Sentences with phrase «mainstream movies this year»

The appearance of deaf performers and sign language in mainstream movies this year is unprecedented.

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In recent years, the statuette has gone home with lesser - seen movies, often from off the mainstream radar — offbeat or «prestige» titles that captured the imagination of Academy voters if not the American public — to the near - total exclusion of big budget Hollywood blockbusters.

Though she's appeared in some mainstream shows and movies (like The 40 - Year - Old Virgin), the blonde bombshell is obviously best known for her adult film career and accomplishments, though she'll probably be best remembered for her affair with Trump.

The movie deals with faith, grief and doubt in a way that continues the «Jesus themes in other genres» trend that's been sliding into mainstream films over the past few years.

The result — a tale of a young teenage boy who believes his epic sci - fi novel has been stolen for use by one of his writer heroes, and the battle that ensues between them — is a movie that this time might be too strange for a mainstream audience, but based on the Hesses» track record, could very well gain a cult following for years.

Share Facebook 567 Twitter 0 Doctor Strange is the last mainstream superhero movie of 2016, a year...

We called out TV and YouTube years ago, and now we're seeing our love of food show up in mainstream television and movies, not to mention merchandising.

While Starz was a huge part of viewing on Netflix several years ago because it was some of the only mainstream content Netflix offered, over the years Netflix has spent more and more licensing great TV shows from all four broadcast networks and many cable networks, and we have licensed 1st run movies from Relativity, MGM, Paramount, Lionsgate and others.

Scoring transgender dates is slowly becoming a mainstream dating habit, believe it or not, all thanks to major breakthroughs that many transsexual celebrities made in fashion and movie industry in the last couple of years.

Can't imagine there will be many better movies for the mainstream moviegoer this year.

In a year where we had some pretty cool and unusual things happening in mainstream cinema (an animated «princess» movie where the most important relationship was between two sisters, a space thriller whose face was a middle - aged woman, a high - grossing action movie starring a young woman, a sci - fi blockbuster where 2/3 leads were NOT white men, a female buddy - cop movie), this just seems....

And based on the trailers released thus far, which showcase its marriage of art house and mainstream sensibilities, «Snowpiercer» is living up to its promise as one of the year's most intriguing movies.

That said, it is doubtful that a mainstream Korean movie that challenged this kind of nationalist myth could be made, if the treatment of local scholars is any indication.8 Other films from earlier in the year that I was able to catch up with were E J - yong's Jook - yeo - ju - neun Yeo - ja (The Bacchus Lady) and Lee Kyoung - mi's Bi-mil-eun Eop - da (The Truth Beneath).

Emotionally rendered by an attractive cast and crafted in the best traditions of mainstream filmmaking — it wouldn't look out of place if you were to see it some evening on Turner Classic Movies — Brooklyn is a captivating and rewarding moviegoing experience, the kind that at best comes along once or twice a year.

I exaggerate, but Josh Gad has certainly become one of the hardest - working people in Hollywood in the past few years since he broke into mainstream success with Frozen, quickly accumulating movie credits like Beauty and the Beast and Murder on the Orient Express.

Let's hope over the years she doesn't get seduced by Hollywood and watered down through years of faceless mainstream movies (Star Wars Episode III, anyone?).

The First Wives Club was a major success story for so many reasons: an original mainstream comedy, a movie about women over 50, a movie that recognized the comedic potential of actresses like Diane Keaton, Bette Midler, and Goldie Hawn... with every year that goes by, the movie seems more and more like a miracle.

While it's not unusual for a scripter to have a long, successful life (after all wrote this forty - four years ago and he's still going strong), but considering that «Strawberry» was a big - budget movie about the late sixties riots at Columbia University, one that showed radical students breaking windows and, I believe, smoking the dean's cigars, that seems too much in the mainstream for the prolific playwright.

What You Need To Know: The festival's opening film is probably their biggest coup, and certainly the movie that's going to turn the most mainstream heads this year (at least on the festival circuit).

This week's «The LEGO Batman Movie» is the first of an anticipated 16 mainstream animated movies set to be released this year.

The Mexican director has been making mainstream Hollywood movies for years, though only one of them — 2006's Pan's Labyrinth — earned any major Oscar nominations, including Best Cinematography, Best Foreign Language Film, and Best Original Screenplay.

It's been a particularly great year for horror movies, some of which broke into the mainstream with both financial and critical success, and some of which are still looking for their audience.

It is an intelligently realized, efficiently presented, and breathtakingly rendered action film that will hopefully revitalize the sputtering genre back to more serious presentations, instead of the cartoonish, cheeky, dumbed - down fodder that has been passing as mainstream popcorn - movie fare for the last several years.

«I think that's where some frustration comes in, deservedly or not, when films like Wonder Woman or, I wasn't a huge fan of it, but Blade Runner 2049, these more mainstream pictures, get pushed aside for these year - end Oscar movies,» he says.

Forty - plus years into his filmmaking career, it's possible to see Jaglom as a prophet of mumblecore, reality TV and other strains of DIY filmmaking that have become so commonplace as to make his own high - end home movies seem almost mainstream.

On the year of Bond's 50th anniversary, here is Skyfall — a celebration of the character's full potential, this immortal member of mainstream fiction, in a glorious piece of entertainment that only has our respect for the «classics» keeping it from immediately being designated the secret agent's most spectacular movie yet.

Cardellini's talent has outstripped her opportunities for years now, though in mainstream successes («ER,» «Brokeback Mountain,» a recurring role on «Mad Men,» those shrill «Scooby - Doo» movies) and in work found in the margins (the very fine 2011 drama «Return,» where she played a military veteran back from Iraq) her unerring instincts in all kinds of material have served her well.

Now, in his belated second film, The Visitor, McCarthy (who during these past four years has acted in such notable mainstream movies as Flags of Our Fathers, Syriana and Good Night and Good Luck) brings together the private and public worlds in the story of the middle - aged New England economics professor Walter Vale.

Over the last year or so, there's been a trend online where people create short videos in which they list a series of problems they spotted in a mainstream movie, from Skyfall to Looper to The Dark Knight Rises.