Sentences with phrase «films these days seem»

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Sure, there's still crime - fighting and high - tech gear, as in any superhero film these days, but focusing on Parker's vulnerability, and creating a relatable coming - of - age story, seems to be what makes this Spider - Man special.

It's difficult to critique this in a spoiler - free way, but to use the example of A New Hope, while the Death Star was a looming, terrifying presence throughout, the big threat to our heroes in this film seems to appear quite late in the day, and seems more important as a plot device to bring key characters together than a genuinely gripping menace.

In the film Toback, who has known the fighter for 23 years, intersperses footage from the days when Tyson seemed scared of nothing with clips from an emotional interview done while Tyson was undergoing drug and alcohol treatment last year.

Toro Rosso seems to be pretty organised as the team's 2017 car, the STR12, has already passed crash tests and looks set to run at a filming day before testing.

I had to film a 15 minute workout each day, which I started doing in December (when I set out to do this, I was like, no problemo... but sticking to something daily is harder than it seems!).

Anne Hathaway feigns a British accent in her new film, One Day, so it seemed only fitting that she chose to wear an offering from a British fashion house to the New York City premiere.

One day, David is mistaken for a well - known film director, and discovers people, especially women, seem a great deal more friendly toward him when they think he works in the movies.

Well, they are right in that regard, which seems to be the real point of the film in the end, as these are people who live from day to day without much to look forward to except to go to work and drink all night, then do it all again the next day.

The films» rampaging innocence and invention seem worlds apart in quality from most of what passes these days as family entertainment.

It seems rare these days that a film can be exciting, smart, and even wring deserved tears from the audience.

Unlike the workaholic Karloff, Orlock wants to retire from films, noting that his movies seem inconsequential in light of the real - life horrors occurring every day.

«Django Unchained» took over 130 days to film, and it seems as though all of that film wound up on screen.

While most films these days are about nothing, this film seems to be about everything that's plaguing the human spirit in a relentlessly globalizing world.

So it seems appropriate that it's the day that two new pieces of casting for Nolan's latest film, Interstellar, broke into the wider world.

Nichey as voiceovers are (and let's ignore the fact that most trailers forgo narration these days), the story seems to resonate with our vision of the sexist live - action film and television business, one that Bell has been a part of since a couple of 2002 «ER» episodes.

Without the emotional gut punch that seemed to come in every frame of Mungiu's masterpiece 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days, this picture truly opens up on multiple viewings, and with its eyes set to the heavens, the film seems Hell bent on questioning their existence entirely.

A nice change - of - pace from the kind of hip cynicism that seems to infuse even the most genial of Hollywood family films these days.»

«Feel - good films seem the order of the day,» Professor Sharrett says.

And it seems the production team isn't wasting any time, as they started filming the 10 - minute movie just one day after the exciting news was announced.

While we wait for answer, it seems Jason Reitman is a fan, casting actor Tom Lipinski in his upcoming film «Labor Day.»

«The movie spends so much time fellating its bogus hero, were it about an actual person Patriots Day would seem like a North Korean propaganda film.

Not only is Netflix's reimagined «One Day at a Time» a joy to watch, it's also the first time in many years that a multicamera sitcom (the kind filmed on a set with studio - audience laughter) has seemed so instinctively comfortable in its own skin.

«It seemed like a fun idea this year to do a special sketch based on one of my films, since Red Nose Day is now in both the U.K. and America.»

Meanwhile, if rumours are to be believed, it seems that the film may be going by the title Cloverfield Station, with the websites CloverfieldStation.com and CloverfieldStationmovie.com and associated Facebook and Twitter pages springing up over the past few days.

Too often the film seems concerned with communicating what happened during those fateful August days instead of why they happened.

The concept of the film sounds pretty fun and with Steven Spielberg directing it, this seems as pretty close to a safe bet as we can get these days.

If it seems like Dwayne Johnson is attached to a new film almost every other day, that's probably because he is.

In a world that seems to devalue life a little more every day, this film proves inspirational.

With Disney planning a Star Wars film a year, it seems the good old days of having to wait years between cinematic instalments are well and truly over.

Days of Heaven is, of course, exactly that, and Malick's film now seems like a peak moment in a tendency that began with Coppola's Godfather films and Chinatown and saw its final flowering with Ragtime, True Confessions, and Leone's Once Upon a Time in America, where nostalgia reaches a frozen end point.

This latest film may actually have as much in common with Cast Away as it does with any of the space - based films, and while many movies these days seem to be advertisements for Apple, this one is owed a debt by the duct tape company.

Cameras have been rolling for a good while on Marvel's still - untitled Avengers 4, with reports and leaked set photos seeming to confirm the film will travel back to the early days of Earth's Mightiest Heroes.

Daniel Day - Lewis is being a bit enigmatic when he says Paul Thomas Anderson's Phantom Thread shall be his exit from acting, especially as he mysteriously seems to be blaming the apparently disturbing experience of making the film as Exhibit A for his thespian finale.

It was the very first film of Venice, and the festival seemed to open on such a high that the worry was that everything else over the next ten days would end up paling in comparison.

The film opens on what seems like an ordinary day for fun - loving roommates Cowboy and Indian, but it's actually June 21st, which is their housemate Horse's birthday.

It was three years before Day - Lewis would appear in another film, having collapsed onstage during «Hamlet» after claiming to have seen the ghost of his father (poet Cecil Day - Lewis); what seemed like an atypically long break for an Oscar - winner became a harbinger of things to come, but that absence also informs his work in Michael Mann's «The Last of the Mohicans.»

We tweeted not long after the screening that it was» an interesting failure,» but after a few days to ponder, it seemed to become more satisfying in retrospect, and it lingered in the memory long after more immediately rewarding films.

And then, over the next few hours, days, and even weeks, it becomes apparent that Glazer's film has embedded itself in you like a parasite, making it difficult to do anything but process, unpack and puzzle over «Under The Skin,» a film that seems to have penetrated every pore of you.

He's a perfect Michael Mann hero, in other words — a master at what he does with a hidden romantic side, and Day - Lewis» the quietness of Day - Lewis» performance makes his few stirring speeches (his offered self - sacrifice, the famous «I will find you» to Cora in front of the waterfall) all the more potent because Day - Lewis» face and neck seem to be summoning up all of the energy he's kept conserved in his body throughout the rest of the film.

The long Labor Day holiday weekend is upon us, and between that and the Venice and Telluride film festivals, it seems like a lot of Hollywood has shut down in anticipation of the last relaxing days of summer.

On the surface the film seems to follow in the footsteps of Happy Death Day in trying to put a new spin on Groundhog's Day.

The film had already premiered to poor reviews days earlier at the Venice Film Festival, and Toronto audiences seemed equally unimpressed.

I do understand why this movie bombed at the box office because it's seems to remind people about Independence Day but it was still a good film and I liked the chemistry between Channing Tatum & Jamie Foxx the were so funny.

We can only hope that one day they release the full cut of the film to properly see if those missing scenes will turn this mediocrity into the quality film it seems to be.

Despite Shrek Forever After seeming to put a cap on the ogre's fairy tale - spoofing stories, you knew DreamWorks Animation would one day return to the well for a new film.

Perhaps the strongest element of Gothika is the terrific performance by Halle Berry (X2, Die Another Day), who actually makes this bad film seem worth watching at times.

The release of The Kite Runner was held over into the New Year after originally being slated for Boxing Day, and for once this decision seems sound — competition for attention among the major releases may have meant this remarkably moving film was overlooked by most of those who hadn't read the Khaled Hosseini novel.

Inglourious Basterds is really well written but I can't imagine the wide support it'd need to win, (500) Days of Summer might seem too slight of a film even though it is wonderfully written, and the Coen's just won a ton of Oscars for No Country for Old Men which I'm sure will hurt their chances.

The farm scenes in particular (the poor city is reduced to only a few locations (that look like sets actually) and seems much smaller than the town in Sunrise are really stunning: much of the film feels like Days Of Heaven was the film Murnau actually wanted to make (same location: wheat field in the upper midwest, attacked by a natural disaster, though Murnau doesn't appear to have the budget for his hailstorm whereas Malick could afford locusts).

Every week, no, nearly every other day, does it seem like the news churns out for The Batman, and the latest is the possibility that the film's new course could sail without the villain -LSB-...]