There's only
a few films each year that have all of those pieces in place to make that sort of awards run, and this year «The Gangster Squad» certainly could be one of them.
Few films this year will match the sheer intensity present in director Damien Chazelle's second feature, «Whiplash.»
Few films this year have the same power to transport you to someplace I can virtually guarantee you that you will never see in real life.
Directed by the Danish - born Janus Metz, it's one of
a few films this year that suggest TIFF might as well temporarily change its name to the Tennis International Film Festival; the others include «Battle of the Sexes,» starring Emma Stone and Steve Carell as Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs, respectively, and «Love Means Zero,» Jason Kohn's documentary about the legacy of star tennis coach Nick Bollettieri.
There have been very
few films this year in which trans women were cast as trans women.
I think it feels like there are
fewer films this year because there aren't as many good films or, at least, films that offer a sense of discovery.
Along with Final Destination 5, this is one of
the few films this year I have recommended seeing in 3D.
From the way that the planes are subtly anthropomorphized to the giant crowd scenes to the subtle heightening of everything, from a bravura earthquake sequence to the wind of the title, all of the skills that Miyazaki and his Ghibli animators have accumulated over the years are on full display here, and
few films this year will treat the eyes better.
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Few films this year made quite such an integral, imposing character of their landscape as Courtney Hunt's steel - edged debut, but Melissa Leo's tremendous performance still stood out.
I read once, long ago when he seemed ready to break out, that he purposefully only took
a few films a year in order to maintain family time at home.
Not exact matches
I juxtaposed the two views a
few years ago in my TEDx talk by comparing a pair of cartoons: The Jetsons, which in the 1960s proposed a Utopian future of flying cars and robot maids, to WALL - E, the 2008 Oscar - nominated
film that had humans reduced by technology to useless blobs unable to walk.
The very next
year, Warner released two
fewer films with only one earning at least $ 200 million at the U.S. box office.
For
years he held private screenings of the movie (it's also been shown at a
few film festivals), and there was even a moment when he and Stern thought of remaking it with Hopper directing once more and a younger actor in the lead.
Only in the past
few years have a large percentage of
films been shot digitally, and shooting on celluloid is still alive and well.
It's an updated twist on a low - cost, mail - order
film - processing service popularized a
few years ago by Seattle
Film Works, recently renamed PhotoWorks Inc., in its own bid to straddle the digital divide.
Since launching a
few years ago, the brand's products have been worn by Beyoncé and her dancers on tour, as well as by the cast of the blockbuster
film Hidden Figures.
Female leads comprised 24 % of protagonists in the 100 top domestic grossing
films last
year — five percentage points
fewer than in 2016.
The rest of Disney's lineup over the next
few years includes a mix of animated
films, superheroes, reboots, sequels, and multiple trips to a galaxy far, far away.
They eventually were taken over by a Canadian firm (well, the Canadian assets anyway) a
few years ago some time after a Veco executive was secretly
filmed in a hotel room bribing some Alaska gov» t officials.
China only allows a certain number of foreign
films to showcase in the country each
year, however the backing of companies in its own country could mean The Last Race is one of the select
few which gets shown.
Here are a
few films you should keep an eye on this
year.
The movie deals with faith, grief and doubt in a way that continues the «Jesus themes in other genres» trend that's been sliding into mainstream
films over the past
few years.
A
few years back writer and RELEVANT contributor Jon Negroni caused a stir online when he outlined a theory in detail of how all Pixar
film are connected and exist in the same universe — some, at the same time.
It's a safe bet that the
film will win at least a
few of those, but even if it doesn't, 12
Years a Slave has undoubtedly brought back up an important, though often glossed over, part of American history.
About Time (movie):: This
film is a
few years old, starring Rachel McAdams.
Truth be told, it is mysterious that DC has managed to churn out three Batman movies, two Superman movies, a Green Lantern movie, a Green Arrow TV show and a planned Flash TV show (and that's all ignoring the previous
film adaptations of these characters) without turning its attention to one of its heaviest hitters (aside from a famously disastrous attempt at a television show a
few years back).
«Faith - based
films» have had a difficult time in Hollywood in the last
few years.
She appeared in
films like Wild and Obvious Child and did a multi-season arc on Girls, but the most prominent role she took in the past
few decades has been on Transparent for the past three
years.
In a highlight
film of his career that was shown at a testimonial dinner for him last
year, Marino appears on camera, full frame, with a
few earnest opening remarks about how he'd like to be remembered as a team man who worked as hard as he could, and as a team leader, etc..
Whilst working at Arsenal a
few years back, he had noticed a CD making the same positioning mistakes in a
few games in a row and Keown wanted to help this defender out by showing him his errors on
film so the defender could learn and improve his positioning.
A slew of
films about presidents over the past
few years has likely contributed to the popularity of using presidents» names as baby names.
Lava was inspired by the Disney short
film released a
few years ago.
The theme of parental responsibility comes up over and over in the
film, which begins with his son's birth and a quick slideshow of his development during his first
few years of life (we learn, for example that Jason enjoys dancing, being a ninja, making
films and sand angels).
What's shocking is how much our political culture has changed in just 60
years — the producers of this
film lived in a country that had just seen REAL despotism in the form of Nazi Germany and a military - ruled Japan (note the brownshirt - style uniforms, and also the lack of any of any depiction of their Soviet equivalents), and they pull
few punches about what leads a society away from freedom.
What began a
few years ago as a trickle of small independent
films shot in and around Kingston has of late turned into a veritable flood, including big - budget productions with real movie stars, thanks to a new tax break and efforts by local officials to woo and accommodate the industry.
It took several
years to locate the
films, and when Spriggs did get his hands on the first
few, he didn't have a scanner that could reproduce the optical density on the
films.
NASA's Deep Impact and Cassini missions and the Indian probe Chandrayaan - 1 last
year reported detecting a water
film only a
few molecules thick over large parts of the lunar surface.
What I've been doing the past
few years is producing documentary
films for science - based nonprofit organizations who are interested in promoting their science programs and things like that.
This gap is expected to close over the next
few years, making thin -
film cells — which cost half that of silicon - wafer cells — a better bet.
The standard 35 mm
film we're all used to seeing in movie theaters will be replaced worldwide by digital technology in the next
few years, and the hit blockbuster
film «Avatar» is to blame for the shift, according to a new report.
And now thanks to new research in the last
few years and a
film called Microbirth, we're discovering even more about the fascinating science behind it.
I actually wore the exact same look last
year on Valentine's Day, and I wore it again a
few days ago to
film a new lookbook video for Stylishly Beautiful's Youtube channel.
I wore this outfit a
few days ago, hanging out with my partner in crime, and we then talked about how this outfit reminded us of the look Carrie wears in the first
film on new
years eve.
After a string of blockbuster
films, Rooney Mara has spent the past
few years on smaller, psychologically demanding projects, and she's nowhere near done Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara aren't just dating, but they're now living together!
After a string of blockbuster
films, Rooney Mara has spent the past
few years on smaller, psychologically demanding projects, and she's nowhere near done
She is the daughter of Timothy Christopher Mara, an NFL scout and vice president of After a string of blockbuster
films, Rooney Mara has spent the past
few years on smaller, psychologically demanding projects, and she's nowhere near done
Truly one of the greatest horror
films of the past
few years.
After the mid»40s he played character roles, appearing in
films every
few years until the early»70s.
After five
years of Jeannie, Hagman took a
few film and TV - movie parts, co-starred with Donna Mills on the 1971 sitcom The Good Life, co-starred with Lauren Bacall in the TV rendition of the Broadway musical Applesauce, acted and directed in the low - grade horror spoof Beware!
Though this version is set 25
years later than the original
film, the changes are mostly cosmetic: the visual style is hand - held and more frantic, and the script replaces numerous references to the Cold War with a
few glancing nods to present - day politics.