Sentences with phrase «version of an older film»

He's the driving force that propels the movie from being a glossier version of an older film to a fun adventure for the whole family.

Not exact matches

Her 1970 version of the Band's «The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down» (her only Top 10 single) was recently featured in the film «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.»

Tom, a 22 - year - old student, was re-creating a version of the diet made famous in the film Supersize Me.

So if we buy their own logic, Paramount is telling us that it chose to release a worse version of the movie because it was easier for 15 - year - olds to go see it on group dates, and that Ferrell, a producer on the film and one of the more powerful talents in Hollywood, acceded to this.

Perhaps the most memorable reveal comes at the end of the trailer when we see Charles with his classic bald head, which Patrick Stewart's older version of the character is so well - known for having in previous X-Men films.

This is a film riddled with doppelgangers: Candy, the woman who owns a seedy bar that serves as a front for a whore house, looks like an older, more run - down version of Kelly, and Buff, who works at the hospital, and a girl who works for Candy.

The film does dip into the experiences of grief, isolation, and survival in the Old West; maybe the Ramsay version would have waded in further.

Unfortunately, it seems that this R4 version might have been mastered from an older video transfer - in fact, this looks very much like the original home video transfer of the film done back in the early 1990s, which at the time was state - of - the - art but pales in comparison to what's possible today.

Robert Pattinson also has a substantial role in the film in a duel role, as a friend of Cunningham's and older version of Prescott.

Also on board for Saturn 3 completists are 10 minutes of excerpts from a crappy old VHS recording of the network - TV version of the film.

The 57 - year - old actor stars once again reprises his role as Harry Hart in the sequel to 2015 film «Kingsman: The Secret Service» and got to appear on screen with the «Rocket Man» musician, who is playing a fictionalised version of himself.

The DVD and Blu - ray editions both feature the standard and 3 - D versions of the film, but the vaunted 3 - D of the theatrical version is significantly diminished by the old red and green glasses for home video.

When he sees a short propaganda film the old - fashioned leftists have produced (essentially a version of the third cinema option Assayas pointed to), Rene puts the matter bluntly.

Ann Sheridan, with lots of oomph, takes over Bette Davis» old role (and Jeanne Eagels») in this Americanized remake of the film versions of the classic W. Somerset Maugham short story «The Letter.»

Nearly two decades later, Jean - Pierre and Luc Dardenne took a stab at their own version of «Pickpocket» with the harrowing «L'Enfant,» a title referring to both the film's nine - day - old child and the immature young father who sells him — a fatal error that condemns the man's soul and sets him on a quest for spiritual salvation.

The supporting cast is a thing of wonder — there are familiar faces like Dickens, Fugit, and Perry all pushed to greatness, with Missi Pyle perfect as the film's version of harridan - for - justice Nancy Grace, Neil Patrick Harris elegantly worrisome as on old suitor of Amy's, and Carrie Coon («The Leftovers») a revelation as Nick's loving, tough sister Margot.

The 29 - year - old Wayans appeared in a plenty of his father's work as a younger man: he played the younger version of David Alan Grier in his father's film «Blankman,» and would later appear in a recurring role in his sitcom «My Wife And Kids,» as well as being a regular on his short - lived Showtime sketch comedy series «The Underground.»

Sky Captain is a scrapbook of references to old styles and newer films, everything from the pulp art of Rafael DeSoto and Frank Paul to the modern versions of them in the art of Jon Muth and George Pratt; from old Buck Rogers serials to The Land that Time Forgot and Journey to the Center of the Earth to the clinical lunar phantasms of Raiders of the Lost Ark..

This clip shows Jackman trimming his grey - speckled chops, offering additional proof that the actor's version of Logan will indeed be looking uncharacteristically older in his final X-Men film appearance.

If the deal gets done, the 50 - year - old New York native would be the youngest actress to play Peter Parker's guardian on screen so far, which pairs well with the 19 - year - old Tom Holland as the youngest version of the web - slinging superhero to be seen in film also.

A fair overview of each film is covered in several featurettes — using cast members, and a fairly candid Steven Spielberg — but those expecting to see pristine, complete versions of those old TV specials will have to hold onto their VHS and / or Betamax copies.

This is a new film by Pedro Almodóvar and all we know about it is that it stars Spanish actresses Emma Suárez and Adriana Ugarte as the older and younger versions of the lead character.

It is tempting to see the title characters in Husbands (1970) as older versions of the trio in John Cassavetes» breakthrough film, Shadows (1959)-- aimless New Yorkers indulging in noisy horseplay,...

Awards Daily Sasha compares Oscars to the presidential primaries Guardian one million dollar reward in the case of Judy Garland's missing ruby slippers i09 first look at HBO's series version of the old sci fi classic Westworld FSR checking in with Hayao Miyazaki who is still working — albeit on short films — and experimenting at 74.

If at times «The Old Man and the Sea» looks like an animated version of those lame megabudget nature documentaries they used to show at IMAX theaters, that's partly because it is an IMAX film — the first animation to be shown on that huge screen, in fact.

In the 1955 version, the robbery is quick and straightforward and the bulk of the film is concerned with the criminals» comically inept efforts to kill an old lady.

They've served, for example, as the quintessential naive boy - scout and provincial maid in their early films and as older, more tortured versions of the same in the chapters that bookend Krzysztof Kieslowski's Trois couleurs trilogy, whose ironic casting suggests a blueprint for Haneke.

The first clip from the film has arrived and it finds both Ralph Fiennes, and us, meeting Zero played by Revolori (and F. Murray Abraham as the older version), who is hired as a lobby boy at the titular hotel and gets thrown into the wild orbit of M. Gustave.

That question is somewhat complicated, because there are very good things about it — Chloë Grace Moretz's fantastic as a foulmouthed twelve - year - old version of the Punisher, with some Jackie Chan thrown in, and so is «lead» Aaron Johnson, who manages not to look like he's lost the movie he's top - lining to every single other cast member, whether it's Moretz, Nic Cage, Christopher Mintz - Plasse (whose squinty nerd thing, identical to Superbad, is just annoying here) or Mark Strong, even though he does at one point or another in the film.

If you're old enough to remember the Goodies, then this film is basically a more extreme version of Kitten Kong, set in Chicago rather than London.

is the category's most hateable character in a walk for being the author of Atonement itself (and even the film's fans would have to admit that it's Vanessa Redgrave, playing the older version of Ronan, who nets all the sympathy points).

Terminator Genisys Rated PG - 13 for intense sequences of sci - fi violence and gunplay throughout, partial nudity and brief strong language Available on DVD, Blu - ray and Blu - ray 3D Arnold Schwarzenegger is back in yet another Terminator film where resistance leader John Connor (Jason Clarke) sends back his father Kyle Reese (Jai Courtney) to protect his mother (Emilia Clarke), who is already being protected by an older version of the Terminator robot played by Schwarzenegger.

Perhaps one of the most frustrating things about being a fan of old movies is settling in to watch a venerable film like Alfred Hitchcock's 1938 «The Lady Vanishes» and realizing that the version you are watching is an inferior one, marred by a dirty picture and poor sound.

Wolverine 3 is still quite the perplexing project as we had originally expected to be some sort of an adaptation of Old Man Logan, the more we're learning about the third film the less it's looking like a straight - up version of that comic.

Disney has all but given up on DVD, reducing the still widely preferred home video format to an insignificant bonus feature of Blu - ray, a formality for new theatrical films, and occasionally another retail shelf to place the old - fashionedly packaged versions of deceptively identical combo packs.

The action in «Wild Card» is markedly more adept, thanks to the work of Hong Kong choreographer Cory Yuen, who put Statham through his paces on the «Transporter» films and who has a grand old time here staging an epic casino brawl scored to the Drifters» cover version of «White Christmas.»

His film predates social media, but it's like a lumbering filmic version of that one Facebook friend who shares random GoFundMe pages and tired old memes, lists their job as «SAG - AFTRA,» has profile pictures of bouquets of flowers with captions like «You know what they say, love is blind» (an actual quote from the film).

The 26 - year - old helmer was the man behind «Chronicle,» which made back its $ 12 million budget ten times over on release in February, and since then he's been lining up all kinds of projects; while he won't direct any «Chronicle» sequel, he is attached to a film version of Soviet - themed comic book «The Red Star, «and is developing not one, but two major superhero franchises, in Sony's «Venom «and Fox «s «Fantastic Four.»

In Ken Ochiais elegiac and meta film he is promoted to a rare starring role, playing a version of himself as a wizened - faced, nearly wordless old man whose career as an extra in samurai flicks is nearing its end.

There seems to be an admirable willingness to engage with real - world politics too, with references dropped to the surveillance society, wars in the Middle East, and the price of security, while a reunion with an older version of a character from the first film provides probably the most moving moment in any Marvel effort to date.

Between the labyrinthine plot following the complex and competing interests of various governmental agencies, and the handheld digital film aesthetic adopted by Liman and cinematographer Cesar Charlone — slightly grainy, cutting frequently to close ups that foreground and slightly fisheye the faces in focus — American Made occasionally felt like a through - the - looking glass version of the adventures of Sonny Crockett (Colin Farrell), a chronicle of semi-competence and good old fashioned greed.

There is a peculiar aspect to the entire production that evokes the feeling like you're watching a film, and not a story, constantly aware that this version of the Old West if completely fabricated.

Olivia is a 34 - year - old Hollywood film producer who is trying to launch a movie version of Don Quixote with the help of an obstinate director.

around here that is likely to be one of the sled dog breeds.our Siberian Husky is often taken for a wolf or wolfdog.In an old film version of Jack London's «Call of the wild» I thought it funny that they used what looked to me like Huskies to play the part of wolves.

The local community has been reticent in coming forward about the town's incredible historical and geological relevance (the mountains around the town are the oldest in the world, dating back 3.5 billion years) but that will all soon change with the imminent release of both the Disney version of Jock of the Bushveld, and the film about Cockney Liz (legendary «barmaid» who became known as Cockney Liz because of the accent in which she chose to sing, despite her obvious refinement and musical talent.

This is a colorized version of a cartoon I once gave to my old friend, Lee Thomas, the guy who pretty much single - handedly brought Web 2.0 geekery to the British film industry.

Yoichiro prefers to use film sets from various films, real interiors of old 42nd Street theatres, spliced together with different time periods to create a reinterpreted version of history, as if to reclaim what we have once lost.

There's also markedly more intensity in the image's colors versus the old Blu - ray versions of the same films.