Sentences with phrase «film as the shell»

Not exact matches

Now Julian Finn, at the Museum Victoria in Melbourne, Australia, has filmed four veined octopuses, Amphioctopus marginatus, picking up coconut shells for later use as hiding places.

These include the ammonite Diplomoceras, a distant relative of modern squid and octopus, with a paperclip - shaped shell that could grow as large as 2 metres, and giant marine reptiles such as Mosasaurus, as featured in the film Jurassic World.

While the life of the typical film franchise has been all squeezed out by its third installment, leaving a shattered shell of its former glory, Shrek the Third defies the odds in being as entertaining as the original animated hit and surpassing the second edition.

Performance wise, there are some faults with the lesser known actors but as always, Shannon delivers a solid show and with scars on his back that resemble shotgun shells, it only serves to fuel the films enigmatic nature and understated detail.

Of course, as with all of Wright's films, everything is wrapped in a candy - coated genre shell.

And if you think it's only the well to do who shell out upwards of $ 3,000 for hair weaves, you'd better prepare yourself because there are working women all over the US and Canada (as I'm sure there are in other places though the film focuses mainly on the US) walking around with hair that cost more than some cars.

The original 2001 film wasn't particularly scary either, but it did succeed in delivering some interesting social commentary on the nature of electronic means of communication, and how it is separating us from actual human contact, leaving those who succumb to it as empty shells who sit in lonely rooms with nothing much to live for.

With most films of this genre, we are given a hollow shell of a plot (Erik tries to lose his virginity, Matt Stifler is forced to spend time at Band Camp), and uses it as an excuse to line up its womanising sight gags and controversial humour.

Casino Royale is fantasy in a world that's earned its darkness, a mature film that doesn't demand to be taken seriously but doesn't expect you to believe that the world is the same as it was when Sean Connery leered at Ursula Andress walking out of the surf like Venus on the half shell.

There's so little of that original fun in A BAD MOMS CHRISTMAS, a film that's really a shell of the original and only barely entertaining as a gross, over-the-top comedy.

Their heroes, such as they are, end up locked in an ideological opposition that somehow echoes a deeper, more pervasive tension in American life: the parasitic rivalry between Daniel Day - Lewis's monomaniacal capitalist and Paul Dano's maliciously self - denying man of the cloth in the 19th - century California landscape of There Will Be Blood (07); the uneasy mentorship that Philip Seymour Hoffman's charismatic cult leader develops with Joaquin Phoenix's broken - down vet as they move through the strange, suspended vision of Fifties America in The Master (12); and now, in Anderson's newest film Inherent Vice, the antagonistic buddy romance that emerges between a pothead PI and a shell - shocked, crew - cut detective as each navigates the splintered world of Los Angeles in the early, paranoid Seventies.

Both actors give the impression that there's more going on to them than they show outwardly, and certainly we get the feeling, as Sutter does within the film, that there's so much more to Aimee than meets the eye, and Woodley nails the budding wallflower character as outwardly shy but inwardly captivating, once you see beyond just her awkward outer shell.

In case we needed another reminder that Hollywood does not care about minority characters or actors, yesterday brought the news that Paramount Pictures and Dreamworks Pictures thought it would be a cool idea to cast Scarlett Johansson as the famous Japanese heroine Major in the film adaptation of Japanese writer / illustrator Masamune Shirow's Kodansha Comics manga comic series, GHOST IN THE SHELL.