Sentences with phrase «last couple of films»

Breaking out of the stylistic confines of his last couple of films, Scorsese hit the ground running with a go - for - broke epic that ran for three breathlessly - paced hours, was horrifying and hilarious in equal measure (an extended sequence involving some old quaaludes, luncheon meat, a looming legal catastrophe and an old «Popeye» cartoon was a set - piece for the ages), was jam - packed with great performances across the board and which offered viewers the pleasure of seeing a top director working at the peak of his powers.

If the box office returns on his last couple of films weren't any indication, Tarantino's still got stronger pull than Lou Ferrigno...

Josh Pais («Touchy Feely») With her last couple of films, director Lynn Shelton seems to be making a habit of showcasing undersung character actors.

Not exact matches

It was not because I was holding onto what might have been an erroneous initial impression of him a couple of years ago, but rather because I watched his film last season the cat showed a lot of growth... when he was healthy.

His shuttle times would be much more interesting (I looked at his combine results for shuttle info but couldn't find any details) but film of him the last couple of years is all we really need to see to know what we're getting.

It's his last time driving an F2 car so to mark the occasion he whipped his phone out, filmed a couple of onboards of him driving, and uploaded it to his Instagram story.

But the thin film won't last that long, so we intend to replace it every couple of years.

Someone, somewhere has been keeping a list of all the «Harry Potter» required fan moments of the entire series, from just the right villain meeting his end to just the right couple getting together, and Yates and screenwriter Steve Kloves spend the last nearly 90 minutes of the film paying them off.

Unlike in 2010, Magnolia released a couple of critical failures last year, but the studio still scored a solid average of 60.5 despite releasing so many films.

I'm no expert on this genre, in fact I've only just strarted watching Vampire films in the last couple of months, however I feel this is one of the dullest I've seen so far.

After playing at a couple of Canadian film festivals last fall, Defendor came to just three North American theaters (four in its second week) for fourteen days of quiet exhibition this past February.

Details on the film have slowly been trickling out over the last couple of months, and now actor Thomas Jane has spilled additional information about the plot.

Aussie power couple Craig and Christine Gillespie — he directed the forthcoming Tonya Harding biopic I, Tonya — are also very firmly on Team Eve, and they invited her to a screening of the film in LA last week rather than Ewan.

One of the greatest films of the last 15 years, Jane Campion's Bright Star is a nearly understated tragedy about a couple so physically chaste by emotionally vulnerability and pulsing with love that the ending nearly bowls the viewer over.

The recent influx of Nordic films into the genre landscape has resulted in some of the most unique, disturbing, frightening, and unforgettable movies of the last couple of decades.

At Toronto last fall where The Weinstein Company bought the film for around $ 3 million, Benson debuted two versions of the film that stars James McAvoy and Jessica Chastain as a married couple whose relationship disintegrates.

Like the last couple of years (and in contrast to 2013), 2016 was light on great films but offered a solid share of good ones — so many, in fact, that I've considerably expanded my list of honorable mentions.

If you have children desperate to see Batman, this film is certainly a better choice than the last couple of live - action versions, though it still contains a great deal of animated violence.

IFMCA member James Southall said that «The Shape of Water» was «yet another from the top drawer of Desplat,» and went on to describe him as «one of the most consistently impressive film composers of the last couple of decades,» who has «managed to be so successful without having to water down his highly - distinctive musical voice at all».

Paul Thomas Anderson did another early screening of his new film The Master in 70 mm last night at Chicago's Music Box Theater, to follow on the Santa Monica showing that took place a couple weeks ago.

It also pretty much reconfirms Affleck's talent as a director — following his excellent Gone Baby Gone which remains one of my favorite films from the last couple of years.

It's a picture that has a couple of genuine - seeming moments drawn out like slow taffy until they're rendered a funhouse version of a genuine moment (the best bit of the film might be Drew dancing by himself — it only lasts ten seconds).

Also, I've worked on several films in the Pittsburgh, PA, area in the last couple of years, so my DVD shelves are flanked by posters for those movies.

Over the last couple of days we've brought you some ourselves with clips coming via the film's viral campaign, now we've received a trio of new images; one specifically giving us the first look at Sharlto Copley's mysterious, main antagonist.

In the last couple of weeks the major fall film festivals have unveiled aggressively competitive line - ups, and the amount of potential awards product landing at Venice, Telluride, Toronto and New York is, as usual, vast.

The couple is Jenn (Missy Peregrym) and Alex (Jeff Roop), and the film starts with them driving from the city to the countryside in a montage that establishes they are comfortable with each other — enough to have a little inside joke about a song he loves and she hates, moments of silence without feeling obligated to talk, and, in general, enough patience to last a lengthy road trip without getting into a serious fight over the little things.

The question remains which films will manage to break through the pack in the last couple of months before the summer movie season hits.

(The film played the festival circuit last year under the title Ruth & Alex.) One movie is the story of a longtime married couple, Ruth (Diane Keaton) and Alex (Morgan Freeman), who...

A couple of starry titles have been thrown to the wolves, while we're still awaiting news of a breakout film or performance along the lines of «Happy - Go - Lucky» last year.

It's a continual guessing game up until the last couple scenes of the film, which makes the cinematic ride all the more enjoyable to sit through.

He brings it back to grapple with a couple of tragedies that befall the family, nudging the film past the two - hour mark and into a sluggish custard of voiceover impressing on us the importance of living each day as if it were our last, and how all life is time travel, etc etc..

HollywoodReporter has learned that writer - director Joss Whedon has left the Batgirl film, due to issues over the last couple of months trying to get a story together and coming up blank.

Kim Jee - woon is a Korean director who has been able to make dark and gruesome films («I Saw the Devil»), chilling tales («A Tale of Two Sisters») and of course, a couple of fun ones, including his Western - style flick «The Good, The Bad, The Weird,» and the Arnold Schwarzenegger comeback film «The Last Stand.»

Starring Andrea Riseborough and James D'Arcy as the historical couple, and Abbie Cornish as the woman obsessed with their romance, it all all sounds suspiciously like «Julie & Julia» with crowns replacing the chef's hats — which, combined with the novelty factor of the film's celebrity writer - director, leads me to think the Weinsteins may view this more as a light commercial play rather than the hefty awards bait of their last monarchy biopic.

Debuting on DVD and Blu - ray this week with the look of a direct - to - video movie, Lightkeepers actually received an Oscar - qualifying one - week run in Los Angeles last December along with a two - week engagement in Cape Cod that broke the modest records of one theater on the peninsula before turning up at a couple of 2010 film festivals.

Synchronicity — Sci - fi can be a tricky bet at smaller festivals like this (especially when you hear them being compared to much larger budget and classic films like Blade Runner), but TAD has chosen a few good ones the last couple of years and with director Jacob Gentry's track record of The Signal behind him, there's at least some solid talent involved.

I'm not sure why exorcism films are still being green - lit, because after all, there have been a slew of them in the last couple of years and they've all bombed.

The remake of a same - named 2004 Thai film, enervated horror flick Shutter, which opened last week without benefit of advance screening for critics, tells the story of a young American couple vacationing in Japan who cope with a vengeful ghost and try to unravel the mystery of a woman they may or may not have hit with their car.

At long last, Marvel's «Avengers: Infinity War» is set to open this Thursday evening, and with press screenings having taken place over the last couple of days, we finally have the first full reviews of the film pouring in.

Happy is primarily set in the house of Jeff (Swanberg, giving himself a much bigger role than his last film) and Kelly (Lynskey, getting to use her native New Zealand accent for once), a working class 30 - something Chicago married couple with an adorable, barely vocal 2 - year - old son named Jude (Jude Swanberg, the director's child).

The film is the fourth installment in the studio's DC Extended Universe, which launched with 2013's «Man of Steel» with an opening weekend of $ 116.6 million, followed by last year's «Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice» with $ 166 million, and «Suicide Squad» with $ 133.6 million, and it's credited with getting film series back on track after its last couple of installments received mixed reviews.

I am a huge fan of horror films but have been disappointed in the last couple years.

Scream Factory have killed it in the last couple of years with their cult classic horror film releases, and we can look forward to another one...

If unsavory imagery is all it takes to get your heart racing, perhaps you'll find it intense, but anyone who has seen any of the R - rated horror films to come out in the last couple of years has seen gorier, grislier and much more harrowing.

I had every intention last night of bringing you a report on a couple more films, but packed - out screenings and overlapping screening schedules put paid to that idea.

So yes, we're on IndieWire now, which technically means that director and Hollywood encyclopedia Peter Bogdanovich is our colleague (in case you didn't know, he's got a blog), but though we have yet to run into him by the water cooler and ask him if he saw «The Office» last night, it might be because he's been busy working on a couple of new films.

Still, Apocalypto slots in solidly next to a spate of caveman action flicks from the last couple of years: stories about civilizations» end (and this film begins with Will Durant's famous post-mortem for the fall of the Roman Empire: «A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within») that have its survivors reconstructing the world along Old Testament guidewires.

Written and directed by Stefan Avalos (co-creator of the indie breakthrough film, The Last Broadcast), the story of a couple victimized by neighbouring ghosts in an exclusive hilltop community is a narrative jumble, but the film's aided by an effectively moody synth score from Vincent Gillioz.

Scream Factory have killed it in the last couple of years with their cult classic horror film releases, and we can look forward to another one being added to the 2017 line - up.

Couple this with the fact that it is a sequel to a wholly lasting Academy Award winning film in Silence of the Lambs and you can see how far the level of quality has fallen.