Sentences with phrase «made against the movie»

His absence — and the avalanche of sexual misconduct allegations that have followed those made against the movie mogul — was noted occasionally Monday but didn't drive the proceedings.

Not exact matches

If he can convince American voters that what they're beholding has as much to do with the egos of the actors as with the egregiousness of his acts, he has inoculated himself against Robert Mueller, and he shapes the movie that's made of this.

Fallon's was the first high - profile resignation after a growing number of allegations of inappropriate behavior were made against ministers and lawmakers, fuelled by sex abuse allegations against Hollywood movie producer Harvey Weinstein.

Ridley Scott's decision to cut Kevin Spacey from his new movie «All the Money in the World» and reshoot his scenes with Christopher Plummer, following the sexual misconduct allegations against Spacey, made worldwide news.

Ask the Muslims who every day draw antisemite caricatures and in daily newspapers in Egypt and make horrible movies against Jews and Israel in Turky.But this hypocrits are affended when they get the same treetment.I personaly dislike the muslim faith and this is a politicaly correct statement.If I could freely speak out... (youtube for instance don't do anything to Holocaust deniers... but if you write anything bad about Moslims they automaticaly warn you and even close your account... hypocrits... cowerds)

Two movies I've seen lately that were unexpectedly great: WARHORSE (I usually can't stand Spielberg — but this is a eloquent anti-war film directed against probably the most senselessly and hugely murderous war ever — World War I. It's an anti-imperial and almost a pro-Porcher movie, until you realize that the first misuse of the heroic horse was making him plow.)

European concerns about Hollywood films are largely based upon the existing trade deficit with the USA in audiovisual trade and the fact that over half of the movies exhibited in European cinemas are made in the USA against only 2 % European films released in the USA.

Small wonder that America's movies and music and television shows make us enemies in traditional societies around the world — and small wonder, too, that many cultural conservatives, despairing of their country's future, embrace withdrawal from the world into a narrow, well - defended Christendom, where their families and their faith can be protected from the lowest - common - denominator swill that washes against the walls outside.

It seems like a made - up line from a movie script written by Jim Nantz, but Spieth dropped it and then opted against a layup.

A made - for - television movie about Mr. Dees aired on NBC; «Line of Fire» describes his successful fight against the Ku Klux Klan.

(WBEN / AP) The University at Buffalo has begun the process of taking back movie mogul Harvey Weinstein's honorary degree, in light of the mounting number of sexual harassment allegations being made against the Hollywood Titan.

In «Living in Oblivion,» he played the lead, a beleaguered low - budget director trying against all odds to make a movie.

One of the stranger ironies to be found in Hollywood these days is that some of its most resourceful directors use high - tech wizardry and state - of - the - art movie technology to make films that rail against the tyranny of science.

Bean and Malcolm McDowell slum it enjoyably in their brief roles, although they spend most of their scenes in chains, which makes it seem as if they were forced into the movie against their will.

What did make this movie work was the sense of «being there,» of watching these characters go through what they think are grand plans for themselves (Wikus proud of getting promoted; Christopher thinking he's finally going to fix the mothership and escape) only for random chance, selfishness, and the raw immediacy of simple survival kick in and having them struggle from moment to moment against hostile forces (MNU, the human slumlords, there is no difference between those two groups exploiting the aliens).

A city manager and the manager of a local chemical plant rise up against their employers to keep a town safe from contaminants in this made - for - television movie.

That the movie is easy on the eyes (Melody's fetching silhouette against those sunset river views) doesn't make it any less bogus.

They were fighting against the clock in that movie, and the way that movie built, it made that concept work.

Elizabeth's sea battle against the Spanish Armada — led by one very droll King Philip II (Jordi Molla)-- co-opts the movie with a CGI infused battle sequence made memorable for its insistence on the significance of a white horse consumed by the ocean's depths.

In the aftermath of the movie's first Cannes screening, many journalists made the obvious comparison with «Footloose,» in which teen rock lover Kevin Bacon runs up against buttoned - up priest John Lithgow.

It's nightmare inducing, not so much because of the monsters, but because it makes you feel so goddamn helpless, watching this poor family go through basically the worst possible day (mostly because they have dumb horror movie children) in a world that turns every sound they make against them.

Chronicling the making of The Room, which earned a so - bad - it's - good status to become a midnight movie cult classic, The Disaster Artist was largely in the awards season conversation until sexual misconduct allegations against Franco broke.

Ripley holds her own against the Marines, and I think what it lacks in horror it makes up for with the amount of aliens present in this movie.

A Madea Halloween has all the earmarks of a play and it shows quite often through out its structure, which sadly goes against the three - act narrative that makes movies work when done well.

The story is female - centric, ripped from the headlines, and pits a fiercely loving mother and her vulnerable child against a predatory older man, all tropes of the type of TV movie that makes middle - aged moms cry into their chardonnay.

Strikingly silhouetted against the movement of streets and tunnels, central couple Murphy and Electra for once look exactly like the monumental archetypes the movie is trying to make them out to be, and as their squabbling reaches new lows of viciousness and abuse, they become riveting — proof of how much drama can depend on an effective backdrop.

With his adaptation of M. L. Stedman «s bestselling novel, writer - director Derek Cianfrance wanted to make The Light Between Oceans a cross between a John Cassavettes movie and a Dean Lean film, a personal tale told against an epic backdrop.

I will say though that craftsmanship and swimming against a tide of mediocre movie making are consistent trademarks I'd guess no - one would object to having applied to them so I'll plant my flag in both of those camps for Mr. PTA.

Even Preston Sturges, another clear influence, when he came out against movie - making with a political agenda in Sullivan's Travels, didn't do so as a matter of doctrine.

Miraculously, against all odds, Michael Bay has made a movie about giant robots invading the earth... boring.

On Episode 5, Ross and Kyle weigh their picks for the best movies of the year against the Oscar nominees, then talk about that time Paul Newman made a movie...

Elgort is up against three actors playing real people — Carell as male chauvinist Bobby Riggs, Jackman as P.T. Barnum and Franco's take on Tommy Wiseau, the director of one of the worst movies ever made.

In these highly structured moments where the consensus view of reality rubs up against the tiny planet of terror that Sam and Amelia call home, director Kent actually finds impromptu bursts of laughter — which only makes the movie feel that much more unhinged.

That's something anyone can relate to, and yet, as the movie illustrates, when everyone's crowded together on the bottom, it makes sense to stand up and fight together, not against one another — and Rees» achievement comes in looking past what separates her characters and celebrating what they have in common.

by Walter Chaw A painfully amateurish reworking of Play It to the Bone set against the turgid, redneck world of backyard wrestling, Robert Boris's Backyard Dogs is the kind of head - scratcher that makes filmmakers of folks who never realized that making a movie was this easy.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening February 24, 2012 BIG BUDGET FILMS Act of Valor (R for torture, profanity and graphic violence) Action adventure about an elite team of Navy SEALS who embark on a top secret mission to rescue a kidnapped CIA Agent only to uncover an imminent terrorist plot against America.

The movie takes place a couple of years after the end of 2011's «Transformers: Dark of the Moon,» but there have been some changes made; despite the alien - robot - truck - thingies having saved the world, the U.S. government is now against all bots because they wrecked Chicago in the process, so now we've got Kelsey Grammer as a secretive C.I.A. powerhouse doing a purge on all Transformers — OR IS HE?

In the midst of the mounting sexual abuse claims being made against disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, actor Channing Tatum has decided to pull...

Don't tell me about all the advances the Academy has made, the fact that its director branch put crazy ass anti-semitic sexist abusive Mel Gibson back on the director's short list last year and gave his clunky bloody obvious war movie a best picture nomination just proves how many assholes are still lurking among the voters ready to backlash against women and people of color.

At last, M. Night Shyamalan has decided to let his freak flag fly, and made the sort of unapologetic B - movie one always suspected he had pent up inside of him; it swerves from dark comedy to 1970s-esque psycho - horror as the irresistibly preposterous script struggles for attention against a delirious lead performance by James McAvoy.

Bridget Jones's Diary, a beloved book about a heroine both lovable and human, has been made against all odds into a funny and charming movie that understands the charm of the original, and preserves it.

The fight itself is the stuff the best sports movie climaxes are made of, practically all Miguel's offense against Robby's defense, as it should be.

You would have to be seriously alienated from normal human values and be nursing a deep - seated anger against movies that make you think even a little, but you could laugh.

What separates «Ex Machina» from all those other movies about the potential dangers of sentient A.I., however, is the addition of Gleeson's character to the equation, because it uses Caleb's humanity / moral compass against the audience to make you sympathetic towards Ava even though virtually every film about robots has taught us not to trust them.

With its obsessed but unqualified hero, Blue Ruin makes a kind of comic sense if you match it up against glum, big - budget, male revenge fantasies — hard - driving movies with the likes of Charles Bronson and Mel Gibson.»

While Super Troopers only made a very mild splash during its box office run, which is not bad considering the movie made roughly $ 23 million against its $ 3 million production budget) as well as facing mixed reviews from critics, the movie itself found its popularity on home release.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening December 25, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (R for violence, gore and profanity) There is no peace on Earth this Christmas for the unsuspecting folks in the quiet Colorado town where this sci - fi sequel unfolds pitting the last surviving predator against an army of aliens in a bloody, bestial showdown.

But if the group is merely saluting the effort Scott made in excising Spacey following multiple allegations of sexual misconduct against the actor, then it came at the expense of Gerwig, an awards season front - runner for the lovely «Lady Bird,» the rare movie love story centered on a mother and daughter.

Meanwhile, the movie does revolve around Harley Quinn breaking away from her clearly abusive relationship with the Joker, but there's so little dialogue and actual narrative available to support this storyline, so it's really hard to even make a case for or against it.

Those with doubts about the viability of the movie Entourage had them confirmed when the film drew unfavorable reviews and made little impact at the box office, where it opened as counterprogramming in June against summer's typically big - budgeted fare.