Sentences with phrase «great base for a film»

At least that's what I assume, maybe I'm wrong, because the studio seems to think that what we want are shots of Ana in various states of undress, which I'm all for, but I also don't think that's a great base for a film.

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Definition of CULT 1: formal religious veneration: worship 2: a system of religious beliefs and ritual; also: its body of adherents 3: a religion regarded as unorthodox or spurious; also: its body of adherents 4: a system for the cure of disease based on dogma set forth by its promulgator 5a: great devotion to a person, idea, object, movement, or work (as a film or book); especially: such devotion regarded as a literary or intellectual fad b: the object of such devotion c: a usually small group of people characterized by such devotion

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Perhaps celluloid's greatest impact was serving as the base for photographic film.

STAR TREK: FIRST CONTACT is great, yes, and certainly fun, even as the eighth entry in the overall film series (and the second based on STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION), but especially for a Star Trek flick, Jonathan Frakes (who played

Two examples that come to mind — Stephen Frears's 1990 The Grifters and James Foley's 1990 After Dark, My Sweet — have in common that they're too - faithful adaptations of the books they're based on, both of them novels by Jim Thompson, one of the great sources for film noir.

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Lifeforce is an interesting concept for a film that is based around space vampires, and with that being said, it is an idea that should have been great, but as it stands, only ends up being good.

This fall, to mark the 50th anniversary of Kermit the Frog's first appearance (on NBC's Washington, D.C. - based network WRC - TV's «Sam and Friends») and capitalize upon the holiday season, Disney is re-releasing their two Muppet films (with widescreen DVD presentations to finally appease widely - disappointed fans) and putting their recently - acquired Muppet Movie and Great Muppet Caper back onto the home video market for the first time under the Disney label.

Another of those circus - based romantic dramas set during the great depression, Water for Elephants is based on the novel by Sarah Gruen and directed by Francis Lawrence, changing pace considerably from his previous film, I Am Legend.

Many film critics have reviewed the film as a great success for a movie based on true events.

• «The Illusionist,» a French animated film based on a posthumous screenplay by the great director Jacques Tati, won the third slots for Best Animation which was expected to go to «Tangled.»

But to skip Creed on that basis is a mistake, for the rest of its two + hours are so great, so tautly filmed and featuring such honest, intelligent performances that it becomes a genuinely excellent movie that happens to be about boxing.

While she would never consider a potential film franchise shouldering a reported $ 40 million budget and a frightfully ardent fan base as anything akin to her art, Taylor - Johnson does manage to use her eye for the slow burn, honed in work like her 2004 video portrait of the soccer star David Beckham sleeping, to great erotic effect.

Not long after the tragic death of the great James Horner in mid-2015, director Antoine Fuqua — whose Southpaw was one of the last films the composer completed work on — revealed that Horner had not only agreed to score his remake of The Magnificent Seven, he had actually already begun to write music for it based on the script (it was still being filmed at the time).

And for a film based on such a daring conceit, the performances really needed to be great.

AV Club deep screen capture to reveal how well constructed shots in Divergent do nt make for a good film BuzzFeed great essay on the current relevancy of Before Sunrise (1995) and instant nostalgia Heat Vision Tyrese Gibson obsessed with playing Green Lantern in a film that's at least 5 years away based on a character already ruined by the movies Decider 10 essential movies about nuns from our beloved Black Narcissus to less impressive but famous offerings like Doubt

As for the film, while the exact plot is not quite known just yet, as it is based on the video game of a similar name, it could be something like a «peculiar talking Pikachu who, despite not being as powerful and nimble as other Pikachu of his kind, is rather intelligent and claims to be a great detective,» who one encounters a boy named Tim Goodman, who is able to understand what Pikachu is saying.

is a nice, small film with good performances and engaging direction, worth the trip for those who love fact - based historical dramas with lots of sweeping shots of the landscape, and who are more interested in the little personal stories than the great historical ones found in all the text books.

Rabbit - Proof Fence is a nice, small film with good performances and engaging direction, worth the trip for those who love fact - based historical dramas with lots of sweeping shots of the landscape, and who are more interested in the little personal stories than the great historical ones found in all the text books.

Striped of its international cinema release by Paramount Studios due to worries that it was too cerebral for audiences, Annihilation (based on the novel by Jeff VanderMeer) comes to Netflix on more of a positive wave of critical reaction than the two sci - fi streaming flicks before it, two films which have done a great detriment to Netflix's standing as a major film studio competitor, only enforcing the notion that the streaming service is becoming a dumping ground for doomed movies.

Pre-production for Legendary Entertainment's film based on the Great Detective Pikachu is moving slow, but steady, having just recently announced its first actor casted.

«127 Hours» is a great example of the dramatic film based on the well - known true tale where the success of the execution is not measured in depicting what happened — for we all know that — but, rather, in how,» writes MSN critic James Rocchi of Danny Boyle's film of what was considered an unfilmable true story.

After all, the Academy has an affinity for films based on real events, perhaps because of the greater level of responsibility involved when depicting history and someone's life.

If that is the case, that adds a level of excitement to Infinity as the studio is responsible for the underrated Toy Story 3 and Cars 2 console games, which went well beyond bringing the Pixar worlds to the gaming scene — they were each rather large in scope, had great replay value and shattered the idea that games based on films had to be subpar.

Hollywood has been cranking them out for years, and while Ben Younger's «Bleed for This» doesn't do much to stand out from the pack, the film is based on such a great story — five - time boxing champion Vincent Pazienza's miraculous return to the ring after a near - fatal car accident — that it's hard to believe it wasn't made sooner.

Interspersed throughout are related essays covering, for example, great sports movies for kids and rankings of actors based on their portrayals of famous athletes, plus interviews with various individuals involved in one way or another with the films, such as actors Bob Uecker (Major League) and Dennis Quaid (The Rookie).

This 1949 thriller is based on a story by the great Cornell Woolrich, who probably provided more source material for suspense films than any writer in history.

My favourite hostels along the way had to be Base St Kilda (for a party), The Arts Factory Lodge (where the Inbetweeners 2 film was shot), Base Airlie Beach (for the campervan sites and tropical pool) and the amazing Nomads Cairns, which has a massive pool and a great bar.

In 1957 he joined the St Ives - based Penwith Society of Artists; he exhibited regularly, and with great success, in commercial and public galleries from 1959; was selected in 1963 for the fourth John Moores exhibition; and was the subject of several films.

The works include an installation featuring paint which is left to dry in plastic trays and a film about a remote village in Peru.In the next few days, the great and the good of the art world will flock to Venice for the 55th Biennale, the world's biggest contemporary arts festival.Curated by Glasgow - based gallery, the Common Guild, the Scottish show marks the tenth anniversary of the first Scotland + Venice exhibition, and continues to affirm Scotland's prominence in the world of contemporary art.

In a bid to bring more healthy whole - food and plant - based meals to more tables, the team behind the critically - acclaimed film Forks Over Knives (trailer below), which advocates for moving away from not only highly processed foods, but also animal - based foods, has developed a great app that could help anyone start to make healthier eating choices.