Sentences with phrase «well as the trilogy»

Her ability to see inconsistencies in each individual book, as well as the trilogy as a whole, not only helped me to create a more satisfying story but made it a faster, smoother and dare I say, more exciting read.

I started watching the original series again and experienced Shippuden through my own research as well as the Trilogy, itself.

Not exact matches

It plans to release a new trilogy of Star Wars films as well as some additional spin - offs based on individual characters.

Disney purchased the Star Wars franchise from George Lucas» Lucasfilm in 2012 for $ 4.05 billion, and has planned for a new trilogy of films as well as standalone installments through 2019.

I never set out to write a trilogy on our increasingly endangered democracy, but as I kept stumbling on ever more evidence of the legacy of the imperialist pressures we put on many other countries as well as the nature and size of our military empire, one book led to another.

A Christian now, I wasn't a Christian when I read the trilogy either time, yet the philosophy made sense and gave me the belief that good vs. evil isn't merely between Christians and non-Christians, as so many Christians argue.

Interesting discussion — Totally agree about the «punching above their weight» problem with the current spate of «popular» atheists and junk writers, as well as the «Hollywood» treatment of Pullman, but you don't need to wade through Pullman's trilogy to get a useful insight into institutionalism vs genuine spirituality — just pick up the excellent «The Dragon in the Sea» by Dune author Frank Herbert or «The Moon is a Harsh Mistress» by Robert Heinlien — great works from the Golden Age of Science Fiction literature.

Deploying the format used by Nige Tassell in his recent book The Bottom Corner, as well as an approximation of the approach of Michael Calvin in his recent trilogy of volumes, Hughes devotes a chapter each to the majority of the North West» senior clubs, tackling matters through the lens of a single interviewee and interlacing that person's thoughts with his own impressions on the fortunes of a club, both current and historical.

This is a very important section in «Inglesina Trilogy Stroller Review» as unlike other stroller the handle bar is not adjustable; this is located 40 ″ from the ground, very good for tall parents.

The group also reported a $ 50,000 contribution this morning from Trilogy Advisors LLC, which has given direct support to Astorino's campaign as well.

THE TRILOGY includes Programs l, ll, and lll as well as the DIGITAL Workout Calendar, Nutrition Guide, Training Guide and bonuses!

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The young actors have chemistry together and you have to appreciate how the filmmakers had the good sense of also casting such comic geniuses as Eugene Levy as Jim's dad and Jennifer Coolidge as Stifler's mom, and now the conclusion of the epic trilogy takes the Chris - Guest - company thing one step further by giving the part of Michele's dad to Fred Willard!

The inclusion of an absurd yet thoroughly captivating celebrity cameo, which essentially stands as a high point within the entire series, perpetuates Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb's better - than - expected third - act atmosphere, although, unfortunately, director Shawn Levy ensures that the film concludes with a whimper by offering up an excessively sappy final stretch that just goes on and on - with this underwhelming climax confirming the movie's place as an almost passable concluding entry in a seriously forgettable trilogy.

In addition, he appeared in AMERICAN HISTORY X, co-starred in the OCEAN»S ELEVEN trilogy, and appeared in the 2011 feature film CONTAGION, as well as the 2012 Fox Searchlight feature RUBY SPARKS.

Gears of War 4 struggles with pacing issues and a bland protagonist, but it works well as a passing - the - torch installment bridging the old and new trilogies.

If it's true, as Kevin Smith noted in his lengthy introductory remarks at Sundance, that «failure is just success training,» then he should be in the best shape of his career after «Yoga Hosers,» an imbecilic, strenuously wacky helping of see - what - sticks juvenilia that finds the director continuing the «True North Trilogy» he began with 2013's rather more -LSB-...]

Between the bombast and the excess, what I enjoy most is Bay's skittish, eager - to - please - abandoned - puppy sense of humor, exemplified best by the Transformers trilogy's scenes with Kevin Dunn and Julie White as Sam Witwicky's (Shia LaBeouf) TMI - prone parents.

In Darkness is a Holocaust drama from Polish director Agnieszka Holland, who brought us Europa, Europa as well as acting as a writing consultant / collaborator on the Three Colours Trilogy.

Certainly, after the bland history lesson of «The Lady» and the joyless family - friendly shenanigans of the «Arthur» trilogy, this is easily the director's most alert, energized and recognizable piece of direction in years — a movie that, with its muscular widescreen imagery, vibrant streaks of color and pulsing musical beats, as well as its occasional tonal missteps and moments of unintentional hilarity, feels unmistakably like the work of its director.

Although for me the Mass Effect 2 was better this one is good as well and it's the last of the trilogy.

Williams last sang on Broadway as Sally Bowles in «Cabaret,» while Efron honed his musical chops in the «High School Musical» trilogy, as well as 2007's «Hairspray,» alongside John Travolta.

At the same time, Uchida is responsible for some of the most remarkable swordplay films of the 1950s and»60s; his five - film Musashi Miyamoto epic (not screened at MOMA), starring Kinnosuke Nakamura in the title role and Ken Takakura as his arch-nemesis Kojiro, surpasses the better - known Inagaki Samurai Trilogy starring Toshiro Mifune in terms of both drama and swordplay, yet remains little - known in the West (despite its availability on DVD in the U.S.) After the BAM retrospective (and others) in 2008, most of Uchida's films remained unscreened and undistributed in America, so with MOMA's bigger series recently ending, it's time again to encourage distributors like the Criterion Collection, Kino Lorber, and Arrow Video to bring out more of the director's masterpieces, both for critical reconsideration and for those whom the veteran filmmaker will be a major new discovery.

Not only does it close out the trilogy that started with X-Men: First Class, but it'll be the last X-Men film for Jennifer Lawrence and Hugh Jackman (though he's still got his solo movie coming up), and possibly some of their co-stars as well.

Linklater's preoccupation with temporality intensifies with each subsequent film in the trilogy, so that time itself becomes both message and medium, the principal subject matter of the films as well as the basic building blocks of their construction.

Thankfully the film, although not as good as the original trilogy, delivers pretty much all you'd expect from both star & director in the fourth part of the series.

While I've enjoyed the Hobbit series less, I missed seeing the 3rd in the theater so I might try and do this trilogy as well.

As for the film, very good, unfortunately i think the wider cast hurts the film a bit and as such it sits as the worst of the trilogy, which is still a fair amount higher than most filmAs for the film, very good, unfortunately i think the wider cast hurts the film a bit and as such it sits as the worst of the trilogy, which is still a fair amount higher than most filmas such it sits as the worst of the trilogy, which is still a fair amount higher than most filmas the worst of the trilogy, which is still a fair amount higher than most films.

Though the legacy of Raimi's trilogy may have been marred a bit by the tepid reaction to the third installment (although for the record, I actually liked it quite a bit), it still contains some of the best superhero movies to date, especially the well - received sequel featuring Alfred Molina as classic Spidey villain Doc Ock.

The new «Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens» will pick up thirty years after the events of Return of the Jedi, and will feature the original trilogy stars including Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Kenny Baker (R2 - D2), Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca), and Anthony Daniels (C - 3PO), with several new actors including Lupita Nyong» o (the best supporting actress Oscar - winner from 12 Years a Slave) and Gwendoline Christie, the 6 - foot - 3 British actress best known as the female knight Brienne of Tarth from Game of Thrones.

The third film ties very closely with the third film, as well as being a general thematic capper to the trilogy about institutional corruption.

The Prime trilogy has always featured some of the best world - building and story in the Metroid series as a whole, and perhaps even in all of gaming.

Serkis is best known for his motion - capture work in the Lord of the Rings series (as Gollum) and the new Planet of the Apes trilogy (as Cesar).

The threat in The World's End evolves as the film progresses, as well, culminating in quite an awesome and satisfying resolution that puts a fine period at the end of the Cornetto Trilogy.

Said to be the second part of a planned «suicide trilogy» between McDonagh and Gleeson and if the third instalment is even half as good as this then we are in for yet another treat.

I'm not exactly sure why Sony would want to remind moviegoers about the original «Spider - Man» trilogy when the studio is only weeks away from rebooting the lucrative superhero franchise, but if you never got around to buying the films on Blu - ray, it's as good a time as any to get them now.

The «Star Wars» universe has been rapidly expanding in recent years with the new trilogy as well as stand - alone films like «Rogue One» and the forthcoming «Solo: A Star Wars Story.»

With Matt Reeves at the helm (of this as well as the previous entry, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes) the last entry into this new trilogy reached for something grander.

Seeing as the Mass Effect series was heavily reliant on decisions made in past games, as well as the fact that the entire trilogy was released for the same price 2 weeks prior on the PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, it made choosing the Wii U version of the game far less appealing.

10 Cloverfield Lane established the film's anthological style by acting as a psychological horror film set in the same universe (it's the best of the trilogy).

As such, Iron - Man 3 is a perfect collaboration to round off the character's initial trilogy, a beautifully written, insightful piece of character - driven, «proper» filmmaking that just happens to have a bunch of flying robot suits thrown in for good measure.

Oddly enough both expressions apply to the final film in Edgar Wright's Three Flavours: Cornetto Trilogy — possibly the best of the summer blockbusters and a pure delight to encounter as summer tentpoles get more and more ridiculous.

The Metroid Prime trilogy, arguably the best gaming trilogy ever, has just been re-issued as a $ 20 download on the Wii U. That's a good reason for Kirk «never played a Metroid Prime» Hamilton to try them out.

The «Dollars» trilogy is one of the rare series that gets better with each successive entry, as Leone spends more time on plot, characters, and motivation than he did in his smash international debut.

Criterion releases two other Max Ophuls classics this week as well: the delicately sweet and sour La Ronde (1950), a roundelay of chance meetings, secret trysts, hopeless courtships and cuckolded lovers where everybody and somebody's fool on the romantic merry - go - round, and Le Plaisir (1952), a trilogy of romantic tales told with mix of sweet generosity and a wistful sense of regret.

Three of the best romance movies of all time make up what is known as Richard Linklater «s Before Trilogy.

The trilogy taken as a whole is certainly the most significant work this decade thus far, as popular entertainment goes, it doesn't get a whole lot better.

It's a gradual, insidious mutation, and remarkable, too, in predicting the worlds that we are on the verge at that point of experiencing as reality (Peter Jackson's Rings Trilogy doesn't happen in 1989 — or 1994), as well as giving fair warning that the tactility of our memories is subject to invasive mutilation and manipulation.

In addition to the list of 86th Academy Award winners, we've also got the latest on «Star Wars: Episode VII,» «Jurassic World» and «Ant - Man» casting as well as a newly acquired property that could be a «Lego» - sized success for Warner Bros., a possible new «Matrix» trilogy and more.

by Walter Chaw I look at the first film in this very fine trilogy as Jason Bourne embodying Harrison Ford's Deckard character from Blade Runner: someone with hidden potential and a certain confusion about his place in the world — and the kind of figure Matt Damon is best at portraying, as it happens.