Sentences with phrase «film rundown»

Here's a film - by - film rundown.

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The film is nothing but loud noises, people screaming at each other at the top of their lungs, brutally revolting in its graphic depictions of dismemberment and gruesome murders, and will leave you needing a shower to wash away the icky and nauseous feeling at attempting to view what some idiot (Peter Berg, The Rundown) had the audacity to think would be grand entertainment.

Filmed on location in Lake Havasu, AZ, this made - for - cable domestic drama stars Tim Matheson as Al Dodge, a burned - out intellectual working as a handyman and living in a rundown trailer in the middle of the Arizona desert.

Recalling John Milius» 1982 hit Conan the Barbarian (another film that launched the cinematic action career of a then - little - known athlete named Arnold Schwarzenegger), the sword - and - sandal adventure raked in 36 million dollars on its opening weekend and stayed at the top of the box office in the weeks following its impressive debut.Though he would return to the ring for the remainder of 2002, it didn't take Johnson long to soften on the prospect of a return to the silver screen — and with the following year's The Rundown, he did just that.

The film is a rundown of Hoover's involvement in these cases, how he built the FBI and spearheaded criminal science.

With each of our writers acting as a film's individual champion, we begin with a rundown of numbers 10 to six (two films tied for eighth spot.)

Check out the full list of all of the festival's winners, plus a rundown of where and when you can see each film in the coming months.

The Rundown is a pretty dumb film, but knows it is, and director Peter Berg (Very Bad Things) wisely plays almost everything for laughs, making this an escapist romp that's not too dark or violent to enjoy.

Here's a brief rundown of some of the best horror films and thrillers he appeared in.

Dwayne Johnson gave us The Rundown, an almost inexplicably enjoyable action film; the man has tremendous comedic timing and it helps every film he's in.

Barely 18 months later, and the franchise now seems like the sole ray of light on the Young Adult horizon, as adaptation after adaptation has subsequently tried and failed to spin its on - the - page popularity into a film franchise (a look at our 2012 rundown of the YA hopefuls is retrospectively sobering).

His debut turn behind the camera, however, came a lot later than the scripts that made his name (you can read our rundown of those right here), and while it was hardly the box office blockbuster it may have been hoped the «Lethal Weapon» writer would turn out, it's in fact a great, great film; a hugely enjoyable comedy / murder msytery / noir hybrid romp with plenty of meta flourishes and sideways - winking humour.

The story in brief concerns grieving car magnate Howard purchasing rundown racehorse Seabiscuit for a song, then taking in rundown jockey Red as his ward, then hiring fruit loop Tom (Chris Cooper, arguably the best thing about the film) to be the horse / brat whisperer.

Fans of The Rock (Be Cool, The Rundown)-- If you love The Rock but aren't really familiar with the game, or you usually eschew zombie films, chances are that you will come away with some very strong mixed feelings about Doom.

A paean to working - class bellicosity set (and shot) in the rundown industrial town of Lowell, Massachusetts, David O'Russell's boxing film The Fighter relishes its brawls.

The responsible one with the job in rundown Venice Beach circa the early -»70s, he «ain't no pirate,» says surf shop owner Skip Engblom (Heath Ledger, doing Val Kilmer on lots of ganja), who decides mysteriously one day to sponsor a competitive skateboard team with ringers Tony Alva (Victor Rasuk) and Jay Adams (Emile Hirsch) as well as a bunch of other kids the film doesn't have time for.

Part 2 of Clothes on Film «s sartorial rundown of Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011, directed by Guy Ritchie), complete with exclusive input from the film's costume designer Jenny Beavan.

With those caveats on the table, here's a film - by - film (10 today, 10 tomorrow) rundown of this year's lineup, detailing the Cannes credentials of each director, and offering some thoughts as to where they may sit in the competition.

Okay, how about a blow - by - blow rundown of a climactic Deadite infused fight scene near the end of the film with Shiloh Fernandez and Lou Taylor Pucci?

Because why not announce release dates for the next six years while you're at it, Warner Bros. also gave a rundown of its DC film releases through November 2020 which includes 11 films overall, two of which are coined «event films» releasing in 2018 and 2020.

«A Conversation with Errol Morris» is a brief intro for the film, giving a rundown of how the project got started and how difficult Morris found Rumsfeld, and a digital reproduction of his four - part op - ed in The New York Times about Rumsfeld also appears.

As a final recap we present our favorite films, plus a rundown of our posts.

Here's our rundown of our favourite films to have blurred the line between reality and fiction.

Yeah, it seems a bit premature when you hear Dwayne «The Rock» Johnson (The Rundown, Be Cool) is the Schwarzenegger for a new generation, but if you look at the kinds of films Arnie did in his beginnings, Dwayne seems right on track.

A tightly wound, character - rooted crime drama in the vein of A Simple Plan, director Tze Chun's Cold Comes the Night is one of those crisp, engaging independent films that rather bewilderingly and frustratingly slip through the theatrical cracks every now and again, and at the heart of it all is Eve's mesmerizingly rundown performance, a thing of damaged grace.

The Rundown is a decent action film that's worth checking out, as it's better than you think it'd be.

Audio Commentary: A thorough breakdown from the directors Anthony and Joe Russo and writers Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely gives a brisk, mostly complete rundown of the making of the film, anatomy of scenes and converting one of Marvel's most iconic comics to the big screen.

Pity a historian wasn't contacted for a rundown of the film's genesis; Carol Reed's walking off the picture after losing patience with Brando's ego, and Lewis Milestone taking the directorial reigns as a hired gun; nor a separate featurette on the film's cinematographer and composer; but what has been assembled is a good smattering of contemporary and archival productions about the impressive Bounty replica built from the ground up for a major studio production.

Harry Gregson - Williams has really come into his own recently, with a host of impressive scores for a variety of different films in different genres, including Veronica Guerin, Passionada, The Rundown and Sinbad, and he has a potentially huge one coming up in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

As a final recap we present our 5 favorite films each, plus one last rundown of everything else.

The Human Contract is so overloaded with clumsily delivered exposition that it's easy to imagine Pinkett Smith giving Clarke a 300 - page rundown of his character's backstory, with the caveat, «Only about 5 percent of this actually makes it into the film, but for instance, the fact that your character wouldn't pay for his high - school girlfriend's abortion informs several later scenes on a subliminal level.»

Ray Pride (with «additional contributions» from Brian Hieggelke) offers a rundown of the film talent located between the coasts, with his list of 50 — Count «em 50 — key players in the Chicago movie scene.

The film starts with a game of bocce ball between Law's and Giannini's characters at a lovely Italian villa, but quickly escalates when a bet is placed between the two players: that Law can't make it to Monaco in Giannini's rundown vintage racecar (his most cherished possession) by noon the next day.

The film tackles the questions of free - will, identity, and the nature of reality courtesy of Mike Howell (Jesse Eisenberg), a good - natured stoner of a clerk at a rundown convenience store on the outskirts of Limon, W. Va..

After a brief rundown of the tribute car's particulars, another short film was shown in which Molly was introduced to the actual Bullitt Mustang, a 1968 Mustang Fastback with a 390 cubic - inch engine and a four - speed manual gearbox.

He wrote novels under dozens of pen names in the worlds of comic books and movies, including novelizations of almost a dozen films, from The Final Fantasy to Steel to Rundown.

Robert Smithson's Rundown (1969) and Christian Marclay's Guitar Drag (2000) introduce randomness into the natural landscape — asphalt and other molten liquids are poured over a cliff in Smithson's film, and Marclay's video records the sonic destruction of the instrument as it is pulled along a road.

Using a smart phone or film camera, you can give a basic rundown of what the house looks like and show a clearer view of the floor plan.