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Which of this year's fantastical science fiction and fantasy films at SXSW will hit the big time this year?

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Deniers, as both Lipstadt and Vidal - Naquet show, seem to have an endless supply of polemical tricks and dodges: they simply discount Jewish testimony out of hand as lie or fantasy; inculpatory testimony from the Nazis themselves is said to have been coerced by the triumphant Allies; documents confirming such testimony are said to be forgeries; Nazi statements and memoranda about the Final Solution are taken at face value if they are euphemistically phrased, but are interpreted as hyperbolic or figurative if they are blunt and explicit; photographs and films of executions are dismissed as fakes.

You might not notice the failure, given the film's fantasy - ending wherein everyone winds up dancing, but the actual night she tries to debut the Salumbo at a dance bar, nobody comes.

And, as a non-reader of the J.K. Rowling books (I'm saving them to read with my daughter when she's old enough) and a non-aficionado of the fantasy genre, I find at least some stretch of every Harry Potter film arcane and a bit dull (usually the parts involving magician - vs.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 is the eighth and final installment of the long - running film series adapted from the children's fantasy novels by British author J. K. Rowling, centering on the titular half - human boy wizard and his adventures at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry.

The first fantasy film that Mr McClure starred in which lead to him starring in three more out of this world flicks that are all slightly similar... in visual style at least.

Toy Soldiers is a movie that appeals at once to adolescent self - pity and adolescent anger - a film that takes feelings of rejection and inadequacy and transforms them into a violent revenge fantasy, directed against all those distant daddies.

Yet to look at the trailer, the sci - fi fantasy aspect and the films title you could be fooled into thinking this might not be too bad.

An interview with Michael J. Bassett (8:51) allows the filmmaker to speak at greater length of his love of fantasy fare, his intention for a serious tone, the film's casting, dismissed ideas, and religious themes.

Universal Pictures have unveiled a new full - length U.S. trailer for the upcoming samurai fantasy action film «47 Ronin» which opens at Christmas.Keanu Reeves stars in the film about a group of banished samurai who long to restore their honor...

While at Comic - Con for a presentation in Hall H, co-stars Jeff Bridges, Ben Barnes and Kit Harington talked to press about their fantasy action - adventure film Seventh Son.

We kick off the show looking at some of this month's key films, including Steven Spielberg's literally - ripped - from - the - headlines true story The Post, Guillermo Del Toro's dark romantic fantasy The Shape of Water, Don Hertzfeldt's animated science fiction sequel World of Tomorrow Episode 2: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts, and Ridley Scott's ambitious Getty family biopic All the Money in the World.

It's sense of scale was something completely new to the fantasy genre on film at the time.

In 2009, the MPAA assigned the film a PG rating «for fantasy action violence and peril», which is one way of describing the fact that our young heroes get shot at with some regularity, with one of them even getting bloodily grazed on his cheek.

Ignoring the absurd idea that somehow the Korean resistance to the Japanese was a key to the winning of the war (which the film explicitly states at one point), the creation of noble resistance heroes (even when sometimes compromised) versus the evil Japanese villain is pure escapist nonsense that passes itself off as realism instead of the Tarantino-esque fantasy it actually is.

A protégé of Dario Argento who matured to develop a unique style of his own while at once carrying the tradition of such Italian horror icons as Mario Bava and Riccardo Freda, Michele Soavi almost single - handedly kept the slumping Italian horror / fantasy tradition afloat in the 1990s with his strikingly original philosophical zombie film Dellamorte, Dellamore (1994).

A literary adaptation of a coming - of - age story, with links to Charles Dickens» classic «Great Expectations,» the film leaves you with the wish that Adamson would stick to fantasy — at least in that world there's some fun to be found.

Clocking in at a brisk 103 minutes, «The Great Wall» has very little on its mind beyond its B - movie premise, operating like a weird hybrid between a Hollywood swashbuckling adventure and a Chinese fantasy film.

At first the film is played out as a fantasy where you are almost certain that you are going to discover that Hesher is a figment of the boy's imagination.

Guillermo del Toro, who directed the fantasy drama, announced at San Diego Comic - Con on Saturday that the film will be made into a maze at Southern California's most extreme horror experience.

A packed slate of genre film awaits him, and at a time when it's never been more fashionable to be into the far out, the Man Who Would Be Sparrow is surely the ace in the pack for any mooted fantasy releases.

Anorak: «The film flows at a good pace, and even without the fantasy action pieces every 20 minutes the events transpiring in the whorehouse world are captivating in and of themselves.»

Without nagging time - lapse problems, a few sloppy matching shots, central questions glossed (Gandalf's resurrection — without a reading of The Silmarillion, of course — is obscure at best), and a few story conveniences (Cate Blanchett's Galadriel makes a lame cameo, the abovementioned gauzy Arwen love scenes), the film would be something of a masterpiece (and even with its problems, it's among the best fantasies ever made).

As grownups those two remain as besotted with the military — or at least, the military of their war - film fantasies — as they were when they battled with toy guns.

«The Shape of Water,» Guillermo del Toro's striking, sensual fantasy film, won the Producers Guild of America's top honor Saturday night at the PGA Awards, cementing its place as one of the front - runners of this year's wide - open Oscar best picture race.

DAILY DEAD — Revealed at Las Vegas» CinemaCon are release date changes for upcoming films of the horror, sci - fi, and fantasy varieties, as Universal has pushed back the releases of Pacific Rim 2, The Mummy, and Warcraft.

To celebrate the film's premiere at the Music Box Theatre, star Peyton Kennedy, producer Kishori Rajan and writer / director Anne Hamilton are accompanying the movie to Chicago and doing a Q&A for this drama - fantasy about an 11 - year - old girl who lives in a world that blends fables and reality.

Unless your child is still at an impressionable age when the «Goosebumps» books can give them real goose bumps, this PG - rated film is more likely to elicit more smirks than scares, working better as a comedic fantasy than as something meant to keep youngsters up all night.

I believed this to be the way movies naturally were, unaware then that I was poised at the cusp of a decade of filmmaking that would redefine fantasy and science - fiction, setting precedents for the genre with films like Back to the Future and Predator, E.T., and Blade Runner, Near Dark, and Miracle Mile — the well was as deep for flights of fancy in the Eighties as it was for incomparable character - driven paranoia in the Seventies.

It complicates the film's relation to history, so thinly veiled at times (Thornton's James Carville, Emma Thompson's Hillary Clinton stand out in particular, but also Kathy Bates's conflation of Betsey Wright and Vincent Foster), but ultimately this is not a docudrama of historical recreation (like Oliver Stone's W. or the Jay Roach / Danny Strong HBO movies Recount and Game Change, let alone a fantasy of a Hawksian White House as in its most direct descendant, Aaron Sorkin's The West Wing).

Perhaps because this is a film written and directed by men, cutting loose for these moms does not mean acting like they did when they were young and single, but rather a frat boy fantasy involving speeding in muscle cars, downing bottles of vodka and Jell - O shots, shrugging off any responsibilities, flipping their condescending boss the bird, throw wild and hedonistic parties, and trying to get laid with easy hookups at the local bar.

Stay at home and rent a superior action / fantasy / horror film.

From his attention - grabbing debut with «Reservoir Dogs» (1992), a deviously clever heist film where the heist is never seen and the drama is all in the conversation and the ingenious structure, to his acclaimed «Inglourious Basterds» (2009), his thrilling rewrite of World War II history as a magnificent movie fantasy, Tarantino has gone his own way, snatching up ideas strewn through decades of film history and hundreds of genre movies like a magpie, rethinking them completely, and weaving them into entirely new stories that unfold at a leisurely pace so he can enjoy every word and gesture along the journey.

Best Director recipient Guillermo del Toro, whose amphibious romance fantasy The Shape of Water won Best Picture, marveled at how the film industry has the ability to break down borders and «erase lines in the sand.»

When Marvel is willing to really embrace genre — for example, when Thor felt like an»80s fantasy, or Captain America felt like a 70s political thriller (or 40s war film)-- I think they are at their best.

Casino Royale is fantasy in a world that's earned its darkness, a mature film that doesn't demand to be taken seriously but doesn't expect you to believe that the world is the same as it was when Sean Connery leered at Ursula Andress walking out of the surf like Venus on the half shell.

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 film as a whole has a similar problem, feeling uncertain at the script level about which characters to emphasize or discard, what genre or tone to pursue, and how much flashback or fantasy to incorporate.

«Warm Bodies received a «B +» CinemaScore from its young audiences and easily outpaced last week's No. 1 film, the R - rated 3D fantasy - action mash - up «Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters,» which took in $ 3.2 million Friday and is looking at a $ 10 million second weekend for Paramount.

Jeff Bridges may be doing a variant on his True Grit voice for his role in Seventh Son, but if this fantasy action adventure film is made up of recycled parts, at least they look like they've been assembled in a lively fashion.

I don't know; maybe you're just catching me on a bad day and I'm feeling particularly grumpy, but I'm sure as hell sick of seeing an endless sea of white faces staring back at me from my fantasy films.

It's easy to sneer at these films, which are at bottom sentimental, feel - good fantasies, but in fairness the Marigold films do tackle issues like ageing and death that rarely get an airing in Hollywood.

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.

Hammer recently appeared in fantasy sci - fi film «Sorry to Bother You», which Annapurna Pictures purchased at this year's Sundance Film Festival.

The film is a sequel to the 2015 fantasy film about humans and monsters who lived alongside — and at odds — with each other in ancient China, making $ 390 million.

A.O. Scott at The New York Times slammed the film's «pretense that this fantasia of misogyny is really a feminist fable of empowerment,» while Sady Doyle at The Atlantic declared that director «Zack Snyder's gooey mix of fetish gear, rape fantasies, and girls - with - guns action sequences represents the nadir of a long, slow, steady decline in action films starring women.»

«It was definitely an opportunity to live out a fantasy,» he said at the film's UK premiere at London's O2 Arena.

One of the films at Sundance that flew under the radar this year was jetpack fantasy Pretty Bird, based on the book The Rocketbelt Caper.

She was the first black woman to win Best Director at the Sundance Film Festival (Middle of Nowhere, 2012), the first black woman to direct a film receiving an Oscar nod for Best Picture (Selma, 2014), and in 2018, the first black woman to direct a studio film budgeted over a hundred million with A Wrinkle in Time, an adaptation of Madeline L'Engle's 1963 Newbery Medal winning sci - fi fantasy novel.

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