Sentences with phrase «gone after the first film»

Instead, he was gone after the first film, with Lawrence taking over on the thrilling Catching Fire.

Not exact matches

At a dinner they went to one night — Woz was a paid advisor on the film — the Apple cofounder brought with him a plastic bag full of magic tricks, and after the first course, he started performing.

So, like a movie studio that green lights two sequels after the success of the first film, I went into The Falling Star knowing how Police at the Funeral would end.

KEY: Ask your hero I already knew after my first degree in geology that I wanted to go into film - making, but I didn't have a clue how.

So I was gonna watch the JCVD thriller called «Derailed» but after the first five minutes I realised I had the wrong film haha so I stuck with this despite Aniston being involved.

The first seven film outings were sober and straight - faced; the eighth go - round (the first after a 38 - year lapse) does a 180 to shamelessly poke fun of the rules established by the genre.

But after the first third — the film is more than 3 hours long — Schindler begins to recognize the horrors that are going on around him and feels compelled to do something about it.

After that hour, though, the scheme goes into action, and with Zemeckis» consummate control of tone and pacing and visual effects, the film, especially once Philippe prepares to take his first steps across and over the void, becomes something altogether astonishing.

Once Ricky and Hector, or Hec (Sam Neill)-- the latter an older bushman Bella cares for before she suddenly dies — go on the run in the wilds of New Zealand after child protective services seeks to return Ricky to a care home following Bella's passing, Paula reveals herself as more of a fanatical zealot than she let on in that first scene («no child left behind» is her frequent motto, which she utters in the film with seemingly unthinking reflexivity).

Very rarely do you get a film where you'd go right back into the theatre and watch it again immediately after the first screening and have the same emotions.

In fact, it almost, ALMOST made me want to go and re-watch the first film to appreciate that humor a lot more after seeing James Wan's world a little bit more completely.

Only the third film that the acclaimed actor has made as a director (after 2002's Antwone Fisher and his last, 2007's The Great Debaters), Washington certainly had familiarity with August Wilson's beloved Pulitzer Prize - winning material when he decided to bring it to the big screen; the actor won a Tony Award of his own for starring in the 2010 revival of the production, to go along with the play's Tony for Best Revival (and the many that it won during its first run on stage in 1987).

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.

Garland's science - fiction chamber piece — his first film as director, and fifth as screenwriter, after 28 Days Later, Sunshine, Never Let Me Go and Dredd — starts from the premise that no one knows us better than our internet browsers, then turns that queasy intimacy inside out.

Other significant personal preems, in order of original release, included: Buster Keaton's Go West (1925) and College (directed by James V. Horne, 1927); Howard Hughes's and James Whale's Hell's Angels (1928 - 30), featuring (sorry, other Howard) the most awesome aerial scenes I've ever witnessed; John Ford's Up the River (1930) and Airmail (1932); Michael Curtiz's The Kennel Murder Case (1933), utterly silly but quite beguiling as an empty exercise in directorial pizzazz; Gordon Wiles's — and Daniel Fuchs's — The Gangster (1947), an archetypal arty film noir; Val Lewton's Apache Drums; (directed by Hugo Fregonese, 1951); Richard Fleischer's The Narrow Margin (1952); Robert Bresson's Quâtre Nuits d'un rêveur (1971); Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974); Phil Karlson's Framed (1975); Clint Eastwood's The Gauntlet (1977); and Robert Mulligan's Bloodbrothers (1978), which returned to Seattle (after a five - day first run in» 78) only via Showtime.

Kingsman actor Taron Egerton, who plays the new Robin Hood, goes even further, comparing moments in the film to Kathryn Bigelow's intense drama The Hurt Locker: «I was approached not long after the first Kingsman movie had come out, and my initial response, to be totally honest, was «Why?»

Wilson's first film, After Tiller, premiered at Sundance in 2013 and went on to win an Emmy Award for Best Documentary.

After capturing the Golden Bear at Berlin, the feature, Farhadi's fifth, went on to rake in unprecedented earnings for an Iranian film as well as a stream of honors that culminated in its becoming the first Iranian film to win the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

In concert, the film burrows in ever tighter, dramatically reflecting Dickinson's journey into shadows, a progression that feels especially perturbing after Davies's atypically breezy first half, which offers a rare showcase for the trademark wit («Going to church is like going to Boston; you only enjoy it after you've gone home») the writer - director usually flashes only behind the caGoing to church is like going to Boston; you only enjoy it after you've gone home») the writer - director usually flashes only behind the cagoing to Boston; you only enjoy it after you've gone home») the writer - director usually flashes only behind the camera.

Catching Fire picks up right where the first film left off with Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) are gearing up to go on the victor's tour after winning the 74th Hunger Games.

His first film as writer - director was 1990's «Joe Versus the Volcano,» starring Tom Hanks as an ex-firefighter who goes on a picaresque journey after a scary medical diagnosis, and Meg Ryan as three different women he meets along the way.

Though the film is slow going at first, it eventually becomes a gripping thriller as Mike uncovers one disturbing clue after another, leading him to a colorful assortment of characters and finding himself in perilous situations.

Two separate commentary tracks, the first and best with director Ben Wheatley and co-writer Amy Jump and the second with actors Neil Maskell, MyAnna Buring, and Michael Smiley, bring some of the film's more obscure passages into better focus, while a slew of formal interviews with the filmmakers, actors, and producers help illuminate the extent of the work that went into developing the project (Wheatley, for his part, comes across as surprisingly earnest and well - intentioned, which isn't quite what one expects after watching his film).

Drew's Review: In case you were wondering, yes - I decided that immediately after a «2009 in Review» article all about how I never go to the movies anymore and have reconnected with older cult films, my first review of 2010 would be of a movie currently in theaters.

This is a peculiar teaser because it's basically a fake B&W news reel talking about how the film is finally going to appear in the US in March after «first conquering Britain» (since it opened there in October).

After his discharge Harryhausen went to work on his first big film, 1947's «Mighty Joe Young,» which allowed him the chance to work with his idol, O'Brien, who went on to win that years Academy Award for Best Special Effects.

Through an arduous process of development — first with original «Deadpool» helmer Tim Miller and then, after he left the project due to creative differences, director David Leitch («John Wick»)-- the film's storyline went through various radically different iterations.

And it's fascinating the way that Buscemi — in his first starring performance for the Coens after three consecutive bit parts — so often operates as our interlocutor in the film: the «sane» one despite his criminality, untouched by the weirdness of «Minnesota Nice,» who merely wants everything to go as planned, and who bit by bit comes violently unglued as it doesn't.

HALLOWEEN IIDirector: Rick RosenthalWritten by John Carpenter and Debra HillStarring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasance, Charles Cyphers, Pamela Susan Shoop, Dick Warlock Even though it was released three years after the first film, the story picks up toward the ending of the first film when Laurie Strode tells Lindsay and Tommy to go get help at the McKenzie's house.

Even though it was released three years after the first film, the story picks up toward the ending of the first film when Laurie Strode tells Lindsay and Tommy to go get help at the McKenzie's house.

Ten years after the first film and six years after the show went off the air, The X-Files returns to theaters with Fox Mulder, Dana Scully.

She mentions in the first film that she hasn't been to a haunted house since she was eight or nine years old, and it is obvious by the second that, after the ending of the first (which takes place over a mere six days, much of which are spent driving or being attacked in the RV at night), she has not gone to one again.

This year's best picture Oscar, after all, went for the first time to a science - fiction film of sorts, Guillermo del Toro's adoring monster - movie homage The Shape of Water — beating, among others, Get Out, Jordan Peele's wickedly playful collision of old - school horror with brisk, bracing racial politics.

The Jay Scott Award for best feature film (honour named after the late Toronto Globe and Mail film critic) went to «The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada» by first - time director, Tommy Lee Jones.

Yul Brynner (The Magnificent Seven, The Ten Commandments) may have only five lines in the film, but he is brilliant as the gunslinger gone berserk, chasing after the hapless Richard Benjamin (Love at First Bite, Saturday the 14th) for the latter half of the film.

After the sugar rush of the first film, recapturing the magic was always going to be an uphill battle.

After the huge success of the first film, it was almost inevitable that Now You See Me 2 was going to appear and as if by magic, the sequel has now arrived on UK cinemas (Read our review here).

The collected Sundance press flipped out and immediately went to DEFCON Oscar after this film's first screening in January.

Coogler didn't go back to the Rocky franchise for Creed 2 after the first film found great success, but much of that was due to his schedule with Black Panther.

After producing the first film, Elizabeth Banks is going even bigger and making «Pitch Perfect 2» her feature directorial debut.

Four years after delivering the film that would ultimately go on to earn Jacki Weaver her very first Academy Award nomination, writer - director David Michôd is back with his second feature film, «The Rover.»

Through an arduous process of development — first with original «Deadpool» helmer Tim Miller and then, after he left the project because of creative differences, director David Leitch («John Wick»)-- the film's storyline went through various radically different iterations.

After a first - reel heist - gone - wrong sequence, the action rachets down somewhat, but much blood (along with some other bodily fluids) will be spilled once the film starts cranking again toward its Shakespearean conclusion.

The first film followed Wick, a retired hitman who goes after the crew that killed his puppy.

The film picks up directly after the events of the first pic, as rookie cop Rama (Iko Uwais) must go undercover in the criminal underworld to protect his...

Probably nothing was going to have quite the same impact as John Boyega «s head popping up into frame in that first teaser trailer (which we featured in last year's edition of this feature)-- after all, it was the very first glimpse we got at the single most widely anticipated new film release of the last few decades.

You open the Sundance catalog on the first day of the festival and choose your films for the first weekend, and after that you go where the buzz sends you, because audiences are always honest.

David Chase created one of the most revered modern television series in «The Sopranos» and yet his first attempt at writing and directing a feature film after that — 2012's Not Fade Away — came and went with hardly anyone noticing.

Seven years after his last film hit, acclaimed South Korean filmmaker Lee Chang - dong («Poetry») returns with the first trailer for his new mystery thriller «Burning» going online.

Though the cast delivers believably enough as one new piece of information after another alters their plans, it's pretty clear where things are going from the first big reveal and the film can't manage to feel fresh from that point forward.