Sentences with phrase «entire setting of the film»

The entire setting of the film is always belting forward, and once the revolt begins, the protagonists push ahead within it.

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An entire industry of books and films has blossomed in the red soil of the American Christian persecution complex, with the first «Gods» Not Dead» installment caricaturing and vilifying atheists and the second set to expose liberal efforts to «expel God from the classroom once and for all.»

Directed by John Michael McDonagh, with Brendan Gleeson and Don Cheadle Set in the west coast of Ireland, this buddy movie made us laugh out loud throughout the entire film.

Sometimes the foreboding mansion can be the backdrop for the subtext of the entire film — the setting for films ranging from Hitchcock's thrillers to Kubrick's horrors.

With an astoundingly funny vein of dark comedy running through the entire film, this film sets itself apart as a treatise of the horror genre, something that Scream accomplished a decade previously but Cabin in the Woods elevates to another level.

The premise is right up there with any Charlie Kaufman film (Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Scynecdoche New York), containing so much juicy potential for interpersonal revelations, but the entire set up is thrown away in the third act for a «thriller» movie that came out of nowhere and does nothing but add a period in the middle of the sentence.

There's a scene where Luthor sets up a suicide bombing that has no impact on the story, and to me that scene exemplifies the storytelling problems with the entire film - lots of scenes that are cool in the moment but that have no place in a larger tale.

The entire gag takes a long while to play out (the money shot - close - up on a set of buttocks most definitely not those of the 62 year - old Willis), though it is infused with the kind of nutty energy that Willis last exhibited in his 1991 megaflop, Hudson Hawk (a film that has since acquired an army of «guilty pleasure» defenders, including yours truly).

The Hedgehog is set primarily within the apartment building these characters live, stepping outside of it for just moments in the entire film.

It shows some of the incredible planning and preparation that went into building what is basically the film's entire set — the underground fortress of District 13.

SYNOPSIS: Jennifer Peedom set out to film a climbing expedition from the perspective of the Sherpa community, but when tragedy strikes, tensions rise on the face of Mt Everest, changing the focus of the entire film.

Each film receives enough supplements to be worth of an entire box set unto itself.

Though an entire subplot devoted to homosexuals in a film like this is usually cause for trepidation, American Wedding distinguishes itself with a refreshing affection for its gay characters — enough so that a few same - sex smooches are shown without irony, a same - sex dance is left uncommented - upon at the reception of the wedding in question, and a gay character named Bear (Eric Allan Kramer) is allowed to be a key figure in two set - piece gags.

Directed by Quentin Lawrence and based on a television film he had directed earlier, the entire film is kept to a couple of sets and a small, contained cast, and the controlled microcosm is part of what makes it work, as the threats are all outside the walls, unseen and only heard over a phone line or described by the charmingly commanding Morell.

Good Morning (The Criterion Collection), set in a suburban Tokyo housing complex in the late 1950s, is one of director Yasujiro Ozu's lighter films, telling the story of how two schoolboys disrupt their entire neighborhood by going on a silence strike because their parents refuse to buy a television.

Instead, the film shifts to a nice but awkward breakfast, filled with sight gags (how the Queen's aids, played by Rebecca Hall and Rafe Spall, set up a place for the giant to eat), uncomfortable pauses, and resolving with an entire room enjoying — and immediately regretting — a drink of BFG's favorite, fizzy beverage (For a hint as to how that decision goes, the carbonated bubbles go downward).

When Twentieth Century Fox and producer Lauren Shuler Donner brought director Bryan Singer back into the X-Men film universe with X-Men: First Class - a movie Singer was originally set to direct - little did we know that the man behind the first two X-Men films would end up working on an entire new trilogy of series installments.

Criterion's brilliant Blu - ray set of «The Night of the Hunter» devotes an entire disc to a documentary composed of pristine rushes and outtakes from the film, most with background audio of Laughton directing his actors using both carrot (for the kids) and stick (on Shelley Winters).

The film is set in the rugged and unforgiving rural north of British Columbia, Canada and the story spans an entire year in the lives of the characters.

I didn't like the idea of flashing back to the rest of the Olympics after that stage was perfectly set in the opening scenes of the film, in fact they could have edited the film to have the entire hostage - drama portion before the credits, the flip over to Avner and company and not keep coming back to it.

'' For instance, we built jungle sets at Leavesden Studios where Harry Potter was filmed and then we went to South Africa and created — and this is the biggest difference between this and the other movie — an entire village in South Africa, south of Durban.

The Natalie Portman - starring western Jane Got a Gun (a by - now infamously troubled production), finally set to premier at the end of January, features Portman as one of two or three women in the entire film; contrast that with indie drama About Ray and the hotly contested remake of the Ivan Reitman classic Ghost Busters, a production attempting to further distinguish itself by pushing the words together to form Ghostbusters — how crafty.

The film, set in a San Francisco waterfront saloon, is told in a helter skelter fashion, as Cagney (who remains seated through almost the entire picture) functions as the calm, controlling eye of the human... read more

The most interesting feature in the entire set is the Nippon television special, a 42 - minute Japanese documentary that was aired there to promote the release of the film.

Spielberg instantly plugs into the sugar - rush milieu of the source material, eliding exposition, character, and setting in favor of a quick succession of «Hey, I recognize them» cameos, as though the entire film were cast from a Funko figurine catalog.

The most striking success in Krabat is the set design and cinematography that combine to allow a sense of menace and darkness to pervade the entire film.

Guardians feels like the entire film is set in the key of that dense, fun, and most importantly, cocky scene.

Based on the setting alone, the film trips over every obvious German stereotype in the book - from the uninhibited cultural attitudes, to the kinky sexual indulgences, to the peculiar artistic tastes, smaller automobiles, penchant for beer and Euro - trashy nightclubs, etc., etc., etc.... Beyond that, the lineup of comedic gags and sequences feels like mishmash of ideas that never seem to balance out tonally with other jokes, not the entire dramatic side of the film.

Predicated on and playing to our now - ingrained fears of terrorism, these set pieces feel like the entire raison d'etre of the film — or at least the only thing it truly cares about.

This ups the ante on all of Deadpool's action and fight sequences (Leitch also did Atomic Blonde), to the point where the film's entire second act is basically one long action set piece that involves sky diving, stunt driving, fights on and around high - speed trucks, and the introduction of a classic comic villain.

There's no word on exact bonus features with the sets so far, but the box with the gift set looks pretty huge, and Fox Home Entertainment is assuring us it will come with the 3D Blu - Ray, a DVD version of the film, and an entire disc of extras.

It harkens back to Tarantino's first film, Reservoir Dogs, where the entire movie took place in a single set and just showed the different characters riffing off of each other.

Made on the wonderful jungle sets of King Kong while that epic's special effects were being finished, this is one of the great action - horror films and has provided a template for many «rich sicko» melodramas — the entire «torture porn» subgenre springs from the obsessions of its villain, Count Zaroff (Leslie Banks).

«For instance, we built jungle sets at Leavesden Studios where Harry Potter was filmed and then we went to South Africa and created - and this is the biggest difference between this and the other movie - an entire village in South Africa, south of Durban.

They didn't, although there was talk of actually rebuilding the entire set of Kubrick's film.

As if aware that all that stuff about Bolivian peasants pining for water might be connected, and queasily, to Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (a daring cargo - jet escape is similarly cribbed from that film), Quantum of Solace does its level best to strip entire set - pieces from the Bourne series (a knife fight, the close - quarters disarming of government agents, the roof - top flight), forgetting in the process to port over the coherence of Doug Liman or Paul Greengrass choreography.

Indeed, that King, at the age of 29, in peak condition and at the pinnacle of her profession and training hard, beat a 55 - year - old former world champion whom the film takes pains to reassure is not only not training, but also drinking and womanizing and popping mysterious pills while doing a full - blitz promotional campaign (he played the entire first set in a branded windbreaker), says the opposite, I think, of the intended message.

Set in 1991 amidst the beginnings of civil war in Yugoslavia, this is a brutal film, in every right way: an antidote to the CNN - ification of war news, here is a frank, realistic depiction of total, practically apocalyptic war, one in which civilians and journalists are targeted and an entire nation is laid ruin.

For those unaware, Afflicted is a documentary / found footage / POV style film about a pair of best friends who set out to travel the world and document the entire trip via digital videos on their blog.

Now cursed with a mark on his right hand that will ultimately spread over his entire body and kill him, Ashitaka leaves his people and ventures into the forest, the setting of the film's central conflict.

The film is captured in beautiful black and white as it sets the tone for the entire film while the cinematography catapults the film into a free - flowing renaissance where nature takes on a form of not just setting but a character to sympathize with and examine more thoroughly.

, a feature - length documentary on the entire series (from the memorable Second Sight Films release of the film); In Search of the Hotel Broslin, a 2001 featurette with Henenlotter and rapper R.A. «The Rugged Man» Thornburn; a six - minute outtakes reel in HD from a 2K scan of a 16 mm print; The Frisson of Fission: Basket Case, Conjoined Twins, and «Freaks» in Cinema, a new video essay by Travis Crawford discussing the history of films featuring «freaks of nature»; a set of image galleries (promotional stills, behind the scenes, ephemera, advertisements, home video releases); a promo gallery featuring 3 theatrical trailers (all in HD from 4K sources), a TV spot (also in HD from a 4K source), and 2 radio spots; The Slash of the Knife, a rarely seen short film made by Henenlotter prior to Basket Case; an audio commentary on The Slash of the Knife by Henenlotter and Mike Bencivenga; outtakes and an image gallery from The Slash of the Knife; Belial's Dream, an animated short story by filmmaker Robert Morgan; and last but not least, a 28 - page insert booklet featuring the essay «Case History» by Michael Gingold, «Cham - pain in the Park!»

Smith told us that he visited the set in Prague (filming in Russia being sort of tricky these days) and met with the cast — turns out Gary Oldman had read not only the book in question, but the entire series.

Esther Shipper recreates Dominique Gonzales - Foerster's R.W.F.. For a 1993 solo exhibition, Gonzales - Foerster transformed an entire apartment in Cologne into an imaginary film set, evoking Rainer Werner Fassbinder's practice of using his own apartment as a film location.