Sentences with phrase «turning point in the movie»

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When Hollywood execs put together an internal memo about 2014 in review, one bullet point will almost certainly be about how Christians don't turn up for Bible movies the way they had originally anticipated.

When Hollywood execs put together an internal memo about 2014 in review, one bullet point will almost certainly be about how Christians don't turn up for Bible movies the way...

Thus, «giant chunks of space debris clobbering the planet and wiping out life on Earth has undeniably broad appeal,» Meltzer says, whereas «no one in Hollywood makes movies» about more nuanced explanations, such as Clovis points disappearing because early Americans turned to other forms of stone tool technology as the large mammals they were hunting went extinct as a result of the changing climate or hunting pressure.

In what could be a turning point for both the porn industry as well as the adult dating sector, Kayden Kross, former adult movie star is now at the helms of Arrangement Finders, a sugar daddy dating site.

According to U-571, Americans captured the first German Engima machine in 1944 that brought about the turning point of the war; in reality, the Polish revolutionaries (why didn't Wajda get a chance to make this into a movie) stole it from the Germans in 1941 and gave it to the British who struggled to decipher its complicated encoding style.

As necessary as a history lesson we've forgotten and as timely as the day's latest Trump or sexual harassment (or both) scandal, «The Post» is a newspaper movie about a turning point in political history and the legacy of the news organization whose motto in these trying days is «Democracy Dies in Darkness.»

The movie turns us all into victims and Friedkin makes this point most demonstrably during a courtroom sequence in which he points out to the jurors that it took each of the victims three minutes to die.

It also casually demonizes the Koreans, though it has someone speaking Mandarin to them at some point, so... Lucy plays like the cinematic manifestation of two kids having a conversation about what they'd like to see in a movie starring Scarlett Johansson: «So she gets smarter and then she knows gun - fu and then she turns into an oil blob.»

First the dagger only turns back time for a few minutes so you really never get a sense of what the point is — until the big plot reveals itself in the last part of the movie.

Their stories sometimes converge, sometimes deviate and the movie — in a well - worn gimmick — playfully pauses at various points with characters turning to the camera to relay their perspective.

The fucking story in the trailer is the same as in the movie, and what's the point of seeing the movie then, when we know how the movie will turn out to be storywise?

With two of the five Best Actress slots probably locked - up (if you give one to Huffman and another to Gwyneth Paltrow's non-descript turn in the Miramax dump Proof), the Weinsteins go for three with perennial nominee Dame Judi Dench as the titular theatre - owner in Stephen Frears's Mrs. Henderson Presents, one of those bland, inoffensive, boring British movies about the British theatre (like Topsy - Turvy, perhaps, or, more to the point, Shakespeare in Love).

Though it would take a purist pedant to legitimately lament the evolution of colour stock as a negative turning point in film history, there's no doubt something was lost in Technicolor's takeover as monochrome movies moved from mainstream to niche, and the basic joy of black and white became impossible to appreciate without express attention.

Each plot point in The Glass House becomes increasingly ludicrous, using logic defying twists and turns that can only be present in movies like this.

The Winter's Bone movie is hailed as the turning point in Jennifer Lawrence's acting career.

At an integral point in «Me and Earl and the Dying Girl», the movie turns on a dime from a comedy into a drama.

These random acts of strangeness are literred throughout the extremely dark narrative which eventually takes a turn for the even darker plot - point 50 minutes in which steers the movie into a completely different direction, very much for the better.

Jordan points to Heath Ledger's Oscar - winning turn as the Joker in The Dark Knight as his inspiration in approaching Killmonger («Heath's performance as a villain was so captivating I couldn't stop watching»), but Black Panther isn't the actor's first go at a superhero movie.

Erbland points out that the trailer doesn't deviate at all from any other Sparks movie trailer, and that's precisely why it works and why fans of «The Notebook» and other Sparks adaptations will turn up in droves.

Sure its beautifully polished from an aesthetics stand point, with rich and beautiful production design by Scott Chambliss, but little else to grab onto in terms of a script or just a normal comfort adventure movie, Bird's film turns out to be his most ambitious failure.

Gillan is particularly funny in how she turns the generically bad - ass video - game heroine on its head, providing the movie's most pointed criticism toward some of the medium's sexist trends within her performance.

Prometheus is a movie that forces you to be intellectually invested, but not to the point of exhaustion and, in turn, delivers a remarkably enthralling experience.

Breathless is such a monument of a movie, such a turning point in film history, that it's easy to forget just how much fun it is.

The turning point for me when the pacing just dropped (which admittedly was my favourite scene in the movie) was Ray Liottas bad cop leading Bradley out into the woods to an uncertain fate.

There is no turning point; in life you can say, «I just had this feeling,» but in the movies, we need a dramatically definitive trigger for the about - face in our cop hero's attitude.

But «Frances Ha» turned out to be yet another turning point for Baumbach: a warm, fizzy confection of a movie that could almost be called musical in its rhythms.

I watched the movie in the company of a friend who worked on it, and at one point I turned to him and whispered, «How did you make six more hours of this?»

I pointed out yesterday that Fox Searchlight is operating on a different plane when it comes to turning out the vote for its movies, and alongside the aforementioned surprise little hit of the final quarter of 2007 ($ 85 million and counting), further evidence arrives in the form of Tamara Jenkins» The Savages, which, despite not (yet) having connected at the box office (it's made only $ 3.6 million in a month and a half of release), garnered an expected Best Original Screenplay nomination, but also a Best Actress nod for Laura Linney, probably coming at the expense of Angelina Jolie and A Mighty Heart.

«When the Coens cast me in their movie, my life took a huge turn because all I had really done was theater up to that point,» Stuhlbarg, 49, says of his experience on A Serious Man, the cosmically dark masterpiece in which the actor, playing the besieged Minnesota patriarch Larry Gopnik, shrank under a storm of professional and personal ruin.

I haven't seen its predecessor, Escanaba in da Moonlight (2001)-- based on Daniels's play, which he produced at his own 160 - seat theater in Chelsea, Michigan, the Purple Rose (named after the Woody Allen movie The Purple Rose of Cairo, which Daniels has cited as a turning point in his career).

The movies will in turn serve as «a jumping - off point» for «guest editors,» who will add content inspired by the film, anything from «essays, music, video and photography to cultural ephemera» that reflects themes expressed in the selected films.

In 2016, 20th Century Fox hit a much - needed turning point with its comic book movies.

In 1977, those four movies were Annie Hall, The Turning Point (Shirley MacLaine and Anne Bancroft both were nominated), Julia, and The Goodbye Girl.

It's a remarkable maneuver, turning a big, purple, helmet - wearing brute who is acerbically referred to as «Grimace» at one point in the movie, into the believable force around whom this MacGuffin - laden film revolves.

Preaching is part of the movie, and that is handled well, as are the turning points in Nat's life.

It certainly was not, but it was a fantastic movie that will mark a turning point in how future Star Wars movies will be shaped — which will, in its way, shape the future of sci - si film in general.

· Storyline: The movie takes place immediately before a key turning point in the video game's storyline, a vicious attack against a major European city.

Noting the dearth of black superheroes, both in comic books and the art world, Bradford points to the success of movies like «Wonder Woman» and «Black Panther» as a cultural turning point.

Before Comer took the podium, art historian Gloria Sutton spoke at length about Stan VanDerBeek, a graduate of 1950s Black Mountain College who built the infamous Movie - Drome, a grain silo turned multimedia screening room, in his Stony Point, NY, backyard.

«The Sony attack, I believe, in many ways was a turning point... to attack a private company for engaging in freedom of expression around not a terribly popular movie.»