Sentences with phrase «doubles as a movie»

It also doubles as a movie player — just point it at any blank wall for an instant screen 10 - to 20 - feet wide.

The second shot of «Boyhood» doubles as the movie's poster image: a young child named Mason, Jr. (Ellar Coltrane) lying on his back in green grass, staring at the sky.

The eight - inch screen in the center stack can also double as a movie screen when the SRX is in park.

From autocrossing in an abandoned shopping center that often doubles as a movie set to blasting along Los Angeles» famous Mulholland Drive, our time with the 370Z had a definite Hollywood theme, and Nissan's sports car was perfectly cast in the leading role of this movie.

Unfamiliar players may find the game to be one of the most intriguing they've ever played, as Metal Gear Solid features a heavy storyline surrounding politics, the military industrial complex, genetic fatalism and nuclear proliferation, making it double as a movie game.

Not exact matches

China's box office revenue is still swelling at double - digit rates after years of breakneck growth and, with Hollywood know - how and bigger budgets, Chinese movies are gaining momentum as they find ways to play on domestic themes and improve production quality.

Believe Me is even better, a roaring satire of Christian ministry that doubles as a goofy heist movie.

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Ferrara, who made his movie debut as a 10 - year - old in 1986 when he dodged a truck in F / X, got into the biz through his father, Frank Sr., a stunt coordinator who is James Gandolfini's double in The Sopranos.

My friend even suggested that she was a double agent, which I was sort of buying in to as the movie went on.

The Lego Movie takes this double - edged - ness to a question at the heart of parenting and teaching: Should we aim at creating adults who can change the world, or who can fit in to the world - as - is?

Bucknor was one of Ghana's most seasoned male actors having staged in movies such as Heritage Africa, Run Baby Run, Elmina, Double among others.

Theoretical physicist Kip Thorne of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, who came up with the original idea for the movie, worked closely with the London - based special effects company Double Negative to ensure that the wormhole and black hole shown were as realistic as possible.

As the anniversary of their classic TV movie Double Double Toil and Trouble approaches, the sisters mark another milestone: receiving the WSJ.

A big floral scarf can double as a lightweight neck accessory and sheer warmth for your shoulders in movie theaters, restaurants, the office... anywhere where the AC is just slightly more than your liking.

But, as the final chapters of Harry Potter and the Twilight Saga have proved, why make one movie when you can make two and double your profits?

Though it may take months of meticulous research, I am certain that you will someday triumph over this pernicious double standard and discover a site where enlightened gentlemen such as yourself post such movies, boldly fighting against the status quo that so obviously favors the depiction of flacid male genitalia.

Richard Jenkins and Bradley Whitford make a great comedy double act as a pair of senior technicians working for a company that simulates horror movie scenarios as part of a sinister grand plan.

The best I can do in this regard is stating how great a double feature of All The Boys Love Mandy Lane and You're Next would be, as far as «good horror movies with troubled distribution history» go.

That's a very simplified view of things, as the movie is filled with double crosses, and lots of spy fun for the whole family.

This isn't a sports movie so much as a procedural about backroom dealings, double - crosses and high - stakes trades.

Everything from breaking up the movie into chapters (titles rendered in trendy fonts) to faux - New Wave montages, to doubling - up on visual information with unnecessary voice - over (for instance, as Hawkins and Considine leave a restaurant together and enter his crystal - covered van, Oliver announces to the viewer: â $ œIt seems dear Mom is having an affair.â $), all provide escapism, not for the audience into the movie, but for the movie away from itself.

The ensemble is a disappointment, though some truly hardcore horror fans will like a few of the casing choices, such as B - movie scream queen Barbara Crampton (Body Double, Re-Animator) as the mother, schlock writer / director / actor Larry Fessenden (Habit, The Last Winter) as one of the first victims, and director Ti West (Drinking Buddies, Silver Bullets) as one of the significant others.

It's as if the movie should do double duty both as a discrete entity and as a statement to the world.

Real - life stuntwoman Zoe Bell (who doubled for Uma Thurman in «Kill Bill» and Lucy Lawless in «Xena: Warrior Princess») and Tracie Thoms (whose role would have been played by Pam Grier or Samuel L. Jackson in any other movie) deliver great performances throughout their half of the film, but it's Kurt Russell who walks away with «Death Proof» as Stuntman Mike, yet another excellent addition to his rogue's gallery of classic characters.

Which tells me American viewers are pretty stupid as I just watched «John Wick» which averages a 7.8 and this movie gets a 5.4... which is laughable because «John Wick» was one of the dumbest movies I ever saw in my life, directed by Keanu Reeves stunt double, with 0 plot, 0 point, and near 0 near 0 enjoyment value.

«Grindhouse» (a downtown movie theater in disrepair since its glory days as a movie palace known for «grinding out» non-stop double - bill programs of B - movies) is presented as one full - length feature comprised of two individual films helmed separately by each director.

All they do is give studios an excuse to release a new edition of a movie you already bought and squeeze more money out of you (this is commonly referred to as double dipping).

There was certainly a sense of exploration and discovery in Picnic at Hanging Rock, just as there was in the other revisionist - history period piece that would make a great double feature with this movie: Kelly Reichardt's Western: Meek's Cutoff.

As the movie progresses, the balance tips increasingly toward Annie's story, turning what could have been a double - sided portrait of two women's perseverance in pursuit of an unknowingly shared goal into a sometimes moving but mostly familiar look at a single lifelong struggle with the c - word.

It works as an antiquated adventure movie, but within Spielberg's own back catalogue, it exists as part of a surreal, self - referential double feature with 2008's Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

That movie, of course, was Grindhouse, a double feature collaboration between Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino, and contributing filmakers such as Edgar Wright, Eli Roth and Rob Zombie.

Among his previous credits before becoming a director, Vizcarra wrote the screenplay for 2002's Django: La Otra Cara, a crime movie about a notorious bank robber which also doubled as an erotic thriller.

Speaking with Empire this week, Ruffalo said the libretto for «Thor: Ragnarok», which Australia will double as Outer - Space for, reminds him of a good old fashioned universal road movie.

A familiar story of spies, disloyalty, twists, double - crossing and a nuclear plot to destroy the globe, the movie hops from Berlin to Rome, as Henry Cavill's American spy and Armie Hammer's Eastern Bloc stooge team up, with Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina) in tow.

Empire's Movie - Con, Ultra Culture Scott Pilgrim screening AND now this double bill that I'll miss while up in Edinbro!rnParticularly gutted about this as never seen Shaun of the Dead or Hot Fuzz on the big screen.

Or — look, the movie is hopeless, so let's just have fun thinking about casting — they could have kept Elba as the hero and hired Jude Law as the villain, because Law knows how to do that double thing the role required: complete self - love and utter self - loathing happening at the exact same time.

Working unobtrusively but consistently in a decadent Hollywood that's doubled down on sci - fi / fantasy / superhero franchise tentpoles as the end - all - be-all of action movies, Jaume Collet - Serra has been diligently and often ingeniously pursuing another filmmaking model, that of the mid-range budget standalone genre picture.

It's a perfect double act, and the movie wisely keeps them front and centre even as wacky business is breaking out all over.

The double - dip doesn't just offend in theory, though, as at Amazon you're currently being asked to spend more than twice as much for this version than the original movie - only combo pack.

I saw this movie for the first time at the Elgin Theater on Eighth Avenue as part of a double feature with The Tenant a long time ago, when I was young and scared.

- Bond is referred to as «Zero Zero» by the Japanese agents instead of «Double O» - This is the first of three Bond movies directed by Lewis Gilbert.

Speaking of complex, where this film manages to do something I've rarely seen in a mainstream movie, that is delve into the idea of double consciousness, as well as the intergenerational struggles in the Black family.

It would make a fun double feature with Spring Breakers as a perfect «American dream» movie.

That someone is Dave Sheridan, most recognizable as Deputy Doofy in Scary Movie, whose uncanny resemblance to Jim Carrey in Frank McKlusky C.I. had me doing double - takes at times.

People who have been waiting for Ashley Judd (Double Jeopardy, Kiss the Girls) to finally emerge as an appealing romantic actress will have to wait a bit longer, as this rare comedic role for her is about as forgettable as the movie itself.

If there is a joke, it's the casting of Zoe Bell, a professional stunt double, as herself, and the way the story forces her into an insane piece of stunt work during the movie's climax.

Death Proof and hence Grindhouse as a whole end on a high note with the final car chase and Bell's death - defying antics, but the dragging, plodding pace and creative misfire of Tarantino's movie is enough to put a big damper on the sum total of the Rodriguez / Tarantino double feature experiment.

-- as her neighbor Giles, a closeted gay illustrator who lives with his cats in an apartment over a struggling movie house, currently showing a double feature of the Cinemascope Biblical epic Land of the Pharaohs and the Pat Boone musical Mardi Gras.

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