Sentences with phrase «fiction films go»

Too many science fiction films go too broad and ultimately lack a human element.

Not exact matches

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.

In the previous film, Jack was the old fiction editor at the publishing house, the one let go after he got handsy with Anastasia.

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.

The same can be said of Quentin Tarantino («Pulp Fiction», «Inglorious Basterds»), a talented auteur who «graces» the movie - going public with a new film every 3 years or so.

I've just been attached to a pretty big science - fiction film that I'm going to re-write the draft of the presently existing script.

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

This engaging film blends a true story with fiction, morphing from a rom - com into a moving drama as it goes along.

Garland's science - fiction chamber piece — his first film as director, and fifth as screenwriter, after 28 Days Later, Sunshine, Never Let Me Go and Dredd — starts from the premise that no one knows us better than our internet browsers, then turns that queasy intimacy inside out.

This film would go on to inspire and influence how science fiction and action films are made today.

Never Let Me Go is the name of the film, and it once again finds Garland returning to the realm of science - fiction.

Still, in the slasher - film driven 1980s, Hellraiser at least offered something different, and despite all that it had going against it, it did have Barker's name, and a ringing endorsement by horror maestro Stephen King, who hyped up Barker as the «future of horror fiction.»

What with all the Twilighting going on lately, we should be thankful that once in a while a film like Easy A comes along: a film that honestly and unwaveringly addresses what it means to be a teenage girl in this image laden, information drenched age, rather than resorting to archaic romance fiction techniques with passive heroines who do nothing but wait for inherently violent men to make all the hard decisions.

Cinema Eye presented its first Nonfiction Short Film award (it went to The Poodle Trainer by Vance Malone) and the first Heterodox Award, recognizing fiction films which imaginatively incorporate nonfiction strategies, content and / or modes of production.

But we decided not to do what we did with HOT FUZZ, which was to watch a lot of films, because we decided we didn't need to learn any kind of language of cinema — we weren't going to make any comments about science fiction or make any references to other films.

All we know so far is that the movie is going to be some kind of science fiction film, but what could it be about?

This year's best picture Oscar, after all, went for the first time to a science - fiction film of sorts, Guillermo del Toro's adoring monster - movie homage The Shape of Water — beating, among others, Get Out, Jordan Peele's wickedly playful collision of old - school horror with brisk, bracing racial politics.

Even the highest - grossing documentary of the coming year is going to be seen by a fraction of the people who see the highest - grossing fiction films.

But Polley's entire point is that one person's «reality» is someone else's «fiction» and her brilliant film almost deconstructs itself as it goes along, calling into question its own presentation of the «facts» yet never feeling academic, and always wholly emotional.

I'm going to be doing a science fiction film down the road, and that's not something that I've really done yet, but I don't really think in those terms.

A lot of noise has been made this year over how fans of Science Fiction should go see some of the larger studio - produced Sci - Fi flicks like Jupiter Ascending and Chappie if they want to see more «original» science fiction films in theaters in the Fiction should go see some of the larger studio - produced Sci - Fi flicks like Jupiter Ascending and Chappie if they want to see more «original» science fiction films in theaters in the fiction films in theaters in the future.

«A Walk Among the Tombstones» is the fifth feature - length film made from Lawrence Block's fiction and the fifth time Liam Neeson goes after psychos who take people hostage.

Although the film takes an awfully long time to get going, The Black Hole eventually establishes itself as an engaging (albeit distinctly uneven) piece of science fiction.

Though the end credits contain a standard disclaimer about dramatization and the film even inspired an official statement from the CIA regarding its fictions (or rather distillations), this is the same production that elicited investigation into whether advisors went too far in sharing classified information.

The team eventually purchases a science fiction script entitled Argo, and they spare nothing creating the illusion that the fake film is real, going so far as to purchase an ad in Variety and staging a public reading of the script with actors in full wardrobe.

«LETTING GO» A homage to science fiction, this Los Angeles - based short film is seeking two male leads to take the charge in a narrative about «one possible interpretation of the future.»

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Not all her films were great, but she made the most of the parts: Crazy Heart, Away We Go, The Dark Knight, Stranger Than Fiction, World Trade Center, Paris, je t» aime, SherryBaby, Trust the Man, Criminal, Mona Lisa Smile, Adaptation, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Secretary, and Donnie Darko.

Starting in the late 1980s, Herzog began to focus much more on documentary storytelling (though he had always made documentaries previously, and would continue to make fiction films, going forwards), and now has a body of work that includes such nonfiction masterpieces as Little Dieter Needs to Fly, Grizzly Man, the Oscar - nominated Encounters at the End of the World and Cave of Forgotten Dreams.

And just last year his exploration went even further into the science fiction fantasy genre with DC Comics superhero film Suicide Squad.

In particular, Netflix has acquired at least three major science fiction juggernauts (one going international) and one fairly well acclaimed foreign language film, and all deserve your attention.

Filmed over the span of a dozen years, as its lead actor aged from 6 to 18 and his co-stars went through similar 12 - year odysseys, writer - director Richard Linklater's «Boyhood» is ambitious, engaging fiction that aims to convey time's mysterious effects on character.

On the surface, the choice to go about this exfiltration (the lingo of «exfil» doing a bang up job of making it sound cool and James Bond - y) by fabricating a cheap knock - off science fiction movie that would seek to shoot their scenes in Iran in order to cut costs does manage to easily fall into the «so dumb it has to be true» camp, and of course it is true, the sort of conceit tailor - made for the infamous «based on a true story» tag that can often lead to a film sinking or swimming.

While fans of Gone Girl, The Girl on the Train and Alfred Hitchcock's films will feel right at home in Anna's wine - addled reality, the unusual backstory behind its provenance bears a touch of suspense fiction as well.

EM Going back to technology, science fiction and speculative fiction seem to be enjoying a recent surge in popular interest — to say nothing of the dystopian films and books that have followed disasters like global warming or the rise of Trump.

This supercut of 34 films from Burger Fiction shows the great lengths (and sometimes not so great) that writers will go to not put a quarter in the swear jar.