Sentences with phrase «fiction films for»

But it was SO MUCH better than 90 % of anything else that it was the be all and end all of science fiction films for me and my friends.

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«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..

At the time, O'Connell was working on a poster for a science - fiction and horror film festival featuring John Carpenter's 1988 cult classic «They Live» about aliens living incognito among humans.

Previous owner Kenneth Schacter bought the German artwork for Fritz Lang's 1927 science - fiction film in 2005 for a record $ 690,000, but had to give it up after filling for bankruptcy.

Traces of those fascinations appear throughout this book (although there is no mention of his enthusiasm for the modern literary knighthood of superheroes and science fiction films).

In Suzanne Collins» phenomenally successful teen fiction series of the same name, and in the recent inevitable film release, Katniss» sacrificial act is the catalytic moment for one of the most thrilling fiction plots of recent years.

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

This year's books had something for everyone with mysteries, historical fiction and non-fiction, books in a series and books that have been made into films.

Empire State Development Takes Home Emmy Award for Best Corporate Welfare Reclaim New York Initiative offered the following statement in response to Empire State Development's shameless bragging about taxpayer - financed productions winning Emmy awards: «The state's film tax credit job claims are a fiction straight out of the Hollywood productions they're forcing New York taxpayers to finance.

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.

Counselors in rehab often warned me of watching films like Pulp Fiction or Requiem for a Dream, which have a reputation for glorifying drug use and could have led me to a relapse.

Events will include a film festival of science fiction films «before and after the discovery of DNA», in Italy, an overnight camp at the Science Museum in London for children from all over Europe, science contests in newspapers, and a «scientific ballet» organised by CERN, the centre for particle physics near Geneva.

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 what seems like a plot straight out of a low - budget science - fiction film, scientists have revived a giant virus that was buried in Siberian ice for 30,000 years — and it is still infectious.

In other words, the popular conception of the term psychopathic, from crime fiction or slasher films, for example, doesn't always apply in clinical settings.

Stepping inside the pristine education and research space at the Houston Methodist Institute for Technology, Innovation & Education (MITIE) is akin to walking on the set of a science fiction film.

I have a thing for period films & historical fiction.

She's Dating the Gangster is a 2014 Filipino teen romantic comedy - drama film based on the best Pop Fiction book of the same name originally published on There are no critic reviews yet for She's Dating The Gangster.

With crime and violence, particularly murders gripping the Corporate Area, one might expect a business boom for funeral it's quite the She's Dating the Gangster is a 2014 Filipino teen romantic comedy - drama film based on the best Pop Fiction book of the same name originally published on

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.

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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.

The four fiction films that follow the documentaries were all made for politically motivated anthologies, and they focus on themes of social change and personal identity.

Not only was Pelle the Conqueror August's most popular international film to date, but it also marked the beginning of the director's growing interest in adapting popular works of fiction for the screen.

Their meeting is not an accident, and it takes the storyline in a new, surprising direction, one involving another science - fiction trope that's only very lightly hinted at in advertisements for the film.

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

But amazingly for a 50's space flick its a very intelligent and deep adventure which has become a full top level cult and the quintessential science fiction film up alongside the likes of» 2001: A Space Odyssey».

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.

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.

After Danny Boyle filmed an adaptation of the book (released in 2000), Garland transitioned into screenwriting, with a proclivity for dystopian science fiction.

The actual story for Rampage is cheerfully dim - witted and attempts to use half - baked science fiction concepts (ergo «genetic editing») to explain the cause behind the film's raging, mutating, giant behemoths.

His next project (which, though it doesn't begin filming until next month, is currently slotted for an end - of - year release) is a New York - set period dramedy based on the stranger - than - fiction, real - life FBI sting operation (ABSCAM) that brought down numerous crime figures and corrupt government officials in 1980.

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.

This is something of a rarity for a mainstream science - fiction film.

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.

While engaging in some of the compression and conjecture that mark any enterprise in historical fiction, the film tacks closely to the established record, including a piquant third - act reveal that will surely send curious audiences to Google for more information.

The screenplay for this 1985 feature is so riddled with character inconsistencies and unmotivated behavior that it plays like science fiction: the unsuspected presence of body - snatching aliens is the only conceivable explanation for the bizarre twists of psychology the film proposes.

Although it is a thriller, a science fiction film, and a horror story all rolled up into one, potential viewers would be well advised to temper expectations for an exciting plotline or riveting action montages.

But the film takes a nosedive into overbaked melodramatics when it dusts off the history books and veers in all directions to tell its crooked tale (blurring fact and fiction) of the iron - clad will of the strong monarch (voicing that the good fight was for God and country) and how she defeated the Spanish Armada and brought a long and fruitful time of peace and prosperity to her country.

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).

When Gravity came out a bit more than a year ago, a thousand science - fiction - loving bloggers leapt to their keyboards to explain why the film was a «game changer»; Boyhood doesn't have a constituency that's quite so... naturally vocal, so this post is here for the next time someone shrugs at the marvels of Boyhood.

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.

Normally the science fiction concept of time travel is reserved for big budget action films, but the idea itself can be much more interesting within the confines of an indie scale film.

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.

Mike Birbiglia's sensitive, funny, sad, honest film Don't Think Twice, which has more affection for and understanding of a certain kind of comedy person than perhaps any piece of fiction that's ever been written about them.

The moderately successful artistic pursuits of this sculptor and retired Bard College professor, coupled with the short story structure of the film, lay the foundation for its exploration of the way in which history and perception become intertwined with identity and how people often cling to an idea of themselves, be it objective fact or socially constructed fiction.

According to the press notes, «Reach Me» director John Herzfeld first wrote the script for this ensemble dramedy circa 2001, which makes sense given that the film bears more than a faint aroma of Herzfeld's «2 Days in the Valley» (1997), one of the least offensive of the era's many «Pulp Fiction» also - rans.

While never the most conventional screenwriter to begin with («Pulp Fiction» is a sprawling, ambitious jigsaw puzzle, for one), in recent years Tarantino's screenplays have pushed the envelope further, eschewing most cinematic narrative conventions, with his movies becoming more like filmed novels that don't bother with traditional structure.

There are also directors of fiction films that I admire, that spire me a lot and that illustrate my pronounced taste for marginal characters: Freaks by Tod Browning, The 400 Blows by François Truffaut, The Elephant Man by David Lynch, Wings of Desire by Wim Wenders, Dead Man by Jim Jarmusch, Dogville by Lars von Trier, Spider by David Cronenberg, Amores Perros by Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Time of the Wolf by Michael Haneke, The Host by Bong Joon - ho, Old Boy by Park Chan - wook, Children of Men by Alfonso Cuarón, Tomboy by Céline Sciamma, Two Days, One Night by the Dardenne brothers and the very recent and magnificent I, Daniel Blake by Ken Loach.