Sentences with phrase «centre of the film»

The scenes between Crowe and Giamatti come to form the emotional centre of the film, an honest and touching portrayal of friendship which is almost enough to convince you that the movie has a heart.

Rachel Weisz is the surprising centre of the film, which was initially called Penelope.

At the centre of the film, and sensitively handled by Jackson, are the relationships between Bilbo, his gruff mentor Gandalf and his antagonist Thorin, and it's something children will respond to.

It is her deathly calm demeanour and factory - constructed flirtation that holds the centre of the film.

It seems that lost in all the talk about computers, and space travel, and the harshness of space, etc., we have somehow lost the essential drama that is the centre of the film: Dave Bowman's existential condition as he stumbles into old age and is later transfigured once again into a child.

True to his habit of placing ass - kicking women at the centre of his films, Luc Besson's next big project is a superheroine movie to tide us over until the CW's Amazon makes it out of the gate, or Warner Bros decides to give Joss Whedon's Wonder Woman script a second chance.

He hated it: «I had to lock myself in a hotel room until it was finished» - and you can sense this claustrophobia at the centre of the film.

What hooked me initially was that freewheeling maverick playfulness at the centre of the film, that section was what really hooked me when I read it.

Jack's wife is Dr. Lucy Hall (Sela Ward), a character so insubstantial that she's shucked off to the film's most offensive subplot (she's the ward of a cancer - ridden child, a device that is always exploitive if it's not the centre of the film) while her marital status remains a mystery.

The black hole at the centre of the film has the potential to be, like Kazimir Malevich's Black Square painting, a true space of the sublime, a void where the unpresentable is presented on screen.

Perhaps, it was an automated response to Meryl Streep usually being at the centre of films with little else to offer than her star turn (The Iron Lady, Julie & Julia, Music of the Heart, etcetera).

At the centre of the film lies its unfriendly version of Berlin, a self - contained world of bitter memories and unknowable guilt.

Maria Bello is also meant to be the centre of the film, the mother suffering with depression that weakens her mind and makes her susceptible to Diana's brainwashing.

Going by the new trailer, it seems McDormand - who won a Best Actress Oscar for Fargo (1996)- will give a blistering performance as the no - nonsense protagonist at the centre of the film.

By predominantly shying away from the news vs. entertainment question which lies at the centre of the film, Morning Glory is unable to make the leap from a good comedy to a truly great one (though with its light - hearted disposition, it was probably never intended to be anything brilliant).

At the centre of the film are young Jamie (Lucas Jade Zumann) and his mother, Dorothea (Annette Bening), who had him late in life and has brought him up by herself while running a little community in a sprawling old ramshackle mansion she's let out to Abbie and William.

Slap bang in the centre of the film comes its highlight, a fifteen minute encounter between Marcus and the college's Dean Caudwell (Tracy Letts), who has to insist more than once that the overly polite young man doesn't call him sir.

At the centre of the film is Tom and Gerri, one of the most wonderful on - screen couples that cinema has ever produced.

At the centre of the film is Joshua «J' Cody (played by newcomer James Frecheville), a socially inept and introverted teenage boy who goes to live with his grandmother Janine (Jacki Weaver) after the death of his mother.

Fanning, Wise and Sturridge are solid at the centre of the film, with fine support from the lively Thompson as well as side roles for the superb Italian actor Riccardo Scamarcio (as a flirty young man Effie meets on a trip to Venice), plus delightfully abrasive turns from Walters and Suchet as John's far too - involved parents.

The murder at the centre of the film isn't the real mystery; instead it's why Sandu won't speak up, and why Vali seems so keen to get himself closer to Sandu.

And yet it doesn't, the plot continues to twist in surprising and clever ways and you slowly realise that Aniston's arc is actually the centre of the film.

Aubrey Plaza is the centre of this film, sure she is just playing a less confident, more loner version of her character from Parks and Recreation (the eternally dead - pan April), but she has cornered the market as indie boys» dream girl, who indie girls also want to be friends with.

The MacGuffin at the centre of the film is a renovated pirate gallon named The Golden Fang which floats ominously off the California coastline.

The film, along with Nocturnal Animals and La La Land, makes an interesting case in 2016 for the relevance of Los Angeles as the centre of film culture.

At the centre of the film is a powerhouse performance by Daniela Vega, a breakthrough turn by a transgender actress.

A cat is at the centre of the film in the Nine Lives trailer.

The question of the self is at the centre of the films, and visitors will be invited to sit on the nearby benches and contemplate these sanctuaries, as a way to confront their own solitary reflections.