Sentences with phrase «longest film in the series»

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Before the start of the series, in a desperate attempt to develop some special strategy to stop Orr and his goal - scoring sidekick, Esposito, Philadelphia Coach Fred Shero had spent long hours analyzing films of his team's repeated losses to the Bruins as well as clips of the Russian national team's checking tactics against Team Canada.

The «Batman» television show (1966 - 1968) cast a long, pop art - infused, camp shadow over the property and, after the big budget failures of a series of superhero films in the 1980s (some more campy than others) such as Howard the Duck (1986), WB apparently had cold feet.

Despite being the shortest film in the series, at 138 minutes, the film still feels drawn out in places, with Yates taking a long time to cover aspects which could just as adequately be explained in half the time.

Sure it's still quite funny, but the laughs no longer come from the main characters, the trend began in the second film and now the Shrek series is entirely about how funny you can make the extras.

This was the eighth film in the long - running series - franchise.

The interview is just the first in a long series of rationalizations from the film's subjects, who are trying to find their way through a moral quagmire, and it also sets up the supply - and - demand relationship between the cartels and their American customers.

Following the series» demise in 1991, Helgenberger returned to television guest - star status on ER, where she had a four - episode - long recurring role, and in the miniseries The Tommyknockers.A presence on the big screen since 1989, when she made her feature - film debut in Steven Spielberg's romantic fantasy Always, Helgenberger has played a wide variety of roles in films ranging from Species (1995) to the moody The Last Time I Committed Suicide (1997) to Steven Soderbergh's widely acclaimed Erin Brockovich (2000).

The long - running series was frivolous, hottie - filled and endearingly cheesy entertainment and the film follows in its waves.

And if Spielberg's film is as timely as a morning edition blaring an urgent headline, it's also a knowing entry in a long - running series: the newspaper movie.

Telsey + Company's L.A. office — based Tiffany Little Canfield, who cast the new «Mary Poppins,» has a long history of musical series and films (in addition to the SAG award — winning «This Is Us»), so hers might be the room to get into.

In this week - long series of commentaries devoted to the Harry Potter films, I will home in on notable aspects of each individual movie while maintaining a sense of the larger mosaiIn this week - long series of commentaries devoted to the Harry Potter films, I will home in on notable aspects of each individual movie while maintaining a sense of the larger mosaiin on notable aspects of each individual movie while maintaining a sense of the larger mosaic.

There first seven discs are identical to those in the (long out of print) 1999 box set (but without the bonus «Nightmare Encyclopedia» disc), while Freddy Vs. Jason is simply first disc in the film's two - disc «Platinum Series» release.

Despite these triumphs, Leonard's reputation mainly rests on the series of six musical films he made with the singing team of Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy; Leonard directed all but two of their features, including Maytime (1937), long established as the uncontested favorite of the cycle.In Leonard's late career, the properties he handled were somewhat less auspicious, though there is a surprise in the hard - boiled melodrama The Bribe (1949), a respected film noir that is the only film of its kind in Leonard's canon of 161 known titles.

Long before the Noir period started, sound on film ushered in several great series of detective movie series where the lead was usually a bright crime solver, but the gumshoe, gritty detective was not far behind and Noir kicked in just in time for that kind of investigator as the classical detectives (Charlie Cahn, Mr. Moto, Sherlock Holmes, The Thin Man) were on a roll that even defied studio expectations.

Chapters of a long - running film franchise that exist in temporal limbo, like the one - generation - too - late prequels to the Star Wars series, often feel static and irrelevant.

«DIARY OF A WIMPY KID: THE LONG HAUL» (PG)-- I thought the «Wimpy Kid» film series was over in 2012 following three painfully unfunny installments.

Whodathunk that the 6th installment in this series that began when I was a freshman in college (don't bother looking it up, it was a long time ago) would be the best action film of the year, so far?!!! The cast is reliably charismatic, there's plenty of flashy automobiles / jiggle factor, and Michelle Rodriguez and Gina Carano have some of the best girlfights since Uma vs. Vivica and or Lucy Liu in Kill Bill 1.

Though we are an organization dedicated to film criticism, Long Takes is a series that highlights topics in film writing that's everything but.

Though Boyle masks a lot of the script's problems with some nifty visuals and the same kinetic energy prevalent in his other films, the frantic pace only lasts so long before the story grinds to a halt, suffocated by a never - ending series of twists and red herrings that makes it almost impossible to discern what's real.

Following a single father who works as a human billboard in Taipei, and his left - to - their - own - devices kids, with the presence of their mother represented by three different actresses, the film has the barest thread of story (Tsai has admitted that he no longer has any real interest in narrative), and seems determined to provoke less patient audience members into walking out, with a series of shots that last upwards of ten minutes without all that much movement in them.

Creed is the seventh film in the series, and unlike many long drawn out franchises, this one feels fresh and rejuvenated.

Based on the 12th novel in James Patterson's long - running series, the studio is clearly hoping that «Alex Cross» can reboot the film franchise that stalled out after 2001's «Along Came a Spider,» but surely there was a better option to play Cross than a man whose biggest claim to fame is dressing up like a fat black woman.

The holiday weekend got off to an early start on Wednesday when the long awaited third chapter of the phenomenally popular Twilight film series, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, debuted with $ 68.5 million in just one day of release.

It's round - about journey to the big - screen was a logical conclusion, and while the first was praised as playfully ridiculous and a violent tongue - in - cheek satire on Mexploitation films, this sequel is a long, drawn - out series of mind - numbing beheadings, choppings, limb - hackings and gore - splattering scenes that would make a death camp survivor long for the good old days.

And when the movie was being filmed, the Sox were in the process of breaking an 87 - year losing streak and winning a long - awaited World Series.

Davies made his reputation with a series of autobiographical films — the two distributed in the States were «Distant Voices, Still Lives» and «The Long Day Closes» — that were as brutally depressing as they were aesthetically striking.

At this time, it's unclear just how much longer O'Brien needs to recover before production can resume on the third film in the franchise based on author James Dashner «s book series.

It may be â $ œthe most eagerly awaited film of the yearâ $ but itâ $ ™ s also just another movie, in a very long series, about a man in a mask with pointy little ears, wearing a cape and speaking in an affected growl, having improbable adventures in a fictional universe, derived from a strip cartoon.

Though Metcalf won three Emmys for her work on the long - running sitcom «Roseanne» and Letts has had well - received turns on the series «Homeland» and in films like «The Big Short,» the two have remained true to their roots on the stage.

The fifth film in the long - running «Indiana Jones» series will now gallop into theaters on July 10, 2020.

Driven is also exceedingly weird, an absurd series of interchangeable events narrated by an excessive amount of dateline subtitles (that linger on the screen a beat too long, in deference to the key demographic), and a pair of sports commentators who function not so much as a Greek chorus but as a couple of backwoods yokels sitting behind you trying unsuccessfully to explain the film to each other.

Starting with Sam Raimi «s iconic original film, through his increasingly comedic (and deranged) sequels, Fede Alvarez «s grisly remake, and the long - awaited return of Bruce Campbell «s chainsaw - wielding hero in the Starz original series Ash vs. Evil Dead, the horror franchise has proven as elastic as it is enduring, able to mold to the specific demands of each new iteration without losing that delirious double shot of zany personality that defines it.

In 2012, she starred alongside Jonathan Bailey in the Disney Channel series Groove High and made her film debut as Éponine in the film version of the long - running musical Les MisérableIn 2012, she starred alongside Jonathan Bailey in the Disney Channel series Groove High and made her film debut as Éponine in the film version of the long - running musical Les Misérablein the Disney Channel series Groove High and made her film debut as Éponine in the film version of the long - running musical Les Misérablein the film version of the long - running musical Les Misérables.

Not long after, Morrison took something of a left turn, serving as cinematographer on the third and fourth seasons of hit MTV semi-reality series «The Hills,» Maybe it's not a job that everyone would have taken, but Morrison found it invaluable on the film that would become her breakthrough, Zal Batmanglij «s «Sound Of My Voice,» which premiered at Sundance in 2011 having shot at the tail end of 2010.

This ought to be chapter three in a series of prediction entries no longer than the amount of time it takes the orchestra to cut off the acceptance speeches of the winners in the short film categories.

The latest film in the long - running Madea series, co-starring Bella Thorne, Cassie Davis, and Andre Hall, earned a stellar $ 27.6 million in its opening weekend.

The Fox series of Marvel films may not be long for this world, with the rights soon to be transferring to Disney, but that hasn't stopped the studio from planning several spin off films in the interim.

THE Kettering Incident may have taken the long way around to the small screen — after filming wrapped back in 2014 — but a sneak peek at the first two episodes of the showcase series packed enough in it to have this TV Insider now desperate for more.

Finally, it is worth mentioning Jordan Vogt - Roberts has directed Kong: Skull Island, a 2017 reboot of the King Kong film series, and has long been in charge of a Metal Gear Solid movie which releasing at some point yet to be determined.

According to The Hollywood Reporter's Heat Vision blog, screenwriter William Monahan has been tapped to write a draft of the long - in - development sequel to the Robert Rodriguez / Frank Miller film based on Miller's series of hard - boiled comics.

And until then, the film is so remarkable at synching its picturesque style to Moonee's seemingly limitless freedom that the one time they do fall out of sync feels jarring, almost offensive: In long shot, Moonee and her friends charge past a series of stores and toward the promise of ice cream, and even after the children have exited the frame, the camera lingers on the sight of an obese person on a scooter riding in the other direction, the sound of the scooter going over a speed bump nothing more than a punchline, an easy potshot, at the expense of a person who isn't even a bystander to Moonee's lifIn long shot, Moonee and her friends charge past a series of stores and toward the promise of ice cream, and even after the children have exited the frame, the camera lingers on the sight of an obese person on a scooter riding in the other direction, the sound of the scooter going over a speed bump nothing more than a punchline, an easy potshot, at the expense of a person who isn't even a bystander to Moonee's lifin the other direction, the sound of the scooter going over a speed bump nothing more than a punchline, an easy potshot, at the expense of a person who isn't even a bystander to Moonee's life.

Of course, that doesn't excuse the fact that «On Stranger Tides» has just as many problems as the last two films, because while it may be the shortest movie in the series, it still feels overly long at 137 minutes and packed with subplots and secondary characters that aren't really necessary to the story.

Collectively they feel like a triumph over the long - simmering tension between art and commerce — between personal expression and commercial concerns — that has seen renewed debate in the film industry as artists endeavor to make movies that feel like more than another episode in a series.

While Mary McCormack and her «In Plain Sight» team were in their final days of filming the fifth and last season of her popular USA series, the actress was also fielding occasional long - distance calls about the ABC comedy pilot she'll be shooting -LSB-..In Plain Sight» team were in their final days of filming the fifth and last season of her popular USA series, the actress was also fielding occasional long - distance calls about the ABC comedy pilot she'll be shooting -LSB-..in their final days of filming the fifth and last season of her popular USA series, the actress was also fielding occasional long - distance calls about the ABC comedy pilot she'll be shooting -LSB-...]

Over time, the Fast & Furious movies have generally been getting longer, while still remaining at a reasonable length, with the first four films in the series all running in the 100 - minute range and the three more recent movies in the 130 - minute range.

He says he envisions Call Me Your Name as the first entry in a long series like Before Sunrise, and he'd like this hypothetical sequel to open with Timothée Chalamet's Elio seeing the 1988 French film Once More in a theater.

In the film, as Northup, played by Chiwetel Ejiofor, undergoes grueling labor and horrific punishment on a series of Southern plantations, Saratoga Springs becomes a promised land, its name uttered with a sense of longing and hope.

Released as a six - part series on Netflix, and as a 240 - minute long film in theaters, it combines interviews and archival footage with staged dramatic reenactment of events before and after the 1953 death of Frank Olson — a military scientist whose supposed «suicide» was complicated when the Rockefeller Report of 1975 revealed that he'd been secretly dosed with LSD.

Shot in a stark black and white, with the actors repeatedly isolated in their own frames, some really creepy images of crazy nuns (the long early sequence wherein the nuns are interrogated and exorcised is a miniature masterpiece) and a series of subjective tracking shots implicating the audience in the chaos, the film reaches a high point when the priest consults the local rabbi (also played by Voit) in a series of head - on medium shots.

Made in 1993, Cronos was a fresh approach to the vampire film created just as the Anne Rice books was reviving the moribund genre and long before the Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series made vampires hip and the «Twilight» novels spread them through popular youth culture.