Her performance as Lady Bird in Greta Gerwig's loosely biographical (she denies it, but...) coming
of age movie about a teen growing up in Sacramento in a middle class family who yearns for something more than the humdrum life in the suburbs.
What seems to be a typical coming
of age movie -LSB-...]
1:00 am (19th)-- TCM — Almost Famous Cameron Crowe turns his semi-autobiographical lens on rock stars, groupies, and rock journalists in one of the greatest combinations of road movie, coming
of age movie, and music film ever made.
While the film begins in a rather derivative fashion, making it seem as if we're in for an hour and a half of the same coming
of age movie we've seen time and time again, Berman and Pulcini are able to morph the film into an ensemble once Jude gets to the city, and the movie is all the better for it.
On the surface, Youth in Revolt seems to be the perfect hipster coming
of age movie; with it's obscure pop songs, absurdist fantasy sequences, and Michael Cera.
A solid coming
of age movie with a good soundtrack good performances and an interesting take.
Yeah it looks like some decent writing... but it is just another coming
of age movie about an awkward white boy... and a summer job with cool adults that get him... and a single parent that's tuned out..
It's a silly Gen X romantic comedy / coming
of age movie, albeit one with a great cast.
I don't believe a coming
of age movie has ever been presented quite like this.
The coming
of age movie has picked up Best Film awards in New York and Canada with lead actor Aide Spratt also taking home a Best Actress award in LA for her work on the film.
Of course, it had some faults like all coming
of age movies do (cough cough nobody in the movie is a teen cough cough) but I really don't fault it for that..
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This is not a film which challenges the stereotypes of teen coming
of age movies.
There are more coming
of age movies than anyone would probably want to count, but the journey from youth to (at least a little) maturity isn't always all that interesting.
There has been so many coming
of age movies that the gears have become familiar.
In a sea of coming
of age movies, Lady Bird stands out as a truly fantastic film.
Lady Bird is truly one of the best coming
of age movies released in years.
Whenever I see these types of coming
of age movies about young boys, they always bring me back to Stand By Me, which is my all - time favorite movie.
PS On the subject of movie anniversaries, one of my other favourite coming
of age movies, Reality Bites, turned 20.
Not exact matches
«My phone rang and it was [
Age of Ultron director] Joss Whedon and he said, «Do you want to play the Vision in the next «Avengers»
movie?»»
Apparently, audiences were not interested in seeing a nearly three - hour - long
movie about a robotic alien truck eluding the clutches
of an intergalactic bounty hunter by joining forces with prehistoric robot dinosaurs — that would be Transformers:
Age of Extinction — or that one where Tom Cruise is repeatedly killed while fending off an alien invasion... or something.
They took it from the title
of a John Wayne flick, The Barbarian and the Geisha, which has to be the only
movie in which the
aging cowboy was seen on - screen wearing a kimono.
Not much is known about the new
movie though we can confirm it will once again star Mark Wahlberg, who made his debut in the Transformers world in the previous
movie, Transformers:
Age of Extinction.
Ahead
of «Avengers:
Age of Ultron,» which arrives to theaters in May, «Furious 7» has a good shot at being the year's first billion - dollar
movie.
The path she takes meanders alongside a stream and over train tracks, not far from where hundreds
of people converge during the company's summer «bike - in
movie» events, gathering on the lawn to enjoy films paired with fine beers — like New Belgium's flagship Fat Tire Amber Ale, the organic wheat offering Mothership Wit and La Folie, a sour ale
aged in the large French oak barrels that loom behind the bottling site.
That's more than 2016's Captain America: Civil War ($ 25 million in its Thursday opening) and behind 2015's Avengers:
Age of Ultron ($ 27.6 M), giving Black Panther the second - biggest Thursday debut
of any Disney - Marvel
movie ever.
It all has to start from talent The
movie shows Justin Bieber's musical talents from the
age of two years old.
It is the sort
of thing we teach our children (or at least the sort
of thing we used to be able to teach our children before this
age of incivility corrupted our youth with its rock music / hippies / video games / rap music / violent
movies / Internet / baggy pants).
Redstone is one
of the last great media barons
of the cable
age, having grown a number
of significant TV networks from a relatively modest chain
of movie theaters.
Since he is about my
age, I grew up seeing that much
of the stuff he incoporated into his novels was plagiarized right out
of old B horror
movies of the 1950's and early sixties!
I support this
movie for it encourages rational and critcal thinking instead
of blind acceptance
of 1st century bronze
age attempts to understand our world.
Because he might hurt someone, and, to quote Manfred the mammoth from the
movie Ice
Age, part
of what you do in a herd is look out for each other.
Our
age has lost none
of its appetite for fables
of personal liberation, and it tends to side with the rebels Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson, or with the precepts
of Emersonian self - reliance, or with the antinomian moral fables offered repeatedly by
movies.
We met in Sunday school, in a moment that could have been the beginning
of a coming -
of -
age friendship
movie.
(R - rated films on cable's various
movie channels are easily available to children
of any
age who know how to program their VCRs, or whose parents don't care what they watch on cable.)
This isn't a play or a
movie, where people can leave whenever they wish, and in the
age of smartphones, TV is in our pockets even when we leave, too.
After an unpleasant sexual encounter, for example, Dunham sits «in a shallow bath for half an hour like someone in one
of those coming -
of -
age movies.»
The comedic duo is teaming up to star in a
movie musical based on the book Everything Is Coming Up Profits: The Golden
Age of Industrial Musicals.
Marvel Studios» Black Panther is a masterpiece
of movie making and has become an instant cultural phenomenon, sparking discussion, inspiring people young and old, and breaking down
age - old industry myths.
In an
age like ours, when a Hollywood
movie actor who was also head
of the actors» union for a while became President
of the United States, this prejudice might seem mere crankery.
Will Smith is nearing the
age of 50, and during his career, he has climbed to the top
of the worlds
of TV,
movies and music.
I haven't seen a
movie in a dog's
age but I'd love to see the new adaptation
of Jane Austen's unfinished novel Love & Friendship but who are we kidding, we all know I don't watch
movies.
Even in our current
age of streaming the latest
movies in our living rooms, summer is still seen as the prime season for escapist blockbusters.
According to the casting call, a copy
of which can be seen here, the
movie is on the lookout for girls
ages 18 - 30, who it divides into four groups: «A Girls» are «the hottest
of the hottest» and can be any race.
At least, this is what I learned at the ripe
age of six from watching the
movie Clueless.
Of the more than 600 movies released in this country each year, a substantial number of them are «guilty» of proselytizing on behalf of a worldview that celebrates greed, trivializes violence and winks at sexual activity among people of all ages at all time
Of the more than 600
movies released in this country each year, a substantial number
of them are «guilty» of proselytizing on behalf of a worldview that celebrates greed, trivializes violence and winks at sexual activity among people of all ages at all time
of them are «guilty»
of proselytizing on behalf of a worldview that celebrates greed, trivializes violence and winks at sexual activity among people of all ages at all time
of proselytizing on behalf
of a worldview that celebrates greed, trivializes violence and winks at sexual activity among people of all ages at all time
of a worldview that celebrates greed, trivializes violence and winks at sexual activity among people
of all ages at all time
of all
ages at all times.
To call a person or thing medieval is often to label it as obscurantist; recall the depiction
of the «
Age of Faith» in the
movie The Name
of the Rose, in which Sean Connery as Br.
In an
age of technology that makes
movies more visceral and realistic than ever before, we must be careful to maintain high standards.
Maintaining a growing library
of books that you've read (whether it's on your Kindle or iPad or, you know, one
of those actual «shelves» that old mansions in the
movies have), is a good habit to get into at any
age.
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.