Sentences with phrase «film of the time machine»

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After all, there's a reason why a movie about an eccentric scientist who transforms a beat - up DeLorean into a make - shift time machine has become one of the most iconic films of all time.

Far and away the best and most important film of recent times, this depicts life in the first world, when you are put into the welfare machine, and if it spits you out you will be on the street.

Two of Spielberg's recent history films were also made in a messianic spirit of topical fervor: «Munich,» a dread - inflected thriller that addressed the post-9 / 11 world, and «Lincoln,» a kind of dramatized time machine that commented on our own increasingly fractious and divided political arena.

It's the right film at the right time, a cathartic moment in which audiences will shed tears for a little machine made of silicon and aluminium, wrapped in tin foil and running on less computing power than our smartphones, yet which will outlive us all — perhaps by billions of years.

Now, a whopping five years later, we get the just plainly ridiculous «Hot Tub Time Machine 2», which joins the list of «Taken 3» and (while it could turn out to be a good film) «The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel» as 2015 sequels that had no business being made.

What I really liked about Hot Tub Time Machine 2 is that it wasn't just a carbon copy of the first film.

Over at ShockYa, for my latest Blu - ray / DVD column, I take a gander at Tim Burton and Henry Selick's The Nightmare Before Christmas, a bunch of horror flicks, a pair of documentaries on men that could scarcely be more different (New York Times society photographer Bill Cunningham and schlock - meister Herschell Gordon Lewis), and the film that inspired Austin Powers «machine - gun - breasted fembots.

Many of us who watched it in the theater, will watch it a second time and realize that it's not as craptacular as the hype and rage machines of social media and online film critics are making it out to be.

The original Hot Tub Time Machine was bawdy, gross, immature, and silly, but the film also had a heart in the form of a group of characters who realize their lives peaked about 20 years ago.

by Walter Chaw Emboldened, perhaps, by the surprisingly good The Other Guys and the surprisingly great Get Him to the Greek, I went into Steve Pink's Hot Tub Time Machine with the belief that its high - concept idea — not the time travel, but the casting of»80s icon John Cusack in a film that would return him to his decade of greatest power and influence — would be at least enough for it to function as a fairly smart nostalgia piTime Machine with the belief that its high - concept idea — not the time travel, but the casting of»80s icon John Cusack in a film that would return him to his decade of greatest power and influence — would be at least enough for it to function as a fairly smart nostalgia pitime travel, but the casting of»80s icon John Cusack in a film that would return him to his decade of greatest power and influence — would be at least enough for it to function as a fairly smart nostalgia piece.

Stan will reprise the role in the sequel Captain America: Civil War (2016) Other film credits include Summit Entertainment's Gone with Amanda Seyfried, Darren Aranofsky's Black Swan with Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis, Rachel Getting Married with Anne Hathaway, Spread with Ashton Kutcher, Hot Tub Time Machine with John Cusack and Chevy Chase, director Fred Durst's The Education of Charlie Banks, The Architect with Anthony LaPaglia, Isabella Rossellini and Hayden Panettiere and Screen Gem's The Covenant.

Craig Robinson, one of the actors in some of Hollywood's most popular ensemble film and TV comedies, including «Hot Tub Time Machine,» «This Is the End,» and «The Office,» will be the main star of his own comedy series, «Mr. Robinson,» this summer on NBC.

This slice of New York (and Chicago) is drab and worn in, almost like the film stock had been put through a washing machine 100 times without color safe detergent.

One of the most violent movies of all time, this film by acclaimed director Takashi Miike follows two violent men living in a depraved world of rape and violence — the stylish yet sadistic Kakihara (Thor's Tadanobu Asano) and the emotionally unstable killing machine Ichi (Nao Omori).

The mix of boxy hand - drawn animation and slapdash CGI doesn't quite mesh, and the screenplay is another clunker from one of the worst living film writers, John Logan (Bats, Gladiator, The Time Machine, Star Trek: Nemesis).

Sam Klemke's Time Machine / Australia (Director: Matthew Bate)-- Sam Klemke has filmed and narrated 50 years of his life, creating a strange and intimate portrait of what it means to be human.

For this film, fandom chiefly manifests in the form of people buying DeLoreans and converting them to look like the series» time machine.

Ant - Man star Michael Pena jokes about his disappointment after TV mogul - turned - actress Oprah Winfrey decided to present each of her castmates and crew members on new film A Wrinkle In Time with a top - of - the - line juice machine as a wrap gift.

The best advice I can offer is tell you to ignore the other three films outright and just enjoy The Sum of All Fears on its own independent merits, avoiding the hassle of continuity problems that can't be logically resolved without involvement of a time machine.

Once Carrey makes the «yes» commitment, the film turns into a gag machine as he improves his life by opening up to Korean lessons, time spent with his friends, random acts of kindness, and oral sex with a toothless octogenarian.

One of the year's best films arrives this weekend in the form of Hot Tub Time Machine, a delightfully inane, raunchy comedy that puts the movies it will inevitably be compared to — last year's The Hangover, for instance — to shame.

His appearances in film and television throughout the years were jump - started by his turn as ambitious warehouse manager Daryl Philbin in cult TV classic The Office which in turn resulted in a string of parts in Evan Goldberg comedies including Pineapple Express, This is the End and, most recently, Sausage Party as well as features on other notable comedies as Knocked Up, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, Zack and Miri Make a Porno and a starring role in the two Hot Tub Time Machine movies (though we wish we could forget that second one.)

TCM continues their series of Hammer horror films on Friday with four Mummy films, then carries us through Saturday and Sunday with early Dietrich - von Sternberg collaboration The Blue Angel, the 1960 version of The Time Machine, the silent version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and caps it off with Infernal Affairs, the Hong Kong film remade in 2006 as The Departed.

Theron's as dead - on here as she is throughout the film, but Wolfe combines the aching vulnerability of her performance in «Observe and Report» with the childish petulance from «Hot Tub Time Machine,» as she hands Mavis the figurative match with which she can torch her ties to Matt, Sandra and the whole god - forsaken town of Mercury.

Other films about moving through the fourth dimension include: X-Men: Days of Future Past, The Time Machine, About Time and Mr. Peabody & Sherman.

By the time the film reaches its climax, you feel your pulse in the pit of your stomach, brought to a level of suspense made even more impressive by the fact that there are no adrenaline - inducing chases or villains who break through doors toting machine guns.

A mere sampling of film composers who began their careers assisting Zimmer include John Powell (The Bourne Supremacy), Harry Gregson - Williams (Kingdom of Heaven), Rupert Gregson - Williams (Wonder Woman), Klaus Badelt (The Time Machine), Lorne Balfe (The Lego Batman Movie), Ramin Djawadi (Game of Thrones), Heitor Pereira (Despicable Me), and Junkie XL (Mad Max: Fury Road).

Imagine emerging naked from our time machine a few years hence to discover that the film - maker and his team had produced a trilogy of grim and minimalistic entries, packed with fresh ideas and as terrifyingly stark and grounded as the saga once was.

The tidal wave of action in the film's final act is rightly ridiculous at times (is anything more ridiculous than an ape riding a horse, brandishing machine guns in both hands?)

John Logan (Star Trek: Nemesis, The Time Machine) wrote the script, and he infuses a sense of swashbuckling adventure missing from most pirate movies with a more personal purpose for the Sinbad character, but while the set - up sounds good, the execution of the idea makes the film less than appealing.

; other classic mid-century science - fiction flicks like When Worlds Collide (1951), It Came from Outer Space (1953), and The Time Machine (1960) were marketed similarly, as Lumière-esque marvels of film technology.

There will be the rare opportunity to view a replica of Doc Brown's Delorean time machine from the films, owned by Lincoln - born Jason Bradbury - former presenter of The Gadget Show and Visiting Professor at the University of Lincoln - which is set to be popular with children and adults alike.

Kids and beginners can get their kicks on the lower half of the mountains on green circle and blue square groomers, or in the mini terrain park, never far from a hot chocolate or a soak in the hot tub back at the slope side condo or lodge, where you can rehearse your favorite lines from Hot Tub Time Machine (in 2009 Fernie was temporarily transformed into a 1980s ski resort for the filming of this John Cusack sci - fi comedy classic.)

rehearse your favorite lines from Hot Tub Time Machine (in 2009 Fernie was temporarily transformed into a 1980s ski resort for the filming of this John Cusack sci - fi comedy classic.)

Today, Wednesday, October 21, 2015 sees the day that Marty McFly and Doc Brown blasted their DeLorean Time Machine into the future at the end of Back the Future, the 1985 hit film, and land in the future Hill Valley in the 1989 sequel.

In this film Joana Vasconcelos talks about her inspiration, her work and the meaning of the exhibition title, Time Machine

Highlights include the film work Second - hand Reading (2013), installation O Sentimental Machine (2015) and The Refusal of Time (2012), an immersive work created with composer Philip Miller, projection designer Catherine Meyburgh, choreographer Dada Masilo, scientist Peter Galison and collaborators from around the world.

Three of the works are film pieces: The Refusal of Time (2012) and O Sentimental Machine (2015), which have never previously been exhibited in the United Kingdom, and Second - hand Reading (2013), a series of mural - scale tapestries based on his opera production of Shostakovich's The Nose and a set model for the opera production Lulu (2016), which Kentridge will direct at the English National Opera in November 2016.

Presented in conjunction with MAD's current film and installation exhibition «In Time (The Rhythm of the Workshop),» the performance shines a light on workers interacting with machines, as well as the rewards that are gained by collective labor.

In This Machine Builds Nations, Cibic presents a site - specific installation that showcases the three films of her latest Nada trilogy presented for the first time in the UK.

A genuine discussion about how to improve the conditions of producers in poorer economies would be about how best to allow a situation in which fewer farmers produced more goods, leaving more people to produce the machines and chemicals those wealthier farmers would use in their work, the other services they would use in their lives, and the books, films and music they would use in their leisure time.

If you have ever seen Age of Innocence, Scent of a woman, The Emperor's Club or The Time Machine you have caught a glimpse of Troy, New York, as all the mentioned movies filmed on location.

One file story about him notes: «Pearce was dangerously stuck at the end of 2001, a year in which he made four films back - to - back, including some, such as The Time Machine, that he lived to regret.