Sentences with phrase «as an adventure yarn»

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.

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In and of itself, «The Walk» satisfies as an absorbing yarn of authority - flouting adventure and as an example of stomach - flipping you - are - there - ness.

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.

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.

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.

So far, we only know that it \'ll turn out to be a platforming adventure in the same art - style as Kirby \'s Epic Yarn.

As you can see from the screenshots below, the team behind the 2010 Wii title Kirby's Epic Yarn is hard at work on what will be the first console Yoshi adventure since Nintendo released Yoshi's Story way back in 1998.

A recent preview of Kirby's Epic Yarn (or Epic Yam, as we like to call it) in Nintendo Power, showcased the story and background behind Kirby's latest adventure.