Sentences with phrase «school war movies»

Davis, meanwhile, plays Nona, one of the school's few remaining conscientious members of staff, a ground - down teacher who still wants to take pride in her role as an educator, which in the reductive world of this movie makes her the teaching drama equivalent of the «Good German» in an old - school war movie.

Now storming through cinemas worldwide after claiming the US box office crown last weekend, the World War II tank - crew thriller «Fury» is an old - school war movie that attempts to update the genre with a more...

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Now that they are in school it's all clicking by too fast and we're talking about middle school and sleepovers, Star Wars movies and Percy Jackson books, baseball and Minecraft.

Seuss was quite unhappy when the anti-abortion movement latched onto the book's line of «a person's a person, no matter how small,» but this movie has touches of politics all over it that weren't in the book, including a town council more concerned with PR than safety and the injection of conservative culture - war rhetoric into the book's sour kangaroo (who now «pouch - schools» her joey.)

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An adaptation of Thomas Cullinan's American Civil War novel, the movie is set at a girls» school in Virginia, where the young women have been sheltered from the outside world, a wounded Union soldier is taken in.

The movie's old school conception of heroism and values wouldn't work without some nifty writing — Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely's script makes it clear Steve wants to go to war not to kill the enemy but to keep some other poor soul being killed — and a great central performance by Chris Evans's, who sublimates all the cockiness he displayed in Fantastic Four (and then expertly lampooned in Scott Pilgrim).

When I heard Todd Phillips was directing War Dogs, I became uneasy, even though I'm a huge fan of Old School and the first Hangover film (his other movies... not so much).

Also, this is a vehemently old - school action / war movie that's mercilessly low on ostentatious CGI.

Would these were the only elements leading up to the battle — warring philosophical schools of fighting are all any kung fu movie has ever needed — but there's this white guy from Indiana we must endure.

«The way Civil War, and the fact that he went to Leipzig Airport and then has to go back to school, informed Homecoming, the two Avengers films that precede [the sequel] will greatly inform, probably even more so, the next movie,» Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige told io9 in a recent interview.

And unlike a movie like We Were Soldiers - which never became anything more than an old - school, John Wayne-esque «let's rally around our troops» type of war film - Harrison's Flowers feels brutally realistic.

The movie, which defies conventional thinking about war - movie endings, largely consists of conversation, not conflict (at least not in a military sense), as Juba alternately taunts, attempts to school and acts as a confessor to Isaac, who, as one would expect of these things, tries to use his head to outwit his enemy and survive.

Affectionately named after the local early 1970s syndicated package of sci - fi / horror movies shown on KTTV in Los Angeles, the one - man enterprise run by Taylor White (then still in high school) began in 1977 as an answer to the merchandising demands of Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

Shot in the manner of an old - school B - movie, Black Sea is a dynamite submarine thriller that could have been lifted from the cold war era, except for some decidedly 21st century themes: the shadowy excesses of globalisation and tyrannical corporate power.

Ben Affleck stars as Tony Mendez, the real life CIA Agent, who uses the international fascination with movies to create a plan that involves making a fake Star Wars rip - off with the help of award winning make - up artist John Chambers (Planet of the Apes) and a long - time and old school Hollywood producer named Lester Spiegel.

I must say that this was one of the worst movies I've ever watched, «Evil Dead» was better than this mound of shit... Gareth Edwards should be banned from directing hence forth, and now I hear he's directing the new Star Wars spin - off... I'm not one to talk down to others but let's be honest, you have to be retarded to like this movie... It made absolutely no sense, the script (the most important piece to any movie) was terrible, the plot was stupid, the acting was horrible and it seemed that the actors who were chosen were acting for a different movie all together... Where was the sense of urgency, I mean there were 300 foot tall behemoths walking through buildings and all you could show us was who was going ride with the little boy on the school bus... Maybe if all the main characters died and they just let Godzilla do his thing from there on out an eyebrow could've been raised but unfortunately, there isn't one good thing to say about this movie... I'm shocked the WB handed over one their biggest names to Legendary Pictures... Let's not forget what they've done with Superman Returns... This is shameful...

Writer - director Rian Johnson — he made 2005's fully committed, wonderfully odd high school noir «Brick» and directed the heart - stopping «Ozymandias» episode of «Breaking Bad» — has crafted a masterful installment of the premier franchise in movies, delivering the biggest, boldest and best «Star Wars» offering since «The Empire Strikes Back.»

Part serial - killer thriller, part old - school anti-Soviet propaganda, «Child 44» plays like a curious relic of an earlier Cold War mindset, when Western audiences took comfort that they were living on the right side of the Iron Curtain and relied on movies...

The way Civil War and the fact that he went to Leipzig Airport and then has to go back to school, informed Homecoming, the two Avengers films that precede [the sequel] will greatly inform, probably even more so, the next movie.

During the course of the school year, seventh graders have written and produced a movie on AIDS, performed a play about a family torn by war, created a music CD, and explored the age - old conflicts between war and peace through thought - provoking collages.

«Rendezvous,» a picture set during the Revolutionary War, is the creation of the school's own Elmhurst Cinema Productions, which for the past several years has written and produced full - length feature movies.

Typical table talk follows one of three paths: monologue from child about favorite Star Wars Lego figures, with questions about plot of unseen Star Wars movies; monologue from one parent or other about minor indignity of work day; inquisition from one parent to child about every aspect of child's school day, met with monosyllables and grunts.

Movie producers won't get into a bidding war over the Grant Elementary story — after all, there was no magical silver bullet that changed the school's fortunes.

May the Force be with You — The Ultimate Organizational Strategies for School Success (Part I) After months of build - up, the new Star Wars movie was released a few days ago... not surprisingly, to record audiences.

The Ogden Standard - Examiner reported Tuesday (http://bit.ly/2e706m7) that Weber School District spokesman Lane Findlay said federal officials contacted the district following a parent complaint about teacher Douglas Barker's use of the N - word before showing the Civil War movie «Glory»

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In the last room of Regen Projects is a sculptural theatre entitled Range Week, where the earlier movies Center Jenny (filmed at Fitch and Trecartin's Los Angeles - based studio) and Junior War (a movie Trecartin pieced together from footage he shot while in high school) are shown.