Sentences with phrase «film incarnations of»

In popular film incarnations of onryou and western female apparitions, the woman herself is overshadowed by the monstrous entity she has become; the grotesqueness of her malevolent appearance and rage that overwhelms her individual identity and history.

We look forward to audiences discovering Gal in the first feature film incarnation of this beloved character.»

Not exact matches

After a subsequent appearance in Showtime's made - for - cable film Off Season (2001), Culkin once again appeared as a younger incarnation of an older sibling, this time Kieran, in the art - house comedy Igby Goes Down (2002).

I'm someone who, I think like everyone else when hearing about this, thought that there would never be a good incarnation of Captain America, especially since the colossal failure of a film in the 90s.

DICK DINMAN & EDDIE MULLER DISPENSE A DOUBLE DOSE OF DANA: The Warner Archive has just released on Blu - ray legendary director Fritz Lang's last two American - made edge - of - your - seat thrillers WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS and BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT in their original wide screen SuperScope incarnations and popular film noir author and TCM host Eddie Muller rejoins producer / host Dick Dinman as they both salute the unjustly underrated star of both films, Dana AndrewOF DANA: The Warner Archive has just released on Blu - ray legendary director Fritz Lang's last two American - made edge - of - your - seat thrillers WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS and BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT in their original wide screen SuperScope incarnations and popular film noir author and TCM host Eddie Muller rejoins producer / host Dick Dinman as they both salute the unjustly underrated star of both films, Dana Andrewof - your - seat thrillers WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS and BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT in their original wide screen SuperScope incarnations and popular film noir author and TCM host Eddie Muller rejoins producer / host Dick Dinman as they both salute the unjustly underrated star of both films, Dana Andrewof both films, Dana Andrews.

Originally created in the 1930s by short - lived author Robert Howard, the character of Conan the Barbarian has seen a number of incarnations over the years, including an upcoming filmed re-adaptation of Howard's original stories.

He misses the energy of those films, and doesn't accomplish the immediacy of Les Miz's stage incarnation.

The first film — well, the first film in this current incarnation of the series — was directed by Louis Leterrier and earned nearly half a billion dollars worldwide despite becoming a poster child for terrible post-converted 3D.

For those that are fans of the X-Men films, they may remember Sunspot appearing in previous movies, which will surely be retconned with this latest incarnation.

Other incarnations, from stage and screen's The Wiz to the $ 60 M CG - animated feature Legends of Oz: Dorothy Returns that has been «coming soon» for years, have produced or will produce their detractors, unquestionably being judged harshly against the magic and marvels of the iconic, enduring Judy Garland film.

In her current incarnation in the film, she is Alice, a researcher who insinuates herself into the life of a man who happens to be the friend and co-worker of Tom (Michael Shannon), a former lover who knew Alice back when she was Jenny, before she started escaping into other lives.

This is the DVD release of the film whose Blu - ray incarnation was reviewed by Gino, so I'm going to let him take it away for the review of the film itself.

«War for the Planet of the Apes»: This current incarnation of the «Apes» saga comes to a rousing conclusion with the best film of the series.

Although the leader of this new incarnation of these iconic characters does remain on board as producer, he quickly departed the director's seat in favor of that other epic space saga (the one he not so secretly always favored), and was replaced by Justin Lin, who is most known for directing four of the Fast & Furious films.

Despite devoting roughly half its running time to Ian and Sofi's relationship, I Origins is ultimately not a romance, or at least, not only a romance: As the plot advances, Cahill's film reveals new incarnations of itself in a variety of genre trappings — sci - fi parable, grisly medical drama, globe - trotting thriller, and even, in one bizarre and possibly genius scene, a Saw-esque horror flick.

Jessica has been seen quite often seen alongside the lead actors of the modern incarnations of the films.

The film's 1080p BD incarnation does have the advantage of a brilliantly sharp transfer, albeit one that throws the cinematography's overlit flatness into painful relief.

As with most fairy - tales, the story of Cinderella is one that has had countless incarnations so why should we be excited by this new film?

On home turf, Rian Johnson's film, which stars Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon Levitt as different incarnations of the same futuristic assassin, scored a respectable, if somewhat disappointing US$ 20.8 million opening weekend, placing it second at the box office behind Adam Sandler's animated Hotel Transylvania.

At the same time, there is some new material in the film, as there has been in each one of the previous incarnations of H2G2 — although purists can rest assured that many of these changes were approved by Adams, who had completed the script's second draft before he died in 2001 and Karey «Chicken Run» Kirkpatrick took over the screenwriting.

We've seen modernized versions of Shakespeare in the past, with films like Baz Luhrmann «s Romeo + Juliet, O (for Othello), Hamlet, 10 Things I Hate About You, which was a modern incarnation of The Taming of the Shrew, and She's The Man, meant to resemble Twelfth Night.

What aspect of the comic book did you get to bring into the film that you wanted to that may not have been in the prior incarnations?

As someone with genuine affection for the 1980s incarnation of the Chipmunks, I should be pretty disheartened by Chipwrecked, but I've been far too numbed by the first two films and the various dumb imitations (G - Force, The Smurfs, etc.) lobbed at the same demographic to be surprised or bothered by this chapter's failings.

Mild, welcome grain helps maintain the persuasion of celluloid, though, while saturation is strong and hues seem much more accurate than the pink tones of the film's VHS and LaserDisc incarnations.

THE DVD Same old song as Fox provides a DVD - R for our approval; needless to say, I can't tell how the film's supposed to look in its retail incarnation, though I'm giving this transfer the benefit of the doubt in elevating the platter to must - own status.

It's a series of short films tied together by the characters who thread through the chapters, played by different actors in different incarnations....

In its current incarnation Swing Shift is the wreckage of a great film, an indulgent star vehicle that was once an insightful ensemble piece.

Hiddleston who plays former British S.A.S. Captain James Conrad introduces «a whole new incarnation» of the iconic character, and says «Kong appears in this film as you've never seen him before.»

Then, «Summoning a God» (12:47) considers the character's newest incarnation in the context of his history in film and more so in terms of visual effects.

Most famous for performances behind the CGI - created Gollum in Lord of the Rings and King Kong in Peter Jackson's remake, Andy Serkis looks like a mad troll and embraces the look in his incarnation of Ian Dury, the music - hall showman of the British punk scene who hit it big with the song immortalized in the film's title and embraced fame with the same excess with which he embraced booze and drugs.

It's a film about the need for acceptance, and in many ways that theme reflects the current incarnation of the festival.

This isn't the first time that author Ian Fleming's debut Bond novel, «Casino Royale», has been made into a film, although it's the first official one, as the previous incarnations were a TV episode (of the mid-1950s show «Climax!»)

THE DVD by Bill Chambers Sort of inevitable that Warner / Morgan Creek's DVD release of Exorcist: The Beginning doesn't, despite rumours promising the contrary, contain the Paul Schrader incarnation of the film (which will premiere at the Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film (click here for a link to the trailer)-RRB-, so perhaps the bigger letdown of this disc is the coyness of its supplementary material, which alludes to Schrader's version only in terms of the unusual duress that replacement director Renny Harlin was under in helming a prequel to one of the biggest breadwinners in the studio stable.

As on its previous DVD incarnation, Red Dawn is presented in its 1.85:1 theatrical aspect ratio, only this time it is enhanced for 16x9 displays and not accompanied by a fullscreen version of the film.

There have been several film and TV versions of RC Sherriff's World War One play since it debuted on the London stage in 1928, but Saul Dibb's new incarnation, shown at London Film Festival, is testament to the lingering potency of the piece.

Disc 1, whose menu screens hilariously evoke those of the Star Wars DVDs, additionally features a semi-forced trailer for The Pink Panther (the Steve Martin incarnation), an option to view Spaceballs at «ludicrous speed,» and an eminently skippable film - length commentary from Brooks and a silent Ronny Graham.

His identity as Galoup is a far cry from his previous incarnations as Alex, yet Denis is clearly superimposing Galoup on Alex, just as she's superimposing Subor's Forestier on his Forestier in Godard's film; Gregoire Colin's Gilles Sentain might also remind one of his previous roles in Oliver Oliver, Queen Margot, Before the Rain, Denis» Nenette and Boni, and The Dreamlife of Angels.

Basil Rathbone played Sherlock Holmes in early film adaptations of stories about the detective, but today's fans have eagerly embraced Holmes in incarnations both classic and more contemporary.

THE DVDs Red Dawn drops onto DVD in a two - disc «Collector's Edition» sporting a nifty 1.87:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer that frees the picture of the excess grain found in previous home video incarnations but doesn't do much to animate what is frankly a flat - looking film.

Behind - the - scenes featuretts include: The Journey Begins (creative concepts, story development and casting), Shaping Mind and Body (Christian Bale's transformation into Batman), The Tumbler (reinvention of the Batmobile), Gotham City Rises (production design of Gotham City, the Batcave, Wayne Manor, and more), Saving Gotham City (the development of miniatures, CGI, and effects for the monorail chase scene), Genesis of the Bat (a look at the Dark Knight's incarnation and influences on the film), Path to Discovery (filming in Iceland), and Confidential Files (go beyond the movie and discover facts and story points not in the film).

I've never seen a Franco film look better than a cheap Italian cannibal flick prior to this incarnation of 99 Women, and though the accompanying 2.0 Dolby mono soundtrack is occasionally tinny, it's not so in any way that doesn't imply fidelity to the source.

I've never played any incarnation of the «World of Warcraft» video game, and the film version doesn't make me want to start.

The shadow of product placement also looms large, including painful advertisements for Guitar Hero and M&M s. Indeed, the current incarnation of The Smurfs bears little resemblance to the classic cartoon, in a film likely to leave anyone other than hyperactive children feeling blue.

The endlessly inventive mind of writer Alex Garland and the frenetic vision of director Peter Travis bring Dredd to life as a futuristic neo-noir action film that returns the celebrated character to the dark, visceral incarnation from John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra's revered comic strip.

The mesmerizing trailer isn't shy about touting the main theme of the film: love, in all of its dynamic incarnations.

The clean, sharp, and vibrant video is doubtlessly superior to any prior incarnation of the film.

Though Scream Factory presents Dead Ringers with a clean soundtrack (the Criterion master was plagued by audio distortion), the stereo channels are reversed on the 2.0 DTS - HD MA tracks for both incarnations of the film.

Having only ever owned a succession of VHS copies of the film, the last bought online just last year, I must confess the curious thing about having this film now in this incarnation is that the dragon effects are actually better served by a less distinct transfer.

Flip the disc to unearth a fullscreen incarnation of the film (it was shot in Super35, meaning this viewing option is not quite pan-and-scan, not quite open - matte) as well as «Reel Love: The Making of Trust the Man» (13 mins.)

In a crowd - pleasing moment, the current incarnation of Deadpool appears during the climactic showdown from X-Men Origins: Wolverine between Logan (Hugh Jackman) and that film's Wade Wilson (also played by Ryan Reynolds), who has his mouth sewn shut.