Sentences with phrase «new millennium»

Right around the new millennium, the major studios were releasing 200 - plus films a year combined.

2: Old Ghosts Writers: Craig Kyle & Christopher Yost Artists: Mike Choi & Clayton Crain Craig Kyle and Christopher Yost's run on X-Force reinvigorated the franchise for the new millennium, trading excessive pouches and neon day - glo for tactical black leather and buckets of blood.

Put 2003's Old School at the top of the list when you consider the new millennium's first comedy cult smashes.

Still, to ensure that mom and dad will shell out those New Millennium ticket prices for the whole clan, The Shaggy Dog offers a series of dog - eared clichés about the importance of putting family first.

Instead, the movie makes use of the earlier films» basic plot device (man turns involuntarily canine at the most inopportune moments) and hauls it into the New Millennium, adding plenty of computer generated effects, throwing in a politically correct storyline about the evils of animal experimentation, and making the humor a little ruder and cruder.

After their golden age oxidized as the new millennium rolled on, the heralded developer entered a state of abeyance, fashioning lackluster sequels, putting together fad - grabbing Kinect titles, and working behind the scenes on other Microsoft projects.

When you think of great American directors who defined the first decade of the new millennium, these are a few of the usual suspects.

With the daft assurance of his earlier work and the bold strokes of his recent, «Small Time Crooks» emerges as the perfect Woody Allen film for the new millennium.

A gag - filled romp about a bunch of prank - loving Vermont state troopers starring the comedy troupe Broken Lizard, Super Troopers is one of the great comedies of the new millennium, endlessly quotable, and just as funny today as the day it was released.

However, what the future holds for the Rock will certainly depend on wise choices, and while we can overlook the fact that The Scorpion King is a bad film in his favor, a career of these will make Johnson seem more like the Brian Bosworth for the new millennium.

Sixteen years in, our new millennium looks like a banner age for big - screen comedy, as eclectic as any that came before it.

Named after the only book by film critic, painter, and teacher Manny Farber — a 1971 collection reprinted in an expanded edition in 1998 — Petit's video wrestles with American landscape and culture, irony, memory, Las Vegas, the beginning of a new millennium, death, desert, film versus video, J.M.W. Turner's painting, several movies (including Howard Hawks's The Big Sleep, Jacques Tourneur's Out of the Past, and Roberto Rossellini's Voyage to Italy), as well as two critics, Farber and Dave Hickey.

A new millennium and a new force in filmdom.

Inherent Vice scopes out the death of the 1960s in a rapidly consumerizing Los Angeles, while Boogie Nights sees the fallout from that transition in an epic sojourn through the porn industry, and Magnolia reconfigures Y2K fears around the threat of total emotional collapse in the new millennium.

It is a Cannonball Run film for the new millennium, a post-modern satirical farce that, like so many stunning pronouncements from artists who are not quite as smart as they believe, becomes the very thing it wishes to satirize.

One of the most exciting talents to emerge from Japan since the new millennium is the perpetually nihilistic Nakashima.

Out of the Eighties frying pan, into the fire of the new millennium.

The sport of boxing has not been the same since the glory days before the new millennium.

Hollywood enters a new millennium and the Globes go with it.

While there might be a trace of Norris in the DNA, John Wick is fully a child of the new millennium.

Cumberbatch is what stardom in the new millennium looks like: International acclaim plus devoted, plugged - in fans.

Which is to say, while we're partial to the devastating family drama of Manchester By The Sea or the tender triptych of Moonlight, wins for Arrival, Hell Or High Water, or — yes, sorry haters — La La Land would rank among the best Best Picture decisions of the new millennium.

It's that slipperiness of creation and that psychosis that finds us repeating ourselves by repeating images of ourselves (Multiplicity is a trickier flick than given credit for) which informs a trio of new science - fiction films reaching North American movie screens simultaneously (though only one is American in origin)-- we are the world's new cultural / emotional wasteland and the films of our new millennium reflect that status.

The actors at their current ages look embarrassingly silly trying to recreate something that belonged to the new millennium.

Despite the time lapses that divide the three films and the very different places that the Gen X characters end up from the Queens apartment they used to share, there's little other sense of the passage of time, especially of the new millennium.

«Both confounding and brilliant, [reaffirming Martel's] status on the shortlist of essential art - house filmmakers of the new millennium» — Liam Lacey, Original - Cin.

The Core is at its heart a Fantastic Voyage for the new millennium.

The first years of the new millennium brought us the seventh generation of video game consoles, and with that came a whole new family of attractive men and women.

If the screenplay by first - time screenwriter Jeff Lau could have at least injected the drama with something that could be modestly interesting, So Close could have been one of the better Hong Kong action vehicles of the new millennium.

After making one of the greatest films of the new millennium, Texan golden boy Richard Linklater should now have carte blanche to do whatever the hell he likes.

With «High Fidelity,» John entered the new millennium with a return to the romantic comedies that marked his early career.

Make Mine Marvel for the New Millennium!

Executed with intelligence and verve, True Grit is more proof if proof were needed that American film is alive and well into the new millennium.

It's what passes for groundbreaking independent cinema in the new millennium — drugs and depression as a stage for spastic trick shots (the great fallout from Darren Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream).

From there she built a strong reputation on the outskirts of Hollywood in low - budget features and independent productions until the new millennium reintroduced the overnight star as a mature actress.

Promoted as «the first film about our new millennium,» it sounds as if it's permeated by some of Cronenberg's favorite themes including apocalyptic chaos, intimate violence, and the treachery of biology.

I choose this year not because of Y2K or the neat temporal markers brought about by a new millennium, but because that year introduced Brandon Grey's website Box Office Mojo, which specializes not just in forums meant for box - office speak, but seeks to function as a comprehensive, online database for the domestic and international grosses of every film released in North American theaters within the modern era.

He also may be the first movie villain of the new millennium named Donald.

SYNOPSIS: On the eve of the new Millennium, alcoholic former New York cop Jericho Cane finds himself at the centre of an ancient conflict between good and evil involving a young woman whom he must -LSB-...]

Predator has also had a moderate reappearance in the pop culture of the new millennium thanks to the Alien vs. Predator films in 2004 and 2007.

A film that defines the fatigued term «ambitious,» it's the story of Man's need to transcend the physical, to defeat mortality, to address the divine that takes the form of what the director has called «science - fiction for the new millennium.»

An article about meta - watching by David Foster Wallace says more about the topic with more intelligence and passion than I could muster; sufficed to say that Confessions of a Dangerous Mind is a time capsule of the state of film at the dawn of the new millennium.

Aldrich had wanted to pitch the idea to Tony at a New Years Eve party back in 1999, but was unable to get past Mr. Stark's legendary ego for some face time (side note, props to the music supervisor for his choice of songs that ushered in the new millennium).

People around planet earth were excited to see what the new Millennium would bring; while big companies panicked that the Y2K bug would kill all their hard work and shut down the -LSB-...]

We hope King and co are able to recapture some of the magic of the original, which for our money is one of the best kids» films of the new millennium.

Starting with one epic after another, all requiring massive orchestral scores, the new millennium has seen him score six movies so far: Shaft, Baby Boy, The Musketeer, Zoolander, Changing Lanes and now Enough.

Another interesting program was Our Space, a fascinating exploration of the city - as - protagonist, whereby a swimming pool in Brooklyn (Pool Party, Beth Aala, 2010) disbanded car yards (Foreign Parts, Véréna Paravel, 2010) and Melbourne's own controversial Triangle Project (The Triangle Wars, Rosie Jones, 2011) were all sites for interrogating the politics of urban gentrification, economic inequity and community empowerment in the new millennium.

Osment is really good here, which is no surprise because as a young up - and - comer around the new millennium, he had a way of outshining all of his pre-adolescent competition.

It goes hand - in - hand with the Nixonian westerns littering the popular culture in the new millennium; no surprise to me that this administration — and the attendant feeling of paranoia and cynicism befouling our air — encourages this kind of revisionism, and really, who better than Zombie to helm an update of Carpenter's seminal slasher?

The Millenium Star's name comes from the fact that Mario Party 3 was originally released in Japan in the year 2000, the final year before the new millennium.