Sentences with phrase «early scenes setting»

It's a hilarious premise and the early scenes setting it all up are priceless.
Early scenes set in the dark have a richness of focus and depth that carries through to later scenes of Maureen on a daytime train.
The film plays gleefully with Australian stereotypes, and is just as cheeky in the earlier scenes set in London, a place the actors clearly never visited during the shoot.
I will say that an early scene set inside an AA meeting is so persuasive in terms of ambience that it dazzled me as much as if not more than the expectedly dizzying vehicular hijinks.
They are all introduced in a «Ladies and Gentlemen, the cast» moment in an early scene set within Guido's massive set that serves no purpose except to show us how many stars are here.

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Those early decisions set the stage for today's thriving tech scene in Estonia.
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.
«It's obviously still very early days, but there's tremendous amount of work going on behind the scenes, setting the stage and we're making progress putting in place a new team and structure as well as cascading that structure and accountability down the whole organization,» chief executive Guy Laurence said in a conference call with analysts Thursday.
Empty manger — Consider setting up your manger scene early in the month, but without the baby Jesus figurine.
After launching with just 100 boxes, Lucky Dip Club now sends out over 1,000 boxes a month, and enjoys almost cult - like status on the craft scene, with legions of devoted fans setting their alarms for the early morning launches and sharing their Lucky Dip Club snaps across social media.
A new Ron Perlman movie is filming in Syracuse this week; crews set up scenes for filming «Asher,» starring Perlman as an aging hitman who seeks redemption, last night and early this morning.
The 6,000 - word piece, by Chris Smith, opens with a scene set at an early March meeting where the governor apparently wowed a crowd of «left - leaning lunchers» with tales of his «New Democratic brand» and his on - time budgets, something Mr. Smith described as «a vivid illustration of the genius and expediency of the Andrew Cuomo method.»
«While this study took place in mice, the work sets the scene to do early clinical trials in humans.
DEALS that will set the scene for the development of solar power in Australia well into the next century are likely to be stitched up in early August.
Early slides were snapshots of an empty wicker basket on a table; the scenes changed as the series progressed, however, to more shocking settings, such as a tarantula on a person's shoulder and finally pictures of burn victims and other traumatic portraits.
If an early morning run is your aim, set the scene the night before so there are fewer excuses in the morning.
The fact is, the earlier you are capable to set your past aside, the faster you will be capable to take pleasure in the dating scene.
An early, before - the - fall scene set in the kitchen is remarkably lovely for the way it simply records the way they respond and engage in routine, the familiarity with which they make food, use the sink, and their comfortable body language in each other's company.
Despite the film being set in the late 90s / early 00s, the music is all from the early 90s and, clumsily, a number of posters in the background of scenes are of films released years after.
As for that key moment that sets up the final act, I thought the film established the character motivation adequately with the earlier scenes showing us Schultz's reaction to some of the violence against slaves.
Moreover, the screenplay sets up a few sturdy ideas that could have been turned into something if anyone had paid attention to them, such as a 90 - minute time limit before the police come to investigate the disrupted alarm, or automatic lights or a drone camera, established in the early scenes.
And there are a couple of effective moments: an early scene, in which we see an advancing «army» (about four men to be honest) of zombies in the WW1 trenches is well done, and it's a shame Halperin didn't concentrate on this aspect of the story — had he done so he would have beaten the first horror movies (to my knowledge) to be set in the Trenches by some sixty years.
The scene is set early on — it is Day 89, a title card informs us, though we do not know what it is the 89th day of — while the Abbott family picks through a pharmacy to find some meds for their sick son, Marcus (Noah Jupe).
In addition to the show he's developing alongside Mick Jagger about the New York music scene in the»70s, the director is also working on a prequel series to Shutter Island set in the early 20th century.
In these early moments, like a half - hearted action scene set in a Chinatown restaurant secretly run and frequented by extraterrestrials, MIB3 smacks of desperation as it sadly goes through the motions it so cleverly unveiled fifteen years ago.
Laing's calm tones are at odds with the squalor and anarchy around him, and serve to set the scene as the film flashes back to three months earlier, and Laing's initial move into a sophisticated new tower block.
Not only does the photo offer another idea of the sort of team - ups audiences will experience when the sequel arrives in theaters — Downey, Cumberbatch and Wong are obviously in costume, likely having shot or preparing to shoot a scene together — it further lays to rest early rumors that Cumberbatch would be represented on - set by a body double, with the actor dubbing in his lines at a later date.
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.
All - time great screenwriter Robert Towne made his first foray into direction with «Personal Best» which is still a pretty decent drama set among the women competing for a place on the US athletics Olympics team, even if it's now become something of a pop - culture byword among men who felt early stirrings at its scenes of hardbodied lesbianism.
There's a grisly early scene in High - Rise that provides a stunning counterweight to the film's weirdly serene set - up, where Tom Hiddleston's Dr Robert Laing becomes acquainted with the tower block that will later consume him.
That sets the scene for the directorial debut for both actor Edmond O'Brien, who also stars as Detective Lt. Barney Nolan, the violent, angry cop, and producer Howard W. Koch, who apprenticed as an assistant on (among others) the early B - movie film noirs of Anthony Mann.
This seemingly inauspicious beginning is actually rather significant because, even though it takes place very early in the film, it is nonetheless the pivotal scene that helps to set up the major themes of the film.
Only snippets of author Eric Schlosser's collected data is actually inserted into the final product, like an early scene that discusses how chemicals are used to create unique tastes, and none of it feels particularly genuine when displayed as comedic set pieces.
Writer - director Richard Curtis (Love Actually) has fun setting up the high - concept premise; in an early scene, patriarch Bill Nighy hilariously explains the ins and outs of their special ability, which relies on clenched fists as opposed to flux capacitors.
Loosely based on (or «inspired by,» per the credits) Sarah Waters» 2002 novel Fingersmith, which was set in Victorian England, The Handmaiden gets progressively trashier and more overheated as it goes along, serving up multiple plot twists and replaying earlier scenes from a radically different perspective.
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In Region 2, where Valiant came to DVD a few weeks earlier, the film was treated to some behind - the - scenes bonus features, including a 14 - minute making - of featurette, a scene progression, recording sessions footage, a television special set at the film's world premiere in London, and the theatrical trailer (something that Disney never includes on the DVD of the film itself, merely as a promotional tool on other DVDs).
Bonus features will include a Filmmakers» Audio Commentary (on the extended cut), «The Making of Pocahontas» documentary, an Early Presentation Reel with Introduction and Commentary, Storyboard - to - Film Comparison with Introduction and Commentary, Deleted Scenes, Production and Design Galleries, Abandonded Concepts, «The Making of «If I Never Knew You»» featurette, a featurette on the Central Park premiere, Animation Tests, Character Animation Featurettes, a Production Progression Reel, Music Featurette, a Multi-Language Clip Reel, two theatrical trailers, music videos of «Colors of the Wind» (performed by Vanessa Williams) and «If I Never Knew You» (performed by Jon Secada and Shanice), Sing Alongs of «Just Around the Riverbend» and «Colors of the Wind», the set - top game «Follow Your Heart», and 2 Disney's Art Projects «Build a Drum» and «Create a Dreamcatcher.»
But because the deus ex machina here is not only evident from the start, and because the identity of the Rainmaker is glaringly obvious, then the conclusion to the film betrays everyone in the audience by only partially observing the rules of time travel set up in earlier scenes.
When the plot switches back to New York — Allen's once - favored stomping grounds before he moved things abroad for a while, starting with Match Point, in 2005 — we get a different setting and a different woman (Blake Lively, The Age of Adaline) with some passable moments and others that recall better scenes in earlier films.
What sets these early scenes apart is that they're bold.
Tsui sets his avoidance dances in confined spaces (tiny apartments, backstage dressing rooms), but To's are set out in the open: a fountain in a public park, a street corner, a sidewalk (a similarly choreographed scene plays out as well early in Romancing in Thin Air, itself a kind of compendium of all of To's romantic comedies, where Sammi Cheng and Louis Koo wander outside the grounds of the hotel, oblivious to each others» presence despite occupying the same film frame).
It's a sharp, teasing setup for a tale of even higher stakes and steeper falls from grace, set in motion by an early scene of Molly being arrested by the FBI for her alleged involvement in an illegal gambling racket.
Larenz Tate («Rescue Me») will star in and produce «Sylvie's Love»,» which is set in NYC's late -»50s / early -»60s jazz scene.
With some set photos popping up earlier this week, Bryan Singer has now taken to Instagram to debut a behind - the - scenes image from X-Men: Apocalypse featuring Lana Condor and Sophie Turner in costume as Jubilee and Jean Grey from the mutant superhero sequel... SEE ALSO: Bryan Singer says X-Men: Apocalypse is «a big monster of a -LSB-...]
Moreover, the black - and - white cinematography brims with light, especially in the early scenes of a fog - filled heaven and in scenes set in the Farnsworth home.
Their scenes early in the movie set a flame under what is — at that moment — an already effectively paced and shot little potboiler about a man dedicated to the law and another driven to break the law because of the cracks in the system of said law.
In this case that's an original screenplay set in the early «60s folk scene starring «Drive» and «Sucker Punch» secret weapon Oscar Isaac as the titular folk singer who isn't able to get his career off the ground.
Non-linear storytelling, with sound bites and voiceovers often heard before their corresponding scenes have played out on screen, set the tone early on for The Limey's off - kilter aesthetic.
The tone is set early, with an opening scene that's funny and appalling.
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