Not exact matches
She didn't seem to care about losing her virginity to someone she barely knows (another way these
movies typically
frame young men), and there's a point when she asks her father (John Cena) why society makes such a big deal out
of virginity in the
first place.
The denouement is particularly interesting and although Schrader himself has stated that the closing «could be spliced to the
first frame, and the
movie started all over again» suggesting that what we've witnessed falls more into the damnation element
of Travis, there also exists a sequence that could arguably be claimed as redemptive which would leave Travis Bickle as on
of cinema's most intriguing (and contradictory) anti-hero's.
I felt the need to state that after my viewing
of The Killing
of a Sacred Deer, because this is a film that will truly make people not see another
movie for weeks or just simply turn it off after the very
first frame (I'm not exaggerating).
Where the
first movie, which begins with Tyler's character rejecting Speedman's proposal
of marriage, subtly positions the masked strangers as a warped reflection
of a nuclear family — a man in a suit, a sexualized «pinup girl,» and a cherub - faced baby doll — Prey at Night scores its
first killings with Kim Wilde's «Kids in America,» the equivalent
of having Bugs Bunny lean into the
frame with an arrow - shaped sign reading, «Get it?»
Some
of the lampooning is tacked - on like the non-idyllic portrayals
of LA and NY, but «Mother's Day» is
first and foremost a rabid exploitation
movie and it drips an unbearably sickening atmosphere (the supernatural Queenie freeze -
frame is a pulpy jump scare) which is the purpose
of these films.
First, they'll just be a couple
of cameos used as a
framing device, so that Professor X and Magneto are looking back at the events
of the new
movie.
Video introductions from Shyamalan preface four full -
frame deleted scenes — which, according to the cover art, «reveal clues to the
movie's twists and turns» — totalling 11 minutes, the longest
of which finds Brendan Gleeson giving his everything to a monologue that more than likely motivated him to accept the otherwise unmemorable role
of August Nicholson in the
first place.
A good chunk
of the Marvel
movie's opening weekend audience opted not to follow up for a second viewing this weekend since the
movie suffered a 56.4 % drop in ticket sales from its
first frame, but the massive turnout was still enough for Avengers: Infinity War to top its nearest competitor by almost $ 100 million.
But there were no real losers on the
first frame of the 2014 holiday
movie season.
From the very
first frames of Deadpool, the
movie announces its intent to take nothing seriously.
Ever since the release
of the
first trailer
of Avengers: Infinity War, diehard fans had been poring meticulously over every single
frame and still from the
movie, released via both official and unofficial channels, trying to figure out the main story beats
of the superhero ensemble film.
Though it's unclear if the men
framing Mills in this
movie are connected to the bad guys from the
first two films, the real draw
of «Taken 3» (other than the action,
of course) is its «Fugitive» - like storyline, which finally gives Liam Neeson a worthy co-star in Forest Whitaker.
Schrader — who is best known for his screenplays for Martin Scorsese, but has also written and directed
movies like American Gigolo, Mishima: A Life In Four Chapters, and Affliction — has never made anything as minimalist and contemplative as
First Reformed, a film
of empty spaces
framed in boxy Academy ratio.
That's a significantly higher
frame rate than Peter Jackson's experimental use
of 48 FPS for The Hobbit trilogy, and it sounds like the reaction to this format from the
first reviews
of the
movie is even more resistant than to that previous effort.
The philosophical
frame of the
first LEGO
Movie and the rapid - fire in - jokes from LEGO Batman are missing, letting the adults in the audience down.
It's a reputation that makes his
movies uniquely entertaining; because you know a perception - shattering twist is coming, anticipation is seeded ahead
of even the
first frame.
There would be no
movie,
of course, without an actor the stature
of Brendan Gleeson, who's stubbornly, messily alive, carrying Calvary from
first frame to its almost - last.
Peele's confident writing and direction is clear from the
first frame of the very funny socially - conscious horror
movie, which has the distinction
of being the
first February release nominated for Best Picture since 1991, when The Silence
of the Lambs took home Best Picture and four other Oscars.
The only
movie the sequel trails,
of course, is the
first Deadpool, which earned $ 132 million in its
first frame.
Co-directors Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman have put together a
movie that is the
first ever to be assembled entirely via oil paintings on canvas, with each
frame of the animated feature brought to life by the efforts
of 125 artists.
This is, from
first frame to last, a fully realized work
of action cinema, a
movie as visually arresting as it is emotionally stirring, one that could only be appreciated, in terms
of its visual accomplishment, on a big screen.
The 1978 original was the
first horror
movie I genuinely fell in love with — those elegant wide shots, that spine - tingling score, those autumn leaves twirling through
frame — and it was a staple
of my late - night
movie - watching ritual as a teenager.
Seductive Subversion includes Marisol's John Wayne sculpture, commissioned by Life magazine for an issue on
movies; the French sculptor, painter, and filmmaker Niki de Saint Phalle's eight - foot - tall Black Rosy, one of her «Nana» sculptures exploring the role of women; Rosalyn Drexler's oil and acrylic work Chubby Checker, inspired by the poster for the movie Twist around the Clock, and Home Movies, based on frames from old gangster movies; the Times Square — inspired Ampersand, a multilayered, stylized, and illuminated neon ampersand in a Plexiglas cube by Chryssa, one of the first artists to utilize neon in her work; and a seventeen - foot - long triptych by Idelle
movies; the French sculptor, painter, and filmmaker Niki de Saint Phalle's eight - foot - tall Black Rosy, one
of her «Nana» sculptures exploring the role
of women; Rosalyn Drexler's oil and acrylic work Chubby Checker, inspired by the poster for the
movie Twist around the Clock, and Home
Movies, based on frames from old gangster movies; the Times Square — inspired Ampersand, a multilayered, stylized, and illuminated neon ampersand in a Plexiglas cube by Chryssa, one of the first artists to utilize neon in her work; and a seventeen - foot - long triptych by Idelle
Movies, based on
frames from old gangster
movies; the Times Square — inspired Ampersand, a multilayered, stylized, and illuminated neon ampersand in a Plexiglas cube by Chryssa, one of the first artists to utilize neon in her work; and a seventeen - foot - long triptych by Idelle
movies; the Times Square — inspired Ampersand, a multilayered, stylized, and illuminated neon ampersand in a Plexiglas cube by Chryssa, one
of the
first artists to utilize neon in her work; and a seventeen - foot - long triptych by Idelle Weber.