Sentences with phrase «real center of the film»

Renato's story — in particular how his raw lust develops something deeper and heartfelt — is also touching, but despite being the real center of the film, he is not nearly as compelling a character.

Not exact matches

Since launching Raleigh Construction Company (now Raleigh Enterprises) in 1955, he has acquired, developed and managed more than 11 million square feet of real estate across the globe, reimagining dormant plots of land and run - down commercial buildings as resort hotels, residential apartments, office towers, shopping centers and film studios.

For Shawn Levy and Real Steel, I felt like I had seen the film countless times before, just with other sports at the center of it all.

This film is a satire about the lack of real communication found in contemporary high - tech society.With no real narrative, beginning, or ending credits, it centers on Munson, his wife, and a bizarre orange - clad goggle - wearing exterminator named Elmo.

Presented as a «sort of sequel» to Apatow's 2007 sophomore feature, Knocked Up, This Is 40 gives center stage to the earlier film's supporting characters: Los Angeles record label executive Pete (Paul Rudd) and his wife Debbie (played by Apatow's real - life wife, Leslie Mann).

Madison Wolfe is great as the young girl at the center of the haunting, but the film wouldn't work without Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga, who play the real - life ghost hunters with such earnestness that it lends credibility to the material.

While the film does center around two detectives trying to determine who drained the blood and removed the reproductive organs of some young wayward girl, the real mystery is why someone drained the intelligence out of Ellroy's novel, ripping out its soul in favor of glossy, empty - headed vacuousness.

Based off of screenwriter Will Reiser's real - life experience with cancer, the film centers around a young man named Adam and how he, and his friends and family cope with an abbreviated Five Stages Of Grief — shock, denial, resistance and acceptancof screenwriter Will Reiser's real - life experience with cancer, the film centers around a young man named Adam and how he, and his friends and family cope with an abbreviated Five Stages Of Grief — shock, denial, resistance and acceptancOf Grief — shock, denial, resistance and acceptance.

In fact, watching terrorists crash the President's plane into a New York City skyscraper can only evoke images of Sept. 11, 2001 when viewed today, and Plissken's landing atop one of the World Trade Center's Twin Towers is another scene that takes on new significance given America's real life history in the years that followed the film's release.

Based off of screenwriter Will Reiser's real - life experience with cancer, the film centers around a young man named Adam and how he, and his friends and family cope with an abbreviated Five Stages Of Grief — shock, denial, resistance.of screenwriter Will Reiser's real - life experience with cancer, the film centers around a young man named Adam and how he, and his friends and family cope with an abbreviated Five Stages Of Grief — shock, denial, resistance.Of Grief — shock, denial, resistance...

Of course, there's a woman by his side, Jane (Carmen Ejogo), a fictional composite of Baker's three real wives, who represents an uncomplicatedly dull cheerleader for the great man in the film's center rinOf course, there's a woman by his side, Jane (Carmen Ejogo), a fictional composite of Baker's three real wives, who represents an uncomplicatedly dull cheerleader for the great man in the film's center rinof Baker's three real wives, who represents an uncomplicatedly dull cheerleader for the great man in the film's center ring.

A smart, sophisticated comedy about the challenges of love and marriage amongst modern day New Yorkers, Freundlich's fourth feature film centers on the romantic escapades of two couples: a successful actress (Freundlich's real - life significant other, Julianne Moore) and her stay - at - home husband (David Duchovny), and said actress» slacker younger brother (Billy Crudup) and his aspiring novelist girlfriend (Maggie Gyllenhaal).

The list of icons making appearances was truly unprecedented: Superman soars twice — once in the «return» and the other as Ben Affleck; Crockett and Tubbs exude cool; Ethan Hunt falls short; Captain Jack Sparrow sets the stage for the finale; Jack Black sometimes wears stretchy pants; Huey Long is resurrected and somehow over-played by Sean Penn; the mass appeal of the DaVinci Code novel fizzled onscreen; Robert Altman's amazing career ended with an excellent adaptation of a radio series starring Garrison Keillor's made for radio face; Johnny Depp tried to untrack his career with The Libertine; Nicolas Cage was front and center in the disastrous remake of The Wicker Man, but if the preview is any indication, his sleep - walk was merely a tune - up for this year's Ghost Rider; Woody Allen (with Scarlett Johansson as his muse) re-emerged with his best comedy since Crimes and Misdemeanors; amazingly, Jen and Vince's real life break - up was more entertaining than the film version; and while on - set hook - ups seem to the norm, how could the dreadful You, Me and Dupree have been an aphrodisiac for Kate and Owen?

Another example of the «great trailer, disappointing film» syndrome, Gaspar Noe «s surprisingly soft - centered «Love» may have featured 3D ejaculations and plenty of clearly un-simulated sex, but its story was sadly lacking in any real edge or insight.

The new film Concussion centers on the real life expose of NFL head trauma, a condition so common and infuriating that it's surprising the information took as long as it did to leak to the public.

Gosling and de Armas are the emotional center of the film, even though we're constantly aware it's not a real relationship, but an idealized one that starts with Joi resembling a fabulously dressed and perfectly coiffed 1950s American housewife.

The scandal at the center of the story may seem a little trite (and as an interview with Clooney and producing partner Grant Heslov reveals, it's probably the biggest difference between the film version and the Beau Williamson stage play that it's based on), but you can hardly fault «The Ides of March» for relying on such a tried and trusted premise when real - life politics are just as dirty.

Snatch «will carry the spirit» of the film and feature all new characters; inspired by a real life London heist, it «centers on a group of twenty - something, up - and - coming hustlers who stumble upon a truck load of stolen gold bullion and are suddenly thrust into the high - stakes world of organized crime.

The film, in theaters this month, centers on the real - life story of Colin Warner (played by Lakeith Stanfield), a Trinidad native wrongly convicted of murder.

Then, once the final (patented) Shyamalan twist comes out, many of the film's strengths (its lighthearted, easy humor among them) seem out of sync with the very real tragedy at the center of the plot.

Black Panther may be Coogler's first superhero movie, but in truth, the heroes at the center of his films, including Oscar Grant, have always felt bigger than their real - life counterparts, if only because of Coogler's willingness to lean into treating them like the heroes of a movie.

Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, Matthew Kluber, curator, Jeff Fleming, (brochure), 2011 Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Shanghai, China, Animamix Biennial: Metaphors of Un / Real, curator, Victoria Lu, 2010 Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA, John F. Simon, Jr. and Matthew Kluber: Hybrid Media (catalog), 2010 Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE, Borderland Abstraction, Curator, Hesse McGraw (brochure), 2010 Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI, Matthew Kluber: Half - Day Closing, 2010 FOCUS09 / Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Cool Stories for When the Planet Gets Hot II, curators, Corinne Erni, New York and Anne - Marie Melster, Spain; traveled to: Valencia Museum of Illustration and Modernity, Valencia, Spain: Pavilion City Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark, UN Climate Conference COP 15, 2009 Grand Rapids Art Museum, MI, So Much Water So Close To Home, (film installation / exterior projection), 2009