Sentences with phrase «earlier films like»

Sure, his earlier films like Bad Taste, Meet the Feebles, or Dead Alive / Brain Dead will never reach a mainstream audience, but Frighteners was a fun little ghost story with a once - upon - a-star in it and it was released on laserdisc in an incredible version so I am sure it will see the light of day.

After the playful, urban and contemporary humour of the Oscar - winning «Birdman», this bleak - faced 1820s - set frontier western sees Mexican filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu return to the darker worldview of his earlier films like «Babel» and «21 Grams».

Hopefully Nicholson will sign on to the project; Nicholson and Cruise have shown obvious chemistry in «A Few Good Men» and it would be nice to see Liman return to the more comedic arena of his earlier films like «Swingers» and «Go.»

I feel like whenever you think about Kubrick's work, his earlier films like The Killing, Paths of Glory, and Killer's Kiss rarely get mentioned as The Shining, 2001: A Space Odyssey and A Clockwork Orange are his more popular and universally seen films.

Episode VII lacks the truly great character of the earlier films like a Vader, a Yoda, an Obi Wan or a Palpatine.

Some earlier films like HUSH HUSH SWEET CHARLOTTE were also influential.

Magic in the Moonlight is whimsical Woody, in the style of Midnight in Paris and earlier films like Alice, but the writing feels rushed and heavy - handed at times, and laden down with clumsy exposition.

Labor Day is the official start of the awards season with the advent of annual film festivals in Venice, Telluride and Toronto (not that we will forget earlier films like «Get Out»).

Though the movie isn't without the typical Bayisms (from the overuse of slow motion and lingering shots of the American flag, to the corny dialogue), «13 Hours» is a marked improvement compared to his recent output that harkens back to earlier films like «The Rock.»

One could argue that earlier films like Blade, Spawn, and Hancock, all with black superheroes at their center, helped pave the way for director Ryan Coogler's film.

And so Cameron has sacrificed some of the writing, which really doesn't compare with earlier films like both Terminator films and Aliens.

Of course, compared to the sheer beauty and maturity of his latest work — his intimate In the Mood for Love (2000); his majestic 2046 (2004); even «The Hand» (2004), his relatively brief yet masterful contribution to the omnibus film Eros --- earlier films like this one and Chungking Express (1994) come off as energetic though show - offy stylistic exercises.

Though Panahi's post-conviction work has brought him long overdue acclaim, the truth is that none of his has measured up to the heights of earlier films like Crimson Gold and The White Balloon — nor could it, given the constraints under which he's been forced to live and work.

He's the 44 - year - old London - born writer - director who turned comic - book movies on their head with his Dark Knight trilogy, a brooding take on Batman that retained the cocksure intelligence and visionary edge of his earlier films like Memento and Insomnia.

A few obvious makeup changes make her resemble the woman we saw so often on TV (curly hair, darker skin, the swelling belly), but Jolie's performance depends above all on inner conviction; she reminds us, as we saw in some of her earlier films like «Girl, Interrupted» (1999), that she is a skilled actress and not merely (however entertainingly) a Tomb Raider.

Directed by Korean filmmaker Kim Jee - woon, the movie not only reintroduces Schwarzenegger as an older, wiser action hero, but it harkens back to earlier films like «Commando,» when you could get away with being silly as long as it was fun.

For example, he notes, True Romance is inspired by Badlands, but Badlands was inspired by earlier films like Gun Crazy, They Drive by Night, and You Only Live Once, creating a «double frame of reference.»

Of the more than 40 films he's directed this century, I've only seen a handful, but Yakuza Apocalypse is firmly in the tradition of earlier films like Sukiyaki Western Django, 13 Assassins and his remake of the Maskai Kobayashi classic Harakiri in their critique of the psychotic masculinity that underlies the ideology of Japanese action narratives.

The advanced techniques of the Hong Kong action cinema translated from the period kung fu and wuxia film to the modern world of cops and robbers, from swordplay to gunplay, not for the first time (it was preceded into the present by Jackie Chan's Police Story from the previous year, as well as Cinema City's highly profitable Aces Go Places series of comic adventures and a whole host of films from the Hong Kong New Wave like Tsui Hark's own Dangerous Encounters - First Kind, not to mention earlier films like Chang Cheh's Ti Lung - starring Dead End, from 1969), but better than anything before it.

Looking back at earlier films like City by the Sea or Stone, it's invigorating to see the effect a decent script and a strong performance to play against (from Frances McDormand and Edward Norton respectively) have on upping his game.

Disappointingly, Breckin Meyer adds to his collection of supporting roles in flops, in spite of the charm he showed in earlier films like Road Trip and Clueless.

Perry has been prone to pretension in his earlier films like Listen Up Philip and Queen of Earth, and he hasn't shown much instinct for dramatic tension.

I was hoping for the latter and also hoping that Roth may have moved on from his gratuitous early films like Hostel and Cabin Fever and actually managed to mature somewhat.

From his early films like Velvet Goldmine (a 1998 film that explores the»80s and»70s) and Far from Heaven (a 2002 film set in the 50s) to his most recent work, Carol (also set in the 50s), Haynes is a master at crafting gorgeous period pieces.

Join producer James Tucker, producer / director Brandon Vietti, WAC Podcast hosts Matthew Patterson and DW Ferranti and surprise guests, as they examine Batman iterations and oddities throughout history, from early films like «Public Defender» and the Batman cartoons, to new versions of the character, the off - kilter takes and new media.

KSAround the same time, in the mid-to-late»70s, Jack Goldstein is making his early films like Shane and The Jump, which take an action that turns into an image and repeat it over and over again.

Not exact matches

From the Inside Out - «Making Avengers: Age of Ultron»: A 20 - minute video going back 18 months showing what it was like on set of the film in Italy and Seoul, Sourth Korea; a look at the Avengers Tower; some of the behind - the - scenes early visual effects of Ultron; early concept work for Quicksilver, the Hulk, and Vision; and more.

Early last week, UFC president Dana White announced McGregor had been pulled from the card of UFC 200 because McGregor refused to go to Las Vegas to promote the fight; typical pre-fight promotions like a press conference, filming a commercial, and other marketing events had been scheduled.

Like Netflix, Amazon (AMZN) is looking to get into the movie production game, promising earlier this year to eventually churn out around a dozen independent films — with budgets between $ 5 million and $ 25 million — every year.

Now, talks are still early (and we'e heard rumors like this before), so this whole thing is far from certain, but Deadline is confidently reporting that talks are definitely happening and filming could start after Pratt wraps his work on Jurassic World and Guardians of the Galaxy 2.

She wishes she could've watched a film like this during the early weeks of breastfeeding, and hopes it'll help other moms going through it now.

He really does remind me of all of those early children's films, looking like the bad guy I think he is.

UFC or ultimate fighting has been around since the early nineties and made an instant impact with fight fans but since the release of films like never back down and red belt mixed martial arts seems to have taken the world by storm and even threat tens to overtake boxing as the number one combat sport.

Daniel Craig is a very well - known British actor, but it wasn't until his early breakout roles in films like Layer Cake and Road to Perdition that he ever made it on the radar of American film watchers.

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.

TD: I think that, just like a lot of movies that came out of the late 70s and early 80s, that was the first and most creative era in WIDESPREAD film - making.

After his action - comedy vehicle Double Take was a January 2001 washout, Jones was poised to team with Ivan Reitman for the latter's summer 2001 sci - fi comedy Evolution.Still, Jones retired as 7 - Up's pitch man in early 2002, and would spend the 2000's nurturing his film and TV career, appearing in Runaway Jury and Drumline, as well as TV shows, like The Adventures of Chico and Guapo and Rules of Engagement.

Characters that gave the earlier films their spark - the eager - to - please Donkey, one of Eddie Murphy's finest vocal moments, the debonair Puss in Boots, a great Antonio Banderas achievement - are wheeled on and off for what seem like guest spots.

seems less like a sequel to than a parody of the first 48 Hrs., especially when Nick Nolte, repeating his role from the earlier film, begins commenting on the cliched absurdity of the goings on.

«It's like I can see in color again,» says Marlo, who earlier in the film refers to her body as «a relief map for a war - torn country.»

In the moment, it seems like a loaded, inflammatory thing to place so early in the film.

Outside of major roles in early sound efforts like The Big Trail and Tom Sawyer (both 1930), he could be found playing menacing tribal chiefs and bandits in serials and B - pictures, and seedy, drunken «redskin» stereotypes (invariably named Injun Joe or Injun Charlie or some such) in big - budget films like John Ford's My Darling Clementine (1946).

It comes in a thin, clear, plastic, protective case which houses a 3D Blu - ray case in the shape (the film's star) Emmett; much like that of earlier Simpson DVD releases.

Knaggs» career reached a peak in the mid -»40s, when he worked in supporting roles in ambitious major studio films such as None but the Lonely Heart (a fascinating but failed attempt at a serious drama by Cary Grant) and unusual independently made features like Douglas Sirk's early Hollywood effort Thieves» Holiday, while also making the rounds of such popular medium - budget Universal Pictures productions as House of Dracula, The Invisible Man's Revenge, and Terror By Night.

Like most great comics, he also decided fairly early that he wanted to be taken «seriously» as an actor, and so he traded in «Ace Ventura» and «Dumb and Dumber» for films like «The Majestic» and «Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.&raLike most great comics, he also decided fairly early that he wanted to be taken «seriously» as an actor, and so he traded in «Ace Ventura» and «Dumb and Dumber» for films like «The Majestic» and «Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.&ralike «The Majestic» and «Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.»

The discourse is cut together with clips from early Merchant Ivory films like Bombay Talkie and The Guru, providing an interesting platform for the way film history invariably impacts each generation differently.

There are jump - scares that are more than just scares, as you'd imagine in a wilderness where the flora and fauna have mutated like cancer cells (a metaphor made plain in a classroom scene early in the film).

I can't say, therefore, that the book is better than the film or vice versa, but given the vistas captured by Caroline Champetier in widescreen lensing, we get at least as good an idea what of farm like was like in Europe during the early part of the 20th Century.

It can be overindulgent at times and Myers» over-the-top lens through which he projected his early comedy films can seep into the narrative and produce some overbearing results at times, though «Supermensch» feels like a work of minimalist restraint compared to films like «Wayne's World» and «Austin Powers».

Starring Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem, Farhadi's latest pivots on a disappearance (in this case a kidnapping) much like his 2009 film About Elly, but CineVue's Joe Walsh believes it «lacks the subtlety of his early work, yet he still shows he has the ability to deliver devastating blows that leave you stunned.»