Sentences with phrase «film about the hero»

Louis Leterrier's (The Incredible Hulk) remake of the 1981 film about the hero Perseus (Sam Worthington), born of a god but raised as a man,...

Louis Leterrier's (The Incredible Hulk) remake of the 1981 film about the hero Perseus (Sam Worthington), born of a god but raised as a man, helpless to save his family from Hades (Ralph Fiennes), vengeful god of the underworld.

Artist Shirin Neshat's Looking for Oum Kulthum is a visually dazzling film - within - a-film about an Iranian artist - filmmaker who attempts to make a film about her hero, the legendary female Arab singer Oum Kulthum.

Not exact matches

One of the biggest surprises in «Avengers: Age of Ultron» occurs about halfway through the film when our heroes break away from the action for a more light - hearted family - centric scene on a farm.

His decisions to honour God in both sport and mission, as well as his athletic prowess, have made him a hero among many Christians, and led to a film being made about him - Chariots of Fire - in 1986.

Christian Isolationism ran so strong that in 1941, just before the war started, there was a propaganda film made to counter it about a religious contientious objector who became a war hero — «Sergeant York.»

Another actress, Jessica Chastain, complained to Radio Times about the film industry's propensity to cast female action heroes not for their characters, but for their bodies.

(CNN)- For his next project, Mel Gibson is setting his sights on a film about a Jewish hero, according to Deadline.

A film about his life «Thomas J. Foley: Legacy of a Young Hero,» was produced by Anthony Fiore and featured in a premiere at the Lafayette Theatre last August.

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The 3:47 «Meet Katie» focuses on the story of the furry little yak who just steals her scenes in the film, as the creators talk about the development of the character from a background drawing to full - fledged cult hero.

The whole film consists of the heroes running around African desert whilst being shot at by various people really, there is a silly plot about trying to find a buried American civil war ironclad warship and also a plot about stopping most of the African water supply getting poisoned.

After spending nearly a year assembling Django Unchained, Raskin, who is now armed with a BAFTA nomination, opens up about his work on the Oscar - nominated film, the job of a film editor, and working with one of his cinematic heroes.

The character has no franchise potential, as the film opens with an epilogue - as - prologue about Poe's death, but maybe Cusack and his director, V for Vendetta's James McTeigue, were still hoping for that same kind of pithy, indelible hero.

This film is easily one of the cornerstones for stories about the pure hero standing up for truth, justice, and the little guy, no matter how daunting the opposition and odds of success.

The film works as both a character study about two men trying to manipulate the system for personal gain, and as a thriller in which the line between heroes and villains isn't all that clear - cut.

As a portrait of modern journalism, though, it leaves quite a lot to be desired; this is the kind of film that has characters trade grandiose talking points about the ethics of reporting, but can't be bothered to show its reporter hero — still recovering from the damage factual inaccuracies did to his career — using a recording device during interviews.

The movie kicks off with a poorly CGI'd (for Zemeckis) shot of the hero standing in the Statue of Liberty's torch with the Towers looming across the water behind him, talking and talking and talking not to you but at you, often in bizarrely gargoyle - ish close - ups, about the amazing thing he's about to do, or is doing — as if convincing us to buy a ticket to the film we're already sitting there watching.

It shouldn't seem shocking, but the most interesting thing about this second Cruise - fired action film based on author Lee Child's nomadic, ex-military hero is its action.

It is a must - see film for anyone curious about the origin of Wonder Woman's origin story, starring Luke Evans as Professor Marston, the man who created the iconic female hero.

Production of Avengers 4 will take the Earth's Mightiest Heroes to Tokyo, Japan, backing up previous rumors about the film's secondary antagonists.

My temper was lowered the more I had heard news about this film, but it's nice to know that this is clearly still a Captain America movie and not just some orgy of every Marvel hero they can think of.

The killer moment: Skyfall skips from one brilliant mic drop to the next, but for all of its explosive set pieces, the film peaks with a simple shot of Javier Bardem sauntering toward our hero and regaling him with a story about cannibalistic rats.

Tangents aside, Big Hero 6, directed by Don Hall and Chris Williams, is an adaptation of a little known Marvel comic, about a 14 - year - old boy called Hiro (spectacularly mispronounced as «Hero» by seemingly everyone, bar one character in the film), a total robotics prodigy, with genius level intellect, who participates in underground robot fighting.

Wright, who portrays T'Challa's sister and all around - genius, Shuri, spoke to the LA Times about where Shuri is heading going forward and her character's special relationship with the film's titular hero:

Using the greatest hits blueprint, one would think any big - time film treatment about Thurgood Marshall, an American hero for racial equality, has to include Brown vs. Board of Education and his ascension to become the first black U.S. Supreme Court justice.

Details about the film have been relatively scarce, but the new issue of Empire Magazine sheds a little more light on the young hero — who may not be quite what we expect.

Braff's voiceover narration tells a story (one we will hear twice more over the course of the film, as if repetition can substitute for actual connection) about Aidan and his brother pretending to be superheroes as children, and realizing that maybe they weren't heroes: maybe they were just regular guys.

I sat down with the real - life heroes, now actors, to discuss the fascinating concept of them playing themselves, what they learned about themselves and each other after doing so, and what the film says about bringing a community together to conquer despair.

«The movie spends so much time fellating its bogus hero, were it about an actual person Patriots Day would seem like a North Korean propaganda film.

But most action films do have something of a right wing perspective (especially the super hero genre) in that they are about re-inforcing rather than challenging the status quo.

Claire added that the film is also about the «unsung heroes who gave their support to this almost impossible voyage.»

Enter the The Green Hornet, a big - budget superhero film that doesn't obsess about reverence to its roots, nor in making a movie that feels it has to respect the requirements of hero drama, or the moodiness that overwhelms some franchises (Spider - Man 3 overdosed on it).

LOOK TO THE SKY is a feature - length, not - for - profit documentary film about HOPE and young heroes who are inspiring us to believe in tomorrow.

Tropic Thunder is the name of a film directed by fresh Brit director Damien Cockburn (Steve Coogan), based on the book of the same name, a memoir by American hero Four Leaf Tayback (Nick Nolte) about his time served in «Nam.

Mix that in with a film that includes aliens, a god and an android (among other oddities) and it is difficult to believe that such a movie could be called the «most human» film in a massive franchise, but that's exactly how Anthony Mackie, who portrays the hero Falcon (aka Sam Wilson) in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, feels about Avengers: Infinity War.

The One - Armed Swordsman — A bit less successful, though still very fine, is this earlier Shaw Brothers film about the eponymous maimed hero who overcomes his handicap to save his master and defeat the evildoers.

There's something I really like about the heroes in this film and about this world in general.

Instead of making a creep the hero, the filmmakers have made a film about con artists (all of them creepy) and left you to root for the lesser of all evils.

I was a little worried about how a LEGO game mainly based on the Avengers film franchise would compare to the captivating open - world exploration of LEGO Marvel Super Heroes.

The film's hero with a dozen faces is a young man (Wiley Wiggins of «Dazed and Confused») who wanders an urban dreamscape, encountering various guides and fellow sleepwalkers, most of whom have something to say about the meaning of life and the nature of death.

The film earns a recommendation for the rapport and general likeability of our sensitive heroes, but it comes with the warning that Five Aces only maintains its integrity for about an act - and - a-half before succumbing to the mawkish and the easy.

Throughout this long film, Danny DeVito seeks to manipulate the viewer's sympathies for his hero but he needs to face the truth about his material if he is going to have any success playing spin doctor.

In «Heroes,» a goofy film about a Vietnam vet played by Henry Winkler on his way to start a worm farm, Ford portrays fellow vet who misses the conflict because he enjoyed killing.

Considering how often Marvel film and television executives are asked about Netflix heroes Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist appearing on the big screen, they likely wish they'd selected a mantra other than «It's All Connected.»

Two of the strongest films in the race aren't about heroes at all, but rather «Heroes.&heroes at all, but rather «Heroes.&Heroes.»

Several theories about the film's origins of myth are thrown out: it follows Joseph Campbell's hero cycle (not really) and it follows Dante's Inferno (sort of, in that they start out at a party and move up to the bowels of Hell — alas, the argument that they are almost separated into those who deserve to die and those who do not doesn't support the data) before professor of religion (at Pepperdine University, a fact unmentioned in this featurette) Christopher Heard throws out that it's an adaptation of the Christ myth.

Marvel Studios hasn't released one of their «One - Shots» in a while, but these short films about unsung Marvel heroes were a highlight of DVD extra menus.

Bruce Willis and Alan Rickman work so well together and one of my favourite things about Die Hard films in general is the chemistry between hero and villain.

Deadpool 2 is the sort of movie where the heroes kill a guy — after spending the last act of the film saving that guy so one of the characters will learn a moral lesson — all in the hopes of scoring a quick laugh derived from the joys of knocking off religious zealots, while also using time travel during the mid-credits scene to erase a death that took place earlier in the film so as to avoid outraged howls from Internet folks about the wickedness of «fridging» tertiary female characters.