Sentences with phrase «fiction film starring»

And part is a fiction film starring Paul Giamatti as Harvey and Hope Davis as Joyce.

Villeneuve has already wrapped up his next film, Story of Your Life, a science fiction film starring yet another female lead, Amy Adams.

After a decade of roles in Australian TV shows and films, Bana gained Hollywood's attention by playing the role of American Delta Force Sergeant Norm «Hoot» Hooten in Black Hawk Down (2001), the lead role as Bruce Banner in the Ang Lee directed film Hulk (2003), Prince Hector in the movie Troy (2004), the lead in Steven Spielberg's Munich (2005), and the villain Nero in the science - fiction film Star Trek (2009).

It's also, happily, part of an impromptu Vedic cycle of contemporary science - fiction films starring Scarlett Johansson.

Not exact matches

Actor John Travolta — best known as starring in films such as Pulp Fiction and Grease — will be among the numerous celebrity attendees, serving as a special guest speaker.

Christian actor David Gyasi stars as space explorer Romilly in science fiction film Interstellar.

Adonaijah Owiriwa and Izu Ojukwu's movie, «76» a 2016 Nigerian historical fiction drama film which stars Ramsey Nouah, Chidi Mokeme, Rita Dominic and Ibinabo Fiberesima, won in five categories, which includes, Best Actress in Drama / TV / Movies (Rita Dominic), Best Director (Izu Ojukwu), Best Art Director (Pat Nebo), Best Costume Designer (Pat Egwurube).

The world's last unexplored continent — not a bad setting for a new science fiction movie, once Cameron returns from filming the further adventures of the Na «vi on their native Pandora, in the Alpha Centauri star system.

«Science fiction has been an inspiration to generations of scientists and engineers, and the film series Star Wars is no exception,» said John Grunsfeld, astronaut and associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate.

In this wide - ranging, humorous talk, Seth Shostak takes a look at Star Wars and other science fiction films from the point of view of a skeptical scientist, tells stories about the movies he has been asked to advise, and muses about aliens from space and how we might make contact with them.

Oct. 16, 2017 - Since its introduction in the 1977 film «Star Wars,» the Death Star has remained one of science fiction's most iconic figures.

Alien is a 1979 science fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott, and starring Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton Send and receive messages absolutely for free.

2018-04-08 16:22 Alien is a 1979 science fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott, and starring Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton Send and receive messages absolutely for free.

PYONGYANGST - My Review of THE LOVERS AND THE DESPOT (3 Stars) Evoking more questions than answers, THE LOVERS AND THE DESPOT, a documentary by filmmakers Ross Adam and Robert Cannan details the stranger than fiction account of a prominent South Korean film director and his actress ex-wife who were kidnapped by North Korea during Kim Jong Il's reign and were forced to make over 17 movies for him.

It was also excellent marketing that drew in all the WOMEN who love space and rockets, who devour science fiction, who flocked to all the Star Wars and Star Trek films when they were growing up, who fought hard to be part of NASA's astronaut program, and on and on.

The film, in which Tarantino had a voice - over cameo, reunited him with Fiction star Samuel L. Jackson and won him the raves that had been missing for much of his post-Fiction career.

The breathtaking, richly eloquent, and visually - poetic film - deliberately filmed at a slow pace - about space travel and the discovery of extra-terrestrial intelligence (many years before Star Wars (1977), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), and E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)-RRB-, was based on the published 1951 short story The Sentinel, written in 1948 by English science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke.

In the mid-nineteen-forties, Rossellini rose to international fame with the seminal works of so - called neo-realism, in which he filmed actors who weren't stars, mainly on location, in stories and with methods that seemed closer to documentary than to fiction.

If a science - fiction historical epic starring Michael Fassbender and directed by Justin Kurzel isn't something worth watching, then everyone had better just give up trying to adapt games into films in the first place.

It's dirty and grimy the way Star Wars should look — part of the original trilogy's appeal was that it wasn't a polished, shiny science fiction vision, it was scummy and kind of gross and kicked off an era of lived - in production design for these types of films.

We look at a handful of this month's films, including Star Wars spinoff prequel Rogue One, Jim Jarmusch's contemplative drama Paterson, science fiction drama Passengers, and Amma Asante's true story adaptation A United Kingdom.

It's the three pillars of science - fiction as defined by J.G. Ballard; the film plays like a western set on Mars, starring bugs pretending to be men.

Ingeniously using his low budget to address his ambitions, Johnson has directed, co-written (and starred in) a unique science - fiction film.

Very exciting, it's been 8 years since Primer (a science - fiction favourite in these parts), and while the writer / director's screenplay for «A Topiary» never got made into a film, he whipped out this surprise to many earlier this week by way of the festival announcement and a very shiny bit of key art which confirms that Carruth will star in the film along with Amy Seimetz (A Horrible Way To Die).

Binoche and her director have already completed their next project, «High Life,» a science fiction film that pairs the star with Robert Pattinson.

Starring Vin Diesel in the titular role, Jordi Molla, Matt Nable, Bokeem Woodbine, and Karl Urban, this thriller science fiction film had its United States release last September 6, 2013.

Co-written by Moverman and acclaimed crime fiction writer James Ellroy, the film stars Woody Harrelson, Ben Foster, Robin Wright, Sigourney Weaver, Steve Buscemi, Anne Heche, Cynthia Nixon, Ice Cube, Brie Larson, and Ned Beatty.

How crazy is it to make a biographical film of someone and then go ahead and invent sections of it.The demonic Wilson doctor and the youthful Wilson are great in their parts, but Cusack is not quite so convincing nor is his girlfriend who is ridiculously beautiful and sentimental.However the film has many good points and is an interesting viewing.l am not a fan of Beach Boys silly group harmonies, style of music, but still enjoyed the film.Mixing fact with fiction, though, did make me suspicious of the whole thing.3 Stars

And for better or for worse, this next Frankenstein film doesn't have anything to do with that campy, fan - fiction - spurring flop Victor Frankenstein, in which James McAvoy and Daniel Radcliffe recently starred.

Some of the greatest science fiction films of all time were made in the 1970s — and we're not talking about Star Wars.

In the late 1920s, Fritz Lang was the star director of Germany's Ufa Studios, the biggest film studio outside of Hollywood, and one of the most celebrated filmmakers in the world for such ambitious epic visions as Destiny (1921), the Die Nibelungen (1924) films and especially Metropolis (1927), his allegorical science fiction classic that is still considered one of the great films of the silent era.

That first movie, 1977's Star Wars, is to date still the only one (and one of the very few science fiction films, period) to have garnered a Best Picture Oscar... Read

After his first film, the seminal science fiction comedy Dark Star (1974) and his second, the legendary action thriller Assault On Precinct 13 (1976), Carpenter cemented his place in pop culture with the terrifying Halloween (1978), the film widely credited with bringing the slasher sub-genre into the mainstream.

Morris is also beginning preproduction on his next film, Holland, Michigan, a thriller starring Naomi Watts, Bryan Cranston, and Edgar Ramirez, which will be, «for all intents and purposes,» his first fiction feature.

Following the success of Reservoir Dogs, Madsen's first Tarantino film, the director wanted the actor to star in Pulp Fiction.

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.

Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal star in a film that successfully melds grit and glamour, the past and present, fiction and reality

It was a hit that got overlooked when another 20th Century Fox science fiction film, a little thing called Star Wars, opened just a few weeks later, but a cult following kept it alive through revival house, college campuses, and video releases ever since.

In 2014, he co-starred in the comedy That Awkward Moment, alongside Zac Efron and Michael B. Jordan, appeared in the science fiction film Divergent, co-starring again with Shailene Woodley, and starred as a drummer in the well - reviewed drama Whiplash, which premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and opened in theaters in October 2014.

Stars: Liam Hemsworth, Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, Maika Monroe, Travis Tope, William Fichtner, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Judd Hirsch, Nicolas Wright (also a co-writer of the script), Jessie Usher, Brent Spiner, Vivica A. Fox, Angelababy, Chin Han, Deobia Oparei and Sela Ward Director: Roland Emmerich Scriptwriters: Nicolas Wright (one of the stars in the film) and James A. Woods Composers: Harold Kloser and Thomas Wanker Cinematographer: Markus Forderer 20th Century Fox Rating: PG 13 with fantasy / science fiction violence and themed material Running Length: 120 miStars: Liam Hemsworth, Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, Maika Monroe, Travis Tope, William Fichtner, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Judd Hirsch, Nicolas Wright (also a co-writer of the script), Jessie Usher, Brent Spiner, Vivica A. Fox, Angelababy, Chin Han, Deobia Oparei and Sela Ward Director: Roland Emmerich Scriptwriters: Nicolas Wright (one of the stars in the film) and James A. Woods Composers: Harold Kloser and Thomas Wanker Cinematographer: Markus Forderer 20th Century Fox Rating: PG 13 with fantasy / science fiction violence and themed material Running Length: 120 mistars in the film) and James A. Woods Composers: Harold Kloser and Thomas Wanker Cinematographer: Markus Forderer 20th Century Fox Rating: PG 13 with fantasy / science fiction violence and themed material Running Length: 120 minutes

Pulp Fiction director Quentin Tarantino and star Uma Thurman, in town for a 20th anniversary celebration of their film, announced the winner of the Palme d'Or.

Anthony Mackie, Margaret Qualley and Danny Huston will star in the science fiction film «IO,» Mandalay Pictures» Jason Michael Berman and Untitled Entertainment's Laura Rister announced Friday.

BEST SCIENCE FICTION / HORROR FILM The Conjuring Gravity Her Star Trek into Darkness Man of Steel

In fact an early scene in which the mythology and back - story of the inhabitants of Barsoom is laid out in voice - over sent shivers up my spine recalling the opening scene of David Lynch's misbegotten 1984 film Dune, a failed big budget adaptation of classic science fiction literature hailed at the time as the «new Star Wars».

Interstellar is a film — specifically, a 2014 science - fiction epic, directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Matthew McConaughey, Jessica Chastain, Anne Hathaway, John Lithgow and Michael Caine.

The influences are many, from Flash Gordon, to Buck Rogers, to King Kong, to Forbidden Planet, to The Day the Earth Stood Still, to Star Wars, to Raiders of the Lost Ark, and many other films that captivated the minds of young boys growing up watching science fiction and adventure films.

Will Ferrell (Blades of Glory, Stranger Than Fiction), who seems determined to appear in a sports parody every other film, stars as Jackie Moon, the owner, coach and star player of the Tropics.

Like Miller's «Sin City» film, «The Spirit» (above) is a stylised pulp - fiction pastiche which suspends its stars in monochrome, computer - generated urban settings.

Director Alex Garland, whose first film was the impressive science - fiction drama «Ex Machina,» returns with a more elaborate and expensive tale of alien invasion starring Natalie Portman and

What it attempts is no more offensive than trying to glom together A Few Good Men with The Usual Suspects while returning McTiernan to the jungle setting of his Predator and reuniting the two stars of Pulp Fiction, neither of whom frankly has been in a film nearly as good as that in the nine years since.