Sentences with phrase «in classic comic»

Character illustrations in classic comic book style provide bold color and action - packed design.

In the classic comic book series, The Infinity Gauntlet, Thanos gathered all of the stones and became almost indestructible until a team of heroes led by The Silver Surfer, Doctor Strange and Adam Warlock threw a sonic screwdriver or two into his plans.

In classic comic cliffhanger style, we'll have to wait for the next issue to find out.

Character illustrations in classic comic book style provide bold color and action - packed design.

Novelist Anne Rice states from a recent PW Comics World piece, «I remember reading Jane Eyre in the Classics comics and how much I loved the details and seeing the madwoman in the attic in those little panels and seeing the whole novel play out.

The Vampire Chronicles novelist Anne Rice also endorses the series, saying, «I remember reading Jane Eyre in the Classics comics and how much I loved the details and seeing the madwoman in the attic in those little panels and seeing the whole novel play out.

Not exact matches

In a matter of minutes, each participant received an 11x14 color poster starring them in one of the IPC's classic comic book ad campaign covers — a souvenir sure to bring a smile and constant reminder to stock Idaho ® potatoeIn a matter of minutes, each participant received an 11x14 color poster starring them in one of the IPC's classic comic book ad campaign covers — a souvenir sure to bring a smile and constant reminder to stock Idaho ® potatoein one of the IPC's classic comic book ad campaign covers — a souvenir sure to bring a smile and constant reminder to stock Idaho ® potatoes.

In January, Gove fell out with history professors, teachers and some of Britain's leading comic actors after claiming that the classic sitcom Blackadder was responsible for spreading left - wing myths about the First World War.

Applying the episodic format and visual template of classic and spaghetti Westerns to a revenge saga mostly set in the Deep South just prior to the Civil War, the film makes a point of pushing the savagery of slavery to the forefront but does so in a way that rather amazingly dovetails with the heightened historical, stylistic and comic sensibilities at play.

It may not rise to the level of such a classic, but tonally it's reminiscent of Young Frankenstein, a work that at once parodied the Shelley story in broad comic terms while also being supremely in awe of the James Whale film, right down to using original set pieces and compositions to mirror without any form of irony the source material.

A free - agent star by the end of the 1950s, he began one of his two most auspicious creative collaborations when writer / director Billy Wilder tapped him to play one of the cross-dressing musicians in the gender - tweaking comic classic Some Like It Hot (1959).

(The story is based in part on the «Planet Hulk» comic series and, reaching further back, echoes the classic Star Trek episode «Arena.»)

Spawning a juggernaut of a franchise featuring a number of sequels, comic books, toys, novels, and Internet videos, «Predator» has become completely immersed in pop culture and gone from a cult classic to an iconic film.

We've known the new film, directed by Josh Trank (Chronicle) will have some radically different concepts going on than we're used to seeing in the classic Fantastic Four comics.

Based on his long - running comic book, which debuted in 2008 before wrapping up at the end of 2013, «Locke & Key» would have combined a classic haunted house tale with complex and rich mythology, and as such managed to attract some heavyweight names: «Star Trek» duo Kurtzman & Orci were writing with «War Of The Worlds» scribe Josh Friedman, Steven Spielberg was producing and «Never Let Me Go» helmer Mark Romanek was brought on to direct the pilot, which reportedly cost as much as $ 10 million.

The film is holding its NYC premiere today and I caught up with Doug this past weekend at New York Comic Con to discuss his ongoing collaboration with Del Toro and, seeing as it's the Halloween season, the enduring appeal of the Disney classic Hocus Pocus in which Jones was the benevolent zombie, Billy Butcherson.

Errol Flynn and Olivia De Havilland made eight films together, including the stone - cold classic «The Adventures Of Robin Hood,» while Bob Hope and Bing Crosby starred in the successful «Road To...» series, and Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis had a profitable comic partnership as well.

First they do confirm that Hulk will indeed don his classic Planet Hulk armor as seen in the comics.

The prematurely balding, intelligent, fast - talking Chase created a couple classic characters, notably Irwin M. Fletcher (aka Fletch) and Vacation's Clark Griswold, but his career is often thought of as plagued by misfires and missed opportunities, rather than touched by comic brilliance.Born on October 8, 1943, in New York City, Cornelius Crane Chase became known as «Chevy» when his grandmother nicknamed him after Chevy Chase, the wealthy Maryland community.

The best comic - book movie in a long time, though based on no comic, Lucy is a film that mates classic Besson with Quentin Tarantino in a go at the mystical, world - solving vision found in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey and Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life.

Set on the world of Sakaar — known dearly to comic book fans as the world the Hulk gets whisked off to in the now classic story arc «Planet Hulk» — Thor: Ragnarok and its location open up unlimited potential for the Marvel Cinematic Universe; it is also the planet where the Hulk had his son, Skaar, after all.

I pray to God — or Aurora, the Mobian deity in the comics — that's not the case because, as great as the classic Sonic games were, there's no progress for the franchise going backwards.

Returning for some classic comic - strip manna, Spielberg tag - teamed it up with beardy brother - in - arms Peter Jackson for this whiz - bang motion - capture caper which offered a spectacular yet reverential take on Hergé's hallowed creation — the tenacious boy detective with the skyward quiff and a trusty mutt named Snowy.

SDCC 2017 also revealed that Captain Marvel will be set in the»90s, star a two - eyed Nick Fury, and feature classic comic book villains The Skrulls.

In 2016, we reported that Disney was developing a «sequel - reboot» of Joe Johnston's cult classic comic book adaptation The Rocketeer, with the plan being to introduce a new female Rocketeer to take the place of the original jetpack - having hero played by Billy Campbell in 1991 originaIn 2016, we reported that Disney was developing a «sequel - reboot» of Joe Johnston's cult classic comic book adaptation The Rocketeer, with the plan being to introduce a new female Rocketeer to take the place of the original jetpack - having hero played by Billy Campbell in 1991 originain 1991 original.

Launer based the premise of the film on the lyrics to the classic song of the same name by The Clovers, which is a strange form of inspiration for a film, but in its own limited, predictable fashion, it works as a pleasant and occasionally funny comic diversion.

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If you are looking for an older, more classic version of Wonder Woman, then this is the place to start, considering this reboot by Pérez planted a lot of the seeds for what and who Wonder Woman became in comics today.

I got a chance to look back at some of the best cancelled TV shows in recent memory, review plenty of drama and horror classics and «classics,» and send Hollywood yet another batch of comics that should be movies.

Beneath its comic level is a sound foundation based on innumerable classic Westerns, in which (a) the new man arrives in town, (2) he confronts the local villain, and (3) he faces a test of his heroism.

In comics, the Mad Titan has built up his fearsome reputation in classic tales like The Infinity Gauntlet since he was created by Jim Starlin and Mike Friedrich in 1972's Iron Man # 5In comics, the Mad Titan has built up his fearsome reputation in classic tales like The Infinity Gauntlet since he was created by Jim Starlin and Mike Friedrich in 1972's Iron Man # 5in classic tales like The Infinity Gauntlet since he was created by Jim Starlin and Mike Friedrich in 1972's Iron Man # 5in 1972's Iron Man # 55.

Igor made quite the impression during the trailer, and many fans took it to be the classic Hulkbuster suit, which Tony Stark used in the comics to take on The Hulk.

He was credited as consultant on numerous films, TV and radio shows and even comic books, seen in newsreels and portrayed as a figure of paternal authority whenever seen or referred to in classic movies.

Also, we learned that the film's villains will be classic Marvel comic book bad dudes that were first introduced in the»60s — The Skrulls!

SAVING MR. BANKS: Emma Thompson is P.L. Travers and Tom Hanks is Walt Disney in this comic drama about their tumultuous collaboration on the making of 1964's classic «Mary Poppins.»

As he told me when we sat down recently at Craig's restaurant, this time it is different as he and Hugh Jackman's Wolverine aka Logan are taking these characters in a very different kind of direction in a film that more resembles a classic Western like Shane than the Marvel comic book movies from which those characters emerged.

THN were highly impressed with the first footage of Sony's reboot of the sci - fi / action classic ROBOCOP, when it was shown over in San Diego Comic Con.

Kudos to two - time Oscar - nominee Sayles (for Lone Star and Passion Fish) who has tackled themes of interest to the African - American community previously, both in his comic cult classic Brother from Another Planet and in the relatively cerebral Sunshine State.

While genre films are often dismissed when people are talking about classic cinema, there is absolutely no denying the seismic impact his movies have had and continue to have in the world of film, TV, comics, video games and literature.

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It's got some classic comic moments, but I don't think the drag comedy is as funny to my generation, one that grew up with Tom Hanks an Peter Scolari in Bosom Buddies.

And after all the excitement this reboot of the classic comic book superhero generated, the last thing I wanted was to be disappointed in this film.

Sideshow has unveiled a batch of promotional images for Prime 1 Studio's upcoming Doomsday statue based on the monstrous villain's appearance in the classic The Death of Superman comic book story arc.

This isn't quite as classic or convincing (the special effects are limited to extreme close - ups of grasshoppers matted into live action footage or, even better, skittering up and sliding down photos of Chicago skyscrapers) but where else can you see Peter Graves machine - gunning a giant grasshopper with teeth gritted as in a comic book drawing?

The director, who came from a privileged London background and has made prestigious, classic films like «Les Misérables» and «The King's Speech,» now tackles an issue which has drawn some attention in our own time, and has done such a remarkable job, helped by Oscar - worthy performances from both principal actors, that the sometimes lightly comic but mostly easy - to - take romance should attract a wide audience.

Kick - Ass may self - consciously evoke classic comic - book archetypes, but in cranking up the sex and violence, and toning down the self - importance, Millar has avoided the vogue for «maturity» embodied by Watchmen and The Dark Knight, and recreated the spirit of pure teenage delight that comics at their best indulge.

The animated Metropolis is based on a 50 - year - old Japanese comic strip that took its title from the silent SF classic and, in fact, the designs of this futuristic, totalitarian city come from the Fritz Lang movie.

Uniting these two consummate actors seems like a no - brainer that should have happened from their earliest years, but it took Arkin just casually thinking one day, I want to work with that guy; that started the ball rolling and eventually lead to the comic classic, The In - Laws, now lovingly curated and available from The Criterion Collection.

A noble failure from a noteworthy filmmaker, Joseph Cedar's «Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer» — the unofficial winner of this year's «Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)» Award for the most fanciful title — mines a classic storytelling tradition in order to spin a darkly comic parable that often feels as unkempt and intolerable as its title character.

Matthew Goode as Ozymandias, «Watchmen»: In Alan Moore's classic, Adrian Veidt devised a horrible plan in the name of bringing peace to the world, turning him into one of the most compelling comic - book villains ever writteIn Alan Moore's classic, Adrian Veidt devised a horrible plan in the name of bringing peace to the world, turning him into one of the most compelling comic - book villains ever writtein the name of bringing peace to the world, turning him into one of the most compelling comic - book villains ever written.