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This film is a riot.

The film is a riot of references — from the imperious Idris Elba's pre-battle cry which recalls Shakespeare's Henry V «band of brothers» speech, to Spielberg's little girl in red in «Schindler's List.»

Not exact matches

All told, jail might be a safer place for Nakoula — his film, which sparked violent riots across the globe, has warranted several violent threats...

CITY HALL — City Council Speaker Christine Quinn said Police Commissioner Ray Kelly is personally monitoring the situation on Christopher Street after a shocking riot at a Dunkin' Donuts was captured on film last month and first reported by DNAinfo.

The action scenes highlight Rodriguez's trademark ability to choreograph firefights and explosions, but they're doled out with uncharacteristic stinginess between long stretches of exposition that clear up much less than they should, as the film builds toward a climax featuring some strangely underpopulated riot action.

Luckily, he's riveting in the role: The film, about a novice British soldier cut off from his unit during a riot in Belfast, is less about words and more about the varieties of terror in a young man's eyes.

Some of the news footage of riots and fires and stuff in the film come from real events of violent revolt against those newcomers in Johannesburg while they were shooting the film there.

The film isn't perfect - Mr. Chon's wild camera motions seem more undisciplined than electric - but it does find an angle on the riots that hasn't been seen much onscreen.

The actors requested that only completely pure products be used while filming the movie, which follows the 1999 World Trade Organization riots in Seattle.

There's also Kathryn Bigelow's film about the Detriot Riots, which is still looking for a name.

As you watch film about the Attica prison riots, which may have been touched off by a racial incident, the segment goes on way too long and seems to stray from the notion of a Black Power movement.

Yes, this film is not a laugh riot, but there are some humorous moments, such as Keitel's interactions with an old Albanian woman he lets share a Greek cab with him.

Recalling harrowing incidents of police brutality during the 1967 race riots in Detroit, the film is a stomach - turner, to be sure.

A star of the Harry Potter films was today sentenced to two years in prison for being part of a violent mob which took to the streets during last summer's riots in London.

About the only verifiable fact in the film is the wonderfully fascinating first act which takes place at the premier of The Rite of Spring in Paris where the audience actually did go into a riot over the music and choreography.

As illustrated in the film, when Langlois was sacked as curator in May of 1968, there arose among the buffs such a clamour that grey - suited riot police came to bludgeon protestors like Godard, Truffaut, Jean Marais, and Jean Renoir — film, the medium of our time, for a delirious moment, became the catalyst for a new French Revolution, the Cinematheque a cathedral and Bastille.

The film offers an account of the 1985 riots in the Handsworth district of Birmingham from the perspective of black and Asian immigrants in the area whose narratives were marginalized by the British press.

Unrelenting, infuriating and tonally messy, Kathryn Bigelow's Detroit, which chronicles the real life events of the Algiers Motel during the Detroit Riots of 1967, is a powerful, albeit sporadic, film...

The one remaining elephant in the room is the 2015 Silver Screen Riot Awards where we pick and choose from the elite and populist alike to make our selection for best director, performer, cinematographer, screenplay, documentary, foreign film, action movie, horror movie and comedy.

The film takes place in a near - future Los Angeles where the streets are dangerous riot zones.

While 2017 has been an awful year for women in film in most respects, it has thrown up a riot — or whatever the collective noun for mums ought to be — of complex on - screen mothers.

That is to say, I am beholden to point out that films with all the right socially conscious credentials — such as «Mudbound,» set in the virulent Jim Crow South, or «Detroit,» about the police brutality - inspired riots in the summer of 1967 — can nevertheless be subpar as movies.

There's a whole riot of a film to be made out of the two - and - a-half minute scene in which a prostitute (Bebe Neuwirth) coaches Davis's demure housewife how to give a proper blowjob.

The first two thirds of the film, in particular, are a riot, playing out like a non-stop parade of hilariously clever exchanges, and even some inspired physical comedy.

It's weird to see a trailer for a film that feels like it has to throw out a recap definition of the Weather Underground, that group of radical leftists who in the early»70s embraced violent tactics (riots, bomb attacks on banks and government buildings) in order to protest government actions and argue for revolution.

This pursuit — that is, most of the film — is a laugh riot, probably for the wrong reasons, as movies shot, directed, edited, acted, and written this poorly are rarer than one would think.

The film still has all the little Soderbergh touches — there's a scene involving a prison riot that gets caught up in the differences between the TV version and the book version of Game of Thrones in which you can almost sense Soderbergh nudging the camera — but what's perhaps most impressive about it is how effortless it all seems.

The Good Dinosaur may not be a laugh - a-minute riot like the Toy Story films, nor is it as wildly imaginative as Inside Out.

However the MVP of the film undoubtedly is Laura Linney, who is a riot as neighbor and crazy - cat - lady Lilith Wasserman.

The last of 2013 is upon us and I've been shoveling in just about as many films from the year as I can, building towards my awaiting best of / worst of lists and the second annual Silver Screen Riot Awards.

It's too long, descends into a riot of silliness towards the end and sometimes takes the easy road of making people laugh by just getting everyone to shout a lot but it's still one of the funniest films of 2013.

IFC Films «sister company Sundance Selects picked up mountain climbing doc «The Summit» and war - on - terror film «Dirty Wars,» while The Weinstein Company «s VOD shingle Radius acquired the rapturously - received «Twenty Feet From Stardom,» which focuses on back - up singers, and HBO Films took North American TV rights to «Pussy Riot — A Punk Prayer.»

The new film reunites Bigelow with writer Mark Boal, and the filmmaking pair is aiming for a 2017 release to tie in with the 50th anniversary of the riots themselves.

Director Kathryn Bigelow is teaming up for a third time with screenwriter Mark Boal, who penned The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty, for a film about the «12th Street Riot» which sent shockwaves across America in the summer of» 67.

The warfare at the heart of «71, the new film from director Yann Demange working with a screenplay from Gregory Burke, is as personal as it gets, a pitched battle on the streets of Belfast in the middle of its most bloody riots between Protestant and Catholic sects of the city.

The film is slated to hit theaters August 4, to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Detroit riots.

A muddy prison riot early in the film is absolutely brutal and gripping in execution as well as fight in a toilet cubicle that defies the laws of physics for so much awesomeness to be unleashed in a tight space.

In theory, this should be the perfect time for a film like Detroit, Kathryn Bigelow's ambitious take on the Algiers Motel incident that occurred amidst the Detroit riots of 1967.

While the internet hivemind celebrated the film's abysmal numbers — just desserts for a film that focuses on a generically pretty white boy and not the trans women of color who actually started the 1969 riot — they've largely overlooked the much bigger elephant in the room: namely, that Stonewall isn't all that different from all the other major LGBT theatrical releases.

«I'm not sure rave reviews or buzzing awards talk are enough to express the amplitude of what director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal achieve in «Detroit,» a film about race riots from half a century ago.

While Emmerich riffs on «Die Hard», it's his ability to take the ideas and turn them into gigantic fireballs of mayhem that makes the film a riot.

Wong's violent interludes are most often brief riots of slurred or slow - motion action alternating unexpectedly with freeze - frames; these sequences, delivered so rapidly one can often barely perceive what's happening, are obviously abstract versions of the action scenes in conventional martial - arts films (The Eagle Shooting Heroes included).

Unless you find Jim Carrey making faces to be a laugh riot in itself, Fun with Dick and Jane is an initially promising film that only disappoints and frustrates by titillating us with the hint of intelligent thematic twists, then proceeding to inject as much slapstick as it can to go for the cheap laughs.

In many ways the film is, and should be, almost anti-dramatic — the occasional riot or threat scene aside, most of the action takes place in meeting rooms, living rooms or small TV studios as Bernal pitches his ideas to the willfully uncomprehending «suits.»

Both actors are superb — fearsomely committed but restrained enough to ensure that the film doesn't descend into a noisy riot.

The Life Foundation is a shadowy organization from Marvel's comics, best known in the «Lethal Protector» storyline — a storyline we know the film is using for inspiration — for kidnapping Venom and using the symbiote to create five symbiote soldiers of their own: Scream, Phage, Riot, Lasher, and Agony.

To say that this film is a laugh riot would not be an understatement.

It's not a true laugh riot, but since the track offers so little information about the film, I enjoyed this piece much more than I normally would.

But not everyone is a film nerd like us who are deeply invested in the Best Cinematography race (if Roger Deakins hadn't won last night, we'd be rioting right now).