Sentences with phrase «family film night»

Or, reserve the private 16 - seat movie theater for a family film night!

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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.
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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.
Release: Friday, June 9, 2017 [Theater] Written by: Trey Edward Shults Directed by: Trey Edward Shults 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... Continue reading It Comes at Night
It Comes at 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).
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