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Not exact matches
So we were watching the newest installment of the Chronicles of Narnia
film series — Prince Caspian — the other night, and I
found myself growing increasingly uncomfortable with the use of a Christ - figure (Aslan)
in battle scenes.
Livingitout.com includes a
series of short
films in which participants speak about living as Christians with same - sex attraction, chastity,
finding identity...
When researchers asked women to watch either an erotic
film, a sports video, or a «neutral» video of a train, and then perform a
series of unpleasant acts (like drinking out of a cup with a bug
in it), they
found that those who'd watched the sexual acts rated the tasks as less disgusting — and were also able to complete more of them.
As the Nightmare team begins to prep another
film in the
series, the cast and creative team of the
films find themselves drawn into a real life nightmare.
Night
in with food and a
film — I love nothing better than
finding a
film / tv
series we want to watch, getting lots of chocolate and sitting
in with Kieran.
While I
find Shrek the Third to be entertaining enough to give it a pass
in this regard, I fear for the future of the
series, as now they've gotten even further away from the Grimm Fairy Tales / Disney world that the previous
films spoofed, opening up the
series to legendary characters and other tales of adventure.
If you're somewhere
in between, i.e., someone who kinda, sorta likes the
films rather than loves them, you'll probably
find this one to be only sporadically amusing, but will also think that tedium is now going to be an ingrained part of the
series.
Lowe would continue to alternate between television and
film, and roles
in Floating (1999) and the television
series Popular
found him increasingly busy.
This thrilling sequence is an apt metaphor for the entire
film series: at first a bit clumsy
in transferring Rowling's vision into movies, then gaining strength,
finding its wing power and soaring
in later episodes.
It's a stirring tribute to the power of literature and the power of imagination, and it deserves to be
found in the final
film adaptation of one of the most beloved and successful
series of novels ever written.
The interview is just the first
in a long
series of rationalizations from the
film's subjects, who are trying to
find their way through a moral quagmire, and it also sets up the supply - and - demand relationship between the cartels and their American customers.
In short, The Magic Roundabout is an enjoyable family
film that will delight young audiences and is liable to send nostalgic 30 - somethings on a (sadly, futile) quest to
find the original
series on DVD.
Synopsis: Directed by Robert Schwentke, the second
film in the Divergent
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Later alternating between television and
film with features such as Trapped and roles on such high - profile
series as Spin City and Malcolm
in the Middle, her part opposite Brittany Murphy
in the 2003 comedy Uptown Girls
found the precocious youngster playing well off of her older co-star.
Synopsis: Directed by Robert Schwentke, the second
film in the Divergent
series find Tris (Shailene Woodley) and Four (Theo James) on the run from Jeanine Matthews (Kate Winslet) while trying to figure out the secret that will help the rebels build a new and better future.
Unlike
series co-star Biel, Mitchell remained with the program throughout its run, and through many character changes that
found Lucy marrying Kevin Kinkirk, working as an associate pastor, giving birth, and surviving both a miscarriage to twins and clinical depression.Although Mitchell branched out from television into cinematic work as early as 1996, with a turn
in the fantasy - action thriller The Crow: City of Angels, and continued intermittent
film appearances (such as a supporting role
in 2005's slasher movie Saw II), she made no secret of her real passion: performing country music as a guitarist and vocalist.
This original
film takes place prior to events of the Clancy's book
series and is not based on any of the Cold War novel plots despite a young Ryan, who is stock broker working for a billionaire
in Moscow,
finding himself recruited by the CIA to foil his employer's terrorist plot to collapse the US economy.
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FILMS The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (PG for frightening images and action fantasy sequences) Third installment
in the
film franchise based on the C.S. Lewis
series of fantasy novels
finds Edmund (Skandar Keynes) and Lucy Pensie (Georgie Henley), along with their cousin Eustace (Will Poulter), returning to the magical land of Narnia to embark on a dangerous, seafaring mission taking them to the edge of the world.
AwardsWatch's Mina Takla has been featuring animated
film contenders
in a multi-part
series you can
find here and Gold Rush Gang predictions for November that you can
find here.
Directed by Sharon Maguire (Bridget Jones's Diary), the new
film in the beloved comedy
series based on creator Helen Fielding's heroine
finds Bridget unexpectedly expecting.
The fifth
film in the
series has Captain Jack Sparrow teaming with the son of Will Turner, a female accused of witchcraft and his crew
in a race to
find the mythical trident of Poseidon before his nemesis Captain Salazar, and break a slew of curses.
Honestly, while I hated the first two
films in the
series, I
find myself mellowing my opinion on this third one.
Medium jumps are never an easy thing to do, whether it's today's commonplace practice of remaking an old television
series as a
film residing between homage and parody, or as
in the case of The Muppet Movie, simply bringing characters who
found popularity on TV to a cinema audience.
The Hunger Games
film series culminates
in Part 2 as one woman's journey — a journey of love, sacrifice, adversity, perseverance, and hope — toward
finding her voice and becoming her best possible self.
On first viewing, the jargon can overwhelm viewers less philosophically inclined, but
in his efforts to
find meaning
in a
series of coincidences, Albert Markovski (Jason Schwartzman) is engaged
in the same comedy as the
film's viewers — desperately trying
find order and meaning
in a chaotic world.
One of the earliest examples of Weir
finding the thrilling
in the simple, the
film follows the a woman as she is subjected to a
series of mind games by a man claiming to be a plumber.
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Tim Burton's cinematic take on the first of three novels
in Ransom Riggs» popular dark YA fantasy
series, introduces Jacob (Asa Butterfield
in the
film), a child who ventures out to
find the fabled Miss Peregrine (Eva Green), whom his late grandfather had told him so many enrapturing stories about.
Based on the graphic novel and original screenplay by Kevin Grevioux (creator of the Underworld
series), the
film stars Aaron Eckhart as Adam, a contemporary Frankenstein monster now living
in a dark, gothic metropolis who
finds himself caught
in an all - out, centuries old war between two immortal clans.
This week Harry Potter fans can return to the wizarding world
in Fantastic Beasts and Where to
Find Them, the first installment of what will eventually be a five
film series, spanning 19 years of narrative time, all directed by David Yates and written by J.K. Rowling.
A witty
film in which we watch Binoche work her way through a
series of lovers that she
finds unsuitable
in a variety of ways, all the while declaring her love life to be over.
In anticipation of the premiere of «Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,» all eight films in the «Harry Potter» series will materialize in select IMAX theaters for one wee
In anticipation of the premiere of «Fantastic Beasts and Where to
Find Them,» all eight
films in the «Harry Potter» series will materialize in select IMAX theaters for one wee
in the «Harry Potter»
series will materialize
in select IMAX theaters for one wee
in select IMAX theaters for one week.
Her books include Rape - Revenge Films: A Critical Study (McFarland, 2011),
Found Footage Horror
Film: Fear and the Appearance of Reality (McFarland, 2014), a 2016 monograph on Dario Argento's Suspiria (part of Auteur's Devil's Advocates
series), a 2017 book on Abel Ferrara's Ms. 45 as part of Wallflower / Columbia University Press's Cultographies
series, and
in 2018, a book on Robert Harmon's 1986
film The Hitcher, published by Arrow Books.
With the heroic trio comprised of Americans, Anthony Sadler, Oregon National Guardsman Alek Skarlatos, and U.S. Air Force Airman First Class Spencer Stone, who play themselves
in the
film, the presentation follows the course of the friends» lives, from the struggles of childhood through
finding their footing
in life, to the
series of unlikely events leading up to the attack.
Visit Carvahall and you'll
find featurettes about the Inheritance Trilogy to which the novel Eragon belongs, The Storyteller's Scroll (focusing on turning the novel into a screenplay), Realizing Alagaësia (a look at storyboards, locations, scouting and character design), The Destined Roles (casting the actors), From Carvahall to Farthen Dur (behind - the - scenes footage during
film production), Hatching The Dragon (the CGI process of creating the dragons), Just The Beginning (a peak at what's next
in the
series) and the Random House Digital Novel where you can enjoy the first two chapters of Eldest, the second novel from the Inheritance Trilogy by Christopher Paolini.
Ball has acquitted himself well with this
series and will hopefully
find himself on a shortlist when it comes to other action
films in need of a particular directorial eye (The Flash almost makes too much sense, but that spot is apparently taken... for now).
Starting right where the last
film left off, with minimal exposition, Breaking Dawn — Part 1
finds Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) finally giving
in to one of the marriage proposals the male characters have been pitching at her since the
series outset.
The latter starred
in director Kenneth Branagh's
film reboot of the
series - Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, which failed to
find a large audience when it was released
in theaters
in 2014.
Despite the vast disparity between the quantity of
films I've viewed and «Larry Sanders» episodes, when I recently took part
in The House Next Door's «If I Had a Sight & Sound Film Ballot»
series, I
found it far easier to prune those pictures down to my ten favorites than I did when I applied the same task to «Larry Sanders» episodes.
Not long after, Morrison took something of a left turn, serving as cinematographer on the third and fourth seasons of hit MTV semi-reality
series «The Hills,» Maybe it's not a job that everyone would have taken, but Morrison
found it invaluable on the
film that would become her breakthrough, Zal Batmanglij «s «Sound Of My Voice,» which premiered at Sundance
in 2011 having shot at the tail end of 2010.
Fresh from
filming «Creed,» the boxing spin - off of the «Rocky»
series that starred Jordan, Coogler grappled with his own cultural identity and
found himself
in the midst of a personal journey when he began conversations to direct «Black Panther.»
Only die - hard
series fans will
find any of this distracting, as the
film works just as well as a standalone spy adventure as it does an entry
in Bond canon, delivering most of the goods anyone might expect while also offering a handful of new twists to keep it from being just another entertaining - but - forgettable entry.
With any luck, aforementioned executive producer Steve Kloves will assist Rowling
in assembling the script for the sequel to «Fantastic Beasts and Where to
Find Them» (already greenlit and scheduled for release
in two years), and with one
film under this
series» belt, they will right the wrongs that Rowling committed here.
The
film that arguably established this trend was the 2008
found footage monster movie Cloverfield, originally announced to the world through a
series of teasers that only referred to it as 01-18-08, which resulted
in rampant speculation about what sort of
film it would actually be.
Based on the popular Marvel comic book
series, first published
in 1941, the
film picks up after the cataclysmic events
in New York with The Avengers and
finds Steve Rogers living quietly
in Washington, D.C., trying to adjust to the modern world.
Writer Joe Kelly pens the feature -
film adaptation of his own comic book
series in this fantasy drama about a young outsider (Madison Wolfe) who
finds refuge from the realities of her day - to - day life
in a more imaginative world of monsters.
Harry Potter veteran director David Yates will helm all five
films in the Fantastic Beasts and Where To
Find Them prequel
series.
The
film - which follows a group of high schoolers (including Devon Sawa's Alex, Ali Larter's Clear, and Kerr Smith's Carter) as they avoid a plane crash yet
find themselves pursued by a sinister force - is subsequently rife with expository interludes designed to explain the
series» ongoing mythology, and although waiting for the central characters to catch up to what we already know sporadically does become a little tiresome, there's little doubt that Wong's unexpectedly cinematic sensibilities prove instrumental
in capturing and sustaining the viewer's interest from start to finish.
Adapted from the novel of the same name by crime - fiction writer Michael Connelly (this is the first of four books
in the Haller
series), Lawyer struggles to
find its footing within a cliché storyline reworked by screenwriter John Romano (Nights
in Rodanthe) and helmed by novice director Brad Furman, whose only other
film is the straight - to - DVD armored - truck thriller The Take.
In what turned out to be the cruelest twist of all, the film fails to deliver on the «new beginning» promised by the title, as it ends with a not - so - shocking final scene that never found its way into any of the following installments, suggesting that this is the one entry in the series that even its most ardent supporters would just like to forget ever existe
In what turned out to be the cruelest twist of all, the
film fails to deliver on the «new beginning» promised by the title, as it ends with a not - so - shocking final scene that never
found its way into any of the following installments, suggesting that this is the one entry
in the series that even its most ardent supporters would just like to forget ever existe
in the
series that even its most ardent supporters would just like to forget ever existed.