctor Strange, but now it looks like he's being joined by one of Blighty's other highly - respected thespians.

The film throughout has characters forcing each other to confront the very things they wish to avoid, as if training a dog not to soil by rubbing its face in its own shit.

I love portions of the film, aren't as inspired by others (mostly in agreement that I didn't connect emotionally to the individual characters), but think it's wonderful that Malick is going for such a personal film.

Among the other fiction films to look for in theaters or on VOD: John Michael McDonagh's Calvary, in which Brendan Gleeson gives a beautifully modulated performance as a dedicated priest who is no match for the disillusionment of his parishioners and the rage of another inhabitant of his Irish seaside village, determined to take revenge against the priesthood for the sexual abuse he suffered as a child; the desultory God Help the Girl, the debut feature by Stuart Murdoch (of Belle and Sebastian), all the more charming for its refusal to sell its musical numbers; Tim Sutton's delicate, impressionistic Memphis, a blues tone poem that trails contemporary recording artist Willis Earl Beal, playing a character close to himself who's looking for inspiration in a legendary city that's as much mirage as actuality; and two horror films, Jennifer Kent's uncanny, driving psychodrama The Babadook, with a remarkable performance by child actor Noah Wiseman, and Ana Lily Amirpour's less sustained A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, which nonetheless generates some powerful political metaphors.

Rarely will you ever hear characters in a film utter such poisonous lines to each other as in the script by Zvyagintsev and co-writer Oleg Negin.

He films his characters» conversations at right angles, a two - shot with them facing each other, perpendicular to the camera, followed by medium close - ups of each actor as they face the camera directly and speak in turn, Green not cutting until they've finished what they have to say.

In Shanghai Blues, they're almost always in the same space, often literally not seeing each other but just as often looking right at and not recognizing each other, while at the same time every peripheral character in the film seems to be actively attempting to avoid being seen by someone elsIn Shanghai Blues, they're almost always in the same space, often literally not seeing each other but just as often looking right at and not recognizing each other, while at the same time every peripheral character in the film seems to be actively attempting to avoid being seen by someone elsin the same space, often literally not seeing each other but just as often looking right at and not recognizing each other, while at the same time every peripheral character in the film seems to be actively attempting to avoid being seen by someone elsin the film seems to be actively attempting to avoid being seen by someone else.

The diminutive and demure Vorspan, playing a character who seems like she's from a Todd Solondz film by way of the Farrelly brothers (or perhaps the other way around), is a real treat — cracked and vulnerable in a uniquely compelling way.

At the film's recent press day, Carrey and Daniels talked about reprising their roles in the sequel, how it was driven by fan demand, what it was like getting back into character and finding their chemistry again, the love between the characters, which one is Dumb and which one is Dumber, how the characters hold a special place in their lives as they do for the fans, the return of the Mutt Cutts van and other callbacks from the original film, working with Kathleen Turner, their favorite scene, and where they see their characters in another 20 years.

Bolstered by a terrific performance by Pierce Brosnan (After the Sunset, Laws of Attraction), perhaps his best in a feature film to date, this is a wholly likeable dark comedy full of quirky but well - rounded characters and little touches in the character development that sets it apart from other films of a similar nature.

It's also a film whose impact derives from something other than its story and characters — specifically, Wyatt Garfield's brilliant cinematography, which uses 35 mm, 16 mm and Super 8 mm film at a time when almost everyone in the entertainment business is shooting digitally; and the final lead performance by Anton Yelchin, who died last year in a freak accident.

The entire film references other comic book films, and pop culture mentions, typically by making fun of them in some way; Green Lantern, joke in the credits, Batman v Superman Dawn of Justice's silly mommy moment, Hawkeye's lack of powers, Josh Brolin's Thanos's two - timing as a character in Avengers: Infinity of War less than three weeks ago, at one point Wade simply calls Brolin's (Cable), «Thanos,» Logan's gags you'll need to see for yourself.

Set in the 80's, it'll feature younger versions of several characters from the first series of films, but by this looks of this image, the Professor will go the other way and finally sport the bald looks he's famous for.

It's bad enough that Caldwell's program has a really stupid - sounding (but apparently real) acronym — «CRISPR» — but there is literally no need for anyone other than maybe a virologist to use the word «pathogen» as much as it is uttered by the characters in this film.

The less good news is that the film has other problems — unrelated to that character — deeply embedded in the script (by David Scarpa, The Day the Earth Stood Still remake).

Other oddball characters are played by Owen Wilson, Benicio Del Toro, Reese Witherspoon, Maya Rudolph, Eric Roberts, and Martin Short, as a drugged - out / sex friend and dentist who provides the only laugh - out - loud moment in the entire film when he explodes with a series of F - bombs.

Universal's classic monster movies all existed in the same world, Kevin Smith built his View Askewniverse that was connected by shared characters such as Jay & Silent Bob, Quentin Taranito's movies all have little connections to each other, and they even shared some connections with the interconnected films of Grindhouse co-director Robert Rodriguez.

Which brings me to the heart of the film, a big family meal, served up gradually, scene by scene, as each of the characters interact in smaller portions — sisters and daughters, mothers and children, in - laws and insignificant others — gathered around a bottomless well of tragedy: breakdowns, blow ups, betrayals and a funeral.

Although there are certain events in which we get to see the men as more than just one - dimensional characters, by the end of the film we realize they are just as enigmatic as they were in the beginning, as we rarely are afforded a glimpse into just what makes them tick, other than external suppositions.

Because her thinking man's Ilsa act in The Reader is at least conceptually riskier than her put - upon dishrag Debbie Downer in Revolutionary Road, we were that close to throwing her by the wayside in this category, especially because there's a clearly superior crypto - leading role in the mix (Rosemarie DeWitt, whose titular character in Rachel Getting Married has been shut out of a lot of races thus far, but we feel anyone who actually watches enough of the film to justify throwing their vote toward frontrunner Anne Hathaway should have no other choice but to recognize DeWitt's equally tricky, equally attention - stealing performance).

The first film to tell the story of Billy the Kid came out in 1911; the character would go on to be played by Paul Newman, Kris Kristofferson, and Emilio Estevez, among many others.

Two - time Oscar winner Cate Blanchett plays 13 different characters in a series of vignettes embodying the artistic and political manifestos of Communism, Dadaism, Futurism, Minimalism, Surrealism, and other movements in this film by German visual artist Julian Rosefldt.

While some brief moments of peril occur when the characters are surrounded by lion after inadvertently landing in Tanzania, few other content concerns arise in this film for the six and up age group.

Live by Night is no exception; to this reviewer the film almost reads as a clumsy marriage between Michael Mann's Public Enemies, in overall style and milieu, and Miami Vice, if Colin Farrell's character was on the other side of the law.

Say what you will about the artistic merits of a film like Nine 1/2 Weeks — an obvious comparison — but the characters played by Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger seemed, at a minimum, to enjoy being in each other's presence.

Feige talks about Doctor Strange's origin story, how the movie will be different from the comics, rooting crazy concepts in real science, does Steven Strange know about The Avengers, how the film is more respectful to other cultures than the original source material may have been, how this movie was inspired by The Oath, which characters might connect with the Runaways, Mads Mikkelsen «s character Kaecilius, multiple dimensions, the trouble with writing magic action, how Mordo is different in the movie, Rachel McAdams «character Christine Palmer, is the eye of agamotto an infinity stone, the genre of the film, how this film will defy expectations, Steven Strange's role in the larger MCU, will we see cameos from the other Marvel characters, and much more.

Fans of the film will be glad to know that the other characters introduced in the 2015 movie will appear here too, including Rey (Daisy Ridley), Finn (John Boyega), Poe (Oscar Isaac), Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) and Leia (played by the late Carrie Fisher).