If you're the type of person who routinely smokes marijuana in a purple conversion van before you enter a theater, this will almost certainly be the best
movie you see all year.
THE SHAPE OF WATER Director: Guillermo del Toro Starring: Sally Hawkins, Doug Jones, Richard Jenkins, Octavia Spencer, Michael Shannon, Michael Stuhlbarg The Shape of Water will be unlike any other
movie you see this year.
And now that the festival is officially over and done with, we at / Film have tallied
the movies we saw this year, to present to you a list of our favorites.
Not to say that Million Dollar Baby is a total mutt, just that it's an obvious, self - important, overwritten thing designed to appeal to specific, stodgy, awards - season prestige audiences that love film so much, this will be the first
movie they see this year.
This is actually one of the sweetest
movies I saw all year, as Slate plays a part - time comedian who has a one - night stand with a very nice guy and then winds up pregnant.
Enjoy — and feel free to chime in with the worst
movies you saw this year.
I was let down by the handling of Kristin Wiig's character, but this was otherwise one of the funniest
movies I saw all year.
One of the worst
movies i saw this year.
By Sean O'Connell Hollywoodnews.com: Was «How to Train Your Dragon» one of the best
movies you saw this year?
Not exact matches
«If you look at sci - fi
movies set 20
years from now, you don't
see people carrying their groceries.
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.
The dark comedy Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri won big at the Golden Globes earlier this
year, but the film has also
seen a sustained backlash from critics over its questionable ending and a perceived failure in fleshing out the
movie's non-white characters.
Immediately after the
movie was finished I ran to my computer to
see where Steve Madden's stock trades today and it turns out that the popular women's shoe company is up nearly 10 % over the last 12 months — and a whopping 567 % over the last five
years.
Many sports fans
saw this
year's rise of Leicester City as the soccer equivalent of the fictional Bad News Bears, although in the
movies, the lovable losers didn't win the championship.
There are
movies I've been dying to
see but I wait months, sometimes
years in anticipation.
Now in the last 10
years or so, we have started to
see this influx of money into the entertainment business from people who don't necessarily like
movies, watch
movies, or know
movies.
Looking back 10
years later (that's right, we've been watching Transformers
movies for a decade now), you can
see so much potential in the franchise.
To be fair, Netflix, the
movie streaming service that costs $ 8.99 a month, has
seen its popularity rise in recent
years, particularly among the millennial generation as they unplug from traditionally expensive cable bills.
Net income for the quarter rose to $ 1.3 billion from $ 754 million in the same quarter a
year ago as the company
saw its Home Box Office revenue grow nine percent to $ 1.3 billion and the Lego
Movie and 300: Rise of an Empire brought in $ 450 million and $ 330 million, respectively at the worldwide box office.
We have all heard someone say «I remember when a new car cost...» Inflation is the reason why it cost $ 5 to
see a
movie when you were 18, but now it costs $ 12; or why $ 100 just doesn't seem to buy as much as it did 10
years ago.
Twelve
years after «Titanic,» which still stands as the all - time B.O. champ, Cameron delivers again with a film of universal appeal that just about everyone who ever goes to the
movies will need to
see.
The
year will
see new releases in The Fantastic Four, Pirates of the Caribbean, LEGO
Movie, Despicable Me, Star Wars, Justice League, Avatar and Transformers franchises.
I
saw it about a dozen
years ago and remembered it as an enjoyable and darkly funny action
movie with an exceptional performance by James Caan.
Even though I go
see exactly 1 or 2 new
movies a
year, I read all of the
year - end lists like a film devotee.
CAMERON: Over the last 15
years we
saw the rise of Christian
movies: Fireproof and all those.
Who do you think is the best example of a well written strong female character in TV and
movies you've
seen in the last few
years?
His background in the
movies led many people to underestimate Reagan, says Gaddis, «for Reagan was as skillful a politician as the nation had
seen for many
years, and one of its sharpest grand strategists ever.
In the hands of director J.J. Abrams, it lived up to the hype to become not only the biggest box office hit of the
year, but also one of the most fun action
movies we've
seen in a long time.
Just before eight o`clock they all gather to discuss whether to watch the «Bill Cosby Show» (Sis «s favorite), «Magnum, Private Eye» (Junior «s favorite), or an old
movie which Mom and Dad
saw years ago and would like to
see again.
After interviewing some former Irish terrorists and
seeing the carnage they wrought, Burleigh can not understand why so many clergymen came to their aid, why so many Irish Americans toasted and financed their activities for
years, and why
movie scriptwriters continue to mislead the public: «Hollywood contributes its quotient of surreal
movies about nobly moody Irish terrorists allegedly facing agonizing moral dilemmas, rather than the reality of intimidating drunks cutting people's throats....
This is the only
movie I've
seen this
year I found to be torture to sit through.
The new Lion King
movie saw a lot of hype stirred up for its casting announcements last
year, but now, it looks like Disney fans will have a new point of attachment to the live - action remake of the 90s classic.
I read it once a
year, and yes, I
saw the
movie.
There were some really great
movies in 2016, but as the
year winds down and now that you've
seen Rogue One three times in the theater, it's time to look...
Caroline Posted on @Sarah My brother
saw this
movie when it came out and raved about it; I didn't
see it until a few
years later when I was osbsseed with DL's No Cure for Cancer album and was convinced it was the funniest thing ever (I still might think that).
We've been
seeing quite a few reasons to just wait to send that text message till after you park the car, but perhaps none that sound quite so much like a bad
movie plot than this story from Maryland, where a 25 -
year - old woman was distracted by texting and ran her car off the road, clipped a tree and was propelled 60 feet into a lake.
Researchers at the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State University looked at the top 700 highest - grossing
movies of 2014 — which make up almost all of the
year's major theatrical releases — to
see how many featured women in prominent production roles.
Whereas for many
years, people who wished to
see violent
movies had to pay an entrance fee and enter a theatre, television sets now were making such material easily accessible in the home to children below the age of discretion.
I
saw the
movie last
year with my husband and son, and loved it too!
I've been thinking about chile pepper and chocolate ever since I
saw the
movie «Chocolat»
years ago.
After taking my 11
year old cousin to
see the
movie last week, he asked if I could make ratatouille for his birthday dinner last night.
The only
movie I've
seen in the theater in the past
year was Dave Grohls Sound City
movie and only because my husband was in it.
I thought the
movie was one of the cutest I have
seen since
years and so inspiring as I just love to cook from scratch.
I read somewhere (or did I
see this in a blockbuster
movie) that your taste buds change every 7
years or so, so I guess I'm still in store for several other rounds of changes.
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.
Linebackers Steve Ache and Jeff Paine were in the NFL in the same
year but not on the same defense, and thus never inspired the Stallone & Van Damme buddy - cop
movie Ache & Paine that we're still pining to
see.
«You
see,» Arthur told them, «I would say that virtually anyone in America 20
years old or older has formed most of his impressions about Africa from the
movies.»
It would be the same
movie that we have
seen in the last thirteen
years.
The fans are disappointed because nothing really changes for fourteen
years, we all have
seen this
movie so many times.
Instead of reporting right away, he and his wife, Michelle, spent a week in New York City,
seeing a
movie (The Devil and Max Devlin) and a musical (A Chorus Line) while Ainge waited to receive Kodak's player of the
year award, voted to him by the college coaches.