Sentences with phrase «high fantasy films»

Disney's The Avengers and Guardians blend the nostalgic, fun sort of action that was prevalent in the mid -»90s with an unapologetic, wide - eyed sense of good and evil that we don't see on screen anymore, apart from high fantasy films and children's cinema.

Not exact matches

I felt Pan's Labyrinth did the same, albeit on a higher level: I went to excited to see a film which combined mythology with the Spanish Civil War, but while the mythical creatures were fantastic, the historical portrait was cartoonish and hence the tension between «reality» and fantasy was slack.

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.

A violent fantasy set during the Spanish Civil War, this magical film from Guillermo del Toro manages that intellectual high - mindedness, even as it resonates on a primal, mythic level.

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..

This is where you'll find the best mind - bending sci - fi, out of this world fantasy, and bloody good horror films all hours of the day... and night — in jaw - dropping High Definition and crisp Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound.

Unfortunately, by ditching the high ground in favor of not - especially - convincing theatrics, the potency of the film becomes diluted to the point where we're viewing the infiltration of these secret cell groups as a fantasy, and therefore don't buy many of their tactics and plausible enough to keep us on the same edge we'd be teetering on if we felt the authenticity through and through.

Stylishly filmed in high - contrast black and white that is decorated with pops of color (red lips are a favorite), the film creates a violent fantasy land populated by sirens transitioning into stone - cold killers.

The latest Marvel Studios film aims high with more fantasy and increased stakes, but a mediocre villain prevents it from reaching the next level.

Watch the latest movie trailer for the upcoming fantasy film «Beastly» by director Daniel Barnz (Phoebe in Wonderland, The Cutting Room) and starring Neil Patrick Harris (The Best and the Brightest, Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay), Vanessa Hudgens (Sucker Punch, High School Musical 3), Mary - Kate Olsen (The Wackness, Weeds), Alex Pettyfer (Entertainment Tonight, Tormented), Peter Krause (Dirty Sexy Money) and Lisa Gay Hamilton.

Once you get past all the high - fantasy trappings — pointy - eared magical types and mottle - skinned monsters and the film's magical Macguffin — Bright is more or less a run - of - the - mill David Ayer flick.

Just two weeks after an assailant took the lives of 17 victims at the Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, the Bruce Willis - starring, gun - toting revenge fantasy — a remake of the 1974 Charles Bronson film of the same name — champions vigilante justice and romanticizes gun violence in gleefully tone - deaf manner, one that only works in a deluded Trumpian analysis of America and opportunist justice.

Blunt and two - dimensional, even by revenge - fantasy standards, the film made us nostalgic for better treatments of the revenge theme, from the high art of Hamlet to the dirty thrills of Kill Bill.

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When the studio departed from the type of high - spirited hijinks that headlined many of their successful»60s and»70s films in favor of somber realism and darker fantasy in the 1980s, they closed a chapter that many remember fondly.

The previous record holder for the highest grossing film was 2016's live - action fantasy adventure The Jungle Book, a Jon Favreau directorial.

But those high tech toys were like big kid fantasies come alive, magnificently designed vehicles rolled out as lovingly detailed miniatures with a sense of awe and wonder, and the success of the spawned two feature films that upped the ante on the spectacle.

Miyazaki's first digitally animated feature (the highest - grossing Japanese film ever) initially seems like a Through the Looking - Glass fantasy, but rapidly picks up a resonance, weight and complexity that make it all but Shakespearean.