Sentences with phrase «book film genre»

In fact, when speaking of the comic book film genre, you can very easily divide cinematic history into two parts: before «Superman: The Movie,» and after «Superman: The Movie.»

«X-Men: First Class»: This is another strong entry in the comic book film genre starring James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender.

Not exact matches

You may love films, football and cycling, but what about your passion for cooking, or your favourite genre of books?

I am happy outdoors hiking or being with my horse, dog and sheep but also love independent film, whole food, red wine, eclectic music genres, NPR and a good book.

And, as a non-reader of the J.K. Rowling books (I'm saving them to read with my daughter when she's old enough) and a non-aficionado of the fantasy genre, I find at least some stretch of every Harry Potter film arcane and a bit dull (usually the parts involving magician - vs.

After the first Deadpool enthusiastically flipped the bird (and hung a moon, and performed a number of other obscene gestures) at the comic - book - hero film genre, what could the creators of the follow - up do for an encore?

The genre's a little twisted, but the film should still appeal to fans of books about moody detectives, doggedly pursuing justice against a frosty backdrop.

Illustrated by astounding color and black - and - white images, the book presents the best of this mind - bending genre, detailing through insightful commentary and behind - the - scenes stories why each film remains essential viewing.

Though «X-Men» was the first movie to revitalize the comic book genre, Sam Raimi's «Spider - Man» films are what turned it into Hollywood's obsession.

It's time that comic book fans started to demand more from these films before the entire genre evaporates into a disposable, commercialised heap like it does here.

The biggest event of its kind in the region, Tidewater Comicon returned to Virginia Beach May 12 - 13, bringing with it many of the iconic creators, writers, and artists of your favorite comic book heroes and villains, along with actors from various genre films and TV shows, uniquely talented vendors, and amazing cosplayers, including Carson Dye, who showed off her stunning Corpse Bride cosplay.

I love del Toro as a director and as a human being — the guy has his hands in all aspects of genre entertainment, from films to TV to comic books to video games — and he knows how to build beautifully realized worlds.

We're going to be seeing films of all kinds and genres within this shared universe, and more so than any of the other MCU films, Black Panther feels like an invitation for everyone to take part — to tell stories from unique perspectives and world views, and to bring cultural, ideological, and social ideals to these comic book heroes.

Save for his two Hellboy movies (among the most irreverent and entertaining comic book films of the modern era), his more straightforward genre fare — Mimic, Pacific Rim, the ripe gothic melodrama of Crimson Peak — are pretty anaemic once you get past the beautiful production design.

The big gala presentations range from upcoming comic book geekery with Green Lantern to Nicholas Winding Refn's thriller Drive (fresh off rave reviews from Cannes) to the premiere of Richard Linklater's latest Bernie, with stops along the way for indie dramas (A Better Life), British genre films (Attack the Block), action thrillers (The Devil's Double), and Guillermo Del Toro - produced scary fun (Don't Be Afraid of the Dark).

And despite several other comic book movies having released since that time, Derrickson still considers Snyder's 2009 film to be a masterpiece in filmmaking, especially for the comic book movie genre.

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.

The General section — which comprises the coverage of Australian cinema, spotlights on directors, genres and national cinemas, Film Festival reports, film and book reviews, and film criticism itself — is edited by Fiona A. Villella.

While using every horror movie cliche in the book, this film cleverly tells a bracingly original story that will have genre fans squirming in their seats.

Of course, he's never been very far out of the limelight, having completely dominated the Horror genre over the past 40 years as the «go - to» storyteller for genuine scares; leaving a multitude of classic books and subsequent film adaptations in his literary wake.

Genre: War, action, drama 5/5: Great film, I'm sure the book is better, true story!

Horror films in the public eye aren't the most seat - packing bookings and often a lot of the great genre work throughout the year slips through the cracks.

Hopefully we'll one day get a chance to hear Danna's musical interpretation on disc; having enjoyed a professional relationship with director Ang Lee, the shift to another film genre — the comic book movie — would no doubt have yielded musical results as intriguing as the director's own memorable attempts to extract deeper character relationships within the stylized framework of Hulk.

The Academy acclaims the oppositional project of these new genre films; Logan articulates this in comic - book terms when a mad scientist (Richard E. Grant) restores Wolverine's twisted, evil doppelgänger: «You're a newborn by any measure.

Finishing off the disc is a gallery of publicity material (production stills, posters, press book, and soundtrack album - though the scanned notes for the composer are seriously blurry), the film's excellent theatrical trailer that no doubt help sway genre fans, and three TV spots (a teaser and two standard trailers).

In addition to the plethora of comic book - based superhero movies in the next few years, there are a variety of other films such as science fiction, fantasy and action under the umbrella description of «genre.»

The biggest event of its kind in the region, Tidewater Comicon returned to Virginia Beach May 12 - 13, bringing with it many of the iconic creators, writers, and artists of your favorite comic book heroes and villains, along with actors from various genre films and TV shows, amazing cosplay, and uniquely talented vendors, including rapper and artist Tonezee.

It's the film's use of genre conventions of both the comic book movie and the high school dramedy.

The film sounds like it'll be a hard one to just pin down into one genre, so that's a plus in my book as well.

For the third film running, Shyamalan has infused pulpy genre material with a fresh sense of austerity and weight, first with the somber ghost story The Sixth Sense and its wholly original comic - book follow - up Unbreakable, and now with a science - fiction premise ripped straight from the supermarket tabloids.

A genre film is more about how the film works within the rules of the genre, how it inverts them, and how the plot and style and overall human bits and pieces splash out onto the screen (more a more succinct Ebert quote, «It's not what the film is about, but how it is about it») and by that test, Kick - Ass is pretty damn successful in my book.

The original highly successful R rated film is the first of it's kind in the comic book genre to present a snarky, foul - mouthed anti-hero of sorts with a cynical attitude.

While the plot is unknown, Gambit has been described as «the Ocean's 11 of the comic book genre» and will reference X-Men: Days of Future Past and X-Men Apocalypse while Tatum revealed they decided to readjust the film's scope in the wake of Deadpool and Logan «s success.

Based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Joe Hill (a.k.a Stephen King's son), «Horns» is a unique horror flick about the devil inside us all, and the film, adapted by one of the genre's true prankster geniuses (Alexandre Aja of «Piranha 3D» infamy), carries forth the same nutzo spirit of the book, which is equal parts love story, murder mystery, and supernatural, metaphysical nightmare.

It's not without its flaws by any means, the plotting often does get in the way of what should be clean, bold throughlines, but as a grace note love letter to a character who made Nolan's career, and to a vision for a comic book film which simply redefined what the genre could do, it's a fitting farewell.

Made in 1993, Cronos was a fresh approach to the vampire film created just as the Anne Rice books was reviving the moribund genre and long before the Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series made vampires hip and the «Twilight» novels spread them through popular youth culture.

Comic books are the new go - to genre for Hollywood so anything that can tap into the fanboy market from the more traditional (Spider - Man, Batman Begins) to the less conventional (V for Vendetta [Blu - ray]-RRB- quickly gets turned into a feature film.

Adapted from Webb's 1999 book Dark Alliance and directed by Michael Cuesta (TV's Homeland and Dexter) this looks very solid stuff, in a genre of film that isn't made as often as I would like.

This film is basically Whedon's attempt to top himself as no movie series, much less a series in the comic - book genre, ever aims to do less action or fewer amazing set pieces.

Because the comic book studio has put a genre twist on their standard formula for nearly every film: Captain America: The Winter Soldier was a political thriller, Guardians of the Galaxy flaunted its trippy space opera inspirations, Spider - Man: Homecoming recalled John Hughes teen comedies.

The Ghost Writer comes from a template similar toPolanski's 1999 thriller, The Ninth Gate.Both films are based on best - selling genre fiction and involve a mercenary inthe world of books who finds himself on a journey into fear and darkness.

: For all of the body parts that Stephen King has torn asunder in his numerous books and film adaptations, it's ironic that two of the most beloved movies ever about male bonding come from his book «Different Seasons» — a «Body» that spawned the CSI Our Gang of «Stand By Me,» and the prison breakout that lay behind «Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption,» Wisely shortened to the last three titles by writer - filmmaker Frank Darabont, this 1994 classic of an unbreakable man slowly chiseling his way out of a Maine hellhole over the course of decades stands as not only the most soulful film in an understandably macho prison break genre, but also as a film that many rightfully consider to be one of the best movies ever made.

Like Wonder Woman (and Deadpool last year), it's a box office success from a comic book genre that is actually one of the best reviewed films of the year.

Every moment an exhausting workshop of ideas (and every character the same), The Caveman's Valentine is a concept so «high concept» that it suddenly became clear to me that the film fits into the comic - book genre of entertainment, with Romulus's «Caveman» a slightly more mundane version of Todd McFarlane's urban noir hero, Spawn.

Is this film another great addition to the zombie survival genre, or will fans of the book be horribly disappointed?

From the director of «The Expendables 3» comes a film that's as predictable and by the books as you can get in the action genre.

Genre - juggler Ang Lee was a curious director to take on such a project, and while he played around with the effects as much he could, he was far more interested in the underlying psychology of Bruce Banner's rage and the formal constructs of a film literally based on a comic book movie, with editing flowing between on - screen panels — everything short of speech bubbles.

Every so often a certain film genre will suddenly begin to pick up speed without much warning, whether that be a huge increase like with the Marvel and DC comic book universes or more low - key ones such as political and cyber thrillers.

Alain Silver is a Santa Monica - based writer / producer of independent feature films, whose books include genre surveys on the samurai film and the vampire film, director studies of Robert Aldrich and David Lean, and seven volumes on film noir.

Black Panther, the 18th instalment in the Marvel saga, is far from the first black comic - book star to get a film of his own: that would be Spawn in 1997, followed by Wesley Snipes's Blade the following year, both of whom landed long before the genre mushroomed.