Sentences with phrase «timed films focus»

But every time the film focuses on them, the funny - quotient dips substantially.

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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.

This happens every year like clockwork because the esteemed award show tends to be focused around a select season of films released and marketed during a short period of time.

Though Leifer casts her net broadly, she focuses particularly on television and film, and she functions within the constraints of the psychological research, which itself deals largely with cause and effect questions and with carefully selected variables, one or two at a time.

«At the same time, our Ebert plant in Wiesbaden, Germany, will focus on being a leading manufacturer of film - based Twist applications for the confectionery industry.»

FOM can use the footage to customise and edit replays, using the cameras to focus on whatever action is happening at the time and missing far less, because every car will be filming everything that's happening around it, all the time.

Focusing on those details began this offseason, thanks to extensive time in the film room with Wisconsin running backs coach John Settle.

Since returning from my mini vacation, I've been focused on several time - intensive projects at work including coordinating pre-screening events of a film called «Forks Over Knives» with Whole Foods Market all around the country.

During its 23 - minute running time, the film seeks to capture the entire history of the universe by focusing on stars.

The research focuses on guiding light through nanometer - thick metal films — about a thousand times thinner than a human hair — to propagate light with plasmon waves, a cumulative electron oscillation.

The film's focus on clumsy, inept characters results in a series of jokes that are beyond lame; this is the sort of stuff even Three Stooges fans would have a hard time defending.

The only advantage I'd say I have over you is that I caught onto this quality of his work earlier simply because I've got more time to focus on his films than you.

The doc should have spent more time focusing on McVeigh, citing the two historic events that influenced him and giving attention to any filmed studies of the trial and the defense that McVeigh's lawyers chose.

This time, focussing on the past to show how the character of Elise got to where the audience knows her from the first two films, there is much more emotion to be had here.

The feature, Actors in Search of a Story, applauds the entire cast of the film (right down to the woman who plays Harold's psychologist for about two minutes of screen time), Building the Team profiles director Marc Forster and some of his crew, and Words on a Page focuses on budding young screenwriter Zach Helm.

Not knowing that this film would spend so much time focussing on the relationship of Edward and his girlfriend Lindsay (Shailene Woodley), I was pleasantly surprised to see such great chemistry from these two unlikely performances.

While it's not a perfect film by any means — a lack of catchy musical numbers and a questionable shift of focus in the film's latter half knock Megamind down a few pegs — the lively cast and interesting flip on the superhero concept make it a fun time at the movies for viewers of all ages.

First, by focusing on Graham and her Post rather than the actions of Daniel Ellsberg (played here by Matthew Rhys), who leaked the Pentagon Papers, or the New York Times, which initially published them, the film opens itself up to dissect gender roles in the power structures of that time.

It could be accused of being cliche but, it's about time that there was a coming of age teenage film for young people that doesn't have a straight couple as the focus.

The film is pretty stylish, with some snappy post-production tricks and whatnot which liven things up, but are overplayed, to the point of eventually distancing you from substance about as much as storytelling's taking only so much time to focus on fleshing things out.

Whether historically based or completely fictional, three films since 2011 have focused on the life and times of Abraham Lincoln.

Yes, it has some very genuine moments, the cast is loveable and the animals are the main focus in the film once again, and yes those portions are all terrific, but there is something off the entire time, making it a little distant from what made the first one special.

The main points of focus here are the script and the fact that the film took time to become a hit, aquiring it's core audience through home video and television.

Past symposiums have focused on American elections on film (near the onset of the second Iraq War) and New Queer Cinema (around the time of Proposition 8, in an issue called «RS Prop 24»).

His parents are killed by gods he does not rage, he mopes around declaring that he is a man??? The worst acting in the film was done by the skinny priest who just wanted to die after three seconds of him being on the screen... what was his point in the film why focus so much time on him?

Like their previous film Lenny Cooke, sibling directors Benny and Joshua Safdie focus on a true story in Heaven Knows What, only this time they shoot it as a feature narrative instead of a documentary.

Final Verdict: Logan is a film that steps away from the action and focuses first and foremost on the incredible character it has been given, creating a memorable final venture that will stay with you for some time.

Other TIFF films focused on times in American politics that were similarly fraught, even if their contemporary resonance is less clear.

It also seems he was dying to make a film set in the»70s (focusing a lot on the music of the time) and this was the best excuse / subject he could find.

In keeping with the popular social media trend of «Throwback Thursday» (#TBT), we will from time to time take a moment to focus on the classic trailers, posters, and promotional items from some of our favorite Halloween - themed movies, TV shows, and more, continuing today with a flashback viewing of the original trailer for the sixth film in the Halloween franchise, originally titled Halloween 666: The Origin of Michael Myers (1995).

This film spends more time focusing on the title creature which makes for some interesting moments throughout.

Perhaps being ignored because the film is too unobtrusive and relaxed in its observations of primal human interaction to register against weightier fare at this time of year, Zachariah is at its most immediate when focused on Robbie's precise acting choices.

It's a deeply flawed film, but like «Avatar» in 2009, if you focus more on what the movie has to show you and less on what it tells you, you'll have a good time.

And I suppose Fish & Cat's Orizzonti Special Award for Innovative Content was deserved, if only because Shahram Mokri's unclassifiable exercise in time - and perspective - shifting plan - sequence, which focused on anthropophagy and kite - flying, was the most outrageous, willfully weird film in sight.

The film doesn't get involved in Clough's personal life but focuses on his career with both clubs, starting off with Clough viewed firstly as a small - time Second Division manager then an arrogant manager on top of Division One.

It's sociopathic focus will make sure it doesn't win... it may win best screenplay, but that's still a long shot, I have a hard time seeing the Academy old timers seeing the relevance of this particular film.

As the title implies, the focus of this hour - long live - action series is not on the larger than life costumed superheroes who turned The Avengers into the third highest - grossing film of all time, but the employees of the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division, the government agency of espionage and law enforcement that has worked with and sometimes against the likes of Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, and the Hulk.

«Shepard & Dark»: Documentary film focused on the relationship between playwright and actor Sam Shepard and his long - time friend Johnny Dark.

Told in a triad of approaches — land, sea and air — hopping around in time and focusing more on the soldiers and survival, Nolan's film is a very different, an almost - abstract war picture.

Quite an interesting first film by Foughi and likewise a suitably intense performance by Jabbari, on whom lenser Sina Kermanizadeh concentrates sometimes in sharp close - up and other times in soft focus.

That said, he hasn't been delivering that many of these types of films for quite some time now, choosing instead to focus on more dramatic material but I'm happy to say that he still possesses that childlike imagination and adventurous touch.

Set in 1998 and derived from a news story of that time, the film starts out by focusing on twenty - four - year - old tomboy Ilana (a strikingly charismatic debut by Darya Zhovnar), who works in the garage of her mechanic father.

For a film about space - and - time - traveling agents that encounter various alien species and criminals, Besson's content focusing on Valerian and Laureline's awkward romance.

This week's You Have To See... looks at short - film wunderkind Nacho Vigalondo's debut feature film TIMECRIMES, a time - travel focused gem from 2007.

Elements of religious iconology juxtapose against the occasional (and actually quite restrained despite the film's reputation) bursts of violence, and by revealing the killer's identity with some running time left switches the focus slightly in a refreshing way.

And I'm glad I did because some of the issues I'd had the first time (I'd found its metaphor a little scattered) came more into focus, and I was reminded of its many strengths - Peele juggles all sorts of genre and tonal trickery with ease, and I love every single performance in the film (yes even whatever Caleb Landry Jones is doing).

A role in Captain Marvel would interesting, as he's played military characters before and if the film focuses on Carol's time in the military they'll be plenty of male roles to fill for her peers and superiors.

It's important to familiarize the audience with the history, but the film takes too much time away from the players and instead focuses on historical figures and file footage of what was happening off the court.

Though plenty of the film's scenes possess an honed improv feel much like the extemporaneous riffing of Anchorman, they are also usually more focused — in terms of plotting, there's so little time to waste when the end is nigh.

Gillespie's sense of comic timing and focus on character help to elevate a strange - concept film into a genuine delight of heart.