Or, reserve the private 16 - seat movie theater for
a family film night!
Not exact matches
Anyhow, one summer in the early 80's my
family and I watched a number of Christian slasher
films put out by Russell Doughton including «Thief in the
Night,» «A Distant Thunder,» «The Rapture,» and «Image of the Beast.»
Family Movie
Night was pretty much exactly what it sounds like: we each took turns picking a
film, and then the four of us hunkered down with pizza and popcorn in the basement and watched it together.
Or you could not take the term «movie
night» so literal and actually create a
family film.
Of course you can pop in a DVD or browse Netflix to find the latest and greatest
family films and call it a
night.
The
film opens, with one of its few color scenes, with a closeup of a hand lighting votive candles with a match in a pre-war Polish Jewish
family's home on a Friday
night Sabbath.
And if
families could be persuaded to see this
film together, it might touch off a long
night of sharing between parents and children.
A vengeful ghost, a mysterious killer, and a
family where everyone has a secret converge in one
night of terror in this remake of Francis Ford Coppola's first feature
film.
In the years that followed, Cranston became an increasingly familiar face to television and
film viewers, and in addition to offering vocal work for the short - lived animated television series Clerks, he would contribute to such
family - friendly fare as» T was the
Night and The Santa Claus Brothers.
Additional
film credits include TALK TO ME; the 2006 Oscar ® winning Best Picture, CRASH, which Cheadle also produced; HOTEL RWANDA, for which his performance garnered Academy Award ®, Golden Globe ®, Broadcast
Film Critics Award and Screen Actors Guild ® Award nominations for Best Actor; OCEAN»S ELEVEN, OCEAN»S TWELVE, and OCEAN»S THIRTEEN, directed by Steven Soderbergh; Mike Binder's REIGN OVER ME with Adam Sandler; the Academy Award ® winning
film TRAFFIC and OUT OF SIGHT, both also directed by Soderbergh; Paul Thomas Anderson's critically acclaimed BOOGIE
NIGHTS; BULWORTH, SWORDFISH, MISSION TO MARS, John Singleton's ROSEWOOD, for which Cheadle earned an NAACP Image Award nomination;
FAMILY MAN, directed by Brett Ratner and starring Nicolas Cage; COLORS, HAMBURGER HILL, and the independent features MANIC and THINGS BEHIND THE SUN.
«Prey at
Night» continues the first
film's tradition of casting secluded rural enclaves as key locations, moving the action from the first
film's oddly empty middle class neighborhood to a cleared - out trailer park that caters to
families on holiday at the local lake.
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian fall sunder the category of a
family film that is nothing but a series of distractions in place of a genuine story.
Nor is it really a
family film or an effects extravaganza, two labels worn by Stiller's successful last late December debut,
Night at the Museum, and which can also be applied to The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.
Night at the Museum possesses only special effects and a short - attention span style to keep us entertained, and while that has sometimes proven to be enough for other
family - oriented
films, it falls quite short of the mark here.
It Comes at
Night: Director Trey Edward Schults follows his acclaimed drama «Krisha» with a horror
film about an isolated
family battling an unnatural force.
As always, summer also means plenty of comedies («Snatched,» starring Amy Schumer and Goldie Hawn as kidnapped tourists) and horror
films («It Comes At
Night,» featuring Joel Edgerton as a
family man battling an unnatural evil).
Stiller is now in Vancouver, starring in a sequel to his popular
family film «
Night at the Museum.»
Other in - built games for adults include spotting various throwaway references to considerably less
family - oriented
films, «The
Night of the Hunter» and Scorsese's «Cape Fear» included.
Critically acclaimed
film from the heyday of American indies, Six teens steal the
family car and go out for a
night on the town.
This is the latest effort from Shawn Levy, best known as the director of the
family - friendly, effects - laden «
Night at the Museum» franchise, to prove that he can make a
film that's smaller and more substantial.
The
film opens with a patently ridiculous sequence in which Ford, having bedded his client's daughter Nola (Australian supermodel Jessica Gomes), escapes her
family thugs by fleeing naked into the
night on a skateboard.
McAdams isn't ready to get into juicy spoiler territory just yet, but when MTV News caught up with her at the Gotham Independent
Film Awards in New York City last
night (November 30), which she was attending for her new
film «Spotlight,» the actress finally opened up about why she decided to join the Marvel
family.
The subtext of the (mediocre) first
film has become text in the (far better) sequels: the Purge is the authoritarian government's excuse to declare war on the lower class, as the privileged have the resources to survive the
night while low - income
families get wiped out.
«The Artist,» the charming
film about Hollywood's transition from silent movies to talkies, and the
family drama «The Descendants» were catapulted to front - runner Oscar status Sunday
night with an armful of Golden Globes to their names as the awards...
Produced by Dylan Hale Lewis, the horror
film features an all - star cast including: AnnaLynne McCord («90210»), Traci Lords (Cry Baby), Ariel Winter («Modern
Family»), Roger Bart («Desperate Housewives»), Jeremy Sumpter (Soul Surfer), Malcolm McDowell, Matthew Gray Gubler («Criminal Minds»), Academy Award winner Marlee Matlin (Children of a Lesser God), Ray Wise (Good
Night, and Good Luck) and John Waters.
The
film opens on the final
night of 1899, an evening that has England's Marryot
family excited for the new century (prematurely, nitpickers will note).
, The Oranges — taking its cryptically metaphorical name from the affluent New Jersey neighbourhood in which the
film is set — finds two close
families rended asunder when Meester's Nina rebounds from heartbreak with her father's best friend, David (Laurie), whose loveless marriage has him sleeping in his «man cave» most
nights and counting down the minutes'til his perfunctory mid-life crisis can begin in earnest.
In «It Comes At
Night», an indie horror
film that distances itself from the multiplex formula, Edgerton sinks his teeth into the complex role of a
family man who -LSB-...]
I caught some of the titles: Nugu - ui ttal - do anin Haewon (Nobody's Daughter Haewon) is a delightful
film from the South Korean auteur Hong Sang - soo, the story of a female student's «sentimental education» as it were, as she traverses through reality, fantasy, and dreams, we viewers never quite sure what we are watching; Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive (TIFF's Opening
Night film) is an engaging and drily humorous alternative vampire
film, Tilda Swinton melding perfectly into the languid yet tense atmosphere of the whole piece;
Night Moves is from a director (Kelly Reichardt) I've heard good things about but not seen, so I was curious to see it, but whilst the
film is engaging with its ethical probing, I found the style quite laborious and lifeless; The Kampala Story (Kasper Bisgaard & Donald Mugisha) is a good little
film (60 minutes long) about a teenage girl in Uganda trying to help her
family out, directed in a simple, direct manner, utilising documentary elements within its fiction.
A
film about the depression and ennui that creeps into a
family during the years after a matriarch's suicide may be a tough sell for a fun
night out at the movies, but this looks like one of those
films you'll be glad you made the effort to catch.
Most end - of - the - world dramas hinge on mistrust and friction among the survivors, which was seemingly the actual cause of the end of the world in It Comes At
Night, but this is a rare genre
film built around a
family bond that holds fast.
I designed and currently edit a site recommending
films for
family movie
nights.
For Notebook editor Daniel Kasman, though, the
film — a series of conversations with
family, friends, and mentors conducted by a college graduate who's returned to his small hometown near the port city of Çanakkale — «proved immediately engrossing, like that wonderful experience of starting a hefty book late at
night and finding oneself reading until dawn.»
Using stop - motion puppetry, the
film follows customer service guru and best - selling author David Stone, voiced by David Thewlis, through a dark
night of the soul while on a 24 - hour business trip away from his
family.
This extended clip from the
film was preaching to the choir last
night, but it's now arrived online, ready to win the hearts and minds of non-gamers looking for a big movie that will allow them to escape their
family for two hours this holiday season.
Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane was on Conan last
night and he talked a bit about his upcoming
film Teddy Bear.
Discovering him one
night when she leaves the
family's cave, Guy warns Eep of an impending change, and that is when the true heart of the
film kicks in, becoming a funny and heartwarming road trip
film about an out of the loop
family who discover everything about how to live in the new world.
Josh's
family is suspicious about him when he starts behaving differently after that
night (and if you've seen the first
film we assume that his physical body was taken by the old woman in the wedding dress).
Parents at the multiplex who are looking for a movie the whole
family will like probably can't do better than The Good Dinosaur — especially given the other
films opening on Thanksgiving weekend (The Danish Girl; Creed; Janis: Little Girl Blue; Victor Frankenstein) and those already playing in theaters (The Hunger Games, The
Night Before, Love the Coopers, Goosebumps).
There's an undeniable playfulness to the
film, even as its creepiest moments, making it a perfect pick for
family horror
night.
With its Blu - ray + DVD + Digital Copy combo package of
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, Fox delivers an unbeatable presentation of the popular
family film.
«The
film follows a
family whose road trip takes a turn when they arrive at a secluded mobile home park and after the power goes out they decide to hunker down for the
night in a borrowed trailer.
An entertaining yet pervasively superficial documentary, I Am Chris Farley charts the eponymous comedian's early years through to his work on Saturday
Night Live and in movies like Tommy Boy and Black Sheep - with the
film's myriad of clips augmented by a series of interviews with Farley's peers and
family members.
Set in 2022, the
film says that these Purge
nights have reduced crime and unemployment by ridding society of undesirables, so the fact that wealthy security - system designer Hawke and his
family become the hunted adds a strong irony to the darker political themes.
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Night Rated R for violence, disturbing images, and language Rotten Tomatoes Score: 89 % Texas filmmaker Trey Edward Shults (Krisha) follows up his huge 2015 SXSW winner with this pseudo horror
film about a post-apocalyptic world where husband and father Joel Egerton and
family live safely in their well - protected home, hiding from whatever it is out there, until he allows a young
family to seek refuge in their hiding spot.
The
film then follows the
family's attempts to survive the
night, with one Final Girl stepping up to the plate and finding the will to survive.
INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN
FILMS Aurora (Unrated) Deliberately - paced drama contrasting a sedate
family man's (Cristi Puiu) unremarkable home life with his explosive alter ego which only comes out at
night while he's roaming the streets of Bucharest.
Trey Edward Shults» sophomore feature It Comes at
Night is a psychological horror
film that traps the audience along with two
families in an abandoned house in the woods that, over the course of a slow - burning 90 minutes, turns into a cauldron of fear, mistrust and paranoia as they try to survive an unnatural threat that is terrorizing the world.
We went on to talk about the process she uses to program her festival's dynamic indie
films; why she includes indie cartoons in the mix (and how she discovered The Bum
Family); and the non-intuitive, but decidedly wonderful, idea to honor both John Sayles and Tommy Chong at this year's festival, Chong on opening
night and Sayles at the Sierra Spirit Awards and gala on May 27).