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DVD Review: As Pixar sets go, this is pretty bare - bones, a single - disc set with the obligatory short film opening act («One Man Band»), an unfunny longer film starring tow truck Mater («Mater and the Ghostlight»), and a smattering of «deleted scenes,» which are in fact a series of rough sketches that actually take the plot in completely different directions.
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It was a virtuous act, but it was also designed to bolster the film's opening weekend.
The second act of the film opens with Jobs preparing to introduce the NeXT computer, in 1988.
Amy Hedtke filed suit, arguing that the no - filming rule instituted by Rep. Byron Cook, R - Corsicana, violated the Texas Open Meetings Act and the Texas...
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The opening scene, in which the two friends share a Christmas Eve donut because they're too broke to afford one for each of them, unsentimentally suggests the high - wire act that making a living on the streets can be without the film ever slowing down its electronica - soundtracked strut.
The film opens with Lerman acting circles around him.
The series opened her up to a wider audience, and de Rossi would continue to act in films like The Invisibles and Cursed.After the 2002 demise of Ally McBeal, de Rossi wasted little time in attaching herself to another edgy and successful project.
The opening act of the film, in which we meet Davis and his band of beta sidekicks, who gush about the «kale bread» they made last night while he pacifies the beasts, is so transparently dictated by Johnson that I was tempted to feel embarrassed for him.
There's simply no getting around the feeling that the film is spinning its wheels in the build - up to its underwhelming third act, which is a shame, certainly, given the relatively promising nature of the opening half hour.
,» the film opens as a traditional animated cartoon but pulls back to reveal «toons» living and acting alongside humans in 1947 Hollywood.
He has created a film whose superb technical finish and closure seems to me in contrast to its status as an «open» text, a work which resists clear interpretation... This is a profoundly disquieting movie, superbly acted and directed.
And as a person who's normally enthralled solely by history and science fiction, this Crash reminiscent film is due credit, because it's not only an eye - opening depiction of modern «ailments,» but an admirably acted film that puts other think - pieces to shame.
One of her first acts was the removal of a long - held tradition of opening the festival with an Australian film.
Joshua Oppenheimer's The Look of Silence, a companion piece to Oppenheimer's own The Act of Killing, opened Doc / Fest and set a bar that the following 150 films couldn't touch.
So while the film's opening act probably got people like this guy extremely excited, the movie falls apart the deeper the characters descend into the titular pyramid.
I Origins is a movie with many sides: an existential romance, a story packed with with facts and figures but at the same time open to coincidence and, simply, a well - acted film.
Some peaks and troughs would have been nice, particularly since the big set piece in the opening act is the only time the film truly stuns.
Alexander Payne's Downsizing opened the Venice Film Festival and while the film itself is a polarizing, uneven story, it boasts a powerful, touching and funny performance by Hong Chau who plays an immigrant and activist who protests the Vietnamese government's acts against her small village and ends up shrunken and placed in a TV set at a Target store in...
The film starts off with some awkward, painfully lame flashback scenes of Kyle's childhood and transitions into an opening act that is loaded with full - on patriotism that sees him go to war to get back at the people who brought suffering to our doorstep in the events of 9/11 (he was already enlisted, but if we believe the film that decision was also motivated by seeing news footage of American lives being taken), but one of the most interesting surprises is how balanced it eventually becomes and how we see the way that Kyle's actions negatively impact others and how even he begins to question his commitment to the cause, despite the fact that he would never vocalize it.
The opening act in Toronto feels like a standard indie comedy about (yet another) white male's arrested development, the piano - based score and aversion to dialogue feels indebted to silent films, and once the film transitions to the wilderness it goes into European arthouse territory (the title card doesn't appear until James ends up in BC, a choice that implies this is where the film really begins).
I am honored to open the show as a presenter as MTV makes strides once more by doing away with binary acting categories, celebrating television and film in a truly inclusive way,» said Dillon.
Peyton applies the enjoy that he received from making the ones motion pictures to sure impact right here, leading to one in every of his extra polished efforts; beginning with the film's Gravity-esque opening aboard an area station orbiting the earth and proceeding directly to the town wrecking mayhem that dominates the 3rd act.
During the film's slow opening act, Norma and Arthur debate their dilemma.
That she's played as thoughtfully and open - heartedly as she is by an Oscar - winning Alicia Vikander makes the film more moving than it might have been otherwise, but it remains a thoroughly cautious study of a very brave act.
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There are also joys to be found in the film's brisk opening first act, when the plot is set in motion.
In fact, the film's opening act is razor - sharp as...
The opening credits of the film are displayed while a camera shoots extreme close - up sweeps around a dead body which is currently being consumed by maggots and other bugs, and this should give you an indication of how unflinching the rest of the film is in the showcasing of disturbing acts of violence.
The only moments of note are in the early portions of the film when they're trying to set things up in the opening act.
The pair met at acting classes in San Francisco in 1998, which gives the film a great opening: Sestero is stricken and sweating on stage, hopelessly self - conscious, and then sits back in awe of this bizarre ogre of a person, who writhes around screaming «Stellaaa!»
Interestingly enough, the more broad comedy that opens the film is not as effective as the more personal comedy that takes off in the second act.
«the film spends most of the opening act establishing Grant's credibility as a former detective with a clean record.»
The opening of the film acts as a Russian postcard encouraging Americans to visit.
Rebel Wilson has opened about her experiences with sexual harassment in Hollywood, claiming that a male star once asked her to perform a sex act on him while his friends filmed them.
Initially, the film plays like a welcome return to form with a ridiculous for the sake of ridiculous opening act.
Director / Screenwriter (and part - time comic book writer) Joss Whedon's love for comics is apparent right from the start with an opening act that would be the climax in many action films and carries through to one of the more spectacular final battle scenes you're likely to see for years to come.
Out of Time is handsome and consistently enjoyable even when its opening act drags on several beats too long, even when Cain shows himself to be an extremely limited actor given too large a role in a film that just isn't about him (see also: Ron Eldard in The House of Sand and Fog).
Reason: With his film Smashed opening last fall with a commendable performance from Winstead, it is certainly curious to see where the acting / directing duo will go next, especially with the presence of Woodley, who hasn't been seen on the silver screen since her award winning turn in The Descendants.
For the film's opening act, some seamless post-Benjamin Button effects attach Evans's head on to another actor's scrawny body, and we learn that he's a brave young patriot who's deemed too feeble to go to war.
The 28 - year - old critics» darling and fan favorite opens up about overcoming «debilitating» childhood anxiety through acting, moving to Hollywood at 15 (and changing her name and dyeing her hair), finding magical chemistry with Ryan Gosling in three films and, under the oversight of Damien Chazelle, breathing new life into the American movie musical.
Marina (Daniela Vega, a Chilean lyrical singer and transwoman making her acting debut) is a lounge singer and waitress in Chile, spending a wonderful evening with her lover, an older man named Orlando (Francisco Reyes) in the film's opening scenes.
Angier (Hugh Jackman) and Borden (Christian Bale) are aspiring magicians as the film opens — apprentices, along with Angier's wife Julia (Piper Perabo), in some hack's tired stage act.
After collecting some celebrity testimonials on The Room from the likes of Kristen Bell, J.J. Abrams, Lizzy Caplan, and Adam Scott, the film opens in 1998 at a San Francisco acting class where Sestero (Dave Franco, the director's younger brother) meets Wiseau (James Franco), a bizarrely - fashioned, curiously - accented loner who disarms the class by writhing around on stage and shouting «Stella» in a performance inspired by Tennessee Williams» A Streetcar Named Desire.
Recent films include: Safe Haven, Act of Valor and Immortals, the latter both opening number one at the box office in their debut.
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.
Character actor, Luis Guzmà ¡ n is also cast, as Bitterman, Bach's driver and confidant, whose main purpose is in the film's opening act — a hodgepodge of Batman references — which concludes with Arthur standing above the iconic Wall Street bull statue's crotch.
Goslings opening 1st act is the strongest act of the film by far, and it did lack momentum thereafter.
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The opening sequence featuring outlaws Purvis (David Arquette) and Buddy (horror vet Sid Haig doing his best Slim Pickins imitation) sets the stage for the brutal violence to come in the third act, as well as the film's crackling dialogue that's clearly influenced by The Coen Brothers, Quentin Tarantino, and Elmore Leonard.