Sentences with phrase «films go head»

The Cannes Film Festival is one of the world's leading celebrations of film, in which roughly 20 films go head to head each year to compete for the prestigious Palme d'Or.

Two big festival films go head to head this weekend in limited release.

With Avengers: Infinity War still obliterating virtually everything before it at the box office, the producers of Deadpool 2 can be forgiven a collective gulp as their film goes head to head, superhero v superhero, with a genuine cinematic behemoth.

Not exact matches

Opening weekend is critical to the success of the film, so if you're eager to support Don and Steve and all the work that went into this film, grab a group of friends and head to the theater!

Questions which the body politic or the academic world are unwilling to confront head - on are often dealt with through the medium of, say, science fiction: think of the Matrix films, or a novel such as Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go.

Why can't I have a bounty on my head?!? Where am I going to get the money and resources to make a film that mocks the profit Mo» Ham, Bud?

I wasn't patient enough to raise money before starting, once I got the idea in my head that we were going to shoot the film, I was dying to get started.

«As far as the rest of the ninja film goes I think we're headed toward a brokered convention.»

So I go there to the banana farm and film the gorillas and get whacked over the head by a big silver - backed gorilla and everyone wins.

Before going all - out glam at Cannes opening night, the amped up the sex appeal at a photocall for her film Puss in Boots, wearing head - to - toe, traffic - stopping Gucci.

If Harrison Ford had listened to the advice of studio heads early in his career, he would have remained a carpenter and never gone on to star in some of Hollywood's biggest films and become one of the industry's most bankable stars.

As the film goes, they hit the nail right on the head, but when you have all these suspects, and so much back story, squeezed into an hour and a half, it can become extremely confusing for audiences unfamiliar with the case.

The film comes to an emotional head when N.J. goes to Japan to seal a deal with Ota, while both business and family matters completely fall apart in Taiwan.

Also this film is much more brutal than the first film, since we get much more decapitations, impalements, arrows going through heads, its so violently entertaining to watch, even if it is annoying to me on how perfect (and very CG) Legolas is during the whole Orc battle.

Whether you're wondering around the wilderness, enjoying the melodies from a bard in an inn, casually strutting about town, or going head to head with a dragon; the music and sound effects add to the immersion in the same way they do in a Lord of the Rings or Star Wars film.

The film is based on the true story of Ron Stallworth, an African - American police officer who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan, even going as far to become head of the local chapter.

The film starts with the clever line, «Did you ever look at someone and wonder, what is going on inside their head?»

Though just nine years ago, it's hard to imagine at time when five or six superhero films weren't going head - to - head in one calendar year.

I think this is a film that will go either way with audiences, I think some will find this film to be an instant classic while others will scratch their heads and ask themselves «why was that even made?»

If you're going to make a crime pic with all the trimmings (the hooker with the heart of gold, the car chase, the mug - headed villain) you better make the stakes count — but both these films fizzle when it matters.

Wright, who portrays T'Challa's sister and all around - genius, Shuri, spoke to the LA Times about where Shuri is heading going forward and her character's special relationship with the film's titular hero:

As the film started to elicit gasps Ramsay started to relax — the 2000 - person theater eventually breaking into a seven - minute standing ovation at the film's end — she had found a way not only to capture that storm of explosions going on in Joe's head, she had found a way to engage an audience in his story.

These themes will no doubt go over the heads of the younger kids watching the film.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is heading towards its second weekend of release, and Paramount is still promoting the film with hopes of some repeat business as the movie goes up against Guardians of the Galaxy once again, as well as new release The Expendables 3.

Davies (Dominic Purcell), often referred to as the Welshmen in the film, is enjoyable to watch but unbelievably clumsy for someone who is supposed to be successfully going head - to - head with SAS agents.

Since there always seems to be more going on in the head of the film's director than in the head of the man playing Andrei, the system did not work for me.

Complete with jabs at social - media marketing, this is one of the film's few extended jokes likely to go over the collective heads of very young auds, but it's the kind of absurdly exaggerated everyday detail — complete with the repurposing of familiar gadgetry — on which Aardman's comic brand is built.

The movie could be summarized as «Rosemary's Baby if Rosemary were the head of the cult,» but while Roman Polanski's 1968 masterpiece is a rich, nuanced film that works (and disturbs) on multiple levels, Hungry Hearts never goes any further than preying on some pretty basic fears.

I respect his artistic decision to go in that direction, but that makes it difficult for the casual viewer and even for the serious film buff to recognize all of the out - of - sight artistic talking heads from novelist Italo Calvino to screenwriter Tullio Pinelli.

Another reporter asked Kaufman if he thought this film would have broader appeal, and she suggests that his other films went over the heads of most moviegoers.

What follows is a series of increasingly insane events that take suspension of disbelief to impossible extremes and leave you stupefied wondering when this stopped becoming a film that aimed for a prescient vision of where our reliance on technology was headed and became a corny after school special from the»80s warning us of a future that's never going to happen.

Two films currently enrolled in Filmmaker360's project development program will go head to head in the U.S. documentary competition.

There's a poeticism to some of Cody's writing that may go unnoticed if you don't already know where the film is headed, thematically — which is maybe an accidental irony, that this movie partly about nostalgia should be that much more affecting in a revisiting.

While there's a sense that Hoffman could do this kind of thing in his sleep, there's a masterful specificity to his performance — you can see it in the sad little shuffle he does when he tries to run (like it ever matters where Harold is going or how fast he gets there), and even in the way his unwashed gray hair clumps together when he's hospitalized for the head injury that brings his kids together and defines the second half of the film.

When Zero's backstory is given time to be explained, the film looks to be heading in the direction of full - on drama but thanks to the strength of the screenplay and the awareness of Anderson, we never quite go there.

That suggests a lot of people are eager to watch Chadwick Boseman's T'Challa go head to head with Michael B. Jordan's Killmonger, and when you add watching Danai Gurira do literally anything to that equation, it's not surprising the film is stoking anticipation.

«Logan» shares more than just an action style with George Miller's film for it too becomes a road movie when Logan, Professor X, and a mysterious girl (Dafne Keen) head out to try and find «Eden,» a place where escaped mutants are going to start over, which may or may not even exist.

Crowe the told a story about Gosling's ability to be funny and go off - script to try to make Crowe laugh and lose his way: «We blocked off a section of Sunset Boulevard and it was a very simple shot... But Ryan is just not on the script, he's just jamming off some idea that's in his head about German spank films and I'm just falling apart in the car laughing and he goes into that pseudo-German he does with such conviction... and Joel is screaming «Not tonight guys, not tonight!»

«I could bang my head against a wall about why [my next film] wasn't bigger, or I could take that energy and feel it's not going either forward or backward.

Lady Macbeth is the main head behind the business that goes on, and her casting, more so than the man himself, is crucial to the overall success of the this film.

The cast is what helps to make it work, from Meryl Streep chewing the scenery like it's going out of fashion as the unhinged, cancer - stricken, pill - popping head of the family and the aforementioned Roberts (both of whom have received an Oscar nomination for their respective performances) to the likes of Benedict Cumberbatch, Chris Cooper and Margo Martindale who all feel very much perfectly cast when casting is so important for a film like this.

We see Tommy go through endless re-takes involving only a few lines of dialogue, an awkwardly staged sex scene, a scene that has no significance to the rest of the film, and a suicide in which the actor writhes on the floor in pain after shooting himself in the head.

The film's surreal humour delivered in deadpan dialogue might go over some people's heads, especially when blended with the moments of extreme violence.

Although Coppola said she isn't so sure there's a difference between the male and the female looking through the camera when it comes to making movies, the writer - director said watching Siegel's film left her scratching her head — and determined to go back to the book.

Many buffs got understandably excited when it was revealed that Christian Bale was heading the Salvation cast, but if he thought this film was going to be quality then his judgement was sorely lacking.

The film opens with its title character (Christopher Abbott, shedding anything that would associate him with his role on HBO's Girls) going out clubbing before heading off to a memorial service for his recently deceased father.

It's a sharp, sandpapery characterization in a film that otherwise doesn't go in for overly complex analysis, particularly in a finale geared primarily toward placing panicked hearts in mouths, and generally letting the head slide a bit.

This film is pretty much good for everyone even if the material goes over some of the audience members heads.

When it came to making the film, Landesman goes on to say that he made a point to shoot a lot of close - ups of Neeson's eyes, as a large part of Neeson's performance relies on the actor silently turning things over in his head.

Two of modern comedy's heavyweights, Will Ferrell and Zak Galifianakis, will go head to head in the forthcoming satirical comedy, THE CAMPAIGN, and we now have two new promotional campaign posters to add to the trailer and film poster.