Sentences with phrase «director of action the cinema»

Boasting aliens, state - of - the - art special effects, a marquee star, and the greatest director of action the cinema has produced, War of the Worlds superficially fits the mold of the cinematic thrill ride.

Not exact matches

A decent piece of do - good cinema... Director Norman Jewison stages their confrontations for effectively flashy, immediate effects, though he unnecessarily neglects the action - movie underpinning.

While none of the films beyond Craven's ever really stand out of the usual grind of horror sequels, it did give a number of up and coming directors a chance to flex their creative muscles: Chuck Russell (A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors), Renny Harlin (A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master) and Stephen Hopkins (A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child) all leapt from this series directly into big budget action cinema.

Commentary — God bless director Chris Gorak, who spends the entire track convinced that The Darkest Hour is a deep, well - crafted piece of cinema, and not a throwaway action movie with good special effects and nothing else.

Directed with the equal energy by British director John Hough, whose lean, high - powered action scenes are energized by the dynamic, almost child - like performances of his thrill - addicted characters, it's a classic of seventies speed cinema, where car chase and stunt films were really about rubber hitting — and leaving — the road.

Sham Kaushal, one of the most sought - after action directors in Bollywood, talks about his struggle, and painting cinema with action

Acclaimed TV director Yann Demange delivers a notable debut feature, an exhilarating action movie that has more in common with the work of Walter Hill or John Carpenter than it does with other depictions of The Troubles in recent British cinema.

When director Roland Emmerich flexes the irrational muscle of White House Down it works extremely well and it's dripping with nods to action cinema of yesteryear.

Firestorm This 2013 Hong Kong feature was nominated for a slew of native film awards including Best Action Choreography, Best Editing, Best Visual Effects and Best New Director and with my penchant for violent Asian cinema, I have trouble believing that this won't be a surprise victory for SIFF.

This 2013 Hong Kong feature was nominated for a slew of native film awards including Best Action Choreography, Best Editing, Best Visual Effects and Best New Director and with my penchant for violent Asian cinema, I have trouble believing that this won't be a surprise victory for SIFF.

For one, there's his casting of action cinema's favorite intense sadsack, Jean - Claude Van Damme, as Hong's seen - only - in - flashback mentor (Hyams, by the way, is the son of Timecop and Sudden Death director Peter Hyams, making him a second - generation Van Damme wrangler).

People may have liked, to varying degrees, Zemeckis» mocap films, but they weren't as crazy about the technology as he was and many longed for him to return to good old - fashioned live - action cinema, where the director had dazzled with some of the century's most iconic works.

The clip features Deadpool director Tim Miller talking about what it means to have his movie play in the biggest version of action cinema imaginable across the country, and Miller even took a few passive aggressive jabs at the venerated Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Director Scott Derrickson, best known for the derivative yet chilling Sinister, works in a robust old - school style that owes more to American swashbuckler films, Asian action cinema, and the Indiana Jones series than to the frenetic, cut - and - paste aesthetic of contemporary blockbusters such as Captain America: Civil War.

In this case action director Robert Rodriguez of Sin City and Desperado fame and Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction) sought to replicate the whole «grindhouse» cinema effect with a movie called Grindhouse.