Sentences with phrase «fi fantasy films»

Composer Mark Mothersbaugh's synth - laden score captures the vibe of»70s and»80s sci - fi fantasy films effortlessly.

But Shape's win still shows that Oscar voters were willing to let the right one in: a sci - fi fantasy film, even if it was divisive, even without the full support of the Screen Actors Guild.

Not exact matches

Apparently, the kind of «robot takeover» envisaged by films such as The Terminator is not just sci - fi fantasy.

And an interspersed sci - fi fantasy sequence that looks like it ate half the film's budget is lame.

What is interesting is (like some original sci - fi concepts) back in 66 when this film was made the idea was of course deemed fantasy, these days I don't think it is, well with robots anyway.

When the film does provide some answers, it only opens it up to even more questions and therein lies the craftsmanship and intrigue of this abstract sci - fi fantasy.

With all the emphasis these days on big screen blockbuster action, superhero, sci - fi, and fantasy movies these days, it is refreshing to watch a well - made, well presented, historical based film that can touch you on a personal level.

This is where you'll find the best mind - bending sci - fi, out of this world fantasy, and bloody good horror films all hours of the day... and night — in jaw - dropping High Definition and crisp Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound.

I think it would be a great idea to have more diversity of content in this site (an early review of Beloved was a pleasant surprise some weeks ago) but right now the balance is definitely in favor of sci - fi, fantasy, horror, action, and some crime films created for a demographic probably best described as «geek».

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.

This may not be the greatest sci - fi / fantasy movie ever made, but if you are willing to put up with a snail - paced film with an interesting story, this should be on your «want to see» list.

The first hour of the movie is virtually unwatchable, with Braff oddly sprinkling in fantasy sci - fi sequences that are supposed to convey the character's inner - life, but never really add anything to the film other than make it feel alternately goofy and pretentious.

Film School Rejects a new short film starring Oscar Isaac available to watch online Deadline a huge list of in - development franchises - what's the next big sci - fi fantasy hit?

This sci - fi / fantasy / adventure film has some of the best production design in years, capturing an alternate universe Europe in the»30s and»40s that feels inspired by steampunk and the kind of fantastic stories of adventure seen in the serials of the day.

In this rapidly changing industry, genre film remains a strongly communal experience, as horror, sci fi, fantasy and cult films continue to flourish under the banner of event cinema.

His previous films alternate between Spanish - language dark fantasy pieces, such as The Devil's Backbone (2001), and Pan's Labyrinth (2006), winner of three Academy Awards; and American studio movies, such as the vampire superhero action pic Blade II (2002), the supernatural adventures Hellboy (2004) and Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008); and the sci - fi monsters - versus - robots film Pacific Rim (2013).

In Ridley Scott's stunning sci - fi — fantasy sequel, Ford magnifies the gravitas and uncertainty in his original «Blade Runner» performance, turning Rick Deckard into the film's most human — or, if you like, least robotic — figure.

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.

Three big films hit cinemas this weekend in the UK (one of them opens next week in America), with a fantasy blockbuster taking on a sci - fi action thriller and a Wild West comedy for box...

Fantastic Planet, the Sydney horror, sci - fi and fantasy film festival, will kick off on the 22nd of March for eleven days of mind - bending, gut - wrenching action.

Although she frequently expresses her love for sci - fi and fantasy in interviews, DuVernay, who rose to prominence with 2015's Selma, has stuck to drama in her previous low - budget feature films.

BEST PICTURE: «Birdman» ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD FOR BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTING: Richard Linklater — «Boyhood» BEST ACTOR: Michael Keaton — «Birdman» BEST ACTRESS: Rosamund Pike — «Gone Girl» BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Edward Norton — «Birdman» BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Patricia Arquette — «Boyhood» ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Nicholas Glocobone, Alexander Dinelaris and Armando Bo — «Birdman» ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Gillian Robespierre — «Obvious Child» BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: «The Lego Movie» BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: «CitizenFour» BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: «Ida» (Poland) VINCE KOEHLER AWARD FOR BEST SCI - FI, FANTASY or HORROR FILM: «The Babadook»

That trio consists of a pair of 1972 horror films, The Devil and The Third Part of the Night, and the 1988 sci - fi / fantasy On the Silver Globe.

The Face / Off icon teams with retro - obsessed director Panos Cosmatos (Beyond the Black Rainbow) for this fantasy revenge film set in an alternative 1983 informed by clam - shelled VHS sci - fi flicks.

Overall, the weekend is running about 15 percent behind Super Bowl weekend last year, when the sci - fi fantasy «Chronicle» opened to $ 22 million and the Daniel Radcliffe horror film «Woman in Black» debuted to nearly $ 21 million.

Ever since I stumbled across his 1997 debut film Cube, which still stands up (despite its lesser sequels) as a very novel approach to cerebral horror or dark fantasy or violent sci - fi... -LRB-...)

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

Yet when looking over all of the best films of 2017, sci - fi and fantasy dominate.

Tagged With: Al Pacino, director, Ethan Hawke, fantasy, film, movie, narrative, perception, reality, SAG, Sci - fi, science fiction, special effects, Uma Thurman, virtual reality

Geek out over these fantasy, sci - fi and superhero movies that have been filmed in Georgia over the last few years.

Vertical Entertainment has released the trailer for director Brent Ryan Green's sci - fi fantasy action film, The Veil, which stars William Levy.

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.

«I, Tonya» costume designer Jennifer Johnson won the guild's award for excellence in contemporary film, and Lindy Hemming, who oversaw the costumes in «Wonder Woman,» won for excellence in sci - fi / fantasy film.

Fantastic Fest is the largest genre film festival in the U.S., specializing in horror, fantasy, sci - fi, action and just plain fantastic movies from all around the world.

Parents should know that this film includes extended sci - fi / fantasy peril and violence with chases, explosions, swords, guns, and monsters.

Alice Rohrwacher's time - travel puzzler Happy as Lazzaro is well positioned to win the Palme d'Or, after a festival dominated by films with elements of sci - fi or fantasy, and out - of - place protagonists.

And that, in fact, is his plan: to convince the new Iranian regime that he and his six colleagues (yes, the increasingly scared U.S. stowaways) are a film crew, scouting locations for a sci - fi fantasy adventure called Argo.

I personally didn't want that reality in this particular sci - fi fantasy... but it's not my film and to each their own.

His major films include the supernatural thriller The Sixth Sense (1999), the neo-noir superhero drama thriller Unbreakable (2000), the science fiction thriller Signs (2002), the psychological thriller The Village (2004), the fantasy thriller Lady in the Water (2006), the natural horror thriller The Happening (2008), the fantasy adventure film The Last Airbender (2010), the sci - fi action - adventure film After Earth (2013) and the horror comedy film The Visit (2015).

«It's become very common to get a two - and - a-half-hour experience if it's a comic book, sci - fi or fantasy film.

film in the Divergent series, based on the third - or fourth - generation YA spin - off trying to capitalize on the Hunger Games - cum - Twilight phenomenon of smushing sci - fi / fantasy together with tween angst — has arrived to make manifest the endless exposition of developmental social psychology.

Also in the mix: comedy Get Hard, starring Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart; long - delayed fantasy actioner The Seventh Son; indie sci - fi The Signal; and British sci - fi family film Robot Overlords.

However, it becomes evident that two types of films are being thrown together in one: a standard sci - fi apocalypse film and a fragmented urban fantasy film.

A Wrinkle in Time sets its sights on being more of a coming - of - age film folded into a sci - fi / fantasy adventure rather than a film hellbent on exploring more of the world and darkness beyond its own singular mission.

sets its sights on being more of a coming - of - age film folded into a sci - fi / fantasy adventure rather than a film hellbent on exploring more of the world and darkness beyond its own singular mission.

This has taken the sci - fi / fantasy genre and breathed a really powerful breathe which hopefully creates a more inspired surge of these genre films.

In an overwhelming presence of sci - fi / fantasy book - to - movie adaptations, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones is the newest film to hit the big screen.

March 8, 2018 • NPR's movie critic Bob Mondello discusses the star - studded film adaptation of A Wrinkle In Time, the sci - fi fantasy novel about light and darkness, time and tesseracts.

And now there's «The Only Living Boy in New York»; even though this new turkey avoids the fantasy and sci - fi elements of those previous films, it's pure Loeb all the way, from the consistently unbelievable dialogue to his favorite screenwriting device, the «shocking» third - act reveal that proves more ludicrous than illuminating.

«Shallow Water is an old school, practical creature FX film that is the first film in a proposed anthology of horror, sci - fi & fantasy short subjects.