Sentences with phrase «classic war movie»

Consisting of 100 drawings inspired by Fred Zinnemann's classic war movie From Here to Eternity, the series pays homage to one of Hollywood's iconic moments (that famous kiss on the beach) while making a personal reference to the censorship in Algeria that prevented him from seeing such a sensual scene as a child.

Based on Humphrey Cobb's antiwar novel, this classic war movie starred Kirk Douglas as a French colonel in World War I who defends three doomed soldiers about to be executed for their alleged cowardice in a battle lost by an incompetent and morally bankrupt general (Adolphe Menjou).

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AT - ATs were featured in the classic «Star Wars» movie «The Empire Strikes Back» as well as the newer film «Rogue One.»

Directed by Ryan Coogler (Creed) and starring Chadwick Boseman (Get On Up) as the Black Panther, the movie is the first standalone film for the classic Marvel Comics character after Boseman previously appeared as the Black Panther in 2016's Marvel film, Captain America: Civil War.

Two new Star Wars movies, Avengers: Infinity War, sequels to animated hits The Incredibles and Wreck - It Ralph, and a film adaptation of children's classic A Wrinkle in Time are all set to hit theaters in 2018.

An ordinary guy escapes his turbulent home life when he is invited to an exclusive Hollywood party by his movie star friend, only to discover that there's Famous Supernatural guest stars include a future Star Wars actor, Buffy the Vampire Slayer actors and classic horror stars.

After the jaw - dropping, goosebump - inducing surprises of both 2014's Back to the Future and 2015's Star Wars, this immersive take on Danny Boyle's classic zombie movie...

The Week in Movies discusses the last seven days in cinema, including Avengers: Infinity War's name change, young Han Solo being cast in the Star Wars spin - off movie, Universal's Classic Monster MovieVerse continues to grow, and much, much more... The Week in Movies is an excerpt from the weekly Flickering Myth Super Newsletter.

Since then, the zombie movie has been a staple at the cinema and at home, with offerings ranging from the totally»80s classic Night of the Comet to the biggest box office zombie flick yet, World War Z. Because there are only so many ways to serve up brains, and with TV's The Walking Dead doing an excellent job of that on a regular basis, filmmakers are taking unique approaches to zombies and treating them as characters, not just mindless threats.

Q: In the Directors Guild of America podcast you did with director Rian Johnson («Star Wars: The Last Jedi»), you talked about the time you were laid up with the flu, at home, watching a lot of Turner Classic Movies.

You may have noticed that Disney, not content with the success of its Pixar releases, Marvel movies, or massive Star Wars universe thanks to the Lucasfilm purchase, has started remaking its classic animated films in live - action form.

In the tradition of Scarface, Goodfellas, and The Wolf of Wall Street — so basically, all the classic American Scumbag movies — with a dash of The Big Short thrown in for a falsely moralizing ending, War Dogs is a sweaty, bro - y, barely even sheepish celebration of Bush - era amorality dressed in coke and cash that squanders a brilliant scumbag performance from Jonah Hill.

Avengers: Infinity War is neither a classic or one of the best Marvel movies we've seen, but it's a good, solid flick that gets the job done overall.

If you look at Disney under Iger's reign, the studio has moved away from making mid-budget movies and instead shifted its focus almost entirely on building brands within the Disney family: Pixar movies, Star Wars movies, Marvel movies, live - action Disney adaptations of classic animated movies, etc..

Sure, there have been classics like the 1946 Oscar winner The Best Years of Our Lives which focused on World War II vets returning home, or 1978's Coming Home and 1989's Born On The Fourth Of July focusing on the plight of Vietnam vets, but this kind of movie is increasingly... Read

The company produced the acclaimed 2012 horror anthology THE THEATRE BIZARRE and their previous releases include Richard Stanley's restored HARDWARE, the all - star War classic THE WILD GEESE, the unrated Director's Cut of Just Jaeckin's GWENDOLINE, Enzo Castellari's original action classic INGLORIOUS BASTARDS, Oscar ® - nominee Patrice Leconte's THE HAIRDRESSER»S HUSBAND, the midnight movie sensation BIRDEMIC — SHOCK & TERROR, Eugenio Martin's restored HORROR EXPRESS, and Alejandro Jodorowsky's incomparable masterpiece SANTA SANGRE.

Disney and Lucasfilm have decided to peel back the veil of secrecy surrounding Star Wars: The Force Awakens ever so slightly by revealing the names of the new characters seen in the recent trailer via a selection of «trading cards» that pay homage to the classic Topps collectibles from the original 1977 movie.

Finally turning his hand to the war - movie genre, Tarantino unsurprisingly pays homage to classic B - movies.

In an early movie version of the beloved and oft - filmed classic novel, Hepburn gets the juiciest role in «Little Women» as Jo, the tomboy of the four March sisters in a genteelly impoverished family struggling with their father's absence during the Civil War.

This week's releases include true war stories; a magical animated adventure; a mind - bending thriller; a horror movie with real - life connections; and a classic family drama.

In addition to its widely - loved animated classics and live - action remakes of those movies, Disney's key franchises include Star Wars (since 2015), the Marvel Cinematic Universe (since 2012), and Pirates of the Caribbean.

The bonds of nerdery run deep: J.J. Abrams and Simon Pegg have worked together with modern takes on classic sci - fi before, but Pegg's minor role in Star Wars: The Force Awakens may be just one small part of his contributions to the movie.

A clever, well - acted summer blockbuster which is an involving cross between a classic Western revenge and a war movie, dropping somewhere between The Searchers, Platoon and Watership Down, if that can be imagined.

«Super There Will Be Blood» has elements reminiscent of Montezuma's Revenge, Super Mario Brothers, the platform movie tie ins like the Super Star Wars games, and probably a few other influences that those well - versed in classic games will recognize.

Hollywood loves making movies about making movies, and even though Lone Scherfig «s World War II romantic dramedy Their Finest actually hails from across the pond, it's still looking for that sweet spot of nostalgia for classic filmmaking crossed with the hardships of wWar II romantic dramedy Their Finest actually hails from across the pond, it's still looking for that sweet spot of nostalgia for classic filmmaking crossed with the hardships of warwar.

There were several other events that took place while I was watching movies, such as the Fantastic Feud, The Star Wars Drink Competition, the taping of Doug Benson's Doug Loves Movies podcast, the Chaos Reigns Karaoke Party, Eat and Explode (a disgusting eating competition), and an event that offered attendees an early chance to play Mondo's new board game based on John Carpenter's 1982 classic, The movies, such as the Fantastic Feud, The Star Wars Drink Competition, the taping of Doug Benson's Doug Loves Movies podcast, the Chaos Reigns Karaoke Party, Eat and Explode (a disgusting eating competition), and an event that offered attendees an early chance to play Mondo's new board game based on John Carpenter's 1982 classic, The Movies podcast, the Chaos Reigns Karaoke Party, Eat and Explode (a disgusting eating competition), and an event that offered attendees an early chance to play Mondo's new board game based on John Carpenter's 1982 classic, The Thing.

It's also a fantastical imagining of classic movie design in service to his vision of underdogs uniting to defeat a brutal tyrant in a Cold War atmosphere and a labor of love from a filmmaker who embraces the power of fairy tales.

Because of the whole Star Wars Legends alternate universe (the classic Expanded Universe) and the current canon universe, there's some move for changes to be made in the movie and not to play spoiler, they change it up from the previous novels.

12:30 pm — Fox Movie — The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) The original The Day the Earth Stood Still is a classic of 1950s Cold War paranoia sci - fi.

The classic Abrahams / Zucker spoof of 1970s disaster and airplane crash movies has the all the crew and passengers fall ill, leaving a former war pilot who's now terrified of flying the only one who can land the plane safely.

Lew Ayres, who starred in the classic 1931 anti-war film (and Best Picture Academy Award winner), «All Quiet on the Western Front,» was so affected by that movie, he became a conscientious objector and served as a medic in World War II (and was later to earn a Best Actor nomination for «Johnny Belinda»).

In advance of the American premiere of the fully restored edition of Abel Gance's 1927 Napoleon in Oakland on March 24, Turner Classic Movies presents two of the auteur's earlier films: J'Accuse (1919), which appropriates the cry leveled by Emile Zola during the Dreyfus affair to decry the horrors of World War I, and La Roue (1923).

Some of the commanding officers of the Civil War are portrayed in the epic movie Gods and Generals, while the deprivations faced by the women folk left at home are dramatized in the classic Gone With The Wind.

The Shape of Water, Universal's Get Out and Lady Bird were joined on the Best Picture list by Sony Classics» Call Me By Your Name; Focus Features» Darkest Hour, home to Best Actor frontrunner Gary Oldman, nommed today; Warner Bros» Dunkirk, with Christopher Nolan's stunning war movie scoring eight noms; Focus» Phantom Thread, with Daniel Day - Lewis back in the Actor race; Fox's The Post, along with it the 21st nomination for Meryl Streep (though not for director Stephen Spielberg); and Searchlight's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, probably the other frontrunner coming into today noms and which had seven nominations, with Martin McDonagh nominated for writing but not directing, and the film's big three — Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell — all nominated.

A master of classic film style, Gray (The Immigrant, Two Lovers) dedicates almost as much of the movie to the time between Fawcett's expeditions as his adventures in Amazonia, placing them in the context of the era's wars, social mores, and colonial horrors.

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His movie career spans decades, and he's had his hand in many classic films, from «Gandhi» to «War Games.»

The seminal prison movie Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954), the much imitated sci - fi classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), the uncompromising war movie Hell is for Heroes (1962) and the controversial cop thriller Dirty Harry (1971) are just a few examples of the range of his work.

It might seem like a little bit of a curious, niche question, but the behemoth marketing machine for Infinity War has that very question covered over in Japan, where one promotional video for the movie features some of the scenes we've already glimpsed in the previous trailers recreated as if from a classic Super Famicom / SNES era RPG.

To me movies like Ocean's Eleven, War of The Worlds, and King Kong follow this rule while Total Recall, Evil Dead, and Robocop didn't, especially when a movie is a classic.

YouTuber PistolShrimps decided to inject a little Batman into classic movies like Harry Potter and Star Wars.

I greatly wanted to like 12 Strong, but instead I suggest you go back and watch other war movie classics.

Not unsimilar to Yoda teaching Luke how to use «The Force» in the classic movie Star Wars, Chad reviews how harnessing this Force can improve your body language for more effective dog training.

The game is set thousands of years before the classic Star WarsTM movies, with the Galactic Republic and Sith Empire locked in the middle of an epic, galactic war.

The Rise Against the Empire Play Set includes Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia in their Disney Infinity 3.0 representation, along with the Play Set piece that will take you through iconic moments in Star Wars Episodes IV - VI, featuring characters, vehicles and locations from the classic movies.

I grew up with Star Wars, watching the classic movies over and over and collecting all the toys I could afford.

All - new classic movie moments complete the Star Wars Battlefront II experience, as players battle within the interior of the Death Star and visit Princess Leia's blockade runner, the Tantive IV, as seen at the beginning of Episode IV A New Hope.

The PlayStation Store is offering 4 classic SW games, the Star Wars movies, and a new Star Wars theme for PS4.

The Star Wars films have been classics for decades and, with the release of new Star Wars movies, a whole new generation are now falling in love with this epic franchise.