Sentences with phrase «fi film centers»

Not exact matches

And you're choosing to ignore all the female - centered dramas and comedies that have been SUCCESSFUL compared to budget: Lady Bird, Winter's Bone, Wild, Girls Trip, Trainwreck, Bridesmaids, Mean Girls, Clueless, Pitch Perfect, and on and on (not including the huge box office of the female - led action / sci - fi / Disney films like Frozen, Hunger Games, Gravity, Wonder Woman, etc).

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

The film's success proves that mass audiences are ready for sci - fi stories centered around black people and black culture.

The sci - fi film that centers on the discovery of a second Earth was one of the more buzzed about films at the festival this past January, winning the Special Jury Prize and securing distribution from Fox Searchlight.

The sci - fi film that centers on the discovery of a second Earth was one of the more buzzed about films at the festival this...

The Ava DuVernay - directed film snagged its lead back in July, when Storm Reid boarded the classic sci - fi tale as Meg Murry, the awkward - but - average girl at the center of all the space - time travel.

Kate Mara stars in the newest trailer for «Morgan,» a sci - fi horror film that centers on a dangerous woman who may or may not be human.

Based on Michael Faber's acclaimed sci - fi novel, the film's premise is to good to pass up: supposedly existential in tone, the tale centers on an alien (intriguingly played by Scarlett Johansson, who will also be in Toronto with Joseph Gordon - Levitt's directorial debut «Don Jon») sent to earth on a mysterious mission to capture men.

Its DNA is familiar, to some extent, taking the conceit of «Groundhog Day» and layering it on to a sci - fi war picture, with a overwhelming hint of World War II (the film centers around a D - Day style invasion of alien - occupied Europe from the U.K.).

Lined up in the center of the exhibition space is a vintage X-15 rocket - plane motor, a twinkling 1968 IBM server panel, models of the agridome from the sci - fi film Silent Running, and miniature rockets and lunar reconnaissance vehicles designed by Wernher von Braun.

I enjoy physicality of sci - fi / horror film and TV show props, like the ones you'd see in the Dark Crystal, House, Jurassic Park, Star Wars, Alien, The Blob, early X-Files, Journey to the Center of the Earth (the 1959, not Brendan Fraser), etc..