Sentences with phrase «fiction films of»

During her research for the project, Laing also watched science - fiction films of aliens or mutants infesting the human race, noting similarities in the way in which man - made suburbia infests and spreads across the natural landscape.

That's just the start of Headlander, Adult Swim Games and Double Fine Productions» side - scrolling action - adventure game heavily inspired by science fiction films of the 1970s.

Check out Lee's epic Best of 2011 list starting with the intro here, then the ten best documentaries, then the top 50 fiction films of the year in five parts: 50 - 41, 40 - 31, 30 - 21, 20 - 11, and 10 - 1.

As a follow - up to one of the most acclaimed science fiction films of all time, 2049 succeeds as a sequel and a film in its own right.

Of course, such comparisons are unfair, even in a movie that pays tribute to the science - fiction films of a generation earlier.

What they lack in political consciousness, though, fiction films of Sundance make up for by promoting a sense of social consciousness: a greater sense of empathy and compassion that broaden an audience's worldview and strengthen the social fabric.

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

Along with 2001: A Space Odyssey and Alien, Blade Runner is among the most influential science - fiction films of the late 20th century.

Your evening kicks off with The Day the Earth Stood Still, an enduring classic and easily one of the most influential science fiction films of all time.

Like many of us, Drew Pearce misses the smaller, high - concept science fiction films of the 1980s like RoboCop and The Terminator.

Their voyage through the body's bloodstream past assorted organs was created by inventive special effects that make this one of the more visually interesting science fiction films of its era.

If not the best science - fiction film of the 1950s, Earth is certainly one of the most intelligent and elaborate.

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is a landmark, science fiction classic - and probably the best science - fiction film of all time about exploration of the unknown.

Possibly the greatest science fiction film of all time, The Empire Strikes Back put the spirit of adventure and drama back into action movies.

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.

Tennessee is a hillbilly in a science - fiction film of the «One Night» variety from The Abyss, meaning he's at once a horrible stereotype («I KNOWS my John Denver!»)

While others called it 2017's best, ScreenCrush's Matt Singer added it «looks like someone dared director Denis Villeneuve and cinematographer Roger Deakins to make the most visually spectacular science - fiction film of the century — and then they actually did it.»

«Blade Runner 2049» looks like someone dared director Denis Villeneuve and cinematographer Roger Deakins to make the most visually spectacular science - fiction film of the century — and then they actually did it.

Blade Runner (1997, PC) is a point and click adventure game based on the classic 1982 science fiction film of the same name.

There's a lot of imagery to chew through while we wait to see if director Denis Villenueve (Arrival) pulls off a miracle following up on arguably the top science fiction film of all time.

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.

Science fiction films and television shows are packed with mouthwatering examples of futuristic technology.

First of all, it's not apparent when watching Suburbicon that fact and fiction are being blended, either from the marketing of the film or in the movie itself.

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.

Many of today's most popular films, fiction, and television shows deal with superhuman powers, supernatural realities, and spiritual themes.

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).

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.

And to get you ready, the internet geniuses at Burger Fiction created a supercut of every film to win the most coveted Oscar: best picture.

In film and fiction, Rembrandt has long embodied the archetype of the profligate, rags - to - riches genius who willfully defies expectation in both art and life.

In fiction and drama and film the traditional forms of plot are being pressured out of shape in a way that has never happened since people began to tell stories.

Yet Collins» stories aren't paedaphobic pulp fiction, and Gary Ross» film adaptation doesn't focus on the brutality of the idea.

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.

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.

The result is a movie that blurs the lines between fact and fiction, documentary and feature film, telling the story of childhood elation and adult struggle, in a motel where this happens every day and featuring dozens of extras who live within miles of the set.

On July 14, Kent Westmoreland, head mixologist at Windsor Court's Cocktail Bar, will partner with celebrity guest bartender and host of The Proper Pour Charlotte Voisey of William Grant and Sons to serve special cocktails inspired by classic noir films and fiction.

Knowing of my interest in crime fiction and detective stories my late father - in - law, John Thynne — who had supported Arsenal from before the war — was always talking about a film made in 1939 called The Arsenal Stadium Mystery.

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

Quentin Tarantino's best film since Pulp Fiction is a violent homage to the healing power of cinema.

James Dashner, the author of «The Maze Runner,» a top - selling dystopian science fiction series that was turned into a film trilogy, has been dropped by his publisher, Random House, due to his inclusion on a list of authors who allegedly engaged in harassment.

«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.

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.

«Humans have long been fascinated with the idea of replicating nature through machines, from Leonardo da Vinci's famous mechanical knight to speculative fiction of future androids like Philip K. Dick's «Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep» that inspired the Blade Runner film,» Gu says.

If the server decides that there are objects with geographic coordinates that fall within the camera's field of view, it superimposes these objects on the picture from the phone camera, in a fashion similar to the way the director of a science fiction movie might use special effects to add a spacecraft to a filmed scene.

The remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still closely parallels Robert Wise's 1951 science fiction film classic that was a Cold War warning shrouded in a Christ allegory.

That is a far likelier scenario than the portrayal of aliens in most science fiction films.

It is quite easy to take a trip to the river and discover that the part of the film when commandos Jack Hawkins and William Holden parachute into the jungle and plant dynamite under the bridge, which British officer Alec Guinness and his surprisingly healthy - looking troops have built, is pure fiction.

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.