Sentences with phrase «fiction films hit»

That's why when science - fiction films hit, they really hit.

Not exact matches

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.

Director James Cameron's 1986 blockbuster follow - up to Ridley Scott's Oscar winning science - fiction / horror flick that became one of the biggest grossing films of 1979 asks a good question to a successful hit... How do you make a successful sequel to a film in which much of the suspense comes from learning about the mysterious monster?

But Garland's film more closely resembles Denis Villeneuve's recent science fiction hit Arrival, another slow, airless, fascinating film pocked with moments of sudden explosive action.

Which of this year's fantastical science fiction and fantasy films at SXSW will hit the big time this year?

Per The Hollywood Reporter, this Jennifer Juniper Stratford film is a «science fiction tale told in the style of classic B - movies and outfitted with practical special effects, laser beams and lunatic ideas which are guaranteed to make it the next big midnight movie hit.»

The film had a modest cinematic showing in the United States but became a major hit in the United Kingdom, setting Taratino up for further success with his even more widely acclaimed Pulp Fiction.

«Vanilla Sky» (2001) Crowe's reteaming with Cruise was a major departure for the director; a remake of the Spanish hit «Abre los ojos,» it's a dark film — far darker than anything the director's made before — with touches of science - fiction and horror.

A hit at the London Film Festival, the film encouraged an assessment of the director's fiction and film work, and gave notice of a cinema with time for naturalistic performance and authentic space years before the indie directors» apparent invention of «quirky» American representations.

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.

It doesn't always play in this mode, and when the film engages in obvious fiction, it is hit and miss.

In terms of tone, John Michael McDonagh's first film shot outside in the United States feels a bit like the latest U.S. - based film turned in by his filmmaking brother, Martin McDonagh, Seven Psychopaths, another film that I compared to the post-Pulp Fiction clones that came out in the late 1990s, full of bloody violence, brash attitude, and peppered with jokey moments that play to the crowd, such as one of the characters musing on whether a mime will make a sound when he is hit with a car.

He wrote the original screenplay and the Tony Scott - directed film hit the scene between «Reservoir Dogs» and «Pulp Fiction.»

In its Official Selection, Sitges 2013 will also be presenting eagerly - awaited films like Machete Kills, the latest from Robert Rodriguez with a star studded cast (Danny Trejo, Sofia Vergara, Mel Gibson, Charlie Sheen, Antonio Banderas, Lady Gaga...), as well as the latest big hit on American screens, Insidious Chapter 2, the most recent film by king of horror James Wan, or Terry Gilliam's new incursion into science fiction with The Zero Theorem.

Starring filmmaker Alex Ross Perry (The Color Wheel) and Gabino Rodríguez (Greatest Hits), the film blends documentary and fiction, allusion and deconstruction, and questions on the future of film confronted through a cornucopia of filming formats.

It breaks stride with Cusack's past vehicles in that it displays him frequently in athletic motion (the kickboxing of Say Anything... notwithstanding) and rides something of a zeitgeist: It's a post-Pulp Fiction artifact, from that cascade of films after 1994 (The Big Hit, The Boondock Saints, The Way of the Gun) that depict professional thugs as humanized and humorous.

The breakout hit of this years SXSW, Gareth Edwards» groundbreaking new film is as much a poignant contemporary romance as it is an epic science fiction adventure.