Sentences with phrase «current films like»

And as Oscar voters» stack of DVD screeners grows perilously high, current films like «Nebraska,» «Dallas Buyers Club» and, especially, J.C. Chandor's brilliant survival tale «All Is Lost,» might immediately be shuffled to the top of the pile with some Spirit headlines.

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She has a keen understanding of her place in Hollywood, right now — as one of the breakout stars of a beloved sitcom; as the most fascinating character on Legion, one of current TV's most fascinating shows; as a high - profile woman in an industry currently under an enormous amount of scrutiny for how it treats women; and as an actress building a singularly astonishing resume of excellent, low - flying indie oddball films like Ingrid Goes West and Safety Not Guaranteed.

It's fair to call a film like The Post workmanlike in its delivery, a stylistically safe piece of art that feels more compelling in the abstract considering current events.

Johnson said the idea is to train the students in film production that relies on computer technology to improve on current uses like motion - capture to create movies like «Avatar» and video games like «Tron.»

To build their transistor, Jan Hendrik Schn of Bell Laboratories in New Jersey and colleagues, who describe their findings in the current issue of the journal Nature, allowed many thousands of organic molecules to assemble themselves onto a gold film like bristles on a brush.

While small amounts of materials like zinc or silicon are required to produce thin film devices, Cadien says the costs are not insignificant — they can come in at $ 500 or $ 600 per gram and the current processes are wasteful, dosing surfaces with anywhere from 100 to 10,000 times the molecules required.

Here, the fingerprint material acts like a mask or stencil, blocking an electric current that is used to deposit a coloured electro - active film.

I could not find any indication whether this series was shot on film or digital, but it at least keeps the film - like look of most current dramatic TV productions.

Like I said, I did enjoy the current retelling of The Great Gatsby, and I do believe it's a bit underrated; however, this is the film version to watch of F. Scott Fitzgerald's literary classic.

Black Panther's cast and creators trod carefully around the movie's connection to current politics in the press conference attended by Screen Rant, with Chadwick Boseman saying that anything that seems like a reference is just coincidence, and Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige saying that «things have happened in the world which make the film seem more relevant.»

Its director, Tom McGrath, talked to Flickering Myth's Freda Cooper about why he wanted to make the film — and why the «micro manager» doesn't intentionally look like the current occupant of The White House.

The film of 2012 that provided the most piercingly accurate gauge of our current ideologico - aesthetic situation was Kony 2012 with its canny manipulation of youth culture, the drive for a global community, child - like whimsy and Apple Inc. utopianism — all as part of a project that has less to do with real social activism and more to do with the self - interested exploitation of our common desire for a better world.

There's much discussion about how the film is supposedly a game changer, how it's more in tune with the current zeitgeist as opposed to the traditional narrative strengths and linearity of a period piece like The King's Speech.

Along with films like Jim Sheridan's Brothers, Paul Haggis's In the Valley of Elah and Grace is Gone, starring John Cusack, it's a «coming home» movie about the effect of the current conflicts on military lives back in America.

That version stalled, only to be reborn in its current form with heavier involvement by the Chinese film industry, a greater focus on cultural authenticity and an international cast including popular Chinese actors like Andy Lau and Kong: Skull Island's Jing Tian but also Damon and Willem Dafoe, as well as Game of Thrones and Narcos star, Pedro Pascal.

What changes should be made to protect our current society from ending up like the characters in this film who are forced to flee from Earth?

Formalist technics can be worked seamlessly into modern films, like the comic book qualities of Edgar Wright's Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, or they can be sloppy, like every time a current Top 40 hit makes its way into the soundtrack of a period piece.

The resulting film feels pure and authentic, not like some artificial cultural hybrid, so I'm prone to regard it as a marker of a current historical change in the urban life of mainland China.

When you start thinking about the film's themes of fighting for gender equality and standing up to a man like Riggs, you realize how it mirrors the current fight in a post-Trump election.

Though the more futuristic stuff isn't too distracting considering Hollywood's current obsession with dystopian sci - fi films like «The Hunger Games,» the decision to cast a 24 - year - old actor in the lead role (playing a 16 - year - old instead of the 12 - year - old that appears in the book) feels wrong for a number of reasons.

Starting with his role as Ra's al Ghul in Batman Begins, Liam Neeson has transformed from a strong actor with a formidable screen presence into the current definitive movie badass, following his turns in films like Seraphim Falls, Taken, Unknown, and The Grey (among others).

Directed with the usual dark and bleak look of Zack Snyder films like last year's fan disappointment Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, the new movie fails to find the fun in all of this and ranks as a setback for the genre after three previous winners this year: Wonder Woman, Spider - Man: Homecoming and the current Thor: Ragnarok.

A BD - Live section lets you stream trailers for various current Universal properties (including Bring It On: The Musical) as well as some exclusive content pertaining to other films and their Blu - ray releases (like a Judd Apatow Funny People Q & A).

In an age where character and stakes take a further backseat to increasingly absurd, conxtext - free bombast (for which the Star Wars prequels take massive flak, with current examples like Jurassic World even more guilty than those lackluster films), Abrams» film feels almost subversive in its steadfast focus on character to get us cheering.

Disappointingly, it seems like Truth or Dare might be the film to burst the current Blumhouse bubble.

«That THE CARRIER is elegantly shot by cinematographer Kathryn Westergaard and crafted to get the maximum amount of tension from whether or not the wives» current pregnancies will result in HIV - infected babies makes it far more engaging than most like - minded documentaries... it's a rare film that's rewarding not only because it's enriching, but because it's richly told.»

Luckily for people curious about Black Panther comics — like the current, critically acclaimed comic written by Ta'Nehesi Coates and drawn by Brian Stelfreeze — or the Black Panther film (which has been getting rave reviews across the board), «Panther's Rage» was republished as an affordable trade in Marvel's Epic Collections line last year.

The don't make movies like this anymore and that's a shame, because even though it's a film essentially about «sport killing»; there is a poetry to it that I think is lacking in modern films; mainly because of current editing techniques.

Like any B - movie worth its salt, the film is blissfully short and to the point: just - fired mechanic Craig (Pat Healy) and his old high - school buddy and current debt collector Vince (Ethan Embry) get drawn into a sick birthday game by rich couple Colin (David Koechner) and Violet (Sara Paxton), who pay the two to complete a series of increasingly harrowing dares for ever - larger payouts.

Earlier this month, The Envelope gathered some of the industry's top actors not just to talk about their current, award - contending films but to take the temperature of a community rattled by revelations of sexual harassment and assault claims against the likes of movie titan Harvey Weinstein and others.

Looking forward, Scott's next film Exodus seems like a project that could possibly restore some of the lustre to Scott's recent output, and put him firmly back in the awards derby (he is also apparently circling Prometheus 2, though I sincerely doubt that will reverse his current fortunes).

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Still, the current list of films that look like Best Picture candidates consists of biopics (Darkest Hour, The Current War), stories helmed by previous Best Picture / Director winners (Kathryn Bigelow's Untitled Detroit Riots project), World War II (Dunkirk), a gay coming of age story (Call Me By Your Name) and sci - fi (Blade Runnercurrent list of films that look like Best Picture candidates consists of biopics (Darkest Hour, The Current War), stories helmed by previous Best Picture / Director winners (Kathryn Bigelow's Untitled Detroit Riots project), World War II (Dunkirk), a gay coming of age story (Call Me By Your Name) and sci - fi (Blade RunnerCurrent War), stories helmed by previous Best Picture / Director winners (Kathryn Bigelow's Untitled Detroit Riots project), World War II (Dunkirk), a gay coming of age story (Call Me By Your Name) and sci - fi (Blade Runner 2049).

Existing in a timeless not - quite - reality that tips its hat to»80s classics like «Stand By Me» and «The Goonies» while blending it with an up - to - the - minute sense of humor that betrays Vogt - Roberts» links with the current comedy scene (big - name stand - ups like Kumail Nanjiani and Hannibal Burress have cameos), it's certainly the funniest film we've seen in 2013 so far, minute by minute.

But where recent films like Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and A Most Wanted Man are absorbing, smartly crafted espionage dramas, Red Sparrow only manages to bring the same amount of intrigue in short bursts and does so without making any significant statements about the current political landscape, despite how deeply ingrained the Russian narrative is in today's 24 - hour news cycle.

Batgirl will follow Barbara Gordon, the daughter of Gotham City police commissioner James Gordon, who is played by J.K. Simmons in the current iteration of the DCEU, though it remains unknown whether Batgirl will be a part of that cinematic universe, or whether it'll be a standalone movie like Todd Phillips» Joker film that is poised to star Joaquin Phoenix.

But there isn't the kind of prestige around these movies like there were around the older films or the current run of HBO series.

When you make a film like Overheard 3 that depends so much on the current technology, do you worry that in a few years or a decade from now when there'll be all sorts of new technology that the film will look dated?

For instance, if you had avatar graphics that looked exactly like the film running at 720p 30 FPS, it would look light years ahead of current gen and probably light years ahead of ANY game that comes out on PS4

But like all of Anderson's work, the current film seems best described as coitus interruptus — congress interrupted at the moment of climax by the director's peculiar fixation on mendacity in favour of the supernatural.

«Furious 7» isn't just a blockbuster, it's a phenomenon, and anyone who thinks they can just ignore something like this and still understand the current film landscape is delusional.

Earlier this month, The Envelope gathered some of the industry's top actors not just to talk about their current, award - contending films but to take the temperature of a community rattled by revelations of sexual harassment and assault claims against the likes of movie titan Harvey Weinstein and...

Sporting a new haircut for her current project (the sci - fi film «Annihilation» from «Ex Machina» director Alex Garland), Rodriguez got candid about her journey to success, talking about the days when she would sustain herself on little more than ramen while working as an extra and later as a guest star on shows like «Happy Endings.»

I think there's an urgent, timely sensibility to the film and even though it's a century old, it feels very current relative to topics like PTSD.»

When an indie stalwart and major talent like Linklater can be treated so indifferently by an indie division, what does that say about the current state of independent film and about Sundance, whose identity is synonymous with it?

I wonder what a He - Man tent - pole film would look like in our current comic book - obsessed, event picture landscape we call modern - day Hollywood?

I have to wonder if in ten years — after some type of embedded telekinetic mind chip or immersive virtual reality have taken over — the use of cell phones and social media instruments like «Twitter» and «hashtags» featured in current films will be as ludicrous a sight as the brick - like bag phone brought out in Lethal Weapon (1987) or ham radios from Convoy (1978).

I'd almost like to put this film up against the current day events of #OccupyWallStreet, but that would be giving the film way too much credit.

He also says the the film, like the original «Robocop,» will reflect some of our current political and economic concerns.

While the film is completely over-the-top and seems like a parody of our current situation, it is hiding an agenda to get its viewers to think about who is controlling some of the puppet candidates in real life.