Sentences with phrase «first couple of films»

The franchise got off to a shaky start with its first couple of films because they couldn't find the right mix of brains and brawn.

While most film series seem to lose their luster after the first couple of films, the Star Wars series carries a great deal of energy, imagination, and interest throughout all six films, and still leaves me hungry for more.

She was a major character in the first couple of films, but was left on the cutting room floor when Days of Future Past hit cinemas.

Not exact matches

But first I want to make a success of this film, and hope people think it's worth giving me a shot at doing something else; we have a couple of projects we're looking at.

Scott: First, now they have four PR firms working on promoting this film for the next couple of weeks, but the initial marketer is Motive Entertainment, which is the same marketing company that promoted Passion of the Christ and Chronicles of Narnia; and the kind of pioneering approach that they instituted with Passion of the Christ was this viral marketing as they were doing with Expelled.

Now, a quarter of a century and two children later, they are back with «Loving Pablo,» their first film together as a real - life couple.

The first couple of times we saw My Darling Clementine on the late show we watched the beginning, fell asleep in the middle, woke up at the end, and thought we had sat through one of the best films we had ever seen.

The adversarial relationship between Nolte and Murphy, supposedly dissipated by the end of the first film, is revivified in the sequel via a couple of plot devices.

There should be a little more horror than a couple of shots in the first hour and then a few poorly filmed kill scenes at the end.

Most of the film's best moments come in this middle section, as we watch the couple deal with the strain and anxiety of deciding whose needs should be put first, and for how long.

While the first couple of Superman entries were something very entertaining and fun, this fourth film is basically an awful mess from start to finish.

The real value of the documentary from Douglas McGrath lies in charting Nichols» creative trajectory from the staging and improvisation lessons learned with comedy partner Elaine May, through collaborations with playwright Neil Simon on «Barefoot in the Park» and «The Odd Couple,» and the director's first two feature films, both legendary — «Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?»

To be fair, there are a couple of scenes that might make one jump, and the atmospheric build - up for the first half hour of the film is somewhat effective.

Local New York - based filmmaker Noah Baumbach has two new films coming out this year, the first being the wacky While We're Young about a couple growing older (see the trailer), and the other being Mistress America, a sort - of - sequel to his 2012 film Frances Ha.

I'm sure others are assuming the release date is for Deadpool 2, but Ryan Reynolds has a couple of films lined - up first which include the action flick Hitman's Bodyguard (currently about to shoot), voice work on Croods 2 and the Mars thriller Life.

A couple of days ago we finally got our first glimpse at the teaser for Alexandre Aja's new horror film Horns, which stars Daniel Radcliffe.

The film version of On Chesil Beach, penned by McEwan and helmed by first - timer Dominic Cooke, circumvents the problem by employing many, many flashbacks that further explore the couple's origins.

In the anthology 30 Years Of Terror, for example, we meet the Mackenzies, the old couple mentioned at the end of the first film when Laurie sends Lindsey and Tommy Doyle (the other kid she's babysitting) to their house for safetOf Terror, for example, we meet the Mackenzies, the old couple mentioned at the end of the first film when Laurie sends Lindsey and Tommy Doyle (the other kid she's babysitting) to their house for safetof the first film when Laurie sends Lindsey and Tommy Doyle (the other kid she's babysitting) to their house for safety.

At first, the studio dumped the $ 1.3 million film starring Robert De Niro into a couple of theaters and hoped to recoup at least some of its cost.

Watching this film a couple of times reveals additional humor you may have missed the first go around.

Thanks to Empire we got a couple of new stills for Edgar Wright's upcoming doomsday film, The World's End, which will finish out the unofficial «Blood and Ice Cream Trilogy» with Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz being the first of the series.

First time director, Sam Esmail, may not have picked especially uncharted territory for his directorial debut Comet, which focuses on the rocky relationship of an oddly paired couple, but his storytelling technique reflects the perspective of an enlightened and astute new addition to the film scene.

Over the last couple of days we've brought you some ourselves with clips coming via the film's viral campaign, now we've received a trio of new images; one specifically giving us the first look at Sharlto Copley's mysterious, main antagonist.

The film is based on the real - life relationship of Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani, focusing on how the couple first met and how a life - threatening...

This little shocker will most likely have viewers going for a while, from the first sight of the snuff film tapes to about the time that the couple finds a secret passage out of their room that may or may not be a legitimate means of escape.

The 2013 Sundance Film Festival recently announced a couple batches of films that will screen at the Fest in January, and today we've got some first images and synopses for a few films that will be playing in competition as...

A couple of hours after announcing that Terrence Malick's long - awaited Knight Of Cups will premiere at next month's Berlin Film Festival, FilmNation Entertainment has released the first trailer for the film, which showcases the reclusive director's unparalleled talent for getting actors to jump around, then stand really close to each other without making eye contacof hours after announcing that Terrence Malick's long - awaited Knight Of Cups will premiere at next month's Berlin Film Festival, FilmNation Entertainment has released the first trailer for the film, which showcases the reclusive director's unparalleled talent for getting actors to jump around, then stand really close to each other without making eye contacOf Cups will premiere at next month's Berlin Film Festival, FilmNation Entertainment has released the first trailer for the film, which showcases the reclusive director's unparalleled talent for getting actors to jump around, then stand really close to each other without making eye contact.

The film focuses on the blissfully newlywed couple John (Ward Horton) and Mia Gordon (Annabelle Wallis) who are eagerly awaiting the birth of their first child.

However he does admit that things were at the worst a couple of years ago, when Toronto decided to drop any films from the popular first half of its schedule that had premiered anywhere else — but now, he says, the ban is over and it is more relaxed, and there is now less competition between the three festivals.

Bruce Willis offered to pay for first - class tickets for the casting crew just to get a couple of lines for the film.

With the centenary of the First World War now up and running we can expect a plethora of films about that dreadful conflict to emerge over the next couple of years but Testament of Youth has set a very high bar indeed.

Now, these guys never disappoint... if memory serves... one movie that made me laugh EACH TIME as if it were the first I watched it, is BIG LEBOWSKI... that is what you call a GEM of a character... The scene where he incidentally looks at himself in a mirror designed to look like a TIME MAGAZINE cover made me have to pause the film and laugh for a couple of minutes at him in that thing.

A couple of hours after announcing that Terrence Malick's long - awaited Knight Of Cups will premiere at next month's Berlin Film Festival, FilmNation Entertainment has released the first trailer for the film, which showcases the reclusive director's unparalleled talent for getting actors to jump around, then stand.of hours after announcing that Terrence Malick's long - awaited Knight Of Cups will premiere at next month's Berlin Film Festival, FilmNation Entertainment has released the first trailer for the film, which showcases the reclusive director's unparalleled talent for getting actors to jump around, then stand.Of Cups will premiere at next month's Berlin Film Festival, FilmNation Entertainment has released the first trailer for the film, which showcases the reclusive director's unparalleled talent for getting actors to jump around, then stand...

Other titles in this section include: Naomi Kawase's sweet, light and leisurely AN; Tom Geens» COUPLE IN A HOLE, about a couple living in an underground forest dwelling to be left alone to deal with their mysterious grief; DEPARTURE, Andrew Steggall's delicate first feature about longing, loneliness and nostalgia for a sense of family that may have never existed; Jacques Audiard's Palme d'Or - winner about a makeshift family trying to cement their bonds, DHEEPAN; the World Premiere of Biyi Bandele's FIFTY, a riveting exploration of love and lust, power and rivalry and seduction and infidelity in Lagos; the European Premiere of Maya Newell's documentary GAYBY BABY, following the lives of four Australian children whose parents all happen to be gay; Mark Cousins returns to LFF with his metaphysical essay film I AM BELFAST, Stig Björkman's documentary INGRID BERGMAN — IN HER OWN WORDS, a treasure trove of Bergman's never - before - seen home movies, personal letters and diary extracts alongside archive footage; Hirokazu Kore - eda's beautiful OUR LITTLE SISTER, focusing on the lives of four young women related through their late father in provincial Japan; the European Premiere of Mabel Cheung's sweeping Chinese epic based on the true story of Jackie Chan's parents A TALE OF THREE CITIES and Guillaume Nicloux's VALLEY OF LOVE starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu in a tale of love, loss, memory and the mysCOUPLE IN A HOLE, about a couple living in an underground forest dwelling to be left alone to deal with their mysterious grief; DEPARTURE, Andrew Steggall's delicate first feature about longing, loneliness and nostalgia for a sense of family that may have never existed; Jacques Audiard's Palme d'Or - winner about a makeshift family trying to cement their bonds, DHEEPAN; the World Premiere of Biyi Bandele's FIFTY, a riveting exploration of love and lust, power and rivalry and seduction and infidelity in Lagos; the European Premiere of Maya Newell's documentary GAYBY BABY, following the lives of four Australian children whose parents all happen to be gay; Mark Cousins returns to LFF with his metaphysical essay film I AM BELFAST, Stig Björkman's documentary INGRID BERGMAN — IN HER OWN WORDS, a treasure trove of Bergman's never - before - seen home movies, personal letters and diary extracts alongside archive footage; Hirokazu Kore - eda's beautiful OUR LITTLE SISTER, focusing on the lives of four young women related through their late father in provincial Japan; the European Premiere of Mabel Cheung's sweeping Chinese epic based on the true story of Jackie Chan's parents A TALE OF THREE CITIES and Guillaume Nicloux's VALLEY OF LOVE starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu in a tale of love, loss, memory and the myscouple living in an underground forest dwelling to be left alone to deal with their mysterious grief; DEPARTURE, Andrew Steggall's delicate first feature about longing, loneliness and nostalgia for a sense of family that may have never existed; Jacques Audiard's Palme d'Or - winner about a makeshift family trying to cement their bonds, DHEEPAN; the World Premiere of Biyi Bandele's FIFTY, a riveting exploration of love and lust, power and rivalry and seduction and infidelity in Lagos; the European Premiere of Maya Newell's documentary GAYBY BABY, following the lives of four Australian children whose parents all happen to be gay; Mark Cousins returns to LFF with his metaphysical essay film I AM BELFAST, Stig Björkman's documentary INGRID BERGMAN — IN HER OWN WORDS, a treasure trove of Bergman's never - before - seen home movies, personal letters and diary extracts alongside archive footage; Hirokazu Kore - eda's beautiful OUR LITTLE SISTER, focusing on the lives of four young women related through their late father in provincial Japan; the European Premiere of Mabel Cheung's sweeping Chinese epic based on the true story of Jackie Chan's parents A TALE OF THREE CITIES and Guillaume Nicloux's VALLEY OF LOVE starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu in a tale of love, loss, memory and the mysticaof family that may have never existed; Jacques Audiard's Palme d'Or - winner about a makeshift family trying to cement their bonds, DHEEPAN; the World Premiere of Biyi Bandele's FIFTY, a riveting exploration of love and lust, power and rivalry and seduction and infidelity in Lagos; the European Premiere of Maya Newell's documentary GAYBY BABY, following the lives of four Australian children whose parents all happen to be gay; Mark Cousins returns to LFF with his metaphysical essay film I AM BELFAST, Stig Björkman's documentary INGRID BERGMAN — IN HER OWN WORDS, a treasure trove of Bergman's never - before - seen home movies, personal letters and diary extracts alongside archive footage; Hirokazu Kore - eda's beautiful OUR LITTLE SISTER, focusing on the lives of four young women related through their late father in provincial Japan; the European Premiere of Mabel Cheung's sweeping Chinese epic based on the true story of Jackie Chan's parents A TALE OF THREE CITIES and Guillaume Nicloux's VALLEY OF LOVE starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu in a tale of love, loss, memory and the mysticaof Biyi Bandele's FIFTY, a riveting exploration of love and lust, power and rivalry and seduction and infidelity in Lagos; the European Premiere of Maya Newell's documentary GAYBY BABY, following the lives of four Australian children whose parents all happen to be gay; Mark Cousins returns to LFF with his metaphysical essay film I AM BELFAST, Stig Björkman's documentary INGRID BERGMAN — IN HER OWN WORDS, a treasure trove of Bergman's never - before - seen home movies, personal letters and diary extracts alongside archive footage; Hirokazu Kore - eda's beautiful OUR LITTLE SISTER, focusing on the lives of four young women related through their late father in provincial Japan; the European Premiere of Mabel Cheung's sweeping Chinese epic based on the true story of Jackie Chan's parents A TALE OF THREE CITIES and Guillaume Nicloux's VALLEY OF LOVE starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu in a tale of love, loss, memory and the mysticaof love and lust, power and rivalry and seduction and infidelity in Lagos; the European Premiere of Maya Newell's documentary GAYBY BABY, following the lives of four Australian children whose parents all happen to be gay; Mark Cousins returns to LFF with his metaphysical essay film I AM BELFAST, Stig Björkman's documentary INGRID BERGMAN — IN HER OWN WORDS, a treasure trove of Bergman's never - before - seen home movies, personal letters and diary extracts alongside archive footage; Hirokazu Kore - eda's beautiful OUR LITTLE SISTER, focusing on the lives of four young women related through their late father in provincial Japan; the European Premiere of Mabel Cheung's sweeping Chinese epic based on the true story of Jackie Chan's parents A TALE OF THREE CITIES and Guillaume Nicloux's VALLEY OF LOVE starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu in a tale of love, loss, memory and the mysticaof Maya Newell's documentary GAYBY BABY, following the lives of four Australian children whose parents all happen to be gay; Mark Cousins returns to LFF with his metaphysical essay film I AM BELFAST, Stig Björkman's documentary INGRID BERGMAN — IN HER OWN WORDS, a treasure trove of Bergman's never - before - seen home movies, personal letters and diary extracts alongside archive footage; Hirokazu Kore - eda's beautiful OUR LITTLE SISTER, focusing on the lives of four young women related through their late father in provincial Japan; the European Premiere of Mabel Cheung's sweeping Chinese epic based on the true story of Jackie Chan's parents A TALE OF THREE CITIES and Guillaume Nicloux's VALLEY OF LOVE starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu in a tale of love, loss, memory and the mysticaof four Australian children whose parents all happen to be gay; Mark Cousins returns to LFF with his metaphysical essay film I AM BELFAST, Stig Björkman's documentary INGRID BERGMAN — IN HER OWN WORDS, a treasure trove of Bergman's never - before - seen home movies, personal letters and diary extracts alongside archive footage; Hirokazu Kore - eda's beautiful OUR LITTLE SISTER, focusing on the lives of four young women related through their late father in provincial Japan; the European Premiere of Mabel Cheung's sweeping Chinese epic based on the true story of Jackie Chan's parents A TALE OF THREE CITIES and Guillaume Nicloux's VALLEY OF LOVE starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu in a tale of love, loss, memory and the mysticaof Bergman's never - before - seen home movies, personal letters and diary extracts alongside archive footage; Hirokazu Kore - eda's beautiful OUR LITTLE SISTER, focusing on the lives of four young women related through their late father in provincial Japan; the European Premiere of Mabel Cheung's sweeping Chinese epic based on the true story of Jackie Chan's parents A TALE OF THREE CITIES and Guillaume Nicloux's VALLEY OF LOVE starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu in a tale of love, loss, memory and the mysticaof four young women related through their late father in provincial Japan; the European Premiere of Mabel Cheung's sweeping Chinese epic based on the true story of Jackie Chan's parents A TALE OF THREE CITIES and Guillaume Nicloux's VALLEY OF LOVE starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu in a tale of love, loss, memory and the mysticaof Mabel Cheung's sweeping Chinese epic based on the true story of Jackie Chan's parents A TALE OF THREE CITIES and Guillaume Nicloux's VALLEY OF LOVE starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu in a tale of love, loss, memory and the mysticaof Jackie Chan's parents A TALE OF THREE CITIES and Guillaume Nicloux's VALLEY OF LOVE starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu in a tale of love, loss, memory and the mysticaOF THREE CITIES and Guillaume Nicloux's VALLEY OF LOVE starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu in a tale of love, loss, memory and the mysticaOF LOVE starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu in a tale of love, loss, memory and the mysticaof love, loss, memory and the mystical.

Cap was starting from a place where he and the rest of the Avengers who sided with him in Civil War, they've been living underground for the past couple of years, so the start of the film, they aren't the first to the table because they've had to live like fugitives.

So, just minutes into the film, after revealing that she is pregnant, Deadpool / Wade Wilson's fiancée, Vanessa (Morena Baccarin), is shot and killed in the couple's apartment — a tragedy that first puts him into a suicidal tailspin and then sends him on a journey to find a different kind of family.

His gets a telemarketing job but struggles to make sells over the phone — in the first of many bizarre elements of the film, every time Cassius makes a call, his desk drops to the recipient's house; interrupting a couple having sex and even a man on the toilet.

10:15 pm — TCM — Kramer vs. Kramer Meryl Streep won her first Oscar for this film, as the female Kramer in the title, opposite Dustin Hoffman in a realistic look at a couple going through the pains of divorce — and the affects of that split on their young son.

There are a couple of twists that add much fun for the fans of the first two films, including a return appearance by a key member of Batman Begins.

Britain fared better, with my favourite sci - fi horror film in a long time, Glazer's Under the Skin, and my favourite entertainment film of the year, the conventional, but charming Pride, while the flawed Mr. Turner impressively reflects the great painter's sun worship through Dick Pope's widescreen cinematography.Highlights of my year included being on the FIPRESCI jury at the Hong Kong IFF, where I admired Yang Hen's third feature, Na pian hu shui (Lake August), and a couple of first features among others, as well as attending the amazing HK film market for the first time, where I saw one of my three 2014 «films for the ages», Tsai's Journey to the West; and seeing a nitrate print of Hitchcock's Rebecca at the George Eastman House in Rochester (where they are doing a three - day all - nitrate festival in May, 2015!).

After serving as a camera operator for a couple of years, he got his first American credit for cinematography on John Sayles» lovely coming - of - age story «Baby, It's You» (1983), giving the film a look that belied the film's relatively small budget.

The couple, who had gotten married in 2010 and had the first of their two children in 2011, had made a few films together, including 1992's «Jamón Jamón» — Bardem's first starring role, in which a teenaged Cruz also appeared — and Woody Allen's 2008 comedy «Vicky Cristina Barcelona,» for which Cruz won the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award a year after Bardem had won his own Best Supporting Actor Oscar for «No Country for Old Men.»

While trying to set up a couple of new original movies, including a WWII submarine thriller and a Blade Runner-esque sci - fi film called Mute, he was offered an opportunity to take on his first high - profile Hollywood flick: a sci - fi thriller called Source Code.

Hartley was encouraged by the success which he had a couple of years ago with his first Kickstarter campaign to finance the distribution for his film «Meanwhile.»

Before he went a bit silly, John Milius did direct a couple of fine films - the taut crime drama Dillinger, and then the sweeping historical adventure The Wind and the Lion, which tells the story of President Roosevelt (the first) sending in troops to rescue an American family taken hostage by a Moroccan chieftain played by Sean Connery.

I really enjoyed segments of the film and got nostalgic as the first couple of scenes unfolded, but when the duo started looking for Harry's long - lost daughter Penny (Rachael Melvin), I couldn't stop thinking about Mary Swanson, Sampson» ¦ Samsonite.

I could add a couple more: Anomalisa (Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson, 2015)-- the most original film I saw in 2015 La belle équipe (Julien Duvivier, 1936)-- a great film from this interesting and underrated director Die grosse Liebe (Otto Ludwig Preminger, 1931)-- Preminger's first film, a charming romance with a mother character that could have stepped out of a John Ford film; and does the revelation of Preminger's full name explain why Billy Wilder had a character in One, Two, Three (1961) called Otto Ludwig Piffel?

At the film's recent press day, McCarthy, Falcone, Sarandon, Gary Cole, Mark Duplass, Nat Faxon, Sarah Baker and Kathy Bates talked about how the project first emerged, what sparked the idea for the story, how growing up in Illinois informed McCarthy and Falcone's comedy, what the stellar cast brought to the movie, their characters and how improv colored them, working with a first - time director, Sarandon's new look, the convincing couple dynamic between Bates and Sandra Oh's characters, Sarandon's selfie with Geena Davis that went viral, and the possibility of a «Thelma & Louise» sequel.

Her TV movie This Little Life (2003) concerned a couple's struggles after the premature birth of their son; her first feature film was an adaptation of Monica Ali's novel Brick...

Marvel's Guardians Of The Galaxy are coming this way soon and to follow up on the very, very fun trailer released just a couple days back Marvel have now released the first poster for the film along with a series...