Not exact matches
Most
kids prefer the
film for family movie entertainment shows despite the abundance of
other kids» movies inspired
by various comic books.
Directed
by Ken Kwapis in a hyperbolic jump - cut style matched twitch - for - twitch
by a score
by the late Miles Goodman, whose oom - pah - pah legacy, sadly, lives on in
other kid and animal
films like K - 9 and Problem Child, the
film is a jittery, discombobulated mess.
OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun
by Kam Williams For movies opening November 23, 2007 BIG BUDGET
FILMS August Rush (PG for slight violence, mild profanity and mature themes) Freddie Highmore stars as the title character in this escapist fantasy about a promising musical prodigy who runs away from an orphanage to New York City to find his parents (Keri Russell and Jonathan Rhys Myers) only to end up living with a Fagin - like wizard (Robin Williams) and lots of
other kids in a makeshift shelter in an abandoned theater which was once the Fillmore East.
Much of the comedy of Bad Moms (Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, 2016)-- a
film that is predicated on the very real, paralyzing fear mothers have about being not good enough to their
kids (and being judged
by others for it)-- falls flat because it starts from an unbelievable place, pushes only some details to their extremes (not really abiding
by an «if x, then y» logic), and lurches forth with its plot.
Other oddities: how Jackson sets up each segment in a very overdramatic way, how the other commenting celebrities appear in a moving parchment of sorts, how some of the questions are either no - brainers or a stretch in relating to the movie, how the ordinary kids are strangely posed and filmed, and how the whole thing is both bordered by oak and letterb
Other oddities: how Jackson sets up each segment in a very overdramatic way, how the
other commenting celebrities appear in a moving parchment of sorts, how some of the questions are either no - brainers or a stretch in relating to the movie, how the ordinary kids are strangely posed and filmed, and how the whole thing is both bordered by oak and letterb
other commenting celebrities appear in a moving parchment of sorts, how some of the questions are either no - brainers or a stretch in relating to the movie, how the ordinary
kids are strangely posed and
filmed, and how the whole thing is both bordered
by oak and letterboxed.
It didn't appear in any of the six Faces of Death
films, nor do
kids dare each
other to watch it at sleepovers when their parents» backs are turned, fuelled
by the titillation of the taboo and forbidden.
Shot for $ 1.5 million over 30 days, Laughlin's
film, while heavy on extended takes and a few awkward edits, overall looks very nice, and Elite's transfer marks the first time the
film's been available with its original, evocative Technicolor - styled cinematography
by Louis Horvath (who also photographed «Chandler,» and Laughlin's
other directorial efforts); and in its original aspect ratio, which, in previous full screen versions, chopped Condon's second appearance as a «dead
kid».
Ireland - set horror
film revolves around a set of young twins who commune with spirits who lay down three rules: The
kids have to be in bed
by midnight; no one else can enter the room; and if one escapes, the life of the
other is in danger.
The
film introduces him as a
kid brawling with
other boys in juvie before he's taken in
by Apollo's widow (Phylicia Rashad).
The first
film to tell the story of Billy the
Kid came out in 1911; the character would go on to be played
by Paul Newman, Kris Kristofferson, and Emilio Estevez, among many
others.
Robert Fischer's
FILM BEYOND CINEMA: THE DUMPSTER
KID EXPERIMENT AND
OTHER UTOPIAS is a documentary on the background and rediscovery of the DUMPSTER
KID series, but also much more: Reitz and Stöckl are joined on - camera
by Werner Herzog, Alexander Kluge and
others to reflect on nothing less than the future of cinema.
I do think
kids will enjoy this, and parents will probably be more engaged with the
film than some of the
other recent releases of a similar ilk in the past year, but this is not a knockout
by any means, not even close.
It's a gamble that never quite pays off: the
film feels unguided
by anyone
other than its subjects, and the
kids eagerly take over, sort of like that projector scene in Gremlins 2, I guess.