Sentences with phrase «when viewing movies»

You can use it to hold the tablet upright when viewing movies and videos.

Although the Apple display has a greater number of pixels, this advantage is nullified when viewing movies as the Kindle Fire screen size better matches the format of modern films and TV shows.

Him taking over and sometimes adding to what Zimmer had already done made this feel like the kind of adventures that many like to see when viewing movies about epic heroes attempting to save the world.

Not exact matches

Groups of young friends who go to see some of the more death - focused horror films in vogue of late will routinely take bets on which stock character will face a grisly end soonest, as when viewing the Final Destination series» a film series that is, essentially, the apex of the set - piece disaster horror movie as orchestrated by MacGyver.

When they took their seats in front of me, I figured that my viewing of the movie would be ruined.

The events in my childhood home movies make perfect sense when viewed through the lenses of my myopic buttonhole.

The book has been viewed by some as a chance to inspire a renaissance in a sport that was once among the most popular in America, but no book or movie is going to bring back the crowds that filled the tracks back when the grandstand aprons were seas of fedoras in Movietone black - and - white and racing was the one game in town suited for adults only.

Because when a hat cat be knit up in one long car drive (such as the case with this one), or one short movie - viewing, well... it's a little bit easier to shrug my shoulders and utter a «c'est la vie!»

When you go to the movies, you don't want someone blocking your view.

In fact, when searching at any Black dating service, you can view thousands of pretty and sexy African American girls and boys showing up on the computer screen as they are in movies.

Politics — We left it at that, and she moved on to talking about David Cronenberg movies... makes us more likely to be interested in a person when we view his or her online dating profile.

But this is a film for kids, and when viewed with the appropriate sense of fun and frivolity, the movie really works.

When the smoke clears, heady Farewell stands tall among the movies that view the Cold War at close range.

Interesting solely when viewed as an aesthetic antecedent to The Social Network, with its shadowy interiors and pulsing dark electronic soundtrack, but this is a small story that made for a small movie.

Annihilation is best viewed as a trip deep into an otherworldly house of horrors, offering a deliberately illogical twist on the formula of horror movie storytelling — because when assessed as a science fiction movie, its lack of weighty ideas makes it pale in comparison to both its influences and Garland's prior work.

Too bad the movie concentrates on the male point of view because it kicks to life when Zellweger is on screen.

However, when the movie comes to network TV, with the sex scenes eliminated and the milder language dubbed in, it will be well worth viewing.

When I saw it last month, I feared that other critics might view it as a piece of over-the-top emotional schlock, or as an A-List Lifetime movie when it's anything When I saw it last month, I feared that other critics might view it as a piece of over-the-top emotional schlock, or as an A-List Lifetime movie when it's anything when it's anything but.

And the movie has a novel spin on alien invasion: Lena first grasps the threat when she views it under a microscope, mutating and metastasizing — she is seen reading The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks — but also merging, making alien a matter of degree.

In my view this third and final movie in Edgar Wright's Cornetto Trilogy is the worst of the bunch... but when a movie's stacked up against Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, «worst» is more like «least amazing.»

There were a lot of movies I loved this year, but what I prized most when I was making my list was extraordinary cinematic experiences — artful filmmaking that was enhanced by big - screen viewing; stories and characters that lingered with me.

But what was most important to him was that he liked to have fun when making a movie, even if he was making a serious drama, and in that respect, his movies retain an engaging, sprightly quality to them, a liveliness that helps keep them feeling fresh even after repeated viewings.

Another factor to consider: I wonder if Academy voters don't settle for bare - bones screeners when they can get the deluxe high - def editions of major movies for home theater viewing.

One of the movie's funniest scenes takes place when Austin frolics nude in their hotel suite: Through elaborate choreography, his private parts are somehow always covered from the camera's point of view, saving the movie's PG - 13 rating by a hair, while we find out that the British don't call their breakfast sausages «bangers» for nothing.

One feels for her character, Nancy, immediately at the opening of Man Up when she opts for pay - per - view movies and hotel room service instead of dressing up and flagellating herself with the drunken social chaos ensuing at the wedding party downstairs.

Her views may have mellowed as she's become accustomed to life with a normal family (a theme that runs throughout the movie), but when he asks her about her former life, she's a firebrand with no regrets and the determination that she would do it all again if given the opportunity.

The creators of this movie exploit a huge assumption most of us hold when viewing entertainment.

The best movies that come out of Sundance are the ones that, on second viewing, maintain the exhilarating high you had when you first saw them high atop the thin rocky mountain air of the resort town.

Leonard, with his near - nihilistic view of life, becomes the closest the movie has to a moral center, but even his qualms with the fate of the pesky neighbor are played as a joke when juxtaposed with his wife's indifference.

As the end of summer slides into view, so blockbuster season will give way to awards season — the time of year when studios unleash their most prestigious, Oscar - bating movies.

Part of the problem with updating Sirk to make room for homophobia and a more comprehensive view of racial intolerance is that it idealizes the social impact of the original Sirk movies when they came out.

The Movies Anywhere Digital App simplifies and enhances the digital movie collection and viewing experience by allowing consumers to access their favorite digital movies in one place when purchased or redeemed through participating digital retaMovies Anywhere Digital App simplifies and enhances the digital movie collection and viewing experience by allowing consumers to access their favorite digital movies in one place when purchased or redeemed through participating digital retamovies in one place when purchased or redeemed through participating digital retailers.

At the recent press day, Core, Ramirez, Bracey, wingsuit stunt pilot Jeb Corliss, professional free climber Chris Sharma, Alcon producers Andrew A. Kosove and Broderick Johnson, and 2nd unit director Philip Boston talked about how they went about creating the ultimate sports movie, how the actors viewed their characters and built the bro - mance, the challenges of coordinating a production that shot around the world in 11 countries and on 4 continents, why all the 2nd unit work was shot prior to the first unit work, why vision and authenticity were paramount, why the imagination, energy and focus required to shoot a film in camera is much greater than when visual effects are used everywhere, and why it took courage to make this film.

Viewed today, Tim Burton's Batman, the runaway # 1 film of 1989, is silly at times (particularly when utilizing original songs by Prince), but it unquestionably kept the superhero movie alive, bridging the genre's gap between the diminishing returns of the Christopher Reeve Superman series» good - natured fun and the Spider - Man - led revival of the early 21st century.

Even when viewed at surface level, there's nothing more to the movie than that.

When viewed as a standalone movie, it stinks.

No doubt Emmerich said when conceiving this movie, «I want to show big scenes of mass chaos and devastation to New York and the national monuments, and will use the global warming premise as a means to make everyone flock to my movies once again to have a front row seat to the deaths of millions of people for their viewing pleasure.»

It now transpires that McKay, a Saturday Night Live graduate who is no stranger to political satire, viewed The Other Guys as a slapstick allegory for the recent financial crisis and was working on the movie when he first read Michael Lewis's nonfiction book The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, an account of the people who predicted (and profited from) the crash of 2007 - 8.

That notion is a key to understanding the oddness of the movie's final turn, when, all of a sudden, it becomes an outright fantasy seen, of course, from Moonnee's point of view.

Some years ago, when we were doing an on - stage interview in London, Anderson told me that he sometimes felt his movies were best viewed as musicals.

Only when you choose to play one of the movies can you select scenes and set up viewing options using a pop - up menu.

But at the very end of that movie, when Jon Favreau has met up with Heather Graham, Heather Graham mentions a conversation she had with her girlfriends, and you realize — in that moment — that the story could have been told from her point of view.

It doesn't say much for a movie when a half hour after viewing it, all you can recall are some memorably gross moments.

When you view a lot of movies it's difficult to keep up with who - made - what.

Vincente Minnelli disowned his last movie, A Matter of Time (1976), when it was taken away from him by its producers, American International Pictures, and after its initial release it pretty much disappeared from view.

Her life is due for a change when in a Turkish bath she runs into a feminist anthropologist, Kate Sherman (Lesley Manville), who is scheduled to give a televised speech about her views on pornography, but by the conclusion of the sprightly movie, we are not sure whether she will chuck her job and look for something less impersonal.

From a script point of view, it shouldn't be a great surprise when the second installment of a three movie series is better than its predecessor.

Blu - ray Highlight: The movie may be really bad, but the extras are actually quite good, especially when viewed in the Abduction Application, which integrates all three production featurettes (including a making - of) into a personalized in - movie experience.

When the MTV Movie Awards first began, it was instantly evident that they weren't exactly taking themselves seriously... or, perhaps more accurately, they were only taking themselves as seriously as they felt their target viewing audience would let them.

But the movie very quickly won me over when I realised that Peele is much smarter than that, and that it's possible to have a point of view without it being a polemic.