Sentences with phrase «real feature film»

Big Question: Will Nick Jonas turn heads with his first real feature film role?

It's really the direction, along with breathtaking cinematography from Erik Wilson, that takes what might be a fan video and makes it feel like a real feature film.

In 1984, Harvey Weinstein was 32 years old and making one of his first real feature films, on location outside of Scranton, Pennsylvania.

Not exact matches

The movie had a better sense of liturgical music than most Catholic parishes: Actually, the real reason I like to see any film in which the Catholic Church is featured prominently concerns the music.

A short film featuring a never - before - heard track from electronic music duo, Empire of the Sun, leads the campaign by showcasing real experiences of Absolut nightlife.

Placing real consumers and nightlife enthusiasts in the spotlight, the short film, directed by Grammy - winning director Melina Matsoukas, features a never - before - heard track from the electronic music duo, Empire of the Sun.

Footage captured from real Absolut events around the globe sets a dynamic backdrop for the brand «s latest short film and serves as the creative featured in Absolut's new TV advertising, appearing on late - night TV, cinemas and beyond.

Especially now that a number of junior doctors have now produced a six minute campaign film setting out why they are eyeing up industrial action - and featuring real - life stories.

Later films like 1998's American History X also invoke the culture of jailhouse lifting, even though real California prisons currently do not feature equipment beyond dip and pull - up bars.

As years passed, several films saw the light of the day, featuring popular real life dating sites as the vehicle for the main couple's blossoming romance.

Jake Jake Gyllenhaal nabbed a feature for Elle this week in support of his new film Stronger, in which he portrays real - life Boston bombing survivor Jeff Bauman.

What surprises me the most about Real Steel is the way this film featuring robots evoked such sentimental feelings in me — similar to the way I reacted to WALL * E, that marvelous animated movie about a trash - collecting robot.

Very Bad Things features a pretty terrific cast; while it features no real «big time» stars other than Cameron Diaz - who only achieved that status upon the release of Mary, which happened after this film was already done - it offers a very solid list of quality actors.

Neither has gone on to demonstrate any real potential outside of this series, with Miller participating in the seemingly endless Madagascar franchise and Hui doing little outside of short films based off already successful features.

It helps that her star has the best method training possible: Jandreau is a real former cowboy Zhao met while filming her last feature, Songs My Brothers Taught Me, who underwent a similar injury.

Garland, whose only other directorial feature is Ex Machina, a film I thought was the best movie of its entire year, tries his hand at adapting this phenomenal book into a screenplay and then into a film, but he couldn't do it without falling back on a ton of typical elements, and that's a real shame.

Put together, REBEL IN THE RYE feels more like an HBO film that a real, big - screen feature - not that there's anything particularly wrong with that.

The real value of the documentary from Douglas McGrath lies in charting Nichols» creative trajectory from the staging and improvisation lessons learned with comedy partner Elaine May, through collaborations with playwright Neil Simon on «Barefoot in the Park» and «The Odd Couple,» and the director's first two feature films, both legendary — «Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?»

Is it a real film, or a feature that uses the porn milieu to turn out a piece of softcore titillation that's halfway between porn and actual drama?

In 2013, he starred in Michael Winterbottom's feature film THE LOOK OF LOVE, playing real - life London porn baron - turned - property millionaire Paul Raymond.

Most recently, he starred in the feature film 3096, based on the real - life autobiography of kidnapped victim Natascha Kampbush.

Set during the contested 2000 presidential election, this HBO film features Dern as the real - life former Florida Secretary of State.

It appears to be a snuff film featuring the brutal killing of a helpless girl and it's up to the PI to find out who the girl is and if the tape is real.

Yet, despite costing a meagre # 400» 000 to make, this first time feature filmmaker, along with an incredible cast and crew, have managed to push through the boundaries of their financial constraints to produce a calibre of film that rivals many of its Hollywood mainstream siblings, giving them a real run for their money.

And while 12 Years a Slave provides ample meat for its established actors (Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano, Paul Giamatti and Brad Pitt feature memorably), it also helps shape a star in Nyong» o (making her film debut) who is heart - wrenchingly real as the terrorised Patsey.

However, sometimes films that feature such inconsistencies can still succeed as entertainment, despite making very little logical sense in terms of adhering to a set of tangible rules, whether real or concocted.

For every movie featuring an Ellen Ripley, Sarah Connor, Alice or Katniss Everdeen, Asian film industries managed to produce several dozen more entertaining, hard - hitting action flicks featuring strong female characters portrayed by butt - kicking heroines, many of them real - life martial arts champions or physically gifted dancers or performers.

After the film, the solitary viewer enters a long dark hallway that features short video installations introducing the real - life Latinos who inspired the story and depicting the struggles they face as immigrants today.

Featuring hand sewn fabric garments and real rooted hair, every detail of this piece has been carefully considered by the PCS team of artisans, themselves huge fans of the HALLOWEEN film.»

This docu - drama from director Jeff Unay plays like a feature film with a narrative following the real - life story of a fighter named Joe Carman.

Telling the tale of a real - life botched heist by a band of upper - middle class white college guys, director Bart Layton (in his feature debut) injects his film with interviews of the film's real - life protagonists, to an overwhelming degree.

They'd been friends with the film's director, David Gordon Green, for nearly a decade, ever since he gave the Austin, Texas - based experimental - rock instrumental quartet its first significant movie placement in his 2003 film All The Real Girls (which happened to feature a young Zooey Deschanel as a co-lead).

The featurette is purely promotional, and doesn't feature any real insight into the process, but the commentary is definitely more informative and helps to provide context while also enhancing my appreciation of the film.

Gudegast, making his feature directing debut after writing «A Man Apart» and «London Has Fallen,» seems to understand just enough about that element of Mann's film to recreate some of its conflicts — both in terms of crime scenarios and the characters» civilian lives — but lacks the discipline, or maybe skill, to lend them real emotional weight, much less originality.

Luke Scott will make his feature film debut with the sci - fi horror hybrid Morgan, which is putting off some serious Ex Machina vibes (let's all reflect on how fucking awesome Ex Machina is real quick).

The film makes direct reference to the Manson Family, and later features a sequence echoing real - life events.

Last week, De Luca, James, Donna Langley (Universal Pictures) and James Schamus (Focus Features) announced that Sam Taylor - Johnson will be directing the first (cause lets be real this will be a trilogy) film!

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).

A real movie lover's movie, The Aviator sees Martin Scorsese bring a touch of panache to this Howard Hughes biopic, which features probably Leonardo DiCaprio's best performance to date (though he does look rather too young for most of the film) and a host of other fine performances, none finer than Cate Blanchett, who is mesmerising as Katherine Hepburn (though never quite so mesmerising as Hepburn herself was).

Over the last two months, about half of the films I have reviewed (including Mad City) have featured real - life CNN anchors, reporters, and commentators.

Of the other films I saw, the only real enthusiasm I felt was for the Inarritu's «Biutiful,» Bertrand Tavernier «The Princess of Montpensier,» the first Chad feature «A Screaming Man,» the South Korean «Poetry» and the out - of competition documentary «Inside Job.»

Saban Films has debuted an official trailer for a powerful indie film titled The Forgiven, featuring two riveting performances in a tense thriller based on real events.

With more than 100 film and television credits, Rubin has cast such features as the upcoming Warren Beatty film «Rules Don't Apply,» «Trumbo,» «Wild,» «Lars and the Real Girl,» «Hairspray,» «The Talented Mr. Ripley,» «Men in Black,» «Romeo + Juliet,» «The English Patient» and «Four Weddings and a Funeral.»

Written and directed by Chloe Zhao, this film is a «docu - drama» hybrid, meaning it's a fictional feature film but uses real documentary elements.

Having him bring his authorship to the states for an English feature seems like it would be his biggest challenge so far; how would a film by Chan - wook Park fit in with a moviegoer's appetite that also made the title The Last Exorcism Part II a real thing?

The film, in other words, features much that has worked for Crowe in the past, and consequently, a few moments of real magic.

And while he's dropped a few hints about some projects in the works — including an upcoming docuseries about the real tragedy behind the actions of»90s tabloid fodder Lorena Bobbitt — Peele's been extremely tight - lipped about what his next feature film project might be.

The mockumentary format is at least an attempt to do something fresh in the animated film world, but mockumentaries are only really funny because they mirror real life in an ironic, satirical fashion, often featuring comedians employing a naturalistic ad - lib delivery.

Verdict: The second directorial feature from «Eastern Promises» writer Steven Knight after so - so Jason Statham vehicle «Hummingbird,» «Locke» was both more stripped down and more ambitious: a film set entirely within a moving car, shot in real time, with only one actor on screen (the rest of the cast are heard over the phone, but never seen).

There are several special features, one of which details the real life family who inhabited the house the Perron's buy in the film.