Sentences with phrase «many middling films»

However it is incredible that this middling film won Best Picture over the original A Star is Born, Stage Door and the Awful Truth!!

Dances with Wolves is ultimately a very middling film.

The middle film in The Hunger Games trilogy, in IMAX, is cleverly helmed by popular music video director Francis Lawrence («Water for Elephants» / «I Am Legend» / «Constantine»).

All - in - all, like many of Hitchcock's middling films, this one is flawed but enjoyable.

Unlike Ferrell, Wahlberg has a few especially strong films on his resume — a result of working with directors like Martin Scorsese, Paul Thomas Anderson, and David O. Russell — but both stars have appeared in far too many middling films, as you can see below.

Combine that with a children's choir performance piece in the middle the film, and one can see the emphasis of «the future» in this telling of the play.

Warner's combo pack doesn't add much value to a middling film that is at best a borderline rental.

Much of the middle film plays more like an episode of a TV series rather than a $ 200 - million - dollar feature film.

Richard Linklater's marvellous Boyhood has six nominations, but that is fewer than the decent but middling film The Imitation Game, about wartime codebreaker Alan Turing — and only as many as Clint Eastwood's fantastically dull and mediocre American Sniper, which has been hugely overrated.

In case you didn't see the middle film, «The Desolation of Smaug,» the final film opens with the same scenes that closed part two.

The Venerable W is far more lucid than the middle film in Schroeder's trilogy, Terror's Advocate (2007), and it builds to a genuinely horrifying endpoint.

Run All Night is a more straight down the middle film than the previous two Collet - Serra collaborations.

I suspect we are yet to enter the darkest days facing our fearless heroes, and if this middle film is a barometer of anything, it's solemnity.

Ostensibly the middle film in Aki Kaurismäki's still in the works Le Havre harbor trilogy (following 2011's Le Havre), The Other Side of Hope is another eccentric humanist tale from the forever happy - sad Finnish auteur.

Even bearing in mind that this film was always going to be fighting the uphill battle of the «middle film» curse, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug still didn't quite live up to expectations.

(The middle film, 1961 ′ s La notte, was also re-issued some months ago in the same format.)

This is the middle film in the trilogy and has the return of the characters from THE FORCE AWAKENS.

Much like other trilogies, War takes what I loved about the middle film, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, and brings it all home to an extremely satisfying conclusion.

Middling films such as «The Penguins of Madagascar» and «Over the Hedge» would end up with more or the same number of nominations as other animated films that were on a slew of year - end top 10 lists (don't get us started on the year «Fantastic Mr. Fox's» only earned three nominations).

It's an odd in - the - middle film and I still can't be completely sure how the Academy has responded.

Not exact matches

In some respects, there are important differences between these markets: variable climates, advertising nuances in the Middle East, and the power of pop and film stars in South Korea.

Mario Haddad Jr., a Middle East distributor for Empire International, told Variety that films shown in the region are usually cut shorter than their international releases.

She says the lighting in her second film, Middle of Nowhere was «a deliberate decision to find the beauty of black people in dark spaces.»

Luke Wilson will star this fall in The Middle Men, a film about the pioneering geeks who made it possible to buy porn online.

This DVD contains five short films that are full of thought - provoking questions for white, middle class, young professionals.

In the 2002 film, «The Rookie,» actor Dennis Quaid plays a middle - aged high school baseball coach who tries out for a major league baseball team.

«Middle - class Christian families in America have every right to have their lives reflected on film,» Astin said.

In the most haunting scene in the film, sometime in the middle of the wintry night after he drives by Akron, Ohio, where he knows his two - year old child lives, whom he until recently thought was aborted, Davis encounters one of those cats again, apparently one he abandoned, when it darts out in front of his car.

Clinging to each other and a blanket after Marianne's nightmare in the last moments of the film — as on a spar in a tempest — Johan and Marianne find some home - meaning «In the Middle of the Night in a Dark House Somewhere in the World.»

Renée's middle age is filmed with unsettling realism — her heavyset figure, her unadorned face, her slouchy cardigans, and her solitary chocolate eating.

Each film depicted the cold detachment of the U.S. military, the government's disregard for its young working and middle class boys, and the unraveling of American ideologies about home and country.

The system helped identify the two extremes — general audience and mature audience films — but what about the muddy waters in the middle?

The film's chief fault lies in the decision to depict the four chief hobbits Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin — as raw youths rather than the middle - aged creatures whom Tolkien invented.

A spoon, usually wooden, is placed in the custard and, when the spoon is raised, the film of custard on the back of the spoon will stay in place even when you draw a line with your finger through the middle of the custard.

I think in cling film in a plastic bag and in the fridge, then warm them in the oven tmw — but putting bread goes against the brain / grain — only time I've put bread in the fridge was when living in the middle east because it used to get moldy too fast otherwise.

But I found yours to be softer on top (hers had a thin crispy, crackly film on top) and, and I also found yours to be very delicate — it cracked down the middle when I was wrapping it in plastic after inverting and reverting again.

A spoon, usually wooden, is placed in the custard and, when the spoon is raised, the film of custard on the back of the spoon will stay in place even when you draw a line with your finger through the middle of the custard.)

Keep on stretching until it becomes a thin film in the middle without breaking.

Jamal studied game film of his brother, and he spent most of his middle - school years working out with him before John left to play football at Carson - Newman.

Adam Rhum had 26 and Marin Kukoc had 23 including a throw - down in the middle of some traffic (sorry we didn't get this one on film)..

The Thorpe Award panel clearly watched film, though, and recognized that Fitzpatrick's coverage ability and reputation made opponents avoid the middle of the field.

I'll be with him from shootaround through pregame and postgame, with a film session sandwiched in the middle, to document the largely opaque daily world of an NBA assistant coach.

Now having an F1 car demo in the middle of the night when no one is around might seem like a strange way to promote an event, but it now makes sense - the whole thing was being filmed for a video.

He wants to go to the Middle East and make a film that might somehow aid the cause of peace in the region.

In this award - winning film, Eamonn Coghlan, former world indoor record - holder for the mile, travels to Kenya to exploring the country's dominance over middle and long distance running

September 26: Middle schoolers create collages, comics, podcasts, short films, and more at BookShop's book group and makerspace workshop (Cambridge)

To briefly sum up his thoughts, he described this film as a depiction of a middle - aged man who prefers to live in fantasy and who chases an unattainable ideal across the globe, only to realize this figment of happiness is a creation of his own feelings of cowardice and insecurity.

The festival, which spans several days, will include a film festival, Icelandic - themed menus across the city, and a concert at The Middle East on Saturday night.

The second film, set in the Middle Ages, stars knights who fight in «clone - like» shells of metal in competitive games and war.

In so far as the film's politics exist, they are notably middle - of - the - road.