Sentences with phrase «fiction films as»

The problem with the film isn't in its placement in the realm of science fiction films as much as its placement in the real world, where the plot necessitates a triple - jump for every leap in logic to get us from point A to Z. For instance, the film pushes forward the notion that scientists don't give any thought or research whatsoever to the ramifications of their inventions before unleashing them on the world at large.

Today marks the birthday of legendary Italian director Mario Bava, who is undoubtedly best known for his major achievements in the «giallo» horror genre (although he created works ranging from spaghetti westerns to science fiction films as well).

The old Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers serials were not science fiction, the «alien invaders» flicks of the 50s were likewise fantasy, and it continues today with such non science fiction films as Independence Day, Red Planet and Event Horizon trying to claim a genre title of which they are not worthy.

Not exact matches

As the actor who redefined what it means to be The Man in Hollywood with films like «Pulp Fiction,» he simply put too much into the role, making the Octopus one of his least memorable characters to date.

«Ready Player One,» director Steven Spielberg's science - fiction thriller about a grim world where people seek escape through virtual reality, opened as the top film in North American theaters, delivering the first No. 1 debut this year for Warner Bros..

From singing show tunes in Grease to playing a ruthless hitman in Pulp Fiction, Travolta's talent has transcended many decades as he continues to take on A-list roles in blockbuster films.

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.

I took this from a discussion of Jesus» bloodline that is in wikipedia - «Differing and contradictory versions of a Jesus bloodline hypothesis have been promoted by numerous books, websites and films of non-fiction and fiction in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, which have almost all been dismissed as works of pseudohistory and conspiracy theory.

Questions which the body politic or the academic world are unwilling to confront head - on are often dealt with through the medium of, say, science fiction: think of the Matrix films, or a novel such as Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go.

Modern films and fiction are replete with examples of persons who try to live as though there were no unseen God, and such persons have the look and smell of monsters.

Saloons and shoot - em - ups, good guys and bad, the West of films like Shane and High Noon are all debunked as pure fiction.

Mr Armstrong said this was the theme to the 1994 Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction, which Mr Armstrong described as a «killing spree movie».

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

Hope it's the Pulp Fiction answer as that is one cool cucumber of a film..

Real life can be stranger than fiction, as moms obsessed over their children are not solely characters devised for television and films.

Yet as the examples above demonstrate, there's nothing very new about fiction - whether books, plays, films or TV - taking aim at politicians as either fools or knaves.

The ability to erase traumatic memories in humans, as shown in the film «Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,» remains science fiction for now and any attempt to do so would raise serious ethical considerations.

In fiction, pneumatic technology is often associated with a creaking bureaucratic dystopia, such as George Orwell's 1984 or the satirical film Brazil, but it was once widely lauded.

Not the American science fiction writer whose novels spawned hit films such as Blade Runner and Total Recall — he died more than 20 years ago — but a state - of - the - art robot named after the author.

Time travel has always been a thing of science fiction but the rules for time travel in this film, as well as from the book, seem very reasonable and the whole idea of killing something off that shouldn't be, will kill everything.

District 9 is an incredibly effective parable about human rights abuses against refugees, while also functioning as a thrilling science - fiction action film.

Great dialogue, but it is not as popular as the Pulp Fiction (1994) dialogue but it has great lines and what it suggests in this film.

Virtually all science fiction functions as metaphor, and I took this film to be a metaphor for the act of becoming fully human.

Ultimately, the film exists in the same gray area between fact and fiction as its source material.

Reality and fiction as complementary propellers in cinema and the distance between the world of ideas and the crudeness of reality are some of the themes that develops this unique film.

Šulík seems to almost switched into documentarist mode as he employs similar approaches in staging encounters with witnesses or survivors and in even special case, he even embeds a documentary footage to break through the veil of fiction film.

«Myth» examines science and space travel in the 1960s as well as the state of science - fiction films.

Beginning his career as an author and responsible for the source material of Danny Boyle's The Beach in 2000, Alex Garland then directly ventured into the film industry by doing screenplay's - again with Boyle on 28 Days Later and Sunshine - before he eventually took the reigns himself by making his directorial debut with the magnificent science fiction film Ex Machina in 2014.

Surprisingly enough, Jack's motive for hating Christian and Ana is not that Ana became a fiction editor at a publisher and her major contributions, as seen in this film, are finding an author named «Boyce Fox» (could've sworn my accountant worked at Boyce Fox) and increasing a font size by two points.

Commercial movies like Black Beauty and The Yellow Rolls Royce have utilized the same format, and more recently, adventurous filmmakers have experimented with this structure in such films as Go and Pulp Fiction.

Various Clarke, Kubrick, and science fiction authorities are interviewed throughout the video, providing interesting commentary on their favorite scenes in the movie, as well as insights into the specific personalities of the creators of the film and the book.

But there's one Science Fiction film that towers above all others of the genre, as well as all other films, and that is Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, which Warner Brothers barely released in time to actually be seen on a big screen during the relevant year.

Robert Greene's film follows the actress Kate Lyn Sheil as she prepares to play Chubbuck in a project that's part documentary, part fiction and a bit too much navel - gazing.

Late in the film the head of the Democratic party proclaims that he doesn't understand God's plan - of course he doesn't have the perspective of the true insiders who shape and twist fact and fiction to achieve their desired goal... from the campaign manager's point of view, God's plan is all too obvious and the morality... win at all costs as long as you believe in the cause.

French filmmaker Luc Besson (The Family, Brick Mansions) writes and directs Lucy, a loopy, high - concept science fiction thriller that, like most Besson efforts, is actually just a dumb and goofy action genre film masquerading as a smart and insightful one.

More than science fiction, this film is intriguingly spiritual, while being completely compelling as a film experience.

In his growing years as a feature filmmaker, Arcand would alternate between fiction films and documentaries, at times combining the two in such efforts as 1975's Gina.

The slow, strange rhythm is very unsettling and takes some getting used to, but it's an altogether amazing, sunsuous film; it even has an element of science fiction and some creepy musical numbers, and the soundtrack is as original and peculiar as the imagery.

There are science fiction films that deal with the subject of time travel and then there is Looper, which comes across as refreshingly original as well as entertaining, with a story full of interesting twists.

The metafiction in «Stranger than Fiction» might not be as clever as «Adaptation» (or even Neil LaBute's underappreciated «Nurse Betty»), but this imitative screenplay of a superior film is better than, say, «EdTV», which was a byproduct of «The Truman Show».

The filmmakers referred to the film more as fan fiction and it might not actually live up to the standard set by Mark Twain's stories, but it certainly is fun to see them try to tell a modernized story of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.

For our first show of 2018, we welcome writer and critic Dr Eloise Ross, who joins us as we check out some of the key films from this month, including Steven Spielberg's paean to press freedoms The Post (01:04), Guillermo Del Toro's dark romantic fantasy The Shape of Water (05:46), Don Hertzfeldt's animated science fiction sequel World of Tomorrow Episode 2: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts (10:23), and Ridley Scott's Getty dynasty biopic All the Money in the World (13:16).

Deja Vu is the latest film to employ tampering with the past in order to secure a different outcome in the present, but by the time you realize that it is highly illogical as a film, you've already gained enough enjoyment out of the film from a thriller standpoint to forgive the shaky foundations in science fiction.

Though it heavily reworks Bissell's story, the film feels as beautifully calibrated as a great piece of short fiction, only with visual accents and emphases filling in for the prose.

The Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: U.S. Dramatic was presented to: Christina Choe, for her film Nancy (Director & Screenwriter: Christina Choe, Producers: Amy Lo, Michelle Cameron, Andrea Riseborough)-- Blurring lines between fact and fiction, Nancy becomes increasingly convinced she was kidnapped as a child.

That's harder said than done, resulting in a relationship that not only feels more real than most of the films this year, but plays a big part in its success as a romantic dramedy and an enchanting piece of science fiction.

And as a person who's normally enthralled solely by history and science fiction, this Crash reminiscent film is due credit, because it's not only an eye - opening depiction of modern «ailments,» but an admirably acted film that puts other think - pieces to shame.

As a piece of fiction it does raise issues with real world repercussions, and the film certainly made me think.

They're both produced by J.J. Abrams and directed by up - and - coming filmmakers (as were the original Cloverfield and 10 Cloverfield Lane), and all of the films so far have featured strong casts and high - concept science fiction stories.

If this were fiction, then no Hollywood studio would pick up the film, as so many elements of the tale are too fantastical to believe.