A woman smacks her young daughter on the head and
face in a few scenes.
Not exact matches
The former «Alias» star who plays a U.S. government agent
in the upcoming movie «The Kingdom,» told People magazine that filming the fight
scenes «was so down and dirty that [I] had scratch marks that we had to cover up on my
face for the next
few days.»
Lots of non-violent, non-gory but otherwise unsettling
scenes worth mentioning: many «jump»
scenes when people or objects startle others; we hear some noises during the night
in many
scenes (creaking doors and floorboards, screams, eerie whispers, doorknobs turning, pounding at doors) and doors slam shut as people run past them; we see eerie carvings and sculptures throughout a house, a maelstrom and sculptures come alive and scream and a skeleton sits up abruptly; a ghostly
face is seen at a window and
in a ceiling, windows become eyes, ghostly children are seen a
few times (
in one
scene, a ghostly baby from a sculpture crawls under the sheets as a woman lies
in bed) and a woman's hair is braided by invisible hands.
We see a very bloody room several times and
in a
few scenes we see some blood on people's
faces, hands and clothes.
Dutch plays a prominent role
in the trailer, having his name dropped, getting a
few seconds of full -
face screentime and appearing
in multiple
scenes.
Special effects contribute to
scenes that depict people being killed
in highly creative ways, like being semi-integrated into cement walls and floors with only a
few body parts and
faces sticking out.
To underline the point, director Matt Reeves frames a sequence of Gary Oldman shuffling through family photographs on his iPad, the glow from the screen quietly lighting the actor's tearful, joyful
face; and then repeats the trick a
few scenes later, with an entirely CGI character delivering just as complex a
scene in total wordlessness, with a different glowing screen and different family pictures.
There are actually quite a
few familiar
faces (many with ties to «Life
in Pieces») that appear
in only one or two
scenes: Chris D'Elia, Ravi Patel, the aforementioned Retta, Majandra Delfino, Jesse Williams, Colin Hanks, Brooklyn Decker, Erinn Hayes, Jamie Chung, Hannah Simone, and Angelique Cabral.
Olivia Colman and Rory Kinnear are under - used, adding fresh
faces to
scenes, but short of a
few strong moments to make their appearance
in the cast list worth mentioning.
Even though the characters
face the threat of death for man and monster alike, there is still enough time for an unmarried couple to exchange a
few kisses and sneak off together
in a
scene where sexual activity is implied.
Add
in a great cast (I particularly liked Samantha Morton, who played the psychic Agatha... her
scenes were very interesting, and she did a good job conveying her terror at
facing the world of the present) and you've got something I was pretty happy shelling out a
few bucks for.
Alfredson shows less visual flair
in Fire, but the Swedes are still willing to rub our
faces in some cruel, brutal violence (cutting down the gratutious rape
scene to only a
few frames) and adept at building more piercing, mystery - cracking tension.
Director James Wan's choice to digitally recreate Walker's image for the film's last
few scenes, using two of the actor's brothers as body doubles with Walker's
face superimposed on their own, points toward a future
in which a performer's ongoing biological existence may no longer be required
in order to synthesize his or her presence on screen.
Case
in point: the most well - regarded critic of Latin American cinema stateside is American B. Ruby Rich, who may well be the
face of New Queer Cinema criticism, but who was one of the
few English - language critics paying attention to the changing Latin American cinema
scene since the seventies.
Said experiment asks if a panel of Cannes jurists can overlook a film's glaring structural problems, general listlessness, uneven tone, and unfocused ideas
in the
face of a
few scattered
scenes of unbridled genius.
I've run into a lot of familiar
faces from the Texas convention
scene, but I've also seen a number of folks from much further afield, including a
few I haven't seen since that last WorldCon I went to
in 2000.
The housing market has seen better days, and sub-prime mortgage is now a household name with negative connotations, there are a
few shiny spots
in the market but to the thousands who
face a home foreclosure the whole
scene is dismal.
These can be subtle, like a vague shape
in a
few scenes that's easy to ignore if you aren't looking for it, or they can be right
in your
face.
«This year the Newd Art Show really added another dimension to the weekend, since it highlighted some of the many strong galleries
in the neighborhood and brought
in a
few others from surrounding areas to create a hub for the commercial
face of the area's art
scene.»
For instance, Night Soil / Fake Paradise (2014), Melanie Bonajo's video installation, depicted
scenes of Western women, and a
few men, tramping through the woods
in «primitive» costumes or preparing for a staged photograph, all wearing a pastiche of Amazonian props like bananas and blue
face paint.