Sentences with phrase «dystopian action»

When The Maze Runner first arrived in theaters in 2014, it was amid the heyday of sci - fi dystopian action films based on young adult novels.

Shot in a way that approximates a single take, «Bushwick» is a cleverly constructed and pulse - pounding exercise in low - budget dystopian action with unexpected contemporary political resonances.

«A B - movie, with A-movie aspirations,» Mad Max is George Miller's cult classic dystopian action movie set against the striking Australian outback (The Guardian).

This version of Total Recall, while drawing from the same source material as the original, is an altogether darker and more dystopian action movie.

In a two - part announcement this morning, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences» President Cheryl Boone Isaacs, actor John Krasinski and directors Ang Lee and Guillermo del Toro let the world know the nominees for the 88th annual Academy Awards, survival epic The Revenant, dystopian action effort Mad Max: Fury Road, journalism procedural Spotlight and housing crisis comedic satire The Big Short instantly emerging as Best Picture frontrunners.

Based on the hit dystopian action film franchise of the same name, Mad Max follows series star Max Rockatansky as he fights and races his way through the hostile Wasteland to recover his stolen Interceptor vehicle.

«Not to be outdone in eclectic choices, on Saturday the Boston Online Film Critics Association selected an unconventional winner for best of 2014: Bong Joon - ho's dystopian action film, «Snowpiercer,» for which Tilda Swinton was also named Best Supporting Actress.»

Opening in theaters today is Divergent, the dystopian action thriller based on the hit YA novel by Veronica Roth.

Whether you play alone, or you go online and hunt with friends, this dystopian action / RPG will be the best thing that has happened to your PS Vita for a long time.

Although he's made significant contributions elsewhere — the exploitation thriller Assault On Precinct 13, or the dystopian action of Escape From New York — he'll forever be the director of Halloween, the movie that stripped the masked - killer subgenre to its shambling essence.

Now — just months after shooting the dystopian action flick «Divergent» and the cancer love story «The Fault in Our Stars» — he's up to more than 117,000.

As for the movie representation of Maze Runner series, following the plight of Thomas and his fellow Gladers, this cinematic series falls somewhere in the middle of those two, finding a better groove in its dystopian action than teen drama romance (i.e..

Illuminating and a little eerie, the dystopian action series has a unique atmosphere and story - line.

In addition, gamers can look forward to hands - on with the dystopian action - roleplay DEUS EX: MANKIND DIVIDED ™, and the mobile game DEUS EX GO ™ from the DEUS EX UNIVERSE ®.