Sentences with phrase «over direction of the film»

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Schneiderman had, at the direction of Cuomo, himself been probing Vance's office over questions about its handling of groping allegations against film mogul Harvey Weinstein in 2015.

One of Elvis Presley's best films, Viva Las Vegas benefits from the exuberant direction of MGM vet George Sidney, the young and sexy Ann - Margret as romantic interest, and over 12 melodic songs that take up half of the running time (only 85 minutes).

«General Phillips: Boots on the Ground» (8:38) looks at the film in terms of Todd Phillips» direction but also in more general terms like filming all over the world.

The ensemble does most of the film's heavy lifting, since the unevenness of the script impacts Babbit's direction as well (it's surprising to see how lackluster her direction can be at times, considering her excellent work on television over the years).

Not only is the film's mood and flow of events all over the map, but without any focused direction, all of the players attack the material from wildly different angles.

And until then, the film is so remarkable at synching its picturesque style to Moonee's seemingly limitless freedom that the one time they do fall out of sync feels jarring, almost offensive: In long shot, Moonee and her friends charge past a series of stores and toward the promise of ice cream, and even after the children have exited the frame, the camera lingers on the sight of an obese person on a scooter riding in the other direction, the sound of the scooter going over a speed bump nothing more than a punchline, an easy potshot, at the expense of a person who isn't even a bystander to Moonee's life.

Pop culture knew that before you did, but that's no reason to give over direction of the entire film to Jorma Taccone.

The dialogue sparkles even though many of the best lines are ad - libbed, while the direction by Sydney Pollack (Three Days of the Condor, The Firm), who also plays the role of the frustrated agent in the film, keeps the movie fresh and honest enough to cover over the necessary contrivances that hold the movie together.

Extensive reshoots and additional direction seemed to work in favor of Lucasfilm's very first Star Wars Anthology, Rogue One, so we can only hope the change in directors at the last minute (with Ron Howard taking over for Phil Lord and Chris Miller after shooting 90 % of the originally planned film) does the same.

Rawson Marshall Thurber, responsible for Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, was tasked to direct this film and also unfortunately this feels nothing like the spirited, «we're screwed but we're going to still enjoy the moment anyway» brand of humor that washed over Dodgeball «s cliched storyline; the direction here feels hesitant, unsure and quite frankly amateurish.

Whilst that I can acknowledge that it did take the film in a slightly different direction, and tried to do something a little different than the original (for example letting Murphy retain his memory whereas in the original Murphy was wiped or delving more into the family life of Murphy both as a human and as RoboCop), but for me it missed out on having the main villain, it cashed in on using the original them tune (which to be honest I did kinda like), the shoe - horning in of some of the original one liners that really felt out of place, there was tonnes of CGI which unfortunately is to be expected these days and I felt it was considerably toned down to appeal more to the younger audience, losing the over gratuitous violence and blood that the original had which in my opinion gave it some of the charm that it still has today.

I thought that The Desolation of Smaug was a vast improvement over An Unexpected Journey by pushing the series along in the right direction as it felt closer in tone and feel to The Lord of the Rings than the first film did.

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In the film, a 320 - ton steamship did in fact make its way over a mountain in South America, to get from one river to another by way of pulleys and the handiwork of more than 1,000 crew members toiling under Herzog's direction.