Sentences with phrase «of subsequent movies»

The plots of subsequent movies are too convoluted and downright confusing for a story that ultimately boils down to good robots trying to save the world from bad robots.

Alas, Tetzlaff was never able to repeat this feat in any of his subsequent movies, and retired from feature films at the end of the»50s.

After making a handful of subsequent movies, she returned to France in 1938 — but not before she found herself caught in a minor scandal involving her friend, the late composer George Gershwin.

Not exact matches

If you read through even a few of the thousands of posts and Twitter comments and related outcry about Taylor's departure, and the subsequent shut - down of popular threads or «sub-Reddits» like r / movies and r / music, it becomes obvious that for many of the site's users, the issue is about more than just the firing of one employee.

The three subsequent films in the series grossed more than $ 310 million on a total budget of $ 55 million, according to the movie finance site The Numbers.

His strange downfall and subsequent rebirth as one of the most bankable movie stars all began with an innocent act of love.

Variety says it's still unclear which characters from the books, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Charlie and the Great Glass Elevators, will be in the movie, but of course, if this movie is successful, it could lead to subsequent movies.

The subsequent movie adaptation of the scandal, All the President's Men, featured a dashing Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, and their exquisitely coiffed and feathered hair as they unraveled an exciting and hot - button political scandal.

«Tummy Trouble», «Rollercoaster Rabbit», and «Trail Mix - Up» are all included here, but while the opening of Who Framed Roger Rabbit functions as both wild cartoon slapstick and hyperbolic parody of same (as well as something of a precursor to the even more satiric Itchy and Scratchy of The Simpsons), the subsequent shorts, beyond lacking the deft, fluid touch of the movie's animation director Richard Williams, are less clever: orchestrations of mayhem that occasionally pause to wink at themselves.

The subsequent film, Like Water for Chocolate (1993), ended up as one of the most profitable foreign movies ever exhibited in America and won a number of international awards as well as multiple Silver Ariels, Mexico's equivalent of the Oscar.

John Callahan was a quadriplegic, and the movie looks like it deals mostly with his recovery from alcoholism and subsequent discovery of his ability to draw cartoons by grasping a pen in both hands.

Normally this kind of documentary manipulation would raise flags for some, but given Panahi's current predicament and subsequent longing for the medium (and additionally the film's unmanufactured feeling), it comes off as an intensely personal, resonant rebellion, an incredibly beautiful movie and one of his best films to date (read our review).

«Outrage» (1950): Introducing this little - known drama, directed by Ida Lupino, about a woman's harassment and subsequent rape, Museum of Modern Art curator Anne Morra said the movie «speaks to MeToo issues 70 years ahead of its time.»

Rating: 8/10 — a recreation of the kidnapping in 1973 of John Paul Getty III (Charlie Plummer), and the subsequent attempts by his mother, Gail (Williams), to persuade his grandfather (Christopher Plummer) to pay the ransom, something the then world's richest man refuses to do; Scott's best movie in years, All the Money in the World is a taut, compelling thriller that tells its story with ruthless expediency and features yet another commanding performance from Williams, something that takes the spotlight away from the presence of Christopher Plummer (who's good but not great), and which serves as a reminder that money isn't the central concern here, but a mother's unwavering love for her child.

The movie, set in 8th - century Norway, follows alien warrior Kainan (Jim Caviezel) as he crash lands on Earth along with a fearsome creature known as the Moorwen, with the bulk of the storyline detailing Kainan's efforts at insinuating himself within a local Viking tribe and leading their subsequent charge against the aforementioned creature.

He was also nominated for a directing Oscar for his subsequent film, UP IN THE AIR, for which he DID win the AFI movie of the year award.

Its portrayal of Richard Nixon (Dan Hedaya) during the Watergate break - in and subsequent investigation might have come across as a cheap caricature, but the movie gleefully turns other key players in the scandal into goofs, too.

Rockwell motivates Farrell even further when he takes the dog of temperamental mob boss Woody Harrelson, whose subsequent hunt for the heroes sends them out to desert, where they continue to collaborate on ideas for the movie.

The foundations of horror films in the early decades of the movie industry are what the horror of subsequent decades are built on.

Audiences gets to come to a decision for themselves what sort of film Deadpool 2 is when the movie hits theaters subsequent week on May 18.

The former — the dinosaur roller - coaster Jurassic Park — saw its accomplishments eclipsed by subsequent blockbusters, while the latter — the Holocaust drama Schindler's List — has only risen in esteem and now stands as one of the most important movies ever made.

Now that it's got its Avatar sequels squared away safely in 2020 — and every subsequent December from now until the heat death of the universe — Fox has started solidifying its film schedule for the more immediate future, especially the lucrative titles in its X-Men movie franchise.

Subsequent Career: Well, aside from the small matter of having his directorial follow - up be the fourth highest - grossing movie of all time, Black had been pretty quiet on the writing front since «Kiss Kiss Bang Bang» («AWOL» is his only credit in that period).

Earl Felton's indisputably sophisticated script is yet another to fall victim to the overzealous homage of subsequent entries in the underwater power - struggle genre (The Hunt for Red October, Crimson Tide, Atlantis: The Lost Empire (see sidebar), and even the Dark Castle Ghost Ship come to mind) that it minted; we can give a movie credit where credit is due while admitting that it sometimes exists in its own shadow.

First, a brief remembrance before we get into the year's best movies: The film world said its heartbroken goodbyes to Mike Nichols in November, an occasion for returning to the director's seismic The Graduate, along with four decades of subsequent work, much of it brilliant.

As in The Magnificent Ambersons — another of Baumbach's movie models that has an impersonal narrator — the seeds of the story are planted in the opening moments: we're told that Lester (played as an adult by Eric Stoltz) becomes obsessed with the previous sex lives of all his subsequent girlfriends.

The writers have additionally hinted that at the side of Captain Marvel, the Ant - Man movie could have ties into Avengers four which is about to unencumber subsequent spring.

Speaking to Heat Vision, The Mummy director Alex Kurtzman — who is set to produce the subsequent Monsters films alongside Chris Morgan — has been discussing the creation of the universe, stating that planting seeds for the future was secondary to delivering «a great Mummy movie».

It's a potent reminder that each character is part of a collective and on their own individual trajectory, a notion that's echoed in group scenes throughout the movie — like the subsequent sequence in which the cast, minus one, gathers to watch the Commune member who's crossed the threshold separating the couch and the TV screen.

Before I begin the next four reviews of the subsequent Brosnan movies, I feel compelled to offer some context and personal feelings on this chapter in Bond history.

Paramount Pictures is hard up for franchises, and they're turning to toys to save the day: the studio is working on bringing a Hasbro Cinematic Universe to life — yes, really — and a movie based on the ROM toy (and subsequent comic series) from the late 1970s is apparently an important piece of that puzzle.

Written by Max Landis (Chronicle, American Ultra), Victor Frankenstein isn't so much a re-imagining of Mary Shelley's iconic 1818 sci - fi / horror novel, «Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus»; rather, it's an origin story for the eponymous character, as seen from the perspective of Igor (who didn't originate in Shelley's source book, but rather in a subsequent movie adaptation).

A subsequent bout of mid-air hijinks felt flat in the same way a similar skyward assault left me cold in 2008's Quantum of Solace (a movie I prefer to refer by a less complimentary name).

Details of a 1999 rape allegation and charge, and subsequent trial and acquittal, resurfaced, with the fallout grabbing headlines, overshadowing anticipation for the film and all but destroying the movie's chances for serious consideration this awards season.

THR's sources claim Mole Man will not make an appearance in this movie, but the inclusion of Elder does suggest Mole Man could become a main adversary in subsequent films down the line.

Originally a horror / science - fiction movie, «Godzilla» and the subsequent Toho Studio movies (all 28 of them), were never really big on character.

Robin Williams's biggest blockbuster sprang unsuspectingly on the critics, who didn't cotton to its lowbrow humor, but in subsequent years the film has grown in stature and was recently voted one of the funniest movies of all time.

It's unfortunate that, with the possible exception of The Godfather Part III, he's never been able to be both as ambitious and personal again, his subsequent movies either being adaptations of well - known works or those little «student films» that no one much seems to notice.

-- Anna Faris, Chris Evans, Ari Graynor Movie of the Week 50/50 The Stars: Joseph Gordon - Levitt, Seth Rogen, Anna Kendrick The Plot: A comedic account of a 27 - year - old guy's cancer diagnosis, and his subsequent struggle to beat the disease.

The film chronicles the two - time Olympian's humble origins, her marriage at the age of 19 to Jeff Gillooly (played by Sebastian Stan, who decided to do a little promotional work for the movie on his Instagram page with... mixed results), her rise to stardom, and her subsequent fall from grace.

While the initial film offered moviegoers one of the most original twists in movie history, the subsequent sequels have done little to mix - up the formula, instead relying on an increasingly violent set of gut - wrenching set - pieces that escalate the brutality and shock with each new installment.

Now that Avengers: Infinity War is out and breaking the web with information, and the following couple of movies had been introduced, what's subsequent for Marvel Studios?

The movie is one in every of a number of noteworthy initiatives that can be to be had for possible vendors to bid on on the Cannes Film Festival beginning subsequent week.

While never rising above the B - movie standard that defined his subsequent career — including classics like Creature From The Black Lagoon (Jack Arnold, 1954), It Came From Outer Space (Jack Arnold, 1953) and The Valley Of Gwangi (James O'Connolly, 1969)-- he is quite effective at adapting his performance to the tonal shifts of the film, ultimately delivering a suitable lead character for each of the genres the film navigateOf Gwangi (James O'Connolly, 1969)-- he is quite effective at adapting his performance to the tonal shifts of the film, ultimately delivering a suitable lead character for each of the genres the film navigateof the film, ultimately delivering a suitable lead character for each of the genres the film navigateof the genres the film navigates.

First he's gimped - up to satisfy the didacticism of the time (with the trucking industry presenting limited opportunity for a moral, the movie settles on putting the fear of God in us over falling asleep at the wheel), then his role is reduced to reaction shots: When Paul finally takes the stand in the courtroom climax, all Bogart manages to squeeze out is «Wull yeah, but...» This is Raft's show, despite the film's studio - sanctioned absorption into the Bogey canon, though Bogart would have his revenge by stealing the lead in High Sierra — and in theory, every one of his Midas - touched career opportunities subsequent to High Sierra — out from under him.

Televisions play a key factor in the movie, giving us our first view of the crafts that bring the creatures to Earth off the coasts of major metropolises throughout the world and the subsequent start of their invasion.

While the movie didn't exactly do an impressive job at the box office, its subsequent home video releases have made it its own kind of underground hit.

Paths may not lend itself to the studious dissection that Kubrick's subsequent movies do, but it does have its fair share of interesting directorial decisions.

The most frustrating element of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest is a cliffhanger ending, turning this and its subsequent sequel into one big movie, and one can only hope the material has enough gas for one more go - around.

Both also distribute their published works on Kindle Singles, with several starring on the bestseller list there, including The Fearless Mrs. Goodwin (Byliner) by Elizabeth Mitchell, a 44 - page true - crime account of a brutal bank heist taking place in turn - of - the - century Manhattan, and Blind Sight (Atavist) by Chris Colin, a 38 - page nonfiction narrative about a Hollywood movie producer's horrific car wreck that killed his new wife and his subsequent 10 - year journey recovering from devastating brain injuries.