Sentences with phrase «films were in the past»

It used to actually mean something to see the Oscar - nominated names of Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel as the screenwriters of a comedy, writers of such modern - day classic comedies as A League of Their Own, Parenthood, City Slickers, Night Shift, and Splash, but most of those films were in their past, and they have turned in mostly mediocre material since 1992.

The thing we forget these days is how generally bad fantasy films were in the past.

Not exact matches

A short, anti-Nazi film titled «Don't Be A Sucker» has reemerged after this past weekend's deadly white - supremacist rallies in Charlottesville, Virginia.

It's not even the past» in Allen's 2011 film.

In fact, of those eight films, five of them have made less at the box office than Crash, which is currently the fifth - lowest grossing film of the past four decades (in terms of sales adjusted for inflationIn fact, of those eight films, five of them have made less at the box office than Crash, which is currently the fifth - lowest grossing film of the past four decades (in terms of sales adjusted for inflationin terms of sales adjusted for inflation).

And for every hit like «X-Men: Days of Future Past» there were flops like the raunchy western - comedy «A Million Ways to Die in the West» and Tom Cruise action film «Edge of Tomorrow.»

Affleck has shown he's capable of carrying a film in the past, but in this one he is the film.

The Clint Eastwood film, starring Bradley Cooper, made another $ 64 million over the past three days, setting its worldwide box office total at over $ 247 million after being wide - released in theaters for two weeks.

Only in the past few years have a large percentage of films been shot digitally, and shooting on celluloid is still alive and well.

Musk and Riley were together for a year after they remarried, but they have lived apart the past five months while Riley wrote and directed her first feature film, «Scottish Mussel,» in the United Kingdom.

This is Glenn Close and Steven Spielberg's only film together — but the actress had worked with star Robin Williams in the past (on the movie «The World According to Garp»).

I'm not filming sleep, nudity, watching movies, reading or checking social media feeds or private messages but basically everything else is getting rolled on so there may be scrutiny from others who might scrub through the archives and I judge me in the future for something that happened in the past.

Yes, he can intellectually understand the concept of the Gospel, but it's the emotional distance that he feels from his own terrible past and grace found in Christ that provide the film's real tension.

``... [the] gulf between the Church and the scientific mind... widens with each generation, and modern means of diffusing knowledge by the press, radio, and film, have brought us now to such a pass that the Christian, and especially the Catholic, whose beliefs are enriched in their religious manifestation by the ceremonies and practices of a most ancient past, finds himself considered the initiate of a recondite cult whose practices are not only unintelligible to men around him, but savour to them of superstition and magic.»

Although she's both written and co-directed on several acclaimed projects in the past, Gerwig had never taken over the reins of a film until Lady Bird.

Although she's both written and co-directed on several acclaimed projects in the past, Gerwig had never taken over the reins of a film until

The movie deals with faith, grief and doubt in a way that continues the «Jesus themes in other genres» trend that's been sliding into mainstream films over the past few years.

Disappointed that the suit was filed, Kasper added, «In the past Campus Crusade and Genesis Project have been able to resolve their differences over the film through negotiation.»

A shorter (83 - minute) video of the Heyman - produced film has been circulating widely in America for the past decade.

Although there's plenty of room for differing opinions in the Christian faith, this film is one more piece of evidence that wherever you land, believers can no longer sit on the sidelines when it comes to issues of race, civil rights and how we interpret our past.

Year in, year out, moreover, the popular heroes of our culture — athletes, musicians, entertainers, and film stars, the aristocracy of talent adored, emulated, and worshipped as only royalties were in the past — are now significantly black as well.

The film takes place in the mid 1990s, when Webb uncovered the CIA's past role in importing huge amounts of cocaine into the U.S. that was aggressively sold in ghettos across the country to raise money for the Nicaraguan Contras rebel army.

It is also true that the code has served in the past to restrain exhibition of films from producers not in the association.

What might have been claimed as an educational role of zoos in the past has been superseded by superb wildlife films such as those produced by Sir David Attenborough for the BBC.

They have come to be seen in secular society as holdovers from the past: conservative, patriarchal, out of touch with contemporary values and lifestyles - even an eccentricity, as appears innumerous film and television portrayals.

In these films, there's no need to see anything past the moment where the couple finally gets together, because getting together is the end of the story.

This site has been many things in the past - but today it's a place for me to share allergy - friendly recipes, quick and easy family meals, and whatever else I happen to capture on film.

She appeared in films like Wild and Obvious Child and did a multi-season arc on Girls, but the most prominent role she took in the past few decades has been on Transparent for the past three years.

As you all know, we've been embroiled in the process of a second adoption for the past year and it has been moving at roughly the speed of a Tarkovsky film.

Not to mention the imbalance between her career, now basically in the past tense, and his, which skyrocketed with his recent debut feature film, Snow White & the Huntsman, which she is clearly supportive of:

This past weekend at BlogHer, I was given the opportunity to see the film in advance.

These past few weeks haven't exactly been baby bliss with my little one feeling the full of effects of teething and to take out some of my frustrations I have decided to write down all things I hate about stupid f *** ing teething, in true 10 things I hate about you (best film ever?)

If they have demonstrated an interest in a particular genre and have viewed similar films in the past, they are more likely to be prepared for the moments that have contributed to the movie's rating.

Cuomo said there was a conflict in Vance leading the investigation because the state attorney general's office was probing the Manhattan DA's office over charges that Vance had not vigorously pursued past allegations against disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein.

The film, featuring interviews from experts and those in communities directly affected by flooding, explores how flood risk has been managed in the past and calls for authorities, organisations and communities to work together as the most effective method for flood prevention.

A long - standing 3M distributor, Spandex has been selling 3M window films for more than 25 years and in the past year has introduced new products as stock items, including Fasara Glass Finishes, Dichroic Glass Finishes and DI - NOC Architectural Finishes from 3M.

But if you can get past the overly - symbolic scenery and slightly dodgy accents, the portrayal of the tragic central relationship in this film is very moving.

Giving a little information about himself, he stated that he's a film director and a writer in England and have been directing for the past 7 years.

In Uptown Kingston, where Departures has been shooting for the past several weeks, filming has been accompanied by some low - level grumbling about everything from parking to pushy production assistants.

In the past couple of years, organic - inorganic hybrid perovskites have been solution - processed into thin films or bulk crystals for photovoltaic devices that have reached a 20 - percent power conversion efficiency.

What I've been doing the past few years is producing documentary films for science - based nonprofit organizations who are interested in promoting their science programs and things like that.

Amnesia is often used as a convenient plot device in films and TV, where people suddenly lose all memory of their names or the past lives.

An alternative hypothesis is that the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem may have changed over the past seven decades since the Herrera film was recorded, and can no longer support the abundance of Kemp's ridleys documented in the 1947 film.

You're holding onto the past, but jazz is about the future,» Legend says, in what is arguably the best line of the film.

«It's become more fashionable to be a geek in the past five or six years,» says Gough, citing the popularity of TV shows like The Big Bang Theory and the mainstream interest in the upcoming Star Trek film.

That's also true of the film as a whole, which is so elaborately plotted — crosscutting between past and future while keeping a good half - dozen subplots spinning in the air — as to seem more like a contraption than a movie.

Released on the sudden and unexplainable popularity of star Ashton Kutcher, the film is ultimately a realization that Terence Stamp, regardless of the great performances he has given in the past, will never be fully respected by Hollywood and given anything unworthy of his participation.

The plodding timeline of a film such as «Tulip Fever» — which was in the works for about 13 years before premiering this past summer — is much more typical than a turnaround of less than a year.

Older Joe (Bruce Willis, whom Gordon - Levitt has been somewhat awkwardly made to look like) has other plans in mind for the past and escapes his execution, beginning the film's grinding chase and giving us lots to wonder about in regard to theories of time travel and butterfly effect and all those other head - scratchers.

This is Blu - ray 3D done right, as it dismisses the «IN YOUR FACE» 3D gimmicks of the past and instead enhances the film by adding a layer of depth throughout.