Sentences with phrase «turn films around»

«The ability to turn films around so quickly is really notable.»

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Viacom, which owns Comedy Central, MTV and film studio Paramount, has been struggling to turn around its declining ratings and ad revenue.

One of the traditions during the Christmas holidays is to read Charles Dickens» famous book «A Christmas Carol,» or to watch one of the many film productions about the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge who turned his life around and became a generous soul on Christmas Day.

Mean Streets did more than launch Scorsese's career: The film solidified his creative vision for turning a camera to stories that center around sin and grace.

Disney's animation machine was looking flimsy there for a minute, but the House of Mouse effectively turned the ship around with a string of delightful animated films like Tangled and...

This Friday marks the release of the eighth installment of the Fast & Furious films, the long - running, high - octane action franchise that revolves around Dom Toretto (Vin Diesel) and his motley crew of street racers - turned - international - crime - fighters - who - are - also - kind - of - criminals.

Watching «Food Matters» film helped me turn my life around & I'm forever grateful.

What began a few years ago as a trickle of small independent films shot in and around Kingston has of late turned into a veritable flood, including big - budget productions with real movie stars, thanks to a new tax break and efforts by local officials to woo and accommodate the industry.

Something that turns out to be zombies (the film doesn't pussy - foot around the word, gratifyingly), which are soon busy tearing civilization apart.

Seven Rowling novels have been turned into eight films which take around 20 hours to see (or 36 hours if you watch the DVD extras), and the phenomenon is infinitely greater.

I, Tonya, directed by Craig Gillespie, doesn't shy from the darker turns her life took, the film's screenplay working from rumor and the unreliable narration of the people around her.

The film basically revolves around Jim trying to turn Michelle's dream wedding into a reality while Stifler unintentionally foils his friend's every effort.

Also around the turn of the decade, Stipe and longtime friend and filmmaker Jim McKay created C - Hundred, a film collective devoted to producing videos, public - service announcements, and micro-budgeted shorts and features.

The film opens with Ellsberg, played by Matthew Rhys with a fine, forlorn rabbinical iciness, typing notes in the Vietnam combat field, then listening to McNamara on the plane ride back explain that the war is going terribly — only to watch him turn around and play the war's booster at an airport press conference.

After the painfully one - sided sexual adventure of the first film, in which she met Christian and was brutally exposed to his odd habits, and after Christian's even nastier control - freakishness in the ill - conceived «50 Shades Darker,» Ana is at last able to demand to hold the reins from time to time — a narrative turn that manages to frame their marriage as an empowering structure for women: now enclosed in the gilded cage of their union, Ana can pull on the rope that Christian had tied around her neck.

Following both as they team up and try to rally enough parents to take over the school and turn things around, the film becomes a sort of mums - on - a-mission movie, with Jamie and Nona leading the fight to free their government - failed children from the tyranny of the teaching unions once and for all.

The film jumps around Berlin at night, turning into a heist film unexpectedly.

It's a brave and vulnerable turn that shapes every corner of the film - ensuring that Conor's perception of his situation, the adults and kids around him, as well as what to make of his supernatural visitor, are faithful to a person (young or old) whose life has been entirely upended.

The film meanders from time to time as Simon finds his way around the City of Lights and his own skin, but Corbet's performance is a darkly rich one in every scene, not far from Matt Damon's sociopath - turned - psychopath turn in «The Talented Mr. Ripley» but distinctively unnerving in crafting an eventually hollow façade out of this nice, young, very lost man.

Whilst some films turn to dust in your memory this one will stick around like a ghost and repay revisits in years to come.

The film is a moving portrait of an imperfect man — a son, a boyfriend, a father, a friend — who was trying to turn his life around when it was senselessly cut short.

On February 2, Walker turned to social media again, posting an Instagram photo of an emoji chia pet with the comment, «Things you get around to when your distributor pulls your film from every festival.»

Pulpy, violent, and yet harmoniously stylized to be visually striking, Tarantino is, in his twisted manner, an all around film buff turned director.

Simon Pegg played a great aging goth and while the film seemed to be treating addiction a bit too flippantly at first, it turned around and halted everything like a scratched record when you were least expecting it.

She's not around much in the beginning of the film, but later when things turn south and the drama gets ratcheted up you can't help but feel for her.

Not only is it a dingy psychological thriller revolving around themes of insanity and sexual abuse, even though Foy has seen her fame increase since her breakout turn in Netflix's «The Crown» it's safe to say this film still lacks the star power of Channing Tatum, Adam Driver, Daniel Craig, Seth MacFarlane, Hilary Swank, Riley Keough and Katie Holmes that Logan Lucky brought to the table.

Disney almost ran its famed animation unit into the ground around the turn of the century with cheap sequels to classic films such as Pocahontas, The Little Mermaid and even Dumbo, leaving its reputation as a creative force in tatters.

If Baby Driver isn't already on your film radar this year, let's turn the beat around.

It's unfortunate that we've gotten so few Lonergan films over the course of such a long time, especially when you can't turn around without another superhero extravaganza smacking you in the face, but if it takes this long for him to consistently deliver at this level of quality, then it is damn sure worth the wait.

It's going to take a really, really good film to turn things around, and while I'm not exactly holding my breath, it'd be great if Labor of Love turns out well.

Based on Jack Finney's classic sci - fi novel «Invasion of the Body Snatchers», the film emphasises the tensions and lack of trust in the Malone family as an alien plot to turn all humans into emotionless, unfeeling «pod people» unfolds around them.

Whether quickly or slowly, the film portrays Brown as a man willing to turn down the volume on everyone around him.

Perhaps that's why large portions of this film feel like scenes Toback just wanted to use up somehow — particularly the Grodin sequence, in which his character rails against his fading faculties by turns sweetly and violently, and which might have been moving if it didn't feel so detached from everything around it.

This time around, Brewer really goes for broke with a pulpy tale that isn't afraid to push a few boundaries and raise a few eyebrows, but while its strong sexual and racial themes will no doubt turn many people away, remarkable performances by the film's two leads make this one winter film that's actually worth the price of the ticket.

Jake Gyllenhaal has really turned around his career over the past few years with character - driven films like «Nightcrawler,» «Enemy» and «Prisoners,» so it only seems natural that he would want to collaborate with Jean - Marc Vallée, the Canadian - born director who led Matthew McConaughey to Oscar gold in «Dallas Buyers Club» and helped revive Reese Witherspoon's career with «Wild.»

It may be fair to say that some movies made with the plot revolving around Christmas are far better than others, but on the whole Four Christmases could be quite a fun movie for the most part, although, as already mentioned, the film perhaps takes a turn towards more serious issues as it progresses.

(In French with subtitles) Man in the Chair (PG - 13 for profanity and mature themes) Drama about a troubled teen (Michael Angarano) trying to turn his life around by gaining admission to film school with the help of senior citizens living at an old folks home for film industry retirees.

A golden age of comic book movies may be dominating Hollywood right now, but over the past few years there have also been signs of an effort to turn around the thus - far lackluster genre of video game - turned film adaptations.

Although we were hardly experts in the mumblecore movement *, what we'd seen of it had not been hugely inspiring, and Humpday single - handedly changed that: the film was so funny, endearing, and brilliantly - constructed, it single - handedly turned us around on the whole sub-genre.

I'm not sure anyone in movie history runs as well as Widmark runs in this film, pulling Donald O'Connor - esque twists and turns that send his limbs flailing about in silhouette, and then ducking around a corner and pressing himself flat against the wall, as though wishing he could disappear into the bricks themselves.

Last month I guessed that the film probably wouldn't start shooting this month because of new writer Frank Darabont's small window of time in which to turn around a new draft.

But considering he spent the Spectre press tour calling his character a misogynist and declaring he'd rather slash his wrists than play Bond again — and considering recent rumors that he's turned down $ 100 million to reprise the role for two more films — it seems a safe assumption that he won't be sticking around for too much longer.

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, while still a pale comparison to the 1968 masterwork, is a respectable effort at a sequel nonetheless, and should meet well for those who've stuck around through the second and third films without getting turned off to further adventures.

The pressroom gang has been cast from some working equivalents of the character boys who sat around His Girl Friday «s city hall, yet, save for David Wayne's Bensinger and Jon Korkes's tyro reporter (omitted from the Hawks film), these guys play it naturalistically compared to the brilliantly stylized turns of Karns, Hall, Truex, Toomey, Edwards, and Jenks.

The first film Gerwig has solitarily written and directed (this is not, as many have claimed, her inaugural turn behind the camera; she shares a directorial credit with Joe Swanberg on 2008's Nights And Weekends), Lady Bird arranges an even better entrance for its own irresistible heroine: Squabbling with her combative, witheringly disapproving mother (Laurie Metcalf, granted her best role in ages) while driving around to look at colleges, Christine «Lady Bird» McPherson (Saoirse Ronan) decides she's had just about enough conversation, opens her passenger - side car door, and rolls out.

Fletcher is the vulgar, drill - seargent, hard - ass you love to hate, whose character shades do little to cover up deeply flawed principles, and yet, once you think the film acknowledges them it turns around and drops them like a bad habit.

Filmmaker Patrick Brice's friendship with producer, actor, filmmaker and all around cool dude Mark Duplass has turned into two awesome films.

«I really was interested in getting involved with a company [that has not received a lot of] ink that may be turning into one of the prolific producers of independent films around,» said Lipsky.

Carey Mulligan turns in an electric performance as the heart of Sarah Gavron's activist drama — but the film around her fails to catch fire

Years after Michael Bond's Paddington turned up at the train station, with a note saying «Please look after this bear» tied around his neck, the idea of someone turning the books into a feature film was a bleak prospect.