Sentences with phrase «action cinema»

Forty years of action cinema grammar, all set to a beat.

Do not get me wrong CGI is great, for animation, but still needs some working on for live action cinema.

It is action cinema as pulp mythology and it is exhilarating.

Korean cinema has always been an original source of action cinema.

Irma Vep had New Wave icon Jean Pierre Leaud playing an addled director who casts Maggie Cheung out the Hong Kong action cinema of Johnnie To and Jackie Chan, and dropped her onto a dysfunctional Parisian film set to shoot an avant - garde remake of iconic silent french serial Les Vampires.

To see more coverage of the 2017 Sundance Film Festival go here Taylor Sheridan has spent the last couple years establishing himself as the strongest scribe working in action cinema today.

Both of the most recent Tsui films that I've seen, the kung fu whodunnit Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame and Flying Swords of Dragon Gate, his second remake of the 1967 King Hu film Dragon Gate Inn, which remains after 45 years one of great masterpieces of action cinema from anywhere in the world, feature extensive use of CGI, though both are significantly more grounded in reality than Zu Warriors.

That The Italian Job»03 is lacklustre is no surprise: a lack of heart is the malady of modern action cinema in general and unnecessary remakes in particular.

The two sequels directed by Paul Greengrass are even better as Damon becomes the great anti-Bond of Hollywood action cinema with The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum.

In fact, Kung Fu Panda 2 is the most representative and respectful appropriation of Hong Kong and Chinese action cinema by Western cinema since the Kill Bill films.

Damon becomes the great anti-Bond of Hollywood action cinema with The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum.

Free Fire has set a high standard for action cinema in 2017 and beyond.

When the dust settles, his stuff — along with the portfolios of guys like Doug Liman, for instance — will persist and present, if you're looking for one, an opportunity to trace the legacy of guys like John McTiernan and Walter Hill in American action cinema.

Taylor Sheridan has spent the last couple years establishing himself as the strongest scribe working in action cinema today.

Marshall knows how to work with a star studded casts, and his handle on action cinema is impressive, opting for choreography over shaky cam theatrics or CGI heavy fight sequences (as many first time action directors tend to do).

LMD: You have been a part of every important era in modern Hong Kong action cinema since the 1960's, very notably in the 1970's, in your own starring films throughout the 1980's, and recently in movies like SHA PO LANG, IP MAN and THREE KINGDOMS, you're seeing another new age in martial arts filmmaking.

The larger scope of the sequel allows for Evans to flesh out the narrative, but too many chatty gangsters almost cripple the momentum between incredible action sequences that certify Evans» ascension to a supreme action cinema maestro.

The larger scope of the sequel allows for Gareth Evans to flesh out the narrative, but too many chatty gangsters almost cripple the momentum between incredible action sequences that certify Evans» ascension to a supreme action cinema maestro.

South Korean genre cinema stepped up its game a decade ago, after Hong Kong was handed over to China and the film industry lost its primacy in Asian action cinema during the transition and turmoil.

The whole sequence is action cinema at its purest, with almost no dialogue, and an inevitable outcome set up and executed in a way that still inspires chuckles of delight.

Nowadays, Western action cinema typically comes in the form of either mind - numbing PG - 13 studio blockbusters or straight - to - video punch-fests.

Together with co-editor, co-writer and wife Amy Jump, Ben Wheatley brings the trademarks of 1970s action cinema into the 21st Century.

But its build - up is cresting in some high - octane action cinema sans the celluloid, with no less than three riveting plots rolled into one.

It's fairly exciting action cinema... [that] falls apart on the generally anemic, one - note characterisations and the lack of any particularly memorable performance.

Ghost Protocol is solid action cinema that thanks to several thrilling, if over long set pieces, plus a healthy sense of irony is almost on a par with the first film.

The less said about black sheep spin - off The Bourne Legacy the better, because Bourne's back: Matt Damon here reunites with Supremacy / Ultimatum director Paul Greengrass to show action cinema's Johnny - come - latelies how it's done.

It's a shame that one of contemporary action cinema's most consistently interesting (and entertaining) directors has to make his US theatrical debut with a movie that often feels lifeless and dull.

It all adds up to passable action cinema, but disappointingly generic for a Die Hard film.

In a year when Gareth Evans's next - to - plotless The Raid: Redemption offered a vision of a kind of pure action cinema, and Christopher Nolan capped off his largely entertaining, stiflingly serious...

Oddly enough, the wit is still there, but this time it's in the form of homages, both visual and aural, hearkening you back to the 70s schlock action cinema, full of revenge plots, martial arts gusto, and bad - ass mamas who aren't afraid to tussle with the big boys.

The film is a kind of variation on Chan's Police Story, also released in 1985 and another key film in the shift of HK action cinema from period epics to contemporary crime dramas.

Gleefully riffing on the kind of absurd action cinema since superseded by superheroes innumerable, this snow - set showdown between capital - T...

Looking at the historical record, it's pretty amazing that The Bourne Identity even exists as a coherent film, let alone one that would tap the zeitgeist of the moment, launch a franchise, and help reshape action cinema in its image.

Prediction: Action cinema tends to do surprisingly well in this category, meaning that both the hellish warfare of Hacksaw Ridge and the tense bank - robbing hijinks of Hell Or High Water have a shot.

It redefined action cinema by itself, pushed the boundaries of what was acceptable in motion pictures, and valorized the «heroic bloodshed» genre by elevating old Chinese dictums of honour and brotherhood into ballets of romanticized violence.

The use of computers reopens an on - going tension in action cinema between effects and realism.

With directorial competence in action cinema currently at its lowest ebb at the multiplex, his elaborate setpieces are a breath of fresh air.

The innovation of folding matter upon itself, a power that villain Kaecilius (Mads Mikkelsen emoting through Lite - Brite eyes) wields like an army of special effects animators, makes for some grossly arresting action cinema.

For the first time in his estimable 35 - year career, Hou has made a wuxia, or period martial - arts film: a staple of Hong Kong action cinema which found fans worldwide through films such as Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Zhang Yimou's Hero.

From In the Name of the Father to Bloody Sunday to Hunger, there's no shortage of films willing to engage the Troubles in Northern Ireland, but Yann Demange's ’71 might be the closest the political subgenre has come to full - blown action cinema.

This certainly looks to be a better alternative to xXx: The Return of Xander Cage though as I said it's the time of year I don't mind turning off my brain to watch some silly action cinema.

The clip features Deadpool director Tim Miller talking about what it means to have his movie play in the biggest version of action cinema imaginable across the country, and Miller even took a few passive aggressive jabs at the venerated Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Besson isn't reinventing action cinema, he's simply reminding us that it can be as limitless as the cinema, itself.

If anyone is at the vanguard of empowered, female - driven action cinema, it's surely her.

The godfather of French action cinema, Luc Besson writes and produces this remake of the over-the-top French actioner District 13: Ultimatum with the star of that film (David Belle) and the late Paul Walker.

Straight - up action cinema has never been the Academy's bag.

The sight of a swooping, fire - breathing lizard laying waste to the settlement is a joy to behold, reminding us that Jackson can be a master of action cinema when he puts his mind to it.