Sentences with phrase «early movie by»

Weird (no pun intended) early movie by Aussie director Peter Weir who later went on to mainstream Hollywood (and often boring) movies such as The Truman Show, Dead Poet's Society and Witness.

Haneke makes too fine a point of it by having Georges handle an errant pigeon which has flown into the apartment not by killing it (as would have happened in an earlier movie by the maker of Funny Games) but by gently capturing and freeing it.

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MoviePass CEO Mitch Lowe thinks his service's rapid growth will continue, projecting earlier this month that MoviePass will have 5 million subscribers by the end of 2018, and account for around 20 % of all movie ticket purchases.

This news comes as no surprise: Fortune earlier reported that by mid-day FridayThe Force Awakens had already sold more tickets than any other movie of 2015.

The movie, told by industry pioneers Danny Sullivan, Rand Fishkin, Jill Whalen, Brett Tabke, Rae Hoffman and Barry Schwartz, covers the early days of SEO when people were «spammin and jamming,» affiliates vs. main stream, black hat vs. white hat, the unique and often rocky stories of the industry's pioneers, how Matt Cutts changed the industry, the history of Google updates and even has commentary on the future of SEO from the industry's top minds.

After being spoiled by $ 100 - million epics from the MCU, it's easy to get hung up on the primitive special effects, but the early Superman movies capture what we love about comics: heroism, hope and fun.

Early tracking by BoxOffice Pro suggests the movie could follow in the song's successful footsteps as its heading for a strong opening - near the $ 1.5 million mark - and it could end its run with $ 3 million or more.

All this goofiness can hamstring a movie's emotional beats, and there are a few Ragnarok moments that don't have quite the dramatic pull they should (one early scene between Thor, Loki and their father, played by Anthony Hopkins, particularly suffers).

• Hanging on the wall of an office here is a flyer, made up in the very earliest days of Evangelicals and Catholics Together, for Evangelicals and Catholics Together: The Movie, a production distributed by Miramaximaculpa and rated PG - 65.

I haven't heard that argument used for movies since the early days of pornography when hard - core pictures were preceded by a warning from a man wearing a doctor's smock about the terrible things viewers were about to witness.

I've since found out they offer freeze pops (sugar, water, food coloring) as a form of hydration, occasionally substitute her afternoon snack with «Special Treats» when they're doing a group activity like watching a movie, vanilla wafers... as early as 9:30 am, donut holes when supplied by a generous parent who tends to do it nearly weekly, and then birthday and holiday party treats (which I knew about but have concerns about frequency and being informed when it's happening so I can adjust her other meals accordingly).

Angle will be making stops in two early and important 2012 primary states this month for viewings of a Christian movie entitled «The Genesis Code,» which is described by the producers as a film that «reconciles the Biblical account of Genesis with the scientific account of the origins of the universe.»

Mr. Barraud came before the Southold Town Board Tuesday evening to appeal the denial given to him by the Zoning Board of Appeals chairperson earlier last month, but town board members believed there was no connection between the movie night and the hops Mr. Barraud grows.

The analysis of movies from 1985 - 2015 by researchers at the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) of the University of Pennsylvania updates an earlier APPC study which found that gun violence in top - grossing PG - 13 movies began to exceed that in comparable R - rated movies in 2012.

Animators used Zeno rigid - body solver software written by ILM developers to film a major scene early in the movie in which an enemy Transformer called Scorponok attacks a U.S. military outpost in the desert.

Early on, forensic science became identified with law enforcement and the prosecution of criminal cases — an image enhanced by books, television, and movies.

We spent the day blogging in the morning, going shopping in the afternoon at Target, Old Navy and Charming Charlie's, working out in the gym in the early evening, taking pictures of our outfits for our blogs, followed by more blogging while watching one of our favorite movies, Midnight in Paris.

6 Years movie reviews & Metacritic score: A young couple in their early 20s, Dan (Ben Rosenfield) and Melanie (Taissa Farmiga), have known each other since After six years of dating, you likely know by now that you want to spend your life with your girlfriend.

By the time Stiller's character engages in a slapping fight with a pair of monkeys, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian has incontrovertibly established itself as an endeavor designed to appeal solely to small children - which is undoubtedly a shame, given the strength of the cast and the promise of the movie's early scenes.

The promising atmosphere is perpetuated by an engrossing early sequence in which the central foursome debate the fates of three seemingly innocent bystanders, and yet it's equally clear that the movie begins to peter out almost immediately following that electrifying interlude - as writer / director Berg's less - than - cinematic visual choices result in a lack of thrills that grows more and more problematic as time progresses.

If a clue was dropped as to how he knew this earlier in the movie, it flew by so fast that no one near me caught it.

The early part of the movie, when Wikus gets exposed to the fluid, you'd think that the MNU or gov» t officials would have some kind of quarantine system in place, in case alien bio-matter intermingles with human... and indeed later on you hear about there being other cases of mutation — possibly induced by the illegal experiments — so they knew this kind of thing could happen... it seemed to me very reckless to have Wikus stumble about, puking his guts, bleeding from his nose, and not have his co-workers immediately call the medvac people in.

We know, however, that the Captain Marvel in these films is Carol Danvers, a cosmically powered hero who will be played by Brie Larson in a solo movie early next year, before Avengers 4 drops.

It's worth noting, too, that Rush fares quite well in its smaller, more low - key moments, with the movie's transformation from merely passable to thoroughly watchable triggered by an early interlude in which Lauda first encounters his future wife (Alexandra Maria Lara's Marlene).

Early in the movie, Cruise's Ethan Hunt, of the ridiculously named Impossible Mission Force (IMF), is taken captive by the Syndicate, before escaping with the help of a female agent (Rebecca Ferguson) of indeterminate allegiance.

Those people should probably have been warned off by the movie's early propensity for bizarre quick - edit digressions.

The Departed marked director Martin Scorsese's return to modern - day gangster movies after an eleven year break, and while it possesses the brutality and violent tension of earlier classics such as GoodFellas (1990) and Casino (1995), it also differed from his previous explorations of the gangster life by following a more linear narrative and eschewing a spoken narration.

By far the best aspects of the movie are the performances by Bale, Studi, Pike — her character is rescued early in the trek and becomes an emotional lifeline to Blocker and he to her — and the many familiar faces peppering the proceedingBy far the best aspects of the movie are the performances by Bale, Studi, Pike — her character is rescued early in the trek and becomes an emotional lifeline to Blocker and he to her — and the many familiar faces peppering the proceedingby Bale, Studi, Pike — her character is rescued early in the trek and becomes an emotional lifeline to Blocker and he to her — and the many familiar faces peppering the proceedings.

Unlike the self - contained world of Wallace And Gromit or the ingenious spin on the escape movie provided by Chicken Run, Early Man explores two genres which have both been cinematically strip - mined on numerous occasions in the past.

It's an inherently compelling premise that is, in the movie's early stages, employed to familiar yet watchable effect by Craig Gillespie, as the filmmaker, working from Thomas McCarthy's script does a nice job of infusing the proceedings with a compulsively watchable feel that's heightened by Hamm's typically appealing work as the protagonist.

Lee Phelps has found his way into several TV movie - compilation specials thanks to his participation in two famous films of the early»30s: Phelps played the cowering speakeasy owner slapped around by Jimmy Cagney in The Public Enemy (1931), and also portrayed the waterfront waiter to whom Greta Garbo delivers her first talking - picture line («Gif me a viskey, baby... etc.») in Anna Christie (1930).

Liam Neeson is by leaps and bounds far out acting his Jedi performance earlier this year... Of course he isn't in a lightsaber battle, but I'll pit his encounter with the fountain in this movie or his chair / window problems.

this movie should be watch as (Annie Hall 2), Allen ended the earlier by describing relationships «They're totally irrational and crazy and absurd», and after many years he completed his idea and made it crystal clear, and now I can see the whole artistic work of Woody Allen as a masterpiece.

But no movie can maintain that kind of momentum, and while the earlier scenes of Hook's frightened negotiation of streets which may harbour saviours or killers maintain a certain tension, the plot loses focus a little when he finds refuge in the flat of a former doctor and his daughter, and the story turns its attention to the political motivations behind the hunt for the fugitive by both the British army and the IRA.

In Lee's Bamboozled, he's invoked (alongside many other silent and early - sound - era performers) as a grotesque specter of racist Hollywood representation — the ghost of minstrelsy past — but writers like Mel Watkins and Champ Clark have complicated the issue by suggesting that there was an element of subversion in Perry's subservience — that the shiftless, feckless caricature he inhabited in so many movies was not a capitulation to the viewership (or the filmmakers) but a bold form of ethnic masquerade.

Through the early»50s he starred in dozens of Westerns, often accompanied by his horse, Trigger (billed «the smartest horse in the movies»), and his sidekick, Gabby Hayes; his female lead was often Dale Evans, whom he married in 1947.

Black Panther's third act is less impressive by comparison, as the movie's action gets bogged down in CGI overload and its plot beats lack the emotional resonance of earlier moments, either because they are rushed or a bit too conventional (re: predictable).

If you're wondering why there are shouts of jubilation from film buffs and aficionados of pre-swing-era music it's because the Criterion Collection has released a beautiful Blu - ray and DVD of King of Jazz (1930), The movie features Bing Crosby's first appearance onscreen, as part of the Rhythm Boys trio, jazz giants Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang, and a spectacular rendition of George Gershwin's «Rhapsody in Blue» by Paul Whiteman, the orchestra leader who commissioned the piece just six years earlier.

Films Reviewed this Week: The Twilight Saga: New Moon, Planet 51, The Blind Side and Precious: Based on the Novel «Push» by Sapphire and Not to Be Confused with the Psychic Warrior Movie That Came Out Earlier This Year That No One Really Remembers Because Sapphire Doesn't Know Squat About Psychic Warriors

This weekend's Kong: Skull Island (read our review), directed by Jordan Vogt - Roberts, promises to be a full - on monster mash that'll usher in an early start to the summer movie season, and I personally can't wait to see the big guy do battle with, well, other really big guys.

Irma Vep (1996) channels the glamour of Hong Kong action movies, as represented by the film's star Maggie Cheung; but it also looks back to early French cinema and the serials of Louis Feuillade.

The Jack Kirby - created, Fantastic Four spinoff characters will get their own movie — separate from that franchise, unless this mess is all worked out by then — focusing on this advanced race evolved from the Kree's genetic experiments on early man.

Some early viewers of the film — which opens this weekend in France — immediately likened the movie to work by Brian De Palma.

Early on in the third Die Hard movie, John McClane is forced by Simon Gruber to walk through Harlem, wearing nothing but a sandwich board.

Jamie Foxx is in early talks to star in the live - action / puppet movie that will be directed by Brian Henson.

The whole movie is a long three - sided chase: Hanna is captured early on by Marissa when Erik leaves her on her own, after arranging to rendezvous with her later in Berlin.

The movie is headed towards an early July start with a script by Boone and his writing partner, Knate Lee.

Earlier in the day, Kate and Cara joined their co-star Daniel Bruhl to promote the movie inside the Variety Studio presented by Moroccanoil at Holt Renfrew.

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir reached Blu - ray earlier this month after being one of eight classic movies, two representing each decade from the 1930s through»60s, chosen by public vote in Fox's «Voice Your Choice» campaign.

The last of Schwarzenegger's early ones, before megastardom called with Conan two years later, this TV movie plays like a 100 minute dream sequence imagined by Naomi Watts» character in Mulholland Drive.