Sentences with phrase «threats against the film»

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The essential plot elements of Inherit the Wind — the lonely stand of the brave individualist against the small - minded bigotry of the townspeople, Cates» fear and trembling as he waits in his prison cell, the threat of ruin hanging over his head («The Scopes character and his fiancee play each scene as if he were on the way to the electric chair,» wrote one film reviewer)-- are pure fabrication.

An unfocused, unfunny black comedy, Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb details the chaos that ensues after a nuclear attack is mistakenly triggered against the Soviet Union - with the film following a host of disparate figures, including George C. Scott's Buck Turgidson, Sterling Hayden's Jack D. Ripper, and Peter Sellers» title character, as they attempt to neutralize the threat.

The film's goofy narrative, wherein a PTSD - suffering bodyguard named Vincent (Matthias Schoenaerts) struggles to protect a wealthy Lebanese businessman's wife, Jessie (Diane Kruger), against perhaps - phantasmic threats, is wisely backgrounded in favour of moody, near - impressionistic glimpses of figures in crisis — that is, until it isn't, and the film takes a not - quite - fatal nosedive into movie - of - the - week cliché.

The third part is little more than a fight against creatures that are a bigger threat to both sides than each other, but the momentum of the first two sections carries the film through its relatively anticlimactic final act.

Blu - ray Review Battle: Los Angeles Directed by: Jonathan Liebesman Cast: Aaron Eckhart, Michelle Rodriguez, Bridget Moynahan, Ne - Yo, Michael Pena Running Time: 1 hr 55 mins Rating: PG - 13 Due Out: June 14, 2011 PLOT: The film follows a group of Marines as they fight their way through Los Angeles against an unknown alien threat.

The film is a major threat for the Cast Ensemble award at the upcoming Screen Actors Guild awards, with supporting players like Mahershala Ali (charming as ever), Jim Parsons (playing an against - type), Kirsten Dunst (feverishly addictive in her mean woman role), and Glen Powell (playing the late John Glenn) all crucial to the film's inevitable success.

As the film opens we're introduced to skyscraper - sized automaton Gipsy Danger and her pilot Raleigh (Charlie Hunnam), as they battle against the ongoing threat from the «kaiju», monsters from another dimension who slip through a portal in the depths of the ocean.

A kind of Rogue One for All the President's Men, the film is a timely, terrifying and ultimately rousing movie in an era of daily presidential threats against the free press.

Thor and Loki at this point have so much history and when they're forced to team up against the larger elf threat, it's no surprise that the strongest scenes in the film are between the two brothers.

Sony decided to cancel the Christmas Day release of the film «The Interview» after threats were made against theaters and others by hackers.

A few poorly staged boss fights and a clunky stealth section against mutated «boiler» Aliens aside, the terrifying extra-terrestrial threat of the films provides the weakest and easiest foes in the game.

Tacita Dean, in the book accompanying her recent Turbine Hall installation at London's Tate Modern [1], essentially campaigns for the preservation of celluloid film by rallying film makers, writers and artists to speak out against the immediate threat of obliteration of her (and their) medium.

Originally made in 1919, the film was reshot in 1938, featuring footage of these veterans, as a warning against the looming threat of war.

Originally made in 1919, the film was reshot as a warning against the looming threat of war in 1938 and featured footage of these veterans.

Surely in the future, when Cortana is an actual hologram, I, Robot and Short Circuit are recognized as culturally - significant films, and humans are beginning to tire of the heavy metal hands of our robotic overlords, we'll look back at this moment in time, when we took a stand against the threats to our very humanity, and use it as inspiration to rise up.