Sentences with phrase «real events movie»

In the supposedly based on a real events movie, The Frozen Ground, she portrays a stripper who survives a murder attempt by a serial killer.

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And that's why I so often make movies based on real - life events.

It's the title, too, of a particularly cynical BoJack Horseman episode about mass shootings, in which beleaguered film producers find themselves rolling their eyes while they trot out the phrase, again and again, in response to real events as they try to get back to the «actually pressing business of making sure the movie gets made.»

I love romantic movies, adventure, action, western, fiction, education, films based on real events.

Interesting movie that shows the real events in Poland around World War 2 and how a family that owned a zoo also helped to save many jewish people.

Moreover, the movie's rhythm and intensity provide a sense of the real rhythm and intensity of the earth - shaking events in 1971.

Mega Man Maverick Hunter X also includes an animated movie that provides real insight into the Mega Man X universe and even gives gamers a sneak peek at events that took place before the plot line of the first game.

In the role of Linda McCartney in this made - for - TV movie, Mitchell portrayed the woman with whom Paul McCartney (portrayed by Bakewell) would fall in love, and the tragic story of her battle with breast cancer, based on real - life events.

As someone that did nt know anything about the real life history of Edith Piaf, I found the movie somewhat disjointed - hopping around chronologically made it more of a challenge to understand events.

This movie is based on real events, and a book written by McGartland and Nicholas Davies.

Not to mention connections to real - life events — I felt emotional every time Carrie Fisher's Leia was onscreen in the same movie.

There was little to no comedy in the movie and is as serious as you can get when it comes to a drama based on real life events.

It's uncertain if the film even has a firm opinion of our sitting president, for with Sawyer's reductive preachings about a stereotypical black upbringing, and actions to end a «limitless war on terror» that plainly contradict current events, the movie is both a simplistic Obama insult and an aspirational Obama fantasy (and if you don't think it's channeling our real - life president, look no further than the Easter egg of Nicorette gum, which Sawyer keeps in his own nightstand).

Presented in rough - looking standard definition, it asks whether the Captain is a ghost or real (a question that is never in doubt in the movie), while celebrating this as a major event film anticipated from the moment the novel was published.

Do you feel this applies only to movies, or to real life events?

The real events of Amin's spectacular rise and fall in Uganda are distorted by the narrative of this movie in much the same way the events of one's life are distorted in one's dreams — or, more comically (and the best elements of this film are comic), the way a body is distorted by funhouse mirrors.

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An epigraph before the movie warns us not to take anything we're about to see too seriously — probably because, while Hughes was a real figure, the movie compresses various events of his life and inserts fictional characters, eventually taking on the cast of an old, fictional Hollywood narrative closer to Sunset Boulevard than a biopic.

There's no political meat in its satire of the British government or any real story in the episodic succession of events, and its portrait of the (pop) culture of the time is really just a movie fantasy.

The only person who added life to this movie is Megan Fox... just saying.I normally like to watch movies that show real life events but

Even Exorcist III, the only other Exorcist movie to even approach William Friedkin's 1973 original, is at its best when it keeps its religious themes grounded in events inspired by real life.

Loosely based on real events, «Heavenly Creatures» follows two teenage girls, Juliet (Kate Winslet) and Pauline (Melanie Lynskey), as they meet, fall in friend - love, obsess over male movie stars, build up an increasingly ornate fantasy world and, ultimately, plan and execute a murder.

Based on real events a century ago that still resonate loudly today, this movie takes a cleverly fictionalised angle to explore the suffrage movement, a story that astonishingly has never been put on film before...

While Ti West's latest horror movie The Sacrament is careful to declare that it's a work of fiction, anyone familiar with recent history will notice the strong similarities with real events...

What matters most is one's predilection for movies that straddle the line between documentary and fiction, creating a ramshackle narrative inspired by real, everyday events.

Holly Hunter and Scoot McNairy fare better with stronger and more interesting characters, but they still feel like a distracting from the main event, becoming part of the problem rather than a real benefit to the movie.

Brought to the screen by Dustin Lance Black, the Oscar - winning screenwriter of the movie Milk, the eight - hour miniseries is inspired by real events.

While the movie is about a fairly important event in modern medicine — the discovery and recognition of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) as a very real problem within the sport of football — it's told in such a dull, straightforward manner that its message doesn't resonate.

I raise this issue because movies, especially Hollywood major motion picture films, have the power to affect, on a mass scale, the audience perception on reality — especially a movie that bases its entire plot on a real historical event such as we can see in Argo.

At other times, however, our knowledge of real - life events hovers like a shroud over the movie, preventing us from caring too much about how everything's going to turn out.

Release: Friday, October 30, 2015 [Theater] Written by: James Vanderbilt Directed by: James Vanderbilt Truth be told, a movie featuring household names like Robert Redford and Cate Blanchett, one propped up on real - world events of this magnitude shouldn't feel like a chore to get through.

Full disclosure: I never followed the real - life events that inspired this movie, so I am a perfect audience for...

Full disclosure: I never followed the real - life events that inspired this movie, so I am a perfect audience for it.

Characters discuss the seemingly endless franchise of fictional Stab movies, based — at least at first — on the «real world» events we've been watching (They've gotten less concerned with reality, we learn from a character who bemoans the phony fifth movie's time - travel plot).

Now playing in theaters everywhere is James Wan's The Conjuring, the newest haunted house supernatural horror movie based on real world events.

Both the Kingsman movies and the comics are unafraid to root themselves in the events of the real world — and no one is particularly safe from being mocked or blown up, no matter how famous they are.

Some critics have raised objection to the fact that the movie is dramatizing real events.

Based on real events, Conviction could have played out like a made - for - television movie.

Anchored by an all - star cast and based on real events, the movie is a look at two seemingly different worlds, in which nothing is as simple as black or white.

While there are some flaws with just how serious the film's events of Ragnarok are actually taken amongst all the humor, as well as Cate Blachett's Hela falling short of being a real iconic threat, I had a blast watching this movie.

This movie, which is based on the real events of war correspondent Kim Barker (as told in her book The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan), forces you to bed the question as to its authenticity.

A movie about gold prospecting in Indonesia, it was very loosely based on real events, but the names, circumstances and time period were changed, so Matthew McConaughey wasn't actually playing someone specific when he chose to gain weight for the role, make himself bald and smoke in virtually every scene.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening October 24, 2008 BIG BUDGET FILMS Changeling (R for profanity, violence and disturbing content) Clint Eastwood directs this psychological thriller, set in L.A., inspired by events arising in 1928 during a real life case involving a single - mom (Angelina Jolie) whose hopes for the safe return of her kidnapped nine year - old (Gattlin Griffith) were seemingly answered but then dashed when she realized that the boy brought to her was not her son.

Events also move in real time, which means that approximately an hour and a half pass in the movie.

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The film's costume design by Deborah Hopper affords the kind of spared no expense period recreation that makes movies such as this a real «event».

Real events or no, there's a risk to a movie like this.

As with The Amityville Horror before it, after the movie ended the real fright freaks could creep themselves out all over again investigating the «true» (whatever that means) story behind the events depicted in the film.

Mixing actual events with fictional elements and characters (Tolson and Farmer are based on real people), the movie manages to be engaging and thought provoking, even if it is sometimes predictable.

The passage of time in the movie is marked by real historical events like the bombing of Pearl Harbor, (which finds Benjamin drawn into a bloody and deadly encounter with enemy fire), the debut of the Beatles and the launching of a rocket from the Kennedy Space Center.