Sentences with phrase «recent films featuring»

Not exact matches

In recent months, it has struck content licensing deals with the likes of Paramount, Lionsgate and NBCUniversal and reached a multi-year extension of an agreement with Sony Pictures Television to bring even more of the company's feature films to its users.

Featured in countless films and music videos, «The Pink Lady» has undergone million dollar renovations in recent years to further its legend for a new generation.

Not to mention the imbalance between her career, now basically in the past tense, and his, which skyrocketed with his recent debut feature film, Snow White & the Huntsman, which she is clearly supportive of:

His most recent fundraising activity was highlighted by a Dec. 14 bash at Cipriani Wall Street that featured Bill Clinton, Bon Jovi and actor Michael Imperioli, who is portraying Cuomo in the film about the Dannemora prison outbreak.

Flaherty was featured in a recent article in The New York Times and in a documentary film on depression among medical professionals produced by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP), and she openly discussed a major depressive episode that eventually hospitalized her in her 2004 best - selling book, The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain.

Science Cinémathèque, a project funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, features reviews of recent movies such as Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man and a series of short student films on such topics as wormholes, the patterns in pinecones and sunflowers, and Ignaz Semmelweis, the 19th - century Hungarian physician whose campaign to promote hand washing among doctors was met with near - universal scorn.

But dating the beautiful images — which featured in Werner Herzog's recent documentary film Cave of Forgotten Dreams — has led to an ugly spat between archaeologists.

The film's Dolby 5.1 soundtrack is unexpectedly big on music, prominently featuring recent rap and other songs at a considerable volume.

Over its 14 feature films produced since 1995, the computer animation studio has enjoyed outsized artistic and commercial success, but in recent years critics have suggested that it is in a creatively fallow period.

Here's a scan from the recent Empire Magazine Australia featuring a story on Robert Pattinson and the upcoming film «Water for Elephants» by director Francis Lawrence (I Am Legend, Constantine) starring Robert Pattinson (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1, Bel Ami) and Reese Witherspoon (This Means War, Pharm Girl).

The film is masterfully put together, and in fact features the same cinematographer as The Orphanage, Óscar Faura, who would have to be one of the best horror cinematographers of recent years, having also contributed to The Machinist (El Maquinista).

If the recent crop of low - budget, intimate war films featuring a handful of actors in limited locations tells us anything, it's that studios are desperate to ensure that they get a better return on investment than a full - blown, star - studded action spectacle.

In comparison to recent films based on the life and work of the Beats, like Howl and On the Road, Kill Your Darlings is presented less abstractedly, with Krokidas choosing a highly stylized aesthetic while employing the bold juxtaposition of the period setting and a contemporary soundtrack featuring the likes of TV on the Radio.

In the time that has followed she has made at least two more feature film appearances a year, playing a variety of roles such as the trophy wife in the comedy Potiche (Ozon, 2010), a mother who rekindles a thirty year old romance in the musical, Les bien - aimé / Beloved (Honoré, 2011) and Queen Cordelia in the most recent instalment of Astérix and Obélix: Au service de sa majesté / God Save Britannia (Tirard, 2012).

At a time when retributive wars in the Middle East have become all the rage, it is unsurprising that revenge has also returned to our cinemas, with recent American films like The Punisher, Man on Fire and the remake of Walking Tall all exhibiting a gung - ho enthusiasm for extrajudicial retaliation (and all featuring protagonists who, like Richard, have a military background).

Additionally, in no particular order, there were vocal supporters of the Ralph Jones «incongruously great score to «Slumber Party Massacre ``; «Phantasm» «s heavily «Exorcist «- indebted score from Fred Myrow and Malcom Seagrave; Danny Elfman «s channelling of Bernard Herrmann for «Nightbreed ``; Wojciech Kilar «s bombastic, often recycled music for «Bram Stoker's Dracula ``; John Harrison's score for Romero's anthology film «Creepshow ``; Richard Band «s better - than - deserved compositions for the terrible «Troll ``; the great Lalo Schifrin «s score for the original «The Amityville Horror ``; a more recent example in Climax Golden Twins» music for Brad Anderson «s now cultish «Session 9 ``; Pino Donaggio's terrific work with de Palma's «Dressed to Kill ``; Gene Moore's classic church organ scares in «Carnival of Souls ``; and while we've featured Bava fils above, we could easily have found room for his father Mario Bava, probably with the funky original music by Libra for his final film «Shock.»

A startlingly intelligent, incandescent thriller topped off by one of the great endings in recent cinema, Christian Petzold's Phoenix has been granted early canonization by the Criterion Collection, which releases the film in a deluxe Blu - ray edition featuring interviews with the director and his star Nina Hoss.

Just look at the gigantic gulf between early Joe Swanberg movies featuring unrehearsed amateurs and his more recent, creatively successful films starring professionals: there's a world of difference.

Infernal Affairs, a 2002 gangster film from the directing team of Andrew Lau (aka Lau Wai - keung) and Alan Mak, was less a return to form than a new direction: an ingeniously scripted tale of cop and gangsters featuring the top talent of the Hong Kong film industry and directed with a dramatic intensity and gritty realism that had been absent from most recent Hong Kong crime films.

Chris Cooper, Oscar winner for Adaptation and star of the new film Married Life, is the most recent interview subject in my MSN interview feature.

Hitting different themes while being simultaneously moving and creepy, it features Kevin Spacey at the top of his game and was a breakthrough film for director Sam Mendes, who went on to direct the two most recent Bond films, «Skyfall» and «Spectre.»

Elsewhere on the list are more recent films and awards season contenders like «The Artist» from The Weinstein Company and «Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy» from Focus Features.

To Ron Hutchinson, co-founder and director of The Vitaphone Project, which since 1991 has collected and restored countless original soundtrack discs for early sound short films and features, including the recent Warner Bros. restoration of William A. Seiter's 1929 «Why Be Good?»

Like another recent film, «Moonwalkers,» it features a pretty high level of gore and violence for a comedy.

But unlike most cult TV shows that become feature films — the recent «Reno 911!»

Its feature film business has been fueled by such recent successes as the blockbuster first installment of The Hunger Games franchise, The Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn — Part 2, Now You See Me, Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain, Warm Bodies, Snitch, Texas Chainsaw 3D, The Expendables 2, The Possession, Sinister, Arbitrage and Pantelion Films» breakout hit Instructions Not Included, the highest - grossing Spanish - language film ever in the U.S.

As with every feature here, the commentary track, while superb, has been ported over directly from Criterion's already fairly recent DVD release of the film, which makes it difficult to recommend to those who already own the earlier iteration.

After securing the 2013 Sundance Film Festival's Screenwriting award, a slot on the National Board of Review's top ten list of indie films, and the vocal support of critical heavy hitters like A.O. Scott, Lake Bell's pitch - perfectly precise comedy In A World... announced itself as one of the more confident debut features in recent memory, let alone from an actor - turned - director / writer.

There's a great sense of that in this recent chat from the DGA's podcast The Director's Cut which features Star Wars: The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson interviewing Paul Thomas Anderson about his new film Phantom Thread.

After producing multiple shorts, documentaries and experimental films, Meredith Danluck is the latest director to explore these ideas with her feature - narrative debut State Like Sleep (which premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival) starring Katherine Waterston as a photographer trying to find answers to her husband (Michiel Huisman)'s recent death; co-starring Michael Shannon and Luke Evans.

These most recent four animated features are once again true «family films,» in that they entertain adults as well as children.

Both his short and feature debuts, «La Vie des morts» and «La Sentinelle,» premiered on the Croisette in the early 1990s, and all of his films, bar 2004's «Kings and Queen,» have played the fest, with 2008's «A Christmas Tale» being the most recent.

Yann Demange's debut feature»71 has shown me exactly how ignorant I've been of recent history, with a film he himself describes as an excoriation of our propensity, across nations and time, for sending our young men off to fight «dirty» wars.

More consciously seeking to recreate an old Hollywood vibe is the latest from Peter Bogdanovich, the refugee from the first golden age of cinephile directors who has found film work increasingly hard to find in recent years (this is his first theatrical fiction feature since 2001's The Cat's Meow).

Featuring interviews with the likes of Paula Abdul, Matthew Morrison and Harry Shum Jr. of «Glee,» and the directors and choreographers of recent movie and TV musicals, the featurette is an interesting retrospective on the film that covers the choreography, ensemble cast and the effect that it still has on Hollywood today.

Directed by Edgar «Spaced» Wright, co-written with Wright by Simon «Spaced» Pegg (who also stars as Shaun), and featuring other comic stars from «Spaced» (Nick Frost, Jessica Stevenson), as well as from «Black Books» (Dylan Moran, Tamsin Grieg) and even «the Office» (Lucy Davis), «Shaun of the Dead» is like a who's who of talent from the most cutting - edge British TV sit - coms of recent times, which is why it is much funnier than British comic films like «Bridget Jones» Diary», Johnny English and Love, Actually — and unlike those other films, «Shaun of the Dead» is nightmarish for all the right reasons.

But the most recent three (Stardust, Beowulf, and this) of the four feature films he's had a hand in have convinced me of his storytelling proficiency (I'm willfully forgetting MirrorMask, which is easy to do).

It's now been 8 years since the release of John Carpenter «s most recent feature film, 2010 horror movie The Ward, but Carpenter...

Doused in a sonorous score inspired by Cajun idioms, and featuring superb turns from Mary McDonnell as May - Alice, Alfre Woodard as Chantelle and David Strathairn as the «swamp racial» Rennie, Passion Fish remains one of the finest American films of recent years.

It comes as a bit of a surprise that, with so many recent horror films aping off of different subgenres from the past, no one has really attempted to tackle the creature feature.

Not to mention, the number of alien films released in recent years — a handful of which proved to be mediocre or worse — make it harder to get enthused about yet another blockbuster that feature extraterrestrials in an apocalyptic scenario (the end - of - the - world sub-genre is, likewise, starting to feel over-saturated at this point).

And unlike with «Julie & Julia», «Chef» and other recent food - based films, the dishes featured aren't a major focus in this recipe.

In a recent interview with the SAG - AFTRA Foundation, Oldman shares tips for aspiring actors, how he got into character and what he looks for in a feature film.

Recent iteration the V / H / S franchise featured none across three instalments while the two ABCs of Death films showcase a combined total of five female filmmakers across 52 shorts.

This is his fifth feature film since 2011 and, after roles in the recent «Haywire» and «Magic Mike,» Side Effects» completes a Channing Tatum trilogy!

According to recent reports, WB's Flashpoint movie will feature Flash's iconic rogues gallery - including Reverse - Flash, Captain Cold, and Caitlin Snow (who may transform into Killer Frost)- with Doctor Light as the film's big bad.

Following the recent Azazel poster, here's a new character poster featuring Magneto from the upcoming film...

Under Schlessel's leadership FilmDistrict has established itself as a successful U.S. distributor and acquirer of feature films including the recent blockbuster opening of Insidious: Chapter 2, Olympus Has Fallen, Looper, Evil Dead, Safety Not Guaranteed and Drive among other titles.

Forecast: Fitting well into the recent trend of young adult dramas, «To the Bone» helps address the surprising lack of feature films about eating disorders, and should be an active catalog title in the Netflix library.

The film opens in limited release tomorrow and got a big boost from Oprah Winfrey earlier this week when she brought Guggenheim, D.C. school district chancellor Michelle Rhee (who features prominently in the film) and recent tag - along Bill Gates onto the show to spread the message to an obviously gigantic audience in her farewell season.