Sentences with phrase «school films like»

I love stupid school films like Loose Screws, Screwballs, Joy Sticks (doesn't quite count, but should), Animal House and its many rip offs, and heck, I even loved Road Trip and Van WIlder (except for the dog cum scene).

As the Golden Age of Hollywood faded, glorious old - school films like Ben - Hur began to give way to the grittier, wised - up work of those like Billy Wilder, creating a tension between impish youth and pompous elders.

Not exact matches

What began as a film - production company blossomed into a full - fledged media organization, with a news platform, RYOT Films and RYOT Creative, which makes videos for paying clients as well as pro bono clients like Pencils of Promise, a nonprofit that builds schools.

The eyes belong to the seven members of the school's MBA admissions committee who sit, like film critics, to judge the candidate's video performance.

Taking cues from films like School of Rock and Rushmore, the film is about young misfits trying to find themselves through music in the midst of difficult home lives, bullies and heartbreak.

He and Celestin transferred schools to escape the shadow of the case, and Parker went on to a successful career as an actor, appearing in films like The Great Debaters and Red Tails.

He does the things that leaders do, like paying the way for several of his receivers to join him for off - season passing workouts, dubbed Jets West, at his old high school in Mission Viejo, Calif., and putting in long hours of film study.

Besides watching every game on film and fielding the complaints of outraged general managers, Kuharich assigns officials to games — there are 45 NFL officials of whom 35 are used every weekend — keeps tabs on other officials, college and high school, who would like to get into professional football and, of course, makes certain that the officials he has now are always in control of the game.

While I welcomed all the attention Oliver was bringing to school food reform, I was often quite critical of the show, either because Oliver was hiding the ball from viewers in some fashion or because his filming techniques unfairly made LAUSD officials look like buffoons or villains — or both.

Among other things, I ran the Great Wall of China Marathon; worked out on a pearl boat in the Kimberley; appeared semi-naked in a music video wrapped only in cling wrap; worked on a Norwegian reality TV show filmed in Malta; trained eagles in Mongolia; donned a wig and lived like Dolly Parton in her hometown in Tennessee for a month; rode a bicycle around Taiwan; sailed on a pirate ship from Seattle towards Mexico before hitting a storm and having to be rescued by theUS Coast Guard; and helped educate young girls in Kosovo who are banned from attending school because they wear headscarves.

I mean, sure, I had them as a kid and I had an emergency pair for shoveling or playing in the snow, but an actual pair that didn't look like they came out of a bad 1990s film about ski school?

Fit guy looking for some female company, like old school rock, martial arts films and love science.

We tried dating for a while, but we went to different high schools, and when If the events of the past week have proven anything, it's that Teen Mom 2 should be filmed 24/7 like the freakin» Truman Show...

The pressure off, they're free to make out like teenagers and fall in love, a happy interlude the film covers with smart economy, so as to spend more time on getting to know this «hot grandma» (she's struggling to keep her middle daughter pregnancy - free through high school), as well as the couple's first big fight, occasioned when she wonders why he still doesn't want to sleep with her after nearly 20 dates.

Moodysson's teen protagonists are more complex than both the high school stereotypes (the nerd, the jock, the beauty queen) in films like «American Pie» and the self - absorbed philosophers on «Dawson's Creek.»

For Tully, Theron gained 50 pounds: she looks pregnant — the baby, Marlo's third, is born shortly into the film — and then she looks like a woman who has just given birth and is too exhausted, mentally and physically, what with a newborn and two grade - schoolers to take care of, to do a damn thing about «getting into shape.»

Find out in this fantastic, rousing film - but remove all fears of the typical teen - pop covered high school musicals from your minds, as the songs in this film are from legendary artists like David Bowie, The Beach Boys, ELO, and The Byrds.

True to that mission, director Hiromasa Yonebayashi delivers a family - friendly treasure every bit as enchanting as his two previous films, «Arriety» and «When Marnie Was Here» (both made at Ghibli), with this tale of a clumsy redheaded girl who's mysteriously granted access to an exclusive Hogwarts - like school for witches.

It's all wonderfully illustrated with red, white, and blue renderings of images from the film, like Opal surrounded by school buses.

Most of this expository stuff, however, serves as a weak excuse for the film's performers to have some fun acting like idiots, and there's no doubt that Old School has its fair share of inspired gags, most of them revolving around former SNL standout Ferrell.

(Director Todd Phillips, the man behind films like Old School and Starsky and Hutch, usually relies heavily on the luck of casting, which does not serve him here.)

This felt like an old - school, big budget sci - fi film with massive special effects, great visuals and a concept that made you think in Director Joseph Kosinski's love letter to 80s and 90s science fiction trendsetters.

I'm not even of the school that thinks the Zimmer approach is fundamentally wrong for a film like this — it's just that in this instance, he (assuming he actually had anything to do with it) certainly did get it wrong.

Instead it feels like a culmination of themes that ran through the Before films, Tape (2001), Dazed and Confused (1993), and even School of Rock (2003).

Jack Black's acting resume reads like a Who's Who of bumbling, goofballs in films like Be Kind Rewind, Kung Fu Panda, School of Rock, and Nacho Libre.

I think the best part of being an actor is that to me it feels like I've been in the best film school for the last twenty years because not only do I see the director work on set, I see how the producers work, I see how the DPs work, I see how the gaffers work, I see how the costume department works, I see how the production office works.

The film opens with seniors playing ridiculously extreme «pranks» that are not even remotely funny, like letting a meth - fueled horse run around the school or replacing a prized baseball bat with a laptop playing pornography.

Like «Lady Bird,» the John Hughes - penned high school film follows an outsider (Molly Ringwald as Andie) who is desperate to both fit in and stand out at her chi - chi high school.

If you spend too much time on comedy you get a film like Old School, which I found hilarious but had a weakly confused and rambling plot.

Lost in the cacophony of superheroes, explosions, and raunchy holiday comedies, MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS arrives ready to remind us what old - school film was like.

It's not like the film deals with this subject sensitively, but, again, I liked how it dealt with its characters and their actions in high school.

Although the film contains depictions of school kids fist - fighting, a teen couple kissing, and parents drinking, the movie speaks to those times when we feel like we are all alone, and reminds us that we are not.

Best known for his horror films like Cursed and Scream 3, Wes Craven also directed Meryl Streep in the movie Music of the Heart, the story of a single mom who teaches violin lessons in a Harlem school.

It plays like one of those films based on a true story, but it's really a fiction film that draws from some personal experiences of actor (and former pro soccer player) Andrew Shue (The Rainmaker, «Melrose Place») growing up and attending Columbia High School, the South Orange, New Jersey school depicted in the School, the South Orange, New Jersey school depicted in the school depicted in the movie.

School of Rock is a film that sounds, on paper, like a wafer - thin lark that fits snugly within the condescending subgenre of inspiring teacher films.

Critics are somewhat mixed on the film, but the reviews are far more positive than what we read for The Hangover sequels, and they're about on par with the reviews for Phillips» Old School, Starsky & Hutch, and Road Trip, his more well - liked movies.

The 85 year old filmmaker is probably more well - known for his examinations of public institutions in films like Welfare (1975), Titicut Follies (1967), At Berkeley (2013) or High School (1968, followed by a sequel in 1994), but he's also one of cinema's great chroniclers of art as work.

This alarming horror film, a brilliant debut for Australian director Jennifer Kent, is as hard to shake as its title character whether you take it as a straightforward monster film, a mental illness or grief allegory, or get hung up on its minefield of taboos (mothers who don't much like their children / over-medication of children / weapons in schools).

The film is set during the Seventies in Savannah, Georgia, where a quartet of young teen Catholic school boys spend much of their idle time pulling pranks and dreaming up comic book characters they'd like to draw.

And yet, despite the casual swipes at characterization in a sprawling cast (the black girl who belts out gospel like Bessie Smith, the Asian boy desperately in search of cool), School of Rock isn't a terrible film, just one that could have been written and directed by anyone.

Nonetheless, those redoubtable boutique labels like the Criterion Collection and Arrow Video are still fighting the good fight: dedicated to rescuing the oddball and the obscure, treating them to rejuvenating digital brush - ups, and leavening them with contextual supplements worthy of any film - school curriculum.

Wolff continues his trend of playing a relatable, yet average high schooler as he has now in recent films like Paper Towns and The Fault In Our Stars.

Alas, it is very much a Hollywood treatment, full of glossed - over characterizations and trumped - up conflicts (the other school educators are painted as the villains), and, at best, we are given everything we expect, delivered tidy and sterile like a formula film always tends to.

Within a very few years, artists like John Carpenter, John Landis, Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante, Rob Bottin, Rick Baker, Sam Raimi, Brian DePalma, Bob Clark, Dan O'Bannon, Sean S. Cunningham, Wes Craven, Tobe Hooper, Stan Winston, Larry Cohen, and on and on and so on, were working in and reinvigorating the horror genre — many under the tutelage of Roger Corman, still others the initial products of formal film school training, almost all the consequence of a particular movie geekism that would lead inevitably to the first rumblings of jokiness and self - referentiality - as - homage that reached its simultaneous pinnacle and nadir with Craven's Scream.

The film sees Kalu take on a community leadership role as traditional Hawaian burial sites are disturbed; Kalu's status Kumu sees her teach her male high school students as they prepare for a end of performance, accompanied by sixth grade tomboy Ho'onani, who is also «in the middle» like Kalu.

But «Starred Up» is something else, a career reboot that felt like it was made a hungry film - school grad, and it should turn the way people think of Mackenzie on its head.

Packed with pretty people, clinging to the trending hobby of the time (in this case, acappella singing — a few years ago, it was street dance), and thrown into a school / college setting just to round up the cliches, it feels like a rehashed film we have seen before.

The film begins in the fall of 2002 and is set in Sacramento, California, which is where Gerwig was born; she attended an all - girls Catholic school and her mother was a nurse, just like the fictionalized lead characters.

But with its flat presentation and dearth of any riveting moments, the film plays more like an after - school special about the pitfalls of teen decision - making than it does a documentary about young women struggling to make something more of their lives.

As sophisticated as del Toro can be in blending the supernatural with the sexy (the eroticism here will catch you off guard), this film's Cold War intrigue plays like a high schooler's book report.