Sentences with phrase «film of second chances»

Not exact matches

What Pelosi has here is the start of a more meaningful film about second chances and forgiveness, but what she ends up with looks more like a greeting card.

True to his habit of placing ass - kicking women at the centre of his films, Luc Besson's next big project is a superheroine movie to tide us over until the CW's Amazon makes it out of the gate, or Warner Bros decides to give Joss Whedon's Wonder Woman script a second chance.

But this is still the second film from a promising writer - director with a keen eye for new talent (hello, John Boyega), and it will offer the chance to see Patrick Stewart as Merlin, which is a pairing of actor and role that is frankly astounding for not having already happened.

One point of difference, though, is more than incidental: In Vertigo, Scotty, like Oedipus, thought he was acting freely throughout the «case,» only to find he was controlled by forces outside himself; in the second half of the film, he gets a second chance, and even when acting truly freely, ends up causing the same result, with greater and more tragic finality than before.

There is a lot to be said about the value of true friendship and giving people second chances which is rare in a film that has an R rating in America.

Perhaps the most useful and instructive function of film festivals, especially in light of the «Star Wars» affair, is that they offer an arena where filmmakers are allowed to fail — and, just as importantly, where filmmakers who have failed before are given a second, third or fourth chance.

«With an all - star cast and a heartfelt script about the ups and downs of life and second chances, we are confident that loyal fans will embrace this film.»

Another embattled mother, Laurie Metcalf saw her chances rise in Toronto, where her film Lady Bird earned a second round of rapturous odes after premiering in Telluride the week prior.

The recently release of Heaven's Gate in the Criterion Collection (as well as some screenings in key cities) challenged the critical consensus that surrounded the film's initial release, asking people to go back and revisit the film, give it a second chance.

His film is about second chances, and the director could not help but feel as though this is some sort of second chance for him: «ÄúWhen Taylor Hackford called me this morning I have to admit I...

Her scenes with Barbara are some of the best in the film, her patience, kindness, second chances and the fact that she genuinely cares resonant while giving us hope that she will come back to her normal self.

Using the premise as the scaffolding to build a gangland soap opera that evokes the life of famed Boston gangster James «Whitey» Bulger, Scorsese's film combines two different love interests into one Vera Farmiga and collapses a sordid trilogy into a breathlessly tight story of double lives and second chances.

Her new film is as much about second chances, migrant working conditions and the cultural divide between Anglos and Latinos as it is about the loneliness of the long - distance runner.

The needlessly underseen Rush — one of director Ron Howard's very best films — gets a second chance at... read more →

WIN WIN is a film that explores the ethics of motives, the magical properties of second chances given and received, the many shades of meaning that a speaker can bring to a scatological expletive, and the indefinable but undeniable power of pancakes.

Under Rothman's leadership, Sony is taking chances and pushing technological boundaries with Ang Lee's adaptation of «Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk,» which will be the first film to be shown in 120 frames per second.

In fact, annually, after the Academy Award nominees are announced, studios re-release several of the most - celebrated of these original films back into theaters, so that moviegoers who passed on them during their original run have a second chance?

: This inoffensive, pizza box decorated, single parent 40 - something attempt at second chances is the sort of film you'll like, grow tired of, and then might have a soft spot for is carried by Jemaine Clement loveable loser character.

But while the film was a mild success commercially, the chances of a sequel seemed pretty unlikely, especially for anyone who read the darker and more sadistic second volume of Mark Millar's popular comic book series, which is borderline distasteful in its attempts to raise the stakes.

Thankfully, Anchor Bay has released the film in a new double - disc special edition, which gives us a second chance to really look at it, and despite some script contrivances, it finds Peckinpah high in the saddle again and full of the same old thunder and lightning.

The meaning of the film does have a sweet nature about second chances as DuVall described to me on the red carpet, but anyone under the age of 60 might not find the themes here very appealing.

If you a huge fan of the book, chances are you'll love the second film, but it's not a guarantee.

Films in this screening include «Dog Years,» a witty voice - over of a dog who questions his relationship with his frequently absent owner; «Second Chances,» a PBS film about dogs who are paired with incarcerated women, who train them to become service dogs; and «David & Goliath,» a period film based on a true story of a Jewish resistance fighter fleeing from the Nazis, who takes refuge in a dog house where a German Shepherd saves his life.

His tricks have led to acting in three musicals, a film, a university research project about preventing falls, a promotional video for Second Chance, and an episode of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE).