Sentences with phrase «less this film called»

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It's called «Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon» and it refers to the fact that pretty much any actor or actress is most likely just a few roles away (or less) from having worked with Bacon, who has starred in more than 80 films and TV shows.

Less than three years after the film made its theatrical debut (to many boos and jeers), the director comes back to tweak Alexander AGAIN with what I like to call the This Time for Real Cut.

The following year, Garofalo appeared in no less than five films, with a supporting part in the ensemble piece 200 Cigarettes, a starring role as an unconventional action heroine called the Bowler in Mystery Men (which also featured Stiller), and prominent turns in Kevin Smith's eagerly awaited Dogma, Hampton Fancher's psychological thriller The Minus Man, and the satirical comedy Can't Stop Dancing, in which she acted alongside fellow comedienne Margaret Cho.In 2001, Garofolo took on the role of Catherine Connolly in The Laramie Project, HBO's docudrama chronicling the aftermath of the death of Matthew Shepard, and filmmaker David Wain's comedy Wet Hot American Summer.

Stephen Dorff was so impressive as original Beatles bassist Stu Sutcliffe in 1994's «Backbeat» that no less an authority than Paul McCartney, who otherwise hated the film, called him «astonishing.»

You might call it a black comedy of errors, but the humorous side of the film is less well executed than Slattery's impeccable creation of a certain neighborhood feel.

Cut to the more or less present day, in which the film is predominantly set, and we'll find young Paddington (voiced by Ben Whishaw) calling Peru home along with his Aunt Lucy and Uncle Pastuzo (voiced by Potter alums Imelda Staunton and Michael Gambon).

3: «Get Out» or Luca Guadagnino's achingly tender «Call Me by Your Name» will emerge as a popular first choice among Oscar voters, and a film that was made for considerably less than $ 10 million will win Best Picture for the second year in a row, confirming that «Moonlight» changed the game in more ways than one and forever altered our idea of what constitutes an «Oscar Movie.»

(Elia Kazan, 1947), Call Northside 777 (Henry Hathaway, 1948), and The Naked City (Jules Dassin, 1948), T - Men achieved this semblance of realism through the then - innovative (by classical Hollywood standards) on - location filming in Detroit, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C.; a newsreel - style voiceover; and a cast featuring lesser - known stars like former Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer contract player Dennis O'Keefe.

While film historians have rightly called foul over the colourisation of black - and - white classics, they surely will have less cause to complain about the decision to remaster Oz digitally and to present it as if it's a new James Cameron movie.

Some liked it less, but according to The Independent, it's Sofia's best - received film since Lost in Translation, and Kiki's being singled out as one of the breakout performances, if not the breakout performance — if you can call someone with a 20 year career in Hollywood a «breakout».

: I realize I'm going to take some heat for putting this widely loathed film on my best list, especially since I was less than enthused by the overrated critic faves «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri» and «Call Me by Your Name,» but Darren Aronofsky's fantasia about a self - infatuated poet (Javier Bardem) and his suffering muse of a wife (Jennifer Lawrence) is, like «Get Out,» both horrific and satiric in ways that move beyond the easy confines of genre.

Some might call it a parade of genre clichés, but the film is less about the destination than the journey.

With less than $ 300,000 separating the top three films this weekend, the final order of the domestic top ten has been difficult to call.

Though the slapstick mostly flounders, the film is even less successful when it calls upon these three to be the villains of the piece, as it does later on.

Sucker Punch has been called one of the worst films of the year (granted it's only April, so that's ridiculous hyperbole), but the rest of the critical response is less than positive.

The film is competently crafted on its budget but holds little of interest in its action (less of it than you think) and narrative (you'll call it before the characters will).

They're less keen, but are a uniquely unpleasant trio themselves: quack to the stars Dr Stafford Weiss (a nicely nasty John Cusack, clearly enjoying his new villainous groove), pushy parent Christina (Olivia Williams - brilliantly brittle, as ever) and, the object of Christina's ruthless deal - making, 13 - year - old teen idol Benjie (Evan Bird), the spoilt star of a horrible film franchise called «Bad Babysitter».

The entire film references other comic book films, and pop culture mentions, typically by making fun of them in some way; Green Lantern, joke in the credits, Batman v Superman Dawn of Justice's silly mommy moment, Hawkeye's lack of powers, Josh Brolin's Thanos's two - timing as a character in Avengers: Infinity of War less than three weeks ago, at one point Wade simply calls Brolin's (Cable), «Thanos,» Logan's gags you'll need to see for yourself.

Nimoy was even less eager than before to come back — during this time, he had directed a film version of his one - man play «Vincent» (1981), in which he played Theo van Gogh, and gave an Emmy - nominated performance opposite Ingrid Bergman (in her last role) in the mini-series «A Woman Called Golda» — but agreed to come back with the promise that Spock would be killed off once and for all.

The film is less of a superhero story than it is a sci - fi epic, following the exploits of a cosmic team from the comics who could charitably be called D - list characters.

When the film is, relatively speaking, a mid-budget genre entry, there's less pressure and you can call more of the shots behind the camera as executive producer.

Unfortunately, the gold - plating is less than satisfying and his movie still draws comparisons to the first film, which — as mentioned several times already — was not so special in the first place and left few calling for a second effort.

But as the film progresses, Vigalondo reveals the wild card up his sleeve: this is less a monster movie and more a character study about the so - called «nice guy» in town (Jason Sudeikis) becoming unable and confronting the failure of his hapless dreams and choosing to wreak havoc instead.

There's enough creepiness involved to call this a horror film, but truth be told, by about the midway point it turns to corrupt government action flick, with slightly lesser results.

No less a personage than William Friedkin, director of «The Exorcist,» called «The Babadook» the most terrifying film he's ever seen.

Whitespace Gallery calls for short short films (8 min or less) that address truth.

Broodthaers's institutional critiques, appropriations, discordant images and texts, mixed medium installations «which he called «decors» or «designed spaces» «and, to a lesser extent, films are beloved by art critics and historians (an entire issue of October was devoted to him in 1987).

The camera starts to move, and the images become less stable formally and we go through this flux,» says Mukherjee, a vibrant San Francisco artist whose «hybrid films,» as she calls them, are on view, along with ink paintings on colored paper and prints on silk saris, in her first solo museum show.

What we call «IR photography» then is the technique to capture IR radiation in the limited range between 750nm and 1300nm (in the case of digital sensors) and even less in the case of IR film.»

There's a rather less whimsically amusing black and white work I've just come across — a 1996 National Film Board animated short film by Craig Welch, called How Wings are Attached to the Backs of Angels — that is nonetheless absorbing.

Also, Adrian Belic, the film director, will be screening Beyond the Call, which has so far won no less than 37 Best Film awards!

A spokesperson for Homesense reveals, «It's inevitable that some traditions will become less popular but it's encouraging that our modern Christmases are still family focussed, whether it's a video call to relatives who live oversees or getting together as a family and watching a film.»