Sentences with phrase «age film genre»
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In an age where demographics and target audiences are everything, The Arbor is a film which genuinely defies genre.
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As David, the son of Korean immigrants, navigates his nascent desire, the film rests not on eroticism per se, but on the connective tissue it weaves among sexual and other identities: Spa Night recombines elements of the emigrant saga and the coming - of - age story into a searching, fresh - faced portrait, highlighting in the process the genres» keen correspondences.
We don't see many films filled with grand, cinematic vistas from foreign lands, and in that regard The Way Back fulfills a much ignored genre in this age of virtual - everything imagery.
And the result is a mix of tones that works, with our review from the Venice Film Festival declaring that, «while the film flirts with a number of genres genres — melodrama, comedy, coming - of - age — it ultimately lands closest to being Green's first western by the time it reaches its conclusion.»
Damien Power's debut feature harks back to the golden age of Australian genre film but its approach to landscape is sadly ahistorical.
A golden age of comic book movies may be dominating Hollywood right now, but over the past few years there have also been signs of an effort to turn around the thus - far lackluster genre of video game - turned film adaptations.
Today marks the 20th anniversary of Gregg Araki's post-apocalyptic coming - of - age The Doom Generation, a genre melting pot of a film that...
The real laugh is that the film's ostensible moral is to act your age while virtually every joke is stolen from a genre intended for stars and audiences ten - plus years younger than anyone involved, meaning all the sexual insecurity and juvenilia is infected with considerably more than the usual touch of the pathetic.
Avengers: Age of Ultron is a grandiose film for this genre.
The film brings fresh perspective to the genre by focusing on an experience unseen in coming - of - age tales: What high - school first love might be like if...
From a young age, I was drawn to films especially the horror and psychological thriller genre.
After that, it's a wide open field that includes genre films (Hereditary), animation (Isle of Dogs) and coming of age dramedy (Eighth Grade).
Coming - of - age films with a «genre» twist were all the rage in 2016.
In addition to these coming - of - age sequences, which display a childish whimsy you don't often find in the foreground of the genre, the film is a mystery.
WHY: Whether he's making poetic coming - of - age films or pot - fueled buddy comedies, David Gordon Green hasn't allowed himself to be confined to a certain genre, although he does seem to have an affinity for the kind of naturalistic, salt - of - the - earth dramas that he's returned to in recent years, including his latest movie, «Manglehorn.»
After all, its wildly inventive premise is one of the many things that separate «Wreck - It Ralph» from other films in the genre, and the fact that it appeals to video game fans of all ages certainly doesn't hurt.
«Kingsman» doesn't get too caught up in trying to make any logical sense of it all, and that's perfectly fine, because in the age of the overserious spy film (see: Daniel Craig's Bond, the Jason Bourne series, etc.), this is exactly the bold, silly kick up the ass that the genre needed.
But this isn't mere tribute to the genre, it's a celebration of the style, the texture, the psycho - sexual atmosphere of the best films, recreated in a triptych that could be a horror film, a coming - of - age story or a twisted Walter Mitty adventure from a Dario Argento fanatic.
by Walter Chaw A bona fide auteur in an age of facile pretenders, Guillermo del Toro is the pulp genre's Martin Scorsese, his films filtering devout Catholic imagery through a lurid colour palette and obsessed with insectile machineries and mentor relationships between boys and old men.
An effort to capture how things really are, The Spectacular Now is an earnest coming - of - age film that avoids the glib reflexes symptomatic of the genre, and the sanctimony and staginess of overwrought addiction melodramas.
This fine coming - of - age teen - girl drama hits all the storytelling beats you'd expect from a film of that genre but amounts to so much more.
When we reflect on the golden age of the slasher genre, we typically remember the films that spawned a string of...
Jen's rage is complete — and complex — and the heavily genre - influenced film finds both its fun and shock value in her sudden evolution into a badass final girl for the ages.
In a sense, though, Ride with the Devil simultaneously belongs to another genre entirely: the coming - of - age film.
The film foretells the age of the geek hero by at least ten years and sparked a fire for an entire genre of meta madness, my films included.
Animation is an incredibly tactical medium and genre for films that have always had the ability to hit audiences of all ages.
In an age where the science fiction film genre has been dumbed down to a mere spectacle of loud explosions and special effects (like in Independence Day), Dark City stands out head and shoulders above the rest.
Kelly Fremon Craig's debut film avoids genre tropes to deliver a beautiful, sometimes abrasive, coming - of - age story.
In an age when the success of Chris Nolan's «Dark Knight» films has been viewed as a mandate that all action pics be thematically and visually dark, «Need For Speed» is a beacon of silliness bursting through the genre's gloomy landscape.
by Melissa Wellham «Attack the Block is a genre film of the highest order, combining «sci fi,» «thriller,» «coming - of - age,» and «teen film where plucky youngsters triumph over adversity.
Michael Mann's 1995 crime thriller is one of the best films in the genre, and it's aged remarkably well in the 20 - plus years since its release.
This one - page film guide on the film West Side Story the musical adaptation of the play Romeo and Juliet, set in 1950s New York, incorporates themes around street crime, immigration and the American dream, is designed to support pre - and post-screening discussions of character, genre and the key themes of the film for use with primary school pupils aged 7 and over.