Sentences with phrase «for fantasy film»

In 2003, «ÄúThe Return of the King «Äù swept the Academy Awards, winning all of the 11 categories in which it was nominated, including Best Picture «Äì the first ever Best Picture win for a fantasy film.

The October Sky director will helm the 32 days of additional photography for the fantasy film, which stars Mackenzie Foy, Keira Knightley, Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman, and Misty Copeland.

«Snow White and the Huntsman»: The castle may have been computer generated, but the expanse of beach that serves as the backdrop for the fantasy film's climactic battle scene can be found in Wales.

Most Bledon is known for the fantasy film «The Adventures of a White Horse and a Boy» which was a particular success in the USSR, where it was released under the title «The Golden Belt».

Not exact matches

This film, recommended only for mature audiences by the panel, reveals the struggle for integrity and wholeness that resists the temptation to live within fantasy and deceit, and to turn instead to courageous acceptance of the responsibilities of maturity.»

Like the hilarious but unironically fashioned book The Zombie Survival Guide (2003), here's a zombie tale for the 9/11 era, when fantasies of urban chaos and duct - tape - sealed apartment windows are no longer relegated to horror films; these paranoid scenarios became regular fare on CNN.

Although computer imagery is now common in blockbuster films — it was used, for example, to create the fantasy world of Pandora that was the setting of Avatar — it is usually created by large teams using special, often bespoke equipment.

The approach is revolutionary, Schiller said, considering that genetics — now widely used for prenatal screening and drug development — seemed a mere fantasy when referenced in the 1993 film Jurassic Park.

But ever since the 1967 film The Graduate solidified it as the ultimate fantasy for young men and countless parodies have followed in its wake.

This peculiar low - budget children's musical fantasy was directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis, who was best known for horror films like Blood Feast.

While the previous films in the series have been just that — parts of a sequence designed to get us here, each with their own beginning and end — the first and second parts of Deathly Hallows are two halves of the same film, and to approach them as separate entities means missing just what director David Yates, writer Steve Kloves, and a host of storytellers and performers have done: They've made a five - hour fantasy epic that balances effects - driven battles with some very real character moments, and one that isn't afraid to have its heroes pay a high price for their convictions.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 is the eighth and final installment of the long - running film series adapted from the children's fantasy novels by British author J. K. Rowling, centering on the titular half - human boy wizard and his adventures at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry.

The film is on a fine line between fantasy and thriller with an element of sexual fantasy running through the plot for young teenage girls, nothing strong, think along the lines of «Twilight» teenage angst mixed with «Cursed» or a little bit of «Ginger Snaps» but not as in your face as those films, there is still an enjoyable werewolf film here.

As examples of fantasy filmmaking, as opposed to relics of worship, the «Harry Potter» movies do not, except in snatches, have the lyrical wonderfulness and visionary power that I associate with the finest examples of childhood imaginings on film — the animated films of Hayao Miyazaki («Spirited Away»), for example, or «The Black Stallion» or «The Red Balloon» or Alfonso Cuarón's «A Little Princess.»

MovieMan, In Pan's Labyrinth it didn't bother me, because the Spanish Civil War was approached more like an atypical backdrop for a fantasy movie, unlike in District 9, where the film purports itself to be an allegory by having Johannesburg as the setting.

For the rest of us - the scornful, the uninterested, those too old to fully believe - the films derived from J.K. Rowling's seven best - selling fantasy novels have waxed and waned, moving from the formulaic fun of the early entries to the darkening adolescent gloom of the middle installments to the grim Wagnerian conflict of the final haul.

Director Nora Twomey changes the film's style for the fantasy story, transitioning from the sharp lines and solid colors of the real - life scenes to animation that looks like paper models in motion.

However, if Krasinski's film is such a response, as an unconscious and confused one it does not treat these conditions helpfully, merely turning them into the basis for a murky fantasy.

The best - selling novel by J.K. Rowling (titled Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in England, as was this film adaptation) becomes this hotly anticipated fantasy adventure from Chris Columbus, the winner of a high - stakes search for a director to bring the first in a hoped - for franchise of Potter films to the screen by Warner Bros..

It's a shame, however, that the fantasy components — namely, the outrageous ways in which characters behave around one another (along with the ludicrous resolutions)-- increase toward the conclusion, resulting in a light, airy film that goes on for far too long.

Guillermo del Toro has crafted a masterpiece, a terrifying, visually wondrous fairy tale for adults that blends fantasy and gloomy drama into one of the most magical films to come along in years.

Steven Hilliard Stern has a big resume of TV movies and Mazes and Monsters is one film that can be quite an interesting watch for fantasy and gamers alike.

I think it would be a great idea to have more diversity of content in this site (an early review of Beloved was a pleasant surprise some weeks ago) but right now the balance is definitely in favor of sci - fi, fantasy, horror, action, and some crime films created for a demographic probably best described as «geek».

If you liked the first hobbit your probably going to like this, for those looking for a good fantasy film to see this year, this is a good choice to go see (though I think Thor 2 Dark world would be a better choice.)

The film peaks with a series of tests for Tris that play like a gamer's fantasy of virtual reality.

Later, when she pulls the same stunt in a swimming pool, we recognize the show for what it is — a male fantasy film in which the women are little more than rag dolls.

The messages blend seamlessly into the fantasy and comedy in what is surely one of the best films for older children in quite some time.

We experience the delay of the fantasy of the happy old couple in their country home in cinematic time as, for most of the film, the only body these lovers have is the spellbinding combination of visual fragments serving as apparitions to their voices.

The biggest surprise for Miike fans and musical lovers alike is that for all the black humor of this deliriously bizarre fantasy «Happiness» is a warmhearted film about sacrifice, support and four generations of family togetherness.

Three films is more than enough for this undercooked fantasy film series.

For our first show of 2018, we welcome writer and critic Dr Eloise Ross, who joins us as we check out some of the key films from this month, including Steven Spielberg's paean to press freedoms The Post (01:04), Guillermo Del Toro's dark romantic fantasy The Shape of Water (05:46), Don Hertzfeldt's animated science fiction sequel World of Tomorrow Episode 2: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts (10:23), and Ridley Scott's Getty dynasty biopic All the Money in the World (13:16).

An interview with Michael J. Bassett (8:51) allows the filmmaker to speak at greater length of his love of fantasy fare, his intention for a serious tone, the film's casting, dismissed ideas, and religious themes.

Reality and fantasy are disarmingly commingled in this superb film about a WWII pilot who claims he was accidentally chosen to die and must now plead for his life in a heavenly court.

With vast mountain terrains and theatrical music, the fantasy film feel is only enhanced by the voice - over by British actor Charles Dance, best known for his role as the uncompromising Tywin Lannister in Game of Thrones.

Akira's popularity obscures the finest examples of the medium, films that manage to balance serious metaphysical musing with actual forward momentum (the two Ghost in the Shell films, for instance); to tell adult tales in affecting ways (Grave of the Fireflies); to redefine genre thriller (Perfect Blue), action (Ninja Scroll), and fantasy (Princess Mononoke); and to present children's fables as artifacts that are as useful for adults as they are for kids (Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro).

Oscar nominee will reunite with his Drive co-star Christina Hendricks for dark fantasy film set in a macabre underworld

Universal Pictures have unveiled a new full - length U.S. trailer for the upcoming samurai fantasy action film «47 Ronin» which opens at Christmas.Keanu Reeves stars in the film about a group of banished samurai who long to restore their honor...

While at Comic - Con for a presentation in Hall H, co-stars Jeff Bridges, Ben Barnes and Kit Harington talked to press about their fantasy action - adventure film Seventh Son.

The film strains credulity even for a vid - game fantasy by letting the leading lady recover awfully quickly from bad injuries, but other than that Vikander commands attention and is the element here that makes Tomb Raider sort of watchable.»

What You Need To Know: Greenlit almost immediately after the billion dollar success of «Alice In Wonderland,» this fantasy film ended up being a sweet security blanket for Sam Raimi after being jettisoned off «Spider - Man IV.»

It's uncertain if the film even has a firm opinion of our sitting president, for with Sawyer's reductive preachings about a stereotypical black upbringing, and actions to end a «limitless war on terror» that plainly contradict current events, the movie is both a simplistic Obama insult and an aspirational Obama fantasy (and if you don't think it's channeling our real - life president, look no further than the Easter egg of Nicorette gum, which Sawyer keeps in his own nightstand).

A great fantasy film and a real set up for what is to come.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening December 10, 2010 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (PG for frightening images and action fantasy sequences) Third installment in the film franchise based on the C.S. Lewis series of fantasy novels finds Edmund (Skandar Keynes) and Lucy Pensie (Georgie Henley), along with their cousin Eustace (Will Poulter), returning to the magical land of Narnia to embark on a dangerous, seafaring mission taking them to the edge of the worFor movies opening December 10, 2010 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (PG for frightening images and action fantasy sequences) Third installment in the film franchise based on the C.S. Lewis series of fantasy novels finds Edmund (Skandar Keynes) and Lucy Pensie (Georgie Henley), along with their cousin Eustace (Will Poulter), returning to the magical land of Narnia to embark on a dangerous, seafaring mission taking them to the edge of the worfor frightening images and action fantasy sequences) Third installment in the film franchise based on the C.S. Lewis series of fantasy novels finds Edmund (Skandar Keynes) and Lucy Pensie (Georgie Henley), along with their cousin Eustace (Will Poulter), returning to the magical land of Narnia to embark on a dangerous, seafaring mission taking them to the edge of the world.

In 2009, the MPAA assigned the film a PG rating «for fantasy action violence and peril», which is one way of describing the fact that our young heroes get shot at with some regularity, with one of them even getting bloodily grazed on his cheek.

It seems Warner Bros. is making a grab for every fantasy story they can get their hands on now that the Harry Potter films are almost done.

Admittedly the backgrounds of the four major fantasy sequences that anchor the film look impressive for a couple of seconds but like every other element in this film, the art direction is so conceptually underdeveloped it fails to sustain interest.

It feels like an extended trailer for a computer game and this is largely due to the absolutely flat and lifeless action sequences that are so crucial to the film's success (or lack thereof) as an action / fantasy.

In other words, Boll's latest evokes the form but not the content of such film series as Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean and Star Wars, which means that few if any fantasy fans will be deceived into believing that Dungeon Siege is a legitimate endeavor rather than the same everything - must - go yard sale of clichés and familiar formulas the director mined for his previous work.

Not only are «Get Out,» «The Shape of Water» and «Blade Runner 2049» some of the very best films of 2017, but from the no - budget indie realm («Prevenge,» «A Ghost Story,» «Transfiguration,» «Raw») to expensive studio epic scale («War for the Planet of the Apes,» «Kong: Skull Island») and newly blazed ground out of the predominantly formulaic superhero («Logan,» «Wonder Woman,» «LEGO Batman») and Star Wars («The Last Jedi») factory farms, fantasy filmmakers tried their hardest to be smart, visually adroit, sometimes startlingly innovative and — strangest of all for this escapist format — humanely, emotionally credible.

Focus Features has released the first trailer for Fifty Shades of Grey, the film adaptation of E. L. James novel of sexual fantasy, and I can already hear the exasperated gasps.