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But while there are crotch - hits aplenty, director Oliver Parker rarely plumbs the ultra-low depths of films like Grown Ups or Zookeeper.

Not exact matches

Like the forgiveness film «Luggage», that forgiveness is a better way to live, so hopefully we made that film out of our own growing realisation that harbouring bitterness and revenge is just an awful existence.

Growing up in the second poorest county in Illinois, where many families below the poverty line depended on venison from hunting to get through the winter, the only times I saw people like me on TV were in Dukes of Hazard reruns (my own family has a storied moonshining history) and in a VHS copy of the 1974 film Where the Red Fern Grows.

The film wasn't great, but I had a really lovely night, and would recommend some of the other outdoor movies the British Film Institute are screening this summer, especially if, like me, you grew up watching the film Grease with the iconic Drive - Thru movie date scene... something it's otherwise very hard to recreate, living in the UK in this day and age.

But the truth is that like those «80s films many of us grew up on, and which we watched a million times over on home video and cable television, «Real Steel» feels destined to become a staple in the libraries of kids in this generation.

The biggest of the non-major distributors, TWC saw its box office receipts grow by nearly 36 % last year compared to 2014 (thanks to hits like Paddington and 2014 holdover The Imitation Game), even as the overall quality of its films declined.

Many handsome leading men lose their seductive confidence as they grow older, but Bachchan is such a industry - defining star that he can do (and often has done) whatever he wants, whether it's scowling pensively throughout a trilogy of «Godfather» - esque gangster films («Sarkar,» «Sarkar Raj» and «Sarkar 3») or playing a Cyrano de Bergerac - like bum who lends his commanding baritone voice to a struggling young movie star whose natural voice isn't sexy enough («Shamitabh»).

If the abundance of agriculture may be too much for some tastes, the film subtly reveals how farming methods grew increasingly industrialized over the years: Just as the armies of the Great War employed modern weapons like tanks and airplanes for the first time, so the Paridiers begin to use combines and tractors to yield more crops with less labor.

Indeed, the non-Marvel films in these franchises that have done best more recently are the ones that stood out from the crowd, like Wonder Woman (which rejected the dark tone of other DC movies), Logan (which felt like a grown - up standalone film), and Deadpool (which loudly razzed the idea of being linked to X-Men movies).

Viewing this film is like watching a field of laminated dicks grow.

At first, Penn and Kidman seem like an unlikely pairing, but as the film and its layers of mystery are peeled away, their chemistry grows in intensity, ultimately producing a satisfying brew of desire and unrequited passion.

And, while I'm growing a bit weary of her, I enjoyed Leslie Mann as the mother of some of these girls, and she nails the modern day new - age philosophy of parenting «these type» of girls to a T. All in all this is a glossy and fun film that will satisfy, but doesn't leave a strong legacy like the kind the characters aspie to have, Regardless, I dug it and think you should check it out.

Shot entirely on location in Barrow, Alaska, On The Ice is the engrossing and suspenseful feature film debut by filmmaker Andrew Okpeaha MacLean about two teenage boys who have grown up like brothers go about their lives in the comfortable claustrophobia of an isolated Alaskan town.

It's a quiet thud of a film, which embraces, with grace and precision, the nastiness of growing up with desire stuck in one's throat like a muffled scream.

All of these little things add up by the end of the film into something quite substantial, and we actually have grown to like these men and their own little world.

Speaking of blazes: Escape from New York is a fun film to revisit if you grew up during that era, like I did, and enjoy taking a stroll down Nostalgia Lane every once in a while.

The once - terrifying creatures have now become as stale a horror sub-genre as zombies, with numerous films and television shows being churned out one after another, meaning it takes something truly phenomenal like The Walking Dead to emerge from the growing puddle of tedium.

Of the three competition films I've seen thus far (Tale of Tales and Sea of Trees, I liked Our Little Sister best, a quiet, sweet, and heartbreaking film about three grown, co-habitating sisters, who meet their younger fourteen - year - old sister, Suzu (Suzu Hirose) after their absent father dies, and decide to take her in as one of their -LSB-..Of the three competition films I've seen thus far (Tale of Tales and Sea of Trees, I liked Our Little Sister best, a quiet, sweet, and heartbreaking film about three grown, co-habitating sisters, who meet their younger fourteen - year - old sister, Suzu (Suzu Hirose) after their absent father dies, and decide to take her in as one of their -LSB-..of Tales and Sea of Trees, I liked Our Little Sister best, a quiet, sweet, and heartbreaking film about three grown, co-habitating sisters, who meet their younger fourteen - year - old sister, Suzu (Suzu Hirose) after their absent father dies, and decide to take her in as one of their -LSB-..of Trees, I liked Our Little Sister best, a quiet, sweet, and heartbreaking film about three grown, co-habitating sisters, who meet their younger fourteen - year - old sister, Suzu (Suzu Hirose) after their absent father dies, and decide to take her in as one of their -LSB-..of their -LSB-...]

To be honest, I also look at films that I grew up with like Dark Crystal and Labyrinth and for Jim Henson at the time they were flops in terms of their theatrical release, but they went on to become classics that people still buy to this day.

While ostensibly the story of white residents like Gilles, who splits his year between Iqaluit and Montreal, much of the film focuses on the Inuk residents — especially Noah (Natar Ungalaaq), a friend of Gilles who grows close to Carmen.

I am a list - maker, and a categoriser, and a lover of structure, and my best of the year list, this list, cast a long and absurd shadow, and the judgement of whether a film will be worthy of a last - minute inclusion ticks over every second, growing louder as December arrives, poking at me like Poe's telltale heart.

It plays like one of those films based on a true story, but it's really a fiction film that draws from some personal experiences of actor (and former pro soccer player) Andrew Shue (The Rainmaker, «Melrose Place») growing up and attending Columbia High School, the South Orange, New Jersey school depicted in the movie.

Like those other films, Gallery is divided into a series of segments highlighting different aspects of the institution: the tour guides explaining a work or an artist; the craftsmen and women building frames, gallery spaces, designing and testing lighting; restorers at work fixing paintings damaged by time; and administrators debating the best ways to persevere the museums brand and grow its audience.

Set alongside most recent Hollywood pictures it looks like a masterpiece, but considered in relation to the best of Leigh — say, Meantime or Grown - ups or High Hopes — or the best of recent non-Hollywood films, it looks rather thin.

«I am a Flatbush girl», first - time feature director Eliza Hittman said proudly at the world premiere of It Felt Like Love in the Next section (it later went to Competition in Rotterdam), and, while not entirely autobiographical, the film draws from her experience of growing up in this largely working - class neighbourhood of New York City's most populous borough, of these endless summers where you have to escape to the sea with your friends for fear of melting like the asphalt under your fLike Love in the Next section (it later went to Competition in Rotterdam), and, while not entirely autobiographical, the film draws from her experience of growing up in this largely working - class neighbourhood of New York City's most populous borough, of these endless summers where you have to escape to the sea with your friends for fear of melting like the asphalt under your flike the asphalt under your feet.

The film's star Ellar Coltrane, who we see growing from a boy in to a man, said it had not felt like making a movie, it felt «like an exercise of collaboration and vulnerability».

If he is growing out of films like this it will dampen anyone's hopes for a third entry.

Like other Joe Swanberg movies, Happy Christmas is quiet but endlessly charming, the kind of film that washes over you and continues to grow on you long after you've finished watching.

Like his earlier shorts, Distant Voices was an autobiographical film about growing up in Liverpool in the 1950s, beautiful but somber and almost heartbreaking in its portrait of a family living in fear of its angry, alcoholic father.

As the 19th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the roster for the Avengers has grown considerably from the first film, with the team of six growing to include new characters like Scarlet Witch, Winter Soldier, the Guardians of the Galaxy, and Doctor Strange, as well as villains Loki and Nebula.

I suspect many of us grew up dreaming about being movie stars, and wondering what it would be like to sing, dance or act in our favorite films.

Boyle and cinematographer Alwin Küchler might make this section look like a claustrophobic horror film, but that simplicity of execution only heightens Garland's growing thematic undertones: the sun as both robber and provider of life, humanity's interference with the will of nature, etc..

Some of this feels a little like a default setting, as though Katz weren't quite over the growing pains that drove his earlier films (though his collaboration with Martha Stephens, Land Ho!

But much like Babe or even the Shiloh films, a decently made film of this ilk will surprise grown - ups in how successfully they can transfix their target audience.

Being a low - budget film from Canada without an easily marketable premise, «Still Mine» is only gradually opening up in these parts in a few cities and its chances of expanding any wider are almost totally dependent on generating a positive word of mouth reaction amongst audiences that will hopefully lead to more people deciding to give it a chance instead of blowing their money on the likes of «Grown Ups 2.»

In our conversation he talks about why he likes working on stage and screen projects with the film's writer - director Martin McDonagh as well as several other top - flight helmers he has acted for in the past including George Clooney — with whom he says he grew close to over the course of two years he spent with him on Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind in which Rockwell played Chuck Barris, the game show host who claimed he was a CIA agenof two years he spent with him on Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind in which Rockwell played Chuck Barris, the game show host who claimed he was a CIA agenOf A Dangerous Mind in which Rockwell played Chuck Barris, the game show host who claimed he was a CIA agent.

To celebrate the release of David Ryan Keith's home - grown Scottish comedy - horror, ATTACK OF THE HERBALS, Media Mikes would like to giveaway TWO DVDs for this filof David Ryan Keith's home - grown Scottish comedy - horror, ATTACK OF THE HERBALS, Media Mikes would like to giveaway TWO DVDs for this filOF THE HERBALS, Media Mikes would like to giveaway TWO DVDs for this film.

If you grew up watching Mary Poppins like I did, it will be hard to think back to your childhood and the memories you have of that film.

It's basically the movie Hanna (of Hanna) might have dreamt up if she'd grown up on a steady diet of»80s and»90s action films like Die Hard, Cliffhanger, and Escape From New York.

If you grew up as a horror film fanatic in the 1980s, you may have run through most of the American slasher flicks and occult thrillers — and then you rented Lucio Fulci's 1980 cult favourite Zombie, which hopefully led you to all sorts of gore - laden apocalyptic mayhem from Italian splatter - slingers like Umberto Lenzi (Nightmare -LRB-...)

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Azur & Asmar (Unrated) Animated fairytale about a couple of boys raised like brothers in a castle, one, a motherless, young aristocrat (Cyril Mourali), the other, the son (Karim M'Ruba) of the family nanny (Hiam Abbass), who grow up to find themselves rivals in a race to find a princess (Thissa d'Avila Bensalah) in a magical, faraway fantasyland.

Personally, I wasn't the biggest fan of the film until it had the chance to grow on me, but considering all the chatter about coming back for round two over the past eight years, this announcement is like a triumph and you can't help but to get excited, even if it's just a little bit.

There are only a few action scenes in this drama but the first two films were often too graphic in their depiction of children being killed (something that often grew tiresome) so this film feels like a nice departure.

This is a film about growing up, after all, and the way we see Lady Bird marching through her last year of high school makes it quite apparent that adolescence is, for her, like a battlefield.

Highlights include a discussion of the many opportunities African - Americans have behind the camera, as well as the growing trend of writing for high profile African - American actors in TV like Taraji P. Henson (Empire), Kerry Washington (Scandal), Viola Davis (How to Get Away With Murder), and Alfre Woodard (Luke Cage), and the increase in black films that have thrived at the box office like Straight Outta Compton.

Like the other two movies, the film is about a character (who remains nameless and can be referred to as the Narrator) that has grown sick of his job.

If you grew up in a family predominantly of women of all ages, this film will be like looking back in time.

But lest this make BPM sound like a dry procedural manual for would - be change - makers, let me note that the movie also throbs with ecstatically filmed nightclub dance sequences and one of the hottest sex scenes of the year, between Pérez Biscayart's Sean and Arnaud Valois as a newcomer to the group who becomes his lover and, as he grows sicker, his caregiver.

And as Oscar voters» stack of DVD screeners grows perilously high, current films like «Nebraska,» «Dallas Buyers Club» and, especially, J.C. Chandor's brilliant survival tale «All Is Lost,» might immediately be shuffled to the top of the pile with some Spirit headlines.

At the film's recent press day in Los Angeles, Waugh and stunt coordinator Lance Gilbert talked about their longtime friendship and professional relationship, what it was like growing up together on the sets of «Smokey and the Bandit,» «Vanishing Point,» «The Blues Brothers» and «Bullitt,» why Waugh considers Gilbert one of the best stunt coordinators in the world, the challenges they faced pulling off practical stunts and capturing amazing action sequences realistically in - camera without CGI enhancement, and the entertaining Easter eggs they included as a homage to the classic car - culture movies of another era.