Sentences with phrase «epic fantasy film»

This epic fantasy film, based on the novel «The Spook's Apprentice», features music by Marco Beltrami and additional music by Brandon

Some new faces on the scene seem to carry with them the aesthetic ideals picked up from video games, sci - fi and epic fantasy films, as well as values, humor and themes derived from internet culture.

Not exact matches

An eight - part fantasy epic with a dead - serious tone — and the unusual goal in these facetious movie days of being iconic, not ironic — the Harry Potter films of course had the benefit of a bedrock constituency: the tens of millions of worldwide fans of J.K. Rowling's wizardly septology.

While the previous films in the series have been just that — parts of a sequence designed to get us here, each with their own beginning and end — the first and second parts of Deathly Hallows are two halves of the same film, and to approach them as separate entities means missing just what director David Yates, writer Steve Kloves, and a host of storytellers and performers have done: They've made a five - hour fantasy epic that balances effects - driven battles with some very real character moments, and one that isn't afraid to have its heroes pay a high price for their convictions.

A great Japanese fantasy tale, filled with epic samurai upholding social order ahead of their own lives.The film does a great job of showing that duty and honor to ones lord is far more important than adventure.

A lovingly crafted fantasy on an epic scale, Mary and the Witch's Flower is a film about transformation made by filmmakers in transition.

However, while Warcraft looks like an epic, fantasy blockbuster, it just might be too niche of a genre film to appeal to a larger general audience who isn't familiar with the game.

The television, film and comics writer will collaborate with Akiva Goldsman on the NBC TV series, part of an ambitious cross-platform adaptation of Stephen King's fantasy epic.

Players form small groups to battle epic creatures in a world evoking classic Hollywood fantasy films.

Not only are «Get Out,» «The Shape of Water» and «Blade Runner 2049» some of the very best films of 2017, but from the no - budget indie realm («Prevenge,» «A Ghost Story,» «Transfiguration,» «Raw») to expensive studio epic scale («War for the Planet of the Apes,» «Kong: Skull Island») and newly blazed ground out of the predominantly formulaic superhero («Logan,» «Wonder Woman,» «LEGO Batman») and Star Wars («The Last Jedi») factory farms, fantasy filmmakers tried their hardest to be smart, visually adroit, sometimes startlingly innovative and — strangest of all for this escapist format — humanely, emotionally credible.

But Ritchie has since expanded his catalogue, moving onto Sherlock Holmes mystery movies, sleek spy films, and Arthurian fantasy epics.

The Hobbit is based on J.R.R. Tolkien's epic fantasy novel about the adventures of Bilbo Baggins, who obtains the ring that was the centerpiece of The Lord of the Rings trilogy of books and films.

British actor Benedict Cumberbatch winds up his most successful year yet by playing the iconic dragon Smaug in Peter Jackson's epic fantasy adventure The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, the second film in the Tolkien - inspired...

The film is an epic action fantasy that takes us into the vivid imagination of a young girl whose dream world provides the ultimate escape from her darker reality.

Half sweeping fantasy epic, half nitty - gritty gang comedy (with just a dash of Kung Fu), the film is overstuffed with ideas that could have proven intriguing if given enough room to breathe.

Ambitious historical dramas, animated films, ensemble capers, epic fantasies... all have yielded their fair share of star - studded casts.

Other highlights in this strand include: Miguel Gomes» mixes fantasy, documentary, docu - fiction, Brechtian pantomime and echoes of MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Moss.

Mononoke was the first film to receive wide distribution and in retrospect it may have been the perfect introduction, at least for the adult audience: an environmentalist epic as and blood and thunder fantasy adventure on an apocalyptic scale.

The Shape of Water, Guillermo del Toro's strange and thrilling fantasy epic about a woman who falls in love with a sea monster, will lead the charge at this year's Bafta film awards with 12 nominations.

Matt Damon became the center of controversy over the summer with the debut of the first U.S. trailer for «The Great Wall,» the action - fantasy epic from Legendary Pictures, which was criticized for focusing on the white American star over the film's Chinese talent, including ingénue Jing Tian, boy band breakout Junkai Wang and renowned director Zhang Yimou («House of Flying Daggers»).

None of the rest of his films were quite up there with those three, but they were still very enjoyable fantasies that also continue to have an audience today and sell well on home video: «First Men in the Moon» (1964), based on the H.G. Wells story; another dinosaur epic, «One Million Years B.C.» (1966), most famous for the image of Raquel Welch in a fur bikini; «The Valley of Gwangi» (1969), an interesting blend of dinosaur thrills and a conventional Western; and two more «Sinbad» epics, «The Golden Voyage of Sinbad» (1974) and «Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger» (1977), the latter co-starring young Jane Seymour.

After Russell Crowe's one - two punch of Gladiator and A Beautiful Mind (both very standard, Oscar - friendly choices), the Academy chose a cynical musical (Chicago), a fantasy epic (Return of the King), a tiny, short story boxing fable with a pro-euthanasia message (Million Dollar Baby), a wild ensemble film about racism (Crash), a dark crime epic (The Departed), another dark crime epic with an inconclusive ending no less (No Country for Old Men), and a movie about modern India (Slumdog Millionaire).

Arnold Schwarzenegger's (The Terminator, Commando) second (and final) appearance as the Robert E. Howard - created Cimmerian hero, this fantasy adventure sees a less adult Conan in a PG - rated epic (just prior to the PG - 13 implementation, which this very violent film would have most certainly received) that ups the humor quotient while toning down the T&A and much of the gory violence from John Milius's Conan the Barbarian.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening December 14, 2012 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (PG - 13 for epic battle scenes and scary images) Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings trilogy) directed this adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy novel about a human - like creature with furry feet (Martin Freeman) who is prompted by a wizard (Ian McKellen) to embark on an epic with 13 dwarfs to wrest control of a lost kingdom from the clutches of a fearsome dragon.

The Production Design (or «Art Direction») category normally favors large - scale fantasy films or lavish period epics, but this year's nominees reflect a subtler batch of contenders (which makes sense given that the subdued Lincoln won the trophy last year).

The Lord of the Rings: Remastered Deluxe Edition (Warner)-- Ralph Bakshi's 1978 animated feature film combines traditional cel animation with live action reference footage in his attempt to get J.R.R. Tolkien's sprawling fantasy adventure epic on the big screen.

Peter Jackson's extraordinary telling of J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy epic The Lord of the Rings continues with the release of The Two Towers, a film that manages to overcome its own version of middle child syndrome.

South Park: The Fractured But Whole — Review PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC MA15 + Eschewing the epic fantasy trappings of its predecessor to instead take cues from the DC / Marvel tentpole film fad, South Park: The Fractured But Whole holds true to the formula established by Obsidian Entertainment and South Park Digital Studios in 2014's The -LSB-...]

The frenzied, pop - culture jamboree «San Diego Comic Con» in downtown San Diego has literally evolved over the years into a stupendous spectacle of comic books, film, television, video games, products and now virtual reality - but only this time taking you into the action - packed, epic - fantasy world of Azeroth.