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But at least it provided a talking point, and I think if you book up early for the Summer Screens evenings you can benefit from over 2 weeks» worth of film choices as they play a different movie every night.

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Third, as for understanding Ray Cortines's decision not to allow filming in LAUSD's kitchens, I'm glad you admit that in his shoes you would have done the same thing, because I do think that was the rational choice for someone in his position.

See, Ricki Lake made a movie about her choice, and the ACOG and AMA aren't too happy about it: ACOG released a statement, which was in turn supported in a resolution Tuesday by the American Medical Association, which said «There has been much attention in the media by celebrities having home deliveries» and which singles out Ricki Lake's film «The Business of Being Born» as part of the problem.

Producer Kristin Canty's film, Farmageddon, documents as her quest to find healthy food for her four children turns into an educational journey to discover why she is denied the freedom to select thefoods of her choice from the producer of her choice.

I think that a combination of film and music greatly influenced clothing and that people began using their fashion choices as an expression of their personalities.

A top first date choice for film enthusiasts, the Grosvenor shows the latest blockbusters as well as niche arthouse works.

I felt as invested in Mark's journey in this film as I did Tracy's, which is a testament to the smart choices made throughout.

Freeman (director Jackson's first choice for the title role) is inspired casting as Bilbo Baggins, and makes for a more likeable protagonist than Wood's rather other - worldly Frodo (who, along with Holm as the older Bilbo, makes an appearance in the film's opening framing story).

And in this moment, the film makes clear what it is that is so compelling about him — perhaps as a person but surely now, as a mythic figure who went out into the mountains and died — the very fact that Chris makes choices, informed and not, eventually irrevocable.

Less Is More, More is Less: In his second feature film, photographer - turned - director Anton Corbijn tries his best to match Clooney's hostile stillness with distance of his own, but his attempts at visual nuance inadvertently come off as conspicuous filmmaking choices overly fraught with meaning.

The choice to feature that authentic footage doubles as a clear gesture of what the film's message and intent is and regardless of repeated references to Holocaust.

The film only genuinely falters in its string of resolving scenes (We learn some vital things, such as the extent of Curtis» need to bet on a loser and the subtle way the crux of Gerry's character is revealed in his meal choice, but many of the late scenes feel more uncertain than everything else in the film).

This casting choice seems another sort of updating, as there were no black faces in the first film's unnamed midwestern town, and it's a choice amplified by the appearance as well of Andy's son Woody (Ser «Darius Blain) as the football team captain, his barely speaking girlfriend Etta (Enisha Brewster), and their vibrant Latina classmate Rusty (Ziah Colon).

A great deal of the impact in The Piano Teacher comes from Isabelle Huppert's performance, which comes as her finest career moment, as well as one of the year's early choices for 2002's Best Actress (personal list, of course: I highly doubt that the conservative Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will be able to make it through the film).

It's an interesting and unusual choice (which I didn't know about going in - in fact I actually thought this was going to be a conventional, full - life biopic as I hadn't read much on the film beforehand), and at times I had the sense I was seeing a sequel to a movie I'd missed.

Despite its distracting overuse of Dutch angle shots, this is a classic film noir crafted beautifully by Reed and Graham Greene (who worked on it by writing his excellent novella), with a fascinating villain, a fabulous post-war Vienna as its location and a perfect choice for a score.

While it's hard to deny the ineffectiveness of both Peter Berg's directorial choices and the film's final half hour, Hancock primarily comes off as an engaging and thoroughly innovative spin on the superhero genre - with Will Smith's admittedly impressive performance certainly ranking high on the movie's list of positive attributes.

If not for his weapons of choice, Somerset would probably find a great deal of common ground with him, as his talk of the sins of the world very directly recalls things that he had said to Mills earlier in the film.

Reeves does a nice job of distancing himself from The Matrix trilogy by playing Constantine as an exceedingly grizzled figure (smart choice, given that the man can literally see demons), while the supporting cast is peppered with a host of familiar faces (Peter Stormare even pops up as Satan, delivering a flamboyant performance that's easily the highlight of the film).

It's clear that Killer's Kiss requires a great deal of patience from the viewer, as much of the movie's first half suffers from the feel of a rather unimpressive student film - with director Stanley Kubrick exacerbating this feeling by suffusing the proceedings with needlessly ostentatious visual choices.

Watts is a perfect choice as Diana, and if the film's script would have been better fleshed out, then maybe this would have been a much better film than what it turned out to be.

Though likely to be variously praised and pilloried as a pro-choice film, Weitz's film is really a movie about choice in both the specific and the abstract — about the choices we make, for good and for ill, and how we come to feel about them through the prism of time.

The actors are incredible, the story is engaging and the choice to edit the film as if it is one shot is genius and perfectly suits the theme of the movie.

Director Stanley Kubrick, working from a script cowritten with Calder Willingham and Jim Thompson, kicks Paths of Glory off with an admittedly less - than - engrossing stretch, as the movie boasts (or suffers from) a somewhat talky first act that doesn't contain much in the way of compelling elements - although, by that same token, it's clear that the film benefits substantially from Kubrick's stellar directorial choices and a host of above - average performances.

Wilkerson sees his film, no less than his family, as caught up with these cultural artifacts in the continuing movement of history — a history in which you might decide to be a liberal (if you're content to congratulate yourself) or, as a better choice, a radical.

I see Wiseau as an artist, and his film as one made from a singular vision however many bad choices it may include.

Nothing in this film is as daring as those choices — as played by Harrison Ford, Solo was a borderline antihero and the only major character in the original trilogy who had a dangerous edge, albeit one that Lucas and company immediately began sanding down — and as young Solo, Alden Ehrenriech doesn't convince as a cocky young pilot and smuggler who's been prematurely soured by a hard - knock life.

Comedy films, even those as technically proficient as this one, largely must settle for lesser honors, including Teen Choice Award nominations and the MTV Movie Awards» «Best WTF Moment.»

Stage and TV work took up much of his time in the 1950s and 1960s, with occasional choice character parts in such films as The Rat Race (1960) and Lover Come Back (1962).

The HFPA voters — a relatively small group as far as major awards bodies go — typically make some oddball selections, and while not all of their film choices were favorites among the film critic community, the voters seemed to avoid any laughably bad selections this year.

Carole Shelley's film appearances of the 1990s have included such choice character roles as Mrs. Hookstratten in The Road to Wellville (1994) and Charles Van Doren's (Ralph Fiennes) aunt in Quiz Show (1994).

Plus, hilariously, he praises the appearance of the «infant» demon - critters from the first film as being a directorial choice rather than a throwback to Silent Hill 1 (the game), which is what he hates about the appearances of the monsters in Revelation!

While many of his talkie roles at Warners were bits, Blue was given choice supporting roles in such films as Across the Pacific (1942), Mask of Dimitrios (1944) and especially Key Largo (1948).

Perhaps my favorite thing about the film lies in the choice to introduce Ant - Man as a legacy character, rather than forcing us to sit through yet another origin story.

We've already pointed out who we'd love to see direct the film, as both John Wick directors Chad Stahelski and David Leitch seem like solid choices.

Whilst Boyle has crafted a visceral film resplendent with raw energy and even humour, it is Franco that compels with his multi-faceted performance of an adventurer forced to reconcile his lifestyle choices with his future as he faces his mortality — and my goodness, what a performance it is.

Assuming that this casting choice ends up locked, does it increase your interest in Lucy at all, or were you up for the film as soon as you heard that Johansson would be playing another superheroine?

Batman v. Superman costume designer Michael Wilkinson discussed his designs for the film's heroes with People's Choice, such as the Wonder Woman outfit that he had to design from the ground up.

In this vein, it's a good film, and still definitely worthwhile for some choice food for thought, as well as some credible performances by a talented, likeable cast.

There was some controversy over the choice of Jon Amiel's Darwin biopic Creation as the festival opener — not because of the subject matter, but rather because of the fact that this is the first time the fest will kick off with a non-Canadian film.

Many of the choices seem all but arbitrary, but others are totemic: what better film to stand in for Vertigo, as a Frisco epic of traumatic verticality, than The Towering Inferno?

This ambiguity grows throughout the film through some subtle stylistic choices, such as the choice not to divulge the Counselor's actual name.

The cover story, «Grade B — But Choice,» is devoted to an obscure 1934 musical called «Young and Beautiful,» featuring «budding starlets, grade - A character actors, grade - B musical numbers, a pair of vaudevillians, a look behind the scenes of Hollywood, bogus appearances by Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton and a script by Dore Schary» [later famous as a producer of films such as «Crossfire,» «Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House,» «They Live By Night» and «The Red Badge of Courage»].

Media Mikes own Mike Smith will join other Kansas City area film critics this Wednesday night, February 26, as they declare their choices for the upcoming Academy Awards at the Screenland Crown Center Theatre.

Since his film was only screened for the Hollywood Foreign Press he wasn't able to earn SAG or Critics» Choice nominations but now that the film has been seen and Plummer is all over it (with just nine days of shooting and as many days of post-production) this may be the easiest and best way for the Academy to recognize the efforts and ability of director Ridley Scott (if they don't give him a Best Director nomination, that is).

This year's Critics» Choice Awards nominations has seen Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water, starring Sally Hawkins as a mute custodian befriending a captured sea creature, triumph with an incredible 14 nods in the film category.

«I love playing this character,» Johansson told Entertainment Tonight on the set of Avengers: Infinity War, before reports that a Black Widow film is in development, «and I think there is definitely an opportunity to explore the Widow as a woman who has come into her own and is making independent and active choices for herself, probably for once in her life.

Marc Shaiman's score may make clever period choices (backing eyelash flutters with a plonk of the xylophone, for instance), but almost every line of dialogue is tainted with as much irony as charm, transforming the film's script into a self - conscious anachronism.

23rd Annual Critics» Choice Awards (The CW, 8 p.m.): Join first - time awards show emcee Olivia Munn as she takes us through the Broadcast Film Critics Association's 2018 picks for best TV and film.

It was a mind bender that was filmed by cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki who made a bold choice to film the movie as if it's one long tracking shot that lasts for two hours.