Sentences with phrase «strong film year»

There may not be better proof of an overall strong film year than the oasis of leading actress performances we've been given.

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Jurassic World is part of a slate of toy - friendly films this year that some say will be the strongest the industry has ever seen.

The film's merchandise lifted last year's U.S. retail toy sales and contributed to a strong quarter for Disney, which also saw steady growth from its television and cable networks including ABC and ESPN.

The upcoming reboot of the Ghostbusters franchise features one of the funniest ensemble casts of any film this year: Along with stars Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Leslie Jones and Kate McKinnon, the sci - fi comedy will also feature appearances by Cecily Strong, Bill Murray, Dan Ackroyd and a bunch of other big names.

In contrast, Christian films have quietly been punching above their weight class this year, and March was one of the strongest financial months in Christian movie history.

This film comes with extra strong adhesives that allow you to bond it to a window for many years easily and effectively.

In that case, the COLTRIMS experiments proved that the position of the Danish physicist Niels Bohr in the «Einstein - Bohr debates» 80 years ago was correct and, shortly before that, other physicists from the atomic physics work group used COLTRIMS to «film» the destruction of a molecule by a strong laser pulse — a reaction so fast that it can not be captured by an ordinary camera.

Over the past few years, we've seen many strong non-fiction films that are either one or the other: The you - are - there doc Restrepo and its sequel, Korengal, are like visual journalism, embedded in a disputed valley in Afghanistan; and a number of other non-fiction films, from These Birds Walk to 12 O» Clock Boys, have an ecstatic beauty that evoke the term «Malick-esque.»

Before I watched the DVD of 2001: A Space Odyssey, I had maintained a strong dislike of the film for years.

Why did the studio behind the year's highest - scoring film (nine - time Oscar nominee 12 Years a Slave)-- and a fairly strong overall film slate — finish 2013 with only the eighth - highest average Metascore?

Written by Bird and Damon Lindelof (Lost), the film is as shrouded in mystery as any release this year, but Bird's track record at the box office and with critics (see sidebar) bodes well for his latest, as does the strong supporting cast of Hugh Laurie, Judy Greer, Kathryn Hahn, and Keegan - Michael Key.

Pixar already has a strong lineup of films due out over the next few years, including Inside Out in June 2015, The Good Dinosaur in November 2015, and Finding Dory in June 2016.

«The NBR is eagerly anticipating a continued strong year in movies with the exciting roster of films being released between now and the end of the year,» said NBR President Annie Schulhof.

It's particularly special to have broken into the best British category; it's such a strong year, and so many great films didn't make it.»

«As we celebrate 30 years of great independent film,» said Josh Welsh, President of Film Independent, «this year's nominees are an astonishingly strong group of films and filmmakers which demonstrate the uniqueness of vision we honor at this show.»

But the Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations Wednesday started to bring some clarity, focusing the conversation around two front - runners — «Birdman» and «Boyhood» — and crystallizing this year as a particularly strong one for smaller films.

If the film falls short, still keep an eye on Gosling and Penn for Supporting nods (especially if this turns into another year where Gosling has a few strong performances to choose from, like last year), but that could wind up being it.

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Luckily, there is a strong enough story and above - average acting to carry over into the rest of the film, making it one of the best sci - fi experiences of the year.

In timing and content, Amistad is a little Oscar baity, but a bigger reason than that and Spielberg's recent victories for its minor contender status may simply be that 1997 was an unusually strong year for film.

After watching a series of strong non-fiction films while preparing for the end of the year, a film like Interview with the Assassin seems so slight, so exploitive.

Many of the nominated films are still going strong in theaters, notably the monster movie / romantic drama The Shape of Water, which leads this year's class with thirteen nominations; the polarizing Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, -LSB-...]

Always one of the toughest categories to pick, the foreign language film category has some very strong entries this year.

But the Miyazaki film with the strongest connection to his latest is 1992's «Porco Rosso,» in which the title character was an Italian WWI flying ace transformed into a pig and the landscape is the rise of European Fascism in the years preceding WWII.

Mr. O'Connell, who made such strong impressions this year in the tough British films Starred Up and» 71, is certainly a fine subject for Roger Deakins's lovely camera work, but that's about all he's allowed to be.

A Film with Me in It's bound to find a niche audience thanks to the presence of Dylan Moran (who's sold out the Melbourne International Comedy festival here for the third year in a row), but thankfully is a strong film in its own right.

The overall box office is running nearly 20 percent behind last summer's record season, and while this weekend was still about 13 percent behind the same frame last year, the strong performances of the top films is an encouraging sign.

The Kottings moved from London to Louyre in the Pyrenees the year before, and the film has a strong sense of the natural world, as if they are just discovering the earthy rhythms after leaving the big city behind.

With another big film, Rebel in the Rye (directed and written by Danny Strong and co-starring Nicholas Hoult) coming to theaters this fall, a recent wrap on The Year of Spectacular Men (written by her sister Madelyn Deutch and directed by their mother), and production starting on the Netflix romantic comedy Set It Up, a work drought does not seem to be in Zoey's future.

Which is a shame, because in a year where she delivered four strong performances (also including «Your Sister's Sister,» «Salmon Fishing In the Yemen,» «The Five - Year Engagement «-RRB-, «Looper» was Emily Blunt «s finest hour, and in a film full of pleasures small and large, the actress might have been the best thing aboutyear where she delivered four strong performances (also including «Your Sister's Sister,» «Salmon Fishing In the Yemen,» «The Five - Year Engagement «-RRB-, «Looper» was Emily Blunt «s finest hour, and in a film full of pleasures small and large, the actress might have been the best thing aboutYear Engagement «-RRB-, «Looper» was Emily Blunt «s finest hour, and in a film full of pleasures small and large, the actress might have been the best thing about it.

2017 was a good year for film, resulting in a strong group of nominees and no clear favorite among them.

2012 has been a strong year for film, but I'd have been okay replacing most of these with Nolan's trilogy - ender or even The Hunger Games, for that matter.

Unlike last year, when acclaimed films like «Toni Erdmann» and «Paterson» were overlooked completely, this year's awards went to celebrated films that, for the most part, had strong support from the press and from festivalgoers.

Overlap between the DGA and the directing branch of the Academy is particularly strong; last year's top feature film prize went to eventual Academy Award winner Damien Chazelle for «La La Land.»

The film picked up surprisingly strong notices on the festival circuit, and Dench (a Supporting Actress winner in ’99 for «Shakespeare In Love «-RRB- could be due again, having just missed out on another nod last year for «Skyfall.»

Tangled Rated PG for brief mild violence Available on DVD, Blu - ray and Blu - ray 3D You know it's a strong year for animated films when a movie like Tangled garners some of the strongest reviews of the year, makes over a half - billion worldwide, and still can't muster up an Oscar nom for best animated film.

The Disaster Artist unquestionably has the strongest supporting cast of any film all year, and what makes it so remarkable is the chemistry each performer has with James» Tommy, and vice versa.

Starring veteran actor Stephen Lang (Manhunter, Avatar) as a blind man targeted by three teenagers for a robbery that goes way, way wrong, Don't Breathe is being hailed as one of the strongest and most suspenseful horror films to come around in years.

Over the past 15 years, she has built a filmography of strong female characters, and will soon be seen opposite Liam Neeson in the Watergate Scandal film «Felt.»

This true story of a patriot is the latest from director Clint Eastwood (Gran Torino, Letter from Iwo Jima, Million Dollar Baby) and it is one of the strongest films of the year.

Matthew McConaughey may have become a star as a leading man in major - studio films like «A Time to Kill» and «The Wedding Planner,» but in the last few years the laid - back Texan has reinvented and revived his career with a string of sparkling performances in low - budget indies: Richard Linklater «s «Bernie,» Steven Soderbergh's «Magic Mike,» William Friedkin «s «Killer Joe,» Jeff Nichols» «Mud» and now Jean - Marc Vallee's «Dallas Buyers Club,» which has made McConaughey a strong favorite to land a Best Actor nomination.

Variations on a theme running through this year's strongest five films in the Best Director category — Gravity, American Hustle, 12 Years a Slave, Nebraska and The Wolf of Wall Street — all spring from the notion that the main...

Reinventing the romantic - comedy genre and pushing up a notch, this terrific summer film bringing forth one of the best ensembles of the year, inhabits a strong sense of family, friendship, and of course, love.

MGM / Lionsgate's release of Pantelion Fims» Overboard remake exceeded weekend estimates for second place and earned a record - setting total for Pantelion as the highest - grossing opening in their eight - year history on the strength of the film's A - CinemaScore and strong word of mouth.

This was a minor disruption compared to the previous year, when the festival was nearly cancelled due to a political conflict between the city and the festival organisers, relating to the screening of an anti-government documentary in 2014.1 Much has changed in the past year, most notably the impeachment of right - wing President Park Geun - hye, whose government the documentary had targeted, and the election of the left - liberal party headed by Moon Jae - in.2 While the contentious political atmosphere has not entirely dissipated, as evidenced by the student protest groups still demanding an apology from the local city government, this year's festival was an attempt to return to normalcy, despite the untimely death of one of the festival's driving forces, deputy director Kim Ji - seok, a much beloved figure within the community.3 Although the festival had a strong selection of international entries, including some of the best this year has to offer, such as Ruben Östlund's Palme d'Or winner The Square and Sean Baker's The Florida Project, I have decided to focus my report on the Korean films.

The indie director of «Pariah» has already received buzz for her work and with films like «12 Years a Slave» and «Moonlight» scoring Oscar gold of the years, the film's strong ensemble could be just what it needs to bring it over the Years a Slave» and «Moonlight» scoring Oscar gold of the years, the film's strong ensemble could be just what it needs to bring it over the years, the film's strong ensemble could be just what it needs to bring it over the hump.

The Tribeca Film Festival provides plenty of strong gems each and every year however, it takes some time before some of those films see...

Her victory underscores how, in the end, many of the strongest of the very good competition films at Locarno this year resonated, or dealt directly, with diversity of various sorts, be it the presence of the unconventional behind or in front of the camera.

Directed superbly by Cherie Nowlan, who years ago introduced us to Cate Blanchett in Thank God He Met Lizzie, this is a strong yet simple film that can boast some brilliant performances from veterans like Frankie J. Holden, Phillip Quast and Blethyn as well as newcomers Chittenden and Booth.

«I'm really happy a film like this with a performance as strong as Frances's is getting out there this year, it's a great statement for the Time's Up era and we made it a year and a half ago.»