Sentences with phrase «director of movies like»

It started with this tweet from Scott Derrickson, the director of movies like Doctor Strange and The Day the Earth Stood Still.

Bryan Singer, the director of movies like X-Men, The Usual Suspects, and Jack the Giant Slayer, has been fired from Bohemian Rhapsody, 20th Century Fox's Queen biopic that stars Mr. Robot actor Rami Malek as frontman Freddie Mercury.

Ratner is the director of movies like X-Men: The Last Stand, Hercules and the Rush Hour movies, along with being a well - known producer.

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Others, like Avatar director James Cameron and Interstellar «s Christopher Nolan, have argued that the startup threatens the health of the movie industry, which turned in a record year in 2015 in terms of overall box office gross.

Much like the success of last year's Warner Bros. film Wonder Woman helped change the conversation around a female superhero movie helmed by a woman director, a box - office smashing debut for Black Panther could pave the way for a similar paradigm shift in Hollywood with regard to how studios approach big - budget stories about characters of color.

While Hope is known for making independent movies rather than big - budget Hollywood blockbusters, Amazon Studios has succeeded in the world of television in part by aligning itself with high - profile directors like Allen and Steven Soderbergh of «Ocean's Eleven» fame.

Part of that likely has to do with the absence of many truly great movies this year, and the fact key contenders — like «The Shape of Water» (the pick by the directors and producers guilds) and «Get Out» (the WGA's original screenplay winner)-- come from genres that seldom receive top awards recognition.

It's not quite cool enough to make us wish Ben Affleck wasn't directing this movie, as he's one of the better directors out there right now, but it certainly looks like he put on some muscle to fit into the suit.

Despite being responsible for bringing Ralph into my life I don't like Steven Spielberg as a director; I find that most of his movies are immersed in a squishy atmosphere, it's just not my cup of tea.

While Sweat cited the movie's admonition that «snozzberries taste like snozzberries,» he said Gregg Brickman, Hooters» director of product development, came up with a sauce that has «berry notes» that go well with the brand's smoked chicken wings.

At this new exhibition, you are invited to step into Cameron's role as director and film scenes in 3 - D with a camera just like the ones used in the making of the movie.

Director Brewer, whose «Hustle & Flow» (a Memphis pimp in mid-life tries to become a hip - hop emcee), is in his milieu, filling his new movie with country, rap, and rock, the adults standing on the sidelines like prunes determined to repress teen activity until, of course, by the conclusion they cheer the young «uns on.

As schematic as a popular entertainment needs to be yet refreshingly devoid of significant lulls in the action — for exposition, weapon reloading, lovemaking and the like — the film is fast, smart and single - minded, providing not only a satisfying bang for the ever - beleaguered moviegoing buck but memorable debuts for first - time feature director Mimi Leder and fledgling film studio DreamWorks SKG (Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen)-- as well as ringing confirmation that George Clooney is indeed a movie star.

Not a movie for most, The Tree of Life is an over-dramatic representation of what seems like a personal, spiritual struggle waged by the writer / director, Terry Malick, himself.

Robert Altman has always been the most inclusive of directors, a man whose sets are always like a party, and whose movies often feel that way.

it is funny in deed but, when their is someone to cover Sandler's movie their most likely gonna never make a film again Oh look see Denis Dugan and Frank Coraci BOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! you suck stop making adam sandler movies here is the problem they are directors who don't care about cinematography or shots of using the camera all they care is comedy!!!!!!! see Tyler Perry yeah their just like this big joke.

The movie is both a tribute to the skill of Fruitvale Station and Creed director Ryan Coogler, who almost effortlessly scales up to a much bigger budgetary level with Black Panther, and to an ensemble cast full of actors who'd rarely get asked to play parts like these in a blockbuster like this.

Although not blessed with a cinematic eye, Yates, a sensitive director of actors, structures his movie like the final movement of a symphony.

I feel this movie wouldve been so much better if a seasoned director had done it like John Singleton... anyway, its just alot of hype because hes the «first» black super hero (do nt tell Wesley Snipes though) and if you really want to see black panther skip the full length movie and see Wakanda in Infinity war... as far as black panther goes he was great in civil war and infinity war, you can skip the 2 hour trip to the land of vibranium.

This rambling film, which feels much longer than its actual length, might have worked as a distaff version of Nicolas Roeg's «The Man Who Fell to Earth» if it weren't for director Glazer's decision to turn the movie into something like a TV reality show.

Old School, which follows three grown men (Luke Wilson's Mitch, Will Ferrell's Frank, and Vince Vaughn's Beanie) as they turn their house into a fraternity, marks director Todd Phillips» first fictional endeavor since Road Trip, and it's immediately clear that the movie, like that 2000 Tom Green comedy, manages to entertain in spite of a distinct lack of overt laughs.

Waititi does an excellent job of balancing the sweet and humorous moments with the more poignant bits (like Bella's heartbreaking death scene), but what separates the movie from the typical coming - of - age tale is the unique brand of humor that's become synonymous with the director.

'' EDtv,» Howard's latest clever - concept production, looks, for a while, like it might shake free of the director's usual Velveeta patness, if only because the movie itself comes on as a hip, knowing satire of the packaged omnivorousness of contempo TV culture.

Yep, this is Aardman's first sports movie, filtered through director Park's specific sensibility of slapstick foolishness, with deadpan animal sidekicks, endless puns and actors like Tom Hiddleston, Maisie Williams, Timothy Spall and Miriam Margolyes having a lovely time lending their voices to his buck - toothed, beady - eyed Plasticine characters.

In an effort to be noticed in Hollywood, Tommy decides to make his own movie (which he compares to the likes of Tennessee Williams), and disregards his complete inexperience as a film director.

The director Sebastián Lelio should have been a good fit for this story if only because of the sensitivity he's brought to female - driven movies like «Gloria.»

Reitman's early career was much more lauded than his last few movies (though, I'm one of the few who liked «Men, Women and Children») but «Tully» is a true return to what the director does so well.

I'm sure that Jennifer Lawrence would attest to her commitment to the role of Dominkia and assert her trust in directors like Francis Lawrence (who also directed her in three Hunger Games movies) and Darren Aronofsky (whom she dated while filming mother!

Like Taika Waititi (the director of Thor: Ragnarok), Coogler made a movie that both felt like his own and that still managed to fit into the wider Marvel framewLike Taika Waititi (the director of Thor: Ragnarok), Coogler made a movie that both felt like his own and that still managed to fit into the wider Marvel framewlike his own and that still managed to fit into the wider Marvel framework.

It all sounds like a recipe for the most noxious liberal jerk - off movie since «Crash,» but in the hands of writer - director Richard LaGravenese, Freedom Writers turns out to be a superb piece of mainstream entertainment — not an agonized debate over the principles of modern education à la «The History Boys,» but a simple, straightforward and surprisingly affecting story of one woman who managed to make a difference.

Exactly like their reboot of VACATION, directors John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein return with a wonderfully zany flick that gives us hope when it comes to the crumbling state of the comedy movie.

Interminably slow of foot, filled with static, anachronistic and politically correct sermons performed in a whisper, with bloody - minded outbursts interrupting the beautiful scenery photographed like a cut - rate cable TV movie, it is an utterly inept outing from the director who got Jeff Bridges his Oscar.

Yet, much like Chris Nolan did with «Batman Begins» or David Cronenberg showed with «A History of Violence», it's one of those great examples of the difference that a visionary director can bring to relatively conventional material — making a solid movie into something far deeper and more rewarding.

Certainly, after the bland history lesson of «The Lady» and the joyless family - friendly shenanigans of the «Arthur» trilogy, this is easily the director's most alert, energized and recognizable piece of direction in years — a movie that, with its muscular widescreen imagery, vibrant streaks of color and pulsing musical beats, as well as its occasional tonal missteps and moments of unintentional hilarity, feels unmistakably like the work of its director.

Much like the kids in this movie who come of age, so too does Robert Kirbyson's skill as a writer - director in his debut film Snowmen.

Movie 43 is an anthology film composed of allegedly funny, scatological shorts from a dozen directors — like Paris, je t» aime, minus the city and the love.

There are powerful moments in «Unbroken,» to be sure, but it also feels like the kind of generically grand - scale movie that five other directors could have made in exactly the same way.

Where a movie like All the President's Men — to which The Insider has been compared — wants to get us riled up and angry for society as a whole, The Insider can't really work on that level, even if that was the intention of director Michael Mann and writer Eric Roth.

In his director's statement, Damien Power, who also wrote the script, cites»70s «survival thrillers» as his inspiration, and like «The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,» this movie has the hallmarks of torture porn: gratuitous slaughter, remorseless murderers and gruesome acts.

Some of the jokes fall flat, others are badly telegraphed and it weaves in and out of being a documentary and just a film to the point of distraction but it ' s hard for me to dislike the movie since I ' ve worked with people like this especially the director, Harry Penderecki... only not as likeable.

There may be better examples of cinematic art in 2013, but for a good time at the movies, it's hard to imagine anything beating this action extravaganza, from director Roland Emmerich, about a very Obama - like president.

While Jackie Brown can be too languid, drifting like one of Melanie's highs, its wearied, over-40 lows reveal Tarantino as a director who, once upon a crime, could've mined complexity and depth from the cracks and crevices of American genre movies.

Additionally, director Antal makes a $ 40 million dollar movie look like it cost a lot more, although that could also be due to the king of the ultra-cheap, producer Robert Rodriguez.

I was able to sit down with Alvarez after my second viewing and like many of the directors responsible for the most gruesome of horror movies, he turned out to be thoughtful, funny, and full of great stories.

Paul is a director who, like many of the movie brats, has a reputation that precedes him — whether it be writing American cinema classics like Taxi Driver or Raging Bull, directing the popular and canonized films American Gigolo and Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, or the lore surrounding the era, popularized by Peter Biskind's book Easy Riders, Raging Bulls.

Edgar Wright is a great writer / director, having directed «Shaun of the Dead» and written screenplays for movies like «Ant - Man.»

In terms of creating a whole cinematic universe with kinetic elements like the Infinity Stone, with so many directors and writers and different people making the movies, how do you plot that out?

Verbinski certainly did his western - movie homework, for outside of all the rootin» - tootin» Rube Goldbergian action scenes, the director consciously evokes John Ford with his widescreen vistas of sun - baked deserts (on - location shooting took place in Utah, Texas, and beyond), and his nod to films like The Searchers with scenes of near - helpless families under attack in the wilderness.

Playing out like the movie all our inner eight - year - olds (and director Luc Besson's, evidently) wanted from the Star Wars prequels, it's a non-stop cavalcade of insane sci - fi concepts and imagery, a colourful circus of cool shit that in an alternate universe would be a merchandising juggernaut to rival any other.

Happily, writer - director Mike White, whose métier is quirky movies like «Year of the Dog» in which a secretary's life changes when her dog dies, is not so arty this time.