Sentences with phrase «on dozens of films»

The cast of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise were trained by none other than the late and great Bob Anderson, an iconic Hollywood fight choreographer who was the sword master on dozens of films like the original Star Wars films, The Princess Bride, Highlander, The Lord of the Rings, and more.

Prior to becoming a filmmaker, Leitch worked as a stunt double and stunt coordinator on dozens of films — from 300 to The Bourne Ultimatum — for actors like Matt Damon and Jean - Claude Van Damme.

Not exact matches

The Bright bonanza is part of $ 5 billion that Netflix will spend on programming this year alone, including at least 60 original shows, a dozen documentaries, and eight feature films.

In the film, dozens of Japanese high - school students are placed on an island, given weapons, and forced to kill one another until one person remains.

If you want to make the photos you take on your smartphone look better, one of VSCO Cam's dozens of retro film filters will do the trick.

It's going to take a lot more then «visions» experienced by people in emotional and suggestible states to convince me, something like something seen by dozens of people who are not in an emotional and suggestible state, which is caught on camera by a person who we can reasonably assume would not tamper with the film.

Even though he has more than a dozen films to his credit, including work on the 2003 film version of The Hulk that garnered him nominations for two awards from the Visual Effects Society, Benza says it was a challenge to create highly athletic performances from bulky, animated characters that appeared to be the size of small buildings and weigh several tons.

It's teamed up with photographers (Ellen von Unwerth, David LaChapelle), designers (Karen Walker, Giles Deacon), DJs (Miike Snow, Steve Aoki), retailers (Opening Ceremony, Barneys New York) and dozens of others — some on product alone and others on mixed - media projects, such as the short film «Sin City»'s Robert Rodriguez produced to accompany his collaboration.

Mary Field is the actress who played Huntz Hall's sister in the 1941 Universal serial Sea Raiders; the spinsterish sponsor of Danny Kaye's doctoral thesis in A Song of Born (1947); the nice lady standing in Macy's «Santa Claus» line with the little Dutch girl in Miracle on 34th Street (1947); the long - suffering music teacher in Cheaper by the Dozen (1950); and Harold Peary's bespectacled vis - a-vis in The Great Gildersleeve (1942)-- to name just four films among hundreds.

So yeah, we all know that Black Panther, a.k.a. Prince T'Challa, is going to triumph over adversity in his bid to bring harmony to the kingdom of Wakanda, that there will be the obligatory action sequences where actual danger is a distant possibility for both hero and bystander, and that the plot will pivot on a mysterious object of unknown origin («Vibranium,» in this case — don't worry if it sounds unfamiliar; the film's characters will mention it at least three - dozen times over the course of the movie).

The quintessential B - movie lawman, granite - faced, mustachioed Jack Rockwell began turning up in low - budget oaters in the late 1920s and went on to amass an impressive array of film credits that included 225 Westerns and two dozen serials, working mostly for Republic Pictures and Columbia although he was never contracted by either.

In the end, the film recalls the contents of another «Baker's Dozen», donuts — - saturated with sweetness on the outside, but completely hollow at its core.

I've also cheated and done a Top 20, and even that misses out at least a dozen films I'd love to have included - not to mention a handful of films I either missed on release or won't get to see until later.

Eventually, it all narrows down to the same dozen or so films, judged not so much on what they mean to the writer, but on what they might mean to a group of people not even in the screening room.

Allegedly inspired by the true story of a Mexican man named Gojo Cardinas who killed dozens of women under the apparent influence of his mother before being incarcerated and rehabilitated, Santa Sangre is in many ways a novel retelling of Hitchcock's Psycho (1960), with that film's psychosexual subtext here put on full display with overt symbolism (e.g. Concha, the castrating mother's name, is slang for «vagina») and mixed with elements of The Hands of Orlac (Robert Wiene, 1924), The Invisible Man and George Romero's zombie films.

She went on to edit dozens of films during a 60 - year career and savored her collaborations with Clint Eastwood, David Lean and Steven Soderbergh among others.

The DVD has a short feature on the making of the film, which was created with off - the - shelf software as a sort of low - rent counterpart to the computer animation applied in fellow nominees «Shrek» and «Monsters, Inc.» The disc also has two music videos, a dozen promotional TV spots, seven games playable on computer DVD - ROM drives and full - screen and widescreen versions of the film.

Oh, and I almost forgot Fangoria writer Michael Gringold's loving 40 - page commemorative book that also comes with this set, featuring an efficient history of the franchise and dozens of incredible, rare behind the scenes images, many of which can also be viewed within the still galleries included on the various discs for each film.

Set in deep space, and in half a dozen lands (New York, Wakanda, Titan, Knowhere), the film presents a galactic battle for the fate of the universe that throws together the six original Avengers; the follow - up wave of Marvel superheroes who've only recently been given their own origin stories (Black Panther, Dr. Strange, the rebooted Spider - Man); the Guardians of the Galaxy; and a sprinkling of other figures who've been there on the fringes.

With nearly two hundreds episodes to its credit, dozens of classic lines and memorable moments, and some perfectly roasted films, Wright on Film presents its Top Ten Favorite Moments from Mystery Science Theater 3000.

Every cut in a Craig Baldwin film is based on some kind of association or metaphor, and it is only when dozens, maybe hundreds of these metaphors come together that the shape of the film becomes apparent.

Traditionally, Marvel Studios films premiere early in international markets ahead of their North American release, and that was also the case with Infinity War, which was scheduled to begin its global rollout on April 25 in a dozen countries, including Australia, Finland, France and Indonesia.

After about a half - dozen films, from a documentary about third - trimester abortions to an America high on cocaine in Chile, the first two days of the Sundance International Film Festival have come to a close.

Directed by Wayne Wang, it's companion film, shot on the set during downtime while filming the movie, is very funny, has a cast of dozens (including some great scenes with Jim Jarmusch and Lou Reed) and ranks # 44 this year.

The film depicts dozens of touching and comic moments, although the cruel reality of the natural world is also on display.

The fantastic Narges Rashidi, who gave one of the best performances I saw in three dozen films at Sundance this year, stars as Shideh, a mother left alone with her daughter in a Tehran apartment in 1989, as bombs were falling regularly on the city.

With a rap sheet way to long to list here (he has been at the fest on a dozen plus occasions), Sils Maria scored a couple of points higher than the Russian film and will have some ardent critics supporting the film in it's multiple regional release.

There are already dozens and dozens of football films that focus on individual players, teams and even coaches.

Coming on the heels of last year's Hill Of Freedom — one of Hong's best films, and his funniest — Right Now may feel like a retreat, but the fact is that the director is still better than just about anyone at drawing out the complex subtleties of a missed connection, and having done it a dozen times before seems to have only made him better at iof last year's Hill Of Freedom — one of Hong's best films, and his funniest — Right Now may feel like a retreat, but the fact is that the director is still better than just about anyone at drawing out the complex subtleties of a missed connection, and having done it a dozen times before seems to have only made him better at iOf Freedom — one of Hong's best films, and his funniest — Right Now may feel like a retreat, but the fact is that the director is still better than just about anyone at drawing out the complex subtleties of a missed connection, and having done it a dozen times before seems to have only made him better at iof Hong's best films, and his funniest — Right Now may feel like a retreat, but the fact is that the director is still better than just about anyone at drawing out the complex subtleties of a missed connection, and having done it a dozen times before seems to have only made him better at iof a missed connection, and having done it a dozen times before seems to have only made him better at it.

Taking place some time after the events of Cheaper by the Dozen (director of that stillbirth, Shawn Levy, makes a cameo in this one, what with all the time on his hands waiting for Sony to discreetly dump his long - completed Pink Panther in theatres next spring), the film reacquaints us with dangerously irresponsible breeder couple Tom (Steve Martin) and Kate (Bonnie Hunt) Baker (as in «Baker's dozen,» geDozen (director of that stillbirth, Shawn Levy, makes a cameo in this one, what with all the time on his hands waiting for Sony to discreetly dump his long - completed Pink Panther in theatres next spring), the film reacquaints us with dangerously irresponsible breeder couple Tom (Steve Martin) and Kate (Bonnie Hunt) Baker (as in «Baker's dozen,» gedozen,» get it?

Suffice to say that the alien orb is one of the half - dozen «infinity stones» with which the unfolding Marvel - verse is increasingly concerned (the Tesseract and the Aether are the two others introduced to date) and pretty much everyone in the film is trying so hard to get his or her hands on it that it might as well be the Maltese Falcon or Ark of the Covenant.

Without so much as touching a rifle due to his devoutly pacifist religious beliefs, Doss saved dozens of his injured comrades on the film's titular Japanese battlefield.

by Walter Chaw There's a moment — well, there are dozens of moments, but there's a moment in particular — in Elia Kazan's follow - up to On the Waterfront, East of Eden, where James Dean (in the only film of his released during his lifetime), as the troubled Cal, asks his estranged mother (Jo Van Fleet) for a loan, all anxious tics and frightened eyes, seemingly uncomfortable in his own skin.

The hardest part of making my ballot this year was filling the last three slots, as I agonized over a half dozen films that deserved recognition on our year - end list.

The first wave of guilds — directors, producers, and actors — all supplicated down on their knees for The King's Speech, all in near - simultaneity with the announcement of the film's dozen Oscar nominations.

However, their distraction pales in comparison to the beefed up role for another fictitious character, Bard's (Evans, Dracula: The Untold Story) servant Alfrid (Gage, Hamlet), who is meant to be the film's comic relief, but ends up being so broad and overbearing, you'll long to find him beheaded and skewered on the end of an Orc's spear after just the first of a dozen intolerable scenes in which he appears.

Instead of featuring audio commentaries from the filmmakers on each short, the dozen films are preceded (unless you manually select the «Off» option) by brief introductions by the directors, producers, and sometimes other crew members who were involved in their respective creations.

Engadget spoke to a crew member at Industrial Light and Magic (one in all a couple of dozen corporations that labored on Black Panther «s VFX shots), who explained that even they weren't pleased with what ended up within the film.

He's been in dozens of popular films but isn't one you'd recognize on the street.

Whenever a trailer for a major movie debuts, there's inevitably dozens of posts on film news and reviews sites about the trailer, what it's about, who's behind it, and so on.

In the two years since, dozens of other men in the film - making world have been accused of sexual assault: actors, directors, producers, and former Sundance titan Harvey Weinstein, who burned the festival on to the map three decades ago when he bought Steven Soderbergh's Sex, Lies And Videotape, and later Clerks, Reservoir Dogs and Garden State.

Project Casting shared dozens of casting calls for actors, models, and dancers to work on the movie as it filmed earlier this year.

Movie 43 (R for violence, drug use, pervasive profanity, graphic sexuality, frontal nudity, crude humor and coarse dialogue) A dozen directors collaborated on this raunchy series of short films chronicling three kids» internet search for the most banned movie in the world.

Abducted by a local tribe of «Naturals» (and hence, the British are the «unnaturals») during a scouting mission, he's brought into the centre of something that reveals itself to him as ritual (really, every movement of the Naturals is played as ritual in the film) and finds, in one of dozens of parallel images, Smith prostrate on the ground as a man walks above him, suspended on reeds.

On that score, the film, written by John Ridley, is entirely convincing in presenting the brutal realities of slavery, as experiencing in a horrible waking nightmare for a dozen unrelenting years by Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor).

However, the lessons and morals in this film are far more subtle and deep, and the violence is harsh with dozens of on - screen shootings, brutal physical attacks, jump scenes, and innocent bystanders in peril.

* A dozen producer credits on the Warner Bros. sword - and - sandal action film 300: Rise of an Empire opening tomorrow.

The actor has been skating on his flippant attitude in dozens of films over the year.

Wisit Sasanatieng) as reminiscent of the French film «Amelie,» «but after a dozen beers and couple of conks on the head.»

The bebop idea of riffing on a melody to the extent that the melody becomes unrecognizable (with an attendant introduction of dozens of beats to the standard four - beat bar) carries through in the frenetic kineticism of series that also, by its format, mirrors jazz bebop's compact agility (generally carried by quartet and quintet arrangements)-- making a feature - length film, then, a strange place for the «Cowboy Bebop» franchise to go.