In response, the industry allowed the discovery of the motion picture as a form of fiction and thus gave the movies the essential form they have had to this day.

Roger Ebert gave The Rainmaker three stars out of four, remarking: " I have enjoyed several of the movies based on Grisham novels ... but I've usually seen the storyteller's craft rather than the novelist's art being reflected.

Hollywood also paid attention, consulting writers like PHASE 2 as it depicted the culture and gave it international exposure in movies like Beat Street ( Orion, 1984 ).

As his first wife, actress and dancer Betsy Blair explained: " A sailor suit or his white socks and loafers, or the T-shirts on his muscular torso, gave everyone the feeling that he was a regular guy, and perhaps they too could express love and joy by dancing in the street or stomping through puddles ... he democratized the dance in movies.

Despite announcing his retirement from acting in 1980, Brando subsequently gave supporting performances in movies such as A Dry White Season ( for which he was again nominated for an Oscar in 1989 ), The Freshman in 1990 and Don Juan DeMarco in 1995.

However, the sex appeal West gave in these movies would also lead to the enforcement of the Production Code, as the newly formed organization the Catholic Legion of Decency threatened a boycott if it was not enforced.

Part of the U. S. appeal was due to the dubbing, which gave the show a campy charm that evoked English-dubbed Chinese kung fu movies of the 1970s.

This began in the early 1970s with the martial arts movies of Bruce Lee, which led to a wave of Bruceploitation movies that eventually gave way to the comedy kung fu films of Jackie Chan by the end of the decade.

Benevides gave up acting in 1963 and later became a production consultant for 21 of the Perry Mason TV movies.

He gave enormous sums of money, including his salaries from the Perry Mason movies, to charity.

The Community Talking Picture Company of Shreveport gave Olla its first talking movies, and later a more modern theater was erected.

The nephew claimed his uncle gave him a written notice to the rights for movies on his deathbed.

He all but gave up drinking, quit smoking, stopped going to movies and became more selective in his reading.

Roger Ebert gave the film four stars out of four, and referred to it as " One of those movies where ' after that summer, nothing would ever be the same again.

" ( Ebert's 2007 collection of reviews of movies for which he gave negative reviews was titled Your Movie Sucks, a reference to his review of Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo.

USA Today gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four and called it " the most imperfect of the year's best movies ".

( The correct answer was Marty, one of Stempel's favorite movies ; as instructed by Enright, Stempel gave the incorrect answer On the Waterfront.

The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 37 % of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 83 reviews, with the consensus being " Equilibrium is a reheated mishmash of other sci-fi movies.

Disney gave them a large studio at WED enterprises ; they studied reports of hauntings and Greek myths and monster movies, eventually making quite a show in their private studio.

Tsukamoto started making movies at the age of 14, when his father gave him a Super 8 camera.

He attempted to run away, hoping to find a satellite where he would be forced to watch good movies, but gave up on his escape attempt after mere seconds.

These were the hardest-headed periods of American movies ... the most highly acclaimed directors of that period, suggests that the writers ... in little more than a decade, gave American talkies their character.

Henry Richard " Huntz " Hall ( August 15, 1920 ; – January 30, 1999 ) was an American radio, theatrical, and motion picture performer noted primarily for his roles in the " Dead End Kids " movies, such as Angels with Dirty Faces ( 1938 ), which gave way to the " The Bowery Boys " movie franchise, a prolific and highly successful series of comedies in the 1940s and 1950s.

In the animated series, Wednesday became a happy and somewhat optimistic child, while retaining her sophisticated manner from the movies, and Pugsley became a genius at chemistry — especially explosives — and machines, though his intelligence seemed undeveloped at times.

ABC Family airs movies Wednesday nights at 9 p. m ET and Thursday nights ( and if no original series are scheduled, Monday and / or Tuesdays also ) at 8 p. m.

One of Landis ' trademarks is to insert references to a fictional film called See You Next Wednesday in movies that he directs.

* Wednesday 10 October: Many of the protesters had begun to hide their identity and some were wearing masks of characters from horror movies.

Each August, TCM suspends its regular schedule for a special " month of stars ", featuring entire days devoted to a single star, offering movies and specials pertaining to the star of the day ; however, Turner Classic Movies airs a " Star of the Month " year-round, except during special programming, in which every Wednesday during each month starting at 8 p. m.

* In the video game Deus Ex, an email found on Paul Denton's computer contains a notice from a movie rental company, mentioning the movies See You Next Wednesday and Blue Harvest.

Every Wednesday night at midnight, Ladd devotes an hour to Headsets, which combines music with a slightly more " sonic " quality ( designed to be listened to in headphones, or with no background noise interfering ), spoken-word poetry, and audio clips from movies & TV.

As of September 13, 2010, due to the removal of movies from the Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday primetime lineups in favor of nightly primetime sitcom reruns, preemptions of the 9 p. m. newscast on WGN America have decreased to only occasional instances where certain sporting events airing on WGN-TV are not cleared to air outside the Chicago market, and the game is scheduled to run past 9 p. m. CT ( prior to the scheduling change, feature films than ran past 10 p. m.

On weeknights, movies are scheduled by genres: namely Drama Monday, Action Tuesday, Comedy Wednesday, Romance Thursday and Fantasy Friday.

Since the fall of 2008, Winslow has hosted the motion picture television series called " Way Back Wednesday with Winslow " on the cable superstation WGN America, which features movies mostly released in the 1980s.

There are several study circles available for the students, and they may see movies in the school twice a week ( usually an art film on Wednesday and a popular film on Saturday ).

Another noticeable trait is his sense of humor, largely absent in the comics and movies but very much a part of Howard's original vision of the character, particularly apparent in " Xuthal of the Dusk ", also known as " The Slithering Shadow.

He started in movies in 1937 and became one of Hollywood's highest paid writers at about $ 4000 per week while on assignment, as much as $ 80, 000 in one year.

In 1992, author Ted Nelson – who coined both terms in 1963 – wrote: By now the word " hypertext " has become generally accepted for branching and responding text, but the corresponding word " hypermedia ", meaning complexes of branching and responding graphics, movies and sound – as well as text – is much less used.

Sensitive yet caustic, and disgusted by the inferior movies he was performing in, Bogart cultivated the persona of a soured idealist, a man exiled from better things in New York, living by his wits, drinking too much, cursed to live out his life among second-rate people and projects.

By 1998 Star Trek TV shows, movies, books, videotapes, and licensing provided so much of the studio's profit that " it is not possible to spend any reasonable amount of time at Paramount and not be aware of presence "; filming for Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine required up to nine of the largest of the studio's 36 sound stages.

The movies spend much time showing the crew visiting monuments to previous missions and recalling the bravery of their fallen comrades.

In Scorsese on Scorsese, edited by David M. Thompson and Ian Christie, the director talks about how much of the film arose from his feeling that movies are like dreams, or like taking dope and that he tried to induce the feeling of being almost awake.

As many movies and much music originate from the United States, American culture spread rapidly over the world.

The depicted size varies greatly in the movies ; in The Empire Strikes Back the deflector pods atop the bridge are shown as not much smaller as a standard Star Destroyer but in Return of the Jedi the pods are not much larger than an A-Wing starfighter.

These movies led the people of Germany to realize that hip-hop was much more than just rap music, but was very much a cultural movement in and of itself.

This is commonly seen in period-piece movies such as Westerns, where a player bets personal possessions or even wagers property against another player's much larger cash bankroll.

Several film noir movies were inspiration for much of the game's plot and characters.

The film holds an approval rating of 55 % at Rotten Tomatoes based on 135 reviews ( 74 positive, 61 negative ), where the consensus is: " With elements that seem borrowed from movies like Goodfellas and Boogie Nights, Blow is pretty much been-there-done-that despite another excellent performance from Johnny Depp.

In his review for The New York Observer, Andrew Sarris wrote, " here is the ironic twist in my acceptance of Pearl Harbor-the parts I liked most are the parts before and after the digital destruction of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese carrier planes " and felt that " Pearl Harbor is not so much about World War II as it is about movies about World War II.

These theaters now have all closed because of more accessibility to videotapes, which were more affordable and provided more genres of movies and much later on DVDs and VCDs became available.

In a review of the film written after it received its Academy Awards, Roger Ebert called it a " supremely well-acted, intelligent film that tries for too much, that attacks not only television but also most of the other ills of the 1970s ," though " what it does accomplish is done so well, is seen so sharply, is presented so unforgivingly, that Network will outlive a lot of tidier movies.

To meet the constant demand for new B product, the low end of Poverty Row turned out a stream of micro-budget movies rarely much more than sixty minutes long ; these were known as " quickies " for their tight production schedules — as short as four days.

OVA titles generally have a much higher budget per episode than in a television series ; therefore the technical quality of animation can generally surpass that in television series ; occasionally it even equals that of animated movies.

She plays a strong role in providing moral support to Peter, but nothing much is really done by her in the third movie, nor is she ever targeted by Spider-Man's foes as in the previous two movies.

Although Russian movies of the time would be rated " R " in the United States due to violence, the use of explicit language was much milder than in American cinema.

When his movies made lots of money without costing too much, he became well received in the movie business.

The usage is particularly common in movies, television and comic books and much less so in modern prose science fiction.