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In the wake of Fabio Guaglione and Fabio Resinaro's Mine and Fernando Coimbra's Sand Castle, which came and went without much fanfare, Doug Liman's The Wall arrives to see if there's any juice left in war films without the scope and spectacle with which they're typically associated.

Not exact matches

Without spoiling anything, Avengers: Infinity War wastes no time establishing itself as a Marvel film like no other.

Seeing the movie Concussion is like seeing the new Star Wars movie, Omalu: The Force Awakens without watching the six previous films.

A 2005 film would focus on the fact that V, who - like Dredd, his opposite - is never seen without his mask, was a terrorist and used it to chime with the «war on terror» narrative of the day.

What's impressive is that, where earlier films revolved around solving a mystery, this one shifts to a war footing without losing its emphasis on character and emotion.

It takes ba ** s to come right after Avengers: Infinity War, one of the biggest superhero movies of all time and sh ** on its star power by presenting a film that's more entertaining, engaging, relatable and immersive (without relying on 3D).

Third - billed Domhnall Gleeson is good enough in his sporadic role, which virtually guarantees him two Best Picture Oscar nominees this year (along with Brooklyn) and a presence in four of the year's most acclaimed films (with Ex Machina and Star Wars: The Force Awakens) without being terribly noteworthy or conspicuous in any of them.

The youngsters» tug - o - war courtship is the film's everything — without it, the Byzantium would amount to nothing more than a good looking plot machine.

Dated stylistically, the film nonetheless holds your interest with comedy and romance elements that give way to slightly less scintillating war action without losing you.

I wrote at the time that his music for Dawn of the Planet of the Apes — while a very fine film score — wasn't one of his most engaging albums, with its dark tone and great length; and while he uses that score as a springboard (and reprises some of its material), Giacchino takes War off in different directions and in doing so solves the problems that led to its predecessor being better within the film than without it.

It goes without saying that Batman Begins is the best prequel of the summer, a film that allows Liam Neeson as Bruce Wayne's mentor / surrogate father figure to make amends for The Phantom Menace and offers a peek, along with Peter Jackson's The Fellowship of the Ring, at the full grim panorama of what the Star Wars films have squandered.

Four heroes, three villains, and a bevy of interchangeable love interests are already a lot for a film to handle without also throwing in a (seemingly) over-complicated plot involving steampunk - y war blimps.

Despite Tolkien's adamant argument against the existence of allegory in his novel, it's difficult to watch the film without thinking of the world political climate before and during the first years of World War II.

It goes without saying that one should enter a Star Wars film knowing as little as possible.

A cobbled - together droid without an owner will certainly be a departure for fans of the Star Wars films, which have largely separated droids into various categories like Assassin, Astromech and Protocol, among many others, most of which are delineated into a sole purpose and are property of an owner — if not a faction to which they are allied.

The Han Solo standalone film, currently without a title or any plot details, will be set prior to Episode IV (as will another forthcoming spinoff: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story).

I'm still going to bet that the film with the Best Picture nomination is the best bet to win (13/15 out of the past winners have had BP nominations — and no film since they expanded Best Picture has won the Eddie without a Best Pic nod), although honestly Star Wars: The Force Awakens could totally take it (and then take the Oscar too).

Some critics have felt this film lacks engagement with the local population or the wider scope of the war, but surely that's exactly the point: these soldiers are just ordinary blokes (they're all blokes), a long way from home, doing an incredibly dangerous job without much sense of why.

If you've seen the movie and want to discuss details about the film without worrying about spoiling it for those who haven't seen it, please head over to our Civil War Spoilers Discussion - or check out our breakdown of Captain America: Civil War's Biggest Spoilers & Reveals.

The film arrived at Sundance without a distribution deal in place, and despite this series not historically making enormous box office returns, they're sufficiently well - loved that most sources are predicting a lively bidding war later in the festival.

Of course, with the film essentially serving as Thanos» film, it wouldn't be an Infinity War line without the Mad Titan himself.

In the vein of MASH, this is a wartime film without any war, replacing bullets and bombs with a group of young women bored to death by the menial office work they are charged with as part of their required military service.

All told, nearly three quarters of the film is spent trying to decode Assange without much to show for it, but it's only in the final act that «The Fifth Estate» decides to engage and try to discuss the ethics, morals and consequences of WikiLeaks work — in particular around the release of the Afghanistan War Logs — in any substantive way, but again a lack of courage on behalf of the filmmakers to take any position renders the film narratively limp.

Directed by Mel Gibson, the film is based on the true story of Desmond Doss, who saved many soldiers without firing a weapon in a World War II battle.

The event of a Star Wars film brings the nostalgia of fans young and old for months or years on end without ever tethering.

Even without the ongoing storylines of the main characters to worry about, there are at least 5 comics Infinity War is based on, or adapting parts of to film.

While The Last Jedi does makes nods and references to other Star Wars films, it maintains a uniqueness seen through its plot twists and creative uses of the force, however it does not go without fault.

Without a doubt, «Star Wars: The Last Jedi» was one of the most divisive films of last year.

When one character says that the only way to live free is to not join, it's the film's encapsulation of what constitutes a bad guy: Star Wars films are testaments to the idea that nobody, not even a Jedi Master, can go it alone without getting destroyed.

The strange thing about The War of the Roses is that it's a film that wouldn't work at all without its reaction shots.

by Walter Chaw For me, the James Bond films are the literalization of a very particular Conservative fantasy in which a suave, quippy, emotionally - arrested sociopath battles Cold War foes, beds beautiful women without consequence, always has the latest technology, and engages in the endless murder of foreigners.

Infinity War is a film without a beginning and an end, leaving us with nothing but a ridiculously entertaining middle.

Without further ado, join me as I examine the first look at what's sure to be one of next year's biggest films, Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens.

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Films we're looking forward to in the next week include: God of War, Girl Without Hands, The Little Hours, Godspeed, Pendular, Person to Person, Napping Princess, and two films I saw and liked at Vancouver last fall: Ken Loach's I, Daniel Blake, and João Pedro Rodrigues's The Ornithologist,

It's really tough to say more about the actual events of Infinity War without ruining the experience — however, there's something to be said for the lengths to which this film goes to give an air of finality and consequence to the Marvel Universe.

It's the first «Star Wars» film without a single use of the Force, the first without Anakin Skywalker or any of his descendants, the first to be largely unconcerned with broader galactic politics and the first to contain anything that could pass as a dirty joke.

The characters themselves seem to have just been taken from every war film ever made without any of the emotional depth or charisma and thus whatever relationships they have seemed forced and unnatural.