Sentences with phrase «civil war film»

Views of a Confederate general's monument, a burning sugar cane field and a battle scene being shot for a Civil War film reward lengthy examination.

Traveller's Tales (TT Games) announced in a blog post on Wednesday that the first free DLC for PlayStation gamers includes content from upcoming film Captain America: Civil War film.

Rumors have been circulating from the announcement of Ant - Man's appearance in the new Captain America: Civil War film that the bite sized hero might be undergoing some BIG changes.

Nine films in total were nominated for Best Picture and Steven Spielberg's Civil War film «Lincoln» led the group of movies this year with the most nominations, at 12.

12 Years a Slave is a pre-American Civil War film that makes us question how we were capable of treating humanity with such disdain and why little has changed.

From the Captain America: Civil War film comes these cute and all too mighty Mystery Minis Vinyl Mini-Figures!

From the Captain America: Civil War film comes Black Panther as a Pop!

Not exact matches

To put the importance of the overseas box office into perspective, all of the 10 highest - grossing films of 2016 made more money overseas than domestically (the top film, Disney's Captain America: Civil War, made almost 65 % of its $ 1.15 billion total through international release).

2 is impressive having earned more than all the other films combined,» said Paul Degarabedian, senior media analyst at ComScore, who noted that Captain America: Civil War accounted for more than half of the summer take at this point last year.

The character first appeared onscreen in Civil War last year, and the new film is already generating loads of buzz thanks to director Ryan Coogler (Creed) and a loaded cast that also includes Lupita Nyong» o, Michael B. Jordan, and Angela Bassett.

This film explores the most pivotal moments of America's 36th president, from taking office after JFK's assassination in 1963 to handling the Vietnam War and civil unrest in the U.S. (Premieres November 3)

Netflix was also shut out in the award show's film categories, with the streaming service's original feature film Mudbound failing to win either of its two nominations, while the Cambodian Civil War drama First They Killed My Father also fell short in the foreign film category.

The directors are going to experiment with the technology for the action scenes in «Captain America: Civil War,» which is currently filming in Atlanta.

Directed by Ryan Coogler (Creed) and starring Chadwick Boseman (Get On Up) as the Black Panther, the movie is the first standalone film for the classic Marvel Comics character after Boseman previously appeared as the Black Panther in 2016's Marvel film, Captain America: Civil War.

Mark Hamill arrives for the European film premiere of «Captain America: Civil War» at Vue Westfield on April 26, 2016 in London, England.

The Civil War A film by Ken Burns Shown as a PBS television series; also available on nine VHS videocassettes (11 hours).

It's a quiet film with no score and set during the height of the Civil War, but it's masterfully edited to be a period piece that keeps you glued to your seat.

Darasalem (2000) Dir: Issa Serge CoeloInspired by the civil war in Chad, the film follows two childhood friends who join rebels in the countryside to find justice for their compatriots.6.

Many people will be familiar with Hawkeye, as portrayed by Jeremy Renner, from films such as The Avengers, Avengers: Age of Ultron, and Captain America: Civil War.

The find also unearths a forgotten chapter in Civil War history reminiscent of the film «Twelve Years a Slave,» but with a twist.

I felt Pan's Labyrinth did the same, albeit on a higher level: I went to excited to see a film which combined mythology with the Spanish Civil War, but while the mythical creatures were fantastic, the historical portrait was cartoonish and hence the tension between «reality» and fantasy was slack.

The first opens on a dusty road on the eve of the Civil War, as the avuncular Dr. Schultz (Christoph Waltz) claims chain gang slave Django (Jamie Foxx) by violently disposing of his two owners (one of them is James Remar, who crops up later in the second of these three films in a different role).

The whole film consists of the heroes running around African desert whilst being shot at by various people really, there is a silly plot about trying to find a buried American civil war ironclad warship and also a plot about stopping most of the African water supply getting poisoned.

Brash execs must have assumed the new film was so amazing that they'd be drowned by a wave of positive press, perhaps enough to rival the film's chief comic - book competitor, the universally loved Captain America: Civil War.

Little Women (1933) is one of the best - made film renditions of the Louisa May Alcott Civil War - era tale of a family of four sisters in New England, from director George Cukor.

Applying the episodic format and visual template of classic and spaghetti Westerns to a revenge saga mostly set in the Deep South just prior to the Civil War, the film makes a point of pushing the savagery of slavery to the forefront but does so in a way that rather amazingly dovetails with the heightened historical, stylistic and comic sensibilities at play.

Both he and Thor sat out of Captain America: Civil War for this adventure, and while they weren't missed in that film, their presence will likely be much desired in future entries, as their banter and interplay in this version that injects some energy into their antics rejuvenates stale ideas.

MovieMan, In Pan's Labyrinth it didn't bother me, because the Spanish Civil War was approached more like an atypical backdrop for a fantasy movie, unlike in District 9, where the film purports itself to be an allegory by having Johannesburg as the setting.

You can admire a movie like Steven Soderbergh's «Contagion» (2011), a realistic rendering of civil breakdown caused by a spreading pathogen, but the horror - film version of disaster in «World War Z» stretches the senses to take in more than you may expect.

The film picks up where Captain America: Civil War leaves off.

What makes Captain America: Civil War such a terrific accomplishment is the way it takes what could have been the most crass and overcrowded story to adapt as a film and instead transforms it into an examination of just who these heroes are and what impact they've had on the world around them, and vice versa.

Two potentially higher - profile films, the disco period film 54 (1998) and Ang Lee's Civil War epic Ride With the Devil (1999), failed to make a positive impression on critics and audiences.Ruffalo's luck began to change, however, when he was cast in an off - Broadway production of This Is Our Youth.

A violent fantasy set during the Spanish Civil War, this magical film from Guillermo del Toro manages that intellectual high - mindedness, even as it resonates on a primal, mythic level.

The film's third act hinges not only on containing the outbreak of an all - out Wakandan civil war, but on stopping Vibranium weapons from leaving Wakanda's borders, destined to be used on foreign soil.

In 1987, he starred as anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko in Richard Attenborough's Cry Freedom alongside Kevin Kline, and though the film itself alienated some critics (Pauline Kael called it «dumbfounding»), Washington's powerful performance earned him a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination.Two years later, Washington netted another Best Supporting Actor nod — and won the award — for his turn as an embittered yet courageous runaway slave in the Civil War drama Glory.

It's this inner struggle, another civil war, that dominates the narrative of the film.

That scene sets the stage for the plot of the film, which surprisingly, takes place over a very concentrated point in time — only a month, really — when the Civil War was limping to an end, and Lincoln was rushing to pass the 13th Amendment to ban slavery.

Directors Joe and Anthony Russo (Captain America: Civil War) have managed to take their balanced approach from Civil War and The Winter Soldier and inject even more characters into the mix; we're talking well over 30 big names all mashed into one nearly three hour film that briskly flies by as characters we've grown to love over the years embark on their most important (and personal) battle yet.

Numerous supporting characters from the MCU also appear, and it's a credit to writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, as well as director - brothers Joe and Anthony Russo («Captain America: Civil War»), that the 149 - minute film is balanced and never rushed, with all the characters feeling prominent and necessary.

While that means the usual assortment of superhero films (including, this week, the rather promising Captain America: Civil War), this May will also bring an atypically strong crop of indie and foreign releases, including new films from Whit Stillman, Jacques Audiard, Yorgos Lanthimos, Rebecca Miller, and more.

They go about it in a civil war over ideals (the ideals can be contrasted in both of the other films like when Optimus faces Megatron in the 1st film, a clash of ideals as the Autobots are persecuted by the humans and the Decepticons).

Watching the film, it's hard not to feel a cold chill of recognition, particularly when Miller's interviewees discuss immigration, patriotism and war, and civil liberties versus homeland security in a time of national crisis.

The 18th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the final step on the winding journey to Avengers: Infinity War, Black Panther gives Chadwick Boseman's titular superhero a chance to shine in his own solo movie, following his MCU debut in Captain America: Civil War.

You can follow that one with my favorite Marvel film to date, Captain America: Civil War.

The film, written by Tony Kushner and adapted from Doris Kearns Goodwin's book «Team of Rivals,» focuses on the battles within the Lincoln administration during the end of the Civil War and the abolition of slavery.

Written by Coogler and Joe Robert Cole (a veteran of Marvel Studios» bygone in - house writers program), Black Panther combines many of the best elements of MCU films past, including: the Shakespearean royal family drama of the Thor movies, the political thriller elements of Civil War and Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and even the sci - fi tech aspects of the Iron Man films.

Leading up to the release of one of Marvel's biggest films, based on one of their best selling graphic novels, Captain America: Civil War, all of us were uttering the sentence, «Who's going to die?»

In the end, Captain America: Civil War is an entertaining film while dealing with complex human emotions.

Chadwick Boseman is starring in the film as King T'Challa of Wakanda, reprising his Captain America: Civil War role as this film's titular hero.

At 2 hours and 28 minutes, Captain America: Civil War is the longest Marvel Studios film.