Sentences with phrase «film about time travel»

A great shame that a film about time travel very much a product of its time is ultimately more a footnote than a thesis.

For a film about time travel and fate, its a sly choice because this is the beginning of the Bush dynasty - how different would America be if Dukakis had won.

Following the presentation there will be a showing of a film about time travel.

When you have a film about time travel, you have to just suspend your belief in reality for a bit and just go with it.

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«Looper» Movie Review By Joan Alperin Schwartz «Looper», written and directed by Rian Johnson («Brick») is an intelligent, engrossing, thought provoking, and totally entertaining, sci fi film about time - travel and what a person will or won't do to save the person they love.

Older Joe (Bruce Willis, whom Gordon - Levitt has been somewhat awkwardly made to look like) has other plans in mind for the past and escapes his execution, beginning the film's grinding chase and giving us lots to wonder about in regard to theories of time travel and butterfly effect and all those other head - scratchers.

Therefore, Safety Not Guaranteed, a film about a trio of magazine employees investigating a classified ad seeking a partner for time travel, sounds right up my alley.

For a film about space - and - time - traveling agents that encounter various alien species and criminals, Besson's content focusing on Valerian and Laureline's awkward romance.

Stars James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ellen Page and Peter Dinklage open up about their experiences working on set and explain the themes of time - travel and how it plays a major role in the film.

Written by Derek Connolly, the film's about a trio of magazine employees investigate a classified ad that seeks a partner for time travel.

Rian Johnson's Looper is a smart and unique science fiction film set in the future about time travel that is controlled by mobsters.

Curtis uses this special ability as a story enhancer but does not make the film all about time travel.

American sports films have a notoriously difficult time travelling abroad, mainly because no one else on earth cares quite as much about US baseball, basketball and football.

Christopher Nolan is in talks to direct «Interstellar,» a sci - fi film about wormholes and time travel written by his brother Jonathan Nolan.

There's a lot about this film that makes me think Richard Curtis is a misogynist hiding in plain sight, and it's not just that the women in Tim's family randomly don't share the gift of time travel the men have.

Writer / Director Rian Johnson (Brick) delivers a very entertaining, creative, thrilling and clever sci - fi film that features time travel, dark comedy, romance, metaphysics, and enough action to keep just about any viewer engaged... as long as you enjoy using your brain a bit.

Though it can technically be labeled as a time travel film, «Safety Not Guaranteed» is more about its characters» relationships than the veracity of the sci - fi premise, and that's thanks to Derek Connolly's excellent script and the fantastic cast.

After a slow start, this film - about a former boy genius (George Clooney) and a current girl genius (Britt Robertson) traveling to a city outside time and space - becomes a delightful and thoughtful exploration of the ways in which the future, the concept and promise of it, function in human life.

And in About Time, the paternal - filial bond is so central that it's bound up with the film's time - travelling premTime, the paternal - filial bond is so central that it's bound up with the film's time - travelling premtime - travelling premise.

Disappearing fingers, Looper Rian Johnson's third film, Looper (following Brick and The Brothers Bloom), raised a nigh - infinite number of questions about the mechanics of the time - travel plot, which has young men working for a criminal syndicate that, among other things, requires them to murder their 30 - years - older selves.

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.

By this point, you may well be weary of hearing about «Back to the Future,» given how much press the time - travel trilogy received when the first movie hit the big 3 - 0 earlier this year, but at some point you'll find yourself wanting to revisit the fun of these three films, and that's when you'll want to have a copy of this five - disc set in your collection.

Richard Curtis has found a Hugh Grant replicant to star in his daft but sweet film about love and time - travel, writes Peter Bradshaw

Anime has always had a certain eccentricity about it (think of some of the stranger sequences in touchstone titles like Akira or Ghost in the Shell, or anything at the edges of the output of supposedly child - orientated Studio Ghibli), but the films which LEAFF selected to honour the medium's milestone take this eclectic, imaginative approach to storytelling to new levels, loosening the limits of the logic of reality, and travelling through the very fabric of space and time.

About Time: Richard Curtis returns to the romcom genre to impressively engrossing effect, with the film's time - travel elements merely the tip of the iceberg in terms of its pleasuTime: Richard Curtis returns to the romcom genre to impressively engrossing effect, with the film's time - travel elements merely the tip of the iceberg in terms of its pleasutime - travel elements merely the tip of the iceberg in terms of its pleasures.

In the way of warning, let it be said that those concerned more about space - time continuums or time travel paradoxes would best either leave their sense of logic at the theatre door or simply pass on this film.

What's interesting as you work backwards through films we've made about traveling to Mars is: the further back in time you go (and therefore, the less scientific knowledge about the planet with which the filmmakers would have been working), the more Mars ceases to be a cold, inhospitable ball of red mud and becomes a brash, romantic fantasy world onto which stories more and more achingly mythic can be grafted.

This is not just a story about time travel; the film takes familiar elements and finds exciting and innovative ways to challenge our expectations of them.

Okay, I don't know what to make of this show, which is apparently an American adaptation of an Israeli series called «Danny Hollywood,» but they had me at the phrase «romantic time - travel musical,» and they kept me when they revealed that it was about a documentary filmmaker who somehow time - travels to the»90s, falls in love with the rock star she's been making a film about, and, upon being thrust back to the present, struggles to find a way to get back to the past and save the rock star's life.

The film's cause - effect time - travel paradox — in which the very act of trying to change the past ensures that the future will unfold as it does — can do your head in if you think about it too much.

If you're all about the time - travel angle, Superhero Hype has posted a Twitter picture director Bryan Singer released to give you just a little bit more about what to expect from the film.

Short film A Conversation About Cheating With My Time Traveling Future Self by Pornsak Pichetshote.

The real gem, however, is «Access: Source Code,» an in - movie feature that lets you view cast and crew interviews, pop - up trivia, animated documentary shorts about the film's scientific theories, scene - specific commentary from a time travel expert, and more.