Sentences with phrase «wars film out»

With a new Star Wars film out soon (what, you hadn't heard?)

We've gone through the trouble of collecting what the critics are saying about Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and the overall consensus is this may be the best Star Wars film out of the bunch.

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Since then, the film argues, a variety of measures — from Jim Crow laws to President Richard Nixon's «war on drugs» and President Bill Clinton's «three - strikes - you're - out» legislation — have served to send increasingly large numbers of black men in prison, and several legal scholars and activists interviewed on camera suggest a profit motive at work, as well as racism.

This is more than the Cold War's simple fixation on Russian villains, however, with StudioCanal producing, for example, «The Tracking of a Russian Spy,» which sees Logan Lerman play a journalist who travels to Russia and becomes a tool of the Kremlin, in a film which sets out to tackle ideas of fake news and disinformation campaigns.

«Jaws» became the highest grossing film of all time until «Star Wars» beat it out two years later.

Netflix was also shut out in the award show's film categories, with the streaming service's original feature film Mudbound failing to win either of its two nominations, while the Cambodian Civil War drama First They Killed My Father also fell short in the foreign film category.

We already know that Star Wars: The Force Awakens set records at the box office, but on Tuesday we will find out more about the blockbuster film's ultimate impact on Walt Disney's (dis) bottom line in the first quarter of the entertainment giant's fiscal year.

This satire on war and politics came out in 1933, and Mussolini banned the film in Italy.

GALLOWAY: The film became quite controversial when it came out because there were... People said it, you know, glorifies war or glorifies American snipers.

Co-producing Steven Spielberg's next film, a Cold War spy thriller due out in October 2015.

In the Best Picture race, the biggest hits were the World War II flick «Dunkirk,» which last year grossed around $ 188 million in U.S.ticket sales, good for 14th place on the box office charts, and Jordan Peele's horror film «Get Out,» which tucked in just below «Dunkirk» with $ 176 million in domestic sales.

It's not often that one leaves a movie theater feeling speechless, but anyone on the right side of the culture wars who views the recent film Blast from the Past will find his jaw scraping the sidewalk» and not out of disgust.

I just hope the rest of the Arsenal saga pans out like the first 6 Star Wars films, where Yankpaltine dies and Darth Wenger turns back to the light side of the force.

That line sort of conjures up the complementary images of investigators hard at work or, for the more imaginative listener, a soldier in a World War II combat film who falls on a grenade so his platoon can take out a German pillbox.

After seeing the 1983 film The Day After, in which Lawrence, Kan., is wiped out in a nuclear war with Russia, Reagan wrote in his diary that it «left me greatly depressed....

On Saturday 31 August, Stephen Bell will conduct a concert inspired by the stars, including Jupiter and Mars from Holst's ThePlanets, classics from Strauss, Mozart and John Williams, as well as a selection of out - of - this - world film music from blockbusters such as: Star Wars, Independence Day, E.T., Apollo 13, Close Encounters and more.

What once seemed sure to be a noble failure plagued by production woes, World War Z turns out to be one of the more captivating summer entertainments this year, a sprawling film that maintains an alluring sense of intimacy.

«World War Z» isn't your typical zombie movie, but rather a globe - trotting socio - political thriller that treats the zombies more like a viral disease than something out of a horror film.

From here on out, War of the Worlds is one lengthy but always gripping chase film as the massive alien tripods stalk hapless humans over hill and dale, blasting them into ash with vicious, serpentine ease while the military runs afoul of their seemingly invincible shields.

Both he and Thor sat out of Captain America: Civil War for this adventure, and while they weren't missed in that film, their presence will likely be much desired in future entries, as their banter and interplay in this version that injects some energy into their antics rejuvenates stale ideas.

Early features (produced mostly in Australia) included Praise (1998), Dogwatch (1999), and Erskineville Kings (1999), but Edgerton came into his own with his popular ongoing turn as Will McGill on the Aussie soaper The Secret Life of Us, then branched out into increased international exposure with onscreen contributions to two of George Lucas» Star Wars films, Star Wars: Episode II — Attack of the Clones (2002) and Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith (2005).

The film's third act hinges not only on containing the outbreak of an all - out Wakandan civil war, but on stopping Vibranium weapons from leaving Wakanda's borders, destined to be used on foreign soil.

Along those lines, a slow - motion nightmare of war violence that plagues Georges in his sleep feels out of place compared to the understated calm that marks the rest of the film.

With two Pixar films (Inside Out and The Good Dinosaur), an Avengers sequel, Brad Bird's Tomorrowland, and the first of many planned Star Wars sequels on the calendar for the year ahead, 2015 should easily be Disney's biggest year to date.

Steven Spielberg's sturdy, gripping film is about the «Pentagon Papers,» a secret history of the Vietnam War which the government compiled, laying out the schemes, blunders and lies to cover all that up, and which that government never wanted to see the light of day — especially not while the national nightmare of Vietnam was still going on.

One of the very few important or notable films to come out of RKO after World War II, it remains a regular subject of showings at revival theaters, a popular video, and a widely regarded classic.

Sure, there was some commentary about war profiteering early on in the Iron Man films, and Captain America: The Winter Soldier glanced upon the idea of selling out privacy and freedom in the name of security.

The unit's work was top secret, its members» experiences, recounted in this film, fascinating above all for what they tell about the determined inventiveness, the all - out ambition to try everything, characteristic of that war effort.

It's a modest film for those sci - fi connoisseurs who flip out over paranoiac Cold War flicks about outsiders as dangerous foes.

The amateur editing and diecting makes the film neither realistic as a war film, nor fun as an all - out action hero / comedy film.

Those six films should properly prepare you for Avengers: Infinity War and for it's follow - up, which will come out May 3rd of next year.

It is a large lake but a fragile one and this film points out how war and poverty often provide mankind with no choice but to introduce destructive species into ecosystems.

A period piece, of course, the film starts out in the mid to late 1940's, as America was finally done with the second World War and Hollywood was booming.

Such a principle applies to a film like Avengers: Infinity War, which is the end result of a decade of filmmaking (and the 19th Marvel movie out of the gate).

Both characters have been conspicuously left out of Infinity War's first part, but the final moment of the film's post-credit scene suggests Brie Larson's Captain Marvel will be a key part in resurrecting this flurry of «dead» Avengers, and bringing down Thanos in the process.

While the last three films have introduced proper villains with fleshed out motivations and incredible power, Infinity War is the first time that the Marvel Cinematic Universe has a genocidal murderer as a protagonist.

The first Star Wars spinoff beat out the long - awaited Finding Nemo sequel, Finding Dory, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, the new Jason Bourne film and Captain America: Civil War.

Even if Disney's Bob Iger doesn't want anyone to view Rogue One as a political film, we all know Star Wars is very political, and that Rogue One is coming out at an unusual time for American audiences.

Now, as Garcia pointed out, she's biased about that Star Wars project because it features Alden Ehrenreich, who starred in the film adaptation of her book, Beautiful Creatures.

Expectations are high for the character's first solo outing, with the assumption that the film will set up the big showdown in Infinity War.

Other superhero films coming out in 2016 include Doctor Strange, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, X-Men: Apocalypse and Captain America: Civil War.

While Christopher Nolan has enlisted a number of A-list stars for his upcoming World War II epic Dunkirk, 19 - year - old newcomer Fionn Whitehead (Him) is set to take on the lead role in his feature film debut, and Entertainment Weekly has released a new image of his character, the young British soldier Collins; check it out here... -LSB-...]

If you're not lucky enough to be at South by Southwest film festival this week, then you're missing out on the world premiere of the new Star Wars: The Last Jedi production documentary The Director and the Jedi.

As proof that the «Star Wars» saga inspired a generation of filmmakers, check out this list of tiny nods and references in other films.

Junge, detained in Russia for a period at the end of World War II before finding work as a magazine editor, treats the unseen Heller like a priest; one might say that her regret drives the piece, resulting in not a lurid film about Hitler (which has disappointed those critics out for something pulpier), but a deathbed confession.

Captain America: Civil War was smart enough to act as a soft origin story for Black Panther, using a handful of well - placed scenes to introduce the character among the melee of the rest of the film, so that when Black Panther proper came out, we were already more or less up to speed.

Pike has a number of anticipated films rolling out over the coming months including the Weinstein Company's World War II drama - adventure HHhH opposite Jason Clark and Jack O'Connell and Amma Asante's A United Kingdom.

Directed by Steven Spielberg, one of America's most accomplished modern - era directors, the film is both technically and emotionally powerful, rudely propelling its audience into the sheer nightmare of the war arena in order to shock it out of its customarily passive role and engender some level of emotional identification with its key characters.

And the scene that immediately follows is not even remotely funny — it's straight out of a war film.

The title of Glorious 39, a film now out on Blu - ray from Entertainment One, refers to the generally marvelous weather that characterized summer in England as the war in Europe approached in 1939.