Sentences with phrase «women in movies after»

Jessica Chastain criticized what she called «disturbing» representations of women in movies after serving as a jurist at Cannes.

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Less than a week after the Weinstein Co. seemed destined for bankruptcy, a deal emerged for an investment group to buy assets from the troubled firm in order to launch a new movie studio that will be led by women.

It was the early»80s, and Nixon soon fell into the pack of child actors making after - school specials and message movies like Little Darlings and My Body, My Child, in which she and Sarah Jessica Parker starred as the daughters of a woman — Vanessa Redgrave — agonizing over whether to abort a child with severe birth defects.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, a prominent figure in the #MeToo movement who has taken on disgraced movie producer Harvey Weinstein, abruptly resigned Monday night, three hours after The New Yorker published the accusations of women who said he was violent toward them.

On October 7, the highly anticipated movie adaptation of Paula Hawkins» novel opens in theaters, starring Emily Blunt as a troubled woman who becomes involved in a missing person case after seeing something suspicious from her seat on the train.

After all at the end of the day, isn't a superhero movie supposed to be about men and women in tights having fun, saving the world kicking a whole lot of ass doing so?

In the movie «Crazy, Stupid, Love,» Jacob Palmer (Ryan Gosling, drool) helps Cal Weaver (Steve Carell) learn how to pick up women at bars after he finds out that his wife cheated on him and wants a divorce.

It frequently is seen in American Television and Movies... a teenage daughter brings home or The underlying dynamics in the young woman - older man relationship After the wedding of a celebrity husband and his much younger wife, media coverage

Years ago, tv and movies made women to be homeowners, operating in the cooking area and having and looking after the children, which was real, but also shunned and was inception for anything outside of this aspect.

After this project folded, Montgomery returned to dramatic roles with a vengeance, spending the next two decades starring as abused, beleaguered women in such TV movies as A Case of Rape (1974) and The Legend of Lizzie Borden (1975).

She has also appeared in several TV - movie sequels to The Bionic Woman, including 1993's Bionic Ever After.

After the cancellation of Bionic Woman in 1978, Lindsay kept her star shining brightly such made - for - TV movies as The Incredible Journey of Dr. Meg Laurel (1979), Callie and Son (1981), I Want to Live (1983), Convicted (1986), The Taking of Flight 847: The Uli Dedrickson Story (1989), and I Want to Keep My Daughter (1995).

After one month in theaters, Wonder Woman broke the $ 700 million barrier at the worldwide box office this past weekend, thereby becoming one of the top 100 highest - grossing movies ever released; the news came mere days after the film surpassed all three previous installments to become the largest DCEU release at the domestic box ofAfter one month in theaters, Wonder Woman broke the $ 700 million barrier at the worldwide box office this past weekend, thereby becoming one of the top 100 highest - grossing movies ever released; the news came mere days after the film surpassed all three previous installments to become the largest DCEU release at the domestic box ofafter the film surpassed all three previous installments to become the largest DCEU release at the domestic box office.

Rating: 5/10 — a man (Lowery) drives across country after the death of his brother and gives a lift to a woman (Lane) who tricks him into being the getaway driver in a bank robbery, a situation that sees him on the run from the police but determined to prove his innocence; a gritty, hard - boiled film noir, They Made Me a Killer adds enough incident to its basic plot to keep viewers entertained from start to finish without really adding anything new or overly impressive to the mix, but it does have a brash performance from Lowery, and Thomas's direction ensures it's another solid effort from Paramount's B - movie unit, Pine - Thomas.

Blending 70s and classic noir to create a movie for the ages, Oren Shai's feature debut follows a woman on the run who finds herself in an even more precarious position after arriving at an isolated diner.

Breaking In (May 11): Gabrielle Union's movie about a woman hell - bent on revenge after her daughter is captured has the summer's best tagline: «Payback is a mother.»

The movie opens seven years after a woman, having helped a man find a dog that he said was lost, was captured and put in a single room in a shed from which she could not escape as it is sealed by a door governed by a code known only by the owner - kidnapper.

She's been through a lot, in a movie that's pretty mean toward women in general (the exception being a gun - toting mama who, in a tired joke, abbreviates her swearing in front of her son) and kids in particular (Paul punches an 11 - year - old car thief after the kid kicks him in the junk).

Focusing on the first pregnant woman on Earth after two decades of global human infertility, it's a fiercely political and grim movie, but also one unafraid to be playful (the Pink Floyd homage, for example, or Michael Caine rocking out to Aphex Twin), miraculously remaining thrilling, funny and moving in equal measure throughout.

Earlier in the season, especially after Jordan Peele and Greta Gerwig were not nominated for best - director Golden Globe awards, it looked as if the directors» race might be tinged with injustice, a distillation of creaky prejudices about women and people of color directing movies.

Directed with the usual dark and bleak look of Zack Snyder films like last year's fan disappointment Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, the new movie fails to find the fun in all of this and ranks as a setback for the genre after three previous winners this year: Wonder Woman, Spider - Man: Homecoming and the current Thor: Ragnarok.

I can't see how anyone could be dissatisfied with this movie I preferred it to the other two as I think it captured batman perfectly bane was perfect how anyone can disagree after batman and robin is beyond me??? Cat women was perfect there was no poor casting IMO character development was fine story was fine and beautifully shot soundtrack stunning all involved made an absolute masterpiece even tho I guessed most plotpoints in advance they still felt like a surprise to me I don't see the point in any other superhero franchise making any more movies as bb tdk and tdkr will never be surpassed

After appearing in films like Albert Nobbs with Glenn Close and The Iron Lady with Meryl Streep (she'll next be in the Han Solo Star Wars spinoff movie), Waller - Bridge, she wrote the one - woman play that served as inspiration for Fleabag, which ended ip premiering its first season on Amazon in July of 2016.

The actor made the movie after directing himself and the great actresses Felicity Jones and Joanna Scanlan in The Invisible Woman, his powerful study of the women in Charles Dickens's life.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening January 4, 2008 BIG BUDGET FILMS One Missed Call (PG - 13 for mature themes, frightening images, terror, intense violence and some sexual material) Shannyn Sossamon stars in this remake of Chakushin Ari, a high attrition - rate horror flick from Japan about a traumatized young woman who's afraid to answer her cell phone after several of her ill - fated friends receive messages accurately predicting exactly when and how they are about to die.

«Wonder Woman» (June 23, 2017) After making her debut in «Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,» Diana Prince (Gal Gadot) will get her own solo movie, an origin movie set during World War I that also stars Chris Pine, Connie Nielsen and Lucy Davis.

In a basically wordless performance, Sally Hawkins stars as a mute cleaning woman working at a high - tech government facility, where she forges a cross-species bond with the towering fishman (Doug Jones, back in prosthetic gills after his similarly aquatic turn in Del Toro's Hellboy movies) her bosses have fished out of the AmazoIn a basically wordless performance, Sally Hawkins stars as a mute cleaning woman working at a high - tech government facility, where she forges a cross-species bond with the towering fishman (Doug Jones, back in prosthetic gills after his similarly aquatic turn in Del Toro's Hellboy movies) her bosses have fished out of the Amazoin prosthetic gills after his similarly aquatic turn in Del Toro's Hellboy movies) her bosses have fished out of the Amazoin Del Toro's Hellboy movies) her bosses have fished out of the Amazon.

After an action montage, the beginning of Deadpool 2 sees Deadpool and his girlfriend Vanessa (Morena Baccarin) celebrate their anniversary while planning to have a baby — a blazing warning sign for any woman in an action movie.

«Wonder Woman» has been a superheroic hit for Warner Bros., ranking as the No. 2 movie of 2017 (after «Beauty and the Beast») and earning more than $ 410 million at the domestic box office and in excess of $ 817 million worldwide.

After smilingly accepting the best actor in a musical or comedy movie prize at the Golden Globes, «The Disaster Artist» star James Franco was notably absent from the Critics» Choice Awards, where he was the best comedy actor winner, amid allegations of sexual misconduct from five women earlier in the day.

«The majority of the movie takes place in an underground cellar, and revolves around a young woman who wakes up in the cellar after a severe car accident and fears she has been abducted.

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The expansion of a short she made in 2006, the movie concerns an at - loose - ends young woman (Ellen Page), who impulsively absconds with the baby she's been asked to sit, after seeing the appalling unfitness of the wealthy mother (Tammy Blanchard).

Reichardt had decided to shoot «Certain Women» on digital because she feared using film would cause a delay in dailies, but after seeing test footage of the movie shot in this format, specifically the way the digital camera picked up snow, she knew film would be the only way to go.

Aside from helping to clarify why some viewers revel in downbeat and sometimes downright disturbing movies like The Woman, the sentiment also speaks to why many contemporary filmmakers» own fears and paranoia — about the end of civilization, or indie cinema — increasingly inspire dark, depressing works emphasizing domestic abuse, apocalyptic angst, religious opposition, the after - effects of war, suffering, and death.

After a quick (and well - regarded) cameo in last year's utterly terrible Batman V. Superman: Dawn of Justice, Warner Bros. finally gave Wonder Woman her own movie, the smash hit from director Patty Jenkins that's currently the second highest grossing film of the year.

In fact, there's barely a line between sex and death in the movie, which tells the story of a strange young woman who has been repressing feelings both sexual and violent and comes to an awakening soon after she turns 1In fact, there's barely a line between sex and death in the movie, which tells the story of a strange young woman who has been repressing feelings both sexual and violent and comes to an awakening soon after she turns 1in the movie, which tells the story of a strange young woman who has been repressing feelings both sexual and violent and comes to an awakening soon after she turns 18.