Sentences with phrase «wars movie about»

The most overlooked masterwork of 2017 — a minimalist war movie about a couple of American solders in the Middle East pinned down by an Iraqi sniper behind a ravaged wall.

That's how long it took George Lucas to amass the money, the men and the might to produce a top - flight war movie about a...

The only film of the ten that I would call «bad,» a grossly slick war movie about a female military interpreter's hellish first day on the job.

It looks like a war movie about life in England during the London Blitz, when air raids by German planes were a daily fact of life.

A war movie about a woman and her dog appeared to be a concept that's equal parts adorable and heartbreaking.

THE VERDICT: A war movie about indecision?

Out: Now screening (M, 134 minutes) Director: Gareth Edwards Cast: Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Ben Mendelsohn Outline: Set in the day and hours before 1977's original Star Wars, the first side story from the now Disney - owned galaxy far, far away is a dry heister thriller that becomes a war movie about the necessity of sacrifice, with the rebels led by the wayward Jyn Erso (Jones) and the wary Cassian Andor (Luna).

Hong Kong action stalwart Tsui Hark updates a popular Chinese opera into a half - square / half - bizarre historical war movie about the fight between the People's Liberation Army and a thousand - strong horde of bandits.

Not exact matches

Of course, complaints about the proliferation of sequels tend to be much louder in the wake of a high - profile flop than they are after the release of financially and critically successful follow - ups (see: Disney's Marvel and Star Wars franchises, or the Despicable Me and Hunger Games movies, to name a few — though, some movies still make a ton of money despite toxic reviews).

Brie Larson's Captain Marvel could make a brief appearance or cameo in «Infinity War» to get us even more excited about 2019's «Captain Marvel,» the first female - led movie in the MCU.

A landmark faux - documentary about the Algerian War in the late 1950s and early 1960s against the French government in North Africa, the movie was banned in France for six years due to its pro-Algerian message.

The company has done well with several of its movie franchises, such as Kung Fu Panda, Madagascar and Shrek, but it doesn't have anything that really compares to the Star Wars library or the Marvel franchise (although Shrek has pulled in about $ 3.5 billion since the original movie in 2001).

In addition to Bright, Netflix recently bought a war - movie satire by Brad Pitt and a drama about a Cambodian human - rights activist, directed by Pitt's wife, Angelina Jolie Pitt.

«I was in «The Book of Henry,» the movie that Colin Trevorrow directed, and we talked about [«Star Wars»] a great deal.

LAS VEGAS — The summer movie going season roared to life with the record - breaking opening weekend for «Avengers: Infinity War,» but industry leaders want audiences and theater owners to know that a healthy movie business is not just about the superheroes.

What it's about: «Sargeant York» may have been about World War I — a sharpshooter becomes an unexpected hero after attacking and capturing a German position using the same strategy as turkey hunting — but the American - proud movie became a point of major discussion in the United States over the merits of entering World War II.

What it's about: «Empire» surpassed even the first «Star Wars» movie in fame, with its unforgettable twist at the end and meditative scenes of Luke training with Yoda.

In other words, Star Wars characters can't play with Marvel ones in the level packs made about Marvel movies.

Casting rumors have abounded for JJ Abrams» new Star Wars movie since, as many celebrities have noted, just about everyone in Hollywood has been auditioning for a part.

Instead of reading about a make - belief - «Mormon war» — I encourage all to rent the movie, «September Dawn» starring Jon Voight if you really want a history on the Mormon belief system.

Now that they are in school it's all clicking by too fast and we're talking about middle school and sleepovers, Star Wars movies and Percy Jackson books, baseball and Minecraft.

We learn about them by watching them in action and make no mistake, the action scenes are among the best you could hope to find in a Star Wars movie.

Whenever I'm struggling with doubts about God or questioning my faith, I make sure to avoid my most notorious faith crisis trigger: war movies.

Although I was raised in West Virginia, I first learned about these events as a nearly grown man when I saw the movie Matewan, John Sayles's cinematic vision of the seminal events of the mine wars.

When I was a boy, Hollywood taught America about June 6, 1944 in The Longest Day: a fine movie, but rather antiseptic in its portrayal of World War II combat.

Disney and Lucasfilm have until this point been cagey about details regarding their next Star Wars movie, likely due to the directorial shakeup that happened at the end of production, when Phil Lord and Christopher Miller were ousted in favor of Ron Howard.

The boys watched some Star Wars movie this past week with Danny, and since then, a quote from the flick has come up more than once, as he reminded them about homework, chores and general productivity:

What about last year when many invested in overpriced cinema tickets and online movie subscriptions to watch Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

On a seemingly slight tangent though ultimately related note, the latest Star Wars movie can give us an indication of the more general perspective about the distribution of earnings.

«Cons» weren't widely trafficked family affairs at McCormick Place filled studded with current TV and blockbuster movie stars, they were modest gatherings in Rosemont hotels where outcasts traded VHS tapes of the fabled «Star Wars Holiday Special» and muttered about watching «C - beams glitter in the dark, near the Tannhäuser Gate.»

However, all opinions about the incredibly thrilling and action packed movie, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, now available on Blu - ray are 100 % mine.

The war of Charlie Wilson (movie about US support for Afghanistan, I don't know the name of the political instrument, however the movie is entertaining and educational)

(Airs 5/10/18 @ 1 p.m.) WAMC's Alan Chartock in a 2010 encore conversation with the late Pulitzer Prize winning Journalist Syndey Schanberg and Actor Sam Waterston about the Killing Fields, the movie inspired by Schanberg's coverage of the civil war in Cambodia during the 1970s.

A movie about a young Hillary would be inspiring to female voters who want to battle the ongoing war on women by Republicans.

I mean, it's too bad about the crew member, but it is rare indeed for a movie to show silence in space (see the entry for Star Wars — though television's Firefly gets it right).

For example, there is more than you could ever want to know about the machine that inspired the game - theorising computer in the cult teen movie War Games.

In this wide - ranging, humorous talk, Seth Shostak takes a look at Star Wars and other science fiction films from the point of view of a skeptical scientist, tells stories about the movies he has been asked to advise, and muses about aliens from space and how we might make contact with them.

However, all opinions about the incredibly thrilling and action packed movie, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, now available on Blu - ray are 100 % mine.

The Hollywood Actor told me all about his different projects, including his recent on - screen demise in a war movie that will hopefully be showing at the Sundance Film Festival.

The main player for the turn selects three cards from his hand and lays them down, describing his character — for example, for a male character: «war weapons collector, spends his holidays in Kazakhstan, likes movies about gladiators.»

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We went to a movie before dinner, After a month of dating, It was my best date ever because I immediately knew how serious he was about me, culture The Greatest Date Movies of All Movies for Date Night The Best War Movies Ever.

This is a quite marvelous movie that will just raise your hype for «Infinity War» and what's about to come.

While this movie has some themes that would fall in line with the religion that is practiced in Iran, it's far more about the Iran - Iraq war that took place during the 80s.

According to U-571, Americans captured the first German Engima machine in 1944 that brought about the turning point of the war; in reality, the Polish revolutionaries (why didn't Wajda get a chance to make this into a movie) stole it from the Germans in 1941 and gave it to the British who struggled to decipher its complicated encoding style.

Eastwood has directed five war movies and acted in others, and he knows there's no single truth to convey about combat.

Her latest Polish film, the tough, unsentimental In Darkness, brings together themes from two of the most highly regarded movies about the second world war, Wajda's Kanal, about Nazi troops pursuing resistance workers through the Warsaw sewers in 1944, and Schindler's List, Spielberg's true story of the quixotic German industrialist who saved the lives of more than 1,000 Jewish workers in wartime Poland.

The fine movie about quiet English life between world wars.

But this also means that when major, life - changing events happen in the world of the Marvel movies — like the ending of Infinity War, in which half of all sentient beings in the universe are erased from existence — they're rarely given the weight they should have, beyond some of the characters expressing, «I am feeling bad about this.»

I think a story with... I don't want to say «broader appeal» about a movie on its way to becoming the most successful ever, so let's say «more conventional plotting» could have been created for Infinity War if it had opened with Thanos already possession of 3 or 4 of the stones.