Sentences with phrase «cold war stories»

Kingsman is satire, poking fun at dark, dour Bond and grey Cold War stories by being the opposite — colorful, bright, splashy - flashy and gleefully violent.

Based on the fact I was most intrigued on the Cold War story line, this was a good thing.

It's a Cold War story about a sky - diving instructor (Charlie Sheen) who has a not so great record.

Gene Roddenberry often pushed his series to explore stories as allegories for modern life and politics; here «Trek» becomes a Cold War story in which the Federation and a nearly bankrupt Klingon Empire are dropped into the context of a political thriller.

In screenwriter David Koepp's Cold War story, Jones — assisted, and then betrayed, by Ray Winstone's bland sidekick Mac, and later accompanied by John Hurt's wacko Professor Oxley — travels from America to the jungles of Peru in search of the titular item wearing the same furrowed brow and grimace, nearly all the self - deprecating humor and joy and diversity of emotion that made him a compelling spelunker replaced by sourpuss crankiness.

- The Guardian (UK) «Flanery's brilliantly sly and funny book updates Nabokov's Cold War story of despotic power to the present day... The fear that we are watched is no longer the province of isolated fantasists but a new fact of everyday life.»

Yes folks, this is a sci - fi Cold War story.

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Over lunch at the Corned Beef Academy, Piola recounts a war story — his recent cold - calling conquest of Pittsburgh National Bank (PNB).

The story involves spies, skullduggery, and Cold War domestic politics, but mostly it is about people who clearly understood the evil of communism and did something about it.

But the horror stories you hear — where aid just helps a dictator build new palaces — mostly come from a time when aid was designed to win allies for the Cold War rather than to improve people's lives.

The story runs through Woodrow Wilson's expansive mission to «make the world safe for democracy,» Eisenhower's World War II «crusade in Europe,» and the long years of cold war struggle against «godless communism.&raqWar II «crusade in Europe,» and the long years of cold war struggle against «godless communism.&raqwar struggle against «godless communism.»

Bridge of Spies reunites director Steven Spielberg and actor Tom Hanks (who've collaborated on films including The Terminal, Catch Me If You Can and Saving Private Ryan) to tell the true story of an American attorney entrusted to negotiate a high - profile prisoner exchange during the Cold War.

For just as revisionist historiographers of the Cold War reread the history of the Truman administration through the lens of their own Vietnam passions, the new American Catholic revisionists view the episcopate of John Carroll — the paradigm in the classic story line — through the prism of their own agenda for Catholicism in the 1990s.

X-Men: First Class Set early in the Cold War, this origin story rejuvenates the mutants» flagging franchise with a likable cast, snappy effects, and sly nods to the future for fans who know how the story ends.

The museum is able to tell the story from the post war era through to the close of the Cold War, and with names like Hawker, De Havilland, Percival, Blackburn and Avro on display; this is going to be a museum that is ideal for aircraft fans and people who love local histowar era through to the close of the Cold War, and with names like Hawker, De Havilland, Percival, Blackburn and Avro on display; this is going to be a museum that is ideal for aircraft fans and people who love local histoWar, and with names like Hawker, De Havilland, Percival, Blackburn and Avro on display; this is going to be a museum that is ideal for aircraft fans and people who love local history.

The trouble lies with the fact that this Cold War world of secrecy, back stabbing and betrayal seems so alien in the internet age that it's quite difficult to involve yourself in the dense, convoluted story.

It's a riveting story steeped in Cold War intrigue and personal tragedy but also not without its ironies.

It feels like there's so much more to this story that's missing, either from the interview subjects» reticence to share too much or the filmmakers reluctance to embrace more of the Cold War paranoia thriller trappings the story can veer into.

Based on the exciting true story of one of the greatest moments in modern history, the film captures a time and place where differences could be settled by games and a cold war could be put on ice.

It follows the story of a soldier in the US army as the Cold War is coming to an end, and the black market exploits that thrive when there is nothing for the soldiers to do.

Here's the official synopsis: In this remarkable true story set in the height of the Cold War, chess legend Bobby Fischer is locked in a gripping championship clash with the Soviets as he struggles against his own psychological demons while the whole world anxiously awaits the outcome.

From the Studio: From master story teller, Guillermo del Toro, comes THE SHAPE OF WATER - an other - worldly fable, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962.

Functioning as an utterly charming take on the classic Beauty and the Beast and Creature from the Black Lagoon fables, the Cold War - set love story focuses on the introverted, reclusive, and sexually inexperienced aforementioned mute Elisa, a cleaner working at a high - security level government facility.

Where MGS 2 told a dense, meta - textual story, MGS 3 presented a straightforward (though still occasionally twisty) Cold War spy saga.

Paweł Pawlikowski's heartbreaking drama (loosely based on his own parents» love story), «Cold War» was picked up by Amazon Studios last August, and the streaming giant is planning on a theatrical release later this year.

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From master story teller, Guillermo del Toro, comes THE SHAPE OF WATER - an other - worldly fairy tale, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962.

Set in America at a time in which Cold War paranoia and the Civil Rights injustices of the early 1960s have created an oppressive atmosphere for those on the margins of society, it's the story of a mute - since - childhood cleaner (Sally Hawkins) who falls for the amphibious humanoid (Doug Jones) being experimented upon at the underground research facility where she works.

Cold War is a passionate love story between two people of different backgrounds and temperaments, who are fatally mismatched and yet fatefully condemned to each other.

Set against the background of the Cold War in the 1950s in Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia and Paris, the film depicts an impossible love story in impossible times.

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«The Shape of Water» tells the story of a mute cleaning lady, Eliza (Sally Hawkins) who conspires with her gay friend and neighbor (Richard Jenkins) and her co-worker (Octavia Spencer) to rescue a creature — a muscular merman — that is being held captive in a secret Cold War - era government laboratory.

All jokes aside, del Toro and his co-writer, Vanessa Taylor, have bundled together a lovely little story about love, loss, Cold War paranoia and cat - eating amphibians.

So it was a long shoot and quite a big epic movie in one way, but very much a character drama, also some kind of reverse love story between my character and Tom's character: they've been married for eight years when the movie starts and it's like a cold war between them.

There are plenty of other characters from the X-Men universe introduced to us too, and yet somehow this movie manages to weave all these characters into a cold war era story centered around the Cuban missile crisis in 1962.

Per The Hollywood Reporter, the French writer - director is currently readying an adaptation of The Last Soldiers Of The Cold War: The Story Of the Cuban Five, Fernando Morais «2015 non-fiction book about a group of Cuban spies tasked with infiltrating anti-Castro groups in the United States.

Set against the backdrop of a series of historic events, Bridge of Spies tells the story of James Donovan (Hanks), a Brooklyn lawyer who finds himself thrust into the center of the Cold War when the CIA sends him on the near - impossible task to negotiate the release of a captured American U-2 pilot.

After teasing a number of different ambitious projects in 2017 — including an adaptation of Fernando Morais» nonfiction book The Last Soldiers Of The Cold War: The Story Of the Cuban Five and a slightly re-cast version of Idol's Eye, his perpetually stalled Chicago mob thriller — Assayas ultimately went with a previously unannounced project about the French publishing industry as his next film.

There are also those who classify Anthony Minghella «s «Cold Mountain» as a western, in which case it could qualify, but it feels more of a war film / epic journey / love story to us.

The sub-plot of Russia vs the US for the space race and the Cold War adds a nice extra dimension of story - telling but the personal, funny & honest moments are never lost.

On the Map: The against - all - odds story of Maccabi Tel Aviv's 1977 FIBA European Championship, and how one team captured the heart of a nation amid domestic turmoil and the global machinations of the Cold War.

A number of other major restorations will have their World Premieres at the Festival: Carol Reed's atmospheric Graham Greene adaptation of OUR MAN IN HAVANA (1959), set in Cuba at the start of the Cold War, makes timely viewing as US / Cuba relations thaw; Ken Russell's reworking of D.H. Lawrence scandalous classic WOMEN IN LOVE (1970) stars Oliver Reed, Alan Bates and Glenda Jackson and shows two couple's contrasting searches for love, and was restored by the BFI National Archive working alongside cinematographer Billy Williams; A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS (1966) is directed by Fred Zinnemann from a script by great British screenwriter, Robert Bolt from Bolt's play about Sir Thomas More, a perfect companion piece to Wolf Hall; Henry Fonda stars in the ripe - for - discovery WARLOCK (1959), a seething study of vengeance and repressed sexuality in a Utah mining outpost; and Bryan Forbes» THE RAGING MOON (1971) starring Malcolm McDowell and Nanette Newman in a tender story between two young people in wheelchairs which was ahead of its time in its attempts to change attitudes to disability.

As a re-imagining of the Spiderman origin story, this is a fine grafting of Cold War paranoia about the atom onto the current paranoia about gene splicing.

In this remarkable true story set in the height of the Cold War, chess legend Bobby Fischer is locked in a gripping championship clash with the Soviets as he struggles against his own psychological demons while the whole world anxiously awaits the outcome.

His latest movie, «The Shape of Water» — the story of a mute janitor (Sally Hawkins) who falls in love with an aquatic humanoid creature being held captive in a secret government laboratory during the Cold War — is, perhaps needless to say, one of the latter.

From master story teller, Guillermo del Toro, comesThe Shape Of Water — an other - worldly fairy tale, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1963.

A dramatic thriller set against the backdrop of a series of historic events, DreamWorks Pictures / Fox 2000 Pictures» «Bridge of Spies» tells the story of James Donovan, a Brooklyn lawyer who finds himself thrust into the center of the Cold War when the CIA sends him on the near - impossible task to neg... Read On

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But the genre mash - up that is a combination love story, sci - fi fantasy, Cold War thriller and a musical seemed to stir up less controversy than its two main rivals, «Get Out» and «Three Billboards.»

The story blends monster movie with fairy tale, specifically Beauty and the Beast, with its Cold War thriller and underdog striking back.