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The plot is loosely held together by quite a bit of setting up and falling down, devoting much of its runtime to making you want to care about what the Pentagon Papers are, how the newspaper operates, and what's clearly at stake, before finally getting to the point where everything finally comes together, which is when the film is at its sharpest.

Considering it's not a «Christian» film, it may surprise you just how much Christian imagery is featured in the story and set pieces of The War for the Planet of the Apes.

Considering it's not a «Christian» film, it may surprise you just how much Christian imagery is featured in the story and set pieces of The War for the Planet of...

I didn't realize just how much they set the tone for the perception of how someone performs no matter how much a person knows better until I watched the coaches film from these past two games with Manning.

It was set in Modesto, California, 1962, but filmed largely in Marin County, with much of the action taking place along a thinly disguised Fourth Street in San Rafael, just 15 miles south of Sonoma Raceway.

I want to thank Bear from Lolli & Pops for sponsoring the candy bar, Joann and Marilyn for showing up early and helping, Emily for taking these photos and helping set up and clean up, Laura for filming the «get ready with me» video... (coming soon) Glam Squad for getting me ready - specifically Erik and Christopher who made me feel so beautiful and relieved a lot of stress, Roger for his undying support, all of my friends for coming and my beautiful mom for driving 6 hours to, not only come to my premier party, but to scrub my kitchen and help me set up... I am so grateful and genuinely touched that you all care and put so much effort into a big day for me.

The film explores the relationships of four sets of siblings who have Watch full episodes of Brothers & Sisters and get the latest breaking news, exclusive videos and pictures, episode recaps and much more at

Fewer follows ups have been more anticipated than The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the first in a new trilogy of films set in the much beloved Middle Earth, previously seen in the hugely successful Lord of the Rings trilogy.

The Bottom Line: If you're a fan of Oscar Wilde's work, you might appreciate the film for his witty banter, but you're more likely to be appalled by the once - great Helen Hunt, who doesn't work in this type of role and setting, and doesn't make much of an effort to make it work.

In other words, he's much better at effects - laden set - pieces than character drama, and this film is crying out for more of the latter.

I think Jackson has to be commended for, quite bravely, deciding to jump in at the deep end once more by taking on yet another set of films, where the story is not so much saving the world but helping a band of warriors reclaim their home.

The premise is right up there with any Charlie Kaufman film (Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Scynecdoche New York), containing so much juicy potential for interpersonal revelations, but the entire set up is thrown away in the third act for a «thriller» movie that came out of nowhere and does nothing but add a period in the middle of the sentence.

The set - up of the film — 12 - year - old Zain sues his parents for being born — turned some critics off, but The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw sees a «much angrier, tougher — and sometimes funnier — film than you might imagine from its cloying opening premise.»

As the grimmer YA - literary cousin to «The Hunger Games» that also pits young people against each other in mortal combat, this dystopian fable set in a post-apocalyptic Chicago treads much of the same ground as the first film with a modest amount of new information and characters.

Fascinated by the technology of movies as much as by the technology of space — it presents film as a fabulous, exciting plaything, reviving Orson Welles's observation that a movie set is «the biggest electric train set a boy ever had.»

I am frustrated by the lack of modern - or future - set films without strong female characters, but I'm aware that, historically speaking, women haven't been given much training in warfare or an equal share of about anything.

Physically, much of the movie takes place in the sewers (with part of the movie filmed in an actual sewer), and though the frame is dark, the setting is vivid - you can almost smell it and feel the damp.

And the fact that the film, much like Spotlight, the Arabian Nights Trilogy, and Anomalisa, is very much pitched at an adult level, instead of going aiming for the «teenager» set (and I'm not just talking Jurassic World / Marvel / StarWars, I do believe a lot of Oscar - Bait is pitched at that simple level of easy digestion, Carol is not.

The film is set in the X-Men universe with their X-guru Simon Kinberg behind the project, and news reaches us today that the movie is set for a hard - R rating, very much like other X-Men-based movies Deadpool and Logan, both of which have done very well for 20th Century Fox.

One of the most impressive things of Bahrani and Bahareh Azimi «s script is that it sets up scenes which could have followed into much more dramatic outcomes but the writers chose to take the road less traveled and in an odd way, by taking the less dramatic approach, the film removes itself that much further from the majority of indie films that concern themselves with cramming the most amount of drama into the least amount of time.

The film starts promisingly, opening with a foreboding shot of a girl wandering through Griffith Park, scored with ominous guitar squalls courtesy of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, who composed the film's score, setting the tone for a film much weirder and more interesting than the one that follows.

Production designer Santo Loquasto created much of the sets at the Kaufman Astoria Studios in Queens, Allen's go - to film studio in New York.

This shouldn't come as too much of a shock to anyone who has been following these films, which are set about 70 years before the events of the Harry Potter books.

It's hard to separate a sequel from its original counterpart, especially with a movie like The Conjuring, which is quite simply one of the very best haunted house movies ever — not only that, but it pretty much set the bar for all future films of its ilk; that's a hell of an accomplishment, to say the least.

Set in the late 70s, the film positively revels in an exaggerated version of the era — so much smog, so much hair — and the Los Angeles setting means that it gets to mimic all the detective fiction of which Black's always been such a fan.

The chatter of this strange assortment of upper - middle class Brits might work better in the theater, since the action takes place in real time set wholly in an extensively furnished London home (actually filmed in a West London studio), with the women doing most of the talk and much of the witty liftings.

Still, it does remain interesting and quite watchable even if the characters and story are cartoonish, but any aspirations of being a good film get blown into the wind by a grossly overblown deus ex machina ending and is further evidence of De Palma's problem: he has so much fun setting things up he seems begrudging when he has to end it, and it's a letdown both for him and for us that he can't punctuate things properly.

As for exactly where those homes might be, Ronan described the setting as «a burnt - out world where everyone has left, kind of like a much worse Detroit [where the film will indeed shoot].»

In this film, when an investigator was trying to contact spirits, he used a set of dice that had letters on them that was basically a variation of a Ouija board but it was SO MUCH FUCKING BETTER THAN THAT GODDAMNED GAS MASK.

In true Wright fashion, this isn't exactly a straightforward adaptation; the director has set much of the film in a lush theater that uses over 100 interconnected sets to allow the action to move fluidly through various settings.

In true Wright fashion, this isn't exactly a straightforward adaptation; the director has set much of the film in a lush theater that uses over 100 interconnected sets to allow the action to move fluidly through a door and into a separate setting entirely.

With no 3D-less Blu - ray release, this combo pack is quite pricey — it's currently selling for nearly twice as much as the DVD — but for a film that gets so much of its power from picture and sound, it doesn't make sense to stingily settle for the DVD if you have an HDTV and Blu - ray set - up.

The three disc set is pretty much the definitive release of a film that has had a rough journey on the road to find its audience.

A new version of the project comes together, this time with a comeback - minded Nicolas Cage as Lake and Schrader himself directing on a $ 5 million budget (of which $ 1 million is Cage's salary) and a location shoot in Romania (where much of the film is set) and Australia (doubling for Kenya).

It's an east and west hybrid much like the film's setting, the fictional, futuristic city of San Fransokyo, it's a vibrant mash - up.

While the post 9/11 stuff works much more successfully than the socio - political setting of the Argentinean film, it still feels like unnecessary context.

Tehran Taboo This handsomely animated film, much of it set in the libertine underworld of Tehran, makes an unassailable point about the hardships of life in today's Iran, mostly involving sexual morality and the status of women.

The trailer seemed very different than the source material, but over-proliferation of zombie - related content obscures how much of anomaly this picture really is: zombies have always roamed through low - budget settings, but what if someone had some serious dime to throw down on a zombie film?

Not much is known about this film yet, but the brief logline is more than enough to make me interested: «A love story set one year after the existence of the afterlife is scientifically verified.»

«BPM,» «God's Own Country,» and «Call Me By Your Name»: Though the handsomely crafted, Italian - set «Call Me By Your Name» has gotten all the critical attention, two other films about young gay men coming to terms with themselves in much harsher environments — the French «BPM» is set at the height of the AIDS crisis in Paris while the contemporary British drama «God's Own Country» is set in a grim, rural northern England — are both more haunting and powerful.

As such, this makes films like The Castle, Rabbit Proof Fence, The Tracker, Ten Canoes and Jindabyne seem very much of our time, with dislocation and disconnection as a range of recurring themes set to a changed vision of land.

Stay through the end credits for a funny scene involving his character that likely had been intended as a set piece within the main body of the film, but which works much better out of the context.

It's not so much a crossover as a mosaic, and it sets out — among other impossible tasks — to shuffle the colourful, light - hearted hijinks of James Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy films and Taika Waititi's Thor: Ragnarok with the angstier, despairing, politicised tone of the Russo brothers» Captain America sequels, while at the same time reconciling the science - fictional and magical worlds of Iron Man, Black Panther, the Hulk and Dr Strange.

Ditching the MCU's familiar roster of heroes (they don't get as much as a mention) along with many of the basics of the Marvel film formula, Ryan Coogler has turned Black Panther into a highly personal crowd - pleaser in the vein of his last film, the Rocky sequel Creed, but with all the idiosyncrasies and intrigues afforded by its main setting, the fictional African kingdom of Wakanda.

I was a big fan of the first film so I sat down to watch this version with a negative mind set but this was so so much better than I thought.

The question hangs over the film, making for an introspective journey; this isn't When Worlds Collide so much as The Double Life Of Véronique in a modern American setting, with a touch of Hal Hartley melancholy, whimsy, and an atmospheric indie soundtracOf Véronique in a modern American setting, with a touch of Hal Hartley melancholy, whimsy, and an atmospheric indie soundtracof Hal Hartley melancholy, whimsy, and an atmospheric indie soundtrack.

It's set in New York and was filmed there, but we don't see much of the city because the characters aren't there to go sightseeing, they're there to get laid.

The film sets up some of the main characters early on pretty much in the same way we've seen in countless disaster movies, but it takes a real turn after the bombing and chronicles the incredibly complex and far - reaching operation that immediately went into effect.

Had the on - the - field events been recreations of things that actually happened, one could presumably find the film much more inspirational, as it sets up Gracie as some sort of pioneer for girls in playing professional soccer.

For much of the film, the vibranium - clad superhero is out with a vengeance with his sights set on Winter Soldier, despite Captain America out to protect his brainwashed bestie.