Sentences with phrase «war film event»

UPDATED 04/07: Marvel Studios has officially announced that Captain America: The Winter Soldier directors Joe and Anthony Russo will direct the two - part Avengers: Infinity War film event.

Not exact matches

Solo is not the first Star Wars film to debut at the star - studded event.

The newest poster for the standalone «Star Wars» film was released Friday at Star Wars Celebration, an annual official Lucasfilm event celebrating all things «Star Wars.»

The first in a series of Star Wars «anthology» films — which are in addition to the new Star Wars trilogy — Rogue One takes place before the events of the original film, as a group of rebels try to steal the Death Star.

That's Star Wars, not Trek... Ashamed I am of this you see.Anyway, wasn't John Huston the Voice in more than one old film about biblical events?

Making an audience laugh in the aisles while smuggling in deep political points is not as easy as it seems, and In The Loop's outrage at the events which led to the Iraq war shine through every minute of the film's running time.

Players take command of their own ships in the midst of a war set 30 years after the events in the film Star Trek: Nemesis (not the recent Star Trek reboot).

The game takes place during a struggle between Republic and Sith more than 3,500 years before the events in the Star Wars films.

The film chronicles much of his life, and depicts key historical events that deeply affected the course of Jiro's life, including the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, the Great Depression, the tuberculosis epidemic and Japan's plunge into war.

The unseen events bookending Easy Rawlins» (Denzel Washington) transition from disaffected war veteran to private investigator - namely his former criminal escapades with a trigger - happy associate in Texas (Don Cheadle) versus his further adventures as a fully - fledged gumshoe - unfortunately sound a lot more interesting than the story we are being told, making this feel like a sequel to, or a two - hour trailer for, an even better film.

After the trailer launch tickets will officially go on sale for The Force Awakens, as well as for a seven - movie marathon event that will show every single Star Wars film at theaters around the country.

This original film takes place prior to events of the Clancy's book series and is not based on any of the Cold War novel plots despite a young Ryan, who is stock broker working for a billionaire in Moscow, finding himself recruited by the CIA to foil his employer's terrorist plot to collapse the US economy.

As we gradually learn more information about the upcoming Avengers: Infinity Wars — the two - part Marvel film event that is essentially the culmination of every single Marvel Studios movie up until now — one thing becomes clear: This shit is complicated as hell.

The crew describe that the film was supposed to «fracture» the team before the events of Avengers: Infinity War.

With today's debut of the official trailer for «Star Wars: Rogue One,» a standalone installment of the intergalactic franchise about the events leading up to the original film, we've got lightsabers on the brain.

The most recent trailer for Avengers: Infinity War revealed more of Thanos» plan, and its own connections to the events of one of the comics that inspired the film in the first place, The Infinity Gauntlet.

This isn't a for sure thing, Marvel might ask them to make another Avengers event like Secret War or a fourth Captain America film like Serpent Society.

But while «War Dogs» occupies a similar space as Adam McKay's Oscar - winning dramedy, it doesn't really have anything important to say — or rather, the important stuff feels like an afterthought compared to the dramatized events at the center of the film.

It's uncertain if the film even has a firm opinion of our sitting president, for with Sawyer's reductive preachings about a stereotypical black upbringing, and actions to end a «limitless war on terror» that plainly contradict current events, the movie is both a simplistic Obama insult and an aspirational Obama fantasy (and if you don't think it's channeling our real - life president, look no further than the Easter egg of Nicorette gum, which Sawyer keeps in his own nightstand).

The studio will continue exploring this side and more with films such as Ant - Man and the Wasp and Captain Marvel, as well as the fourth Avengers film, following the events in Avengers: Infinity War.

Well, in the case of Avengers: Infinity War, we get a solidly entertaining event film that still may leave viewers wanting more, even if they're unsure what more the writers and directors could have done.

The events of the film take place before Han Solo makes his debut in Star Wars: Episode IV — A New Hope, and Chewbacca will be playing a key role.

Pacific Rim Uprising Rated PG - 13 for sequences of sci - fi violence and action, and some language Rotten Tomatoes Score: 46 % In Theaters Years after the events of the first film, John Boyega (Finn from Star Wars) is a promising young Jaeger pilot who has abandoned his military career to explore a life of crime.

What is known about where the film sits within the Star Wars canon is that the events take place between that of Thrawn and Tarkin.

Directed by Sean Ellis, the film is set in World War II and based on the true events of «Operation Anthropoid», a mission where Czech operatives were to assassinate SS officer Reinhard Heydrich.

«Rogue One takes place before the events of Star Wars: A New Hope and will be a departure from the saga films but have elements that are familiar to the Star Wars universe,» says Kathleen Kennedy.

The film starts off with some awkward, painfully lame flashback scenes of Kyle's childhood and transitions into an opening act that is loaded with full - on patriotism that sees him go to war to get back at the people who brought suffering to our doorstep in the events of 9/11 (he was already enlisted, but if we believe the film that decision was also motivated by seeing news footage of American lives being taken), but one of the most interesting surprises is how balanced it eventually becomes and how we see the way that Kyle's actions negatively impact others and how even he begins to question his commitment to the cause, despite the fact that he would never vocalize it.

Set between the two World Wars and inspired by actual events, «Bitter Harvest» is the first major dramatic film to convey the untold story of the Holodomor, the genocidal famine engineered by Joseph Stalin that killed millions in Ukraine.

Much of this overlong film is of the gold rush, becoming tedious despite the importance of its discovery, while the more involving ones deal with events surrounding World War One.

They were merely foils that watched as events unfolded around them as those films became simply a means to setup the events of Star Wars.

«Solo: A Star Wars Story» is a standalone film in the franchise featuring characters including Han Solo, Lando Calrissian and Chewbacca before the events in «Star Wars.»

THE GENERAL is perhaps Buster Keaton's best - known films, is inspired by a true story of an event that occurred during the American Civil War, as adapted from the memoir The Great Locomotive Chase by William Pittenger.

To the shock (and horror) of fans, the first female - led MCU movie won't be a Black Widow movie, but a solo movie for Captain Marvel - and after the events of Infinity War, it's shaping up to be one of the most exciting films on Marvel Studios» upcoming slate.

Taking place just before the events of A New Hope, the film stars Felicity Jones stars as Jyn Erso, who from this trailer alone is already in the running for one of the great Star Wars characters.

First of all, beginning / featuring the Civil War itself, which is a huge event... featuring Black Panther, who is going to go on to get his own film, and now evidently Daniel Bruhl will be playing a villain who may go on to be the villain of Doctor Strange.

Exclusive: Avengers: Infinity War co-director Joe Russo confirms that the long - awaited Reality Gem will be put to use in the MCU event film.

The most recent Star Wars movies, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and Star Wars: The Last Jedi, have either led directly into or picked up almost directly from the events of another film in the saga.

While based on true events, 5 Days of War contains blatant fictional elements which stick out like a sore thumb, including Hollywood - style split - second timing and other contrived scenarios that damage the film's integrity.

Star Wars: The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson broke convention by commencing The Last Jedi directly after the events of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, foregoing the usual time jump between films.

Avengers: Infinity War, the third entry in the Avengers cycle («the greatest cinematic event of our lifetimes» might sound like hyperbole, but it's closer to the truth than not), confirms Thanos (voiced and mo - capped by Josh Brolin), the purple - skinned, scrotal - chinned, big - muscled bodybuilder with a God Complex not just as probably the greatest supervillain put on film, but quite possibly the first Malthusian supervillain in or out of the Marvel Industrial Complex.

In any case, the film presents the history through an Israeli narrative of events, starting from its depiction of the Six Day War, to the rise of Hamas and Islamic Jihad.

In a rare turn of events that suggests maybe we're not living in the darkest timeline after all, this category — usually home to the most devastating and despair - inducing glimpses inside war zones and historical atrocities — includes zero films about the Holocaust, Syria, or murder.

The film stops in one last time with Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) and her friends; events take a much darker turn as all twelve districts are at war with the Capitol.

The film is set before the events of Avengers: Infinity War, as Scott Lang has gone home to be with his family as opposed to joining Captain America's team of underground superheroes.

The film is set a full decade before the events of Star Wars: A New Hope, which means there's still room for further adventures of young Han Solo.

Their mission set up the events that sparked very first Star Wars film, Star Wars: Episode IV — A New Hope, but we never knew who they were or what they went through to get the plans to Princess Leia.

At the same time, Civil War is arguably a better Marvel Cinematic Universe crossover «event» than either of the first two Avengers films, when it comes to delivering balanced amounts of standalone plot development, universe - building, and superhero - based spectacle.

In the new «Star Wars» spinoff film «Solo: A Star Wars Story,» in theaters May 25, Alden Ehrenreich plays a younger version of Harrison Ford's swaggering, swashbuckling smuggler in an adventure set years before the events of the original trilogy.

And despite most of the characters having already been introduced and fleshed out prior to the events of the film, Infinity War will still have to make time for each to get their own moment to shine, while also making way for Josh Brolin's Thanos, who audiences will finally get to spend some real time with after years of cameo appearances in previous Marvel films.

The film is set in 1938, near the beginning of the Shōwa era in Japan, a tempestuous period that ended in 1989 with Hirohito's death and included such major traumatic events as the Sino - Japanese War, WWII, and the Allied occupation of Japan.