Sentences with phrase «classic comics as»

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The film skews young, to be sure, and it isn't as memorable as the new Disney classics of the early 1990s, but there's still plenty here to hold the interest of viewers of all ages: delightful performances (particularly by Dench, plowing Angela Lansbury terrain), zinging comic dialogue and a soundtrack that's a wealth of sonorous riches.

Based on his long - running comic book, which debuted in 2008 before wrapping up at the end of 2013, «Locke & Key» would have combined a classic haunted house tale with complex and rich mythology, and as such managed to attract some heavyweight names: «Star Trek» duo Kurtzman & Orci were writing with «War Of The Worlds» scribe Josh Friedman, Steven Spielberg was producing and «Never Let Me Go» helmer Mark Romanek was brought on to direct the pilot, which reportedly cost as much as $ 10 million.

The film is holding its NYC premiere today and I caught up with Doug this past weekend at New York Comic Con to discuss his ongoing collaboration with Del Toro and, seeing as it's the Halloween season, the enduring appeal of the Disney classic Hocus Pocus in which Jones was the benevolent zombie, Billy Butcherson.

Sony Pictures Classics has unveiled the first trailer for a film titled The Comedian, from Oscar - winning director Taylor Hackford, starring Robert De Niro as an aging stand - up comic.

Errol Flynn and Olivia De Havilland made eight films together, including the stone - cold classic «The Adventures Of Robin Hood,» while Bob Hope and Bing Crosby starred in the successful «Road To...» series, and Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis had a profitable comic partnership as well.

First they do confirm that Hulk will indeed don his classic Planet Hulk armor as seen in the comics.

But as a comic allegory of what it's like to be an adolescent girl who comes into sexual and social power that she doesn't know what the heck to do with, it is a minor classic.

As an undercover newspaper reporter with a quick answer — not to mention a goofy disguise — for every situation, Chase created a classic comic hero with a genius for confusing his adversaries.

There are so many extras, such as collecting new suits, new special powers, and classic comic book covers, that you will play this game for a long time.

The prematurely balding, intelligent, fast - talking Chase created a couple classic characters, notably Irwin M. Fletcher (aka Fletch) and Vacation's Clark Griswold, but his career is often thought of as plagued by misfires and missed opportunities, rather than touched by comic brilliance.Born on October 8, 1943, in New York City, Cornelius Crane Chase became known as «Chevy» when his grandmother nicknamed him after Chevy Chase, the wealthy Maryland community.

Old foes become new allies and fan - favorite characters from the classic comics will come to our heroes» aid as the Marvel cinematic universe continues to expand.

Among the anticipated highlights at the ongoing San Diego Comic - Con (SDCC), for horror fans was tonight's world premiere screening of The Woods, from director and writer duo of Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett (You're Next), but the whole event just became bigger than anyone imagined, as it has been revealed tonight that the film is actually called Blair Witch and it is a sequel the 1999 found footage classic The Blair Witch Project!

Set on the world of Sakaar — known dearly to comic book fans as the world the Hulk gets whisked off to in the now classic story arc «Planet Hulk» — Thor: Ragnarok and its location open up unlimited potential for the Marvel Cinematic Universe; it is also the planet where the Hulk had his son, Skaar, after all.

I pray to God — or Aurora, the Mobian deity in the comics — that's not the case because, as great as the classic Sonic games were, there's no progress for the franchise going backwards.

With a script featuring contributions from Mangold, Christopher McQuarrie, Mark Bomback and Scott Frank, it's all based on the classic Frank Miller / Chris Claremont comic run, and also stars Will Yun Lee as the Silver Samurai, Hiroyuki Sanada, Hal Yamanouchi, Rila Fukushima, Brian Tee and Svetlana Khodchenkova.

Launer based the premise of the film on the lyrics to the classic song of the same name by The Clovers, which is a strange form of inspiration for a film, but in its own limited, predictable fashion, it works as a pleasant and occasionally funny comic diversion.

But even as the film takes its cues from the classic British publisher, 2000AD is drawing from the movie to entice fans of the film to the comics line.

He was credited as consultant on numerous films, TV and radio shows and even comic books, seen in newsreels and portrayed as a figure of paternal authority whenever seen or referred to in classic movies.

As he told me when we sat down recently at Craig's restaurant, this time it is different as he and Hugh Jackman's Wolverine aka Logan are taking these characters in a very different kind of direction in a film that more resembles a classic Western like Shane than the Marvel comic book movies from which those characters emergeAs he told me when we sat down recently at Craig's restaurant, this time it is different as he and Hugh Jackman's Wolverine aka Logan are taking these characters in a very different kind of direction in a film that more resembles a classic Western like Shane than the Marvel comic book movies from which those characters emergeas he and Hugh Jackman's Wolverine aka Logan are taking these characters in a very different kind of direction in a film that more resembles a classic Western like Shane than the Marvel comic book movies from which those characters emerged.

It's got some classic comic moments, but I don't think the drag comedy is as funny to my generation, one that grew up with Tom Hanks an Peter Scolari in Bosom Buddies.

This isn't quite as classic or convincing (the special effects are limited to extreme close - ups of grasshoppers matted into live action footage or, even better, skittering up and sliding down photos of Chicago skyscrapers) but where else can you see Peter Graves machine - gunning a giant grasshopper with teeth gritted as in a comic book drawing?

Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World works primarily due to its kinetic visual style and unique cross-hobby genre blending that is bound to be seen as an instant cult classic among the hipster comic / video game / punk rock / anime audience it aims squarely at.

As well, the package offers an exclusive collectible 72 - page comic book containing Detective Comics # 27 (the very first Batman story), Batman: The Man Who Falls (a classic story that inspired Batman Begins), and an excerpt from Batman: The Long Halloween (a chilling story that also inspired the film).

A noble failure from a noteworthy filmmaker, Joseph Cedar's «Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer» — the unofficial winner of this year's «Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)» Award for the most fanciful title — mines a classic storytelling tradition in order to spin a darkly comic parable that often feels as unkempt and intolerable as its title character.

Matthew Goode as Ozymandias, «Watchmen»: In Alan Moore's classic, Adrian Veidt devised a horrible plan in the name of bringing peace to the world, turning him into one of the most compelling comic - book villains ever written.

«Dredd,» based on John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra's classic «2000 AD» comic «Judge Dredd,» tells the story of hard - nosed future cop Judge Dredd, who has the ability to act as judge, jury and executioner in the dystopian Mega-City One.

The Wakandan throne is, as far as we can tell from the film, a classic hereditary monarchy with a few comic book twists: Certain citizens can challenge the king to single combat and potentially win the throne.

Starring Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston, Stellan Skarsgård, Idris Elba, Christopher Eccleston, Adewale Akinnuoye - Agbaje, Kat Dennings, Ray Stevenson, Zachary Levi, Tadanobu Asano and Jaimie Alexander with Rene Russo and Anthony Hopkins as Odin, «Thor: The Dark World» is directed by Alan Taylor, produced by Kevin Feige, from a story by Don Payne (credit not final) and screenplay by Christopher Yost and Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely (credit not final) and is based on Marvel's classic Super Hero Thor, who first appeared in the comic book «Journey into Mystery» # 83 in August, 1962.

«Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter» is a moody comic allegory about desperation, disconnection and dreams that uses «Fargo,» the Coen brothers classic, as a touchstone to examine modern life.

Even though the tone here is impeccable as a Max Ophüls classic or high - period Bertolucci, you really have to go to something subversive like The War of the Roses to get a hint of the comic blackness.

(That movie translated a classic comic antagonist to the big screen as a puffy space cloud.

A literature festival filled with authors, workshops, and round table discussions; comic book guests, publishers, and retailers; a film festival, featuring underground films as well as the drive - in classic, Night of the Living Dead; entertainment that includes ice sculpting with power tools, dance, songs, and laughs.

Since then he's assembled an award - winning and critically acclaimed resume with the 1995 crime - thriller classic, The Usual Suspects, which won Academy Awards for best original screenplay and best supporting actor, as well as the seminal comic - book films X-Men (2000) and X2 (2003).

For non-comic book fans, The Mandarin a classic villain from the Iron Man comics who used ten alien - forged rings of power as weapons against his foes.

And then there's something new: concept art of Brie Larson as Captain Marvel, in a slightly darker and grittier take on her classic comic book suit, complete with the star on her chest and a shorter, blonde haircut.

This piece also further explores Thor's comic book origins and classic arcs through interviews with some of the most important comic creators, such as Walt Simonson and Jack Kirby.

This month sees the release of Batman: Gotham By Gaslight, the latest instalment in Warner Bros.» series of DC Universe Animated Original Movies, and an adaptation of the classic DC comic book storyline, regarded as the first of the publisher's «Elseworld» tales.

Though it isn't quite as flashy as some of the more explosive nominees, Scott Pilgrim mastered the oft - tried - but - rarely - successful art of translating the more abstract aspects of comic book art - such as sound effects and panel transitions - and brought them to life in a style that homaged not just sequential art, but classic video games.

The revered comic actor starred in such inarguable classics as The Producers, Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory, Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein and worked alongside such comedy greats as Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, Richard Pryor (four times), Wilder's wife Gilda Radner, Madeleine Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Marty Feldman and Charles Grodin — and even with the likes of Donald Sutherland and... Read

Do you see Judge Dredd as a more progressive or classic kind of hero in our recent comic book movie character climate?

As for Vision, who debuted in Avengers: Age of Ultron, Meinerding revealed a very different look for the android than the classic version similar to the comics, though it does bear some similarities to the hero's Avengers West Coast look.

The revered comic actor starred in such inarguable classics as The Producers, Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory, Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein and worked alongside such comedy greats as Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, Richard Pryor (four times), Wilder's wife Gilda Radner, Madeleine Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Marty Feldman and Charles Grodin — and even with the likes of Donald Sutherland and Harrison Ford.

Black rage is front and center in the film, and exuded in a spellbinding performance by Michael B. Jordan as classic comics villain Erik Killmonger.

Beyond that, the feature can hit the ground running by presenting the character in any of the classic adventures he's experienced in the comics — be it involving his position as a diplomat and representative of Wakanda on a global scale; doing battle with the various rival tribes that live on the border of his nation; or protecting the country's most valuable resource: Vibranium.

If a child is being put off or intimidated by the complexity of language in most books aimed at their age range, don't be afraid to offer them books geared to a younger audience or containing simplified text, such as comic books or graphic novel versions of classic novels.

The expansion of platforms means that such classics as Watchmen, V for Vendetta, Sandman, and Y the Last Man are now available on comiXology and Google Play, along with collected editions of the New 52 comics that relaunched many of DC's iconic characters and series two years ago.

Then in the 2000s, things got even more confusing, as Papercutz picked up some of the First titles and also commissioned more new comics, plus they are publishing some French adaptations of classic titles as well.

Kobo recently partnered with the McClatchy Group, Dark Horse Comics and Trajectory Classics Illustrated to bring readers the latest comic, graphic novels, newspapers, as well as the hottest titles.

So why is it that once we've gotten home, kicked off our uncomfortable shoes and loosened our ties, we relax by watching The Office, Mad Men, or cult classic Office Space, read books like Jonas Karlsson's The Room or even comics such as Dilbert?