Sentences with phrase «film about magic»

After all, if you're going to make a film about magic, you shouldn't cheat to sell the trick.

This is not the expected path for a film about magic; it's saying, essentially, «You don't need it.

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Calling myself a green beauty addict would be a bit of an understatement... What I enjoy most is sharing the magic in everyday life with others whether that's blogging about my latest beauty and fashion discoveries, acting in indie film, talking with a close friend, or singing obnoxiously loud in my car.

Calling myself a green beauty addict would be a bit of an understatement... What I enjoy most is sharing the magic in everyday life with others whether that's blogging about my latest beauty and fashion discoveries, acting in indie film, talking with a close friend, or singing obnoxiously loud in my car.

It thinks there's magic in watching a middle - schooler dance with a giant robot, and maybe that's enough for families seeking a film about hope, love and brawling machines.

There are interesting ideas knocking about inside the film, including that electricity is also a form of magic and that sometimes the wisest thing to do with power is to reject it.

We don't get any of the magic of Spirited Away nor the epics of Princess Mononoke - still, what we get is perhaps another strong statement about how animated films are not only meant for children (which is something already well assessed

The film is about magic, but it's more or less a classic story of star crossed lovers that uses magic as a plot device.

Broad Green has revealed a trailer for a horror film titled Wish Upon, about a teenager in high school who starts messing around with a mysterious magic box that her father brings home one day.

Robert Osborne and Robert Wagner have known each other a long time, so when I sat down with them on April 16, 2013 to talk about TCM's Road to Hollywood presentation of THE PINK PANTHER, the interview became a spirited three - way conversation about the magic of film and filmmaking, as well as why there is... Read More»

Weighty stuff for a supposed period comedy about film industry magic, and it gives this movie a serious edge it quite frankly didn't need.

Here is a film about witches and wizards that suffers from a remarkable lack of magic.

Criterion has also added «Strange Magic,» a 13 - minute featurette focused around writer and Rookie editor - in - chief Tavi Gevinson, who explores the film through the lens of adolescence, suicide, and memory via her own writing and imagery from a fanzine she made about the film in 2012.

Magic Mike XXL opens up with a look at Tatum's Mike Lane living in his quiet dream of running his own custom furniture business, the one he spent much of the first film dreaming about realizing.

All of that is about to be put on the back burner, though, because Leterrier is attached to direct a magic - infused heist film called Now You See Me.

Director Steven Spielberg, who crafted one of the best films about kids in E.T., never captures the same magic in The BFG.

One episode is framed, clumsily, by flashbacks in which a younger and more virile Hank, seen exclusively in silhouette and shot at what appears to be magic hour, mewls misterioso about the chemistry of the human body as though he were screen - testing for an Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu film.

It would be tough to film without turning it into a CG disaster, given the breadth and strangeness of the world it portrays (not to mention the somewhat tough to visualize magic system), but it has all kinds of awesome themes about coming to maturity and what responsibility actually means.

Half Magic just debuted their red band trailer and the timely film about the fight against sexism and bad men proves it's a must see!

That seems to be the philosophy of director Todd Phillips, whose sequel to the box office comedy smash The Hangover doesn't so much try to replicate the magic of the first film as it does try to replicate everything about the first film.

«As we ended up championing a remarkable diversity of styles,» said Johnson, «there was much discussion about what these films mean about where cinema is headed — whether it be the immersive magic realism of «Uncle Boonmee», the ruthless neo-realism of «Winter's Bone», or the subversive mischief of «Exit Through the Gift Shop».»

Directed by Italian dream weaver Luca Guadagnino (I Am Love, A Bigger Splash), the film is a swirling wonder, a film about coming of age, about the secrets of youth, the magic of summer, the beauty of Italy.

This grounding in magic rather than pseudo-science mirrors the larger difference between the two films, that He Ain't Heavy is steeped in local tradition and culture (however made - up for the purpose of the film the plot is, the Mid-Autumn Festival is surely a thing) while Future values the present above all else, about instant gratification.

There have been many films about cheerful family interlopers who enter at just the right time, work their magic, and then leave.

For all the hand - wringing these days over whether a film fits a reductive notion of feminism, Magic Mike XXL's enthusiastic endorsement of sex and, as importantly, talking about one's sexual desires seems altogether rarer in American film.

«Magic City,» the filmed - in - Miami Starz network series about a mobbed - up luxury hotel and the political and cultural turmoil of the Miami - Havana nexus in 1959, has been canceled, according to a report in the entertainment trade publication Variety...

Adam Lawton: Can you tell us about the film «The Magic of Belle Island»?

For a director who is notoriously secretive about his films before release, we actually know less about «Magic In the Moonlight» than Allen's recent films.

Admirably, Their Finest is a movie about the magic of movies that somehow avoids self - important indulgence, the way many Hollywood films about Hollywood do.

When: July 1st Why: One of the biggest complaints about the first «Magic Mike» was that it was a lot gloomier than moviegoers were expecting for a film about male strippers, and Channing Tatum has addressed those issues with the promise that the upcoming sequel will be a much lighter affair.

While the idea of slick David Copperfield types using magic to pull off capers is enticing and spectacular, the first movie squandered its potential with an inane subplot about an all - seeing magic society called «The Eye,» and one of the most obnoxious film twists in recent history.

The Social Network star Jesse Eisenberg makes magic in his new film Now You See Me but he certainly doesn't like to shout about it.

But while there is something very artificial about making day appear as night, there is also something very magical about it, and it is to the everlasting credit of Truffaut that his film focuses on the magic of cinema, not the deceit.

The story, a mix of Celtic history and folklore about a medieval manuscript long considered sacred by the Irish, is engaging for moviegoers all ages, but the magic here is most evident in the film's dazzling artistry.

Among the films talked about are: Something Wicked This Way Comes, Magic, Godzilla: The Japanese Original, Motel Hell, Big, Lord of Illusions, Super Duper Alice Cooper, It's a Wonderful Life, Videodrome and many more...

Klausner explained that the film is about «connection in the modern world — how we're more technically linked to each other than ever before, but we're in danger of losing the magic of direct, face to face human interaction, with all of its surprises and unknowns.»

Burt Wonderstone pretends to have a message about friendship, but it's clear this film's main goal is to provide the audience with the escapism and then, just like magic, pretend you forgot you ever saw it.

The inimitable Terence Davies has an animated chat about time and memory, T.S. Eliot and Alec Guinness, the terror of being alive and the special magic of American musicals on the occasion of the U.S. release of his latest film, The Deep Blue Sea.

The film starts with the minister of magic making a fearful announcement about the increasingly dire peril the world faces at gnarled hands of the evil Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes).

The film asks and answers many of the overarching questions that people have about magic; namely, what happens when a trick goes wrong, can misdirection still be used when the theater lights go down, and what if magic is actually real?

The director of such films like Magic Mike and the Ocean's series, you have to be a little stoked about what he plans on doing next, right?

One of the biggest complaints about «Magic Mike» was that it was a lot more serious than people were expecting for a film about male strippers, and producer / star Channing Tatum addressed that issue with the promise that the upcoming sequel would be a much lighter affair.

Several of the scenes come off as particularly awkward — one such moment unfortunately coming right towards the end — and the film is so concerned about Hitch's personal life that we don't get to see him working much of his magic on the film set.

In episode 35 of the Screen Rant Underground podcast we chat about Francis Lawrence directing Catching Fire, the Magic Mike trailer, and a new Star Trek TV series, as well as discuss the Summer of 2012's biggest films.

It's a delightful, bright animated film about a young girl who mysteriously finds herself in a world of magic.

If Robert Altman had chosen to make a film about the lives of male strippers, the end result might have resembled «Magic Mike,» a shockingly great flick that's far better than it probably has any right to be

Marius de Vries, the man behind the music of «Moulin Rouge,» is «Strange Magic's» composer and musical director, which is not an insignificant role considering the film is all about the music.

Accepting that Soderbergh is right (though his most recent film, Magic Mike, certainly indicates some evolution on the issue) means asking some tricky questions about what it means to viewers, to filmmakers, and to actors when the flesh comes out.

We wish and we hope right along with her, and though the film doesn't quite give us the wonderful cure - all ending that would seem a more natural fit for a film this light, it does bring forth an important point about the magic of cinema, and its power to take us to lands we'll never see, meet people we'd never know, and feel a natural attraction and kinship with people that can never exist.

And in a film series largely about friendship (if Guardians had a sub-title, it should be «Friendship is Magic») and about family, Drax's daughter makes a certain amount of sense.