noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a film/movie camera
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Karl trained the movie camera on him.
a film/movie director
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the film director Stephen Spielberg
a film/movie fan
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This book is a must for all film fans.
a movie/film/screen/Hollywood actor
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the movie actor Brad Pitt
a movie/Hollywood star ( also a film star especially BrE )
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He looked like a movie star.
a news/movie/sports etc channel
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What’s on the movie channel tonight?
a spy story/novel/movie etc
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John Le Carré is famous for writing spy stories.
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one of the most exciting spy movies of all time
a television film/movie (= a film that has been made to be shown on television, not in a cinema )
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Ford appeared in several television movies.
a television/movie/cartoon character
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Who’s your favourite television character?
blue movie
catch a movie (= go to a movie )
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We could catch a movie .
home movie
horror movie
movie star
movie theater
suspense novel/story/movie etc (= one which is exciting because you do not know what will happen next )
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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White Men Can't Jump is a little big movie .
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They came to do what actors in big summer movies do in the springtime: promote.
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One thing Carry Ons have never been is big budget movies .
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The big screen does movies , text, super graphics, whatever.
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It is Anna Scott, the biggest movie star in the world-here-in his shop.
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Unlike a good many tough guys who made it big in movies , Marvin didn't come from a particularly tough background.
good
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GoodFellas marks their much anticipated reunion - and it's easily one of the best movies of the year.
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Oddly, this scene makes the film a good date movie , but not necessarily a good first date movie.
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The colonel, meanwhile, is accused of trying to negotiate a better movie deal with some one else.
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I think a musical is the best kind of movie and television experience you can have.
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They soon talked and agreed that the shortish novel had the potential to make a good movie .
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He should consider himself one of the lucky novelists to have his work turned into a good movie .
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With Thunderheart Apted has made his best movie to date.
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And she was with them in some of the best movies ever made.
great
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This face belongs to a great movie star, although you don't know it yet.
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This is not a great movie .
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The Movie Channel Up to seven great movies every day.
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The great movie producer, Sam Spiegel, was interviewing a few trust and estate lawyers to handle his will.
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Harold and Dottie and I saw a great movie the other night.
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Westbrook Pegler declared it the greatest movie ever made.
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But John Travolta is a great movie star, and thus not subject to certain mortal limitations.
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Women just don't seem to understand that this is one of the great movies of all time.
new
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He and his co-stars describe how scary it was filming the battle scenes in their new movie .
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Hardy on opening day of the new neighborhood movie palace, La Paloma.
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All fabricated by his publicists, before his new movie came out.
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In the new movie he is Melissa's adoring father.
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Q: Can you tell us a little bit about your new movie ?
old
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I should have sat up, eyes staring and sweat pouring off my forehead like in some old Hammer Brothers movie .
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I wonder if an old John Wayne movie is showing on cable?
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It was like some scratched old movie running at half-speed, a bizarre dream sequence.
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Most profits, as a result, come from older movies .
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Even more alarming is the feeling that the West End stage is gradually turning into a repository for old Hollywood movies .
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Remember the old days depicted in the old movies ?
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Not an old movie star but some one new and less defined, whose character melted into a dozen different actresses.
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The tired rattan chairs reminded him of old Hollywood movies about the East, he says.
silent
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But, given the doom and gloom already surrounding the earliest silent movies , maybe he wasn't joking at all.
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He accused me of histrionics and dubbed me Sarah Bernhardt, after the crown princess of stage and silent movie melodrama.
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It didn't deter many of Hollywood's young stars in those days of silent movies from using drugs.
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Eventually, he coerces several of them onstage to shoot a silent movie , somehow selecting precisely the right individuals.
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He would fit more naturally into an old silent movie than he would have done on Tiswas.
■ NOUN
action
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I left Hong Kong because I felt I could only direct action movies there.
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I found all this odd and annoying and as pointless as any action movie .
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Its attempt to combine serious social comment with an escapist action movie format cause it to fall heavily between two stools.
home
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It couldn't really be because of a home movie , could it?
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Moments later as the Monsignor began to pass out the diplomas, flashbulbs popped and a few home movie cameras whirred.
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Suddenly, she yearned above all things to break into their home movie .
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He has photo enhancements, floor plans, home movies , biographies, bibliographies, letters, rumors, mirages, dreams.
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Imagine that you are watching a home movie of yourself as a small child of seven or eight years old.
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The home movie captures a self I have submerged.
horror
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Taken at face value the words found sinister and can convey a false impression like some sort of second-rate horror movie .
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The festival presents horror movies , backed up by commentary on their scientific authenticity, or lack thereof.
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So I sat them down and made them watch the horror movie Cujo.
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The second slide showed a mouse that had ballooned into something out of a horror movie .
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Voice over Hampden's great house was bought by Hammer films in the 70's to make horror movies .
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He'd played in some eminently forgettable horror movies and I felt I could not seriously consider him.
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It sounds like something out of a horror movie .
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Lessons to be learned from three decades of horror HORROR movies have changed a lot in recent years.
house
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Its only value was as entertainment in movie houses .
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Then he opened a movie house and said he was definitely done with pro basketball.
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The theater industry says it takes at least 10,000 people per screen to support a movie house , he said.
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A pornographic movie house is adjacent to the blasts.
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So now the movie houses are taking empty bottles as payment, turning them back in to the bottlers for cash.
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Not so delighted are the operators of older movie houses .
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It had several good restaurants, a well-stocked bookstore, a movie house , and a good hotel.
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After its closing on Dec. 9, 1906, it soon reopened as the Empire, a vaudeville and movie house .
industry
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In condemning these bad films the reviewers were also revealing just how much the movie industry had learnt.
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Now there are more music and movie industry people, many with babies.
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Ultimately it was only by becoming respectable that the movie industry would continue to survive as a free entrepreneurial enterprise.
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Los Angeles was a sunny, easygoing mecca for crackpot religions and fantasies endorsed by the movie industry .
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In more recent years he has shown how he despises the movie industry by making only rare fleeting appearances.
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It was one of those pictures that went totally against the grain of everything that the movie industry believed it stood for.
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The independent movie industry , it would seem, has a hangover.
screen
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Her island had a twenty-foot movie screen , a pantomime parade, carnival.
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Walk into a dimly-lit gallery and approach the welded steel device fitted with a battery of fan-shaped movie screens .
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On a movie screen , close-ups of a good actor speaking dramatically can sometimes be interesting to watch.
star
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The row started when a bevy of movie stars appeared at the White House correspondents' dinner on May 1st.
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Flashbulbs fired like movie stars were coming.
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The thought of all those blonde movie stars in Palm Springs pursuing him made her feel quite sick.
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Not so beautiful by day, perhaps, but in dim light they look like movie stars .
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It is Anna Scott, the biggest movie star in the world-here-in his shop.
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Now, about my suspicions does a foreign girl know movie stars ?
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This face belongs to a great movie star , although you don't know it yet.
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In Hollywood, with directors and movie stars .
stars
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The row started when a bevy of movie stars appeared at the White House correspondents' dinner on May 1st.
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Will Hollywood movie stars leave all the on-screen action to their stunt men?
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Oh yes, and Hollywood, movie stars , freeways, Baywatch and smog.
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From movie stars to sports stars to television talk-show hosts, everyone is invited.
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The thought of all those blonde movie stars in Palm Springs pursuing him made her feel quite sick.
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Flashbulbs fired like movie stars were coming.
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Dancer's fixed up for me to make a bomb coaching movie stars in Palm Springs.
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Not so beautiful by day, perhaps, but in dim light they look like movie stars .
theater
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And so is the movie theater .
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And discussions over the construction of theme parks and movie theaters slowed to a crawl.
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Growth can bring good things to small towns: jobs, stores, movie theaters .
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More often than not, however, Blue will bypass the bar and go to the movie theater several blocks away.
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Bogies is housed in a restored movie theater and decorated with Humphrey Bogart memorabilia.
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The movie theater on Central Avenue is closed, but the seedy bars are still there.
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He remembers thinking in amazement that his name also was being flashed on screens in thousands of other movie theaters .
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The studio built a movie theater on the island, and it was no makeshift affair.
■ VERB
appear
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He went to Hollywood, playing at parties and appearing in movies .
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The two had gotten to know each other in California when 95 both appeared in the movie Carmen Jones.
make
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The girl who wanted to make movies is watching her dream come true.
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But why write a novel, you may well ask, when we were aiming to make a movie ?
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Before landing his role in the super-soap series, Nader was a model who made it into movies .
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If California fell into the ocean, would it be divine retribution for making movies like this?
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Creating a game from a film costs hundreds of thousands of pounds and can take as long as making the movie .
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This time Robbins made a grown-up movie about capital punishment.
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Carolco, which does not distribute its films; and New Line, which makes smaller movies .
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Redstone had signed off on the plan to make more movies , but he later came to see the strategy as flawed.
see
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With cinematographic Discofilm, it will see a real 3-D movie .
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I had never seen a movie before, I thought it was magic.
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He sees this movie now as his own story, his own personal work.
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I understand the court officers have arranged for you to see a movie tonight, those of you who wish to.
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She remembered she had agreed to go and see a movie with him that evening.
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Great cliff faces like you see only in movies .
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The album's apparent randomness made more sense when you saw the movie .
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I had seen too many movies .
shoot
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He makes a habit of this whenever he shoots a movie somewhere.
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Eventually, he coerces several of them onstage to shoot a silent movie , somehow selecting precisely the right individuals.
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Thirty-three years later, Spielberg is still shooting movies , though on a much grander scale.
show
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Good and evil are two notions that are usually shown as distinct in movies .
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The televised ads also show footage from the movies , including scenes of the protagonists' Millennium Falcon spaceship cruising through space.
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I liked to imagine for showing his cronies stag movies , but probably just for men's talk.
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That was when Turnberry George tried to show his movie , which damn near caused a riot.
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Sometimes it carries an invitation for a state dinner as well, or the showing of a movie in the family theater.
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The couple also offered the boys marijuana and showed them pornographic movies .
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I could smell the grass and the soil, and the sky was showing movies on my closed eyelids.
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During the nightmare, a flood of books, articles, television shows , and movies dealing with the war began.
watch
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So I sat them down and made them watch the horror movie Cujo.
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They met five years ago when she came to his barracks to watch a movie .
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I bath and then I pay to watch a movie called Hollywood Casting Couch.
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I have to watch this movie closely.
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Once I watched a whole movie with the wrong soundtrack.
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A customer wishes to watch a movie .
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As the ship sailed on, the intruders ate, drank and watched blue movies .
write
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First I wrote a movie that I wasn't intending for critics.
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Yes: I can help to write the script for movies yet to be made.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
do lunch/do a movie etc
movie/media/gambling etc mogul
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The movie moguls were taking it up.
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Under normal circumstances Chaplin may well have simply thrown the eminent movie mogul a mere passing glance of recognition.
opera/court/movie etc house
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A belligerent crowd of some fifty thousand gathered around the court house .
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Not only was the curtain rung down but the opera house was dismantled.
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She prefers her recordings made live in the opera house and regards herself totally as a woman of the theatre.
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The Court House , where the business was conducted, can still be seen today.
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Then he opened a movie house and said he was definitely done with pro basketball.
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There are two public houses , a butcher's shop, a chapel, and a court house.
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They grew wealthy overnight and had a beautiful little opera house built in the midst of their shacks on the steep slope.
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They polished up the opera house , and every summer stars from the Metropolitan came out and performed.
slasher film/movie etc
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So it is saved from looking like a slasher movie with pretensions, or a sub-Joe Eszterhas chiller.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a Hollywood movie
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All bedrooms are of a high standard offering private facilities, satellite colour television, in-house movies and hospitality tray.
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It was the first movie we ever saw alone without our parents.
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Like any movie scientist worthy of his white coat, Bridges goes slowly mad.
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People should never assume they know anyone even vaguely from movies and television.
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The movie succeeds to a modest extent by taking full advantage of the romantic screen personas of its two stars.
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The definitive movie on these two men whose courage reshaped a nation remains to be made.
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The other went on to film school and a career in the movie business.