Sentences with phrase «films as the assault»

I liked Harrison Ford's curmudgeon, and I didn't take the film as some assault on modern day news.

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The film delves deep into the vision of a man whose work, as his daughter Mary notes, has been «to introduce culture into the discussion of agriculture,» amid an agribusiness assault on that way of life.

Former London fire authority chairman Brian Coleman has been fined after admitting he did assault a woman in north London as she filmed him parking illegally.

Mr. Jeffries also lamented what he perceived as a general lack of speed and transparency in the investigation — even as Ramsey Orta, the man who filmed Garner's arrest, and his wife have been respectively arrested and processed for a gun charge and misdemeanor assault.

The song was written by Diane Warren and Lady Gaga for The Hunting Ground, a documentary film about on - campus sexual assaults in the United States, and the music video doubles as a PSA for the same issue.

The film apparently tries to make up for these shortcomings with a spectacle of special effects, such as Voldemort's spell bombardment on a magically shielded Hogwarts and the assault of «death eaters,» giants, and spiders on the school.

But given that it's easy to predict what comes next once you realize how the film's timelines work, Killing Ground is virtually suspenseless for the duration of its most harrowing scenes, as the people you suspected were going to die in terrible ways die in terrible ways, with some subtle, gut - churning intimations of sexual assault for extra impact.

The film is periodically enlivened by some of the supporting players, including Paul Walter Hauser as Shawn Eckhardt, the supposed mastermind of the Kerrigan assault whom the movie depicts as a world - class schlub.

I really enjoyed using the assault rifle which once again channeled my inner - Aliens film fantasy and the shotgun was another enjoyable weapon to use as I blasted these alien creatures away.

This movie is bad enough for non-techies as a thriller, but if you know anything at all about computers the film is nothing less than a brutal assault of stupidity on all of your senses of such magnitude, the government should also crack down on MGM for releasing it.

Transformers: Dark of the Moon isn't so much a film as it is a sensory assault for masochists willing to pay top dollar to for their eyes to explode into a million pieces and their eardrums to reverberate to permanent injury by the onslaught of thunderous crashing, thumping, and clanging without any attempt to push forward a story from scene to scene.

The film takes place over one day as Raul's lifelong dream to flee Havana becomes his only option after he is accused of assault.

It's pure Hollywood hokum, with the Vikings reduced to pagan cartoon barbarians who make sport of terrorizing women and take pride in the torture and murder — the fact that Janet Leigh's character lives in constant threat of sexual assault makes for uneasy viewing when the film plays it as some kind of «Taming of a Shrew» situation — but it is spectacular hokum.

Essentially a four - hander, the true - life film stars Rachel Weisz as Deborah E. Lipstadt — a Jewish - American professor in Holocaust studies who in 1993 published «Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory».

Ben Cook as Aaron Fisher is appropriately wrenching and hints at a different film about the effects of sexual assault.

As the Times reports, «Warner Bros. will not renew its $ 450 - million co-financing agreement with Brett Ratner's film funding company, cutting its remaining ties with the embattled director, who has been accused of sexual misconduct or assault by several women.»

The early sequence, depicting the amphibious assault on Omaha Beach, is as gut - wrenching and deglorifying a depiction of combat as has ever been filmed, and it is realised through careful employment of a wide range of visual and aural techniques.

It's also possible that Jay's character might be Black Spider as the studio is seemingly taking a lot inspiration from the animated film Assault On Arkham.

Drawn by the lure of John Carpenter's amazing string of films up to that point («Dark Star,» «Assault on Precint 13,» «Halloween,» «Elvis,» «The Fog,» «Escape From New York»), I saw «The Thing» as soon as possible.

I didn't think that I'd find a film in 2006 that could actually be as bad as The Benchwarmers, but Little Man manages to deliver an equally abhorrent assault on our senses blow for blow.

Paddington 2 is a full - blown charm assault, adapted from the Michael Bond books by actor / writer Simon Farnaby and Paul King (TV's The Mighty Boosh, returning as director after the first film).

Ayoub is Moroccan - Dutch, a detail that de Jong interweaves through the film with a mastery reminiscent of John Carpenter's Assault on Precinct 13, where ethnicity is one of the film's core interests, but remains at the periphery, sporadically commented on by characters as a source of anxiety and conflict, but seldom utilized or exploited for unearned pleas of significance.

Starring Hemlock Grove's Kaniehtiio Horn — a First Nations Mohawk who grew up on the Kahnawake Reserve — as a Mohawk woman driven to violence by soldiers» assault on her family and her ancestral home in early 19th - century New York, the film engages with the horrors of American history in an uncommonly blunt way, using them to tell a tale of supernaturally tinged revenge.

The «Worst Scene» Award continues into a needless flashback to the sexual assault of a minor (Director Roger Donaldson (The Bank Job, The World's Fastest Indian) actually films this as if we, the audience, are being raped in the first person!)

As allegations about Kevin Spacey's history of sexual assault and predation began to mount, Scott took the unprecedented step of recasting his part and reshooting key portions of the film; ironically, that meant giving the role of tycoon J. Paul Getty to Scott's first choice, Christopher Plummer, who had been passed over by the studio in favor of the more «bankable» Spacey.

A Fantastic Woman (Blu - ray) Details: 2017, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Rated: R, language, sexual content, nudity, a violent assault The lowdown: This Chilean feature, honored as best foreign - language film at the 90th Academy Awards, is a stunning and well - crafted drama about an individual's right to live her life as she sees fit, despite the prejudice and scorn of others.

The film plays like many other rape / assault / revenge films as we are introduced to a character (s), see them get brutalized, witness the aftermath of the event, and then see them seek vengeance.

While not as extreme as that film, Revenge's inciting incident is still a very difficult - to - watch, yet relatively ungraphic, sexual assault scene.

Coto, who bombed with Dr. Giggles (1992), his last feature outing, filmed this project about a year ago as The Warrior of Waverly Street, a dual reference to self - conscience seventh - grader Spencer Griffith (Joseph Mazzello), who attends the Waverly Street School, and «Cy,» the seven - foot Phase One Assault Cyborsuit that crash lands on earth in the small town of Crystal Bluff one autumn evening.

After a strong debut on the fall film festival circuit and a 97 % fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, the film arrives in cinemas as conversations around sexual harassment and assault are hitting a national high, with allegations in every sector, including restaurant owners, high - profile journalists, fashion photographers and Hollywood giants like Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey.

Assault on Precinct 13, loosely based on the 1976 film of the same name written and directed by John Carpenter, is a gritty, violent journey that's about twice as good as you'd expect it to be.

The film will follow a young Marshall as he travels to Connecticut in the 1940s to defend a black chauffeur accused of sexual assault and attempted murder by his white employer.

The dearth of compelling, three - dimensional characters perpetuates the arms - length vibe, certainly, and it's clear that the film's violent climax is ultimately unable to pack the punch that Carpenter has obviously intended - which does, in the end, confirm Assault on Precinct 13's place as a seriously erratic early effort from an otherwise masterful filmmaker.

As indeed is Smaug's assault on Lake - Town, but Battle of the Five Armies only succeeds in bits and pieces, and overall feels less like a film than an enormously long episode in some vast follow - up adventure serial.

He re-examined sexual assault in his follow - up film, the revenge - themed shocker Death Weekend (1976; aka The House by The Lake), starring Brenda Vaccaro as the rape survivor who wreaks vengeance on her attackers; the film would win Best Actress and Best Screenplay at Sitges 1976.

At the Debates, held at midnight in a steamy gym in South Austin soaked with sweat and free beer, film programmer Suki - Rose Simakis — a former employee of Cinefamily, another theater currently embroiled in an assault controversy — stepped into the ring to give a passionate speech laying out concrete actions Fantastic Fest patrons could take to combat sexism, and affirming the power of women as members of the film community.

Saturday, questions about the Alamo's removal of film site Ain't It Cool News as a Fantastic Fest media sponsor days before the festival were explosively answered, when the news broke that AICN's Harry Knowles had allegedly assaulted a woman on Drafthouse property nearly 20 years ago.

Wade refers to this raunch - assault of a sequel as «a family film,» and he's not completely wrong.

As expected none of the Weinstein - produced films eligible for inclusion received nominations, however there were multiple nominations for Ridley Scott's All the Money in the World, which was forced to replace star Kevin Spacey at short notice, after he was accused of multiple counts of sexual assault and harassment.

The remaining extras concern the film's publicity assault, and from these elements, it's easy to see why «Halloween» is still considered a slasher film — the heightened fear and graphic violence are heavily implied - but the carefully paced tension and eerie mood are what makes the film endure as a horror classic.

Renowned for crafting emotionally engaging soundtracks for multimedia, Salta has received widespread industry acclaim for his world - class produced scores featured in films and video games such as HALO: The Fall of Reach (The Animated Series), HALO: Spartan Strike, HALO 2 Anniversary, HALO: Spartan Assault (G.A.N.G. Best Original Soundtrack Award), HALO: Combat Evolved Anniversary, Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, From Dust, Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands, Red Steel (IGN Award for Best Original Score), Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter and H.A.W.X series, and original songs and adaptations for the world's # 1 dance game series, Just Dance.

There are multiple downloadable content packs available such as the free Droid Character Pack which includes eight characters from the Star Wars galaxy, while there is also a season pass priced at # 7.99 including the exclusive Jedi Character Pack, further new characters from beyond the film and three new level packs focused on guiding Poe back to the Resistance from Jakku, leading the assault on Takodana as Kylo Ren and witnessing the demise of Starkiller Base as Resistance pilots.

The gun, a deactivated M16 assault rifle, had been given to the film - maker and photographer as part of an art project.

And yet, the show is often flat - footed and traditional in the worst way — with overly literal duds, such as (in the Fridericianum) a giant camouflaged tank that Greek artist Andreas Angelidakis assembled from seat cushions, a marble refugee tent by the Anishinaabe - Canadian artist Rebecca Belmore sitting atop the Hill of Muses overlooking the Acropolis, a gobsmackingly trivial installation at the Stadtmuseum Kassel by the Guatemalan Regina José Galindo that lets viewers point an unloaded assault rifle at the artist and decide whether to pull the trigger (being aware of Brandon Lee's death while filming The Crow, I declined), and in Karlsraue Park, Mexican artist Antonio Vega Macotela's replica of a machine once used by slaves in Bolivia to print coins — viewers are invited to use it.

Drawing from the male - dominated field of Land Art infused with her political sensibility and recurring references to her Latin American heritage, her experiments in film and video are celebrated for their prescient and piecing take on such relevant issues as campus sexual assault, environmentalism, and the challenges of preserving identity in a homogenizing society.