Sentences with phrase «movie than in reading»

In all honesty, you'll notice most of my followers on Twitter and Facebook are more interested in seeing the movie than in reading the books.

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And yes I did go through once for me to take out my endowments after that it has been a learning experience because, like reading a book over and over or seeing a movie more than once, you learn different things depending on what's happening in your life at the time.

Steve, Rather than concerning yourself with Not hearing the Word of God at the dry cleaners... or at the park... or at the grocery store... or at a rock concert... or at the movies... or lying in my bed..., Frankly it is my expressed opinion that if you are Not that is entirely your own fault, especially in bed, don't you Read the Word?

It's a complicated situation, one that's easier to watch in a movie than to understand by reading stats on a page.

From streaming movies and reading books to cashing checks and paying credit card bills, society is more plugged - in than ever before.

I like to listen to people more than talk, I am a treehugger, like the outdoors, into arts, reading, walking, love good movies, good music, I like a variety of music, depending on the mood I am in.

Hello, I'm looking for the lady of my life, To be come friends and more, I like walks in the parks, Going out now and than to diner, looking at movies, Going Shopping, Taking Bus trip, And short tours in Different states, I enjoy reading the good book, Playing chess,, ext....

But rather than carp about that, it's much more fun to accept Complete Unknown on its own terms, which opens up the movie to be read in a more metaphorical light.

If you believe everything you read on the Internet, Joel Edgerton is the busiest man in the business, with no fewer than five movies due out in 2014 Hearing this, the actor laughs.

Director Jason Reitman, usually more present in his stories, lets the script speak for itself, treating it more like his recent popular L.A open table script readings than a direct - message movie like Up in the Air.

So even though the last few years of reasonably pleasant outcomes in the top Oscar category have us less than 100 percent sure we won't actually hear the Facebook movie's name read out when the envelope is opened, nothing changes the fact that it's not the movie that swept the guilds.

If such scenes were a vector for more than pithy line readings, this would probably be more forgivable, but the movie finds its best humor in the friction grinding out from the idiosyncratic relational three - way between Krystal, Donny and Andy.

There may have been laughs in the first two Thor movies, but they were much darker and more serious - minded than what director Taika Waititi and writers Eric Pearson, Craig Kyle and Christopher L. Yost have cooked up in Thor: Ragnarok, essentially a flat - out comedy disguised as a superhero comic book... Read

I read recently that Edith Head, often took the credit or was assumed to have done the best costumes in more than one movie that were actually done by others.

When was the last time a Hollywood movie portrayed the acts of reading and writing in such a gratifying and fulfilling way that it made you want to read a real book rather than an «airport» bestseller?

She just returned from the Cannes Film Festival, where she was honored at the awards gala Sunday with a special 70th Anniversary Award which recognized the fact she appeared in no less than four movies (well actually three, plus Jane Campion's limited series Top Of The Lake: China Girl) on display there, including award winners The... Read

Headline: Cops Struggle to Juggle Careers and Fatherhood in Faith - Based Family Flick When Pastor Alex Kendrick read a report back in 2003 alleging that movies had become more of an influence on impressionable young minds than the church, he decided to do something about it.

I haven't read the novels (I've paged through some of «Dragon Tattoo» in English), but even fans I've talked to don't make any claims for Larsson as a great writer (albeit in translation), and the Swedish movie version struck me as little more than a straightforward work of adaptation: «OK, we're going to take this story and put it on the screen.»

If you saw The American (read our review HERE) then you know that the movie - in which Clooney plays an assassin hiding out in a remote Italian village - was more about the aesthetic of European cinema than the kinetic action of American cinema.

Keeping in mind that this film has obviously gutted many of the bells and whistles that make reading a Rowling work such a pleasure for millions, as a movie — viewing it solely as a standalone cinematic work, rather than a mere adaptation — it's probably the most successful of the series thus far.

I read someone's comment in another article awhile back that one of the game's problems was that it was catering more to whatever new movie was coming out than classic Disney and everything points to it doing just that.

Other than the announcement that the ending would change, the other changes from this stage to celluloid transition was casting; French Bob (played by Inglourious Basterds» Denis Menochet on the theatre stage) became Mexican Bob (Demian Bichir), James Remar «s part was re-cast with a bonafide movie star (who we won't discuss until after posting our spoiler warning), and Amber Tamblyn «s Daisy was recast with Jennifer Jason Leigh (whom, I will say I spotted in the audience of the live - read talking to Harvey Weinstein and I astutely wrote that she should be in a Tarantino film; hey readers, sometimes armchair casting actually happens!).

Read on for my My Spoiler - free Movie Review and why Hooda deserves more praise than he has thus far in the industry.

He or she has put up a list of some of the movie's parallels to Emma, a cast list that identifies who's who in terms of the novel, and a note advising, «I notice that people who have read Emma tend to get more enjoyment out of the movie than those who approach it as merely yet another teen flick.»

Released during a summer that extended today's most visible and profitable fantasy movie series, Stardust is both more accessible and less in - your - face than the dense, some - reading - required Harry Potter tales and self - aware Shrek comedies.

Very little is resolved at the end, and a poem read by Fanning in voiceover is not enough to bring you out of the movie feeling you experienced anything more than a pretty, meandering dream of a fascinating time, slightly dumbed down.

You wouldn't say that to a movie - goer who watches the whole movie in one sitting rather than watching 20 minutes each day, or someone who reads a book in a couple of sittings rather than a couple of pages a day.

Best Line In A Movie: «I believe the characters we read on the page become more real than the men who stand beside us.»

Possibly even weirder than the movie everyone's been playing in their head since they first read a logline, Swiss Army Man (Grade: B --RRB- went over a lot better last night, in the close - to - midnight screening I attended, than its DOA reputation suggests.

Anniversaries, TV shows, movies, documentaries and even little old publishers with good intentions and limited funds can draw people's attention to the wealth of truly classic literature available in individual slices for less than a cup of coffee, but it takes a co-ordinated and sustained effort, based on nothing more or less than a belief in the inherent worth, to individuals, to society and, especially, to children and young people, of great books and of the power of reading.

Examples: Visited Florida this summer, Is an avid waterskier, Has a big brother and little sister, Was born in another country, Lives nearest the school, Learned how to skateboard this summer, Didn't see the movie Titanic, Likes anchovies on pizza, Was born in the same month as you, Has a brother or sister in the same school, Favorite subject is science, Has an ear pierced more than once, Father's name is Jim, Read more than one book this summer, Speaks two languages, Has two pets.

In this episode of the podcast, Jay Greene talks with Marty West about why he studies field trips, why we shouldn't focus only on boosting reading and math scores, and why kids learn more from plays than from movies (and what this might mean for online learning).

So I think some system of gatekeeping will remain in place, precisely because most people, even if they abandon bookstores, aren't going to do so for the sake of reading amateur work any more than we've abandoned our Blockbuster stores for the sake of watching amateur videos and home movies.

More than just online diaries, blogs offer a wealth of information and is used by readers to get information about products or services they're interested in, read reviews about movies and TV shows, and even look for the next book to add to their to - read list.

The e-Ink screen, which isn't very good for games or Internet surfing or movies, is much easier on the eyes than an LCD screen, especially when reading for long periods or reading in sunlight.

Consuming news (everything from the latest headlines to in - depth articles and commentary) ranks as one of the most popular activities on the tablet, about as popular as sending and receiving email (54 % email daily on their tablet), and more popular than social networking (39 %), gaming (30 %), reading books (17 %) or watching movies and videos (13 %).

Thinnest Fire Tablets Ever and Incredibly Light Amazon's thinnest tablets ever at 7.7 mm, the new Fire HD tablets are incredibly light — in fact, at 432 grams, Fire HD 10 is lighter than iPad Air — making them easy to hold for hours so you can watch movies, read books, and play games comfortably.

The 15 Best Movies Based on Banned Books It's «Banned Books» time again and what better way than supporting the ending of banned books than by in addition to reading these books, watching some of the great movies that have been made aboutMovies Based on Banned Books It's «Banned Books» time again and what better way than supporting the ending of banned books than by in addition to reading these books, watching some of the great movies that have been made aboutmovies that have been made about them.

NOOK lovers can now enjoy the best in reading and entertainment on NOOK with access to one of the world's largest digital reading content catalogs, with more than 700,000 Android apps and games, millions of songs, thousands of movies and TV shows, plus popular Google services like the Chrome ™ browser, Gmail ™, YouTube ™, Google Search ™ and Google Maps ™.

I haven't seen the movie and don't know more about it than anyone else who's been reading about it online does, but it seems that they're using some of the same elements of the Wolverine in Japan stories like ninjas and the Silver Samurai.

Now customers can enjoy the best in reading and entertainment with access to one of the world's largest digital reading content catalogs, with more than 700,000 Android apps and games, millions of songs, thousands of movies and TV shows, plus popular Google services like the Chrome ™ browser, Gmail ™, YouTube ™, Google Search ™ and Google Maps ™.

The NOOK Store features more than 4 million digital books in the US plus periodicals, comics, apps, movies and TV shows, and offers the ability to enjoy content across a wide array of popular devices through Free NOOK Reading Apps ™ available for Android ™, iOS ® and Windows ®.

In use — reading books, streaming movies, launching apps, sending and receiving email — nearly everything I did on the Nook Tablet was quicker than when I did the same things on the $ 200 tablets.

Every once in a while I think about all the blah movies that movie reviewers have to sit through — and they have to sit through many more individual films than a book reviewer will ever read books.

As far as I can tell from a quick read of the ninth installment, titled Take the Money and Run, Escapology is a kind of very extreme early retirement worldview that puts the focus on freedom rather than material possessions and the myriad of costly services most of us regard as a necessity in this gadget - crazy 21st century (i.e. wireless access, cable TV, smartphones and social media, subscriptions to movie services and magazines and all those other services provided by businesses such as my employer, Rogers).

In practice, however, because video games are programs to be interfaced with a user, their data are more variable and much more complex to read than movies, making interoperability across different platforms a near impossibility.

Among the highlights will be the social practice artist Theaster Gates singing his own rendition of «God Bless America,» «The Battle Hymn of the Republic» and other traditional patriotic tunes; the filmmaker Arthur Jafa presenting his lauded short movie about racism, «Love Is the Message, the Message Is Death»; the artist Shirin Neshat showing films about violence against women; the composer David Lang performing and also speaking about «danger and honesty in both pop and classical music»; the poet Elizabeth Alexander reading her own work; and the artist Hank Willis Thomas presenting and discussing his film «A Person Is More Important Than Anything Else» (2014) on James Baldwin.

I do not live in China, never have, never have even set foot in China, and never will as long as the communists rule that country like a USSR - style dictatorship (despite the fashionable Shanghai shop window displays and the excellent movies from Chinese directors there... but I do live in TAIWAN, an island nation 100 miles off the coast of communist China, ahd I have been studying the Chicoms (as they are called — Chinese communists) for more than 10 years and reading their English propaganda newspapers online, like the People's Daily (go look) and this is important for Americans to hear:

If you want more serious reading on the various ways that electronic sources (rather than 20 - year old slacker movies) are influencing judicial notice, read Ellie Margolis, «It's Time to Embrace the New — Untangling the Uses of Electronic Sources in Legal Writing» 23 Alb.

We've been waiting on this since Google teased it at Google I / O earlier in the year, a voice search tool that can live on more than just your handheld device — look for Google Home and more — that can handle everything from reading you the news, reminding you your schedule for the day, all the way up to playing music or casting your favorite movie on the big screen.