Sentences with phrase «off on a cinema»

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South Barrington village trustees, meeting in joint session Thursday night with their counterparts from the South Barrington Park District, persuaded park officials to hold off conducting a feasibility study on building a sports complex on 22 acres next to the AMC Studio Centre cinema complex.

When a wide - screen cinema film is shown on TV, the broadcasters either transmit a letter box image, with thick black strips above and below the picture, or they shave off the sides of the film.

In fact, the film starts off with one of the more moving images I have seen in American cinema in which during an unveiling of a statue celebrating America's peace and prosperity, a crowd is stunned to find a homeless man, our tramp, sleeping on the monument.

Of all the misleading tropes in the history of cinema, chopping off one's own hair without having it look as if Freddy Krueger was your stylist probably gets on my nerves more than most.

We then look at the recent acquisition of Fox's film assets by Disney, and what the merging of these studios means for the future of cinema both on - screen and off.

British cinema in the early 1960's pulsed with the ambitious energy, on the screen and off, of young men — not angry, necessarily, but certainly restless.

It took decades for a second screen version of James Thurber's short story to make it to cinema screens; a lengthy roster of attached and departing on - and off - screen talent, too.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

Up until this point, John Cusack had spent almost his entire cinematic career in teen comedies, from Class to The Sure Thing via cult classic Better Off Dead to the misfired Hot Pursuit, Cusack's unique and very human screen persona stole every show he was in - but by 1988, he'd become determined to move on into more serious and adult cinema.

After the usual internship in music video, Mr. Fuqua made a first claim on big screen cinema with a Hong Kong action knock off (The Replacement Killers), followed by an «urban» crime thriller with Jamie Foxx (Bait).

It bets the house on them, gambling on the possibility that an old - fashioned morality play asking Big Questions about faith, activism, and the futility of trying to save the world will pay off in a moment when even serious American cinema — i.e. films unconcerned with Skywalkers or Infinity Stones — comes at least partially steeped in irony.

by Walter Chaw Arriving right smack dab in the latter half of a decade in American cinema that saw digital «reality» supplant filmic «reality» (and appearing the same year as James Cameron's Forrest Gump: Titanic), Hong Kong legend John Woo's high - camp Face / Off directly (and presciently) addresses issues of identity theft, terrorism, and the digital corruption of reality and indirectly addresses Woo's émigré influence on the modern action film.

The Week in Movies discusses the last seven days in cinema, including a bunch of actors announced for Spider - Man: Homecoming, a very unexpected piece of casting for Fast and Furious 8, the first trailer for The Office spin - off David Brent: Life on the Road and much, much more... The Week in Movies is an excerpt -LSB-...]

Yesterday Ryan Reynolds took to Twitter to mark the fact that the Deadpool movie would arrive in cinemas in a year's time by teasing the costume design for the Merc with the Mouth, and now tonight we have some casting news on the X-Men spin - off.

Heat (Michael Mann, 1995) The diner scene alone, where heavyweights Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro face off (for the first time in cinema history) would be enough to put Heat on the list, but the whole heist and cat - and - mouse story holds up all the way through.

On the other hand, Venice, which used to be just a glamorous showcase for classy world cinema, too early to factor in the Oscar race anyway, has now proved to be a viable place to kick off six - month Oscar campaigns.

If, this month, we can be convinced to drag ourselves off the sofa and down to the local cinema, there will be, as usual, rich pickings on offer throughout January - when Oscar season begins to heat up.

Bryan Cranston hits the carpet at the premiere of his former co-star Bob Odenkirk «s new spin - off show Better Call Saul held at Regal Cinemas L.A. Live on Thursday (January 29) in Los Angeles.

Expanding on our traditional Dolby screening services for 35 mm soundtracks, we now offer the complete package of equipment and engineering support for digital cinema screenings, including special one - off events, film festivals, marketing screenings, and premieres.

Kevin and Joe dissect the line - up and also run off on tangents about Dario Argento, film vs. video, dream logic and 70s cinema.

To top off the mistakes a recurring news flash pops on TV every five minutes or so about a murder case involving one twin killing another in an attempt to set up what director and star Stiller (Flirting with Disaster, Reality Bites) must have thought would be just the most hilarious moment in cinema.

On the one hand it has a suspiciously art - cinema - by - numbers feel to it (riffing off a Michael Haneke template), but on the other hand it is full of original, startling, daring moments and provocationOn the one hand it has a suspiciously art - cinema - by - numbers feel to it (riffing off a Michael Haneke template), but on the other hand it is full of original, startling, daring moments and provocationon the other hand it is full of original, startling, daring moments and provocations.

The film will kick off shooting this summer before warping into cinemas on July 8 next year.

Available on MUBI at the same time in cinemas, Rey follows a French adventurer, who, in the nineteenth century, sets off to establish a kingdom in the inhospitable South of Chile, uniting the feared Mapuche under him.

Will Arnett's take on Lego Batman was the break - out character, earning a spin - off in 2017, a year before the film's full sequel hits cinemas, something he's no doubt thrilled about.

Each and every scenario which arises in this movie is carefully orchestrated to necessitate the use of curse words by one of our angel - faced wards, and whilst a cute kid swearing or kicking off is always funny the first time around, by the half - way point we forget we're in a cinema trying to enjoy a movie and begin to feel like we're sitting in a quiet restaurant being assaulted by that one child on a nearby table who just won't quit.

Colours are vivid and even though it has the current trend of a blue tint, colours pop off the screen especially during the Icelandic part of the movie, if anything it looked better on Blu - ray than it did at the cinema.

In 2014, Paddington Bear walked off the pages of his cartoon, on to Paddington station and into our cinemas.

The pair showed off sleight - of - hand tricks on the red carpet outside the Vue cinema in London's Leicester Square.

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Its approximately 462 screens in 56 cinemas and four live («Off - Broadway») theaters are primarily situated on owned or long - term leased land.

The light and airy complex houses a variety of shops and six cinemas, all under one roof.Situated on Marine Drive and just off the N2, getting there is easy.

Kicking off Climate Week NYC on Monday, September 21, The Age of Stupid — an eco-documentary film we've previewed here and reviewed here — will premiere globally and open nationwide in the U.S. in a solar - powered cinema tent at the World Financial Center in New York.

The structure will rise and fall with the tidal river and will act as a promenade, allowing people to hop on and off via gangways to explore the narrow streets left over from Charles Dickens» times.The walk will be interspersed with eight glass - encased pavilions, possibly housing a museum, a cinema, a concert hall and an eco-park amongst other attractions.

First a disclaimer: this isn't the same Atmos experience you'll get from a 5.1.2 channel home cinema system, but sound is wider and better articulated with it on rather than with it off.

Ever fancied getting in on the whole «cinema sound in your home» experience, but been put off by the mess of cables that inevitably comes with dotting a load of speakers around your living room?

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Despicable Me spin - off Minions hits cinemas nationwide on June 26, and is set to be the smash hit of the summer.