Sentences with phrase «upon a time in»

Now Businessweek reports that Shkreli paid $ 2 million for a single, deluxe copy of the Wu - Tang Clan album Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, which the group said it would sell to the highest bidder.

[The group released a single copy of Once Upon a Time in Shaolin; it had recently been revealed that Shkreli had purchased it for $ 2 million.]

Shkreli, a rap music fan who spent a reported $ 2 million to buy the Wu - Tang Clan's one - of - a-kind album Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, also tweeted that he would «spit bars» a reference to rappers vying to have the last word, after the verdict in his case.

(Shkreli was sentenced to seven years in prison in January for securities fraud and conspiracy to commit fraud, and a forfeiture order authorized the government to seize a Picasso painting and the sole copy of Wu Tang Clan's «Once Upon a Time in Shaolin.»)

By faith Christians confess «that God has created me and all that exists,» which is something quite different than claiming to know that once upon a time in the far distant past God created the very same structures in which people now participate.

It is, therefore, never difficult for men to believe that the Jesus Christ of faith existed once upon a time in natural, biological form,.

Once upon a time in a bygone mythology, human beings killed their God in the body of a man.

Once upon a time in Mauritius (my island), people used to love eating sweet potatoes with butter and some herb chutney.

With your past two days of exploring and playing, you will want to find time to relax and reflect upon your time in Temecula, Southern California's Wine Country.

The whole thing is starting to die out, thankfully — see Danny Welbeck's giddy and entirely appropriate celebrations when he returned to Old Trafford with Arsenal — and, in years to come, our children will ask their parents if it's true that once upon a time in the Premier League, a player didn't celebrate a goal against a team because they wanted to sign for that team.

«American football makes rugby look like a Tupperware party» said Sue Lawley, Broadcaster, once upon a time in 1985.

Once upon a time in the midst of the good old days, Arsenal too had defenders who could defend.

After overhearing his co-workers on the TV show «Once Upon a Time in Wonderland» tell ridiculous stories about daycare, Shapiro figured comedy + babies = viral + White House invite.

Once upon a time in a land far, far away there lived a single woman who had all the time in the world to take long, long showers every day.

These are not events written in a book, condensed into nicely worded paragraphs and sentences, events that happened once upon a time in a world long gone.

Once upon a time in Benue and indeed Nigeria, beauty pageants were strongly regarded as platforms that showcased the true beauty and intelligence of the Nigerian...

It is also obvious that u decided on purpose no to carry out reseaches on ur subject matter, pls do u also know that ur almighty MBBS was run as a deploma program once upon a time in this our noble country, so why insulting other medical feilds, saying they now says they are doctors & comparing nursing PHDs which ll take a minimum of 10 years up with ur 6 years MBBS.

Once upon a time in Asia Minor, people started to tell the tale of The Smith and the Devil.

Once upon a time in France, a baby was born under the summer sun.

Once upon a time in Belgium, my boyfriend (now husband) and I went on a date to an amazing greek restaurant.

Once upon a time in a beauty land far away there was a rose caviar essence, beautiful array of lip color, and a celebration...

Once upon a time in my parents home far far away I used their products, but felt too green like Shrek.

Once upon a time in the early days of the web, not everyone had web access from all over the planet and people only tended to join siongles services that were of a more serious nature.

An ultra-lite version of Paul Thomas Anderson's «Inherent Vice,» «Once Upon a Time in Venice» is a sunny SoCal noir so inconsequential it seems to evaporate as it plays out.

Once Upon A Time In Venice is clearly a film made by cinephiles, but the scattered subplots and underdeveloped characters combine for an overall misfire.

He manages to successfully recreate the ominous stillness of the opening of Once Upon a Time in the West, and the dialogue between the Bride and Bill is pretty well - written; we pick up on things that are unsaid and why the characters don't say them, which is a sign that we are at least somewhat invested in their situation.

That's still true in «Once Upon a Time in Mexico,» but you know what?

Harvey and his staff also programmed original and uncut versions of films which had only played American theaters in altered form (including Heaven's Gate, Once Upon a Time in America, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, and The Leopard) long before the concept of the «director's cut» had currency beyond the most hardcore of film fans.

Despite having an all - star talented cast, Once Upon A Time In Venice doesn't live up to the action comedies that preceded it despite a talented cast.

That hissing sound you hear is the air being let out of Bruce Willis as he struggles mightily to reconnect with once - vital action - comedy chops in the dim, unfunny Once Upon a Time in Venice.

As far as Westerns are concerns, I would call El Topo as one of the finest along with Once Upon a Time in the West, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly and The Wild Bunch.

Stylistically, Once Upon A Time In Venice is mostly indistinguishable from a middling TV pilot that never made it to series.

But that one - man - band approach lets him down in Once Upon A Time In Mexico, an overstuffed would - be epic that brings back Banderas» guitar - picking gunslinger and throws him into a plot involving a drug cartel, an attempted coup, and quite a few bullets.

Stories beginning «once upon a time» seldom turn as convoluted as quickly or irredeemably as Once Upon A Time In Mexico, writer - director - editor - cinematographer - composer Robert Rodriguez's final installment in the trilogy that began his career.

Immensely entertaining and beautifully shot in Techniscope by Tonino Delli Colli, the movie is a virtually definitive «spaghetti western,» rivaled only by Leone's own Once Upon a Time in the West (1968).

After the low - budget «A Fistful of Dollars» and «For a Few Dollars More,» Leone moved up to bigger budgets for «The Good, the Bad and the Ugly» and «Once Upon a Time in the West» — and therefore, Tarantino told his friend, Rodriguez should now make «Once Upon a Time in Mexico.»

This is how I found the first part of the Once Upon A Time In Anatolia: Cold as death, Calm as death, and Dark as death.

Today, a healthy newspaper office might as well be an Old West town out of Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West, and the director clearly knows it.

Despite its title, 1931: Once Upon a Time in New York is no exception to this rule.

Following an unlikely appearance as a football player in The Replacements (2000) and a turn as the son of Old Scratch in Little Nicky (2000), Ifans» role as a socially challenged forest dweller turned opera - loving socialite in the eccentric Human Nature provided audiences with abundant laughs and a further glimpse into the quirkiness of a truly unique actor.Of course the ever - eccentric Ifans was only warming up, and after supporting roles in such efforts as The 51st State, The Shipping News and Once Upon a Time in the Midlands Ifans once again took the lead in the 2003 comedy Donnie Deckchair.

It would be like cramming The Seven Samurai, A Fistful of Dollars, Once Upon A Time In The West, Django (Corbucci's not Tarantino's), and Back To The Future Part III into one absurdly long cacophony.

Tandy Cronyn's earliest film appearance was in the obscure agit - prop comedy Praise Marx and Pass the Ammunition (1970); she has since been seen in such productions as All Night Long (1981), Once Upon a Time in America (1984), and the made - for - TV The Story Lady (1991), in which she co-starred with her mother, Jessica Tandy.

Francesco De Masi's score does nothing to hide his Italian background and occasionally gives the film a spaghetti western feel (some have noticed a striking similarity between De Masi's work here and Ennio Morricone's Once Upon a Time in the West music).

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His impressive list of feature credits includes John Madden's Killshot, Tony Scott's Domino and Man on Fire, Robert Rodriguez's Sin City and Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Larry Charles» Masked and Anonymous, Steve Buscemi's Animal Factory and Francis Ford Coppola's The Rainmaker.

Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Bir zamanlar Anadolu «da)(d. Nuri Bilge Ceylan) Elder statesman Bela Tarr's The Turin Horse, in perhaps capturing the dead - horse - beater that anecdotally drove Nietzsche mad, proceeds to beat a dead horse over the course of increasingly deadening, though never less ferocious, cycles of hardscrabble, meaningless existence.

Reunion: Margot is reportedly in final negotiations to play Sharon Tate in Quentin Tarrantino's upcoming Once Upon A Time In Hollywood alongside former co-star Leonardo Dicaprio

Margot is also setting her sights on the future, as Deadline reported earlier this month that the actress might play Sharon Tate — Roman Polanski's late wife who was murdered by the Manson Family in 1969 — in Quentin Tarrantino's upcoming Once Upon A Time In Hollywood.

The big winner: Winter Sleep, a three hour, sixteen minute long Turkish film from filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan, who last brought his masterful Once Upon a Time in Anatolia to Cannes a few years ago.

News Margot might play Sharon Tate — Roman Polanski's late wife who was murdered by the Manson Family in 1969 — in Quentin Tarrantino's upcoming Once Upon A Time In Hollywood was reported by Deadline Tuesday.