Sentences with phrase «center of the movie as»

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Best known as the world center of movie - making, LA is also a center for shipping (its port and adjacent Long Beach make up the fifth busiest port in the world).

You don't have to get far into most feature films to see some impact of money and wealth, but some movies put money front and center as the main feature, almost warranting its own mention as a character in the credits.

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The screening was held as part of a social media campaign called #ForThePlayers created by Sony Pictures to support the movie's release in which football fans are being encouraged to «Dance or Donate»: either upload a video of their touchdown dance to YouTube or Instagram, or make a donation to make a tax - deductible donation to MomsTeam Institute, a leader in educating sports parents and other youth sports stakeholders about concussions and repetitive head trauma since launching its pioneering Concussion Safety Center in 2001, and challenge their friends to do the same.

6 months after we were in the relationship he got a job in a supermarket as security guard, but here in my country that does nt really makes a lot, its like almost $ 300 dollars per month, i make 600 up to 800 per month, by taking calls in a call center, he never went to college he only graduated highschool, im in law school right now... from the very beginning since i knew he did nt have a job or was making money he could spend, if i had money i would invite him out to dinner, or to the movies or whatever and it was me paying for it which i did nt mind, he is not the kind of men who buys flower, or invite u to the movies, or out, he rather visit me at home and watch a movie in netflix and thats it, we have made plans to go out, but none of them works out, something always happen, and the day it may happen, i say no, just because i think i will have to pay for the date..

The cafe was actually a comfortable lounge at Naperville's Rubin Riverwalk Community Center, and the sisters were among the roles assigned to five members of a Naperville Park District class learning how to find work as movie and television extras.

As the head of SUNY Poly, Mr. Kaloyeros was in charge of all economic development projects related to nanotechnology, overseeing projects including a solar panel factory in Buffalo and a movie production center in Syracuse.

«I love to think of it as our outdoor community center, a place that everyone wants to come and use,» said block association member Chana Widawski, who's helped organize other events at the park, including yoga sessions and bike - up movies.

The center will offer a calendar full of games, crafts, and movies, as well as other activities seniors suggest.

Resembling spotlights at a Hollywood movie premier, such beams are probably generated as matter plunges into a supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy.

This movie clip shows Phobos, the larger of the two moons of Mars, passing overhead, as observed by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity in a series of images centered straight overhead starting shortly after sunset.

Based on our city's census data, our high number of Starbucks coffee shops, and the fact that there seems to be a lot of cheesy romcom movies and TV shows set here set in our city than any other place on Earth, huge publications like Forbes magazine and Marie Claire have been frequently ranking the Seattle adult dating scene as the center of the singles universe..

One Ethiopian writer described a couple, when dating, as happy, at parties and movies and recreation centers and swimming pools, while they appeared to dating a divorced mother less so after being married; still the writer thought marriage was the lesser of two evils when compared with the single life.

Patriarshy Dom Tours, a Russian - American Cultural Center in Moscow, is operating as a full service travel agency, consistently enlarging the number of It sounded like a scene from a Cold War spy movie: Donald Trump Jr. was in a helicopter flying low on the outskirts of Russia's capital city.

Some things that probably factor into the industry's disagreement: Peter Jackson adapted books fifty years old and respected as great literature, the Potter books were being written alongside the first movies; Lord of the Rings centered on adult characters and played to a wider audience with PG - 13 ratings, the first Potter movies were PG, skewed younger, and starred kids (though anyone can see the films matured and so did the fans, many already wrote the series off); finally, where Jackson provided one distinct vision and a cast of respected performers, Potter had a rotating director roster (all of them secondary to Rowling) and limited opportunities for its accomplished actors, giving the brunt of the work to the three kids and spectacle.

And while the movie's obvious highlight comes with Roma's brutal dressing - down of Kevin Spacey's officious manager, Mamet's screenplay affords virtually all of the actors their moment in the sun - with Lemmon's sad - sack of a character ultimately standing as the film's emotional center (ie despite his exceedingly slimy actions, Levene becomes a figure worthy of the viewer's sympathy).

Though Lawrence is at the center, rightfully so, of The Hunger Games movies, they're made all the better by the excellent supporting cast that commits as fully to the larger - than - life characters of the series.

(Or maybe it wasn't so skewed — as we see from some of their vintage home movies, their apartment gave a good view of the World Trade Center circa 2000, scene of the century's most cinematic catastrophe.)

Still, what you'll remember about this movie years from now isn't its whirling imagery or the media buzz but the strange, sad stillness of Crowe as Wigand at its center.

Although «The Walk» succeeds mainly as a slice of popcorn entertainment rather than a potential Oscar contender, it's a really well - made movie that works both as a celebration of Petit's once - in - a-lifetime performance and a tribute to the World Trade Center.

But for all the film's carefully honed atmosphere and polish, it still comes down — as so many movies do — to the problems of the two little people at its center.

«And with this pencil stroke, my fate was sealed,» the narration tells us, over images of Petit drawing a line between the towers as depicted in a magazine ad that he peruses while waiting to see a doctor — as if we couldn't figure out why that moment is important, in a movie about a guy who tightrope - walked between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.

That's why the sports agent setting for «Maguire» dovetails so well with its romance and comedy — everyone's taking a risk as they trot onto the movie's fields of athletics, business, and love, and having Tom Cruise at its center makes the whole thing go.

The film centers on the childhood of Mason played by the relatively unknown Ellar Coltrane (Hallettsville, 2009) who began filming this movie as a child TV commercial actor after he and his family agreed to this unorthodox filming schedule.

After years of supporting roles, the Juilliard - trained actor takes centerstage as the hard - luck folk singer at the center of Joel and Ethan Coen's new movie.

Beginning as documentation of the terror attacks on America in 2001 (United 93 and World Trade Center), movies are now venturing into speculative fiction.

The «Greenberg» director's first movie centers on a group of fresh graduates as they figure out how to operate life as adults without school.

Meryl Streep (left) as Donna, the mother of Sophie, who is played by Amanda Seyfried (center), in the ABBA musical - turned - movie, «Mamma Mia!»

Early in the movie a shot of the World Trade Center in flames, introduced as a portent of Armageddon, sharpens this remake's sour tang of exploitation.

The White Ribbon Where: Embarcadero Center Cinema, 1 Embarcadero Ctr., 415-352-0835 When: All Week Why: Michael Haneke's latest assault comes billed as a children's story, in the same way that Children of the Corn was a movie for farmers.

The Society, made up of many of the country's most distinguished movie critics, held its 49th annual awards voting meeting, using a weighted ballot system, at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Center as guests of the Film Society of Lincoln Center.

For the first half - hour, the movie plays out like a n everyday slice - of - life in a racially - mixed rural town with limited employment opportunities (generally centering around the train yard), cruising along in full Malick meditative mode as it casually explores a timeless and unspoiled space.

Jason Bateman and Tina Fey are the two siblings at the center of the movie with Adam Driver (from TV's Girls) as the younger and truly obnoxious, spoiled younger brother, with Corey Stoll, Kathryn Hahn, Rose Byrne, Timothy Olyphant, et al., in the lineup.

This being a comedic spin, the movie, with Shawn Levy (Night at the Museum 2, Cheaper By the Dozen 2) directing with the blandness that has come to be his stock in trade, includes a «hilarious» pot - smoking scene, repeated sight gags centered on Fonda's enormous breasts, her grandkid's morning poop sessions and a last - minute gay twist that feels as contrived as the rest of Jonathan Tropper's script (based on his best - selling novel).

As dinosaur fans, we've been looking forward to Disney and Pixar's «The Good Dinosaur,» and while it had plenty of feel - good moments, the movie itself was too familiar and at its center was a disappointingly unlikable character: Arlo.

Unfortunately, while Gyllenhaal continues his fine form in «Demolition» — Vallée's third movie in a row to deal with the subject of grief — the film isn't as good as the performance at the center of it.

Sometimes these crises are played for laughs (e.g. Peter Quill's insistence on being called «Star - Lord» in Guardians Of The Galaxy) and sometimes for drama, as in the three movies centered on Chris Evans» heroic Captain America (Captain America: The First Avenger, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Captain America: Civil War), which follow his journey from Hitler - slugging song - and - dance propaganda act to fugitive.

The core of the movie is about a sensitive boy and a grumpy girl who plan to meet for a private adventure; he escapes from his scout camp, she temporarily runs away from home, and while this sweet, odd, and adorable romance takes center stage, Anderson (as usual) populates the periphery with all sorts of colorful oddballs.

Johnson appears as the heroic action movie ideal of law enforcement, opposite Samuel L. Jackson, only to die unexpectedly, forcing «the other guys» — Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg — to take center stage instead.

David Chase's The Sopranos: The Movie Not Fade Away has been selected by the Film Society of Lincoln Center as the centerpiece of this year's New York Film Festival.

In this generic movie reboot of one of the funniest TV shows of all time, Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway take center stage, Alan Arkin gets most of the best lines, and Johnson gets trapped as the fourth lead, sitting out most of the second act.

«United 93» As with any grieving process, Hollywood's response to the terrible events of 9/11 was gradual — from removing the World Trade Center from the likes of «Zoolander» and «Spider - Man,» to the displaced anger of revenge movies like «Kill Bill» and «Man on Fire.»

Though deceptive advertising is nothing new in movies, the DVD cover art of Coming & Going takes the practice far, keeping the wheelchair out of the picture (save for the title logo's odd twist on the familiar handicap symbol), portraying the leads as young and hip in their jeans and tall boots respectively, and, most egregiously, placing a chihuahua poodle hybrid that features in a single 1 - minute scene front, center, and large.

Framed in flashback, as captive Los Angeles private investigator Ned Cruz (Banderas) gets grilled by a trio of possibly dirty cops (Thomas Kretschmann, William Fichtner, Delroy Lindo), the movie centers on the labyrinthine business inquiries Ned conducts on behalf of a just - paroled Russian boxer, Anton Protopov (Robert Maillet, of Sherlock Holmes).

Yet we never get any particular sense of who Moonee and Halley are as individuals beyond their predicament and pluck, and why they are at the center of the movie, instead of, for instance, Scooty and Ashley, or Jancey and Stacy, or Bobby and the young delivery man named Jack who seems to be his son.

The movie focuses on the swift official response, as an FBI special agent (Kevin Bacon) arrives on scene and hesitates to declare it an act of terrorism while setting up a large control center complete with a model of the blocks comprising the scene of the crime.

Centering on Abraham Lincoln's attempt to pass the 13th Amendment outlawing slavery in the waning days of the Civil War, the movie is dialogue - heavy, focusing on legislative process and party politics as Lincoln and his aides try to win the necessary votes from both fellow Republicans and Democrats across the aisle.

But while there isn't much to distinguish Born To Be Blue's dramatic stakes from any number of stories about self - destructive, self - centered artists (or «movies about jazz musicians,» as they're more commonly known), the film is given a spark of life by the inspired casting of Ethan Hawke.

A number of movies helmed solely by men are also tackling feminist themes, as with Lelio's «Disobedience,» or Aaron Sorkin's «Molly's Game,» in which the Oscar - winning screenwriter makes his directorial debut with a poker - world drama centered on real - life competitor Molly Bloom, played by Jessica Chastain.

Leonard, with his near - nihilistic view of life, becomes the closest the movie has to a moral center, but even his qualms with the fate of the pesky neighbor are played as a joke when juxtaposed with his wife's indifference.