Sentences with phrase «film pays homage»

The production design helps greatly with this; Wan and crew pulled out all the stops in making everything from the costumes to period cars scream the exact kind of washed - out 1970s look the film needs to match its period and remind us of those great 70s haunted house flicks (The Exorcist, Poltergeist) this film pays homage to.

Based on the hit novel by Ernest Cline, the film pays homage to the classic favorites of the last forty years.

Clearly the creators of La La Land spent more time making sure the film paid homage to Gershwin, Astaire and Rogers than Shakespeare.

As a quirky tip of the hat to junk food cinema, it would go on to a similar cult status as the films it pays homage to.

Not exact matches

In Victorville, Cracker Barrel's new store celebrates the history and culture of the local area through decorative walls that pay homage to the famous Route 66, the area's contributions to the film industry and to California's Gold Rush era.

Paying homage to»50s rockabilly style, hairstylist Adir Abergel gave the Runaways star a modernized pompadour using Fekkai products for the film's premiere.

A glamorous, alluring entertainment that revels in the artifice of Hollywood while exposing its corrupt heart, L.A. Confidential pays stylish homage to some of the great film noirs of the distant and recent past.

The Coen brothers» new movie, set in Hollywood in 1951, brings easy laughs but dissipates from memory moments later, like the cheesy films to which it pays homage — or, perhaps, mocks.

2» pays homage to a variety of genres — spaghetti Western, film noir, blaxploitation (after all, this is Tarantino we're talking about), kung fu — while actually managing to hammer home a pretty solid, heartfelt story.

Regardless of this aside, here is a user friendly concoction that pays a fun homage to the Shelley work as well as the tradition of monster film that sprang from her work.

Perhaps because Lando was less explored than Han in the original films, Glover manages the tricky task of both paying homage to role originator Billy Dee Williams while adding his own spin to the character.

Let us now pay homage to the film that started a billion - dollar franchise and begat a cottage industry of lesser copycats.

The film, as most Tarantino films do, pays homage to several particular genres of movies.

Animator / fabulist Hayao Miyazaki pays homage to Hollywood's wartime adventure films in this masterwork built around the adventures of a high - flying pig.

A stirring romance between an emotionally stifled sheep farmer and an irrepressible Romanian migrant worker, isn't shy about paying homage to the classic «Brokeback Mountain,» but in many ways, this British film turns out better.

Paying a homage to classic paintings and classic television acting, this film is one of the best of the 90's.

Again it could also be said that Tarantino pays yet more homage to films of the past.

It's also a remake of the excellent Swedish film Let the Right One In, and director Matt Reeves (Cloverfield) pays homage appropriately, sticking to the slow, methodical, foreign film sensibility.

Although it paid homage to the original cast and even brought along many great actors as cameos such as Charles Dance (Game Of Thrones) and Bill Murray (Garfield), there is no doubt that the final 25 minutes of the film was a visual masterpiece.

He's a passionate filmmaker who, like many of us, absolutely adores Argento's classic, a film that he wants to pay homage to, so I'm rooting for the guy.

Feige also said that the movie will pay homage to the action films of the era, which sounds pretty interesting.

Alamo Drafthouse and Focus Features are teaming up as part of Maverick Cinema to present «Meet Me in Montauk», an event taking place on the beach, with mattresses for a «bed - in» experience, paying homage to one of the film's iconic scenes (seen above).

Farrands explains that the original opening of the film was to be a nightmare sequence that would've paid homage to Carpenter's classic opening scene, and he lays bare the Man in Black's intentions to sacrifice baby Stephen Lloyd and in turn transfer Michael's evil into young Danny Strode and then starting the cycle again.

Against All Odds is an interesting but ultimately flawed remake of the film noir classic Out of the Past (which is paid homage to by casting the star of the original (Greer, The Big Steal) as the mother).

For Halloween Week we present this video tribute to giallo films and the modern films that pay homage to them.

The film that we just played here [at Fantastic Fest] definitely pays homage to this film, by Dan Curtis.

The exclusive image shows Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool, paying homage to 80's film «Say Anthing.»

The highly intuitive female character is a convention that can be found even in Alfred Hitchcock's work, particularly his last film, the underrated «Family Plot,» in which the film pays teasing homage to the trope by making Blanche (Barbara Harris) a psychic.

Such rules would normally be frowned upon (and even ignored by many), but in fact, this film does such a masterful job of paying homage to the first, while enhancing the characters and story, that we are eager for every viewer to experience it with fresh eyes and clear mind... no matter how tempting it is to talk about!

It's a 2.5 D RPG platformer with stunning visuals that seek to pay homage to the brilliantly crafted Studio Ghibli films as well as classic Final Fantasy concept artists such as Yoshitaka Amano.

Where the film finds its biggest faults is in its college setting; it feels like a strange choice to make a child's movie that pays so much homage to 1980s film depictions of college.

Imagine an arcade game that has parallels to the 1928 cartoon, Steamboat Willie or the 1933 film Popeye the Sailor and this Xbox One title not only pays homage to this area but creates a very artistic and enjoyable side - scrolling shooter experience.

The classic comedy from the Python troupe is paid homage in the film through one of its most memorable weapons: the holy Hand Grenade of Antioch.

The poster pays homage to the iconic film, showing the merc with a mouth Read More...

However, when it does work, it works well, touching all of the required bases in order to pay homage to the men and women of the Coast Guard, restoring its reputation in the minds of anyone that views the film that it is much more than a place to avoid more dangerous military service.

Doctor Strange is the 14th film in the MCU, and star Benedict Cumberbatch pays hairy homage to all the heroes who have come before him.

Fox's Blu - ray combo pack offers a dynamite presentation of the film and an unusually entertaining and comprehensive collection of bonus features including some paying homage to the characters» legacy as the film does not.

While a critical misfire at the time of its release, there is a following among action fans that pushed Point Break up to cult camp status, and no less than three films in recent years have paid major homage to it (Hot Fuzz, Brice de Nice, and Fulltime Killer).

The film clearly pays homage to Asimov, while avoiding the polished look of the I, Robot utopia.

Mills pays homage to the books, music, and films that shaped him with title and year - crediting text accompanying excerpts from the likes of Godfrey Reggio's Koyaanisqatsi to Judy Blume's Forever.

But, as Burton films are wont to, this one loses its way with one misguided sequence that allows the director to pay extended homage to the vintage horror and sci - fi B - movies that have so clearly inspired him.

I'd love to hear your take / review on the 2003 Horror film «Wrong Turn», it is one of my favorite modern horror films, I think it's smart, fun and pays wonderful homage to old school horror.

I think when more people see this film they will really connect with it and in my opinion it is destined to become a cult classic just like most the films to which it is paying homage.

It had a great backstory that paid plenty of homage to the old films.

Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels Year: 1998 Director: Guy Ritchie The debut film from Guy Ritchie, this super stylistic take on the gangster formula pays homage to the work of Quentin Tarantino.

The most embarrassing revelation from the pair is that their film was researched through Joseph Campbell and is a combination of Cassavetes's Husbands and The Wizard of Oz, with numerous homages paid along the way to Apocalypse Now — proving, beyond a doubt, that no one sets out to make something mediocre.

Having already paid homage to their favourite genre in SHAUN OF THE DEAD, Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright gave us the ultimate meta - action film in HOT FUZZ.

Felt like it was a good balance between being a modern action packed film with a fair bit of violence - poking fun at old (incredibly cheesy) spy films but in a way of paying homage to them rather than disrespecting the genre!

On the DVD the extras include a mini-doc on Los Angeles and the homage the film pays to it, and a fluffy but heartfelt item in which Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling rate each other very highly.

Alas, the plot does rear its ugly head all too often, especially in a very tiresome finale on top of «Mt. Richmore», which is meant to echo a similar scene in Hitchcock's North by Northwest, a film that is paid homage to at least twice (a television shows the famous crop - dusting scene, perhaps as a bit of foreshadowing).