Sentences with phrase «for creature features»

Did it spark a new love for creature features?

It's also a great hook for a creature feature, and John Krasinski, star and director at the helm, milks it for all it's worth.

The other clever take on the film is del Toro's reversal of perspective for the creature feature genre.

Snub: «Godzilla» scored the biggest box - office opening ever for a creature feature when it opened last May, but failed to grab an Oscar nomination for best visual effects.

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But, for those seeking accommodations on land, the property offers a comprehensive set of conveniences and creature comforts that start with the 147 rooms and suites with each featuring flat - screen TVs, included high - speed Wi - Fi and a coffee maker.

These features may help the cockroach attach to a female for reproduction, but they may also help the creatures hook together to piggyback on bats to new caves.

Dragons are the stuff of legend, of course, but the natural world offers plenty of scientific basis for some of the creatures» most fantastical features.

Using the Creature Creator, he changed every feature of the beast — swapping its two reptilian limbs for six insectoid ones, hands for a pair of spiked balls, and even the tail for a pair of butt - mounted antlers — all in a single generation.

She is studying how our perception of these creatures sways support for conservation, and how sharks feature in indigenous legends, myths and folklore.

I actually should dock a star due to the through familiarity of the motifs — Meltdown for instance is a post atomic mishap story much like The Road, as well as in another a dad and son come across a body on a hunting expedition, much like Carver's So Much Water So Close to Home — and perhaps because of its «extreme maleness»: girls barely feature except as longed for or disgusted - by creatures.

Perfect for a boy's or girl's nursery, our heirloom - quality collection features loving, lumbering creatures cast in soft gray and cream hues.

The playful shower curtain features an array of fun woodland creatures and dusty colors for the perfect update to your bathroom.

Perfect for a boy's or girl's nursery, our heirloom - quality collection features loving, lumbering creatures cast in soft hues.

Dragon - Raptor is a fanfiction author that has written 14 stories for Battlestar Galactica, Zoids, X-overs, Mechwarrior / Battletech, Cars, Firefly, Airwolf A dragon is a legendary creature, typically scaled or fire - spewing and with serpentine, reptilian or avian traits, that features in the myths of many

Lassie came home and Willy was freed but the omens aren't looking good for Lean on Pete, the imperilled racehorse at the centre of Andrew Haigh's heart - rending creature feature.

It's a very accomplished horror feature that doesn't sacrifice characters for cheap scares, and celebrates its excellent effects work with beautiful cinematography and a love and respect for its creatures.

It's certainly the most apt representation of the viewing experience for this Dwayne Johnson — starring creature feature, an epic disaster movie that sees a mutated gorilla, crocodile, and wolf tear apart downtown Chicago.

Strong creature and makeup effects drive this slasher / creature feature mashup, more than making up for sub-par acting and story.

However, despite sounding like a set - up for a stereotypical Sasquatch creature feature, Primal Rage takes more of its influences from modern slasher films.

It didn't take too long for this sci - fi creature feature to head from the Sundance Film Festival to movie theaters nationwide, but Vincenzo Natali's Splice is now playing in theaters everywhere (see it!).

The network known for godawful creature features is getting topical and socially...

Between his earthquake disaster film San Andreas (2015) and this city - levelling creature feature, it's starting to look as if precocious Canadian director Brad Peyton is applying for the job last held by...

When she's not hiking with her furry gunslinger named Annie, she can be found road tripping, devouring Stephen King novels, and regularly advocating for»80s creature feature films.

Despite having raised the bar in the stop - motion world since 1989, when Park released his shorts «Creature Comforts» and «A Grand Day Out» — and won an Oscar for the former — it still takes about five years to make an animated feature.

But as possibly the most seasoned director we spoke to for this feature, the Aussie genre pro also understands the value of not showing the monster — an approach he partially learned from one of the most famous creature features of all time.

Clearly inspired by creature features from the 1980s, Diez uses a lot of puppetry work for his giant wasps / bees and only uses CGI when completely necessary.

It put us in the mood for other great creature features, so here is a perusal of some of our modern favorites.

Along with its endearing characters, well - paced plot, and excellent climax, it makes for a worthy creature feature offering.

And in defence to Llosa, for a time, his dumb creature feature is a head above the competition.

It's a great throwaway, midnight creature feature, but the story and its characters yearn for to have their own novelty.

Standing shamelessly for putting sex in the creature feature, del Toro's movie feels like a protest against the norm.

Watch the trailer for «MoonQuake Lake» — which features RiRi as some lake - dwelling creature who facetimes for some reason — below, along with a Beck and Sia collaboration for the fake film.

From buddy comedies to creature features to — wait for it — holiday fare, turns out there are quite a few.

Del Toro and Jones, both devoted fans of classic horror movies, describe it as a creature feature in which, for once, the monster gets the girl.

Along with trailers for «Creature Features,» Darkness Falls, and Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation, a 5 - minute compilation of the director's own watercolour - marker storyboards set to a passage from Glass's score rounds out this tasty platter.

by Walter Chaw Joe Cornish's low - budget creature - feature Attack the Block is a charmer, a delight, the kind of rare film — like Jack Sholder's The Hidden, Stuart Gordon's Re-Animator, or Steve De Jarnatt's Miracle Mile — that devotees will latch onto, and for good reason, with the fervour afforded genuine cult classics.

There's also an alternate opening scene, a costume - test montage, and one very short special feature on the use of animals in the film that's only notable for Kenneth Branagh's apparent diplomacy regarding furry creatures.

FallBack Plan Productions and Evil Squared are excited to premiere the poster for their upcoming feature, All The Creatures Were Stirring.

The Film Comment Presents section, an annual feature at NYFF for the last five years, will present Sergei Loznitsa's «A Gentle Creature,» a new film inspired by a Dostoevsky short story, along with a series of panels and discussions.

Just this evening at the San Diego Comic - Con I caught up with Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (review) helmer Troy Nixey, who made his feature - length directing debut with the film, a remake of the 1973 made - for - TV movie of the same name about a family that discovers murderous tiny creatures living in the basement of their new home.

The follow - up to Gareth Edwards» 2014 creature feature is in development with writer Max Borenstein on script duty and Edwards looking to return once he's finished working on Star Wars stand - alone Rogue One, targeting a 2018 release for ol' atomic breath's next outing.

by Walter Chaw Almost worth it just for Jon Voight's post-regurgitation wink, Luis Llosa's B - movie creature - feature Anaconda is a deadpan riff on the nature - amuck flicks of the mid-Seventies in general and Steven Spielberg's Jaws in particular.

Greenlighted by the studio to capitalize on the franchise while it was still hot, Dante and screenwriter Charles S. Haas (Matinee) made the film they want to see, and being the creature - feature lovers and film fanatics that they are, this meant a movie for people who saw things the same.

The ambiguity of it all is handled well by director Ben Ketai (who previously helmed the direct - to - video sequel) and writers Patrick Doody and Chris Valenziano (who previously penned the underrated SyFy creature feature Bugs), but it might prove frustrating to some viewers, and it doesn't do much for generating scares.

Now, if only someone would release ABC's old nutrition - themed series of Saturday morning interstitials, such as «Yuck Mouth» -LRB-»»cause I don't brush») and «Give Me a Kiss but Not a Cookie»; and Time for Timer, featuring that yellow creature with tophat and cane who always had an unusual recipe to share.

A trailer has debuted for the snowy indie horror titled Cold Ground, a creature feature about a team of documentary filmmakers who venture into the mountains.

Andy Muschietti, the director of the 2013 creature feature Mama and the upcoming adaptation of Stephen King's horror tome It, has signed on to direct an adaptation of the»80s anime series Robotech for Sony.

After the impact of these two features (the latter screening at Cannes), Schepisi moved on to directing films overseas, including Plenty (1985), Roxanne (1987), The Russia House (1990), Six Degrees of Separation (1993), Fierce Creatures (1997), Last Orders (2001) and the HBO telemovie Empire Falls (2005), which won a Golden Globe for Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture made for Television.

A trailer has debuted for an intriguing post-apocalyptic creature feature titled Hostile, the feature directorial debut of French filmmaker Mathieu Turi.

Britain's Aardman Animations had been going since the early 1970s, and had won three Oscars for its short films «Creature Comforts,» «The Wrong Trousers» and «A Close Shave» (the latter two featuring Wallace and Gromit), by the time that the company's founder, Peter Lord, and his collaborator Nick Park codirected their first feature, Chicken Run, in 2000.