Sentences with phrase «adventure kind of film»

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Taken purely as entertainment, Jeff Nichols» film Midnight Special is a smart, tersely constructed sci - fi adventure in the vein of classics such as E.T. and Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

The kind of film that makes you wish they had perfected choose - your - own - adventure technology for movies, one that would allow you to ditch the central character and follow any number of the story's more interesting second bananas.

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.

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.

I think they should have taken elements of both previous films and then thrown in some new story arcs for a familiar but ultimately new kind of sci - fi adventure.

Having thrived and evolved for eight consecutive decades in the public imagination - in prose and graphics, on the big screen and small, in games and properties of all kinds - Conan's exploits in the Hyborian Age now come alive like never before in a colossal 3D action - adventure film.

The advanced techniques of the Hong Kong action cinema translated from the period kung fu and wuxia film to the modern world of cops and robbers, from swordplay to gunplay, not for the first time (it was preceded into the present by Jackie Chan's Police Story from the previous year, as well as Cinema City's highly profitable Aces Go Places series of comic adventures and a whole host of films from the Hong Kong New Wave like Tsui Hark's own Dangerous Encounters - First Kind, not to mention earlier films like Chang Cheh's Ti Lung - starring Dead End, from 1969), but better than anything before it.

It marks STX's first theatrical release — the studio was launched in 2014 by producer Robert Simonds with the goal of making the kind of mid-budget films that studios have largely abandoned in favor of superhero adventures.

Brooks» films all begin with some kind of failure, which is not strange — most movies will direct their protagonists through a series of adventures that lead, in the end, to success.

But where Fanny and Alexander is ultimately an exhilarating kind - of adventure film with love and life to spare, The White Ribbon is finally draining.

Fresher writing, a better cast, and more realism to the action could have made a decent film out of this, but this kind of survivalist adventure fare has been done so often that there wasn't any more gold to be mined with this material.

It's a true adventure movie and, in that sense, it reminds us of the kinds of movies we grew up with... the Indiana Jones films and stuff like that.

Now we finally get an idea of the story at the heart of the film and this looks like the kind of live - action Disney adventure we've been missing, full of originality, amazing visuals and much more.

Just three years ago, Joss Whedon pulled off a remarkable feat by giving us a film that featured a cast of some of the biggest superheroes in the Marvel universe, known collectively as «The Avengers,» and delivering just the kind of action - packed adventure that fans ha...

Just three years ago, Joss Whedon pulled off a remarkable feat by giving us a film that featured a cast of some of the biggest superheroes in the Marvel universe, known collectively as «The Avengers,» and delivering just the kind of action - packed adventure tha...

King Hu, meanwhile, was still making the kinds of mystical adventure films that more closely resembled the spirit of Star Wars, while also alternating between melodramas and retellings of Chinese folk tales.

Attack the Block director Joe Cornish finally helms another film, this one a family adventure about a group of kids fighting some kind of medieval threat.

«This film is a stunning adventure that literally takes flight alongside all kinds of winged creatures — butterflies, bees and bats — each working hard to pollinate our planet.»

This is the point the film falls into the familiar traps of this kind of over-the-top adventure, and I have to confess the setup was more satisfying than the payoff.

If the first film showed us the kind of fun that could be had with this character by removing everything about him that could make him unique among his superhero peers, Thor: The Dark World shows how dull the adventures of the guardian of the nine realms of the universe can be when played with sincerity.

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)