Sentences with phrase «other films about»

I liked it less than Black Hawk Down but maybe better than Zero Dark Thirty, two other films about American military intervention and its vast superiority that could only arouse the same audience member who sees a hero in Gordon Gekko and Hud before him.

The earlier reaches of «Topsy - Turvy» resemble in broad outline other films about theater: a flop, a crisis, a vow to never work again, a sudden inspiration, a new start.

This week: With Richard Gere playing a desperate derelict in Time Out Of Mind, and the excellent Heaven Knows What new to Blu - ray, we look back at other films about homelessness.

The plot of «The Shape of Water» is basically a mashup of «Frankenstein», «Beauty and the Beast», «ET: The Extra-Terrestrial», «King Kong» and a variety of other films about «alien» creatures and the people who love them.

Other films about moving through the fourth dimension include: X-Men: Days of Future Past, The Time Machine, About Time and Mr. Peabody & Sherman.

But Renzi loses interest in the eccentric dynamics of this trio, and his film soon adopts the conventional trajectory of countless other films about junkies.

The film's origins go back to 1994 when Disney CEO Michael Eisner, wowed by The Lion King, asked if any other films about animals were on the drawing board.

The ending aside, «Snowden» is another fine addition to Oliver Stone's filmography, fitting in nicely with «JFK,» «Born on the Fourth of July» and other films about trying to be a good American.

(Not that Disobedience necessarily has to be compared to other films about lesbian romance, but the similarities are there — or, in this case, aren't.)

Lady Bird is something truly special: a coming - of - age comedy so funny, perceptive, and truthful that it makes most other films about adolescence look like little more than lessons in cliché.

With his post-9 / 11 war film, 12 Strong, gearing up for release next year, Chris Hemsworth opened up during a recent set visit and explained how it's different from other films about Special Forces units.

As the third chapter in a real - time trilogy about two people in love, Before Midnight has a unique position to explore a relationship between a couple beyond the limitations of many other films about such a topic.

Throughout its running time, A Woman, A Part never shirks the sense that its scenes have been plucked from numerous other films about the difficulty of going home again.

«BPM,» «God's Own Country,» and «Call Me By Your Name»: Though the handsomely crafted, Italian - set «Call Me By Your Name» has gotten all the critical attention, two other films about young gay men coming to terms with themselves in much harsher environments — the French «BPM» is set at the height of the AIDS crisis in Paris while the contemporary British drama «God's Own Country» is set in a grim, rural northern England — are both more haunting and powerful.

Lady Bird, a coming - of - age story starring Saoirse Ronan that The A.V. Club's own A.A. Dowd said is «so funny, perceptive, and truthful that it makes most other films about adolescence look like little more than lessons in cliché.»

This is obviously a far more grounded exploration of the topic than this year's other films about religious oppression, Red State and Footloose, and would make an ace double feature with Sean Durkin's upcoming Martha Marcy May Marlene with their duelling tales of disengagement of rigid cult - like communities.

Without adopting the romantic and moralistic cliches that have crippled many other films about addiction, Gus Van Sant directs Matt Dillon, Kelly Lynch, James Le Gros and Heather Graham in one of the most influential films of the late 1980s.

Other films about miniature characters interacting with the human world can be found in Toy Story and Stuart Little.

For other film about surviving against all odds, check out The Poseidon Adventure, (or the 2006 re-make called Poseidon), The Day After Tomorrow, and Gravity — or one based on a true story, The Impossible.

We want to start by giving a shout out to Kate Plays Christine, 2016's other film about the Floridian newscaster Christine Chubbuck who shot herself in the head live on air in 1974.

, the other film about how awful living with an artist can be released last year, she's also worked with David O. Russell, who — well, the sheer volume of relevant links when you Google «David O. Russell abusive» speaks for itself.

Not exact matches

About 180 auctions have been held since 2011, involving music by Barry White, Taylor Swift, Wiz Khalifa and others, along with film scores and TV theme songs.

With those two films showing potential weaknesses, there is room for a surprise winner like Get Out, the horror film about racism, or the coming - of - age LGBTQ romance Call Me By Your Name, among others.

However, if it fails to meet analyst's estimates, and teeters close to DreamWorks Animation's Thanksgiving debut, the studio could have a larger problem on its hands with only one other film — about a racing snail — out later this year.

We've made about five other films, but in the intervening years, the show business industry has moved entirely toward movies where the main characters have capes and tights.

Lions Gate Entertainment (No. 54) has had box office success with two major franchises: The Twilight series (produced by Summit Entertainment, a Lions Gate subsidiary) and Hunger Games, which have much in common as they are both film adaptations of bestselling young adult book series, are fantastical (one is about vampires and the other about a futuristic dystopia), and are anchored by a dynamic young female character (portrayed by Kristen Stewart in Twilight, Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games).

With how I view films, I think films are ways that we talk to each other and we deepen the conversation about who we are.

As Fury progressed, I began to think about war films like All Quiet on the Western Front and others that might be defined as anti-war war films.

How about all of the other hate films produced in California — anti-Christian, anti-Jew, anti-Republican,....

(CNN)- The deaths of the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans amid protests against a film that denigrates Islam has sparked global discussion and debate about whether there is a line between free speech and hate speech and, if so, where it lies.

«In some of these cases, the people releasing these films or cartoons are trying to make a statement about free speech, which is fair enough,» says Bergen, referring to the film and other provocative recent depictions of Mohammed, Islam's founding prophet.

CNN: Reaction to anti-Islam film fuels debate on free speech versus hate speech The deaths of the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans amid protests against a film that denigrates Islam has sparked global discussion and debate about whether there is a line between free speech and hate speech and, if so, where it lies.

Thomas Trask, the Assemblies of God top administrator, commends the film for its «clear salvation message,» and others see it as a way of telling about Jesus in a straightforward manner.

To learn more about the attraction of these films, you of course need to go purchase the Doomed Bourgeoise in Love book, with its fantastic essays by our Peter and Lauren Weiner, among others.

I don't have much «good» to say about the film other than I liked it.

On the other hand, a sensitive filmmaker, understanding the authority of the person of Jesus, may make a profoundly reverent film about Jesus.

While Pedraza focuses on his own faith and that of those closest to him, Tandan, whose film is about a mosque in India, urges believers to learn about other religions.

The film must contain more than one female character; these female characters must have a conversation with one another; and that conversation must be about something other than a man.

The Mel Gibson Vietnam era film, We Were Soldiers, about soldiers who sacrificed for each other, pulled in $ 53 million in two weeks.

«s internal debate over this sets up a fascinating conversation about the balance between personal ambition and responsibility to others that I don't believe a lot of parents will see coming after watching the film with their children.

Coco «s internal debate over this sets up a fascinating conversation about the balance between personal ambition and responsibility to others that I don't believe a lot of parents will see coming after watching the film with their children.

Of course this show is not going to represent 100 % of muslims in america, just like when they film a show about asians, african americans or any other race it doesn't represent all those people in that race.

I find it fascinating when writers and directors and even producers of films about real people in the Bible read into what the people were like and how they fill in the gaps of the dialog, some I like, others I disagree with, but it allows me to put flesh and blood on their bones.

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I try not to hold things other people say about these prospects against them, but if you say a guy is «relentless» it's sorta hard not to look for that on film.

It is a film about the importance of family and having faith in each other, and how each can play a pivotal role in the journeys of the others, in both sickness and in health.

You will see films and other works about Margaret Mead announcing that she «reintroduced breastfeeding to America.»

While there are many, many compelling things about the film, I found myself gravitating toward a teeny - tiny subplot: when both Joel (Jim Carrey) and Clementine (Kate Winslet) accidentally hear the tapes each recorded of the other in their attempts to erase each other from their memory, they get a glimpse of what their former romantic partner was thinking of them at the time things went south.

Though we often share or hear about the experience that persons of the LGBT community have had when coming out, one film seeks to focus on the other side of the experience: parents.

The above films and many other examples of media coverage over the years have come about because the boycott campaign puts Nestlé in the spotlight.