Is this movie another heart - warming sports movie from Disney or is film so cliched and cheesy that you'll want to
run out of the theater?
I almost
ran out of the theater right then and there to grab my laptop and get writing.
Not exact matches
More alarmingly, it has been lobbying against traditional
theater - only cinematic
runs for new movie releases — leading John Fithian, CEO
of the National Association
of Theatre Owners trade organization, to call
out Netflix at a recent conference as a «grave threat to the movie business.»
But Edinburgh holds dark memories too
of medical training in those days before blessed anesthesia, I clearly remember
running out of the University's operating
theater unable to bear the screams
of a stuck down child in surgery.
Five years ago a co-worker and good friend
of mine and I were looking for
out of the box field trips to take our kids on and saw that a local children's
theater was
running a performance
of Henny Penny and a light went off.
Early Man Rated PG for rude humor and some action Rotten Tomatoes Score: 84 % (at time
of writing) In
Theaters Aardman, the UK stop motion animation studio behind Chicken
Run and Wallace & Gromit, are now tackling caveman soccer in this new project about a tribe
of neanderthals who are forced
out of their valley by their technologically superior neighbors, only to challenge them to a football match to win back their land.
A24's Yiddish - language father - son drama Menashe was strong
out of the gate, taking in $ 61,409 from three
runs, while Annapurna's first roll -
out, Detroit from Academy Award - winner Kathryn Bigelow bowed at over $ 365K in 20
theaters.
In this case, though, there's been more pressure on Netflix to give it some kind
of run -
out in
theaters, perhaps to increase its chances in end
of the year awards.
With Woody Allen's latest «Magic In The Moonlight» hitting
theaters, it's also an ideal time to check
out «Radio Days,» one
of the filmmaker's most underrated gems and the movie that began his still -
running partnership with production designer and...
Focus Features added
runs for Paul Thomas Anderson's Phantom Thread in its seventh
outing, taking in $ 2.14 M in 1,186
theaters, one
of a half - dozen Oscar nominees widening
out after initially limited
runs.
This was Williams at the peak
of his game, part
of a
run that started with his work as a rambunctious
theater -
of - war DJ in «Good Morning, Vietnam» for Barry Levinson in 1987 (Oscar - nominated), inspirational teacher in «Dead Poets Society» for Peter Weir in 1989 (Oscar - nominated), culminating with his Oscar win as the university professor who draws
out Matt Damon's troubled genius in 1997's «Good Will Hunting» for Gus Van Sant (good directors brought
out the best in Williams).
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It opened in May, built steadily through word
of mouth during the summer, was
out of theaters by September, and was considered
out of the
running since the academy tends to favor films that have opened in the autumn or are still in
theaters.
But «The Big Stick» is not one
of those semi-awful, schematically spelled
out conflicts such as the unfunny «My Big Fat Greek Wedding», but rather features a crackerjack script graced with a marvelous ensemble that mixes melodrama and broad comedy, and comes across like a hilarious memoir based on Kumail's actual marriage to Emily in one
of the most beautiful stories
of love and its conflicts you may
run across in the
theaters this year.
This isn't the latest entry in the long -
running Ocean series — the highly anticipated, all - female reboot / sequel Ocean's Eight doesn't hit
theaters until next June — but a movie that arrives this weekend with the scent
of burned rubber and chewing tobacco: Logan Lucky, the latest comedy from director Steven Soderbergh, who helmed the 2001's Ocean's Eleven and also directed the»90s caper classic
Out of Sight.
Unless you are a huge Jason Statham fan, I'd say just wait until the film hits the rental market and visit a Redbox Kiosk instead
of running out to
theaters.
It may not be a movie you'll
run out on day one to buy it on Blu - ray, but it's a great time at the
theater as a date movie or with a bunch
of friends.
The villain this time around is Poppy Adams (Julianne Moore), a kitsch - loving billionaire drug trafficker who
runs her empire
out of Poppy Land, a retro - futurist theme park hidden in an unknown jungle; her office is a»50s diner where disloyal underlings are ground into burger meat, just up the street from the private
theater where she enjoys nightly performances from a kidnapped, indignant Elton John.
I assumed that since it was a comic book movie starring Michael Cera, and since it had a pretty big publicity
run leading up to the release, that it would be in multiple screens at each
theater, and I would have plenty
of opportunities to perhaps catch an afternoon showing if I bombed
out of the Game Day proceedings.
The trailers kept rolling
out, slowly showing more tantalizing shots
of total destruction, and when the movie finally did hit
theaters, it
ran around the clock for the first three days.
The movie is now finishing its theatrical
run, dribbling
out of the last few
theaters.
Yesterday, as I was searching for descriptions
of San Francisco
Theaters in 1880 (I am hoping to have a scene in a
theater in my next historical mystery, Bloody Lessons), I
ran across the following paragraph and laughed
out loud.
Between the restaurant and the
theater the electric batteries finally
run out of juice so the regular hybrid system kicks in and you're back to getting 40 or 50 mpg on gasoline.
That means if you've been itching to get your Star Wars fill and you're
running out of all the cash it takes to see it in
theaters (because yes, it is still in
theaters), you won't have to wait too long to bring Rey, Finn, Poe, Leia, and all your other faves home with you.