Sentences with phrase «harder than director»

That's a bit harder than director Denis Villeneuve's Arrival -LRB--49.6 %) from last year.

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Millstein acknowledges that being his kind of activist director is hard work, much harder than just spending a few hours at eight board meetings each year.

«(It) reveals how our economies are rewarding wealth rather than the hard work of millions of people,» Winnie Byanyima, Oxfam «s executive director, told Reuters Television.

Bonnie Gwin, Global CEO and Board of Directors Practice at the executive search firm Heidrick & Struggles, agreed with the advice, adding that at this moment of rising activist pressure, mounting cyber security concerns, and a more constant media spotlight, being on a board is harder, higher - stakes and more demanding than ever.

«Visionary founders» such as Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk of Tesla, and Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway would be harder to replace than CEOs of large, well - established public companies, the directors indicated.

It would be hard to find more divisive, jabbing rhetoric on marriage than in these publications by self - described «marriage nut» David Blankenhorn, the founder and director of the Institute for American Values, and the late historian Elizabeth Fox - Genovese, well known for her testy rebuff of feminism.

This seemed to her a great cruelty, for she thought to find in the cloister the true Christians she had been seeking, but she found afterwards that he knew the cloisters better than she; for after he had forbidden her, and told her he would never permit her to be a religious, nor give her any money to enter there, yet she went to Father Laurens, the Director, and offered to serve in the monastery and work hard for her bread, and be content with little, if he would receive her.

«The most vulnerable children and women in hard - to - reach areas are often missed by existing interventions that can improve vitamin A status, including vitamin A supplementation, food fortification, dietary diversification, and promotion of optimal breast - feeding,» said Ms. Nancy Haselow, HKI vice president and regional director for Asia - Pacific, who has been designing, implementing, and testing vitamin A delivery programs for more than 20 years.

According to K. Rakesh, director at Hyderabad - based superfoods firm Kilaru Naturals, technology partnerships and exports are far more of a priority than hard cash investments.

He stepped down from his post in 2013 and was replaced by Woodward, but remained on the board of directors and told the club's official website that it was a «very hard decision because I love this club and, as the fans» banner says, it is, «more than a religion».»

Probably because that kind of change is hard, and demonizing the little guy — the local student nutrition director and local radio DJ last year, or the small restaurant operator and local school superintendent this year — is easier and less risky than taking on the real «bad guys» — the elected officials, the giant Agribusiness players, the networks that broadcast all of those fast food and junk food ads to our kids and also, oh yes, broadcast Jamie Oliver's shows....

You would be hard - pressed to find a busier woman than Michelle Gifford, the Assistant Director of Nutrition Services in the Riverside Local School District in Painesville, Ohio.

When it comes to breakfast - in - the - classroom, you would be hard - pressed to find a bigger fan than Jason Carter, Assistant Director of Child Nutrition at Rogers Public Schools in Arkansas.

Professor Carol Brayne, Director of the Cambridge Institute of Public Health, adds: «Even with a reasonably large number of studies of anxiety disorder, data about marginalised groups is hard to find, and these are people who are likely to be at an even greater risk than the general population.

But it also seems unlikely that «Real Steel» was ever going to be more than that, no matter who sat in the director's chair; it's hard to imagine that Spielberg himself would have tackled the material differently, much less better, since key to its appeal is playing directly into that melodrama, and then milking it for everything it's worth.

It seems to hard to believe today, now that the pantheon of great directors has hardened into consensus, but there was a time when people thought there was less to Antonioni than met the eye, too.

Snowden may not be one of director Oliver Stone's best, but this is why I believe critics are hitting this film a little harder than it deserves.

Director Jon Favreau shocked us all with how good the first Iron Man was, this time it feels as though he's trying too hard to top himself, but getting lost in all the various plot threads and not doing much to make this movie materially different than the first.

As for the substance behind this series, no matter how much the final product both bloats and hurries itself along, it's hard as all get - out to deny the value within Alex Haley's «factional» tale, which is rich with the potential for compellingness and thematic depth that, more often than not, recieves justice from teleplay writer and source material book completer David Stevens, who draws lively characterization and depth, which in turn recieves its own bit of justice from director John Erman.

I don't know who's to blame: exec prods, directors, writers, etc but more than one of them worked hard to mess up a good thing.

«Baywatch» takes a few amusing stabs at satire — Efron declares that the group's adventures sound like «a really entertaining but farfetched TV show» — but, in the end, director Seth Gordon and a cargo ship full of writers use the beachy setup as little more than a vehicle for generic hard - R and gross - out gags.

And while Jake Kasdan is a better director than Apatow (he might even be a better director than his old man, Lawrence Kasdan), I also believe he's a better director than Walk Hard — overqualified, perhaps, to be the obsequious technician these indulgent showcases for the Apatow Factory's improv skills demand.

Unfortunately for us as viewers, while some may welcome the lighter tone, Witt should have tried harder to make the story work, rather than give up, which might have been too tall an order for the longtime second unit director (Apocalypse remains his only film as the man at the helm).

They all try too hard, but the most non-discerning of audiences, the younger the better, probably won't mind a bit as director Jake Kasdan has ramped this all up to a fevered pace that doesn't allow for much more than non-stop gags and largely un-amusing setups.

I wouldn't expect any less from the director of «Final Destination 5» and the writer of «Step Up All In,» but it's hard not to feel bad for the actors involved, especially Richard Armitage, because he deserves better than this kind of SyFy summer schlock.

Faced with actors pushing too hard, Krasinski seems to react as a fellow performer rather than a director.

Since Hepburn and her then - husband, producer Mel Ferrer, who joined her on the project, were good friends with English director Terence Young (the director of three of the first four James Bond movies), whom Hepburn had allegedly met more than two decades earlier while she treated him as a nurse in the Netherlands during the Second World War, they lobbied hard for him to get the gig, even though Jack Warner initially wanted Carol Reed in the director's seat.

I did see Hong Kong director John Woo's disappointingly routine American debut, Hard Target (1993), with Jean - Claude Van Damme — a fairly forgettable action exercise that, simply because it came from a Hollywood studio, got much more attention in the American press than all the earlier Woo pictures combined.

The first terror is harder to put on film, but director Denis Villeneuve brings the second to life with this freaky and audacious contact sci - fi — and makes it something other than terror.

Her words of warning aren't heeded in A Good Day to Die Hard, nor by director John Moore (Max Payne) and writer Skip Woods (The A-Team), for the latest action instalment is indeed a larger disaster than its reviled predecessor.

Since her first feature, Girlfight, Karyn Kusama has hardly been the most prolific of directors — a problem not unique to her, as women have a harder time landing directing gigs in Hollywood than do men — but she has not been entirely absent, either, helming the Charlize Theron vehicle Æon Flux and Megan Fox indie horror comedy Jennifer's Body.

If director Paul Andrew Williams tries too hard to apply a familiar sense of dry humour to the proceedings (landing closer to last year's eye - roller Severance than to anything Edgar Wright has ever done), he finds his calling in the fine art of overcompensation: throw enough severed body parts around and scream «fucking cunt» to the rafters as many times as possible and perhaps everyone will forget that you don't have much to say at all.

The movie does have some pretty impressive production design considering its presumably small budget, so it's a shame to see all that hard work wasted on a director more interested in unnecessary visual flourishes (like a POV shot from a water bucket) than focusing on important things like character and story.

Like many of director Renny Harlin's (Deep Blue Sea, Die Hard 2) films, the core idea is intelligent, but the execution is in the «dumb fun» mode, and Mindhunters is probably a bit dumber than it needs to be to succeed.

He'd done more work than a lot of the other independent directors that made the leap, having made three features (Brick, The Brothers Bloom and Looper) and directed some very well received episodes of Breaking Bad, but it's hard to imagine any of that adequately prepared him for directing the middle chapter of the new trilogy in biggest franchise in movie history for the biggest studio on the planet.

In keeping with this view of women's proper role — Sartre, with whom Bay has more in common than one might imagine, would have called it the etre - pour - autrui — the director also supplies us with a pretty Latina who is ushered briefly onscreen to be berated for her «hoochie» outfit, and a hard - nosed National Intelligence Director (Frances McDormand) whose authority is gradually usurped by a renegade male agent (John Turturro) to the point where she ends up, literally, across director also supplies us with a pretty Latina who is ushered briefly onscreen to be berated for her «hoochie» outfit, and a hard - nosed National Intelligence Director (Frances McDormand) whose authority is gradually usurped by a renegade male agent (John Turturro) to the point where she ends up, literally, across Director (Frances McDormand) whose authority is gradually usurped by a renegade male agent (John Turturro) to the point where she ends up, literally, across his lap.

Director: LAMAR+NIK Release date: August 8 Why it's great: Zach Braff's favorite band printed out a shitload of photos from a video shot on a white background, printed them out, turned them into more than 5,000 stickers, and created a stop - motion effect on live backgrounds, which sounds super time - consuming and very hard.

Over at the Chinese Cinema I've been hard at work revising a bunch of old reviews, and I've completed the following director categories: The Pantheon, The Far Side of Paradise, Expressive Esoterica, Fringe Benefits, Less Than Meets the Eye, Lightly Likable, and Strained Seriousness.

Rather than putting style over substance, its style was the substance, director Matthew Vaughn pulling out every trick in the book to poke fun at the stuffy clichés of Bond - era spy films while leaning hard into its R rating to sometimes grotesque results.

Director Jake Kasdan (Orange County, Zero Effect) continues the kitchen - sink - dark - comedy trend he established in his previous effort, Walk Hard, though in both cases, things only seem more funny on paper than they actually are when acted out.

It's hard to review Jane Got a Gun for what it is rather than what might have been — during a production resembling a high - noon shootout, director Lynne Ramsay (We Need to Talk About Kevin) and stars such as Michael Fassbender and Jude Law all ran for the hills.

Villeneuve isn't returning, but new director Stefano Sollima has more than enough experience in gritty, political crime drama to deliver a taught, hard - nosed thriller worthy of the original.

«Dungeons are a little harder than overground content, about one a half times more, so you're going to find yourself in trouble - and if you are in trouble and a player comes and helps you, or you see a player that needs help, even if you're not grouped, the game treats you if you were: it shares full experience, the rewards,» continued game director Firor.

After all, the film's big debut at Sundance earlier this year was overshadowed by the director's untimely death, and though the cast and crew were all there to support the premiere, it's hard to imagine that anyone had anything else on their mind other than paying tribute to their dear friend.

Fans of Redford and Fonda will like this more than most, and those who love the country music flair, but it's hard not to be just a little disappointed that such fine actors, a nice script and a skillful director couldn't quite coalesce into making this anything more than an amiable way to spend two hours.

It's hard to imagine anyone other than Christopher Nolan could have achieved this extraordinary feat, and the director should rightly claim that victory.

It's hard to imagine a less exciting Lara Croft movie than what directors Simon West and Jan De Bont cooked up at the turn of the century, but «Tomb Raider» 2018 comes worryingly close — especially in its third act — distilling a routinely rousing video game franchise into its least essential cutscenes.

Or perhaps you want your science fiction (yes, Black Panther is still sci - fi) a little harder and deeper; look no further than Annihilation, the latest from writer and director Alex Garland (Ex Machina) and starring Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tessa Thompson, Gina Rodriguez (some strong female greats), and Oscar Isaac.

Lyn Warren, HR Director at Carpetright, added, «What we know from hard data is that the colleagues that connect the most with Fuse and really engage with the content, perform much better than their peer group.

Even if it requires a long, hard look at your household budget to find the extra cash, it's well worth the effort, says Eric Selk, executive director of HOPE NOW, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit that's helped arrange mortgage workouts for more than 7 million homeowners.