Sentences with phrase «wonder of the first film»

The originality and elements of wonder of the first film were nowhere to be seen.

Not exact matches

I spent the first ninety minutes of this film depressed, but at the same time wondering why I could not bring myself to care about any of the characters.

He made his first feature film, Four Day's Wonder, in 1937 for Universal, but most of his work for the next two years was for Republic Pictures, after which he moved to Columbia Pictures, where his most notable pictures were several entries in the Lone Wolf mystery series, and The Adventures of Martin Eden, based on Jack London's book.

Released in theatres on August 24,1966, «Fantastic Voyage» was not only a film of authentic wonder but a science fiction masterpiece with amazing special effects... the team enters the body of a man where they see first hand the oceans of life within the human body that contains the «corpuscles», «the heart», «the lungs» and other features of the human body through which the crew move through are exquisitely designed in great detail with artistic quality.

If you're wondering why there are shouts of jubilation from film buffs and aficionados of pre-swing-era music it's because the Criterion Collection has released a beautiful Blu - ray and DVD of King of Jazz (1930), The movie features Bing Crosby's first appearance onscreen, as part of the Rhythm Boys trio, jazz giants Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang, and a spectacular rendition of George Gershwin's «Rhapsody in Blue» by Paul Whiteman, the orchestra leader who commissioned the piece just six years earlier.

With excellent performances from his cast (especially his first timers), a palpable sense of wonder and dread, as well as an overarching valentine to nostalgia and the magic of the movies, Abrams is able to overcome a mixed bag of a script and deliver a film that manages to live up to the hype.

Diehards videogame fans will be disappointed that the film has none of the ludicrous tone of the first, and the rest will wonder why they bothered with this film at all.

Where the later films move away from the painstakingly literal translations of J.K Rowling's increasingly sprawling novels, these first two films are perfect replicas created with a kind of funhouse spectacle of the wonders of the magical world come to life.

Witness the first public screening of this all - new film, then stay for an entertaining panel led by executive producer Bruce Timm (Batman: The Animated Series); Tamara Taylor (Bones), voice of Wonder Woman; C. Thomas Howell (E.T., Southland), voice of Dr. Will Magnus; Paget Brewster (Criminal Minds), voice of Lois Lane, director Sam Liu; co - producer / screenwriter Alan Burnett; dialogue directorAndrea Romano; and members of the voice cast.

Wonder of wonders, we get another film that recalls the fun of the first, with original director Sharon Maguire again at the helm (she sat out the second one).

Wonder Woman Rated PG - 13 for sequences of violence and action, and some suggestive content Rotten Tomatoes Score: 92 % After her first appearance in the rather lousy Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, I was worried that this film would be equally bad.

It's easy to forget the young son in Squid telling his mother that she's ugly; I wonder if it isn't the lightness that tempers his first two pictures that's led Baumbach to craft a film full of the kind of stuff that elicits only the blackest laughter.

If both of these prove to be true, fans of the first three films will be wondering if Clooney could cameo.

But beware, this film starts really slowly, and in the first 15 minutes you wonder whether this was a good choice of movie - but the scene is being set for Wilf Ferrell's geeky / seemingly humdrum life.

I wondered first if there had been talk of getting the star of the film to eventually inherit the role from Craig - not Hennie for that role but Coster - Waldau of course.

The experience of watching the film is forever changed and one wonders just how much more enjoyable it may have been were the events that unfold at the end of the first act a surprise.

But when we showed the film to the studio for the first time, they had an interesting reaction — they said «we don't want to be distracted by wondering who is a surrogate and who isn't, and what the rules of the world are.»

I was wondering what you guys would think of a sequel to THE GODFATHER PART III taking place in modern day in which the grandson of Michael Corleone is forced into the family business paralleling the arch of the first film in which Michael was forced into the mob.

The first meeting between Pierre and Shane strikes an absurdist note so that when the rest of the dour, melancholic film follows it's easy to wonder what we might have been missing.

I have a soft spot for 2001's Lovely & Amazing (the first of her films that I really fell in love with), but eventually voted for 2010's Please Give, a subtle, heartbreaking wonder that stars Catherine Keener and Oliver Platt as New York antique brokers who want to buy their dying neighbor's apartment, and Rebecca Hall and Amanda Peet as the neighbor's stubborn granddaughters.

It is little wonder that Marilyn struggled so with her first and only film outside of the U.S..

The first two hours of the film consist mainly of Danish farmers and craftspeople arguing about Christian theology in veritable slow motion; the final six minutes, unless you're an alien replicant, will have you on your knees, eyes lifted in wonder to the screen.

Drew's Review: In case you were wondering, yes - I decided that immediately after a «2009 in Review» article all about how I never go to the movies anymore and have reconnected with older cult films, my first review of 2010 would be of a movie currently in theaters.

Wonder Woman topped all of Marvel Entertainment's Avengers and friends at their first weekends: Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, Doctor Strange, Ant - Man (both Hulk films as well), and Guardians of the Galaxy.

I've been a diehard Malick defender even through recent films like «To the Wonder» and «Knight of Cups,» both of which I think are phenomenal works, but he lost me for the first time with this one.

3:45 am (14th)-- TCM — Fahrenheit 451 François Truffaut's first foray in English - language film was this adaptation of Ray Bradbury's classic dystopian novel, following fireman (that is, book - burner) Montag as he comes into contact with a group of fugitives intent on preserving the knowledge in books even as the government tries to destroy them, and he begins to wonder if perhaps they are right.

Admittedly, that convoluted approach to course - correcting a franchise worked wonders for the X-Men films when Days of Future Past did it last year, but there's no guarantee that Genisys will enjoy similar success (especially if the generally lukewarm responses to the movie's first trailer and Super Bowl preview are any indicator).

Lionsgate has revealed the first official trailer for an upcoming film titled Wonder, adapted from R.J. Palacio's book of the same name.

The main crux of the story is Batman and Robin's relationship, as Val Kilmer's Dark Knight is introduced to Chris O'Donnell's Boy Wonder over the course of the film, treating us to the first (and only) successful interpretation of the dynamic duo apart from the»60s Adam West film.

Where the first film made you wonder if everything experienced were real or just part of the program, this time out the doubts are jettisoned.

Arguably one of the best superhero movies ever, X2 did wonders to up the ante after the first X-Men film, which Fox saw as a bit of a gamble.

The previous films in the DC Comics Extended Universe series (Man of Steel, Batman v Superman, and Suicide Squad) have left both critics and comic - book fans increasingly disappointed in the franchise's output; as a result, Wonder Woman, which is receiving its release ahead of the first Justice League movie (set to premiere this November), has been saddled with the burden of recovering DC's tainted reputation in the eyes of viewers, while also representing the first major female - fronted superhero flick in more than a decade.

Winstead proves she has the chops and the skill to carry a film of this kind, and its a wonder we haven't seen more of her since she first grabbed out attention in Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof a few years back.

Mayhem has a similar premise to this year's The Belko Experiment, but whereas Greg Mclean's film spent the whole running time wondering who will snap first, Joe Lynch's version of workplace hostilities goes completely insane right away.

There is some conceptual weight to drive the film along: an homage to silent cinema, an index of Todd Hayne's filmography, a flight of fancy along the road of childlike wonder and a favourable gesture of the impossible... but none of this adds up to a feature film, and instead Wonderstruck comes off about as insightfully as a cluttered brainstorm session from a writer's blocked first grader who can't quite figure out what his thoughts are all about.

Lucy is great junk — a headrush of a film so bizarre you'll spend the entire fleeting, eighty - something - minute running time wondering how it ever got made in the first place.

You spend much of the film's first hour wondering why he is the film's main character.

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Not only was it a great film that empowered women (both on - screen and off, with Patty Jenkins the first - ever woman to direct a live - action, theatrically released comic book superhero film) Wonder Woman was quite frankly the best superhero movie of recent years and undoubtedly DC's saving grace from a sinking film roster.

If you were struck by the beautiful look of the film and wondered how the characters moved so realistically, there is a reason for that — Pixar rewrote its animation system for the first time in 25 years to portray Merida and her epic quest.

The Ocean's 8 trailer has finally dropped, and the first look at the upcoming heist has left many fans wondering who the mysterious eighth member of Debbie Ocean's crew will be in the final film.

As with many of Kubrick's films (2001 comes to mind), the first hour or so of Eyes Wide Shut leaves you wondering when the story is actually going to start, as the director was very fond of prolonged setup.

If you stayed up late on Super Bowl Sunday to watch The Cloverfield Paradox on Netflix, you might be wondering where you can stream the first two films of this enthralling horror movie franchise.

Comedy, in fact, was a genre that eluded Portman (who also takes one of her first executive producer credits here), save for an oft - cited 2006 «Saturday Night Live» appearance and aspects of films as diverse as Garden State and Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium.

However, the freshness of the material is gone, as is the sense of discovery and wonder the first film had going for it as the initial entry in the series.

Bleeding Cool who first reported that Wonder Woman would be apart of Batman v Superman had also mentioned back in 2013 that David Goyer was developing a whole bunch of DC Comics films for Warner Bros..

Following hard on the heels of yesterday's release of the first poster for Wonder Woman, Warner Bros. brought the first trailer for the film to the Con today.

This prequel film is expected to be the first under a new banner of DC Films that will focus on spin - offs, prequels, and other stories set outside the timeline established in movies like Man of Steel, Wonder Woman, and Justice League.

But without seeing a clear note to exhibitors advising of an aspect ratio and without first - hand witnessing of the cels and the filmed frames, we are left to speculate and simply wonder if the 1.33:1 fullscreen presentation is right.

And if you curious about how Scarlett Johansson was going to look like as Major Kusanagi, wonder no more: Paramount Pictures and Dreamworks Pictures released a first picture of their upcoming live - action Ghost in the Shell film, and she's in...