Not exact matches
What's causing heartburn
in Hollywood is the thought that Netflix may never put these
films on the
big screen.
Social justice causes, candles
in worship services, v - necks and
big neck tattoos
on worship leaders,
screenings of PT Anderson
films at church, heavy use of Helvetica font
in church bulletins, bald pastors who always wear black clothes from Banana Republic, beer at church barbecues, a renewed interest
in corporately reading ancient creeds or prayers, Nooma videos, Sufjan Stevens and everything related to Sufjan Stevens.
Amidst all the hype and debate surrounding this year's flood of faith - related
films — Noah, God is Not Dead, and Heaven is For Real — a quiet Oscar winner from 2013, recently released to DVD, provides the most compelling story of faith I've seen
on the
big screen in years.
During an early
screening of Roland Emmerich's latest disaster flick 2012, which opens today, laughter erupted
in the audience near the end of the
film thanks to corny dialogue and maudlin scenes (among the
biggest guffaw getters: a father tries to reconnect with his estranged son
on the telephone, only to have the son's house destroyed just before he could say anything).
With her newly shorn locks
on display, the actress takes a bow
in a strapless jumpsuit and pointy pumps at the
Big Apple
screening of her
film Being Flynn.
Ideal for everyday use, these products may also be used for
filming in high definition, ensuring the makeup looks flawless even
on a
big screen.
Knowing the documentary would premiere
on Cupid's
big day, our friends at Single Edition invited us to an advanced
screening in New York City, which featured a Q&A with Robert Kenner of the Oscar - nominated Food, Inc., who both directed and produced the
film.
The questions people have
in mind when there's a
film adaptation of these books is whether it can be translated
on to the
big screen to their satisfaction.
She first appeared
on the
big screen in 2006 with a small role
in the
film ACCEPTED and later had a starring role as Brooke Crawford
in the primetime soap opera WICKED WICKED GAMES, which was her first appearance
on the small
screen.
With success
on the small
screen soon prompting James to try his talent
in feature
films, a supporting role
in 50 First Dates and a co-starring role opposite Will Smith
in Hitch found the television favorite's amiable humor translating well to the
big screen.
He is currently
filming Baz Luhrman's new Netflix series THE GET DOWN and will be seen
on the
big screen in Terrance Malick's upcoming KNIGHT OF CUPS.
Following the series» demise
in 1991, Helgenberger returned to television guest - star status
on ER, where she had a four - episode - long recurring role, and
in the miniseries The Tommyknockers.A presence
on the
big screen since 1989, when she made her feature -
film debut
in Steven Spielberg's romantic fantasy Always, Helgenberger has played a wide variety of roles
in films ranging from Species (1995) to the moody The Last Time I Committed Suicide (1997) to Steven Soderbergh's widely acclaimed Erin Brockovich (2000).
Co-starring Survivor contestant turned thespian Colleen Haskell, Schneider's tale of a car accident victim imbued with superhuman powers after being pieced back together with animal organs kept the low - brow rolling while marking his territory among the ranks of the more successful transitions from SNL player to
big screen star.Later,
in the 2000s, Schneider frequently alternated between starring
in his own
films (The Hot Chick, Duece Bigalow: European Gigolo), and supporting his old pal Sandler (The Longest Yard, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry), with few
on either side truly managing to ignite the box office or his career momentum.
But there's one Science Fiction
film that towers above all others of the genre, as well as all other
films, and that is Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, which Warner Brothers barely released
in time to actually be seen
on a
big screen during the relevant year.
At the outset of «Creation,»
on -
screen titles announce that the
film's subject, Charles Darwin, was responsible for the
biggest single idea
in the history of thought: the theory of natural selection.
In honor of the upcoming re-release of Studio Ghibli's 1991
film Only Yesterday, directed by Isao Takahata, GKids is helping them show six of the best Ghibli
films on the
big screen.
At the same time, Uchida is responsible for some of the most remarkable swordplay
films of the 1950s and»60s; his five -
film Musashi Miyamoto epic (not
screened at MOMA), starring Kinnosuke Nakamura
in the title role and Ken Takakura as his arch-nemesis Kojiro, surpasses the better - known Inagaki Samurai Trilogy starring Toshiro Mifune
in terms of both drama and swordplay, yet remains little - known
in the West (despite its availability
on DVD
in the U.S.) After the BAM retrospective (and others)
in 2008, most of Uchida's
films remained unscreened and undistributed
in America, so with MOMA's
bigger series recently ending, it's time again to encourage distributors like the Criterion Collection, Kino Lorber, and Arrow Video to bring out more of the director's masterpieces, both for critical reconsideration and for those whom the veteran filmmaker will be a major new discovery.
In honor of the upcoming release of the new Charlie Kaufman film Anomalisa, Paramount Pictures is presenting a retrospective of four his previous films playing on the big screen again at Landmark Theatres in NY, LA, Chicago and San Francisc
In honor of the upcoming release of the new Charlie Kaufman
film Anomalisa, Paramount Pictures is presenting a retrospective of four his previous
films playing
on the
big screen again at Landmark Theatres
in NY, LA, Chicago and San Francisc
in NY, LA, Chicago and San Francisco.
Presented
in widescreen and fullscreen
on the same side of a dual - layer DVD, the
film's image lacks depth here — there's a muted, Seventies quality to Barry Stone's cinematography that no doubt looked smashing
on the
big screen and probably would've been marginally improved at home by dispensing with the fullscreen version (thus lessening the compromise of compression), which lops a significant amount of visual information from the right side of the frame (while restoring a negligible amount to the bottom —
in one shot literally a pinkie toe).
Kacy Boccumini says it's great to see Jones
on the
big screen again
in a
film that really resonates.
He continues to be seen
on television and
on the
big screen in a variety of projects including an episode of Battlestar Galactica (2006), the
film Changeling (2008) with Angelina Jolie, recurring roles
in the series 24 (2009) and The Listener (2009), and
in the miniseries The Borgias (2011) as a 15th - century cardinal.
A precursor to Adam Sandler's «dopey guy with a
big heart wins out
in the end»
films, Tommy Boy is all the more amusing because of the
on screen / off
screen camaraderie between Spade and Farley.
«But you work according to the medium you're working
in, and some of this
film is explicitly designed to be seen
on a
big screen.
For Laure, this is a spiritual act (one of many baptisms
in the
film), and for De Palma it's a correction: he flips Billy Wilder the bird by saddling his femme fatale with a crisis that matters, even if her personal pain is not readily apparent when she and a group of thugs break into the Cannes Palais, hoping to swipe a fortune
in diamonds from Regis Wargnier's whorish girlfriend Veronica (Rie Rasmussen), with whom Laure makes out
in a bathroom stall while Wargnier's hideous East - West plays
on the
big screen.
Only the third
film that the acclaimed actor has made as a director (after 2002's Antwone Fisher and his last, 2007's The Great Debaters), Washington certainly had familiarity with August Wilson's beloved Pulitzer Prize - winning material when he decided to bring it to the
big screen; the actor won a Tony Award of his own for starring
in the 2010 revival of the production, to go along with the play's Tony for Best Revival (and the many that it won during its first run
on stage
in 1987).
I also loved seeing Goldie Hawn back
on the
big screen, even with a somewhat compromised performance... she took the back seat
in this
film.
In addition to plotting Deadpool 2's arrival, 20th Century Fox also announced plans to further expand Marvel's
big screen presence next year with a pair of new X-Men
films: New Mutants, an X-Men spin - off, arrives April 13th, 2018, while X-Men: Dark Phoenix, the follow - up to 2016's X-Men: Apocalypse that will center
on Sophie Turner's Jean Grey, hits theaters November 2nd of next year.
Having thrived and evolved for eight consecutive decades
in the public imagination -
in prose and graphics,
on the
big screen and small,
in games and properties of all kinds - Conan's exploits
in the Hyborian Age now come alive like never before
in a colossal 3D action - adventure
film.
After three seasons
on television's «The Muppet Show», Jim Henson's beloved furry creations made the jump to the
big screen in a
film that showed how the gang met.
In the end, it is by no means a truly awful piece of work, but the
big problem is that it was originally conceived as a short
film, and has clearly suffered from the expansion of the narrative that has led to it cropping up
on the
big screen.
Peter Pan has seen many incarnations
on the
big screen including the Disney
film, which debuted
in 1953.
Rachel Bloom shares a
big loving smooch with her husband Dan Gregor at the Vulture and Lionsgate
screening of their latest
film Most Likely to Murder held at The London Hotel
on Monday (April 30)
in West Hollywood, Calif..
More recently, the question about Marvel TV's relationship with Marvel Studios has moved away from whether or not Agents of SHIELD stars will appear
in the
films to a slightly different question: Will Netflix's Defenders get their chance to shine
on the
big screen?
Kirsten Dunst stars
in the
film with a supporting cast including Kiefer Sutherland, Charlotte Gainsbourg, John Hurt, Stellan and Alexander Skarsgård and Charlotte Rampling, but
in this new trailer it's the stunning cinematography that seems to be the star and makes this a must - see
on the
big screen.
A
film version of Stephen King's 1974 novel «Carrie» was first released
on the
big screen in 1976.
Now with a scene - stealing breakthrough
on the
big screen as the Bearded Lady
in 20th Century Fox's «The Greatest Showman,» the original movie musical premiering Dec. 20 and starring Hugh Jackman as P. T. Barnum, Settle is about to win over
film audiences as well.
One of the
biggest stumbling blocks
in this
film is Dane Cook, who ruins the
screen whenever he's
on it.
Since then, Samberg has bounced back as a comedian
on the small
screen as the star of the terrific Fox comedy Brooklyn Nine - Nine and now he's bounced back
on the
big screen in his new
film Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping.
The
film noir slate was particularly rich as was the experience of seeing these
film on the
big screen — the lighting, the compositions, the close - ups all popped
in a way that just doesn't happen when you watch these titles
on TV.
THE
BIG SCREEN Reviews of notable new
films opening
in theaters (hopefully near you) Reviews: Ismael's Ghosts by Yonca Talu, Lean
on Pete by Chloe Lizotte, The Workshop by Nick Davis, You Were Never Really Here by Gina Telaroli
It's round - about journey to the
big -
screen was a logical conclusion, and while the first was praised as playfully ridiculous and a violent tongue -
in - cheek satire
on Mexploitation
films, this sequel is a long, drawn - out series of mind - numbing beheadings, choppings, limb - hackings and gore - splattering scenes that would make a death camp survivor long for the good old days.
Channing Tatum reiterates his desire for the «X-Man» Gambit to appear
in his own solo
film before joining the «X-Men»
on the
big screen.
«Good Luck Chuck» gives Dane Cook his second opportunity to team up with a hot chick (this time, it's Jessica Alba) who helps take the attention away from the fact that the
film isn't very funny, and as «The King of Queens» rides into the sunset, Kevin James tries again to make it
on the
big screen in «I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry.»
Warner Bros» wants to remind us that this offshoot ties
in with what they've planned so far
in their mad rush to catch up with the Marvel
films and their jam - packed universe of already beloved characters, but we've never really seen any of these new Suicide Squad characters
on the
big screen before.
So it's only appropriate that the
film will open the 15th annual Roger Ebert's
Film Festival
on April 17
in the
big -
screen, newly renovated Virginia Theater
in downtown Champaign.
Kelly clearly loves movies —
in the
film's most cinematic moment, a time portal opens up
on the
big screen of a repertoire theatre during Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead.
Set
in mid-fifties Liverpool, this
film offers snapshots of moments
in in the life of Davies» stand -
in Bud (Leigh McCormack) over one year, at school (where he is increasingly teased and bullied by
bigger boys), at holiday celebrations (with neighbors singing and joking), and at the movies, where the camera lingers
on his face, captivated by the
screen.
Most recently Akkad confirmed studio troubles had resulted
in the new
film's delays, so maybe this pending «divorce» from Dimension could be what is needed
in order to get Michael Myers back
on the
big screen.
«I personally don't perceive the Palme d'Or [should be] given to a
film that is then not seen
on the
big screen,» Almodóvar said earlier
in the fest.
He further won over comedy fans with a killer guest spot savaging «Glee»
on the Christmas episode of «Community,» but he's getting his
big -
screen break
in a much more surprising venue: he recently joined the astonishing cast of Steve McQueen «s «Twelve Years A Slave,» alongside Michael Fassbender, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Brad Pitt (who presumably approves of Killam's impression, given that he's the
film's producer), Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Giamatti, Paul Dano, Sarah Paulson, Alfre Woodard, Ruth Negga, Garret Dillahunt and Scoot McNairy, among many others.