Sentences with phrase «older films now»

I used to use this site to check out older films now available on DVD and it was very good, but I haven't been able to do this for a while now.

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While a film about unwittingly ordering raw steak on the first awkward date with his now wife was sweet and funny, my favourite film was about an old family tradition involving pie.
Enter now the old study of game films, which is what assistant coaches do in their spare time.
All of us right now would be rummaging through old film of Polak games to highlight all the dirty plays that he has ever committed.
With film, an old elite was dethroned; the glamour once associated with class and social standing was now possible for anyone with good cheekbones, some talent, and a bit of luck.
If music or film is your thing, then now is the time to pull out that cool band t - shirt you bought at your first gig or alternatively head to your nearest charity shop to discover old favourites carelessly discarded.
The California 37 - year - old — once married and now an entrepreneur and film maker looking for operating cash — sees it as a business arrangement.
After reminding us that the Bond films are now fifty years old, the closing credits are then quick to reassure us that Bond will return soon.
In Bridesmaids, Wiig (who co-wrote the film with her old Groundlings pal Annie Mumolo, with heavy input from Apatow) plays the lonely, single Annie, who ran a Milwaukee cake shop that went bust and now works fitfully in a jewelry store, where she routinely undermines her potential customers with passive - aggressive jabs at their supposed enduring love.
I did think there were scenes of emotional import (I did care during Tony's re-watching his dad's old films, amanohyo) and there were a handful of funny moments that worked (Hammer's «Ex-Wife»... yeah kinda figured that would happen, but hey there's a pill for that now!).
Rees, whose one and only feature film until now was her 2011 debut, «Pariah,» has said she set out to make an «old - fashioned» movie, and she's done that, allowing her story to unspool at a refreshingly deliberate pace and her characters to find their own footing within the story and with one another.
Now, at the time, Disney made safe films for kids to not have to think too hard about, and while «The Jungle Book» (1967) does play it safe in some regards, the harsh fight sequences and undertones of race really does come through for older viewers and may have kids hiding their eyes every once in a while.
Even though it is now 6 years old this film is still bitingly funny.
Co-starring Survivor contestant turned thespian Colleen Haskell, Schneider's tale of a car accident victim imbued with superhuman powers after being pieced back together with animal organs kept the low - brow rolling while marking his territory among the ranks of the more successful transitions from SNL player to big screen star.Later, in the 2000s, Schneider frequently alternated between starring in his own films (The Hot Chick, Duece Bigalow: European Gigolo), and supporting his old pal Sandler (The Longest Yard, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry), with few on either side truly managing to ignite the box office or his career momentum.
After breaking through with films made by an emerging avant garde — including Josh Trank's Chronicle, Derek Cianfrance's The Place Beyond the Pines and Josh Krokidas» Kill Your Darlings — this year the 28 - year - old actor has starred in two very of - the - moment genres, first playing Harry Osborn, Peter Parker's childhood pal turned homicidal supervillain Green Goblin, in The Amazing Spider - Man 2, and now appearing opposite Aubrey Plaza in the zombie comedy Life After Beth.
I've had a 26 - year love affair with that film: I've seen the stage version and the Disney Hollywood Studios version in Orlando, I have the DVD, I have Belle - themed dishes (that my 18 - month - old daughter uses now, I swear)... and though I have no idea how many times I've actually watched the movie, it's enough that I know every single word by heart.
With Emile Hirsch already locked in to play the Blue Brothers star, Steve Conrad in the writer / directors chair, Judy Belushi - Pisano (as she is now known) and Belushi's old friend and colleague Dan Aykroyd involved as producers the film is certainly gaining promise.
Popular 3D titles from 20th Century Fox include Avatar and Prometheus and with older titles such as iRobot now re-mastered for 3D Blu - ray release it looks like we will be viewing more and more of our favourite 3D films at home this year.
Stanley Kauffmann, who liked it, complained in the New Republic that Lucas had made a film more fascinating to the generation now between thirty and forty than it could be for other generations, older or younger.
Apparently Universal is cleaning house of old Blumhouse films as they've dumped not only Mockingbird direct - to - VOD, but now Stephen King's Mercy...
Actor Jason Segel («How I Met Your Mother»), seemingly noticing the rash retirement forced onto The Muppets back in 1999 (when their last feature film, the slipshod «Muppets from Space», was released) and the lack of good old family humour and fozzie fuzzy, pitched a relaunch of the film franchise to Disney (who now have the rights to the characters).
Oh, and it seems that someone has reanimated Leslie Nielsen for this film (really, how OLD is he now?).
This edition of Now Stream This brings you a highly underrated and very recent Todd Haynes movie, a new Netflix horror flick, a gloriously over-the-top action movie, a cynical noir loaded with snappy dialogue, the first Hannibal Lecter film, a romantic horror movie, a Steven Spielberg adventure, a cringe - inducing social media comedy, and some good old fashioned body horror.
But Beasts of the Southern Wild is such a startling achievement, and the now nine - year - old Quvenzhané Wallis so compelling and defining a presence in the film's principal role, that the pre-teen talent may find herself up against the big girls come Oscar night in February - and rightly so.
French New Wave pioneer Agnes Varda, who made her first film in 1954, is now 89 years old — and as warm and vital as ever, even if her eyesight is fading.
The mood shifts in Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004) as the Bride resumes her mission of vengeance and the film slows her down as she nears her goal: Bill (David Carradine), the old lover who tried to murder her and now raises her child.
Old favourites that still delighted and enthralled included Blake Edwards» Victor / Victoria, Woody Allen's Love and Death, Michael Apted's Coalminer's Daughter and Steve Barron's Electric Dreams, a film that now seems 20 years ahead of its time.
Now Baker's taken on Cannes with The Florida Project — this time shot on 35 mm film — about a precocious six year - old and her ragtag group of friends whose summer break is filled with adventure,
Another spot, another sequel to a film series that began more than a decade ago; though with this one, try 20 years... Boy don't you feel old now!
Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas: Collector's Edition Rated PG for some scary images Appropriate for all ages Available August 26, 2008 on DVD and Blu - ray disc Believe it or not, this classic Disney film is now 15 years - old.
«Room,» which is now being considered in the running for end - year honors including the Oscars has already picked up the People's Choice award as best film at the 2015 Toronto International Festival, doubtless because the crowd were justifiably amazed by Brie Larson's greater depth as a performer, but most of all by one of the great acting jobs by eight - year - old Jacob Tremblay.
There's been a lot of discussion about how Allen's proclivity toward May - December relationships mirror his own personal life, and quite frankly, it's getting a bit exhausting watching the director indulge his fantasy of beautiful young women falling in love with older men, especially now that he's no longer playing the lead in his films.
In the film, Peter Pan is an adult now, but when Captain Hook kidnaps his children, Peter must return to Neverland and reclaim his youthful spirit in order to challenge his old enemy.
Based on the graphic novel and original screenplay by Kevin Grevioux (creator of the Underworld series), the film stars Aaron Eckhart as Adam, a contemporary Frankenstein monster now living in a dark, gothic metropolis who finds himself caught in an all - out, centuries old war between two immortal clans.
John Hughes is gone, John Candy's gone, Macaulay Culkin's innocence is gone; because of its place on the precipice of Hughes's»90s decline, revisiting Uncle Buck has long been a bittersweet prospect, but now that it's definitively the last good John Hughes film, it's taken on the funereal feeling of old home movies starring dead relatives.
She died in the first film (8 - year - old spoiler alert) but the third and now fourth installments are prequels to the first two, showing Elise growing into to the person she was in the original film.
To capture elements of the battles and storms at sea, despite the replica vessels at his command (Surprise was a replica of HMS Rose, bought by 20th Century Fox after filming, it now resides at the Maritime Museum in San Diego; Acheron was constructed for the film from digital scans of the USS Constitution, the oldest floating commissioned vessel in the world), it was necessary for Weir to engage with a greater degree of VFX than he was used to previously.
Luckily for the producers of this film, a PG - 13 rating was awarded, because now their target audience can be reached, namely 13 - year - old boys who find jokes about pooping, farting, belching, and urinating in one's pants to be the height of comedic glory.
Now he makes the giant leap to blockbusters and the 32 - year - old delivers a film that's better than «The Avengers» and the previous «Thor» just to name a few.
Now and again, however, the film manages to tread, if not break, new ground as it recycles that old saw about an adversarial boy and girl who fall for their own love charade as they attempt to make former sweethearts jealous.
Sure, Tony Mendez was also involved behind the making of this film and his wife, Jonna even chimed in on who would represent her husband Antonio on screen, «Tommy Lee Jones... But now everyone is too old.
Now in his eighties, he's convinced by an old friend (Chase) to accept an invitation to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at a two - bit film festival in Nashville.
The included 5.1 DTS - HD Master Audio track offers up plenty of immersive fun for a now 27 - year old film!
To mark the film's 35th Anniversary, Ralph Bakshi, now 73 years old and long retired from animated features, talked to Videodrone about Wizards, his career, and what he's been watching from his mountaintop home in New Mexico.
To mark the film's 35th Anniversary, Ralph Bakshi, now 73 years old and long retired from animated features, talked to Videodrone aboutWizards, his career, and what he's been watching from his mountaintop home in New Mexico.
In the film, 19 - year - old Andrew Neyman (Miles Teller, «The Spectacular Now»), an ambitious drumming student enrolled at the prestigious Shaffer Conservatory of Music (fictional) in midtown Manhattan, comes under the tutelage of Terence Fletcher (J.K. Simmons, «Contraband»), a high - ranking instructor who is well - known for pushing his students to the limits of their endurance and beyond.
It would be years before I would dig into Brooks» older films and discover the true genius of «Lost in America,» his 1985 masterpiece, given 4 stars then by Roger Ebert and the Criterion treatment now by the most important DVD & Blu - ray company in the world.
The film's beating heart is 21 - year - old Saoirse Ronan, once the bright - eyed teen from «Atonement», now on her way to becoming the most quietly expressive actress of her generation.
The most wonderful thing about watching older films right now has been the chance to see 2017 movies, which are still fresh on my mind, in this broader context.
The Rocky franchise is now seven films old but Creed feels like a fresh start.
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