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Here are the movies we're most excited about this fall: «Crimson Peak» A Gothic nightmare directed by monster movie maestro Guillermo del Toro, starring Jessica Chastain, Mia Wasikowska and Tom Hiddleston?

The «scientific» explanation cooked up by the four — yes, four — credited screenwriters (Amy Holden Jones, John Raffo, Rick Jaffa, and Amanda Silver) takes «suspension of disbelief» to new heights, even by monster movie standards.

A Gothic nightmare directed by monster movie maestro Guillermo del Toro, starring Jessica Chastain, Mia Wasikowska and Tom Hiddleston?

My Night Job is an action arcade game, offering a very special side job: inspired by monster movies from the 1980's, My Night Job's hero Reggie takes a stand against monsters and zombies in old - school 2D side - scrolling fashion.

Not exact matches

The new «Poltergeist» is directed by Gil Kenan, who also directed the 2006 animated movie «Monster House,» which was executive produced by Steven Spielberg.

-- Hollywood Reporter, «Young Harvey Weinstein: The Making of a Monster,» by Scott Johnson and Stephen Galloway: «Long before he was a Miramax movie mogul, Weinstein was an «artsy - fartsy» student, a savvy concert promoter and, it turns out, a budding abuser and sexual predator.

We see this monster in Margaret Atwood's novel The Handmaid's Tale, where a theocratic patriarchy forbids women to read books, and we see him in the movie Kinsey, in which the future sexologist's pompous, teetotaling, Bible - wielding father (played by the massive - browed John Lithgow) cows his wife at the dinner table and disowns his son for daring to attend a different college from the one where dad teaches.

Good people make cringingly bad movies, and we should acknowledge the artistic skill evident in movies made by monsters.

(The movie theatre itself was an event — it was one of those 40 screen theatres that is more of a small city, dissected by escalators and monster machines spewing popcorn and people toting 4 litre «pails» of soft drinks - and that was the «regular» size!)

It reminds me of Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women, a rather B - level (or below) movie I saw as a kid about a planet populated by women and some lizard - like monsters.

If your child was upset in the past by scary scenes in a similar movie, you may want to reconsider the frightening moments that may be listed in a movie's PG rating — or else you may find yourself triple - checking under the bed for monsters at bedtime.

City Lights Orchestra will perform in a free concert starting at 5 p.m., followed by an outdoor movie screening of «Monsters University.»

Godzilla, while not a perfect movie by any means, at least built tension and suspense throughout the movie ultimately leading us to a well - deserved reveal of the legendary God of Monsters that feels truly satisfying.

The slightest noise brings out slimy, deadly monsters in the movie directed by John Krasinski and co-starring him and wife Emily Blunt.

If you want to see yet another Samurai movie that starts with a monster - leader doing atrocities on innocent people, so that you feel no torture or death is good enough for him, then progress to the little guys defeating the big guys by each of them hacking 10 people to death with simple strokes, this is the movie for you.

There should be a correction... this is a 1950s apocalyptic movie if the budget was $ 125 million, and directed by fancy pants Marc Forster («Monster's Ball»).

«Rampage» would surely sink a less sturdy action star, yet even here the wayward mishmash of monster - movie tropes only seem to ping off him like bullets deflected by Superman.

Forster's movies (Monster's Ball, Quantum of Solace, The Kite Runner) are usually choppy and rhythmless, but his regular editor Matt Chesse is joined here by Roger Barton, who worked dark magic on those wolf attacks in The Grey.

Price's descriptions of these new beasties trigger accompanying vignettes far less entertaining than the framing story, which is rife with horror movie in - jokes, cheesy rubber monster masks, and music by pop - reggae band UB40 -LRB-!).

Either Wyden has never seen a Godzilla movie or she actively wants Chicago to get smashed to smithereens by the monsters; either is suspicious.

In this chilling horror movie, loosely based on a tale by H.P. Lovecraft, a group of people in an ancient church find themselves beleaguered by terrifying monsters.

It should have been a no - brainer: The movie is based on a late -»80s arcade game spawned by the creature - feature films of the»50s and»60s, in which one to three players controlled giant monsters as they stomped the bejeezus out of one cityscape after another while the tiny cartoon populace reacted accordingly.

Though often consigned by Hollywood's typecasting system to workaday villain roles, Kenneth Tobey has not be forgotten by filmmakers who grew up watching his horror - flick endeavors of the 1950s; he has been afforded key cameo roles in such latter - day shockers as Strange Invaders (1983) and Gremlins 2: The New Batch, and in 1985 he reprised his Thing From Another World character in The Attack of the B - Movie Monsters.

Shot last year in 36 days in New York State's Hudson Valley, the movie is set in 2020, when most of the Earth's population have been wiped out by giant, sightless monsters equipped with tremendously acute hearing.

A Quiet Place John Krasinski's thrillingly intelligent post-apocalyptic horror movie, in which he stars with Emily Blunt as a couple trying to protect their family from monsters who hunt by sound, is walking - on - eggshells cinema of a very high order.

This weekend's Kong: Skull Island (read our review), directed by Jordan Vogt - Roberts, promises to be a full - on monster mash that'll usher in an early start to the summer movie season, and I personally can't wait to see the big guy do battle with, well, other really big guys.

A Monster Calls, the children's fantasy novel by Patrick Ness, have paved the way to the A Monster Calls movie, and the cast is shaping up to be excellent.

Electric Dynamite and 20th Century Fox just released the latest international movie poster for the upcoming comedy «Gulliver's Travels» by director Rob Letterman (Monsters vs Alien, Shark Tale) and starring Emily Blunt (Charlie Wilson's War, The Wolfman), Jason Segel (Despicable Me, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Knocked Up) and Jack Black (Kung Fu Panda: The Kaboom of Doom, Year One, Tropic Thunder).

Our introduction to the OASIS is a breakneck race through an ever - shifting New York cityscape populated by rampaging movie monsters (King Kong!

This strange and twisted indie sci - fi thriller directed by Eric Dapkewicz who has worked on animated movies like Monsters Vs. Aliens and Puss in Boots,...

By focusing so strongly on Cruise's «Nick Morton» character, The Mummy makes its monster little more than a background prop, a mistake future movies probably won't make (bigger stars, like Javier Bardem and Johnny Depp, are confirmed to be playing Frankenstein's monster and the Invisible Man respectively).

One of the best monsters ever to hit New York starred (not surprisingly) in a mostly - forgotten movie by Guillermo Del Toro (director of Hellboy and Pan's Labyrinth) called Mimic (1997).

In «Hellboy» director Guillermo del Toro's new movie «Pacific Rim», which opens in cinemas on July 12, humanity is reeling from a surprise attack by terrifying giant monsters from the deep.

READINGS The View from the Train: Cities and Other Landscapes by Patrick Keiller, reviewed by Jonathan Romney; Crab Monsters, Teenage Cavemen, and Candy Stripe Nurses: Roger Corman: King of the B Movie by Chris Nashawaty, reviewed by Sarah Mankoff; Musts, Maybes, and Nevers: A Book About the Movies by David V. Picker, reviewed by James Hughes; Cabinet of Curiosities: My Notebooks, Collections, and Other Obsessions by Guillermo del Toro, with contributions by Marc Scott Zicree, reviewed by Marc Walkow

It's not just kind of latex and a costume; it would be a motion - capture performance of the monster — I can give away maybe not too much by saying there's more than one in our version — and then I would go to Europe, shoot the movie, do scenes with the real actors and I would be able to see the motion - captured monster in real time due to SimulCam, so yes that is our technological VFX paradigm for Frankenstein.»

Guillermo del Toro's lavish, full - hearted monster romance «The Shape of Water» swam away with best picture at an Oscar ceremony flooded by a sense of a change for a movie business confronting the post - Harvey Weinstein era.

Check out some images shared by the production designer that shows the atmosphere created for the giant monster movie.

That movie shows Wade in the Weapon X program with Wolverine (Hugh Jackman), and at the end, Wade is turned into a mutant monster bad guy with his mouth sewn shut and controlled by a computer.

Oscar favourite The Shape of Water is a monster movie made with real love by Guillermo Del Toro — and it boasts a beautiful central performance from Sally Hawkins

He won the MTV Movie Award for «Best Villain» two years in a row and followed it up with another wonderfully evil performance in Fox's monster hit RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (directed by Rupert Wyatt) alongside James Franco, Freida Pinto, and John Lithgow.

Director Gareth Edwards (Monster) packs the movie with visual references to A New Hope, cleverly matching the design work by avoiding fakey digital effects in lieu of more practical, battle - scared models and lively settings on a series of new planets and a familiar one.

Kevin Smith delivers a deeply disturbing movie that throws up plenty of questions about monsters and humanity yet still manages to give audiences enough of the Smith humour, charm and charisma that they'll be familiar with by this stage of the game.

Featuring effects by Willis O» Brien (King Kong), this stop motion extravaganza is a must have for your stop motion monster movie collection.

One of the movie's strengths is that it attempts to gain some understanding of the motivations of a character like Goeth, rather than taking the easy route of simply portraying him as an unthinking Nazi monster, and Fiennes is frighteningly convincing in his depiction of a deeply disturbed man who is all too aware of — and haunted by — his own shortcomings.

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When all is said and done, Tusk is a worthy follow - up to the fascinating Red State (another Smith and Parks vehicle), and Kevin Smith delivers a deeply disturbing movie that throws up plenty of questions about monsters and humanity yet still manages to give audiences enough of the Smith humour, charm and charisma that they'll be familiar with by this stage of the game.

And yet Harry Potter 7A, as it's been dubbed by my colleague Dan Kois, was one of my favorite Harry Potter movies so far, precisely because it takes a break from the magic - and - monster - crammed busyness of its predecessors.

Monster's Ball is a movie that suffers from bad writing and hit or miss directing, but is ultimately salvaged by some incredible acting performances; particularly on the parts of Halle Berry, Heath Ledger, and Billy Bob Thornton.

This time around it's commanded by Shane Black (Iron Man 3, The Nice Guys, Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang), who directed and co-wrote the movie with Fred Dekker (The Monster Squad, RoboCop 3).

Unfortunately, any hope of that happening has effectively been squashed by «Sea of Monsters,» a half - baked sequel that feels like the kind of kiddie movie Robert Rodriguez knocks out over a few weekends in his backyard.