Sentences with phrase «adventure yarn»

A true action adventure yarn that can be returned to again and again.

This was a an excellent adventure yarn (with a brain) and the type of film that not many are willing to make.

Thrilling adventure yarn about eight sled dogs struggling to survive when bad weather leaves them marooned at an Antarctic research post.

But the first of the four was The Land That Time Forgot, an often rousing adventure yarn in which a mixed group during World War I — British sailors from a torpedoed ship, a pair of passengers (McClure and Susan Penhaligan) from the ill - fated vessel, and the crew members from the German submarine that sank it — all find themselves stranded on Caprona, a hidden tropical island off the Antarctic coast.

The fact - based film is similar to the 1983 Japanese film «Nankyoku Monogatari,» which was released in the U.S. as «Ant (more...) Thrilling adventure yarn about eight sled dogs struggling to survive when bad weather leaves them marooned at an Antarctic research post.

In terms of influence on other writers, though, the biggest hitters of the era were behind what some call sigh - worthy romance novels and a boyhood adventure yarn.

It's an old - fashioned, fast - moving, family - friendly adventure yarn unmuddied by an excess of subtext, political undercurrent or narrative mythologizing.

In films until 1958's The Young Lions, Kurt Katch is best remembered by boys of all ages as the unspeakable Hulagu Khan in that ultimate escapist adventure yarn Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1944).

Directed by hi - tech action specialist John McTiernan and based on a novel by Michael Crichton, this strikingly staged, dramatically muddled adventure yarn is set in the ninth century and appears to be providing the historical background to Beowulf.

Free from all pretense of constraint by historical fact, the writing team of David Franzoni, John Logan, and William Nicholson crafted a simple but stirring action - adventure yarn cloaked in the pomp of the Roman Empire and the grizzly spectacle of gladiatorial games.

This is irritating sand in the eye for those hoping that somewhere in this overcooked onslaught of unreal bigness and loudness there might be a good old fashioned adventure yarn.

The novel starts off as a simple adventure yarn about 13 dwarves determined to kill the dragon who drove them off their mountain kingdom long ago, and gradually snowballs into important events that affect the entire world of Middle Earth.

The first two - thirds of Sunshine offers a gripping adventure yarn in the man - versus - nature category.

But Up is something new, a kid's adventure yarn embedded in a grownup tale about grief and regret, purposes lost and rediscovered.

No, the OTHER one, the 1999 Stephen Sommers adventure yarn that pitted Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz against Arnold Vosloo's CG - laden Egyptian villain.

The most enthusiastically received discovery in the competition was not a film, but an actor — Austrian Christoph Waltz, previously known only in his own country for stage, television, and film appearances, who proved the galvanizing center of Quentin Tarantino's ambitious World War II adventure yarn, «Inglourious Basterds.»

A Roman adventure yarn that, despite some decent action and an interesting enough plot, annoys in a hundred different ways

The Nintendo Entertainment System is more revered for its fast - paced action games than investigative adventure yarns, the latter of which...

Very quietly (and to disappointingly middling box - office), we got the best Star Trek movie of the revived franchise this year, with a thrilling adventure yarn that served as a fine tribute to series stars Leonard Nimoy and Anton Yelchin, who both died before the film was released.

The single - player campaign tells a surprisingly ambiguous choose - your - own - adventure yarn about recession - hit multitudes falling under the spell of an anarchic techno - terrorist.

Star Wars is an adventure yarn of the «save the world» type.

When the sort of musicals Morgan starred in went out of fashion in the 1950s, he shifted creative gears and appeared in westerns and adventure yarns.

The answer is yes, but just barely and, true to the tradition of adventure yarns, only at the last minute.

There should be big ideas, or an adventure yarn behind this, but all it feels like is Oscar bait.

This film is not up to those works but it does hold up as an adventure yarn.

The film concludes with some end cards about the 80,000 criminals shipped to French Guiana — but while I'm usually one for railing against injustice, this movie works best as an adventure yarn, not a finger - pointing screed.

A girl who lives inside a book travels through fairy tales, mysteries, adventure yarns, and historical novels in search of a story of her own.

It's part spy tale, part action - adventure yarn as the saboteurs strap on skis and undertake the mission of a lifetime.