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The animated Star Wars series took home the award for Best Animated TV Series.

Not exact matches

That's because in the world of Amazon's series, based on the novel by Philip K. Dick, the Axis powers won World War II and occupied America, where a scrappy resistance movement is taking shape.

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.

It even takes us back to a time shortly before and during World War I when the Sox actually won the World Series regularly, much to the delight of saloonkeeper Michael T. («Nuf Ced) McGreevey and his Royal Rooters.

The group, pulled together by my agency, Public First, and the UCL - based Institute for Strategy, Security & Resilience, took part in a war game to consider how a series of events might play out across Europe.

Yes, there were a series of civil wars, but those wars took place under the republic.

There are so many games i've played it would take a long time to type it but i will say my favorite series are Halo, Gears of War, Mass Effect, God of War, Dragon Age, Saints Row, and Battlefield.

The first reason is the historical one due to the Second World War and the infinite series of conflicts that took place in the last century.

This three - part series takes a deep look into the history of holy wars from the Crusades, to Islamic warriors and to Luthers Reformation.

«The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies» (2014) Box Office Take: $ 955m 21st Century Box Office Ranking: 23 When the «Lord of the Rings» series arrived at the start of the century, their tactility, wit and humanity served as a blessed relief for epic fantasy fans after the airless «Star Wars» prequels had disappointed so.

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.

These were a series of historical novels taking place during the time of the Napoleonic wars, following the exploits of Captain Jack Aubrey (Crowe, A Beautiful Mind) and his friend and companion, Stephen Maturin (Bettany, A Knight's Tale), surgeon and insatiable scientist.

The third installment of the Risen series, the game will take place in a world where the gods have abandoned and the lands suffer from the Titan Wars.

Also, for those paying close attention, the series is a contextually and satisfyingly feminist take on war.

It also takes a page from the Fire Emblem Heroes app in that many of the forces drawn to help wage war actually hail from other times and worlds in the Fire Emblem universe, including series favourites like Chrom, Lucina, Frederick, Ryoma, and Camilla.

Set in Germany on the eve of the First World War, his story takes place within the suffocating confines of the director's own village of the damned, where a series of suspicious accidents threatens the harmony of a seemingly tight - knit Protestant community.

It should be interesting to see where he takes the series since most consider God of War 2 the best entry in the series.

Maybe my expectations were duly lowered but director Francis Lawrence, who took over the series from filmmaker Gary Ross and raised the bar, and screenwriters Peter Craig and Danny Strong turn out a surprisingly engaging film about rebellion, propaganda, media, and the emotional and psychological scars of war, all seen from the point of view of a young woman (Jennifer Lawrence) who becomes a symbol of resistance simply by surviving with courage, dignity, and compassion.

But in a series as clean - cut and populist as Star Wars, it takes some guts to suggest that the heroic Rebellion might make people question its goals.

Yesterday, the news that HBO's Game of Thrones duo, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, will take on writing and producing duties for a new series of Star Wars films dominated the internet — and probably not for the reason that Lucasfilm had hoped.

Earlier this week we saw an IMAX poster for The Divergent Series: Allegiant [take a look here], and now two new TV spots have arrived online, entitled «Go Beyond» and «War».

We went in order of the films (actually, I guess that's controversial in itself), starting with Anakin Skywalker, Obi - Wan Kenobi and Ahsoka Tano in «Twilight of the Republic», a Play Set that takes place not only across Star Wars» first three films, but the Clone Wars television series as well.

As a series of complications takes the trio from New York to Saint Louis to Salt Lake City to Las Vegas, the trauma of war is never far from the surface, but the movie has a healthy sense of humor that lets Burger examine their emotional isolation without sinking into a bog of despair.

The lives of their servants and hangers - on are also the subject of much of the show's running time, and the three series to date have taken in the sinking of the Titanic, World War I, Spanish flu and the Marconi scandal.

With the arrival of the newest iteration in the series, film critics took to the internet this week to give their verdict on Solo: A Star Wars Story,.

Civil War, like the Marvel comic book crossover series (written by Mark Millar and illustrated by Steve McNiven) that it loosely adapts, revolves around superheroes being split over a registration act, with Steven Rogers and Tony Stark leading the opposing sides - so, it's only fitting that Steve and Tony's plot threads take priority here over other characters» storylines.

This week sees the worldwide release of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, the first in a series of stand - alone films taking place in the famed franchise's universe.

The latest film in the Star Wars franchise takes the viewer through a series of daring escapades with young Han Solo (Alden Ehrenreich) meets his future co-pilot Chewbacca (Joonas Suotamo) and encounters the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian (Donald Glover).

The War of the Roses (1989) You may not know that the title is taken from a series of dynasty wars for the throne of 15th Century England, so smart and acerbic was this darker than dark Danny DeVito directed film about a couple that goes from love to pure hatred over the course of a marriage.

Starring in the film are Toby Kebbell (War for the Planet of the Apes, Kong: Skull Island, Gold), Maggie Grace (Taken series, The Choice, TV's «Lost»), and Ryan Kwanten (TV's «True Blood,» «The Oath»).

Mockingjay Part Two concludes the series and will see Katniss Everdeen, played by Jennifer Lawrence, take a stand as war is declared on the Capitol.

The payoff finally came when Marvel confirmed the coming of Infinity War, the studio's biggest movie yet, named for the comic series in which Thanos united the Infinity Stones to take over the universe.

It feels like an extended episode of The Clone Wars TV show, as if the series» Executive Producer Dave Filoni took a bunch of ideas he might have had for a missing season 7 and dropped them straight into the game.

The Captain America films are generally the best of the MCU series (although the main characters in Civil War acting completely out of character takes me out of the film every time I see it).

The next game in the Battlefield series has been announced, and it will take place during World War I. Titled Battlefield 1,...

3.0 takes Star Wars to a whole new level, making this entry the most, adventurous, polished and innovative in the series.

What began as a slick and stylish genre flick with a clever twist on vampire / werewolf mythology has quickly devolved into a series of dull and moronic sequels, none more so than «Blood Wars,» which takes the cake for the way it so carelessly defies logic.

The latest installment in the «Planet of the Apes» franchise (arguably the best series in cinematic history), «War for the Planet of the Apes» is concerned less with spectacle than it is with delving into how one defines humanity and what are the right paths to take in order to claim rightful equality.

With Earth's Mightiest Heroes set to go up against the villain on the big screen this May in Avengers: Infinity War, Hasbro is set to add the Mad Titan to its Marvel Legends Series line with a Walmart exclusive Thanos figure; take a look at the figure below, and you can also check out promo -LSB-...]

Sure, the overall take was dominated by familiar franchise titles in the «Star Wars» and Marvel series as well as mainstream smashes like «Beauty and the Beast» and «Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle.»

As a true blend of sci - fi and horror, the Alien series takes the aesthetic of films like Star Wars and marries it to the serial nature of horror franchises like A Nightmare on Elm Street.

Take a look to this new series of promo posters of Avengers Infinity War, the upcoming superhero action movie sequel directed by Anthony Russo:

The series aims to explore the threat of Osama bin Laden and Al - Qaeda, and takes a controversial look at how the rivalry between the CIA and FBI may have inadvertently set the stage for the tragedy of 9/11 and the war in Iraq.

In fact, the movie Clone Wars takes place somewhere in between the second and third seasons of TV's «Clone Wars» (also between Episodes II and III) and itself set up a new Cartoon Network television series that debuted early last month.

The tale of Luke (Scott Eastwood, yep, he's Clint's son) and Sophie (Britt Robertson, «Delivery Man») takes place in the present, while the saga of Ira (Jack Huston, «American Hustle») and Ruth (Oona Chaplin, «Game of Thrones» TV series) is set during World War II.

Publisher Maximum Games are best known for their Farming Simulator series but they have decided to take a more serious approach to games and introduce a new game set in the Cold War era.

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A brand new Star Wars animated series launched today called Forces of Destiny and the first webisode takes place in the timeline of The Force Awakens.

Tiny Metal appears to be the a game that has basically taken inspiration from the Advance Wars series at first glance, however the developers have attempted to add their own twist to the gameplay here, and this is something that might be divisive depending on how much you have enjoyed Advance Wars.

This film takes place before the events of A New Hope and is the first of the Star Wars Stories series.