Sentences with phrase «alien invasion films»

I'm not as big on alien invasion films as I am on time travel films, but that's okay, because this is far from your typical alien invasion film, focusing on a quartet of characters left behind the evacuation when an alien ship appears.

The World's End is a hilarious send - up of alien invasion films.

Battle: Los Angeles, while more grounded in modern reality than Sucker Punch, is a sci - fi actioner and another installment into the recently busy genre of alien invasion films.

Battle: Los Angeles» early 2011 release date positions it before competing alien invasion films such as the comedy Paul (if that even counts), Jon Favreau's Cowboys & Aliens, Michael Bay's Transformers 3 and the August release of The Darkest Hour.

Another installment to the recent onslaught of alien invasion films, Battle: Los Angeles is based on famous historical UFO sightings and events such as the 1942 LA incident where an unidentified aircraft entered military airspace and was subject to artillery fire.

It is a fascinating contrast to the politics of alien invasion films such as Independence Day and War of the Worlds (original and remake).

A two decade gap has allowed Independence Day: Resurgence time to develop a self - awareness akin to the other alien invasion film turning twenty this year: Mars Attacks (the sequel we need).

Pearce also did some writing on Pacific Rim, the big alien invasion film that Guillermo del Toro is about to begin shooting in Toronto for Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros..

Columbia Pictures has released the first teaser trailer for director Jonathan Liebesman's alien invasion film Battle: Los Angeles and it's fraking awesome.

And John Krasinski «s alien invasion film prevailed, according to Box Office Mojo.

The belated sequel to director Roland Emmerich «s 1996 alien invasion film was opening in theaters showcasing all of the telltale signs of stinker.

The actor previously worked with the filmmaker on 2002 alien invasion film Signs and 2004 mystery The Village, and now the duo is adding a third film with an as - yet - untitled movie.

It's hard to know where to start or how to even describe Annihilation — part alien invasion film, part surreal mind - bender, part heartfelt melodrama... I was on the set a little over a year ago, spoke with the producers, director, production & art designers, saw the mood boards tracking the story of the film, and watched a particularly tense sequence filmed — and yet even after all of that, I'm still not sure what to expect.

As our series heads towards its conclusion, Catherine Shoard makes the case for Denis Villeneuve's staggering alien invasion film

I'm a big fan of Nacho Vigalondo's time travel film Timecrimes, so when I saw his new alien invasion film was coming to AFI Fest, it was an immediate must on my schedule.

Chloe Grace Moretz's alien invasion film «The 5th Wave» and STX Entertainment's «The Boy» are also opening this Friday

Chazelle and Lonergan also share space in the Best Director category, where they're joined by Denis Villeneuve for his subdued alien invasion film, Arrival.

Not exact matches

She was the object of Adam Sandler's misguided affection in the comedy Just Go With It and she's currently filming What to Expect When You're Expecting alongside heavy - hitters like Cameron Diaz and Jennifer Lopez, while her action / alien invasion flick Battleship is set to hit theaters next year.

In fact, the only real science fiction in the film is used to keep the characters locked in an apartment from fear of alien invasion.

In these films, the world has usually turned against humanity in some way — a zombie apocalypse, an alien invasion, or simply the indomitability of nature itself — and the relative resourcefulness of characters who were previously reliant on now - absent tools or technologies provide the major dramatic beats as outside forces close in, driving these characters into action.

Critics Consensus: Repo Man is many things: an alien - invasion film, a punk - rock musical, a send - up of consumerism.

Critic Consensus: Repo Man is many things: an alien - invasion film, a punk - rock musical, a send - up of consumerism.

The internet calmly took this news in by immediately casting about for wild rumors regarding what this might mean for the second film — specifically, the idea that once it was made clear the Captain Marvel movie (coming out in between the two Avengers films) would feature the Skrulls (a race of green - skinned shape changers, for all you non-comic nerds), the fourth Avengers movie would turn its attention to a «secret invasion» storyline, starring said aliens.

Strange Invaders (Twilight Time, Blu - ray)-- Part offbeat horror film, part UFO conspiracy, and part tribute to 1950s alien invasion pictures, this good - natured comic sci - fi film stars Paul Le Mat as a college professor who goes in search of his ex-wife and finds a time - warped town that shouldn't exist populated by bug - eyed monsters that shoot lasers.

Maybe that's why the film only pulled in $ 65 million here and over $ 300 million worldwide: making fun of American policy, even in regards to an imaginary alien invasion, is an entertaining spectator sport.

The Darkest Hour cribs its dopey premise, concerning invading alien balls of light with the nasty habit of reducing humans to ash heaps and bent, naturally enough, on world domination, from other, better alien - invasion films (read: any version of War of the Worlds).

The film's simple plot of these four individuals bonding over this new Neighbourhood Watch team mixed in with an alien invasion keeps things low - key enough that the intensely amazing aforementioned riffing nature work so well.

These films often feature Hollywood's hottest actors saving the day in any number of ways, whether it's the magical mayhem of the Harry Potter films or The Avengers assembling to ward off an alien invasion.

But while the title and film's opening setup may lead you to believe you're going down the road of typical alien - invasion sci - fi, the romantic comedy journey that the film takes instead makes for a very enjoyable alternate route.

The Sony Pictures film has a script from Oren Uziel which follows a group of teens who form an unlikely alliance with vampires and zombies when an alien invasion threatens our planet.

Featuring stills from Ender's Game, the much - anticipated film directed and written by Gavin Hood, this official 16 - month calendar follows the story of Andrew «Ender» Wiggin, an unusually gifted child who is sent — 70 years after a horrific alien war — to an advanced military school in space to prepare for a future invasion.

Whether he's showing us an alien invasion in «Independence Day» or the destruction of the world in «The Day After Tomorrow» or «2012,» I really dig his films.

Arrival, with its handwringing worthiness and easy answers, certainly meets these criteria as escapist balm for the masses, but this analysis ignores the fact that M Night Shyamalan's 2002 film Signs is not just a superior film about alien invasion (funnier, darker, more cinematic), but also a stronger allegory for the apocalyptic fever that has gripped America and, by extension, the world.

The consensus has been overwhelming positive in regards to Jonathan Liebesman «s upcoming alien invasion movie Battle: Los Angeles and that's not going to change after fans get a glimpse of a new viral website for the film which provides all kinds of details on the aliens.

Battle: Los Angeles, the alien invasion action flick that is about to begin shooting in Louisiana (not quite Los Angeles...) has added quite a few cast members, and on the eve of the shoot star Aaron Eckhart makes some promises about what sort of film we're likely to see when it's all said and done.

Without directly acknowledging it in traditional blockbuster ways, it's a sequel to 2008's «Cloverfield,» a found footage film about an alien invasion.

by Bill Chambers The partnership of Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin yielded a giant box office hit last time out with their alien invasion picture Independence Day, a film critically dissed in large part because it was populated with stereotypes: we knew who the smart guy was because he wore glasses and a pocket - protector; who the gay guy was because Harvey Fierstein's dialogue was set to flaming; who the hero was because he promised to «whoop E.T.'s ass.»

Back in 2002, in anticipation of his next great film, Signs (an unconventionally family - intimate alien invasion yarn starring Mel Gibson), he...

Now, film Two is here and so are the aliens (captured back then) and coming (as in second - invasion - have - received - distress - call.)

Kiyoshi Kurosawa's most recent film is the buzzworthy alien invasion tale Before We Vanish.

Via THR, a Fox spokesperson noted, «We are very sensitive to the Trayvon Martin case, but our film is a broad alien - invasion comedy and bears absolutely no relation to the tragic events in Florida.»

The film follows a group of friends who discover an alien invasion during a pub crawl, though the genre aspects of the movie, as in the earlier films, function as a framework to explore deeper topics like nostalgia, addiction and male friendship.

Mystifying, until you realize that the alien invasion of the film is also borrowing heavily from the looks of War of the Worlds.

Despite whispers of a sequel ever since the release of the first movie, it's taken twenty years for the follow - up to the blockbuster alien invasion flick Independence Day to become a reality, and during an anniversary screening of the film, director Roland Emmerich has been talking to Entertainment Weekly about why we've waited so long -LSB-...]

Director Alex Garland, whose first film was the impressive science - fiction drama «Ex Machina,» returns with a more elaborate and expensive tale of alien invasion starring Natalie Portman and

The film offers no murder mystery, alien invasion or other earth - rattling event.

The Oscar - hopeful film will compete directly against the likes of the latest alien invasion thriller, The Darkest Hour - as well as director Stephen Daldry's inspirational melodrama, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - for the attention of holiday season moviegoers.

In 1996, director Roland Emmerich released the military science fiction film about an alien invasion — to put it simply — it was INDEPENDENCE DAY and that main star alongside Jeff Goldblum, was the Fresh Prince Will Smith.

Just left the Darkest Hour trailer debut at Comic - Con and I came away mildly impressed, and yet still unconvinced whether the film, now coming out December 23rd, will ultimately add anything new to the alien invasion genre outside the unique moscow location.

And, from the big end of town, there are also new sneak peeks of Freddie Mercury biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, with Rami Maleck stepping into the music icon's shoes in an uncanny fashion; The Predator, the latest take on the alien killers directed by The Nice Guys» Shane Black, who actually featured on - screen in the original film; and Shock and Awe, a new Woody Harrelson and Tommy Lee Jones - starring newspaper flick about the US invasion of Iraq.