Sentences with phrase «kid films these days»

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It looks like Wahlberg had a day off from filming on Wednesday and went to visit the Michigan Football team and checked out the facilities with his kids.

The popular CineYouth Film Challenge is the chance for Chicago kids to shine — whether or not they're participating in the actual film fest — and will get to break into small groups to create, film and edit short movies in the same day.

organise a special Dads and Kids day at the weekend (it doesn't have to be expensive, you can just go to the park, go on a bike ride, have a film night — just doing something together is good)

Assembly Democratic leaders are refusing to allow Assemblywoman Margaret Markey (D - Queens) from holding a screening of the film at the Capitol complex during a two - day lobbying effort in May to build support for her bill to make it easier for people sexually abused as kids to bring lawsuits as adults.

So, despite being snow day with school cancelled, I put on The Sound of Music in the basement for the kids, and started filming.

This is why Penn made this film, this is why McCandless» parents, even as they are portrayed in a highly negative light through most of the film, allowed it to happen — the truth is, it's not every day that a just - graduated college kid simply up and leaves for the sake of an adventure like that of McCandless» Supertramp.

I still love this film to this day and I recommend it to anyone with kids or to someone who wants to watch a great story that doesn't care if it is in the form of a 60's Disney cartoon.

[img] http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/user/icons/icon14.gif [/ img] Back when Eddie Murphy wasn't bombarding us with stupid, low brow and unfunny kids films he made Coming to America and to this day it remains one of his most cherished, warmest and funniest films.

The two kids in the film (Shelton Dane and Jean Malone) have big parts that they fill admirably and Frances McDormand adds a nice touch as the concerned mechanic who Robbie meets one day while skipping school.

9) Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story) Directed by promising director Eva Husson, this unflinching and mesmerizing French film has early day Sofia Coppola's style mixed with Larry Clark's Kids.

As a film critic and movie lover, my days of reading Roger's reviews and watching him spar with Gene Siskel go back as far as I can remember to when I was a little kid watching movies instead of playing outside with the other neighbor kids.

In many ways, it recalls Eddie Murphy's similar recent film, Daddy Day Care, with the father alone trying to cope with a house full of unruly kids.

I rewound it before I returned it, but to this day I remain blissfully unaware of what actually happens to the three kids in the film, who apparently are on a trip to hell or something.

Being a fan of the X-Men since I was a kid and being sure to see each film the day they come out in theaters, I have to admit that I'm a bit disappointed in Legion: The Complete Season One (2017).

It is certainly not a film for everybody and most definitely not for kids unless you want them to get in trouble on their last days of school for repeating many of the new things they'll learn.

Although relying on minors to save the day once again, this «kids - know - best film» does portray a father and son that come to understand one another, rather than just focusing on adult stupidity.

This was seemingly the case with the Dardenne brothers at this year's Cannes, where their latest film, The Unknown Girl, received a considerably more lukewarm response than the likes of Two Days, One Night and The Kid with a Bike, with some suggestions that the Belgian duo had finally reached a stage of auto - pilot writing and directing and others implying that the new film was their first outright failure.

It's not every director who can show three kids (including an infant wrapped in swaddling clothes) perforated by bullets without so much as flinching, but that's Cooper's M.O., refined over the three films since his relatively marshmallowy «Crazy Heart»: As in «Black Mass» before this, violence packs more punch if depicted matter - of - factly, which somehow registers as «realistic» these days (although one suspects that it would be far more horrifying if his victims suffered slow, agonizing deaths after being shot).

When we get these movies released in America, it's bullshit like Journey to the Center of the Earth or Spy Kids or... Jesus, they don't release many family friendly adventure films these days, do they?

He has worked with Marshall in all of the director's films, beginning with «Young Doctors in Love» and going on to include «The Flamingo Kid,» «Nothing in Common,» «Runaway Bride,» «The Princess Diaries» and «The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement» and last year's hit «Valentine's Day.»

Set entirely during the course of one eventful day, the film opens with a very artificial - looking CGI deer invading the home of Lenny Feder (Sandler) and urinating all over him and his kids.

San Andreas actually apes The Day After Tomorrow so closely that at times, it feels like Cuse just took the latter film's script, cut - and - replaced all instances of «storm» with «earthquake» and «runs from cold» with «runs from opening fissures,» and called it a day — like Tomorrow, the film centers on a father's unlikely determination to cross a disaster zone to save an adult child, with only a minimal idea of where his kid might be in a city approaching a population of 1 milliDay After Tomorrow so closely that at times, it feels like Cuse just took the latter film's script, cut - and - replaced all instances of «storm» with «earthquake» and «runs from cold» with «runs from opening fissures,» and called it a day — like Tomorrow, the film centers on a father's unlikely determination to cross a disaster zone to save an adult child, with only a minimal idea of where his kid might be in a city approaching a population of 1 milliday — like Tomorrow, the film centers on a father's unlikely determination to cross a disaster zone to save an adult child, with only a minimal idea of where his kid might be in a city approaching a population of 1 million.

Besides Newman, who, as Ebert noted, was taking an active hand in shaping and developing a fairly consistent character archetype over several years and films, they included co-screenwriter Frank Pierson, who would go on to write Dog Day Afternoon; cinematographer Conrad Hall (In Cold Blood, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Fat City, Marathon Man); editor Sam O'Steen (Carnal Knowledge, Chinatown); and sound mixer Larry Jost, who would work with O'Steen on those two films and then go on to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest — a movie that is in many ways Cool Hand Luke's spiritual cousin.

I fell in love with film as a kid and remain as passionate about it as the day I started acting so it's great to see what inspired and eloquent detectives you are when it comes to all things cinematic.

The responsible one with the job in rundown Venice Beach circa the early -»70s, he «ain't no pirate,» says surf shop owner Skip Engblom (Heath Ledger, doing Val Kilmer on lots of ganja), who decides mysteriously one day to sponsor a competitive skateboard team with ringers Tony Alva (Victor Rasuk) and Jay Adams (Emile Hirsch) as well as a bunch of other kids the film doesn't have time for.

Based on a children's book of the same name by Judith Viorst, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day is packaged as a kids film with Alexander kicking off the story as the main protagonist.

Shot for $ 1.5 million over 30 days, Laughlin's film, while heavy on extended takes and a few awkward edits, overall looks very nice, and Elite's transfer marks the first time the film's been available with its original, evocative Technicolor - styled cinematography by Louis Horvath (who also photographed «Chandler,» and Laughlin's other directorial efforts); and in its original aspect ratio, which, in previous full screen versions, chopped Condon's second appearance as a «dead kid».

* Asked how he feels about going from very small indie films to a massive, effects - driven fantasy / comedy, Green said: «Well, just like probably all of you guys like to see different kinds of movies every week — a little of this, a little of that — it's fun professionally to, like, get in the ring and design creatures and have guys in suits and puppets and just, y ’ know, bring in all this stuff... I remember when I was a kid, and if something like «Behind The Scenes of Return of The Jedi» would come on, I'd just be glued to the screen, wishing that one day I'd be able to get my hands dirty doing something like that.

He has morphed from the androgynous alien kid in long - running 90s TV hit Third Rock from the Sun to the teen gay hustler in Gregg Araki's 2004 film Mysterious Skin, bouncing on through characters as varied as (500) Days of Summer's lovelorn romeo, Hesher's charismatically violent burnout, and Inception's corporate dream - fiddling crook.

These days our cinema screens are bombarded with CG kids» films every school holidays, and this September is no exception.

If 51 years old is looking younger every day, then you'll be In Good Company with this film about a middle - aged executive whose job is given to a fresh - faced kid.

Walden Media have to be the most prolific of production companies making kids» films these days.

Also Worthy and Worthwhile «Keep The Lights On,» «Neighboring Sounds,» «A Royal Affair» (Mikkel Boe Følsgaard guy should have also been in our Breakout Performances of 2012 piece), «The Forgiveness Of Blood» (already Criterion approved with good reason), «Shut Up and Play the Hits,» «Compliance» (captivatingly ugly), «2 Days In New York» (hilariously neurotic, Julie Delpy is clearly the heir apparent to Woody Allen), «Cosmopolis,» «Side By Side,» «Argo,» «The Turin Horse» (Goodnight, Mr. Tarr you sweet prince of the bleak and wretched), «Once Upon A Time In Anatolia» (in many ways mesmerizing and beautiful, but for me, ultimately more in a cerebral way than in a moving, emotional one), «Goodbye Love» (Mia Hansen - Love clearly watches the films of her husband Olivier Assayas; a spiritual cousin to his last 3 - 4 pictures), «Elena,» «Francine» (great non-judgemental direction; Melissa Leo is terrific), «Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry,» «Alps,» «The Loneliest Planet,» «The Kid With The Bike» and pretty much every film in our 11 Films You May Not Have Seen list.

The film tells the story of a Las Vegas fighter - pilot turned drone - pilot (Ethan Hawke), who fights the Taliban via remote control for half of his day, then goes home to his wife (January Jones) and kids in the suburbs for the other half.

Nim's Island isn't without a few moments of over-familiarity, and in some ways it's actually demure when compared to a lot of other movies aimed these days chiefly at kids — which may be a bit of a strike for those raised on the Harry Potter films and The Chronicles of Narnia.

For some reason I don't watch many new comedies these days (other than animated family films I watch with my kids).

I'm kind of kidding about those two, but I'm not at all kidding when I say Days of Future Past is successful and entertaining film, and I felt real joy watching it.

The Predator director Shane Black celebrated the first day of filming by giving us a glimpse at our plucky young killers, plus the adorable kid who might be the key to saving us all.

Based on the R - rated Black List approved script by Chris Baldi and re-written into much more broadly appealing (read: safe your for kids) version by «(500) Days of Summer» scribes Scott Neustadter and Michael Weber, the film has a «Freaky Friday» or «17 Again» sort of vibe, as it tells the story of a teenager who meets a hologram claiming to be the adult version of himself; the hologram then helps guide the teen through high school.

The film, Produced byJordan Horowitz (Gilbert Films, «The Kids Are All Right»), Michael Roiff (Night and Day Pictures, «Waitress»), and Michael Huffington (Huffington Productions, «Father vs. Son») and Executive Produced by Gary Gilbert (Gilbert Films, «Garden State»), stars Lizzie Caplan («Cloverfield») Alison Brie (NBC's «Community»), Martin Starr («Knocked Up»), Geoffrey Arend («500 Days of Summer») and Mark Webber («Scott Pilgrim vs. the World»)

They discuss the films production and how they worked around the low budget and the fact that the kids could only work a few hours a day.

Pacific Rim Uprising sees Steven S. DeKnight (Daredevil) directing a cast that includes John Boyega (Star Wars: The Last Jedi), Adria Arjona (True Detective), Scott Eastwood (Suicide Squad), Cailee Spaeny (Counting to 1,000), Levi Meaden (Aftermath), Karan Brar (Diary of a Wimpy Kid), Nick Tarabay (Spartacus), Zhang Jin (Ip Man 3), Mackenyu (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure) and Jing Tian (Police Story: Lockdown), while Rinko Kikuchi, Charlie Day and Burn Gorman reprise their roles from the first film.

In response to that question, students from both communities will make day - in - the - life films, with the Effingham / Teutopolis kids teaching their urban peers the art of videography and storytelling.

Kids can write a story about a special day using GoPro footage to accompany their published piece, or create a tale based on a video clip filmed from someone else's perspective.

The elective meets every day during the school's reading workshop block, and kids work on projects that range from the personal, like a digital self - portrait collage, to the global, like a stop motion animated film on industrialization.

Kids around the country are probably already counting down the days until the release of Disney's latest animated film: The Princess and the Frog.

Perry's also sells sandals, boogie boards, volleyballs, beach shorts, t - shirts, kids toys, film, a wide assortment of hats, and just about anything else that might make your day at the beach more enjoyable.

Children are invited to join the Kids Club, which offers entertainment and activities throughout the day, and the screening of an animated film every evening.

The game also oozes that cinematic feel all the kids are talking about these days with a subtle film grain effect and Michael Bay-esque explosions.

«Total Recall» only opened to about $ 1 million more than the original «Total Recall» did in 1990... Of course, the film wasn't alone in its soft opening weekend: «Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days» opened with $ 14.7 million at the box office... The London Olympics and the Aurora movie theater shooting are presumed to be two reasons why ticket sales are down this year.»