Sentences with phrase «focus of the movie for»

The martial art fight scenes were the main focus of the movie for which Tony Leung studied Wing Chun.

Not exact matches

Regarding Disney's decision to end it movie - output deal with Netflix with 2019 releases, Sarandos said, «We just have to focus on creating content that our members can't live without... Whether or not one of our partners decides to produce for us or compete with us, that's really a choice that they have to make based on their own business.»

The movie, which focuses on the titular superhero who is king of the fictional African country of Wakanda, is forecasted to pull in as much as $ 165 million in domestic box - office gross for its debut over the four - day President's Day holiday weekend.

While Apple is known primarily for its focus on music, the fact that Schusser also has a background in tech acquisitions — such as Shazam — and will work part of the time in Culver City suggests that Shazam and movies could become a serious part of Apple's ambitions, as opposed to just bonus content for music lovers.

Epix's focus is to make sure that their movies will be widely available for consumers through a variety of platforms.»

Not pure pornographic sex, but the use of sexually attractive models for ads, men and women wearing provocative clothing who sing (or who can't sing, but no one cares), Songs and movies that portray sexual issues without the love that should be the focus, and so on.

This movie is MUCH better than «Smurfs and the Magic Flute,» the «80s Smurfs movie that for some reason featured no Mozart music and focused on two dudes named «Johann and Pee - Wee» instead of the magic blue elves we loved.

I thought that after the movie The Lion King, things would get better because the movie very much focused on life being a circle of birth, growth, maturing, flourishing, dying, and reuse of (body) substances for the next generation.

«Movie research results: Multitasking overloads the brain: The brain works most efficiently when it can focus on a single task for a longer period of time.»

For the purposes of this list, let's focus on movies that inspire us to get off the couch, move the coffee table, and get our bodies moving in order to fight gravity.

For some people, that first movie of Forks Over Knives which focuses on human health is all that people need.

The best that can be said for The Lizzie Maguire Movie is that it at least refrains from getting over its head in British politics, instead focusing on postcard versions of Rome.

In the end, this is again a very good horror comedy which needs to focus less on the main characters (lets face it, they are cliches and the interest of this whole movie is to the idea behind it) and more on the variety of monsters that were created for this film.

For my money, these movies peaked with Alfonso Cuaron's electrifying «Prisoner of Azkaban,» and although the five movies since then all have been either good or pretty good, they've never been as precisely focused on the people of the Potterverse.

While it's not a perfect film by any means — a lack of catchy musical numbers and a questionable shift of focus in the film's latter half knock Megamind down a few pegs — the lively cast and interesting flip on the superhero concept make it a fun time at the movies for viewers of all ages.

The Movie: The idea of George Clooney playing a (mostly) silent assassin holed up in the Italian countryside with gorgeous European women sounds like recipe for a solid dramatic experience, so why Focus Features is marketing «The American» as some sort of action thriller when in fact it's an arty European film, will throw some moviegoers off and just outright anger others.

Slow Focus has the sheen and seemingly high stakes of a blockbuster movie — and enough easy thrills to compensate for the stakes being, in reality, pretty low.

From Doris Kearns Goodwin's 2005 book «Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln» as adapted by Kushner and directed by Steven Spielberg, the movie «Lincoln» focuses on one principal activity, which was the president's role in convincing a sharply divided House of Representatives to vote for the Amendment already passed by the Senate because Lincoln's party had the numbers there.

But no movie can maintain that kind of momentum, and while the earlier scenes of Hook's frightened negotiation of streets which may harbour saviours or killers maintain a certain tension, the plot loses focus a little when he finds refuge in the flat of a former doctor and his daughter, and the story turns its attention to the political motivations behind the hunt for the fugitive by both the British army and the IRA.

A terrific depiction of the long - forgotten youth, it will crawl inside you and you don't have to be a Chinese to apply to what these dreams truly mean and focus on.The inches of respect and fervent ambition are but scaffolds for the proletarian class, most of the time their only way out from this bulk of stability.Yuanyuan is excellent in her role as the meek daughter and Xiaoshuai presents another great movie..

When Dictator focuses on the title character, it does quite well for itself, but the rest of the movie fares less well.

The film's release date - the Wednesday before Labor Day weekend, where movies go to die - is evidence that Focus Features is unconvinced there's much of a mainstream audience for The American.

I really really dislike the main character like he's actually in real life gonna get the girl of his dream, are you serious??? He has a crooked smile, wears pajamas all day outside of his house and talk's like a gay poet, I just think he sucks as an actor, uggh I don't know why I dislike him so much after this movie.On the other hand Rachel Bilson is very cute and not as bad of an actor This movie solely focuses on telling the story and making us like the characters for themselves.

Brian De Palma demonstrates the drawbacks of a film - school education by overexploiting every cornball trick of style in the book: slow motion, split screen long takes, and soft focus abound, all to no real point... He's an overachiever — which might not make for good movies, but at least he's seldom dull.

But Last Days works only when it deviates from this pattern, as it does in a hilarious scene depicting the rock star's friendly yet indifferent agreement to buy space in the yellow pages from a clueless door - to - door salesman (Thadeus A. Thomas, the movie's only perfectly cast actor), or when it focuses on other members of Blake's entourage, or when the camera retreats at a snail's pace from the mansion for what feels like eternity.

But while the movie's gorgeous visuals do a great job of portraying the distressed state of the town and its characters, Green fails to deliver a compelling story, instead opting for a non-linear narrative that lacks focus or coherency.

For a movie titled «Focus,» however, it doesn't take its own advice often enough, particularly in regards to the unbalanced structure of the story.

For another, it's not in the nature of movies to reflect the times so quickly: it took 15 years of development and rewriting as well as the invention of new technologies to make Benjamin Button possible, and although Milk came together with remarkable speed and focus under its producers Bruce Cohen and Dan Jinks, the idea of making a biopic about Harvey Milk, who was killed in 1978, has been around for so long that at one point, Dustin Hoffman, now 71, was touted to play the role that eventually went to Sean Penn (who is 4For another, it's not in the nature of movies to reflect the times so quickly: it took 15 years of development and rewriting as well as the invention of new technologies to make Benjamin Button possible, and although Milk came together with remarkable speed and focus under its producers Bruce Cohen and Dan Jinks, the idea of making a biopic about Harvey Milk, who was killed in 1978, has been around for so long that at one point, Dustin Hoffman, now 71, was touted to play the role that eventually went to Sean Penn (who is 4for so long that at one point, Dustin Hoffman, now 71, was touted to play the role that eventually went to Sean Penn (who is 48).

The latest featurette for the movie focuses on the character of Mirena (Sarah Gadon) and her relationship with her husband, Vlad.

In keeping with the popular social media trend of «Throwback Thursday» (#TBT), we will from time to time take a moment to focus on the classic trailers, posters, and promotional items from some of our favorite Halloween - themed movies, TV shows, and more, continuing today with a flashback viewing of the original trailer for the sixth film in the Halloween franchise, originally titled Halloween 666: The Origin of Michael Myers (1995).

Along for the Ride This intermittently interesting documentary about Dennis Hopper focuses on the ruinous effects on his career of making «The Last Movie» in 1971.

The $ 8.3 million it opened with marks the worst opening of the prolific directing career of Perry, who is getting out of the movie biz for now to focus on his TV work with Oprah Winfrey «s OWN Network.

As for extras, this BD contains a wealth of next - gen - exclusive «focus points» you can access either individually or via a «white - rabbit» feature, whereby a gold disc icon encourages a jump to a relevant making - of segment at various intervals throughout the movie proper.

Where Austin Powers poked fun at the James Bond movies» familiar tropes and old - fashioned misogyny by imitating them to exaggerated levels, Spy's female focus allows for a different and more knowing kind of parody, while also giving McCarthy her most nuanced role to date.

The movie focuses on the latter for plot, but it's the cold fusion of the two that makes Loveless such a devastating tragedy because it extends the blast radius from personal ground zero, to universal, post-Nietzchean shock wave: God is dead, all over again.

The movie's shambling, episodic structure ensures that certain sequences fare much better than others, and it's ultimately clear that Nebraska is at its best when focused on the father / son dynamic between Dern and Forte's respective characters - with the heartfelt authenticity of such moments generally compensating for the movie's various deficiencies.

It's here that the movie spends most of its time and focus, charting the personal foibles and back stories of its young charges (the neurotic, the hottie working her way through med school by stripping, et al) by bouncing them off one another in randy and / or otherwise charged fashion, all while also still allowing for some showcase fun from Thomas» considerable roster of friends, including Dave Foley, Matt Frewer, Saul Rubinek and Maury Chaykin.

Like Jolie, the writers also do a good job of compartmentalizing each piece of the story so that it feels like a fresh chapter with renewed interest, while also keeping the focus on the emotional / spiritual arc of Louis as a consistent throughline, so that the movie's climax (which is much more metaphoric and spiritual than literal) has significant impact and satisfies in an iconic and moving way that is hard for any film to pull off.

Albert Brooks may have been a bit too strong for the film - he stole his scenes to the extent that he pulled focus away from the rest of the movie.

Based on historical accounts of the religious persecution endured by members of the Mormon Church in 19th century America, this movie focuses on the fictional Steed family and the trials of faith they encounter as they seek for a place to build their Zion.

For example, Garrel casts his own father and son in his movies; in his lovely Summer Hours, Assayas traces the fortunes of a family at the point of dispersal; and Desplechin focuses relentlessly on family dynamics, from his first film, La vie des morts, up through The Sentinel, My Sex Life... or How I Got into an Argument (where the collegial circle becomes a second, substitute family), Esther Kahn, Kings and Queen, and now A Christmas Tale.

Outstanding Achievement for Production Design in an Animated Feature Production Mr. Peabody & Sherman, DreamWorks Animation David James, Ruben Perez, Priscilla Wong, Timothy Lamb & Alexandre Puvilland Song of the Sea, GKIDS / Cartoon Saloon Adrien Merigeau The Book of Life, Reel FX Simon Varela & Paul Sullivan The Boxtrolls, Focus Features / Laika Paul Lasaine, Tom McClure & August Hall The LEGO Movie, Warner Bros..

Things look like they're setting up for an epic opening battle, the kind we've seen in most of the MCU movies, but right as the tension rises and their behemoth alien opposition arrives to the party, the focus instead narrows in on little Baby Groot, who kicks on the tunes and starts grooving.

Outstanding Achievement for Directing in an Animated Feature Production Big Hero 6, Walt Disney Animation Studios Don Hall & Chris Williams Cheatin», Plymptoons Studio Bill Plympton How to Train Your Dragon 2, DreamWorks Animation Dean DeBlois Song of the Sea, GKIDS / Cartoon Saloon Tomm Moore The Book of Life, Reel FX Jorge R. Gutierrez The Boxtrolls, Focus Features / Laika Anthony Stacchi & Graham Annable The LEGO Movie, Warner Bros..

The toxic masculinity of military culture is touched on, making the viewer wish for a movie that focused more completely on the hazards of that mindset.

Regardless of the danger or crudity how in the hell can a movie (stop reading if you are eating) show a guy make his own yellow sno - cone (you know what I mean), consume said sno - cone and then regurgitate said sno - cone and only get an «R» — while Paul Schrader has to pixelize grainy video footage before he can get an «R» for «Auto Focus»?

Still, what could easily become your grandmother's favorite movie of the year at least gives its star, 21 - year - old Saoirse Ronan (Best Supporting Actress Oscar - nominee for 2007's «Atonement»), a chance to show off her native lilt and alluring azure eyes while shining in an immigrant saga that focuses on the fate of an ambitious plucky career girl.

The problem is that the movie becomes more focused on diagnosis than character, and so what eventually unfolds is a meandering picture that only too late in the game leans toward highlighting any kind of thematic undercurrent while introducing romantic interests for the leads that do little but pad out an already too long running time.

Focusing on the first pregnant woman on Earth after two decades of global human infertility, it's a fiercely political and grim movie, but also one unafraid to be playful (the Pink Floyd homage, for example, or Michael Caine rocking out to Aphex Twin), miraculously remaining thrilling, funny and moving in equal measure throughout.

Earlier today we brought you a trailer for LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2 [watch it here], and now we've got a trailer for another of Warner Bros., TT Games and The LEGO Group's upcoming titles in The LEGO Ninjago Movie Video Game, which focusses on combat and upgrades.