Sentences with phrase «film second act»

The actress was spotted in New York City filming scenes for the film Second Act with a long bob that hits just below her shoulders and has clean, blunt ends.

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The second act of the film opens with Jobs preparing to introduce the NeXT computer, in 1988.

One moment will have smart phone animations barraging the screen, the next scene will have some random act of bullying, and then the movie remembers it's supposed to be a horror film and for two seconds, you see the girls being filmed by someone.

When the film does hit its climax, the fun comes back into play, but it's been a long second act to get to it.

Still, the film never quite nails down an overall tone, building to two powerful scenes closing out the second act and warming up the third: one between Gerry and his ex-wife (Robin Weigert, looking nothing like «Deadwood's» Calamity Jane) heartbreaking and tense, the other at a sparsely attended horse track with Gerry and Curtis seemingly all but solidifying their own sad fates.

That sets up the second act of the film, in which Miller and his men penetrate into French terrain still actively disputed by the Germans, while harboring mutinous thoughts about the wisdom of the mission.

This along with the poorly managed special effects and CG work really cause an artificial distraction throughout most of the film's second and third acts.

Yet while those comic book references, along with plenty of well - written quips aimed at older audiences, will engage the parents in the theater, the film's introspective second act may fail to hold the attention of younger viewers.

It is a welcome surprise to see a lighthearted Western that places its importance more on the characters than on the famous real gunfight depicted - and the deep - focus shots are beautiful -, but still the film has trouble with maintaining the focus and pacing in the second act.

The film's second act is near spot - on comedy of discomfort.

In the first, the former Scientologists describe how they got into Scientology; the second act recounts the history of Scientology and the author of Dianetics, and in the final act, the film airs allegations of the abuse of church members and misconduct by its leadership, particularly David Miscavige, who is accused of intimidating, beating, imprisoning, and exploiting subordinates.

Excellent story and acting especially the second half of this film!!!! Go watch it!!

The cinematography, editing, sound, lighting, and acting are all carried out so perfectly that it is hard to believe that this is only his second film.

Yet all of Marvel's phase three films and their tentative questioning of the underlying political ethos of the franchise feel like buildup for Black Panther, which in its second act comes very close to completely tearing down the Marvel Cinematic Universe en totale — and making viewers long for such a thing to happen.

It was shot in black and white by Subrata Mitra, otherwise known as Satyajit Ray's cameraman; Ivory had befriended Ray, who reportedly acted as the film's uncredited editor and music supervisor.Shakespeare Wallah (1965), the trio's second film, was the one that first gave the filmmaking team international recognition.

The smooth jazz score which punctuates the film gives certain sections the feeling of a silent movie, while the long awkward silences in the second act are like a lighter, less absurdist variant on the work of Samuel Beckett or Harold Pinter.

Which is fine because Antal does well with all the boring stuff that most other genre filmmakers don't, and it shows in the way that the film's mostly talky second act never slackens the film's brisk pace.

Best known in feature films for his acting work in Cool Runnings (1993), he also became a television star during the second half of the decade on Cosby, the sitcom starring Bill Cosby, which ran from 1996 until 2000.

The inclusion of several extraordinarily melodramatic sequences within the film's second act only cements this feeling, to the extent that one can't help but wish that such moments had been excised from the final product.

The second act of the film finds Petit and his allies casing the twin towers, making sure that they know everything about the tower that's still under construction — the workers» schedules, which areas give access to staircases, which elevators are best to use... Essentially, The Walk becomes a heist flick in the middle — and like all good heist flicks, everything goes like clockwork until it doesn't.

Slant seconds that opinion and goes as far as claiming it to be one of the worst films ever, with «flat acting, shabby editing, and surprisingly uninspired design....

And then there's Fishburne, who wanders into the film deep in its second act, and absolutely owns a whispery - crazy scene in which he imparts some of the wisdom he's gleaned from 10 «seasons» of hunting and being hunted.

Instead, all of that gets wrapped up before the end of the first act, thanks to a wacky cameo or two and we're off to the cosmic gag that takes up the second third of the film.

Instead, he resorts to a graceful, intelligent and uncompromising approach that elevates the film and allows it to truly soar especially in the second act.

His parents are killed by gods he does not rage, he mopes around declaring that he is a man??? The worst acting in the film was done by the skinny priest who just wanted to die after three seconds of him being on the screen... what was his point in the film why focus so much time on him?

He's less convincing as the older, wiser Paz of the film's second half, but that's as much a scripting problem as an acting one.

In lieu of the earlier film's dreamlike expressive effects, Disobedience puts an uncommon faith in concisions of acting and editing (including a wordless, believable montage of grief), and in loaded moments and changes in point of view that would probably play differently on a second viewing.

The only real standouts are Bill Nighy, who appears during the film's second act as Hephaestus, the god of blacksmiths and sculptors, and Pike, whose cuteness makes up for the lack of chemistry with her male co-stars.

This second act is a bit prolonged, carrying the film to a 116 - minute runtime and detailing more than necessary the cunning vengeance plot.

Still, MURDER does suffer from a slower second act than it should, suddenly pulling out yet another suspect who's been hidden since the first 15 minutes of the film.

mmm... a protagonist who complete dominates a long film to the detriment of context and the other players in the story (though the abolitionist, limping senator with the black lover does gets close to stealing the show, and is rather more interesting than the hammily - acted Lincoln); Day - Lewis acts like he's focused on getting an Oscar rather than bringing a human being to life - Lincoln as portrayed is a strangely zombie character, an intelligent, articulate zombie, but still a zombie; I greatly appreciate Spielberg's attempt to deal with political process and I appreciate the lack of «action» but somehow the context is missing and after seeing the film I know some more facts but very little about what makes these politicians tick; and the lighting is way too stylised, beautiful but unremittingly unreal, so the film falls between the stools of docufiction and costume drama, with costume drama winning out; and the second subject of the film - slavery - is almost complete absent (unlike Django Unchained) except as a verbal abstraction

And then there's Johnny Depp, popping up near the end of the second act and threatening to steal the film as his oddball detective, Guy Lapointe, devours scenery like a shark chowing through Amity Island tourists.

The first half of the movie is not that great, filled with way too much bad acting, including that of the lead actors, but once things get going in the end of the second and into the third acts, the film turns into a pretty decent revenge flick.

Because until those last 20 minutes, and in particular in the film's second act, Jenkins flirts with a bevy of ideas that feel fresh to the superhero genre, the most scintillating of which is that Diana could be wrong about how to save the world.

In this case, it just so happens that the 3D is necessary to save the second act, and so most people will end up with a film that has two good bookends and a disappointing middle.

After running around in circles — literally — Corbucci gets Silence into the second act and the film starts to get a lot different.

By the end of the heist, the film feels like it's in the second act of a sequel, like there are things that ought to already be known.

It's often a bummer to realize you're alone or at least widely abandoned in the act of loving a movie, so allow me to wallow in that terrible moment that the young revolutionaries experience late in this film's second act when they realized the citizenry has bolted their doors and abandoned them.

Final Verdict: The first half is fantastic and while the second half has to take upon itself to handle the darker side of things, overall it is a well directed, beautifully written and superbly acted film.

The film does have three clear acts, although the line between the second and the third is a bit blurred.

The second and third act lulls and the audience feel every minute ticking by of this film's 117 - minute runtime.

The meta - narrative is wound up beautifully and one wonders if they could have simply used this act at the end of the second film and saved us all two hours of torture.

However the film lags between the second and third acts.

This is especially true of the first and second acts of the film, as Bird continually presents suspenseful scenes that are full of flair and energy.

Shane Black (Iron Man 3) was one of the producers and has assigned Scott Waugh, in just his second film after Act of Valor, as the director.

One point of difference, though, is more than incidental: In Vertigo, Scotty, like Oedipus, thought he was acting freely throughout the «case,» only to find he was controlled by forces outside himself; in the second half of the film, he gets a second chance, and even when acting truly freely, ends up causing the same result, with greater and more tragic finality than before.

There is great variation in how the film draws humour from this second act.

Previously out of of print, «The Decline of Western Civilization» documents Los Angeles punk culture over two decades with the first film highlighting acts like Black Flag and the Germs, while the second film showcases metal acts like London and Odin, and the last film focuses the latter - day L.A. punk scene.

Phantom Thread marks Anderson's second collaboration with Daniel Day - Lewis, who announced earlier this year that he would retire from acting after the release of the film.

And for the second act of the film, that twenty - minute segment after first contact between Emily and Sylvia, I owe it all to Stan Brakhage.