Sentences with phrase «class movie making»

This to me is a film that is the epitome of first class movie making.

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My advice for finding balance is to make time for yourself, whether reading a book, watching a movie or enjoying a yoga class.

Or, as Dr. Dossett suggests, find an activity that both you and a friend enjoy, whether it's woodworking class or indie movies, and make time for it together at least once per month.

Find a good movie to watch, cook a healthy and delicious dinner together, bake and decorate yoga pose cookies together, find a couples - themed yoga video online and have a private class at home... then make out.

Writer - director Ken Loach has been making movies about the British working class since the mid-60s, and this masterful dramatic feature proves that even after all these years he can still work himself up into righteous, white - hot rage.

The subtext is all about class dispossession, but a movie in which a character is stupid enough to propose a big - time bank robbery so that his gang can make it into the news («the big show») is pushing it.

And Rebecca Ferguson and Keala Settle, playing songbirds of distinctly different class strata and mustache capacity, make the most of their supporting roles; in two of the movie's best scenes, each explores the psychic pain of a lifetime spent feeling like the Other in almost every room they enter.

In 2008, he garnered praise for his portrayal of a teacher with Tourette Syndrome in the made - for - TV movie Front of the Class.

For younger moviegoers, this movie may be the educational tool that makes science class cool again and could lead to kid's interest in space versus video games.

If you want a heist movie with class, you cast George Clooney and Brad Pitt and make a film along the lines of Ocean's Thirteen (or any of the preceding ones).

In a sense, «The Disaster Artist» could be the master class on how not to make a movie.

The make up and special effects are genius, the acting is class and all in all its a buddy movie.

The movie, which is set to be released on March 11, 2011, follows a pregnant Electra Luxx, a former porn star, who is trying to make a living teaching a sex education class to housewives.

The muse for the character of Danny (played by Manchester by the Sea's Lucas Hedges), a skinny kid with a good singing voice from an upper - middle - class Irish Catholic family, was Gerwig's high school boyfriend, Connor Mickiewicz, who remembers making out with her in the McKinley Park rose garden, inspiring a key scene in the movie.

Although the «X-Men» franchise has been quite successful with both the Bryan Singer trilogy and the «First Class» movies, however, Marvel does still have an input while making the films.

We discussed their greatest fears, the most unique thing about each other, if director Wes Ball made a movie about their lives, and what college class they would teach.

The film's depiction of working class life, while perhaps an effort to portray people and experiences that rarely make it to movie screens, is mostly quite shallow.

There is no question that the movie still makes for an entertaining and interesting two hours much different from what one considers the typical Vietnam War movie (the class for which Apocalypse Now and Platoon seemed to set the standard).

But it's an objectionable turn of phrase, implying a certain intrinsically lowly or shameful status to genre film - making in itself: there are good horror movies and bad ones, smart horror movies and stupid ones, and the critical distinction seems clear enough without needing to delineate and elevate a separate subgenre on the basis of class and quality alone.

She made better movies before (and since), but Jane Campion made unmistakable her status as a world - class filmmaker with The Piano.

I wanted to make an exciting movie about the class struggle.»

The idea of the separation of class warfare presented with this space ring is incredibly appealing to me and I would love to go back and make another movie in the world of Elysium because it's compelling.

In the space of three years, Dibb has seemingly gone from being the young Turk of the British film industry, concerned about the poor underclass, to becoming part of the old school network, making movies primarily appealing to the chattering classes.

The movie looks like it was shot on home video and the Evil Turkey Puppet appears to be a craft they made in a high - school art class.

This reinterpretation not only makes First Class interesting as a movie, but in my opinion (as a longtime fan of the comics) improves upon these characters» backstories in ways the comics never have.

The movie cuts deeper, holding a mirror up to the class - conscious America most of us tend to ignore or dismiss — and makes us see ourselves reflected in it, too.

It's a deeply ambivalent movie — or maybe a dishonest one — which makes fun of the provincial, barely - working - class America in which Harding grew up — and then condemns you, the viewer, for having laughed.

Not too long ago, childhood friends Anthony Sadler, former U.S Air Force Airman 1st Class Spencer Stone and former Oregon National Guardsman Alek Skarlatos were flying to Los Angeles to meet with Clint Eastwood about the movie he was making about their...

By contrast, the movie's at it's sharpest parsing the infinite ways in which Harding was found wanting by a bourgeois sport uneasy with working - class strivers; more than once, it's made known that she's «just not the image» the skating world wants to promote.

«Black Panther» is easily one of the best made movies of its class, and should be seen on the big screen.

Don't miss: A behind - the - scenes featurette on the making of the movie and its shooting locations, a featurette on recreating the look and sounds of the 1960s, a look at a higher class of hero, a featurette on Metisse motorcycles and an on - set spy featurette comprise the major bonus components.

Face it, nobody makes movies about the upper - class anymore — gone with Visconti, except for the occasional period - pieces used as Oscar fodder.

But the movie Russell has made is closer to Melvin and Howard or The Social Network in its lyrical, panoramic sense of class and self - reinvention in America, of outsiders yearning to become insiders, or at least to feel comfortable inside their own skin.

Tomb Raider (2018) is a reboot of the video game movie franchise that winds the clock back to when Lara was in her early 20s and taking college classes in London, making her living as a bike courier.

The story is comprised of four separate vignettes, following the romantic misadventures of various characters in Rome - a retired American opera director tries to make a star of his daughter's father - in - law to be, who can only sing in the shower; a pair of newlyweds are separated for a day and have their fidelity tested by a prostitute, movie star and a burglar; a middle - class office worker unexpectedly becomes a celebrity targeted by the paparazzi; and an architect runs into a young man who reminds him of a younger version of himself - and is about to make the same romantic mistakes....

Just when you thought Michael Keaton was done making superhero movies, he joins the «Spider - Man» reboot and puts together this scarily genuine performance of a working class warrior scorned and forgotten by the Avengers heroics.

Thoroughbreds was also a big - buzz movie at Sundance, where Taylor - Joy won praise for her performance as a wealthy prep schoolgirl whose friendship with a troubled outcast (Olivia Cooke) leads to a sinister symbiosis — there are echoes of Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures, but the movie has an icy tone all its own, and themes related to class (suggested by the title) and technology that make the movie unique.

With The Human Contract, Pinkett Smith seemingly attempted to make a movie about everything: sex, class, ambition, conformity, philosophy, business, family, marriage, and the way sins ricochet through generations.

Matthew Vaughn made Mark Millar's Kick - Ass a hit movie and gave the X-Men new life with The X-Men: First Class.

Director Coixet is also a first class filmmaker, with a near thirty - year career including movies like My Life Without Me (2003), a segment of Paris, je t» aime (2006) and Another Me (2013) under her belt, making Learning to Drive more than deserving of a place on your must - watch list.

DreamWorks Animation's movies have made piles of cash — of course, the over-reporting of the DVD sales of one of those movies caused a major class action lawsuit, but I digress — yet here's the rub: they're not terribly good.

Complete List of NAACP Image Award Winners Film Categories Best Picture - «The Secret Life of Bees» Best Director - Gina Prince - Bythewood, «The Secret Life of Bees» Best Actor - Will Smith, «Seven Pounds» Best Actress - Rosario Dawson, «Seven Pounds Supporting Actor - Columbus Short, «Cadillac Records» Supporting Actress - Taraji P. Henson, «The Curious Case of Benjamin Button» Independent Film - «Slumdog Millionaire» Documentary - «The Black List» Foreign Film - «The Class» Best Screenplay - Jenny Lumet, «Rachel Getting Married» Television Categories Best Comedy Series - «Tyler Perry's House of Payne» Best Actor in a Comedy Series - LaVan Davis, «Tyler Perry's House of Payne» Best Actress in a Comedy Series - Tracee Ellis Ross, «Girlfriends» Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series - Lance Gross, «Tyler Perry's House of Payne» Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series - Keshia Knight Pulliam, «Tyler Perry's House of Payne» Best Dramatic Series - «Grey's Anatomy» Best Actor in a Dramatic Series - Hill Harper, «CSI: NY» Best Actress in a Dramatic Series - Chandra Wilson, «Grey's Anatomy» Supporting Actor in a Dramatic Series - Taye Diggs, «Private Practice» Supporting Actress in a Dramatic Series - Angela Bassett, «ER» Made - for - TV Movie, Miniseries or Dramatic Special - «A Raisin in The Sun» Best Actor in a Made - for - TV Movie, Miniseries or Dramatic Special - Sean Combs, «A Raisin in the Sun» Best Actress in a Made - for - TV Movie, Miniseries or Dramatic Special - Phylicia Rashad, «A Raisin in the Sun» Best Actor in a Sopa Opera - Bryton McClure, «The Young and the Restless» Best Actress in a Sopa Opera - Debbi Morgan, «All My Children» Best Director in a Dramatic Series - Ernest Dickerson, «Lincoln Heights - The Day Before Tomorrow» Best Director in a Comedy Series - Kevin Sullivan, «30 Rock - MILF Island» Best Screenplay for a Dramatic Series - Shonda Rhimes, «Grey's Anatomy: Freedom Part 1 & 2» Best Screenplay for a Comedy Series - Erica D. Montolfo, «The Game: White Coats and White Lies» News / Information Series or Special - «In Conversation: Michelle Obama Interview» Talk Series - «The View» Reality Series - «American Idol 7» Variety Series or Special - «An Evening of Stars: Tribute to Smokey Robinson» Children's Program - «Dora The Explorer» Best Performance in a Children's Series or Special - Keke Palmer, «True Jackson» Music Categories Best Male Artist - Jamie Foxx Best Female Artist - Beyonce» Best New Artist - Jennifer Hudson Best Duo, Group or Collaboration - Jennifer Hudson, featuring Fantasia - «I'm His Only Woman» Best Jazz Artist - Natalie Cole - «Still Unforgettable» Best Gospel Artist - Mary Mary Best World Music Album - Cheryl Keyes - «Let Me Take You There» Best Music Video - «Yes We Can» - Will.i.am Best Song - «Yes We Can» - Will.i.am Best Album - Jennifer Hudson - «Jennifer Hudson» Literary Categories Fiction - «In the Night of the Heat: A Tennyson Hardwick Novel,» Blair Underwood, Tananarive Due, Steven Barnes Nonfiction - «Letter to My Daughter,» Maya Angelou Debut Author - «Barack, Race, and the Media: Drawing My Own Conclusion,» David Glenn Brown Biography / Autobiography - «The Legs are the Last to Go,» Diahann Carroll Instructional - «32 Ways to Be a Champion in Business,» Earvin «Magic» Johnson Poetry - «Hip Hop Speaks to Children: A Celebration of «Poetry With a Beat»» Nikki Giovanni Children - «Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope,» Nikki Grimes (illustrator - Bryan Collier) Youth / Teens - «Letters to a Young Sister: Define Your Destiny,» Hill Harper

«So not only could I teach myself his voice, but I could hear him in these very private moments talking about the things that matter to him, or being negatively singled out in acting classes, or feeling discouraged by Los Angeles and the industry, and even early plans to make a movie of his own.

Yet none of this exposure, either to factual information in health classes or to the sexy media blitz everywhere, from billboards to magazine covers to movies to commercials, gives them the depth and understanding of themselves that they need to make their way through adolescence.

Upper - crust blond cheerleader Megan must get into Notre Dame, working - class basketball star Colin needs to keep his rebounds up if he wants a scholarship, artsy free spirit Hannah aims to make movies in California, and pimply nerd Jake, well, he's just got ta get a girlfriend.

The movie offers a perfect opportunity to make a class project of reading — or reading aloud — the award - winning (Newbery Honor Book, ALA Notable Children's Book, ALA Best Book for Young Adults) book written by Carl Hiaasen.

If your entire class is working on a movie together, creating a sound design team is a great way to not only create more jobs for the movie, but also make a more robust video.

Towards the end of the Times review Mr. Sepinwall notes that, «As «the middle - class movie» — which couldn't «be made on the cheap or guarantee an opening weekend of $ 50 million or more» — became increasingly difficult to get made, artists who might once have gravitated to the big screen moved to the little one».

IR: I loved your quote at the end of the review... «As «the middle - class movie» — which couldn't «be made on the cheap or guarantee an opening weekend of $ 50 million or more» — became increasingly difficult to get made, artists who might once have gravitated to the big screen moved to the little one».

This week, while Joe Quesada, Brian Michael Bendis and Matt Fraction head to see Joss Whedon's «The Avengers» get filmed, Brevoort takes his time to look at how all the recent Marvel movies from «Thor» and «X-Men: First Class» through «Captain America» have impacted how the comics are made.