Sentences with phrase «adventure films these days»

There's a curious insistence in Hollywood action - adventure films these days (doubtless aided by the comic books that provide such an increasing amount of their adaptive material) on the centrality of origins, from the X-Men to Batman to Bond and beyond — often, if not always, revolving around daddy issues.

When we get these movies released in America, it's bullshit like Journey to the Center of the Earth or Spy Kids or... Jesus, they don't release many family friendly adventure films these days, do they?

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This is why Penn made this film, this is why McCandless» parents, even as they are portrayed in a highly negative light through most of the film, allowed it to happen — the truth is, it's not every day that a just - graduated college kid simply up and leaves for the sake of an adventure like that of McCandless» Supertramp.

He made his first feature film, Four Day's Wonder, in 1937 for Universal, but most of his work for the next two years was for Republic Pictures, after which he moved to Columbia Pictures, where his most notable pictures were several entries in the Lone Wolf mystery series, and The Adventures of Martin Eden, based on Jack London's book.

What surprised me is that I had some affection for an action adventure film the way I would have in the days of the Ray Harryhausen's best films.

Synopsis: In the epic adventure film «Independence Day,» strange phenomena surface around the globe.

Netflix announces that Bong Joon - ho's new adventure film Okja will receive a day - and - date theatrical release in the United States.

It's an action, comedy, sci - fi adventure that tries and that's more than a lot of films these days.

The special effects are impressive at times but in this day and age you need more than just special effects to make a successful action / adventure film.

This sci - fi / fantasy / adventure film has some of the best production design in years, capturing an alternate universe Europe in the»30s and»40s that feels inspired by steampunk and the kind of fantastic stories of adventure seen in the serials of the day.

Aardman Animation's stop - motion adventure - comedy film Early Man (Lionsgate) debuted in seventh place with a meagre $ 3.1 million over three - days.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

Watch the international movie trailer for the upcoming film «Saw VII» aka Saw 3D by director Kevin Greutert (Saw VI, Old Friends) and starring Tobin Bell (Alice, Bump, Saw), Cary Elwes (The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, A Christmas Carol), Costas Mandylor (The Rogue, The Cursed), Betsy Russell (Chain Letter) and Sean Patrick Flanery (The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day).

Starring Shashi Kapoor, Madhur Jaffrey, and a young Felicity Kendal, the film is inspired by the real - life adventures of Ms. Kendal's family as a traveling theater group in India during the final days of English colonial rule.

With Krieps on board, it also somehow feels like the Hitchcock movie Audrey Hepburn didn't get to make but clearly channeled through the unique mind of Anderson, a film - savvy writer - director responsible for such fever dreams as Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Inherent Vice, and of course There Will Be Blood, his previous adventure with Day - Lewis that also felt like a movie stitched together out of something not easily explained on first viewing.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS 4:44 Last Day on Earth (Unrated) Apocalyptic sci - fi adventure about a Manhattan couple (Willem Dafoe and Shanyn Leigh) coming to terms with the fact that world is ending in 24 hours.

Lionsgate just released this new international trailer for the upcoming horror film «Saw VII» aka Saw 3D by director Kevin Greutert (Saw VI, Old Friends) stars Tobin Bell (Alice, Bump, Saw), Cary Elwes (The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, A Christmas Carol), Costas Mandylor (The Rogue, The Cursed), Betsy Russell (Chain Letter) and Sean Patrick Flanery (The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day).

Play the official online game for the upcoming film «Saw VII» aka Saw 3D by director Kevin Greutert (Saw VI, Old Friends) and starring Tobin Bell (Alice, Bump, Saw), Cary Elwes (The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, A Christmas Carol), Costas Mandylor (The Rogue, The Cursed), Betsy Russell (Chain Letter) and Sean Patrick Flanery (The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day).

Lionsgate UK sent us this ultra gory red - band mashup just in time for the release of the upcoming horror film «Saw VII» aka Saw 3D by director Kevin Greutert (Saw VI, Old Friends) stars Tobin Bell (Alice, Bump, Saw), Cary Elwes (The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, A Christmas Carol), Costas Mandylor (The Rogue, The Cursed), Betsy Russell (Chain Letter) and Sean Patrick Flanery (The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day).

Tracing the rambling adventures of working Berliners on their day off, this naturalistic film remains a rare and vital slice of Weimar life.

For other film about surviving against all odds, check out The Poseidon Adventure, (or the 2006 re-make called Poseidon), The Day After Tomorrow, and Gravity — or one based on a true story, The Impossible.

We're Going On A Bear Hunt (2016) Based on the bestselling bedtime story book written by Michael Rosen and illustrated by Helen Oxenbury — which has sold over 11 million copies globally — the animated film follows siblings Stan, Katie, Rosie, Max, the baby, and Rufus the dog, who decide one day to go on an adventure through whirling snowstorms, oozing mud, and dark forests in search of bears.

At the recent press day, Tarantino and his actors talked about the advantages of shooting in 70 mm, how a Tarantino set differs from other movie sets, how Leigh and Russell played off each other while chained at the hip for 4-1/2 months, why Russell remained in character after his character met his demise, the decision to stay close to the script, Tarantino and Jackson's take on race relations in America, why a period film affords a filmmaker the opportunity to comment on the present in ways a present day film does not, what their filmmaking adventure was like for the veteran actors who have been with Tarantino from the beginning, and why Tarantino doesn't mind dancing on the edge of political correctness.

While I generally ignore all action, adventure, horror, thriller, and genre films these days, and I don't think I've gone to the theatre solely to drool at a hot guy on screen since high school, Jake Gyllenhaal is one of my weaknesses.

The influences are many, from Flash Gordon, to Buck Rogers, to King Kong, to Forbidden Planet, to The Day the Earth Stood Still, to Star Wars, to Raiders of the Lost Ark, and many other films that captivated the minds of young boys growing up watching science fiction and adventure films.

Wong's best films are highly specific in their examinations of the desire for connection — one character channels his loneliness into the collection of pineapple cans, another rearranges the apartment of the object of her desire, another recasts his life and loves as a sci - fi adventure story — and Days of Being Wild, for all its admirable qualities, is comparatively lacking in that specificity.

Included are his four, award winning short films: A Grand Day Out, The Wrong Trousers, A Close Shave and the latest adventure A Matter of Loaf and Death (which we have not reviewed).

Some people have been calling The Day After Tomorrow a throwback to the Irwin Allen disaster films of the 1970s (The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno), but in reality, it is more of a throwback to the disaster films of the 1990s (Armageddon, Deep Impact).

It gives us the high points (his professional rivalry / cooperation and rocky friendship with Gene Siskel, his marriage to Chaz, and his Pulitzer Prize — a first for a film critic), the cloudy times (his drinking days, highlighted by a strange Hollywood adventure), and the devastating but inspiring last chapter of Ebert's life.

Shaun the Sheep Rated PG for rude humor Available on DVD and Blu - ray From the creators of Wallace & Gromit comes this fantastic little stop - motion animated film about a family of sheep who inadvertently give their owner amnesia while trying to take a day off, and then go on an adventure to recover him.

While the show mostly focused on Spot's adventures in school, when the film opens, it's June and the last day of school, setting up a clear departure from the series» confines.

Concept art for X-Men: Days Of Future Past showed Jubilee was under consideration for the previous adventure, but with that film already so full of characters, the smart choice was made to hold her over for this story.

You begin to wonder how someone as immensely talented as Eddie Murphy (I Spy, The Adventures of Pluto Nash) would be pigeonholed into buddy movies and films like Daddy Day Care, essentially family fare.

Pacific Rim Uprising sees Steven S. DeKnight (Daredevil) directing a cast that includes John Boyega (Star Wars: The Last Jedi), Adria Arjona (True Detective), Scott Eastwood (Suicide Squad), Cailee Spaeny (Counting to 1,000), Levi Meaden (Aftermath), Karan Brar (Diary of a Wimpy Kid), Nick Tarabay (Spartacus), Zhang Jin (Ip Man 3), Mackenyu (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure) and Jing Tian (Police Story: Lockdown), while Rinko Kikuchi, Charlie Day and Burn Gorman reprise their roles from the first film.

It'd be dead wrong to suggest Spielberg has lost a step, but Ready Player One felt like a throwback to his earlier days when he pushed the limitations of daring adventure films that kept a smile on audiences» faces.

I kind of put myself in a bad spot by opening the month (and the year) with Arnie's disastrous adventure involving Armageddon in End of Days, a film I didn't really feel comfortable with «associating» with any others as... Continue reading TBT: Saving Private Ryan (1998)

Filmed live, Mr. Peepers feels like a vaudeville comedy routine, with Peepers going on dull «adventures» (his words) such as a surprise birthday party put on by his girlfriend Nancy, the school nurse, and a comic save - the - day sewing job on a costume for the school play.

The competition, which attracted over 2000 entries from schools across the UK, saw pupils take part in a 30 - day film adventure, watching a daily Discovery video clip to learn something new.

I also interviewed Brandon, Howard, and Dan from Writing Excuses at the recent conference, as well as Sherrilyn Kenyon (that interview will be up any day now at Adventures In SciFi Publishing), and I got to film a couple episodes of Writing Excuses (thanks, guys) that featured Mary Robinette Kowal and David Farland.

As I sit here writing this, less than 24 hrs after arriving home from our incredible 2 week adventure being a part of Team Super Tramp, I find myself already missing the long filming days, late night meals and antics we shared while we were a part of Devin's team...

However, this point - and - tap adventure game does contain plenty of references to Matthew Brodericks day off as well as a few other films from the 80s.

The list of prominent bicyclists in film history includes misfit teens (Napoleon Dynamite), eccentric Einstein - like scientists (the license-less Jeff Goldblum character in Independence Day, in which the bike is, admittedly, shown as a pretty decent way to escape Manhattan), vaguely countercultural types (Mark Wahlberg's character in I Heart Huckabees, or Carl Bernstein in All the President's Men) perpetual man - children (Pee - Wee's Big Adventure), and people who otherwise refuse to grow up or are out of touch with real life and the working world.