Sentences with phrase «slayer tv»

The Persona series of role - playing games and the Tokimeki Memorial dating sims both use school settings to explore complex pupil relationships, the former brilliantly combining the daily grind of school with demonic invasions and super powers, in a manner reminiscent of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series.

Maybe just to me, but still I've never been entertained by a vampire movie, never been scared by any onscreen portrayal of a bloodsucker, and after the rise and fall of my love affair with the Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV show, I can't even make the mental leap to take vamps as anything but a running joke.

Made in 1993, Cronos was a fresh approach to the vampire film created just as the Anne Rice books was reviving the moribund genre and long before the Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series made vampires hip and the «Twilight» novels spread them through popular youth culture.

Plus, Noxon definitely has a knack for mixing horror violence with comedy and romance (see: her work on the original Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series).

Not exact matches

Like Pinsky's book, Jana Riess's commentary on the TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer is based on a great deal of video watching — in this case, seven seasons» worth of television episodes.

«To the Bone» Marti Noxon, a longtime symbol of female empowerment in TV for her work on «Buffy the Vampire Slayer» and «UnREAL,» makes her feature directorial debut with a pitch - black comedy about her own struggle with anorexia.

We look at the best and worst film - to - TV adaptations of the past 30 years, including shows like The Returned, Fargo, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Fan favorite Joss Whedon (Serenity, TV's Buffy the Vampire Slayer) co-writes and directs this Marvel team - up that has Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, and Chris Evans joining Samuel L. Jackson (Nick Fury), Mark Ruffalo (Bruce Banner / The Incredible Hulk), Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye), and Scarlett Johansson (Black Widow) as they try to stop Thor's angry brother Loki (Tom Hiddleston) and his army from destroying Earth.

A stand - alone spin - off from the cult science - fiction TV series «Firefly», the ill - fated, most personal and most accomplished work to date from Joss Whedon, creator of «Buffy the Vampire Slayer».

It was co-written by fan favorites, Joss Whedon (The Avengers, TV's «Buffy The Vampire Slayer») and Drew Goddard (Cloverfield) and directed by Goddard.

In 2007, Alison Brie (Community) and Jennifer Lawrence (Hunger Games) created a TV pilot for Comedy Central spoofing the hit TV series «Buffy the Vampire Slayer».

With Penny Dreadful brought to a surprising and all - too - abrupt end earlier this year, it looks like we won't have to wait long for new take on the classic Dracula mythology to arrive on TV in what could be a cool cross-breeding of Underworld and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

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Watch a brand new TV spot for the upcoming comic book movie «The Avengers» by director Joss Whedon (The Cabin in the Woods, Buffy the Vampire Slayer) stars Chris Evans (Captain America: The First Avenger), Chris Hemsworth (Thor, Red Dawn), Mark Ruffalo (Date Night, Shutter Island), Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man 3), Scarlett Johansson (Nick Fury), Jeremy Renner (The Raven, The Hurt Locker) and Samuel L. Jackson (The Killing Game, Iron Man).

The ones that did it well are legend: Joss Whedon's failed Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie turned into an epic and beloved TV show.

And there's pleasure, for fans inclined to make the leap, in comparing them with the population invented by Cabin co-writers Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon when the two worked on TV's Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

The sport and wit of Whedon at his best, as in the brightest moments in TV's Buffy the Vampire Slayer, is evidenced here.

Participant Media's TV network Pivot has acquired the complete runs of cult favorite series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Veronica Mars.

He's a seasoned TV writer having scripted a number of shows, the most significant of which (in this case) is Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

On TV, his credits include Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Alias and Lost.

From musical numbers to silent killers, romantic swooning to the most grief - stricken hour of TV ever, it's the slayer's greatest hits

As a TV screenwriter, his name can be found in long - running series like BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, ANGEL, ALIAS, and LOST.

In his feature film directorial debut, Drew Goddard (a writer for «Buffy the Vampire Slayer,» «Lost» TV series, and the film «Cloverfield «-RRB- has taken a tired film formula — the teen slasher flick — and turned it on its head.

For example, last year in a lesson about stereotypes I referred to the character of Giles, the mild - mannered British librarian who always wore a tweed jacket and spectacles in the US TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

FOX also brings to Prime members a selection of popular TV series including «24,» «The X-Files,» «NYPD Blue,» «Arrested Development,» «Buffy the Vampire Slayer,» «Ally McBeal,» and newly available on digital video, «The Wonder Years.»

As a grown man I have no problem admitting that Buffy the Vampire Slayer is one of my favorite TV shows ever, the marvelous imagination of geek icon Joss Whedon creating something that I have cherished.

But then again, Dragon Slayer was made in 1984 — just playing the role of some little dude on a monitor or TV screen was its own reward.