Sentences with phrase «earlier films in the series»

Dozens of characters fill its narrative, to say nothing of those who were part of earlier films in the series.

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Early Marker: Creation in 2000 of his stock charter Madea, a «God - fearing, gun - toting, pot - smoking, loudmouthed grandmother» who triggered a series of plays and provided a springboard for Perry's film and TV career.

Photo Credits: Anthony Holloway Early in October 2014, we were delighted to be able to form a creative partnership with Abandon Normal Devices (AND) in order to deliver «Watch the Skies» a weekend celebration of Sci - Fi film at Jodrell Bank as part of the British Film Institute's «Days of Fear and Wonder» series.

Early in my challenge I had heard about the Summer Screen series at Somerset House, and keen to include one of the evenings in my 30 Dates by 30 Challenge, I posted on Facebook to ask if anyone had a friend who might like to go and watch an outdoor film with me.

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Early on in the film, he sustains the plot build - up with a series of innovative sequences that look great even thirty years later.

He made his feature - film debut in Lewis» Cinderfella (1960), after having appeared on the early television series Life With Elizabeth (1953 - 1955) starring opposite Betty White.

Peaking early, Swift never quite matched his earlier accomplishments in later years, although glimmers of his low - key social commentary could be seen in such films as Candleshoe (1977) and the short - lived TV series Grindl (1963).

Unlike series co-star Biel, Mitchell remained with the program throughout its run, and through many character changes that found Lucy marrying Kevin Kinkirk, working as an associate pastor, giving birth, and surviving both a miscarriage to twins and clinical depression.Although Mitchell branched out from television into cinematic work as early as 1996, with a turn in the fantasy - action thriller The Crow: City of Angels, and continued intermittent film appearances (such as a supporting role in 2005's slasher movie Saw II), she made no secret of her real passion: performing country music as a guitarist and vocalist.

Unfortunately, a series of such mediocre films as Johnny Dangerously (1984) and Gung Ho (1985) followed, and by the time Tim Burton cast him as the titular Beetlejuice in 1988, Keaton's career seemed to have betrayed its early promise.

Although he supposedly retired to Tasmania in the early 2000s, it is very difficult to see a substantial decrease in his level of engagement or activity, though it did give him more time to write for such outlets as Senses of Cinema and communicate his passion for film history, as well as contemporary cinema, in a series of lectures or talks (I'm sure he'd prefer the latter term) held over a ten - year - period at the State Cinema in Hobart.

Cinephiles, especially those enthusiastic about the avant - garde, are probably familiar with Robert Gardner «s series Screening Room, which hosted numerous directors working in documentary and experimental film in the 1970s and early»80s.

This Star Wars Story is the second in a series of films that live outside the Skywalker family saga, and is set during the early scoundrel days of the iconic characters, prior to A New Hope.

he director Robert Rodriguez («Desperado») has taken his family - friendly series of children's adventure films, «Spy Kids,» into the realm of three dimensions with «Spy Kids 3 - D: Game Over,» an enjoyable, noisy romp that trots out all the gimmicks that have made the format fun since its first brief crest of popularity in the early 1950's.

But it's still a cut above the majority of family entertainment, and director Paul King, who got his start helming the surreal cult comedy series The Mighty Boosh, continues to prove himself a confident and comparatively sophisticated stylist, employing cutaway sets, Rube Goldberg slapstick, animated sequences in different styles, and loads of visual gags to create the film's dollhouse - storybook world; the aesthetic influence of Wes Anderson is especially pronounced in the scenes set at the prison, where an early mishap involving a red sock and the prison laundry dyes the convicts» uniforms a Grand Budapest Hotel shade of lavender pink.

The film is very much a festive follow - up to director Michael Dougherty's vastly underrated 2007 Halloween film Trick r» Treat (which I stupidly didn't spotlight in my October Horror series) so fans of that film's darkly comedic tone should be right at home here, although, in my view Krampus is not quite as good as that earlier effort.

It's also the first film in the series that probably necessitates watching the earlier films to appreciate fully, with its recurring characters and references to Indy's departed family and friends (Connery, who played Henry Jones I, has permanently retired from acting, and though tempted, turned down appearing in this film — I guess just one drink from the Holy Grail isn't enough for his character's immortality), so do yourself a very big favor and, if you haven't seen them, or have forgotten the details, watch the other three films prior.

One of the earliest examples of Weir finding the thrilling in the simple, the film follows the a woman as she is subjected to a series of mind games by a man claiming to be a plumber.

Earlier today, we posted the trailer for Sony Screen Gems Underworld: Blood Wars, the fifth film in the series that began...

The holiday weekend got off to an early start on Wednesday when the long awaited third chapter of the phenomenally popular Twilight film series, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, debuted with $ 68.5 million in just one day of release.

Earlier today, we posted the trailer for Sony Screen Gems Underworld: Blood Wars, the fifth film in the series that began in 2003.

The story is based on the popular children's book series by author Hugh Lofting, which was previously adapted for the screen in a 1967 musical starring Rex Harrison and in a series of films starring Eddie Murphy in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Storylines threaded through the earlier films... Avengers: Infinity War is the 19th film in Marvel's series of superhero movies, and it's a biggie.

Originally scheduled for early 2013, the fantasy film — which is based on the first book in Joseph Delaney's young adult series — actually boasts a really good cast, including Jeff Bridges, Julianne Moore, Olivia Williams and Kit Harrington of «Game of Thrones» fame.

Supplements include an alternate version of the song «Rahadlakum» (in B&W) from the archives, an audio - only deleted song, two excerpts from the TV series MGM Parade about the film, the 1955 short The Battle of Gettysburg and Tex Avery cartoon The First Bad Men, and trailers from the film and the earlier 1944 version of the musical.

The film struggles to create a context in which the climactic murder seems inevitable, but the facts don't support a psychological case study — all indications are that du Pont more or less lost his mind in the weeks leading up to the murder, whereas most of Foxcatcher takes place almost a decade earlier — and screenwriters Dan Futterman (who also wrote Capote) and E. Max Frye (Something Wild — this is not) never manage to build a series of petty rivalries and resentments into tragedy.

The up - and - coming actor, who hails from Waterford, currently appears in the TV series Vikings and also stars in Terry McMahon's feature film Patrick's Day, which was joint winner with Glassland of Best Irish Feature at the Galway Film Fleadh earlier this year.

The best Iranian film in years, invisible in its own country save for a series of screenings at the latest Fajr Film Festival, a sum of Banietemad's work (both fictional and documentary): characters from some of her earlier films meet and have complex, intimate interactions over the landscape of contemporary Tehran.

Earlier this month it was announced that filming on season two of HBO's acclaimed drama series Big Little Lies is slated to begin in the Spring of 2018, and now The Washington Post has revealed that director Jean - Marc Vallee won't be returning to helm any further episodes.

The November Man feels like a film that might have been more of interest to the general public had it come out about a decade earlier, in the middle of the Bourne series, and after Brosnan had finished with his popular run as James Bond.

Early in the film, the estranged Hayes patriarch dies, and Son's insistence on attending and speaking ill at the funeral sets in motion a series of escalating confrontations between the two sets of Hayes boys.

But Gugino's vulnerability and unshakeable will to live keep the viewer invested in her — and thus the film — whether it's through a series of traumatic flashbacks or a horrifyingly realistic gore prosthetic that had even the jaded critics at an early Fantastic Fest screening gasping and looking away.

Entirely too many years have passed since I last saw this movie, so when Cinemark included it in the summer classic film series, I was in my seat nice and early.

Shot in a stark black and white, with the actors repeatedly isolated in their own frames, some really creepy images of crazy nuns (the long early sequence wherein the nuns are interrogated and exorcised is a miniature masterpiece) and a series of subjective tracking shots implicating the audience in the chaos, the film reaches a high point when the priest consults the local rabbi (also played by Voit) in a series of head - on medium shots.

While Dark Night remains fascinatingly ambiguous throughout, Joshua Marston's Complete Unknown (Grade: B --RRB- only starts that way: Early scenes deliberately disorient, the film making speedy leaps in time and geography, with Rachel Weisz popping up in what looks like a series of disguises.

He is best known for his role in Guy Ritchie film, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels as well as television roles in such shows as the dramedy Hotel Babylon, the critically acclaimed HBO series Band of Brothers and earlier in his career, the children's show Press Gang.

Over the years it has often been a difficult film to see, but even during its lost years Joan has remained embedded in the critical consciousness, thanks to the strength of its early reception, the striking stills that appeared in film books, its presence in Godard's Vivre sa vie and recently a series of unforgettable live screenings.

Kristen Stewart — American Actress Kristen Stewart has been playing roles since an early age and received widespread recognition in 2008 for The Twilight Saga film series (2008 — 12).

All told, The Death Cure provides a satisfying conclusion to The Maze Runner trilogy that will likely appease fans of the film franchise, and the book series written by James Dashner (who appears with a brief cameo early on in the movie).

An entertaining yet pervasively superficial documentary, I Am Chris Farley charts the eponymous comedian's early years through to his work on Saturday Night Live and in movies like Tommy Boy and Black Sheep - with the film's myriad of clips augmented by a series of interviews with Farley's peers and family members.

TCM continues their series of Hammer horror films on Friday with four Mummy films, then carries us through Saturday and Sunday with early Dietrich - von Sternberg collaboration The Blue Angel, the 1960 version of The Time Machine, the silent version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and caps it off with Infernal Affairs, the Hong Kong film remade in 2006 as The Departed.

While MI: 3 is, of course, a continuation of situations and characters introduced in the first two films and, to a more tangential extent, the original television series, Abrams» style is much more reminiscent of James Cameron in his approach to giving us early moments of character development, channeling that into the unfolding upturn of tension, and then finally, letting things rip in the action scenes with relentless intensity.

A compilation by film historian Leonard Maltin of four episodes from the Disneyland TV anthology series, this 2 - disc set offers a glimpse into the past and a look at the groundbreaking work done by Walt and his «Imagineers» in the early years of the park.

This is the trailer for the new Tomb Raider film, a reboot of the game - set series which starred Angelina Jolie in the early 2000s.

The interconnected Marvel cinematic universe began with 2008's «Iron Man,» and though these films have come a long way since then — culminating earlier this year in one of the very best of the whole series, the superhero smackdown «Captain America: Civil War» — there are points at which «Doctor Strange» can't shake the sense it's almost a redo of that first Robert Downey Jr. - starring film.

The film's final act (in which Louis and Rick opt to follow the at - large suspects of a multiple shooting Louis captures earlier in the film) is a tremendously tense series of strained negotiations and last - second strategies, chess pieces shifting and moving into place in the finest De Palma tradition.

His best - known films of this realist sort include those in the series Six Moral Tales, Comedies and Proverbs, and Tales of the Four Seasons, although Rohmer was also a fascinating formalist when it came to period pieces, whether in his intentionally artificial interpretation of an Arthurian legend, Perceval (1978), or in his technically progressive take on the French Revolution, The Lady and the Duke (2001), an early film to utilize computer - generated imagery for its backdrops.

«Fox and His Friends» is actually the 14th film in the collection, including the early works collected in «Eclipse Series 39: Early Fassbinder» (although some, including «The BRD Trilogy,» are out of prearly works collected in «Eclipse Series 39: Early Fassbinder» (although some, including «The BRD Trilogy,» are out of prEarly Fassbinder» (although some, including «The BRD Trilogy,» are out of print).

Inevitably, there's no denying a comparison of technique with Altman and Mike Leigh (Canijo spent two years developing the characters with the actors via a series of workshops as Leigh does), but the film stands quite firmly as an often uncomfortable, unpleasant, and always fascinating family saga that would, in a fair world, finally open up the English speaking market to Canijo's previous directorial efforts, which date back to the early 80s.

The second film in the five - part Fantastic Beasts series is currently in production, and the early glimpses confirm that the wardrobe will remain as exquisitely lush and detailed as in the first.