Sentences with phrase «than the film as»

When it comes to his latest directorial effort, an adaptation of cartoonist John Callahan «s memoir Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot, the movie is undoubtedly remarkable, but it's due to the performances Van Sant pulls from his actors rather than the film as a whole.

Still, this set is far from bargain bin pricing and is less satisfying a release than a film as good as Emperor's deserves.

The Dead Girl is one of those films where its parts are greater than the film as a whole.

Not exact matches

«Because nothing says the press is keeping calm more than filming a car on an LA freeway,» Meyers said as an image of Simpson's infamous white Ford Bronco appeared on the screen.

Almost three decades after launching the company as an indie film production house with little more than $ 300 and a lot of youthful enthusiasm, he and co-founder Seaton McLean and a few other early shareholders had all become rich beyond imagining on the strength of a handful of lucrative properties, including HGTV, the Food Network and the spectacularly successful CSI franchise.

The studio has two more big Marvel releases (Guardians of the Galaxy 2 and Thor: Ragnarok) as well as a live - action version of Beauty and the Beast, two new movies from Pixar Animation Studios (including Cars 3), and a fifth installment in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise (two of the first PotC films grossed more than $ 1 billion apiece).

Since launching Raleigh Construction Company (now Raleigh Enterprises) in 1955, he has acquired, developed and managed more than 11 million square feet of real estate across the globe, reimagining dormant plots of land and run - down commercial buildings as resort hotels, residential apartments, office towers, shopping centers and film studios.

In addition, as Spielberg's shop moves more into the family space, it could run up against part of the deal that forbids DreamWorks from making animated films for any company other than DWA.

The Force Awakens set a new domestic box office record by hauling in $ 936 million in North America, as the film blasted its way to more than $ 2 billion in worldwide box office receipts.

Cohen, who has served as Trump's lawyer for more than a decade, is under federal investigation related to a 2016 payment he made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels, among other matters.

As the Sony hack continues to prove, with cyber crime, more than money is at stake — besides the PR catastrophe, the threat to some jobs and leaks of unreleased films and other IP, employees and their families have had their medical data exposed and are receiving personal threats.

It was fun to see a modern - day interpretation of a silent film, but it didn't bring much more to the table than that gimmick, and it doesn't hold a special place as a memorable and impactful movie the way its fellow nominees «The Tree of Life,» «Midnight in Paris,» and «Moneyball» do.

The import - export strategy hinges on introducing the Japanese to American bourbons, while also convincing Americans to think of Japanese whisky as more than just the inspiration behind a humorous scene in a Coppola film.

Jannard, a camera nut, had persuaded him to look into what it would take to build a digital video camera whose output would look as good as film — and be much smaller and cheaper than a film camera to boot.

Using the same locations as Whyte and his acolytes did several decades ago, Hampton's team came up with more than 38 hours of comparable film.

It's closer to an immersive film than a fully interactive simulation, but as Fortune reported when we first checked in on StriVR in 2015, research shows that seeing real humans in action helps the brain refine its timing and stay focused.

On Thursday, Deadline cited a Hollywood consultant who suggested that the studio needs to screen The Birth of a Nation for as many viewers as possible so that the public can judge the film based on its content more than its creator.

In between those films he agreed to star in pal Ben Stiller's 2008 comedy «Tropic Thunder» as the overweight, bigger - than - life movie exec Les Grossman.

Of course, making movies is not a cheap business, as Netflix reportedly has budgeted more than $ 50 million per film in the case of the Crouching Tiger sequel and the Sandler movies, according to Variety.

While the top 20 most downloaded films included some prestigious movies like 12 Years a Slave (at number 10) and Gravity (at number four), the majority of the most pirated flicks were largely big blockbuster franchises, adapted from books — Divergent, Hunger Games: Catching Fire and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug — superhero sequels and reboots like Godzilla and Robocop, although Excipio was unclear as to how many of the more than 29 million illegal downloads were for the»87 original.

While Black Panther rode a huge wave of critical acclaim and fan excitement to the biggest opening weekend ever for the month of February (and the fifth - largest of all - time), raking in more than $ 426 million worldwide, a small number of Internet trolls still did what they could to dampen the good vibes surrounding the trailblazing film, which features Marvel's first African - American director (Ryan Coogler) and a cast led by black actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the movie.

The movie, from Time Warner's (TWX) Warner Bros., won awards in categories such as costume and production design, as well as makeup and two sound categories on its way to scoring more total Oscars than any other film Sunday night.

President Donald Trump's re-election campaign spent more than $ 1 out of every $ 5 on attorney fees this year as the president contended with the ongoing special counsel investigation and a new legal challenge from an adult - film star.

As an industry content leader, Participant annually produces up to six narrative feature films, five documentary films, three episodic television series, and more than 40 hours of digital short form programming, through its digital subsidiary SoulPancake — all aimed at entertainment that inspires social awareness and engaging audiences to participate in positive social change.

The 39 - year - old native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who started as a nightclub stripper there at 17, has appeared in more than 250 X-rated films, beginning in 2000; was signed as an exclusive with major porn studio Wicked Pictures in 2002 (she's still a contract player for them); and has been inducted into multiple industry halls of fame, including the one run by leading industry trade publication Adult Video News.

But thanks to Ellis, the film is not at all cynical about love, while remaining truthful about today's rural South as a world of broken families and kids left more than they should be to their own devices.

Furthermore, they can easily parody the whole position so that (as one critic, a friend of mine who is not unsympathetic to the wider process conceptuality, has phrased it) talk about divine memory may be taken as nothing more than indicating God's continually re-playing some old film or continually listening to some old soundtrack.

It's difficult to critique this in a spoiler - free way, but to use the example of A New Hope, while the Death Star was a looming, terrifying presence throughout, the big threat to our heroes in this film seems to appear quite late in the day, and seems more important as a plot device to bring key characters together than a genuinely gripping menace.

The overall style of Sleeping Beauty is also more modern than that of the older Disney fairy tales; both figures and backgrounds are somewhat sharp edged and angular, in the manner of 1950s commercial art, rather than softly rounded as in the earlier films.

In seminaries as in churches, breaking the silence has a powerful impact on the community itself: student organizations sponsor films and speakers on the topic; campus incidents are addressed rather than denied; field - education placements in shelters are developed, or a session on sexual harassment is provided for field - education supervisors; resources on these issues are added to the library, and continuing - education programs are developed.

Characters in zombie films are willing to do terrible things to each other because of the fear of zombies and the urge for self preservation, while, in the real world, things like the use of torture (or «advanced interrogation»), preemptive war and drone strikes were being debated as options to fight a threat even scarier than zombies: terrorism.

Though his film is an eloquent testimony to the power of a nun's religious faith, he himself is hesitant to speak about religion as anything more than an offshoot of secular morality.

Having acted in more than 80 films, he's played roles as diverse as...

That Avatar «s melodramatic attacks on corporate interests and its defense of simple, natural living come packaged as one of the most expensive, and probably the most technically advanced, corporate films in history would seem to indicate that only quality bigger than the movie's stupidity is its head - in - the - clouds hypocrisy.

But even more than that, absolutely no other film genre is premised on the conviction that there is such a thing as absolute morality.

But on the whole the film promotes an ideological reaction against all establishments rather than an understanding of oneself as personally, and inevitably, involved in society and its establishments and therefore also in the crucifixion.

1989 was the same summer that Spike Lee's race - relations film, DO THE RIGHT THING came out, I had just read Malcolm X's Autobiography for a class, my IVCF chapter was more and more seeking to explore the implications of «multi-ethnicity» for campus ministry, and as a college radio DJ I had been exposed to more of the best rap than most white suburbanites — that is, a number of threads came together for me at that time to allow me to be a right - on - the - sidelines spectator of the rap youth culture phenomenon.

A: It's easy to tell on the first page if a film is taking its characters seriously, rather than as punchlines in and of themselves.

The film's chief fault lies in the decision to depict the four chief hobbits Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin — as raw youths rather than the middle - aged creatures whom Tolkien invented.

New hot - embossing technology and an in - house engineered calander are used to create a film that has a higher seal integrity than standard polyethylene and weighs up to 30 % less, while still having the same thickness as standard packaging.

For more than 30 years, Busy Bees Co-Packing has specialized in contract packaging services, such as shrink wrapping (clear and printed film), end - load and top - load cartoning, blister pack sealing, skin packaging, assembly, gluing, variety pack fulfilment, labeling, and many more.

This is good news for supporters of the movie as the film drew just $ 3.5 million less than «Despicable Me 2» which is a sequel to the widely popular original released in 2010.

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If Ross occasionally plays loose with the facts, he remains true to the core of the story, and many of the racetrack scenes evoke more sharply than ever before on film a sense of the surpassing grace and power of the running horse, the sound of rolling thunder of the hooves and a sense of the precarious, perilous nature of the jockeys» existence as they bound along hell - fired at 40 miles an hour, monkeys on a stick, wind - sheared and often screaming at each other in the din.

Would have liked to have seen another reading at the pro day as it looked much faster than combine and even a little better than film.

LeBron James teared up at the Toronto film festival as he watched More Than a Game, a documentary that follows James and teammates in their pre - high school and high school years.

The film itself is a bit scattered — in trying to cover so much ground, it sometimes feels as though the story itself is all over the place, and some of the points it makes (like the societal pressure on men to eat meat as a reflection of their manhood) are much stronger than others.

Rogue One is a much different film and worth seeing clean, it is as many have described a war movie set in the Star Wars universe, and I enjoyed it more than Force Awakens.

-- This film looks very different than the birth movies I've seen / heard about in the past, but seems very interesting as well.

· Explore Kenya and Tanzania alongside more than two million wildebeests, zebras, andantelope as they travel over 500 miles across the Serengeti plains in the film Africa: The Serengeti.