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«Edge of Tomorrow», the Groundhog Day of action films, is making its return with a brand new title.

Panic Room is a psychological thriller — rare in these CGI - heavy days of action film - making — that begins with a space, and explores the creative possibilities of making a film about that space.

Not exact matches

And for every hit like «X-Men: Days of Future Past» there were flops like the raunchy western - comedy «A Million Ways to Die in the West» and Tom Cruise action film «Edge of Tomorrow.»

Today's day of lobbying is the culmination of the new film Food Inc.'s social - action campaign, organized by Participant Media for the Child Nutrition Reauthorization.

The action was filmed with 18 3D motion capture cameras and 11 high - definition game day cameras to capture impacts from dozens of angles around the field with the goal to better understand the forces and motions that occur when a player receives an impact.

There's a curious insistence in Hollywood action - adventure films these days (doubtless aided by the comic books that provide such an increasing amount of their adaptive material) on the centrality of origins, from the X-Men to Batman to Bond and beyond — often, if not always, revolving around daddy issues.

What surprised me is that I had some affection for an action adventure film the way I would have in the days of the Ray Harryhausen's best films.

Mr. Carpenter is an extremely resourceful director whose ability to construct films entirely out of action and movement suggests that he may one day be a director to rank with Don Siegel.

In the world of live - action films, changing a director when a film is already in production is rare, though it happened this year on the independent western «Jane Got a Gun,» when Gavin O'Connor replaced director Lynne Ramsay after she failed to show up on the first day of shooting in New Mexico.

It's an action, comedy, sci - fi adventure that tries and that's more than a lot of films these days.

Last year Alex Slevin of FoG Films tried to crowdfund his fan film, From the Lost Days — Silent Hill 15th Anniversary Film, a live action feature film that adapted both the Silent Hill & Silent Hill 3 video games through Kickstarter.

I think that the mix of the really short shoot (miraculously, Prince Avalanche was filmed in 16 days), with what an action - packed shoot it was, in terms of the amount of scenes we did every day, and the comedic dynamic of the character was something that I never explored before.

Nichey as voiceovers are (and let's ignore the fact that most trailers forgo narration these days), the story seems to resonate with our vision of the sexist live - action film and television business, one that Bell has been a part of since a couple of 2002 «ER» episodes.

The film is centered on the actions of the former First Lady on the days immediately following the assassination of her husband, President John F. Kennedy, on November 22, 1963 in Dallas.

7 Days in Entebbe by George Wolf A film that sells the importance of negotiation while it details a harrowing plan of action, 7 Days in Entebbe gets caught in... read more →

mmm... a protagonist who complete dominates a long film to the detriment of context and the other players in the story (though the abolitionist, limping senator with the black lover does gets close to stealing the show, and is rather more interesting than the hammily - acted Lincoln); Day - Lewis acts like he's focused on getting an Oscar rather than bringing a human being to life - Lincoln as portrayed is a strangely zombie character, an intelligent, articulate zombie, but still a zombie; I greatly appreciate Spielberg's attempt to deal with political process and I appreciate the lack of «action» but somehow the context is missing and after seeing the film I know some more facts but very little about what makes these politicians tick; and the lighting is way too stylised, beautiful but unremittingly unreal, so the film falls between the stools of docufiction and costume drama, with costume drama winning out; and the second subject of the film - slavery - is almost complete absent (unlike Django Unchained) except as a verbal abstraction

I love the narrative structure of the film, telling two different stories about the parents of a boy who is supposedly killed - in - action, and the story of the boy on assignment at a remote military outpost (where nothing happens all day).

They're also the kinds of places that Kormákur's camera loves, as embracing as he is of the modern - day action - film aesthetic of deliberate imperfection.

We are only two days away from the official release of Netflix's Bright, a cop action - thriller horror film starring Will Smith (I Am Legend), Joel Edgerton (The Gift), and Noomi Rapace (Alien: Covenant, Prometheus).

The film starts off gloriously enough with a brilliantly filmed action piece set in Mexico City's Day of the Dead parade, but Mendes and crew soon settle into a muddled, anti-climactic mishmash of old tropes and familiar ideas.

In more recent years one such work of brilliant badness was Samurai Cop, an early 90's action film that looked like it was shot in 2 days for 2 dollars and inexplicably starred the late (great) Robert Z'Dar.

A hopelessly generic action movie that fully deserves the direct - to - DVD treatment, it's the kind of film that Cage has been making a little too frequently these days.

Though the 1991 animated film got the live - action hybrid treatment just last year, Disney is still eager to invite more fans to be its guests ahead of the Memorial Day weekend.

However, a guy named Mike emailed me a few days ago, telling me that the creators of the «The Hobbit» action figures was very upset about the news of the film being split into three, as some of their action figures for characters who would not appear in the first film after all where already marked «An unexpected Journey» characters.

It's also close in feel to Brett Morgen's 30 for 30 documentary on OJ Simpson's famous Bronco chase, and, like that film, Berg slowly pieces together the action of the day — a minute's silence for the Newtown massacre's victims, the Red Sox's home game — to give a sense of a calm before the chaos.

Of the small sampling of Hong Kong films I've seen, the ones I've liked best are not usually the pop action blockbusters but some of the so - called art movies, which in some cases have been box - office failures (largely because there is no art - movie market in Hong Kong): Yim Ho's Homecoming (1984), Wong Kar - wai's Days of Being Wild (1990), Stanley Kwan's Center Stage (1991), and Yim Ho and Tsui Hark's King of Chess (1991Of the small sampling of Hong Kong films I've seen, the ones I've liked best are not usually the pop action blockbusters but some of the so - called art movies, which in some cases have been box - office failures (largely because there is no art - movie market in Hong Kong): Yim Ho's Homecoming (1984), Wong Kar - wai's Days of Being Wild (1990), Stanley Kwan's Center Stage (1991), and Yim Ho and Tsui Hark's King of Chess (1991of Hong Kong films I've seen, the ones I've liked best are not usually the pop action blockbusters but some of the so - called art movies, which in some cases have been box - office failures (largely because there is no art - movie market in Hong Kong): Yim Ho's Homecoming (1984), Wong Kar - wai's Days of Being Wild (1990), Stanley Kwan's Center Stage (1991), and Yim Ho and Tsui Hark's King of Chess (1991of the so - called art movies, which in some cases have been box - office failures (largely because there is no art - movie market in Hong Kong): Yim Ho's Homecoming (1984), Wong Kar - wai's Days of Being Wild (1990), Stanley Kwan's Center Stage (1991), and Yim Ho and Tsui Hark's King of Chess (1991of Being Wild (1990), Stanley Kwan's Center Stage (1991), and Yim Ho and Tsui Hark's King of Chess (1991of Chess (1991).

Fantastic Planet, the Sydney horror, sci - fi and fantasy film festival, will kick off on the 22nd of March for eleven days of mind - bending, gut - wrenching action.

James Mangold for caring about all the right things in his work and blessing us with Logan and Copland, Refn for Drive alone, Stallone for giving us Rocky and THE «Just keep going» monologue that everyone in the arts needs when they have that inevitable bad day, Joe Carnahan for being able to blend heart stopping action with character drama and Phil Joanou for making my favorite film of all time with State of Grace (1990)(I'd love a Cinephilia and Beyond piece on it someday...)

The filmmakers have repurposed the action from the seedy streets of 1980 New York to modern day Los Angeles and have bathed the film in dreamy, high - resolution digital photography that is all wrong.

The film itself manifested a sense of humor along with extravagant action sequences, as well as Daniel Craig in his pre-James Bond days, but it felt tepid and overly familiar.

The combination of clever how - to details and wild fantasy is a throwback to the days of Disney's live - action man - against - nature films (only slightly grimmer), but it's flanked by a more down - to - earth depiction of the hero's youth in a zoo - owning Indian family, as well as a closing sequence that changes the meaning of everything that's come before.

The Pitch: Emmerich, director of such «I thought Michael Bay did that» films as «Godzilla,» «Independence Day,» and «The Day After Tomorrow,» hops into the Wayback Machine for some prehistoric action.

While filmmaker Peter Berg has perfected a successful formula of quick character intros, then frenetic action for his «unsung hero» films (Deepwater Horizon, Patriots Day), Kosinski (Oblivion) is committed to a separate but equally effective path.

The overall consensus out of Sundance was that Robot & Frank was flawed but charming, which could make it a pleasant alternative to the other films opening that day: the action comedy Hit & Run, the thriller The Apparition, and the Joseph Gordon Levitt - starrer Premium Rush.

It's an action film in the vein not only of that classic 1988 Bruce Willis movie but The Rock, Air Force One and Emmerich's own film, Independence Day.

Just as other films of its ilk (The Phantom, The Shadow), the updating of the material involves keeping the core of what makes the Green Hornet the Green Hornet, while stuffing it into a modern - day action and comedy style.

The main topic of the night was a discussion on the fascinating acting career of Kevin Costner, in honor of his new action film 3 Days to Kill hitting theaters this week.

Without giving much consideration to the context that breed such an environment, bar a couple of fleeting scenes where one of the Day's gang attempts to find work as a farm hand, it begs the question as to what the film is trying to accomplish by focusing on the gang; especially when the film's ephemeral style distances the action from reality, laying blame on the gangs for Day's downward spiral into a life of crime and not the faulty idealism behind the myth of American opportunity.

Three all new character posters from the sci - fi action film «Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning» have been released.

But while many people may think that the action scene has moved on to other parts (mostly Thailand and South Korea, plus a mini-boom of excellent American direct - to - video films like «Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning» and its ilk), there's still a lot to offer from the once reigning king of cinematic punches and gunshots.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening May 8, 2009 BIG BUDGET FILMS Next Day Air (R for violence, drug use, pervasive profanity and brief sexuality) Action - oriented crime caper about the comedy of errors which ensue after a couple of hapless hoodlums (Mike Epps and Wood Harris) are mistakenly delivered a large package filled with bricks of pure cocaine.

Seeing this film at Ebertfest on the same day I caught a screening of Andrew Davis» «The Fugitive,» I was reminded why I like the Liam Neeson action films, especially those directed by Jaume Collet - Serra (who did this, «Unknown, «Non-Stop,» and «Run All Night»).

Phantom Thread probably won't attract the same audiences as previous Daniel Day - Lewis films due to the subject matter and methodical pace of the story, but the film is visually stunning, masterfully acted and allegedly the last chance to see a legendary actor in action.

At the film's recent press day in Los Angeles, Waugh and stunt coordinator Lance Gilbert talked about their longtime friendship and professional relationship, what it was like growing up together on the sets of «Smokey and the Bandit,» «Vanishing Point,» «The Blues Brothers» and «Bullitt,» why Waugh considers Gilbert one of the best stunt coordinators in the world, the challenges they faced pulling off practical stunts and capturing amazing action sequences realistically in - camera without CGI enhancement, and the entertaining Easter eggs they included as a homage to the classic car - culture movies of another era.

Perhaps it was in order to squeeze one more screening into the day (this is not unheard of — it was widely known when Sylvester Stallone's Cobra was released in 1986, he kept cutting its running time down until he could add another performance) or maybe it was just their concern that there was too much plot going on in an action film.

While I generally ignore all action, adventure, horror, thriller, and genre films these days, and I don't think I've gone to the theatre solely to drool at a hot guy on screen since high school, Jake Gyllenhaal is one of my weaknesses.

Australian director Patrick Hughes is a man who is already well - known to action fans because of his first two films, the modern day Australian Western «Red Hill» and the sequel «The Expendables 3.»

This highly unique premise (never before seen in an action movie made in the past five days) sets up the conflict which will endure until the end of the film — accompanied by extremely loud special effects.

There are so many directors who could take this film and make a goofy, guilty pleasure, but Miller displays impeccable control of all facets to create a modern day pure action masterpiece.

SOUNDS: Placing Gangster Squad in a contemporary mindset, the score of the film is run - of - the - mill typical action accompaniment seen in any modern day movie.