Sentences with phrase «into modern day settings»

Usually when we refer to neo-Westerns, we mean movies that transplant the themes and iconography of the Western genre into modern day settings.

Offering a refreshing take on an old narrative, this script cleverly incorporates elements of the fairytale into a modern day setting.

Not exact matches

«Write what you know» is the old saying, so playing things close to the bone can be thrilling, especially if one takes the personalities of key players from the Third Reich and mixes them with modern - day politicians who set about turning a civil war - torn, modern, democratic British political party into a terrifying dictatorship.

The set - up sounded like a modern - day «And Then There Were None», and yet such dips into the genre are fleeting.

A bag of stolen cash is the common factor linking four tales of woe in the ironically titled Have a Nice Day, an animated gangster drama set in modern day China that manages to pack an absorbingly convoluted plot into its brief 75 - minute running tiDay, an animated gangster drama set in modern day China that manages to pack an absorbingly convoluted plot into its brief 75 - minute running tiday China that manages to pack an absorbingly convoluted plot into its brief 75 - minute running time.

Set in modern day New York City, the first season interweaves «The Three Little Pigs,» «Little Red Riding Hood» and «Jack and the Beanstalk» into an epic and subversive tale of love, loss, greed, revenge and murder.

As she charts the dilemmas and gestures of an European trader Almayer (Stanislas Mehar) and his «mixed - blood» daughter, Nina (Aurora Marion), Akerman's decision to take Conrad's 19th - century, Malaysia - set story to modern - day Cambodia without acknowledging the changes comes to strike less as an eccentric gesture than as a purposeful extension of the narrative's inquiries into cultural identity and colonial uprooting.

And that's where the RoboCop remake at least partially succeeds at what it sets out to do; update this technology - driven high concept to the modern day, or rather almost a decade and a half into the future, when the idea of robotic limbs and Artificial Intelligence is no longer just science fiction.

Set in the modern day, it follows a 17 - year - old Norman (Freddie Highmore) through events that, we assume, will eventually turn him into a killer who obeys the phantom voice of his dead mother.

After a brief prologue set in modern - day Paris (presumably shortly after the title character's encounter with Batman last summer), the movie plunges into flashback, when the young Amazon princess Diana is living on an idyllic island called Themyscira with her mother, Queen Hippolyta (Connie Nielsen) and secretly training with the fierce Amazon general Antiope (Robin Wright).

Green weaves a paranormal world of do - gooder White Witches and evil Black Witches into her setting of a modern - day United Kingdom.

Eventually a little game by the name of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare came along and changed everything, popularising the cinematic, set - piece driven singleplayer FPS experience that is so common these days and introducing the concepts of XP and loadouts into the multiplayer side of things, turning them into something commonplace.

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Set in a fictional modern - day Eastern European city, Bravo Team puts you into an intense firefight that will test both your shooting and tactical combat skills.

The CG Kingsglaive movie is set to focus on the modern - day Regis, so getting a chance to peek into the character's past is something that fans haven't seen just yet.

Transhuman Design and Crunching Koalas set out the task of implementing the 90's shooter genre into a game which could be played on modern day systems without changing the feel or look yet adding a few twists you will find in todays games, it may not look like much but it's quickly turned into one of my favourite ID@Xbox releases I advise everyone to take a look!

These amazing new photos are creating a glimpse into London's past by combining 18th and 19th century paintings with modern - day settings in Google Street View.