Sentences with phrase «film dead men»

Then there's the book / film Dead Man Walking — which describes many of us spiritually.

The Ballad of Lefty Brown is both written and directed by American filmmaker Jared Moshe, director of the western film Dead Man's Burden previously and some producing work as well.

Take a pinch of the film DEAD MAN WALKING, sprinkle in a little ERIN BROCKOVICH and you pretty much have an idea as to...

Not exact matches

Or consider Tim Robbins's comments in speaking to an interviewer at the Berlin Film Festival about a film he directed, Dead Man Walking: «I believe in... er... that there are... er... that there are people who are on earth who live highly enlightened lives and who achieve a certain level of spirituality, in connection with a force of goodness.

The film ends with Nicholson desperately attempting to stop his own men from blowing up the bridge, resulting in a fellow officer being shot dead by Japanese fire.

The plot of the film is not very different from the Universal classics: mad scientist, longed to resurrect the dead, comic character much alike Abbott and Costello, beauty who of course is taken by the «monster» (which is the Wolf Man), the climax with a burning building, while the battle of protagonists with a monster is going on and, of course, a happy ending.

After competing for the love of Phoebe Cates in Drop Dead Fred, Eldard would subsequently appear in numerous roles in film (Scent of a Woman [1992] and The Last Supper [1995]-RRB- and television (Arresting Behavior and Men Behaving Badly).

Harris» feature films for 2004 include the live - action remake Thunderbirds and the thriller Trauma, starring Colin Firth.Though her star was steadily rising in Hollywood, it wasn't until 2006 that Harris would really make a splash on stateside screens; and after supporting roles in Brett Ratner's After the Sunset and Michael Winterbottom's A Cock and Bull Story, Harris took to the high seas for her role as Tia Dalma in the eagerly anticipated summer sequel Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.

This is a particular disappointment given that the actress gave, to my mind, the most grownup performance of her career as the wife of a military man lost and presumed dead in the 2009 film Brothers.

The film has an interesting cast — Jason Statham, Mickey Rourke, Alexander Skarsgard, Michael Shannon and, of course, 50 Cent — but the action seems to revolve around Control star Sam Riley as a man who assumes the identity of a dead man only to end up in a high stakes game of Russian roulette.

Legal troubles aside, Priestly continued to appear in films throughout the 2000s (Cherish, Die Mommie Die, Homicide: The Movie), and joined Joss Whedon's Tru Calling in the role of Jack Harper, a man determined that the dead not be revived by Tru.

It turns out that the idea of a man coming back from the dead isn't necessarily enough to support a film on its own, heavy - handed references to Lazarus or not.

I can't get enough of the film noir era and its style, so «Dead Men» has enticed me to see many of the classic films that contributed clips here.

Timing does no favors for The Chamber, the John Grisham death row drama that arrives on the heels of a better death row film («Dead Man Walking») and a better Grisham adaptation («A Time to Kill»).

Dead Man, one of Jim Jarmusch's best and most divisive films, has been outfitted with a beautiful and imaginative Criterion package.

instead of winning for any of his fine performances in his previous films (Dead Man Walking, Hurlyburly, etc.).

«Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest» (2006) Box Office Take: $ 1,066 billion 21st Century Box Office Ranking: 12 Not as well - crafted as it predecessor, but not as bloated as the films that followed, the first «Pirates» sequel «Dead Man's Chest» was still kind of a mess, but still retained enough of the original's invention and charm to remain somewhat palatable.

The film relies far too heavily on sophomoric audience indictments, double flashbacks (Robert Forster and Mary Kay Place are fantastic as young Nathan's terrifying parents), and three stale narrative testimonial forms (the police station confession, the testimony before Congress, the dead man in Heaven) that are each wildly distracting and atonal.

Dead Man Down is a strange film, near glacially paced but arresting nonetheless.

But who better for a movie about reanimating the dead than someone who has already made a strange, loving and entrancing film about a man who works transforming raw flesh?

There are also directors of fiction films that I admire, that spire me a lot and that illustrate my pronounced taste for marginal characters: Freaks by Tod Browning, The 400 Blows by François Truffaut, The Elephant Man by David Lynch, Wings of Desire by Wim Wenders, Dead Man by Jim Jarmusch, Dogville by Lars von Trier, Spider by David Cronenberg, Amores Perros by Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Time of the Wolf by Michael Haneke, The Host by Bong Joon - ho, Old Boy by Park Chan - wook, Children of Men by Alfonso Cuarón, Tomboy by Céline Sciamma, Two Days, One Night by the Dardenne brothers and the very recent and magnificent I, Daniel Blake by Ken Loach.

Yet his comeback «Dead Man's Shoes», with its combination of small - town retribution and the supernatural, is far more successful in importing the oater sensibilities of «High Plains Drifter» to the West Country, while bringing back from the dead the sort of hardman grittiness not seen since such seventies classics as «Get Carter», «Straw Dogs» and the «Death Wish» fiDead Man's Shoes», with its combination of small - town retribution and the supernatural, is far more successful in importing the oater sensibilities of «High Plains Drifter» to the West Country, while bringing back from the dead the sort of hardman grittiness not seen since such seventies classics as «Get Carter», «Straw Dogs» and the «Death Wish» fidead the sort of hardman grittiness not seen since such seventies classics as «Get Carter», «Straw Dogs» and the «Death Wish» films.

The 40 - year - old actor and «super dad» has starred in all of the «Pirates of the Caribbean» films - including a 10 minute appearance in the upcoming pirates» sequel «Dead Men Tell No Tales» in which he plays Will Turner, father to Henry (Brenton Thwaites).

(remix) music video by Danger Mouse and Jemini; deleted scenes and alternative takes, five in total, including an alternative ending (9 min) with a less subtle conversation between Richard and Mark, but a haunting final image of Richard with Anthony; images from Anjan Sarkars graphic novel animation matched to actual dialogue from the films soundtrack (the scene where Herbie first sees the elephant); In Shanes Shoes (24 min) documentary featuring the premiere at the 2004 Edinburgh Film Festival, interviews with Shane Meadows about run - ins with violent gangs in his youth, and on - location clowning; Northern Soul (26 min) also made by Meadows in 2004, and starring Toby Kebbell as an aspiring wrestler with no actual wrestling experience or talent - this comic short is as amateurish as its protagonist, and serves only to show how much better Dead Mans Shoes is.

According to Deadline, The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman, Iron Man scribes Art Marcum and Matt Holloway, Pacific Rim writer Zak Penn and Lost «s Jeff Pinkner have been brought on board to pen the scripts for the upcoming films.

Of the other top films in the Competition, two invoked driving as a primary motif: Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Grand Jury Prize co-winner Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, an intoxicatingly strange, oblique police procedural in which a caravan of cops spend a very long night winding through the Turkish countryside in search of a dead man's grave; and Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive, a needle drop deep into the groove of a Walter Hill / William Friedkin / Michael Mann neo-noir, starring a terse Ryan Gosling as an unnamed Hollywood stuntman who moonlights as a getaway driver.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (R for profanity, nudity, violence, drug use and graphic sexuality) Legendary director Sidney Lumet (12 Angry Men, Network, The Verdict) assembles a talented ensemble for this suspenseful crime thriller about two brothers (Philip Seymour Hoffman and Ethan Hawke) whose perfectly planned heist of their parents» (Albert Finney and Rosemary Harris) jewelry store goes horribly wrong when their accomplice improvises with disastrous results during the botched robbery.

The fifth installment of the film series, «Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales,» will receive its world premiere May 11 at the Shanghai Disney Resort in China.

«Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales» will film entirely at Village Roadshow Studios and on locations within Queensland, Australia.

One sequence in particular that displays the power and emotional range of Dale in the role, comes at the end of the film when he is left as the only man willing to bury his dead brother at the funeral of Kennedy's killer.

The men in this summer's slate of indie films are far from ordinary: Colin Farrell stars as a neurotic in the wonderfully weird romantic comedy «The Lobster» and Daniel Radcliffe is a dead guy in «Swiss Army Man.»

And with the fifth film, «Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales,» that series introduces ghost sharks into the mix.

In the tradition of the platoon drama, they represent different types — the young Student, the hearty Bavarian, the protective Lieutenant, and the married man Karl (the only one to be called by name)-- and have bonded as friends under fire, but the film chronicles the way the war grinds them up and leaves them dead or broken.

There are no such problems to be found here, as this newly minted transfer, taken from the original digital intermediaries and color corrected for home video (as it's a different color space than film), is as flawless as its successor, Dead Man's Chest.

First, a seven - minute piece called «The Spirit of the Ride» has the director and various other cast and crew discussing how they drew on the amusement park ride for ideas and general atmosphere for the film; the 14 - minute mini-documentary «Dead Men Tell No Tales» (also available in the DVD - ROM content in the two - disc edition) gives a history of the «Pirates of the Caribbean» ride, complete with lots of behind - the - scenes looks at the animatronic pirates and nostalgia - inducing footage from the ride itself.

Set in a small, blue - collar American town, the film tracks the fallout of a terrible mining accident that left ten men dead.

Unfortunately for him, the request is granted in spades as the Mandarin's terrorist henchmen proceed to blow the compound into the sea, and leave Iron Man, broken, busted and presumably dead (if you have seen ANY trailer for this film, you will know that is not a spoiler).

The horror film stars Diego Boneta (from «Scream Queens» and Rock of Ages) as an American tourist who ends up in the town of Medellin in Colombia, befriending a local woman (played by Maria Mesa) who introduces him to «group of young misfits» that call themselves the «Dead Men».

Dead Man Walking (Tim Robbins, 1995) Any film that addresses one of the big, divisive issues of our day (abortion, immigration, homosexuality, etc.) runs the risk of being preachy.

The master of the specific subgenre called body horror and the man who put out such classics as Dead Ringers and Videodrome, the Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg seemingly stepped out of his (dis) comfort zone and delivered one of the best movies of the first decade of this century when he made the film cleverly and multilayeredly called A History of Violence.

Trevorrow seemed like a dead man waking after his latest film, The Book of Henry, was a failure with both critics and audiences.

English actor Paddy Considine is renowned for his on screen prowess courtesy of a career in films such as 24 Hour Party People, In America and Dead Man's Shoes, as well as Hot Fuzz, The Bourne Ultimatum and The Red Riding Trilogy, however Tyrannosaur marks his first full - length effort behind the lens.

A new supposed behind - the - scenes image from filming shows a shot of Doctor Strange and Spider - Man teaming up, with Strange ominously telling Peter «Protect them, they're not dead.»

It's the movie that made Billy Bob Thornton (Dead Man, Tombstone) a star, and an unlikely vehicle to be one of the better films of 1996.

Blockbuster-wise, the bloated «Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest» dominated, losing most of the charm of the original, while «X-Men: The Last Stand» and «Mission: Impossible III» also proved to be unsatisfying sequels, and «The Da Vinci Code» made a ton of money, despite easily being one of the worst films of the decade.

Every superhero that's been introduced so far (and isn't dead) from Guardians Of The Galaxy, Captain America, Thor, Hulk, Black Panther, Doctor Strange, Iron Man etc, will feature in this film.

The men, who had just previously been discussing movie tropes and discussing how much easier things would be if at the climax of a film all could be revealed by one character simply handing another character a copy of the film to catch them up — Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead being their example of a time this would have come in handy — lend Dorothy their phone.

The horror - film tropes resurface only intermittently in their later films: a hand bursting out of the ground, recalling the final shot of Carrie, during the prison break in 1987's Raising Arizona (a shot also used in The Evil Dead); the wood chipper that in Fargo (1996) is put to the grisly use that Marty had intended for his incinerator; Anton Chigurh's slasher murders in No Country for Old Men (2007); and, most acutely of all, in Barton Fink (1991), a film about a writer's worst nightmare, writer's block, complete with sweating wallpaper, expanding plumes of blood, and a hellfire climax.

Really, his career as a leading man was dead the moment he debuted his chuckle - worthy blonde tresses in Oliver Stone's Alexander, the 2004 film that has become a byword for glorious miscasting.

Dead Man Year: 1995 Director: Jim Jarmusch Jim Jarmusch directed this post-modern examination of the western film genre as American pop culture finally began to veer away from the expected western films.