Sentences with phrase «promising feature debut»

Crazy Heart Where: Embarcadero Center Cinema, 1 Embarcadero Ctr., 415-352-0835 When: All Week Why: Best known as The Dude to Lebowski lovers worldwide, Jeff Bridges delivers one of his most memorable performances as Bad Blake, the hard - living country singer stumbling toward a shot at redemption in writer - director Scott Cooper's promising feature debut.

«The Forest» is a fairly promising feature debut from director Jason Zada, which isn't the same thing as saying it's a good horror film.

Faux Rushmore: Promising Feature Debut from Brit Richard Ayoade Plays it Safe with Coming - of - age Quirkiness

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Sadly, while «Krampus» features a promising setup and a strong cast (including Adam Scott, Toni Collette and Allison Tolman), it falls well short of Dougherty's debut.

Ayoadeâ $ ™ s promising, but overly familiar feature debut (based on a novel by Joe Dunthorne) follows the self - dramatizing teenager Oliver Tate as he struggles to keep his parentsâ $ ™ marriage together while also trying to lose his virginity.

Filmmaker Karyn Kusama has at last fulfilled the promise she showed in her knockout feature debut, «Girlfight,» a pugilistic coming - of - age drama from 2000 that also launched the career of its scrappy star, Michelle Rodriguez.

Minter showed a promise in his shorts efforts, a promised that did not go unrecognized by filmmakers like Carlos Reygadas and Alejandro G. Innáritu, who backed his feature debut.

Also unexpectedly refreshing to see the promising and bold debut feature Beasts of the Southern Wild so prominently featured, even if it's unlikely such an underdog stands a chance against the Hollywood giants and industry veterans (Beasts... is also disgracefully absent from the «best original score» nomination list, but now I'm just being petty).

with Keira Knightley and Mark Ruffalo, Jason Bateman's directorial debut, «Bad Words,» «A Promise» starring Rebecca Hall, Atom Egoyan's «The Devil's Knot» with Reese Witherspoon and Colin Firth, the Owen Wilson, Zach Galifianakis - lead «You Are Here» by «Mad Men» creator Matthew Weiner, «In Secret» formerly known as «Therese» starring Oscar Isaac and Elizabeth Olsen, «Adult World» with John Cusack and Emma Roberts and Guillaume Canet «s 70's crime movie «Blood Ties,» featuring the ensemble of Clive Owen, Billy Crudup, Mila Kunis, Zoe Saldana, Marion Cotillard, Lili Taylor, James Cann and many more.

Hauck shows much promise in his feature - length debut and John Hawkes delivers the goods.

Conceived, written, shot and finished in less than nine months from page to premiere, the film is the second feature from «Eastern Promises» and «Dirty Pretty Things» writer Steven Knight, who made his debut only a few short months ago with Jason Statham vehicle «Hummingbird» (known in the U.S. as «Redemption»).

As the feature directorial debut of writer Guillermo Arriaga, famous for his work writing for director Alejandro González Iñárritu, The Burning Plain is very promising.

Writer / director Kire Paputts, making his debut feature with The Rainbow Kid, begins his film with the promise of a hero.

Following Frank's half - hearted self - introduction, we get his backstory: a boyhood visit to the 1964 World's Fair, where he presents his homemade jetpack; an encounter with a peculiar young girl, Athena (Raffey Cassidy), who tells him «I'm the future»; and a trip on the «It's a Small World» ride, which debuted at that World's Fair and in which — I promise I am not making this up — young Frank discovers an inter-dimensional portal to a futuristic metropolis in the middle of a wheat field, featuring flying «hover - rails» and the aforementioned building that looks just like Space Mountain.

Friday (1995), the first installment in the slacker trilogy starring Ice Cube, marked the directorial debut of F. Gary Gray and featured some promising young thespians like Chris Tucker, Meagan Good and Nia Long before they became household names.

McG's stock has gone done since his promising feature film debut with Charlie's Angels in 2000.

For a feature - length debut, you couldn't ask for a more promising start.

Director and co-writer Russell Harbaugh delivers a passionately minimalist John Cassavetes - like drama worthy of as much praise as likely will be thrown its way, the finished feature a promising debut I imagine a great number of viewers will be talking about fondly for the remainder of the year.

Movie review of «Krisha»: The debut feature by Trey Edward Shults introduces him as a promising if extreme director of behavior and observation, resulting in a film as artificial as it is interesting.

As Harry's friends, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson show promise in their feature film debuts.

But the fact that Ayoade's directorial debut is so full of life and so true - to - life promises what I hope will be an amazing career in feature films.

Dean has enough laughs to not feel completely hostile, and its ending is low - key enough to not feel self - indulgent, but this isn't a promising debut, even if it did win a narrative - feature jury prize.

Complete List of NAACP Image Award Winners Film Categories Best Picture - «The Secret Life of Bees» Best Director - Gina Prince - Bythewood, «The Secret Life of Bees» Best Actor - Will Smith, «Seven Pounds» Best Actress - Rosario Dawson, «Seven Pounds Supporting Actor - Columbus Short, «Cadillac Records» Supporting Actress - Taraji P. Henson, «The Curious Case of Benjamin Button» Independent Film - «Slumdog Millionaire» Documentary - «The Black List» Foreign Film - «The Class» Best Screenplay - Jenny Lumet, «Rachel Getting Married» Television Categories Best Comedy Series - «Tyler Perry's House of Payne» Best Actor in a Comedy Series - LaVan Davis, «Tyler Perry's House of Payne» Best Actress in a Comedy Series - Tracee Ellis Ross, «Girlfriends» Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series - Lance Gross, «Tyler Perry's House of Payne» Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series - Keshia Knight Pulliam, «Tyler Perry's House of Payne» Best Dramatic Series - «Grey's Anatomy» Best Actor in a Dramatic Series - Hill Harper, «CSI: NY» Best Actress in a Dramatic Series - Chandra Wilson, «Grey's Anatomy» Supporting Actor in a Dramatic Series - Taye Diggs, «Private Practice» Supporting Actress in a Dramatic Series - Angela Bassett, «ER» Made - for - TV Movie, Miniseries or Dramatic Special - «A Raisin in The Sun» Best Actor in a Made - for - TV Movie, Miniseries or Dramatic Special - Sean Combs, «A Raisin in the Sun» Best Actress in a Made - for - TV Movie, Miniseries or Dramatic Special - Phylicia Rashad, «A Raisin in the Sun» Best Actor in a Sopa Opera - Bryton McClure, «The Young and the Restless» Best Actress in a Sopa Opera - Debbi Morgan, «All My Children» Best Director in a Dramatic Series - Ernest Dickerson, «Lincoln Heights - The Day Before Tomorrow» Best Director in a Comedy Series - Kevin Sullivan, «30 Rock - MILF Island» Best Screenplay for a Dramatic Series - Shonda Rhimes, «Grey's Anatomy: Freedom Part 1 & 2» Best Screenplay for a Comedy Series - Erica D. Montolfo, «The Game: White Coats and White Lies» News / Information Series or Special - «In Conversation: Michelle Obama Interview» Talk Series - «The View» Reality Series - «American Idol 7» Variety Series or Special - «An Evening of Stars: Tribute to Smokey Robinson» Children's Program - «Dora The Explorer» Best Performance in a Children's Series or Special - Keke Palmer, «True Jackson» Music Categories Best Male Artist - Jamie Foxx Best Female Artist - Beyonce» Best New Artist - Jennifer Hudson Best Duo, Group or Collaboration - Jennifer Hudson, featuring Fantasia - «I'm His Only Woman» Best Jazz Artist - Natalie Cole - «Still Unforgettable» Best Gospel Artist - Mary Mary Best World Music Album - Cheryl Keyes - «Let Me Take You There» Best Music Video - «Yes We Can» - Will.i.am Best Song - «Yes We Can» - Will.i.am Best Album - Jennifer Hudson - «Jennifer Hudson» Literary Categories Fiction - «In the Night of the Heat: A Tennyson Hardwick Novel,» Blair Underwood, Tananarive Due, Steven Barnes Nonfiction - «Letter to My Daughter,» Maya Angelou Debut Author - «Barack, Race, and the Media: Drawing My Own Conclusion,» David Glenn Brown Biography / Autobiography - «The Legs are the Last to Go,» Diahann Carroll Instructional - «32 Ways to Be a Champion in Business,» Earvin «Magic» Johnson Poetry - «Hip Hop Speaks to Children: A Celebration of «Poetry With a Beat»» Nikki Giovanni Children - «Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope,» Nikki Grimes (illustrator - Bryan Collier) Youth / Teens - «Letters to a Young Sister: Define Your Destiny,» Hill Harper

As promised, today was the global debut for the BMW i3, the luxury carmaker's first in its «i Series» of electrified cars and featuring several innovations intended to match the company's reputation for being a cut above.

As promised, Ram debuted the next - generation Ram 1500 DT at the North American International Auto Show and it's new features are pretty significant.

The crew at Affalterbach already debuted the AMG CLS 53 4MATIC + featuring an inline - six that promises 435 - horsepower and a ground - pounding 390 pound - feet of torque.

- Publishers Weekly» [A] delicious debut from Stradal... Food and family intertwine in this promising debut that features triumph, heartbreak, and even recipes.»

Celebrating the franchise's 10th anniversary, KINGDOM HEARTS 3D [Dream Drop Distance] features a spectacular story that promises to be a fun backdrop to the colorful cast of Disney characters making their 3D debut on a handheld title.

KINGDOM HEARTS 3D [Dream Drop Distance] Developer: Square Enix Platform: Nintendo 3DS system ESRB: E10 + (Everyone 10 or older) Available: July 31 Celebrating the franchise's 10th anniversary, KINGDOM HEARTS 3D [Dream Drop Distance] features a spectacular story that promises to be a fun backdrop to the colorful cast of Disney characters making their 3D debut on a handheld title.

It's a feature Xbox Chief Phil Spencer promised when the Xbox One debuted back in 2013, and confirmed earlier this morning at Microsoft's Build 2016 developer conference.

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) announced Wednesday that a thoroughly transformed SFMOMA will open to the public on Saturday, May 14, 2016, offering nearly three times the previous exhibition space, featuring 260 works from the Fisher Collection, a first showing of more than 600 artworks promised to the museum, the debut of the new Pritzker Center for Photography and an outward - looking architectural design that weaves the museum into the city as never before.

There promises to be all of the above in Starr's Androgynous Egg, which is based on her as - yet - unreleased debut novel and features, along with the artist, five dancer vocalists and a singer with a disembodied head emerging from the top of a table.

In a stunning New York debut, featuring several wooden sculptures and a series of watercolors, German artist Paloma Varga Weisz shines, raising the suspicion that she might be one of the most promising young talents around.

An industry - tied movie called Pandora's Promise, recently featured at Sundance and debuted through Netflix and iTunes, has been promoting this very perspective.