Sentences with phrase «original film around»

Although Battleship isn't the most original film around, it's an entertaining couple of hours — a popcorn flick that doesn't pretend to be anything else.

Not exact matches

AIM Studios is the TV production unit of Warren Miller Entertainment, the original outdoor production company, and is equally adept at filming in our state - of - the - art green - screen studio and in extreme environments around the globe.

Sure to delight X-fans everywhere and thrill action - lovers all around, this movie is most likely the best comic - to - film adaptation produced yet, despite a few changes made for the sake of creating an original story.

«Guess Who» is a dry comedy, a remake of the classic «Guess Who's Coming to Dinner» (1967), only this time, it has a race role reversal, where the original film was about a white family meeting a black man, this film centers around a black family meeting a white man.

There's not an original idea rattling around in the empty - headed but gorgeous - to - behold period film.

One of his keenest tricks is to insert a device — something one could almost describe as «wacky» — that allows his films of people simple sitting around talking to play as a far more uniquely original morsel.

Special Features High - definition digital transfer from the 2004 Film Foundation restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack Archival introduction to the film by director Jean Renoir «Around the River,» a 60 - minute 2008 documentary by Arnaud Mandagaran about the making of the film Interview with filmmaker Martin Scorsese from 2004 Audio interview with producer Ken McEldowney from 2000 «Jean Renoir: A Passage Through India,» a new video essay by film writer Paul Ryan Trailer Plus: An essay by film scholar Ian Christie and original production notes by Renoir

Similar to the original film, Ray also jumps around on the timeline, and much like its predecessor things can get a smidge confusing as to what time period we're currently in.

I'm not exactly sure why Sony would want to remind moviegoers about the original «Spider - Man» trilogy when the studio is only weeks away from rebooting the lucrative superhero franchise, but if you never got around to buying the films on Blu - ray, it's as good a time as any to get them now.

If the original classic wasn't around to support the sequel what would everyone make of this film.

The as - yet untitled Star Wars standalone movie, heavily rumoured to follow a group of bounty hunters around the galaxy, has been gaining traction of late; Gary Whitta, the movie's original writer, left the project, while Simon Kinberg (X-Men: Days of Future Past, Star Wars Rebels) has joined The Empire Strikes Back scribe Lawrence Kasdan for the second standalone film, which will be directed by Josh Trank (Chronicle).

Twist on original: Reports suggest there won't be any songs this time around, but the film will hold true to the traditional Chinese tale of a young woman who disguises herself as a man so she can go to war.

There's no official word yet on whether the original film's female lead, Morena Baccarin's Vanessa, will be back second time around, or whether they will stay true to the comics by sending her into superhero territory as her Copycat alter ego.

While it is definitely a remake, enough has been changed this time around to entertain audiences of today, regardless of whether or not they have viewed the original film.

For comparison sake, the original film used around 300 gallons of blood.

While the original ideas for a Star Wars stand - alone film would be about Yoda, Boba Fett or Han Solo, it's now been confirmed that this spin - off will center around... a woman!

Whereas the original film was based around a board game, the followup transports its characters into the world of a retro video game they discover.

On top of what reads as an almost encyclopaedic account of English - language writing on and debates around mise en scène, Martin offers appropriate engagement with French film scholarship — both in translation and in the original — plus the thriving world of trans - national Spanish - language film criticism.

But what's more impressive is the advance word on the film (our own included), and the buzz around it, which has been so positive, with it being touted as the rare sequel that improves on the original, and with many going so far as to compare it to «The Empire Strikes Back.»

The emotional climax was the weakest aspect of the original, and it's even worse this time around, because after all of the allegedly comic nastiness that ensues, MacFarlane still wants you to think that his film has a heart.

This whole film revolves around the original narrative of Zuckerman going back to school to catch up with people and it's pointless.

While I still think that a Poltergeist remake is completely unnecessary, especially because the original film is nearly perfect, I'm starting to come around to it.

While the whodunit still revolves around this pair's collaborating on a case, loyal Lehane fans deserve to be apprised of the fact that the film is only loosely based on the original source material.

The Blu - ray's menu moves around the cover image and two more suggestive publicity photos while playing Kitty White's night club version of «Rather Have the Blues», an original tune Nat King Cole sings over the radio in the film's opening sequence.

Smith can barely take the proceedings seriously himself, as not only does he move around and multiply Guy Lapointe's signature mole, but the film's German villain (Smith's podcast partner Ralph Garman) becomes a gifted celebrity impressionist, explaining his unique evil using a variety of celebrity accents that range from Al Pacino and Sylvester Stallone to Arnold Schwarzenegger and the original Batman, Adam West.

Excellent (4 stars) Rated G Running time: 83 minutes Studio: New Video Group 2 - Disc DVD Extras: California Quail Bonus Short; Urban Legends; Origins of the Flock; Special Homage to Connor; Mark Bittner's Home Movies; Please Don't Feed the Birds; Music Video: Ballad of the Brooklyn Parrots; Behind the Scenes; Parrots Around the World; Flock Updates; Mark Bittner and Judy Irving Update; Original Theatrical Trailer; plus two new films by director Judy Irving «Christmas at the Bait Shop» and»19 Arrests, No Convictions»; and much more.

While there is certainly enough blame to go around in why the film doesn't work, from the original footage that we do see, there really isn't much to indicate that a truly good movie would have been produced.

As Warner owns DC comics and its iconic heroes, it has a lot invested in them and it shows: the DC Universe original animation productions smarter and more interesting than the animated Marvel adventures from Lionsgate and Warner creates terrific DVD / Blu - ray editions around the films.

The original tacking tried to place the opening weekend around $ 100 million and at almost every turn the film has outpaced industry predictions.

There's a bevy of talks, negotiations and (shudder) pre-attachment deals going on around the Croisette this week, but don't be surprised if all the actors announced don't actually appear in the films they're touted to be in (see last year when, for example Amy Adams was listed in the original version of John Hillcoat's «The Wettest County,» which died and then came back to life this year).

And yet the realization dawns inescapable that no matter the acres of flesh, the film is every bit as horrible as that self - serious, neo-camp sexploitation classic Original Sin (another noir based on a lesser - known, period - dependent novel — that one by Cornell Woolrich, this one by John Fante), with only the gender / race roles reversed — that watching naked Angelina Jolie writhe around with Antonio Banderas can be every bit as disturbingly sexless as Hayek and Colin Farrell doing same.

One original cast member only very briefly featured in the sequel was Sasha Barrese as bride - to - be Tracy, last seen enduring the guys» Las Vegas antics to marry Bartha in the first film, but it has been confirmed she'll appear for the third go - around.

More straightforward and less of a puzzle than the original versions, it nonetheless builds a mystery around why Chastain's title character disappears, before casually dropping hints well into the film.

As Westworld «s inaugural season ushered in the adaptation of Michael Crichton's 1973 film of the same name, the second season will seemingly center around six different parks, including Shogun World, which was referred to as Samurai World in the original picture.

While the story of the successful man hitting his low point and having to turn his life around isn't original, the film is able to avoid cliche by making some interesting choices in how those themes are explored, which help them feel a little more unique.

Humans, Orcs, Elves... everybody is just trying to get along in Netflix's $ 100 million original film Bright, based on the Max Landis script that caused something of a bidding war when it was passed around.

Independence Day: Resurgence: Something went horribly wrong in the 20 years since the original film's release, as this ranks as one of the worst sequels to come around in quite some time.

The original «Mission: Impossible,» directed by Brian de Palma, built an incomprehensible plot about the theft of a computer file with the names of America's top secret agents around the film's massive action set - pieces.

Like the original 1982 film, the story centers around a family whose suburban home is plagued by dark spirits.

Farrell and McDonagh didn't really know each other before the latter cast the former in In Bruges, which went on to land an Academy Award nomination (for best original screenplay) and is widely perceived as the film that turned Farrell's career around - in a good way, that is.

There's been a bit misinformation going around the online film community that the film would somehow be a bridge between Prometheus and the original Alien, not true.

It has been accused of showcasing a dip in quality for one of the most original film - makers out there and that is a strong thing to start spreading around the critic's club.

The Hakuoki series has been around for quite some time, starting with the PS2 original and it's sequel, then that getting ported to various platforms over the years, with an anime and two films, and even a...

Gary Ross borrowed from the Paul Greengrass school of direction when filming the original — lots of shakycam and quick - cutting — but Chasing Fire director Francis Lawrence takes a different approach, allowing his camera to glide smoothly around the action so that the viewer can take it all in, and while the violence still feels overly - sanitized, at least it's comprehensible.

With Good Luck Chuck just around the bend, and making such a desperately naked play to position itself as the next Wedding Crashers, I figured it's time to re-post a slightly redacted version of that film's original review, originally published in Screen International upon its theatrical release in 2005.

Rogue One, a new standalone Star Wars film that ends around the point where the original movie began, doesn't exactly subvert the light - and - dark mythos of that nearly 40 - year - old multimedia franchise, but it does find the fatalism buried in its space - opera heroics.

During the interview, McBride mentions how they wanted to bring the character back to John Carpenter's original vision, having it take place around and after his first two films.

The Image Comics original earned plaudits for its exploration of the connections Barbara has with those around her, and so the film will definitely need to do the same.

All we really know is the basic outline of the film that's been around since the original trailer: it takes place after the events of Captain America: Civil War, and Erik Killmonger wants to take over Wakanda.

Many of the original stars of the film are returning, but there is no sign of Cody Horn, who played Tatum's love interest last time around.