Sentences with phrase «movies about the passing»

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When a sales rep wins a gift certificate to their favorite store, movie tickets or passes to an amusement park, they feel good about themselves, their profession and the business they work for.

Talk to your children, watch television, go to the movies» everywhere you turn Tocqueville's prophecy about the future is slowly coming to pass.

I love how shocked Viktor is about some of the movies the Usos pass.

Cancer moms are all about creating memories and traditions that will be passed on, whether it be Friday movie nights or Pizza making parties on Sundays, Cancer moms know that being together is the most important thing.

Without my coat on this outfit I could easily pass for someone going for a casual meal or a movie with friends etc, but with the jacket on I could comfortably switch from the simple casual look to a look suitable for just about any event formal or not.

There are moments in Real Steel where I forgot I'd already seen enough movies about fighting robots, forgot I was too old to be the target audience, forgot that I think Hugh Jackman is turning smarmier with every passing film, forgot that overly expressive child actors set my teeth on edge, forgot to think about all the other underdog / boxing / father - son movies this one is ripping off.

Beyond its best little moments, the movie is addressing a serious issue, and it feels awfully churlish to complain that its earnest depictions of soldiers in psychological pain isn't novel enough, or that Koale's performance is a little shakier than Teller's, or that the movie doesn't have much to say about the Iraq War in particular, or that it eventually tries to pass off a lack of resolution as an abbreviated happy ending.

It will take about half the movie to pass before this introductory sequence clarifies its significance, along with the corresponding present - day iterations of the characters.

Almost 30 years have passed since I wrote a heated article about French filmmaker Luc Moullet for Film Comment — the first extended defense of his movies and his film criticism in English.

I consider which movies I know I'll return to in the future (or that I've already watched more than once), as well as which films had the greatest impact on me emotionally — the ones that I'm still thinking about despite weeks or months passing since I first saw them.

Mark Hamill and Michael Caine have smaller supporting roles, but the movie really is about the previous generation of leading men passing the torch to the younger.

Now that Steven Spielberg has admitted that he thinks superhero movies are a passing fad, the floodgates have opened, and anybody who secretly felt annoyed about the preponderance of superhero films can feel free to say so.

A lot of moviegoers still believe that low quality CGI toon projects should get a pass because they're just «kid movies» but films like Wreck - It - Ralph remind us that superior animated pictures are more than just cheep gags and one - note cliches — considering the film puts a new spin on tried - and - true stories about friendship and heroism.

As this is a tale about two groups trying to outsmart each other, this craftiness does pass into the genetics of how this movie harps on fraternal shenanigans.

If you've ever seen his movies, check out undisputed 3 or Blood and Bone also, he's got the fighting prowess and he's about the right age and could pass for younger...

Variety Amber Heard donates her entire divorce settlement from Johnny Depp to charity Pajiba... she also apparently passed on receiving residuals from his movies Monkey See funny talk about the new Ben - Hur and the long shadow of its 1959 Best Picture predecessor Kenneth in the (212) alerts us to a new webseries on Woody Allen movies.

On the one hand, it's a little disappointing that Tom Cruise has selected Christopher McQuarrie to helm another Mission: Impossible movie, given that one of the coolest things about this ongoing espionage series is how it's continually passed the directorial baton, allowing a different big - name filmmaker to put their own distinctive stamp on the M: I brand with each new entry.

The lead couple (which bears a passing resemblance to Dianna Agron and Eddie Redmayne) is simply not identifiable and the movie doesn't even seem to care about that.

Our excitement about four days filled with gorgeous movies and great guests is tempered with sadness because of a very sad loss: TCM host and historian Robert Osborne passed away on March 6 at his home in New York City.

Sadly, I really didn't know too much about this movie until the news coverage of the tragic passing of actor Paul Walker highlighted it as one of his final roles.

It looks like it could be a really good movie but after having a sister who passed away from cancer I just don't see anything funny about it.

I also wrote about the Spice Girls working on an animated superhero movie for themselves as well as Hulu passing on (boo!)

Worldwide, «Black Panther» is currently the sixth biggest superhero movie, with nearly 48 percent of its take arriving from overseas, and is about to pass «The Dark Knight Rises» ($ 1.09 billion).

For a movie about time, The Theory of Everything doesn't handle the passing of time very well.

So we didn't post it but I'm assuming that in passing most folks have heard something or other about Roland Emmerich's upcoming film 2012 which from the title alone, I took to be some end of the world, Mayan calendar disaster movie.

Were the movie actually giving a damn about anything, it'd be a bit easier to give it a pass on things.

It's not necessary, I suppose, for a movie about a billionaire to be in lock - step with the times, but couldn't the director, Jason Winer, and his screenwriter, Peter Baynham, at least have made more than passing reference to our current muck?

With the requisite eye candy provided by the three leads, and with quite a bit of potty humor, it's the kind of female - centric movie that many men won't find too taxing, but unless you are willing to give the movie a pass for running out of comedic steam about two - thirds of the way through, there just isn't quite enough for an overall recommendation.

Movie review of «All Things Must Pass: The Rise and Fall of Tower Records»: Colin Hanks directed this irresistible documentary about the evolution of the music business.

Just because a film fails the test, doesn't mean it's a bad film, it doesn't mean it would be improved if it followed the formula — it doesn't even mean a film can't be feminist if it doesn't «pass the test», but it's about a larger trend that is problematic when you look at a group of movies.

Wong expressed his feeling about the 10th anniversary of Cheung's passing online saying, «I don't think I would make a Leslie Cheung movie and cast anybody to play him, because I think he can not be replaced.

All About Eve Year: 1950 Directed by: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Starring: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Thelma Ritter, Marilyn Monroe Why it's essential: This movie used to get brushed off as essential for gay audiences, and while it does pretty much function as the Gay Bible — in that there's a lot of fascinating history and memorable one - liners, but too few people are actually familiar with the text — we've long passed the point where it's acceptable to think of All About Eve as anything less than a cinematic classic.

At a time when we seem to have become overly sensitive about humor that pushes those limits, this is, perhaps, an admirable goal (We can probably, sensibly draw the line at a homicidal kid), or it would be if the movie offered us actual jokes, instead of merely passing off broad ideas and incomplete setups as fully formed ones.

• The Wrap this piece about Marvel's plans for Spider - Man got a lot of internet pass - around but it really doesn't tell you much other than they're going to make Spidey a thing in all the crossover movies

Everybody with even a passing knowledge of the Bard knows that Macbeth is going to talk about an imaginary dagger and that Lady Macbeth is going to complain about an imaginary bloodstain, so of course this movie must contain those passages because, well, it apparently feels as if it must.

«Crisp, cracking, and increasingly more bruising with each passing minute, August: Osage County is an actor's movie about a distressing series of events that still manages to be accessible and amusing,» Erbland wrote.

Whilst many have already given credit to the originality of the central plot about a curse being passed on by having sex, let us not forget the works of directors such as David Cronenberg and, if you want to go even more bizarre, Frank Henenlotter, who have both made films involving the distortion of sex and the idea of sex being the conduit for bad things to happen, And granted, the actual threat in It Follows is a supernatural one rather than one of the body turning on itself, but how many curse movies have there been since Ringu convinced us all that video tapes were credible vessels for evil beings from other dimensions to cross over and kill us?

Even while much of the story comes to pass because of the bank robbery, the movie never becomes about the bank robbery.

What passes from there is a movie that is part wild festivities and part discussions about what to do to keep all the jobs intact.

The faithfully well - composed film, which includes big, beefy performances from Joaquin Phoenix and Philip Seymour Hoffman, got us thinking about other masters who've passed across our movie screens, be them masters of a trade, a servant, or even a universe.

It's So Easy and Other Lies (Masa, Expansions, KEXP Blog) NEW Interview: «808» Producer Alex Noyer (Masa, Expansions, KEXP Blog) NEW Two Movies Co-Exist in «Love Among the Ruins» (Tony Kaye, City Arts) NEW Rock Radio Royalty (Tony Kaye, City Arts) NEW SIFF interview: The creators of «The Automatic Hate» talk about one of #SIFF2015's most unforgettable films (Chris Burlingame, The Sunbreak) NEW All Things Must Pass (Janice Headley, KEXP Blog) NEW The Glamour & The Squalor (Chris Estey, KEXP Blog) A Rock and Roll Beach Movie of the Mind (Tony Kaye, City Arts) Creative Control (Cat McCarrey, City Arts) SIFF Thriller «Circle» Isn't Spinning its Wheels (Tony Kaye, City Arts) PNW Filmmaker Ventures into the «Valley of the Sasquatch» (Tony Kaye, City Arts) «Uncertain» Sets the Bar for SIFF Documentaries (Tony Kaye, City Arts) 808 (Chris Estey, KEXP Blog) Itsi Bitsi (Chris Estey, KEXP Blog) Don't Think I've Forgotten: Cambodia's Lost Rock and Roll (Chris Estey, KEXP Blog) Beats of the Antonov (Janice Headley, KEXP Blog) Is There a Way Forward for Superhero Movies?

She didn't break the «rules» of behavior in a slasher movie (Jamie Kennedy never said anything about chain - smoking, so she gets a pass).

There's still a lot you need to know about «Real Steel» before you pass any judgment on the film, like Levy's insistence that it's not a science fiction movie.

He and the movie move from point A through one pass of the alphabet to about point CC, connecting the dots as they go.

This week Mandy (@ladyluck34) joins Mike (@AssaultSuit) and Aaron (@Ind1fference) to talk about: Avengers Infinity War, Avengers Age of Ultron, Monster Hunter, Wonder Woman, Suicide Squad, Bill and Ted 3, Blade Runner 2049, Dumb and Dumber too, Fortnite, Movie Pass, Battletoads, Deadpool 2, Uncharted The Lost Legacy, PUBG, Rocket League, Breath of the Wild, Dishonored, FX Unit Yuki, Don't Die Mr Robot DX, Super Lucky's Tale, A Robot Named Fight, Wizard of Legend, Garage, Suicide Guy, Spartan Fist, Fox n Forest, Trailblazers, Death Road to Canada, Burnout Paradise, Burnout Revenge, Burnout Takedown, Google Duplex and more.

But before you pass the popcorn, for those obsessed with board games, card games, and trivia games along with a love of movies there's: A Trivia Card Game About EVERY Movie!

From the early days of gaming it was all about fun, but as the years passed we have seen more games release with a more serious undertone while still being labelled a video game seeing as you control the action in opposed to a movie where you are a bystander looking in.

Another New Yorker, Maggie Lee, has installed four televisions playing different chapters from her movie Mommy — a documentary about her late mother in the aftermath of her passing.

Communal memory of rare disasters is worse in more developed societies because knowledge now is passed on in schools, movies or the Internet leaving no time for oral history or reliance on the elders to learn about the world.

To make the time commuting by public transit pass more quickly, I find watching movie rentals or purchases from iTunes, although expensive, to be a satisfactory experience holding the device on my lap (although it is true what they say about the glare — it is hard to view content in bright sunlight).