Sentences with phrase «movie by reputation»

I heard about this movie by reputation and was thrilled when it come on cable.

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The Alamo Drafthouse Cinema has built a reputation as a movie lover's oasis not only by combining food and drink service with the movie - going experience, but also introducing unique programming and high - profile, star studded special events.

British universities have climbed up world reputation rankings, according to the latest table published by Times Higher Education (THE), with At first glance, all asteroids look the same and don't get much attention unless one destroys modern life in a movie.

He made a minor comeback with 1989's Look Who's Talking, which fared well at the box office, but the movie did little for Travolta's reputation, and the performer was all but completely washed up by the beginning of the»90s.

Paul is a director who, like many of the movie brats, has a reputation that precedes him — whether it be writing American cinema classics like Taxi Driver or Raging Bull, directing the popular and canonized films American Gigolo and Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, or the lore surrounding the era, popularized by Peter Biskind's book Easy Riders, Raging Bulls.

A clumsily constructed documentary that compounds its cockeyed chronology by devoting too little time to the movies on which Fuller's reputation rests.

Far from the nonsensical, failed - blockbuster of its maudit reputation, the movie is a ravishing renewal of the genre hollowed out by Star Wars

At the beginning of the movie, Hercules is something of a scoundrel who, accompanied by five faithful companions, travels the empire selling his services for money and using his fearsome reputation to intimidate his enemies.

And it kind of feels they're the usage of the primary movie's reputation to head all out on its sequel — directed by means of David Leitch and in keeping with a script from Reese, Wernick, and Ryan Reynolds — which now not simplest introduces Cable (Josh Brolin) but in addition the X-Force: Domino (Zazie Beetz), Bedlam (Terry Crews), Shatterstar (Lewis Tan), Zeitgeist (Bill Skarsgård), and extra.

WHY: Though it may be based on a story by red - hot Norwegian crime author Jo Nesbo (whose novel «Headhunters» was adapted into the excellent and underseen movie of the same name), «Jackpot» fails to live up to his reputation.

What we're left with is a fantastic homage both to itself, and to the movies whose reputations have been tarnished by their remakes and reboots.

The fact that the movie was written by William Goldman (based on his novel, «Heat,» which was previously adapted into a 1986 film starring Burt Reynolds) surely played a part in attracting that quality of talent, but sadly, it doesn't live up to Goldman's reputation.

The following are films made by famous directors that I genuinely like but that I feel got shafted in terms of their initial reputations, so this is not about me defending my love of bad movies.

Named «the best theater ever» by Time Magazine, the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema has built a reputation as a movie lover's oasis not only by combining food and drink service with the movie - going experience, but also introducing unique programming and high - profile, star studded special events.

Here is one of the great, underrated film noirs — a movie whose reputation and stature was recognized early on by French critics and has continued to grow over the past half century.

Director Brad Bird picks up where the last movie left off, with the supers trying to restore their reputations — and Helen Parr (voiced by Holly Hunter), aka Elastigirl, performing superheroics while Bob / Mr.

The movie starring, written and directed by Tommy Wiseau deserves its terrible reputation.

It merely entrenched the reputation of science fiction movies of being more visceral than cerebral - a reversal of trends that was started by Star Wars in 1977.

After establishing his reputation as a playwright, Martin McDonagh made a remarkably confident movie debut in 2004 directing the Oscar - winning, half - hour Six Shooter, set on a train in his native Ireland, where grieving widower Brendan Gleeson is confronted by a gun - toting psychopath.

BIRDMAN: It's another «meta» movie moment as the triumphs and tribulations of a movie star played by Michael Keaton who made his reputation playing a superhero named BIRDMAN (Keaton, you'll remember, played Batman!)

I had gone to the night's last showing of Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway and while driving home from the theater, mulling over the movie, I had half - absentmindedly continued straight where I usually took a left, slipping beneath an overpass and entering a neighborhood I knew only by its forbidding reputation.

But to gain reputation you'll have to slay by the horror movie rules!