Sentences with phrase «great war setting»

As for the Great War setting, he said, «it's a period we don't see often; it's usually World War II.

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By giving Gears of War 3 such a high average score, reviewers are setting the bar low for what a great game should be and are doing a disservice to an industry that is struggling to be taken seriously by the mainstream.

The thing about Star Wars, as with all great cultural phenomenons, is that the setting and mechanics of the story are incidental.

But perhaps another set of questions, which have been broached since the ground - combat phase of the war ended, will also come to greater prominence in the years ahead.

The colts, two of the finest 3 - year - olds ever to appear in the same year, were set to battle at old Washington Park, Chicago's South Side course, in what was being whooped along as the greatest match race on the planet since Seabiscuit and War Admiral ran at Pimlico on Nov. 1, 1938, the epochal clash of regions, lifestyles and social classes.

It's all about Star Wars and Technic Lego in our house, but I do have some tiny god - daughters that these sets would make great presents for!

On 15 June 1215 at Runnymede (a small meadow outside of London, marking the midpoint between two armies locked in civil war) King John set his seal on Magna Carta — the «great charter» that has become synonymous throughout the world with opposition to arbitrary rule, and with the protection of individual rights and liberties.

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With the Cold War subtext we take a look back on some of the great, some iconic movies set in and during the Cold War era.

A MMORPG that doesn't differentiate itself very much from other popular MMORPG titles (like World of Warcraft), but with a greater focus on story, companions and of course the Star Wars setting, The Old Republic is still a solid game.

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World War II movies are still a reliable genre — two of the nine best picture nominees of 2017 were set during that wartime — but the Great War, «Wonder Woman» aside, rarely gets much love.

(Her interrogation chamber below the Moroccan desert is an homage to Ken Adam's great War Room set in «Dr. Strangelove.»)

Instead of the tried - and - true but all too common «let's save the world» shtick that so often describes a modern FPS's plot, DICE set out to portray the realism, horror, and occasional honor of The Great War.

The setting is Italy during The Great War; playboy Lt. Henry falls for mad «Cat,» who, as written by the legendary Ben Hecht (himself a decade removed from his best work and well on his way to becoming king of cheese epics), comes off as an entirely inappropriate nod to Blanche Dubois.

It's all more than a little obvious, a red, white, and blue pastiche of Forties war films set to an amped - up techno beat — maybe just what the masses demand on the eve of our next great conflagration.

The Hateful Eight, out Christmas Day, is set in post-civil war Wyoming, and Tarantino would go through great lengths to make sure the environment felt as real as possible.

Starring Robert Ryan as a platoon leader dedicated to saving his men, who are trapped behind enemy lines, and Aldo Ray as a gruff, ferociously competent veteran who only cares about rescuing his shellshocked commanding officer, it's a stark, intimate film set during the Korean War and stands with Sam Fuller's The Steel Helmet as one of the greatest films about the soldier's experience.

Redford returns to the director's chair in this critically acclaimed coming - of - age film set during World War I and the Great Depression.

And in a similar way to Black Panther's own debut in Captain America: Civil War, bringing Namor to the screen through another franchise would be a great way to set up his own solo film.

There's a strong whiff of subversion, suggesting that the great heroes of the war were as imaginary as comic - book characters, but it's not developed beyond a safe set of parameters.

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.

While the game does feel like a re-skin at times, Monster Wars still does a great job taking the classic gameplay from Legendary and transplanting it in a new setting.

Manga Entertainment has announced that cult Japanese director Takashi Miike's vampire - gangster genre mashup Yakuza Apocalypse: The Great War of the Underworld is set for a theatrical release here in the UK this January.

... In other possible Civil War - related news, a Twitter account linked to directors Anthony and Joe Russo may have offered up the first glimpse of the new Spider - Man suit set to be worn by Tom Holland for Peter Parker's MCU debut (although Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn has stated that it doesn't belong to the Russo brothers), while original Spider - Man trilogy director Sam Raimi has shared his thoughts on Sony's Amazing series, as well as the upcoming reboot: «I saw [both Amazing Spider - Man movies], they're great.

The great Henry Hathaway (23 Paces to Baker Street) directed this classic film noir set in New York City during World War II - The House On 92nd Street is a riveting spy thriller.

Avengers 2.5) might not include a great deal of Stone - based malarkey, but in setting up the final group characterisation before Infinity War, it's one of the most important films of the lot.

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The Tony winner behind last year's Holocaust drama «Indecent» returns to the New York stage this month with «Time and the Conways,» the post — Great War, Yorkshire - set classic from J.B. Priestley.

Set on a cargo ship during World War 2, it's an entertaining film with a great cast (Fonda, James Cagney, Jack Lemmon, William Powell,

I don't think any filmmakers have been greater than Hitchcock, fabulously represented in the Criterion Collection by The Lady Vanishes and a great box set, Wrong Men & Notorious Women; Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, represented by many films, including The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (one of their very best, also made during World War II); and of course Mike Leigh.

Fans of Spider - Man will be happy to note that the character is more than merely a cameo in Civil War, even though the purpose of his inclusion is more to set up for his solo adventures with Sony than in making him an integral part of the MCU, but it's seamless and, more importantly, sparks a great deal more fun and interest in his character than anything that could be mustered in the Amazing Spider - Man reboot attempt of the last several years.

Director Gareth Edwards also talks about how if he knew he would shoot a Star Wars film he would have planned it his entire life, calling it «the world's greatest toy set.»

Johnson stages a visually audacious sequence — perhaps the single greatest - looking set - piece in the «Star Wars» series — set on a desertscape where a white - dusting covers a sea of blood - red sand.

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Winspear's series is set in the 1920s and»30s, but its heroine — once a maid in a great house, now a private investigator — personifies the changing times, and takes on cases that are rooted in the damage done by the war.

Set during the idealistic epoch before the Great War, The Children's Book is already being described as «a tour de force» «panoramic» and «a rich, sprawling chronicle» by various Canadian and British news outlets.

During the Great Patriotic War he'd demolished the bridge at Kalach in defense of Stalingrad, rigged factories with dynamite, reducing them to rubble, and set indefensible refi neries ablaze, dicing the skyline with columns of burning oil.

Kowal's latest is a dazzling alternative history set during the Great War.

«Nobody in the world does this stuff better than Cornwell - action set six hundred years ago is a fresh and vital as six days ago, with rough, tough men at war, proving once again that nothing changes - least of all great storytelling.»

Framed as Mattick telling a bedtime story to her young son, Cole, this tale begins in 1914 in Canada, when veterinarian Harry Colebourn, her own great - grandfather, sets off to join the war in Europe.

Jacqueline's first two novels: Maisie Dobbs and Birds of a Feather, along with her third novel, Pardonable Lies, are set in the late 1920s and early 1930s, with the roots of the story set in the Great War, 1914 - 1918.

Everyone Brave Is Forgiven (great title) is set during World War II and stars a courageous young socialite who volunteers to teach evacuees despite her highbrow family's diapproval.

This novel is billed as «a sweeping, seductive love story set in post-World War II America that tells of one man's great passions and regrets over the course of his lifetime.»

I've always been interested in Russian history, and I knew I wanted this book to be set during the Crimean War because of the story possibilities and the conflict between Great Britain and Russia.

He remembered the lessons from Versailles and from the Great Depression, when he led the British delegation at the 1944 Bretton Woods conference — which set down rules to ensure the stability of the international financial system and facilitated the rebuilding of nations devastated by World War II.

But what the PS2 also had was a great little gem called War of the Monsters, a 4 player fighting game set in the 1950s.

A lot of gamers have expressed a desire to see one of the bigger FPS companies to attempt a World War 1 game, and DICE and EA have hopped on that desire by setting the new game during The Great War.

Over the years we've had a lot of games set during World War 2, Vietnam and many other conflicts, but for the most part developers seem to have avoided The Great War.