Sentences with phrase «only film in this series»

The Love Nest has the distinction of being the only film in this series in which Keaton took sole writing and directing credit.

This is part five in a popular franchise, but it's in an odd place: last installment «On Stranger Tides» was the only film in the series to fail to cross $ 300 million domestic.

Not exact matches

Sections may include who won the World Series and other sports championships as well as a cost of living comparison — who knew a carton of milk was only $ 1.20 in 1985 — films that came out the same year they were married and chart topping songs of the year.

If you're somewhere in between, i.e., someone who kinda, sorta likes the films rather than loves them, you'll probably find this one to be only sporadically amusing, but will also think that tedium is now going to be an ingrained part of the series.

It's with great pleasure, then, to see that director David Yates has handled all of the pressure in such fantastic fashion, delivering an unbelievably satisfying bookend that is not only Yates» finest entry yet, but one of the best films in the series.

The only good thing about this film is that it is the last in a series that was once great, but that with every film the studio made, the ideas would start to feel strained, and that simply made the series a tad too silly.

Attempting to recreate the experience of watching a stage play, but with the camera roaming amongst its players, Hitchcock shot the movie in a series of ten - minute takes, a time period limited only by the length of a reel of film.

Overall I felt that this film was decent at best, and it never realizes its potential, but in the larger view of things, this is also the ninth film in the series, so it was only a matter of time for the quality to be downgraded due to lacking ideas in terms of storyline.

The film, based in name only on a series of South Korean graphic novels, has nice, washed - out desert exteriors and some cool jet - powered motorcycles, but there's nothing in the hackneyed story or the derivative action scenes to make you take notice.

Frances McDormand (Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, Friends with Money), as the ultra-feisty National Security director, gets to storm in and out of vehicles and walk fast and determined with her entourage of government agents, but her only significance to the film is she is the only female in the series to not look like she has jumped out of a Victoria's Secret catalog (the charisma-less Rosie Huntington - Whitely gets most of the cheesecake shots, replacing the equally vapid crackpot, Megan Fox).

Despite these triumphs, Leonard's reputation mainly rests on the series of six musical films he made with the singing team of Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy; Leonard directed all but two of their features, including Maytime (1937), long established as the uncontested favorite of the cycle.In Leonard's late career, the properties he handled were somewhat less auspicious, though there is a surprise in the hard - boiled melodrama The Bribe (1949), a respected film noir that is the only film of its kind in Leonard's canon of 161 known titles.

The latest installment in the series not only looks poised to win the box office crown this weekend, it looks poised to leave tire tracks all over the competing films.

And those weren't even the only films with female leads in the top 5 of this weekend's domestic box office: Underworld: Blood Wars, the fifth installment in the vampire hunter series starring Kate Beckinsale, opened at No. 4 with $ 13.1 million from 3,070 theaters.

It's still the only teen - themed / aimed weekly drama that has discussed sexuality from nearly every angle (as Williamson observes on one of the DVDs, the dichotomy of the Dawson - Joey - Pacey - Jen quartet gave them the luxury of taking four unique stands at the start) without becoming salacious, and I can't help but see my washed - up self in Dawson's eagerness to become a filmmaker, from Dawson's home videos in which Joey is attacked by a lagoon creature (as you may surmise from its title, the series is set in a sun - dappled New England inlet) to his Spielberg fixation — although even as a teen, I recognized that 1941 is a better film than Hook.

Author Duncan Wall on modern circus at BAM, the 2013 Independent Film Forum, five - time Tony winner Audra McDonald in L.A. for one - night only, James Toback's latest film (with Alec Baldwin) premieres on HBO, and «The Nose» in theaters via the «Met: Live in HD» series are what we...

Though Boyle masks a lot of the script's problems with some nifty visuals and the same kinetic energy prevalent in his other films, the frantic pace only lasts so long before the story grinds to a halt, suffocated by a never - ending series of twists and red herrings that makes it almost impossible to discern what's real.

However, the thoroughness of these supplements — cumulatively, every image and motif of Images is robustly picked over — only further convinces me that the film is a series of brilliantly intertwined riffs in search of a true reason for being.

Fortunately, these are the only two dubbed films being shown in the series.

This is the first time we're seeing these precious - to - many characters get their hands dirty, and not only is this the best film in the series, it's damn near close to perfection.

Not only are we getting a Frankenstein M.D. web series and a female - directed Mary Shelley biopic starring Elle Fanning, Deadline reports that Game of Thrones «Sophie Turner is now set to star in Mary Shelley's Monster, a film that follows the author as she «writes her seminal novel and is drawn into a Faustian bargain with her own «monster» of an alter ego.»

We went in order of the films (actually, I guess that's controversial in itself), starting with Anakin Skywalker, Obi - Wan Kenobi and Ahsoka Tano in «Twilight of the Republic», a Play Set that takes place not only across Star Wars» first three films, but the Clone Wars television series as well.

Its uptick in bloody violence would go on to earn the film the first and only PG rating of the series, though that may have more to do with shifting ideas on how the MPAA would approach its G - rated fare.

Supplements include an alternate version of the song «Rahadlakum» (in B&W) from the archives, an audio - only deleted song, two excerpts from the TV series MGM Parade about the film, the 1955 short The Battle of Gettysburg and Tex Avery cartoon The First Bad Men, and trailers from the film and the earlier 1944 version of the musical.

He's about to direct one of the episodes of the new series of «Sherlock» with Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, which can only raise his profile higher, and he's got a further two films in development at Big Talk, «Child Soldier» and «Wicked Smart.»

Not only was the 1950s tv series still fresh in the minds of the film's target audience of young teenage males — accountants are still struggling to count the vast box office receipts of the 1981 big - screen adventure The Legend of the Lone Ranger.

It's no news to fans of the young - adult book series by Suzanne Collins that this third movie only covers a portion of her third novel, which is par for the course, I suppose, for a film that contains a both a colon and a hyphen in its title.

The only film from the Final Destination franchise to be eligible for this list, it's not the best of the franchise, but it featured some of the series» more memorable sequences, including a gymnastics routine that is a master class in playing with the audience's paranoia.

Gone is the classic John Williams score (except for little bits and pieces), replaced by a very unmemorable one done by Alan Parker (What's Eating Gilbert Grape, American Gothic), his first ever work in a film, having only ever done music for television series.

Not only will many moviegoers likely be scrambling to get a look, but apparently only a select amount of the IMAX - equipped theaters will get the material from the third film in Christopher Nolan's Batman series.

Only die - hard series fans will find any of this distracting, as the film works just as well as a standalone spy adventure as it does an entry in Bond canon, delivering most of the goods anyone might expect while also offering a handful of new twists to keep it from being just another entertaining - but - forgettable entry.

It's easy to forgive the cast of «American Reunion» for having some hesitations about returning for another installment of the comedy franchise (especially after that terrible line of direct - to - video spin - offs didn't do much for its reputation), but credit to co - writers / directors Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg for not only getting everyone on board, but delivering one of the better films in the series.

Though my childhood memories on this subject are a little foggy, I remember demanding to see the movie a second time when it played in theatres only to be re-conditioned by several episodes of the series, to the point where I felt confused and underwhelmed revisiting the film on video.

The film that arguably established this trend was the 2008 found footage monster movie Cloverfield, originally announced to the world through a series of teasers that only referred to it as 01-18-08, which resulted in rampant speculation about what sort of film it would actually be.

As if I enjoy demonstrating this, since hanging up his director's cap, Hughes has produced and / or scripted a series of junk kids movies (a few of which stuck only through sheer force of hype)-- in addition to overseeing the screenwriting debut of son James, New Port South, a teen - aimed film, like those Hughes became famous for, that may well speak to the specifics of today's youth but fails to get at anything universal.

Not only is his action prowess well regarded, but his work in films such as the Kung Fu Panda series perfectly draws from his stunt filled days as an action hero.

The only one still - kinda - sorta on the table is period piece Bride of Frankenstein, the second film in the Dark Universe series, even though it's undergone a series of delays itself.

Extras are slim pickin's, not that you hear me complaining: a gaggle of wisely - deleted scenes excessively spell out what is only implied in the film — as though The Cottage were anywhere near the concept of subtlety — while a series of «Outtakes» (5 mins.)

«Blade Trinity» killed the film series, as well as any interest in the 2006 TV series, which only lasted 13 episodes.

The Quicksilver character is unique within the Marvel Cinematic Universe as he's the only comic character overlapping in film franchises: Quicksilver is being portrayed by different actors in Marvel / Walt Disney's Avengers films and Marvel / 20th Century Fox's X-Men series, with actor Evan Peters playing Quicksilver in the latter.

Halloween III: Season of the Witch is the black sheep of the whole franchise, as it's the only film that doesn't feature Myers, but it also stands out as being the best sequel in the series that creates its own mythology.

One can only hope for more of this virtual reality with the release of the next flick in the series, because being encompassed into the world of a film in a cinema is one thing, but virtual reality is a wholly different ballgame.

installment in this reboot series is not only an emotionally dour thrill ride, but has once again highlighted the brilliance of Andy Serkis, whose performance as Ape leader Caesar proves to be the exclamation point on an argument that he has brought to life one of the greatest characters in recent film history.

Halloween and Halloween III: Season of the Witch are the only noteworthy, unique, or interesting installments in a relatively boring series of films.

Other oddball characters are played by Owen Wilson, Benicio Del Toro, Reese Witherspoon, Maya Rudolph, Eric Roberts, and Martin Short, as a drugged - out / sex friend and dentist who provides the only laugh - out - loud moment in the entire film when he explodes with a series of F - bombs.

While Dark Night remains fascinatingly ambiguous throughout, Joshua Marston's Complete Unknown (Grade: B --RRB- only starts that way: Early scenes deliberately disorient, the film making speedy leaps in time and geography, with Rachel Weisz popping up in what looks like a series of disguises.

Before being selected to direct Black Panther, the director, now 31 years old, had only made two feature films: Fruitvale Station, which won accolades at Sundance in 2013, and Creed, the seventh installment in the Rocky series, which garnered rave reviews in 2015.

Located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn this theater is home not only to current independent cinema but to a number of obscure films as part of its usual film series.

It took six films for the Harry Potter films to finally reach its stride and now that we only have one more chapter to go -LRB-- Filmed in two parts) and if Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is anywhere as good as Harry Potter and the Half - Blood Prince, I just might miss this series when it's over.

Adapted from the novel of the same name by crime - fiction writer Michael Connelly (this is the first of four books in the Haller series), Lawyer struggles to find its footing within a cliché storyline reworked by screenwriter John Romano (Nights in Rodanthe) and helmed by novice director Brad Furman, whose only other film is the straight - to - DVD armored - truck thriller The Take.

Since Grant thought he was too old and would only commit to one film of the potential series, the role went to 32 - year - old Sean Connery in 1962.