Sentences with phrase «going against the film»

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All of the films also have the unenviable task of going up against Croods 2 — an animated film that features the voice of box office competition - crusher Nic Cage...

I think in cling film in a plastic bag and in the fridge, then warm them in the oven tmw — but putting bread goes against the brain / grain — only time I've put bread in the fridge was when living in the middle east because it used to get moldy too fast otherwise.

Go here and watch game film on him: http://draftbreakdown.com/category/defensive-tackle-2018/vita-vea/ He had a great game against Washington State, but the rest of the time he was consistently neutralized by double teams and often just one blocker.

In fact Smudger, who scored the opening goal against Liverpool in the final game of the season in 1989 that gave Arsenal our most dramatic title win ever and inspired the book and film Fever Pitch, thinks that the resilience the current team showed at the Britannia Stadium proves that this squad is capable of going all the way and adding another title to our history of major honours.

Home Delivery — This film documents the lives of three women in New York, who for very different reasons have decided to go up against social trends and take the birth of their children into their own handsâ $ ¦ and homes.

It still has really unique prints including some new ones like the adorable «Sprinkles» print, which excited me so much that I went against all my best maternal instincts and let my one year old chow down on a half dozen donuts while I filmed her for the video review.

New York Rep. Adriano Espaillat filed an official grievance through the state court system against a man who was filmed this week going on a racially charged rant in a Midtown Manhattan lunch market.

The film also shows the extraordinary way in which Egyptian anti-war activists were heartened and inspired by the global demonstrations against the war, and went on to mount a protest on the outbreak of war that would prove to be a turning point in the Egyptian democracy movement in the long march towards their revolution in 2011.

Already at least seven people have been killed and scores more injured or arrested during protests against an anti-Muslim film which has gone viral on the internet.

In the film «The Godfather,» Vito Corleone explains to a fellow gangster that the politicians on his payroll would turn against him if he went into the narcotics business and got out of gambling, «which they regard as a harmless vice.»

He's argued against targeted tax cuts, like those going to the film industry (which Cuomo continues to champion).

Physicists had to design computer simulations, tested against those mid-century analyses, to «predict what would happen if a weapon went off,» says Greg Spriggs, a nuclear weapon physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, who is leading the project to scan and declassify the films.

What happens in «Gigli» goes thoroughly against the mobster - film ethos.

With the fan expectations, the iconic nature of the original material, and the development hell that lasted more than a decade, the film just had too much going against it.

The film could have easily played out as a conventional redemption story for Joe, but it avoids going that route and recognizes that its protagonist's history of violence - both against others and himself - is complicated and can not be simply reconciled.

First the 3D against my initial pre-conceptions was excellent the best 3D i've ever seen in a film and is by a huge margin the best thing the film has going for itself.

Spicing up the obligatory deck of title cards that films like these invariably require for context — there's this new country called Israel, and the Palestinians are super pissed at them, and now everyone is going to stop being polite and start getting real — Padilha frames the introductory text against a rapturous performance by the Batsheva Dance Company.

This film reminds us that classic films of years - gone - by can hold their own against today's «blockbusters» if treated with care.

Unfortunately in this current political climate this film was always gonna be up against it, the moment the movie was announced you could literally hear the social justice warriors sharpening their knives.

While its style deserves to be called stunningly original and rapturously beautiful, the film is boldest in its artistic and philosophical implications, which pointedly go against many dominant trends of the last half - century.

The only things thing film has going for it is the effects, which actually work against the story sometimes.

As the first film had a pretty terrifying thing going on, this second offering really goes against what the previous film established and plays out more like a comedy horror film.

On the Female Actor side is Kristen Wiig's soap parody, The Spoils Before Dying is going up against Nicole Kidman's film - to - TV flop Grace of Monaco and Susan Sarandon's supporting role in The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe.

Nevertheless, they do add a sense of the human suffering going on and emphasize the real message of the film: The power of the one to stand against the many.

Having gone from globetrotting Bond - ish adventure to Michael Mann crime film, Nolan switches genres again into a Dickensian, dystopian epic, as Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) comes out of retirement, aided and abetted by Selina Kyle (an excellent Anne Hathaway), to face off against the mysterious terrorist, Bane.

And so, while Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water leads the pack with 12 nominations, it's helped by a superb Sally Hawkins, who's up for Best Actress, and is going up against Call Me By Your Name, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri — nine nominations and directed by our own Martin McDonagh — Winston Churchill drama Darkest Hour and Christopher Nolan's bold war film, Dunkirk.

So I decided, since I go to so many movies nowadays that for once I'll go against my instincts and take my younger brother out to see this new Street Fighter film — Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun - Li.

The ending went completely against the tone of the rest of the film, and to have that cheezy ending after all that intense violence and realism made the film feel like a sham.

Depicted in the film's new full - length trailer, these phantom predators are also showcased in concept art unveiled by AMC Theatres, alongside the haunting words, «The dead have taken command of the sea...» We knew Johnny Depp's Jack Sparrow was going up against his old rival Captain Salazar (Javier Bardem) and his crew of ghost pirates, but ghost sharks?

It'll be with us on 1 June, 2018, a switch from the first film's February arrival, but A) Fox figures the Merc With A Mouth is ready to go up against the crowded summer competition and B) with shooting starting in the coming months, it couldn't conceivably be ready for next Feb..

The period film, which casts Josh Brolin and Ryan Gosling as cops going against Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) for control of Los Angeles, has a great cast and period setting.

I like focused biopics that don't feel they need to go from cradle to grave, but the focus here gives the film a bit of unearned hero worship, as we see LBJ hold the country together after tragedy and fight for civil rights against caricaturish opponents.

This isn't the first time that the actor has gone against the grain in recent years, but it's refreshing to see someone of his quality take on a role that's seemingly beneath him, because it's the difference between an enjoyable film and another direct - to - video dud.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is heading towards its second weekend of release, and Paramount is still promoting the film with hopes of some repeat business as the movie goes up against Guardians of the Galaxy once again, as well as new release The Expendables 3.

I was against this film the moment I saw the trailer, but once I saw it, it went in my collection of B - movie gems!

It may not be called Infinity War, but the second film is still clearly going to be the conclusion of the fight against Thanos, who has, after all, been set up as the biggest of Big Bads ever since the stinger at the end of the first Avengers.

And there are great moments throughout the film, right to the very end, that go against all the usual romantic nonsense.

Specifically, she recalls how, on the same day a «tough adult female friend» confronted Kramer about his actions against Dushku, a stunt on the film's set went «wrong,» putting the child actress in the hospital with broken ribs.

Going against my better judgment, I decided to give the new Brad Pitt film, World War Z, a shot as the polarizing effects of its release seemed to reach heights similar to those of Man of Steel.

Considering Linklater's own suggestion in the documentary that, discounting anything to do with their critical or commercial performance, he's not been dissatisfied with the qualitative results of any of his films, Black and co-director Karen Bernstein hastily bypassing so many of them seems to go against his perspective.

Although this film falls into the ever - bulging genre of inspirational stories of courage and hope against all odds, director David Gordon Green has given Bauman's story a grittier, less predictable edge with Gyllenhaal never going for cheap sentiment or movie cliches.

When: February 26th Why: Alex Proyas» CGI - driven fantasy film has so many things going against it that it's difficult to know where to start.

Lesley Coffin: Because people go into a film expecting one thing from Michael Shannon and he proves not to be like that here and the film has an undercurrent of suspense and thriller, is that type of casting against type an asset you were looking to exploit?

Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story has become a sports cult film of sorts — one of the best of the Frat Pack movies — telling the story of the scrappy dodgeball team at Average Joe's gym, led by Peter La Fleur (Vince Vaughn), going against Ben Stiller's White Goodman and the formidable Purple Cobras from his Globo Gym.

The Outstanding Achievement by A Woman in The Film Industry honored «Rose McGowan, Ashley Judd and all who spoke out against sexual harassment,» while the AWFJ Hall of Shame Award went to «sexual tormentors Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, Brett Ratner, et al.» Louis CK earned a mention for his shelved film, «I Love You, Daddy,» which won the Most Egregious Age Difference Between The Lead and The Love Interest Award for its pairing of 64 - year - old John Malkovich and 20 - year - old Chloe Grace Moretz.

Proyas later went on a tirade against film critics and film journalists in general for manufacturing a controversy over the movie's casting and conspiring to give it bad reviews.

Flickering Myth's Scott Davis sat down with Sean Anders to talk about Daddy's Home, out now on Blu - Ray and DVD... Note: This interview was conducted before the sequel to Daddy's Home was announced... SD: Congratulations on the success of the film — you went up against Star Wars and put up a very good fight.

This goes totally against the marketed version of the film in which we expect more of a Meet the Parents type film with more pronounced conflict between the parent and potential husband.

«I could bang my head against a wall about why [my next film] wasn't bigger, or I could take that energy and feel it's not going either forward or backward.

SyFy and The Asylum have flooded the marketplace with terrible «Sharknado» films and other jokey, awful CGI - infused tales of mutant sharks on the rampage, so it's high time to return to the simple horror that can be found when a person is forced to go up against a great white in the open water.