Sentences with phrase «films come to a close»

The other thing that really bugged me was how perfect the film came to a close and how quickly everything wrapped up.

When the film comes to a close and one realizes that 95 % of its duration was not only unnecessary but not even entertaining fodder for some kind of grand finale, one walks away frustrated and confused as to why the film was ever made.

We can expect more news about Phase 3 as the Phase 2 films come to a close.

Not exact matches

But the CRTC's recent decision to press ahead with a so - called pick - and - pay approach to cable will force all the players in Canada's $ 20 - billion film and television industry to recognize that the mutually beneficial relationship between the broadcasters, specialty channels and the carriers may be coming to a close.

Rudy Giuliani, who joined President Trump's personal legal team last week, told Fox News on Thursday that the Trump attorney Michael Cohen had arranged a payment to the adult - film actress Stormy Daniels in order to prevent allegations of an affair from coming out in the closing days of the 2016 election.

Becket, an artistically superior film, was as close as the committee could come to «religious subject matter,» although it begged a great number of historical questions.

There are a lot of animated movies out there that try to incorporate adult humor into a child's film and, while others may come close, no one does it better than Pixar.

As 2017 comes to a close, I've been looking back at the year in the way the last person alive in a horror film occasionally checks over their shoulder while running at full pelt to see if the crazed killer is still behind them.

Researchers at North Carolina State University have come up with a way to make talking dogs, such as the one featured in Pixar and Disney's animated film Up, a closer reality.

The DVD also includes the 30 - minute «The Hidden Side of «Persepolis,»» which delves into how the comic book originally came about and how Satrapi set out to adapt it to film, and the 8.5 - minute «Behind the Scenes of «Persepolis,»» which gets up close and personal with the voice talent and animators.

Crucially, while the quality of these films varies, none of them quite come close to the series that blazed the trail.

As Cathy, Britton comes closest to finding the film's desired ill - at - ease tone, as the character's desire to be woke conflicts with the requirements of her social standing.

it has come to pass, the final Harry Potter film closes an eight - part saga which began 10 years ago yet seems to have been around for even longer.

The Hangover series comes to a merciful close with an installment that's at least a slight improvement over its immediate predecessor, with the narrative, thankfully, going in a slightly different direction than the first two films (ie there's no actual hangover this time around).

Nothing Yurka ever did on film afterward would come close to her triumph as DeFarge, though she worked in Hollywood until 1953.

With all of that said, the film does come close enough to engage throughout its course, with color, intrigue and, of course, good looks.

Yet all of Marvel's phase three films and their tentative questioning of the underlying political ethos of the franchise feel like buildup for Black Panther, which in its second act comes very close to completely tearing down the Marvel Cinematic Universe en totale — and making viewers long for such a thing to happen.

It was also light years ahead of all film special effects that preceded it, and nothing came close to redefining the look of a «space movie» until the original Star Wars, a decade later.

The actors perform with multiple safety nets and the closest the film ever comes to taking a risk is having Freeman dance to a cover of Earth Wind & Fire's «September.»

Only two other distributors released more films last year, and they didn't come anywhere close to the same amount of critical acclaim.

In fact, at its best, Farscape is the TV show that has come the closest to matching the magic of the original Star Wars film.

And the studio was unable to launch a new superhero franchise in Green Lantern; though the film grossed nearly $ 220 million worldwide, that didn't come close to making it profitable.

What Turturro, who appears in the film as a combination tour guide and impresario, has come up with is closer to a fantasia than a traditional documentary.

Gallic, coming - of - age horror pic is too arty to be considered merely an exploitation film — but it's close.

The last similar one to come close was the Thai film The Legend of Suriyothai, but that one had better elephant battles.

Another underperformer was Martin Scorsese's Hugo, which hasn't come close to recouping its nearly $ 150 million budget, but even that failure is partially mitigated by the film's 11 Oscar nominations, which made it the most - nominated film of the year.

Direction is generally dully cold, but if it does resonate something, then it's typically a sheer sense of ambition that, I must admit, is pretty endearing, maybe not to where the film is saved, but decidedly to where the film comes close to being saved.

After the closing - night festivities — which, indeed, were pretty good, which is why this final report is coming in on a Monday — and the trip back to Chicago, I caught up with a couple of screeners of films available for press online.

Horror still reigns in Park City Extending a tradition that's already stretched from The Babadook and The Witch to Get Out, Sundance proved a dependable launching pad for standout horror: This year's Hereditary — a nightmarish supernatural grief drama starring an unhinged Toni Collette — was the one film that came closest to a consensus favorite (if by favorite, we mean a movie that thoroughly traumatized all audiences).

This kind of film is a relic in itself, although, quite unlike the old exhibits found in the film, this one never comes close to actually coming to life.

Jurassic World — $ 204 million [debut week] Box office experts predicted one summer film would come close to surpassing «Marvel's The Avengers» record $ 207 million opening, but few expected it to be «Jurassic World.»

Most of Pialat's films ran close to the 90 minute mark, but Van Gogh comes to an epic 158 minutes, and every second of it is earned.

Here's an entirely respectable film about Johnny Cash that begins in his childhood, proceeds into the Big Break, then segues from there into the euphoria of fame; the drug abuse and the groupies; the «Come to Jesus»; the rehabilitation; and the closing obituary.

The hotly anticipated project was slated to premiere during the closing night of the AFI Festival, however, Scott and the producers opted to pull the film after allegations against Spacey began to come to light in late October.

Together with her husband, CDC director Dr Peter Mann (Jeremy Northam) and an incredulous cop (Charles S. Dutton, the closest the film comes to comic relief), Susan investigates, at which point the film starts to successfully mimic Aliens, as Susan faces off against the giant creatures and the supporting cast (including a youthful - looking Josh Brolin) gradually get picked off.

If the film comes perilously close to being anti-art, it's because Bateman's directorial chops (or lack thereof) don't offer much of a counterargument, although he's given invaluable assistance this time around by the Coen Brothers» composer Carter Burwell and their sound designer, Skip Lievsay.

«The deeper color palette comes closer to matching the analogue colors of film and we've restored the original theatrical mixes for this release.

Summer 2014 is coming to a close, and on episode 2 of The Way Too Indiecast we take a look back at the best and worst movies of the summer as well as look ahead to our most anticipated films of the fall.

And the result is a mix of tones that works, with our review from the Venice Film Festival declaring that, «while the film flirts with a number of genres genres — melodrama, comedy, coming - of - age — it ultimately lands closest to being Green's first western by the time it reaches its conclusion.»

As far as animated film goes, nothing came close to touching Sylvain Chomet «Äôs follow - up to

The Independent's Anthony Quinn comes closer to my take on the film; he's a little more reserved in his admiration, but it's deep admiration nonetheless:

Annihilation, the upcoming film from Ex Machina director Alex Garland, is one of my most anticipated movies of 2018 — but audiences came close to not seeing it in its intended form.

It's no surprise that John Lee Hancock's «The Founder» has garnered comparisons to «The Social Network,» but while there are definitely similarities between the two films, the former doesn't even come close to rivaling David Fincher's Oscar - winning drama.

Once the set up is there, it's easy to see where it's all going, and consequently, the tempo never comes close to the fever pitch required to make this the thrilling action film it needs to be in order to truly entertain.

The sequel even managed to come quite close to the first film's highly impressive $ 34.1 million opening with $ 30.6 million of its own.

For most films coming anywhere close to The Last Jedi seems silly, but I think this will end up playing pretty well around Christmas time.

Audiences have come to expect a fair share of massive brass for important themes in Star Wars, but these subtle chords, combined with a sequence of Rey's day - to - day activities, marked the first moment in the film that showed fans that this film would give us incredible new characters that would get as close to our hearts as characters from the original films.

Very romantic film that has an easy premise, «an affair without attachments» and evokes a sense of longing that few films come close to.

BEST DOCUMENTARY: No factual film came close to Nick Broomfield's tragic profile WHITNEY CAN I BE ME for emotional impact, but Brad Abrahams» alien abductee oddity Love and Saucers, Jedd and Todd Wilder's heartbreaking mystery God Knows Where I Am and Roger Donaldson's Formula 1 biopic McLaren were standout performers in limited / festival release.

An unbelievably lengthy and self - indulgent epilogue - you can't call it a cut - scene, it's an entire film in its own right, and a deeply boring one too - is how Solid Snake's career comes to a close.