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He chalked up quite a few eccentric characterizations in films like Dead Heat on a Merry - Go - Round (1966) and They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

Not exact matches

One particularly brutal leader last month stated: «Like the living dead in a second - rate horror film, the premiership of Theresa May staggers on oblivious.»

The former star of Party of Five and films like I Know What You Did Last Summer is embarking on the fourth season of Ghost Whisperer, the creepy hit drama in which she plays Melinda, a young newlywed able to pass messages from the dead to the living.

But John's command does push the film further into the old science - fiction, doomsday territory of films like Five; The World, the Flesh and the Devil; and Night of the Living Dead, where the only way in the world the races could commingle was at its end.

Too much effort went towards giving Chucky life in this film, while other things like the writing, acting, and direction were left for dead.

By this point the action is flashing by like a fire engine without any clear end in sight, other than more and more violence, and the film feels as if it could go on indefinitely, or at least until the whole of Queens lies dead on the restaurant floor.

Ethan Hawke has given many brilliant performances in his 33 - year film career, including standouts like «Gattaca», «Before the Devil Knows You're Dead», «Boyhood», and the «Before Sunrise»...... Read more «New Review from Jeff York of Creative Screenwriting Magazine: Paul Schrader and Ethan Hawke stun with «First Reformed» ``

The criss - crossed film narrative is in a state of overuse, but writer - director James DeMonaco's droll, modestly stylish crime gewgaw «Staten Island» wrings a few suspenseful and comic pleasures out of a time - bending format that has served the likes of Quentin Tarantino («Pulp Fiction») and Sidney Lumet («Before the Devil Knows You're Dead») among scores of others.

A legendary B movie actor, Campbell is most famous for his starring roles in cult films like The Evil Dead, Evil Dead II, Crimewave, Army of Darkness, Maniac Cop, Bubba Ho - tep, Escape From L.A. and Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat.

Of course, Night of the Living Dead has been crudely colorized in the past for home video releases, but we'll never truly see what the film would've looked like had Romero shot it in color.

A few outtakes embedded herein are labelled «outtake,» a costume designer goes on like Petrie does about how drop dead gorgeous Bullock is and how scaling Everest would be easier than making her seem dowdy, and Caine, Bratt, et al describe their characters and their functions in the film.

Back when it sounded like Suspiria was dead in the water, Green noted that the reason was mostly because the budget was just too big for a film that a studio was essentially going to be taking a risk on.

Like Suicide Kings (1997), 2 Days in the Valley (1996), or Things To Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995), films with large ensembles of notable names engaged in retro narrative re-hashes, Haley's film proposes a similar treatment of chalked up motifs via vibrant characterizations.

The story of a fellow who has to find a lost gun or end up in jail or dead, this is like a modern - day Samuel Fuller film, shrewd, story savvy and charged with adrenaline.

Linnea Quigley is known best for her scream queen roles in films like Trash from «The Return of the Living Dead» and «Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers».

She has had prominent roles in films like 28 Days Later, Miami Vice, and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.

If you liked the first two entries — Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz — in this makeshift series, then there's a very good chance that you'll enjoy at least part of this new film, as well.

After literally years of being somewhat mystified by the first Pirates film's beloved status in the hearts and minds of millions, I'm at an absolute loss in coming up with reasons that the second entry, Dead Man's Chest, has whipped up these same millions of people into even more of a froth - mouthed frenzy, the likes of which I haven't seen before for a film this mediocre, even rivaling the collective fervor for Narnia, Harry Potter, and the Matrix sequels.

Here's the full list of 142 films that featured on our contributors» ballots: (Disclaimer: Luc Besson's Lucy didn't get a single vote - I just like this image of Scarlett sorting through stuff) 71 1001 Grams 12 Years a Slave 20,000 Days on Earth 22 Jump Street 52 Tuesdays A Girl at my Door A Most Violent Year A Most Wanted Man A Touch of Sin Aberdeen Alleluia American Sniper Birdman Black Coal, Thin Ice Blind Blue Ruin Boyhood Calvary Captain America: The Winter Soldier Casa Grande Chef Citizenfour Climbing to Spring Cold in July Danger 5 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Der Samurai Duke of Burgundy Edge of Tomorrow Electric Boogaloo Enemy Fandry Force Majeure Frank Free Fall From What is Before Giovanni's Island Gone Girl Goodbye to Language Guardians of the Galaxy Haemoo Han Gong - ju Hard to be a God Horse Money Housebound Ida Inherent Vice Interstellar It Follows Jauja Jigarthanda Jodorowsky's Dune John Wick Killers Lady Maiko Les Combattants Leviathan Li'l Quinquin Life Itself Like Father Like Son Locke Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere Magical Girl Maidan Man From Reno Melbourne Memphis Mommy National Gallery New World Nightcrawler Norte, The End of History Nymphomaniac Of Good Report Only Lovers Left Alive Over Your Dead Body Pale Moon Peaky Blinders Pride R100 Red Army Seven Weeks Sils Maria Snowpiercer Song of the Sea Sorrow and Joy Spring Stand By Me Doraemon Starred Up Starry Eyes Stray Dogs Texas Chain Saw Massacre The Act of Killing The Babadook The Dam Keeper The Double The Editor The Grand Budapest Hotel The Great Beauty The Great Passage The Guest The Hobbit The Internet's Own Boy The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness The Lego Movie The Missing Picture The One I Love The Overnighters The Penguins of Madagascar The Raid 2 The Sacrament The Second Game The Secret Life of Walter Mitty The Snow White Murder Case The Tale of the Princess Kaguya The Terror Live The Tribe The Wind Rises The Wolf of Wall Street The Wonders The World of Kanako These Final Hours They Came Together Tokyo Tribe Tusk Two Days, One Night Under the Skin Wadjda We Are The Blike this image of Scarlett sorting through stuff) 71 1001 Grams 12 Years a Slave 20,000 Days on Earth 22 Jump Street 52 Tuesdays A Girl at my Door A Most Violent Year A Most Wanted Man A Touch of Sin Aberdeen Alleluia American Sniper Birdman Black Coal, Thin Ice Blind Blue Ruin Boyhood Calvary Captain America: The Winter Soldier Casa Grande Chef Citizenfour Climbing to Spring Cold in July Danger 5 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Der Samurai Duke of Burgundy Edge of Tomorrow Electric Boogaloo Enemy Fandry Force Majeure Frank Free Fall From What is Before Giovanni's Island Gone Girl Goodbye to Language Guardians of the Galaxy Haemoo Han Gong - ju Hard to be a God Horse Money Housebound Ida Inherent Vice Interstellar It Follows Jauja Jigarthanda Jodorowsky's Dune John Wick Killers Lady Maiko Les Combattants Leviathan Li'l Quinquin Life Itself Like Father Like Son Locke Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere Magical Girl Maidan Man From Reno Melbourne Memphis Mommy National Gallery New World Nightcrawler Norte, The End of History Nymphomaniac Of Good Report Only Lovers Left Alive Over Your Dead Body Pale Moon Peaky Blinders Pride R100 Red Army Seven Weeks Sils Maria Snowpiercer Song of the Sea Sorrow and Joy Spring Stand By Me Doraemon Starred Up Starry Eyes Stray Dogs Texas Chain Saw Massacre The Act of Killing The Babadook The Dam Keeper The Double The Editor The Grand Budapest Hotel The Great Beauty The Great Passage The Guest The Hobbit The Internet's Own Boy The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness The Lego Movie The Missing Picture The One I Love The Overnighters The Penguins of Madagascar The Raid 2 The Sacrament The Second Game The Secret Life of Walter Mitty The Snow White Murder Case The Tale of the Princess Kaguya The Terror Live The Tribe The Wind Rises The Wolf of Wall Street The Wonders The World of Kanako These Final Hours They Came Together Tokyo Tribe Tusk Two Days, One Night Under the Skin Wadjda We Are The BLike Father Like Son Locke Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere Magical Girl Maidan Man From Reno Melbourne Memphis Mommy National Gallery New World Nightcrawler Norte, The End of History Nymphomaniac Of Good Report Only Lovers Left Alive Over Your Dead Body Pale Moon Peaky Blinders Pride R100 Red Army Seven Weeks Sils Maria Snowpiercer Song of the Sea Sorrow and Joy Spring Stand By Me Doraemon Starred Up Starry Eyes Stray Dogs Texas Chain Saw Massacre The Act of Killing The Babadook The Dam Keeper The Double The Editor The Grand Budapest Hotel The Great Beauty The Great Passage The Guest The Hobbit The Internet's Own Boy The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness The Lego Movie The Missing Picture The One I Love The Overnighters The Penguins of Madagascar The Raid 2 The Sacrament The Second Game The Secret Life of Walter Mitty The Snow White Murder Case The Tale of the Princess Kaguya The Terror Live The Tribe The Wind Rises The Wolf of Wall Street The Wonders The World of Kanako These Final Hours They Came Together Tokyo Tribe Tusk Two Days, One Night Under the Skin Wadjda We Are The BLike Son Locke Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere Magical Girl Maidan Man From Reno Melbourne Memphis Mommy National Gallery New World Nightcrawler Norte, The End of History Nymphomaniac Of Good Report Only Lovers Left Alive Over Your Dead Body Pale Moon Peaky Blinders Pride R100 Red Army Seven Weeks Sils Maria Snowpiercer Song of the Sea Sorrow and Joy Spring Stand By Me Doraemon Starred Up Starry Eyes Stray Dogs Texas Chain Saw Massacre The Act of Killing The Babadook The Dam Keeper The Double The Editor The Grand Budapest Hotel The Great Beauty The Great Passage The Guest The Hobbit The Internet's Own Boy The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness The Lego Movie The Missing Picture The One I Love The Overnighters The Penguins of Madagascar The Raid 2 The Sacrament The Second Game The Secret Life of Walter Mitty The Snow White Murder Case The Tale of the Princess Kaguya The Terror Live The Tribe The Wind Rises The Wolf of Wall Street The Wonders The World of Kanako These Final Hours They Came Together Tokyo Tribe Tusk Two Days, One Night Under the Skin Wadjda We Are The Best!

Among the dead were several Avengers and most of the Guardians of the Galaxy, but given that quite a few actors still have pictures on their Marvel Studios contracts, and sequels are lined up for casualties like Black Panther and Spider - Man, in true comic book fashion, fans have begun theorizing how these deaths will be undone come the next film.

The fan of the «Shaun of the Dead» film felt like a zombie during those moments, which led him to produce a script for upcoming comedy film «Zombiepura», set to begin filming in January 2018.

I admire you Edgar Wright.Now I am 20 but when I watched Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz back in 2009, after that day I always wanted to become a film maker like you.

DAVID CRONENBERG»S EARLY WORKS: BLU - RAY DISC 3 AND DVD DISC 4 [LIMITED EDITION EXCLUSIVE]: • High Definition Blu - ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentation of four Cronenberg films • Transfer (1966) & From the Drain (1967), Cronenberg's previously unavailable short films newly restored by the Toronto International Film Festival [7 & 12 mins] • Stereo (1969) & Crimes of the Future (1970): Cronenberg's early amateur feature films, shot in and around his university campus, prefigure his later work's concerns with strange institutions (much like Videodrome's Spectacular Optical) as well as male / female separation (Dead Ringers) and ESP (Scanners).

The only decent scene in the film (one that honours the cruelty and sense of humour of the film's premise), of a girl vomiting up her fat after wishing to be thinner, is quickly overwhelmed by the dead weight of unhelpful exposition, strange inconsistencies, embarrassing line deliveries, and bald rip - offs of scenes from films like Silent Night, Deadly Night, The Unholy, and The Relic (they've even pilfered the tongue - chewing moment from the non-horror Midnight Express).

It's possible to be funny and make a horror film that deconstructs itself — I'm thinking not of The Monster Squad, probably The Cabin in the Woods» closest spiritual analogue (and even as I say that, I feel bad — while Fred Dekker is an idiot, he's our idiot), but of genuine genre masterpieces like John Landis's An American Werewolf in London, Sam Raimi's Evil Dead II: Dead By Dawn, and Edgar Wright's Shaun of the Dead.

In addition to his role as director, Wright — known for bitingly funny films like Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World's End, as well as Scott Pilgrim vs. the World — cowrote the movie's script with Joe Cornish, who worked on the screenplay for The Adventures of Tintin and wrote and directed Attack the Block.

The details: The latest film from French director François Ozon (8 Women, Young & Beautiful) tells the story of a woman (Anaïs Demoustier) who falls in love with her best friend's widower (Romain Duris)-- but only after discovering that he likes to dress in his dead wife's clothes.

Best - case scenario: The film's sincere efforts to invest this scenario (adapted from a novel by Ruth Rendell) with complex emotion make it play like a cross-dressing riff on Vertigo, with one lover trying to shape another in a dead person's image.

The «Evil Dead» series at times had more in common with the Three Stooges and Warner Bros. cartoons than it did with other zombie films like «Night of the Living Dead» and «Dawn of the Dead.»

While the film contains some jokes, it's not much for comedy; the casting of the likes of Chris O'Dowd (Cuban Fury) and Dylan Moran (Good Vibrations) reads as more of a distraction than an attraction, particularly given O'Dowd's dead eyed approach to the material and Moran trying to engage with a register that doesn't suit him in the slightest.

This new film is a sort - of sequel to «Shaun of the Dead,» both for the characters, who are taking refuge in a pub from hordes of zombie - like people, and for the filmmakers, representing a homecoming for the director after «Scott Pilgrim vs. the World» and for stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost after «Paul.»

Sitting with the creative team behind new indie «The One I Love,» genial actor - producer - writer - director - cool - guy Mark Duplass says of his breakthrough film, «My first movie [«The Puffy Chair»] was shot on VHS - C with a dead pixel in the middle of it, and it looked and sounded like shit, but it went to Sundance because of the spirit.

Like Moon, The Martian involves a Starman (David Bowie's space anthem of the same name is used tremendously in Scott's film) contending with crippling solitude and psychological tremors when he's left for dead on Mars.

Ethan Hawke has given many brilliant performances in his 33 - year film career, including standouts like GATTACA, BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU»RE DEAD, BOYHOOD, and the BEFORE SUNRISE trilogy.

Hitchcock references are everywhere: in the names of Woodcock and Alma (the real - life name of Hitchcock's wife and collaborator), in the «Vertigo» - like references to the way the dead watch over the living, and the way Hitchcock's 1940 film «Rebecca» casts an elegant shadow over the entire film.

After having watched the first season of HBO's stellar new series Westworld and recent films like the Magnificent Seven remake, I am very eager to sink my teeth into a new Wild West game which is good since Rockstar's Red Dead Redemption 2 is currently scheduled to launch in fall 2017.

In addition to Walking Dead, Bernicker also worked on films like Logan, Get Out, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and the upcoming Black Panther film.

The film is dead simple in its visual execution, except for some symbolic flourishes that will either jar with you or make you feel there's a mysterious resonance you can't quite pinpoint — like a lingering shot of the dark interior of a sauna locker, this film's equivalent of that black sun of an air extractor in Apichatpong's Syndromes and a Century.

by Alex Jackson Particularly in light of its 50th Anniversary DVD reissue, which gathers together all three extant versions of the film, I find myself grouping writer - director Orson Welles's Touch of Evil with multiple - incarnated masterworks like Blade Runner, Apocalypse Now, and, to a lesser extent, Dawn of the Dead and Brazil.

Because while the original Lord of the Rings trilogy revolutionised mainstream cinema in ways, and emboldened the likes of James Cameron to undertake equally grandiose productions, these Hobbit films flogged a very dead horse.

She's great in her recurring role in «Miami Vice,» and in «Jackie Brown» (still one of Tarantino's two or three best), she makes Samuel L. Jackson, the baddest, most intimidating guy in Tarantino's previous film, seem like dead meat without ever having to fire a shot.

An extra enjoyable element comes from the discreet self - reference in the screenwriting: the protagonist has phone conversations with a certain Baciu and a certain Rădulescu; Baciu has a cameo waiting in queue; a couple of likes on the dead girl's Facebook page come from actors credited in the film, and so on.

Perhaps all would be forgiven if M: i: III were competently - directed (while M: I - 2 is one of the stupidest films ever made, as John Woo is one of the best action directors of the past twenty - five years, damn if it's not beautiful, coherent, auteurist stupidity), but it's a glassy - eyed, dead thing complete with superfluous flashbacks to events we don't care about involving characters we don't recognize, an interminable party sequence in which Cruise trots out his smile like it was a weathered, beaten - down trophy wife, and a smug, self - congratulatory conclusion full of high - fives, victory arms, and shit - eating grins.

Pixar's latest film Coco, based on the Mexican holiday of Día de Muertos, followed a young boy named Miguel who, while pursuing his dream of becoming a musician like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz, finds himself in the Land of the Dead, where he will unlock a family secret and learn the meaning behind this celebration.

On film, he's enjoyed fruitful collaborations with Jean - Pierre Jeunet (The City Of Lost Children, Alien: Resurrection) and Guillermo del Toro (Cronos, Blade II, the Hellboy films) and kept company with genre eccentrics like Larry Fessenden (The Last Winter) and Glenn McQuaid (I Sell The Dead), as well as landing the role of Elvis in Don Coscarelli's long - rumored Bubba Nosferatu.

The film's screenplay is written by playwright Tom Stoppard, whose works like «Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead» and «Arcadia» are widely acclaimed; he also penned screenplays for Terry Gilliam's «Brazil,» John Madden's «Shakespeare In Love,» and Joe Wright's «Anna Karenina.»

But aside from seeing the original superhero duo deployed on missions (like in the first film), the photos seem to point out that we will get to know Hank and Janet's lifestyle before the latter made the self - sacrifice that led to many people believing she is dead.

Had its trippy - dippy, anachronistic cross-cutting and madly - inappropriate scoring appeared in 1968 (the year of Rosemary's Baby, Night of the Living Dead, If..., 2001: A Space Odyssey, and the film to which it perhaps owes its greatest allegiance, Once Upon a Time in the West), Performance would've found traction and good company as a foundational film for the American New Wave instead of as a picture that, for all its foment and formal revolution, seemed hysterical against a maturing, more sedate (d) mainstream avant - garde parade of stuff like El Topo, Zabriskie Point, MASH, and Five Easy Pieces.

In a film that almost seems like a spiritual sequel to Shaun of the Dead, after you consider the ending, Life After Beth sounds like an interesting new twist on the zombie horror trope.

Sure, his earlier films like Bad Taste, Meet the Feebles, or Dead Alive / Brain Dead will never reach a mainstream audience, but Frighteners was a fun little ghost story with a once - upon - a-star in it and it was released on laserdisc in an incredible version so I am sure it will see the light of day.