Sentences with phrase «young film fan»

As I was a young film fan growing up in a VCR-less household in rural England, my access to international cinema was limited to whatever was playing on the (then) four channels of network television.

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A video surfaced of a young fan meeting her hero — actress Gal Gadot — at the event, where she tearfully explained how much the film meant to her.

It's Spielberg's best and truest action film since Jaws, relentlessly paced, pitch - perfectly acted (the young Fanning is almost certain to get a Best Supporting Actress nod come Oscar time), and rife with moments of such horrifically poetic imagery that it's all you can do not to stop thinking about them long after the film has ended.

The film's plot is a magical retelling of Noah's Ark biblical story and will please animated movie fans and young kids.

Some things that probably factor into the industry's disagreement: Peter Jackson adapted books fifty years old and respected as great literature, the Potter books were being written alongside the first movies; Lord of the Rings centered on adult characters and played to a wider audience with PG - 13 ratings, the first Potter movies were PG, skewed younger, and starred kids (though anyone can see the films matured and so did the fans, many already wrote the series off); finally, where Jackson provided one distinct vision and a cast of respected performers, Potter had a rotating director roster (all of them secondary to Rowling) and limited opportunities for its accomplished actors, giving the brunt of the work to the three kids and spectacle.

Though the film was only seen by an unlucky few, her role in the same year's I Am Sam was a wide release that found the adorable young starlet a solid fan base.

Even if you're not a fan of rap music (and I include myself in this category), the film gives us a sufficient grounding in the world of mid-1990s Detroit to understand why this music has a pull on young men, and why Rabbit would feel the need to prove himself in this way.

In dozens of films, and in the pages of countless magazines, Hunter's astonishing looks and golden - boy sex appeal drove his fans to screaming, delirious frenzy, solidifying him the prototype for all young matinee idols to come.

Since Todd Solondz's breakout 1995 film Welcome To The Dollhouse, fans have long wondered what became of its central character, seventh - grade social pariah Dawn Weiner — besides growing into a vivacious and self - assured young lady, of course.

«Chadwick Boseman was only recently confirmed to be entering the Marvel universe as the emphatic superhero the Black Panther, and while such news left many a film fan scratching their heads as to who this young actor is, it should be a question that's easier to answer when James Brown biopic Get On Up has been released; such is the sheer brilliance of the electric performance by this talented star»... Read More»

The distributor is targeting horror fans — primarily young adults, 17 — 25 — as well as art house and foreign film audiences 18 — 45 as it heads out with the feature this weekend.

Christopher Nolan's WWII drama has been on people's radar for a while now, and the film will draw in younger fans with its casting of Harry Styles.

With Rogue One: A Star Wars Story mere weeks away fans are already looking forward to news of the next spin - off in the Star Wars franchise, the young Han Solo film with Hail, Caesar!

Two emerging young actors will be spotlighted as Eddie Redmayne and Elle Fanning will be in attendance to discuss their respective new films.

We're also fans of several films about difficult young women, including Carrie Pilby about a female Holden Caulfield, Nelly about the Quebecois novelist Nelly Arcand, and Toni Erdmann.

At the film's press day, Collider spoke to actress Katee Sackhoff (who plays the mother of the siblings in flashbacks) for this exclusive interview about what attracted her to Oculus, being a fan of director Mike Flanagan's work, how she approached this character, her concerns about having to be intensely physical with the younger actors, and the technical challenges of the show.

director Mike Mendez — that, while it has a charming sense of humor about itself, leans too heavily on CGI blood; The Girl With All The Gifts (B), a well - shot British zombie film that attempts to inject new life into a tired genre, and almost succeeds thanks to young star Sennia Nanua; and the disappointing Phantasm: Ravager (C --RRB-, a low - budget labor of love which, while it plays like a Phantasm fan film, ultimately undercuts the emotional closure it attempts to bring to the franchise by failing to resolve the central conflict between good and evil.

It had been known that the filmmakers wanted to skew younger with the cast of the film, but fans love when these actors reprise their roles as their characters.

As good as the young actors are here, Elle Fanning is far and away the best of the group and with her work in 2010» s Somewhere and this film, she is laying the foundation for becoming a potential superstar in the years to come.

I really wanted to start calling him Armie Hammy since most of what he's been given in this film are lines that would fit more into children's books than in an action movie that has more violence within the story than most young Disney fans might be accustomed to seeing.

Now, The Hunger Games gets the finale it deserves, albeit with a film whose bleakness may take some younger fans of the series by surprise.

Even the films I like from this year I do nt have clear memories of (I saw Women in Love when I was way too young for it in the 1980s), don't truly love (big Altman fan but MASH, is more of a «like»), or I love them more for their historical value or genre personality than for actual quality (Boys in the Band, Aristocrats, Bloody Mama, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever).

Plenty of Star Wars fans got some great, great news late last week: Donald Glover was cast as Lando in the upcoming young Han Solo anthology film.

While the basic structure is quite similar to the first trailer for the film, this one gives us a little more of Jena Malone's makeup - artist character, implying that she's involved in the sinister cabal of youth - obsessed vampires (or whatever) that hungers for up - and - coming model Elle Fanning's hot young blood.

On the flipside there was Silver Bullet, the Dino De Laurentiis film adaptation, which many young horror fans also grew up with.

I'm a big fan of The Beatles and was interested in learning more about their formation and early days, and while Nowhere Boy isn't as much about the band as it is Lennon's younger years, it's still an incredibly well - directed film that most Beatles fans will enjoy.

Donald Glover will travel to a galaxy far, far away to play Star Wars fan favorite Lando Calrissian in the space saga's upcoming young Han Solo film, Lucasfilm announced Friday.

It's not completely faithful to the original text either, and will likely appeal more to younger viewers, or just fans of great film making.

According to Dan Fogler, who plays Jacob Kowalski, younger versions of fan - favorite «Harry Potter» characters will appear in the films.

Paul Thomas Anderson for teaching me that it's ALL about the script and if you have the right actors directors don't have to do anything on set but be a fan, Lumet for his films and his book, a young directors» must read, Coppola for his courage in filmmaking, Steven Soderberg for refusing to ever be put in a box and pushing the form as far as he can, Kathryn Bigelow for giving masterclasses in action, James Cameron for Terminator 2 and prove big budget cinema can still be perfect cinema, Sean Penn for bringing his acting chops to directing, David Mamet for his scripts and his dialogue, Nolan for having more heart than most people seem to give him credit for (Memento, Rises, Inception and Interstellar all made me cry.)

SUNDANCE KIDS To reach our youngest independent film fans, we have created a new section of the Festival especially for them.

While I wouldn't mind playing with some of these side characters and superfluous plotlines in a video game, as an adaptation of a beloved work that has enchanted many millions of readers, young and old, I'm left longing for a different kind of fan film — the inevitable one in which someone edits out all of the stuff not from the writings of Tolkien — and makes it the movie it always should have been from inception.

Step forward a group of plucky young MCU fans from Malaysia who have literally served the Russo brothers with their own shot - for - shot parody of the film's first trailer.

While the slower pacing in the beginning of the film, as well as the focus on the strength and empowerment of all three young women may not interest fans of «more traditional» westerns, the film is a fantastic look at the willpower and resolve of three strong capable women in the face of some of the worst conditions that war can bring about.

Reynolds posted a similar tribute two years ago during the filming of the first Deadpool to a young fan named Connor, who sadly didn't survive his battle with cancer.

It's no news to fans of the young - adult book series by Suzanne Collins that this third movie only covers a portion of her third novel, which is par for the course, I suppose, for a film that contains a both a colon and a hyphen in its title.

«I understood deeply where Mary Shelley comes from — a young woman trying to be an artist and break away from a conservative world,» Al - Mansour said of the film, which stars Elle Fanning in the title role.

Woody Allen has found his latest infusion of life - giving young people blood to perk up his cinematic forays, with Variety reporting that Elle Fanning, Selena Gomez, and Timothée Chalamet have all signed on for the director's next film with Amazon.

The younger sister of Dakota Fanning and an actress since she was 2, Elle Fanning is a known quantity to many moviegoers through performances in films such as «Somewhere,» «Super 8» and «We Bought a Zoo.»

The film centers around Jessie (Elle Fanning), an exceptionally beautiful yet shy girl that's new to LA and, much like every other fresh young face, has dreams of becoming something extraordinary.

The event of a Star Wars film brings the nostalgia of fans young and old for months or years on end without ever tethering.

Comedian and actor Patton Oswalt, best known for his work in films such as BIG FAN (2009), YOUNG ADULT (2011), and THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY (2013), as well as voicing the star of Pixar's RATATOUILLE (2007), is set to guest star on a brand new episode of Marvel's AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D later this season.

That adds up to an insubstantial and underwhelming horror film probably only likely to appeal to fans of the three young lead actors and undiscerning genre enthusiasts.

Macdonald's unique direction and Ronan's jittery performance makes the film a worthy watch; now let's hope the book's younger fans find guardians aware of «Grave of the Fireflies» and its disturbing merits.

The franchise already has a ravenous fan base going in to the first film of the series, and with a talented cast of young talents and seasoned vets in tow, Divergent has a strong chance of setting itself apart in the sea of YA contenders vying for the attention of young fanatics.

The official trailer for Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Tim Burton's adaptation of the young adult fantasy stories, has just come out — and the trailer confirms what some fans had already suspected from the preview images released for the film.

As fans of Ryan Coogler's film will recall, we see a young T'Chaka (Atandwa Kani) in the vibranium suit during the opening sequence of the character's recent solo movie.

I can't see this attracting many young fans of the film, as neither the film's star nor any of her castmates contribute to the track.

Originally conceived for his Drive damsel Carey Mulligan, the film stars Elle Fanning as a young girl breaking into the modeling industry.

Casting attractive young film stars Elle Fanning and Douglas Booth, respectively, as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley makes Mary Shelley, director Haifaa al - Mansour's biopic of the mother of Gothic fiction, a kind of grandfather's paradox of the modern wave of eroticized young - adult romantic fantasy, reconfiguring the ancestor to match its descendant.