Sentences with phrase «invasion films»

I'm not as big on alien invasion films as I am on time travel films, but that's okay, because this is far from your typical alien invasion film, focusing on a quartet of characters left behind the evacuation when an alien ship appears.

Fans of home invasion films like The Strangers will find plenty to enjoy here, with Flanagan's efficient direction and editing keeping the tension up thanks to the incredibly tight screenplay (written by both Flanagan and Siegel).

In other words, it more or less laid - out the formula for many home invasion films to come.

The World's End is a hilarious send - up of alien invasion films.

Kupfer wanted to put a new spin on home - invasion films.

Home invasion films are by no means new.

The Darkest Hour cribs its dopey premise, concerning invading alien balls of light with the nasty habit of reducing humans to ash heaps and bent, naturally enough, on world domination, from other, better alien - invasion films (read: any version of War of the Worlds).

Battle: Los Angeles, while more grounded in modern reality than Sucker Punch, is a sci - fi actioner and another installment into the recently busy genre of alien invasion films.

Battle: Los Angeles» early 2011 release date positions it before competing alien invasion films such as the comedy Paul (if that even counts), Jon Favreau's Cowboys & Aliens, Michael Bay's Transformers 3 and the August release of The Darkest Hour.

Another installment to the recent onslaught of alien invasion films, Battle: Los Angeles is based on famous historical UFO sightings and events such as the 1942 LA incident where an unidentified aircraft entered military airspace and was subject to artillery fire.

«The Strangers: Prey at Night» not only follows in the original film's footsteps, but those tread by France's «Them» and a variety of other home - invasion films.

It is a fascinating contrast to the politics of alien invasion films such as Independence Day and War of the Worlds (original and remake).

Finishing off the day and taking a few years off my life was the slasher / home invasion film «You're Next».

A two decade gap has allowed Independence Day: Resurgence time to develop a self - awareness akin to the other alien invasion film turning twenty this year: Mars Attacks (the sequel we need).

Looking back, it's sort of odd that Bryan Bertino's home invasion film, The Strangers, never got a sequel back when it was released in 2008.

We're less than two weeks away from The Strangers: Prey at Night, a follow - up to Bryan Bertino's home invasion film that...

Critics Consensus: Repo Man is many things: an alien - invasion film, a punk - rock musical, a send - up of consumerism.

Pearce also did some writing on Pacific Rim, the big alien invasion film that Guillermo del Toro is about to begin shooting in Toronto for Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros..

Critic Consensus: Repo Man is many things: an alien - invasion film, a punk - rock musical, a send - up of consumerism.

Foremost among the comparisons, however, was Michael Haneke's Funny Games (1997), except that van Warmerdam's home invasion film was called «actually funny» by one critic at The Daily Telegraph.

Columbia Pictures has released the first teaser trailer for director Jonathan Liebesman's alien invasion film Battle: Los Angeles and it's fraking awesome.

This is a home invasion film with an almost unbearable slow burn.

And John Krasinski «s alien invasion film prevailed, according to Box Office Mojo.

The belated sequel to director Roland Emmerich «s 1996 alien invasion film was opening in theaters showcasing all of the telltale signs of stinker.

Finding Nemo sequel remains on top in second week as invasion film sans Will Smith underwhelms with $ 41.6 m opening weekend

It is for this reason that no sub-genre of horror is more genuinely terrifying than the home invasion film, which preys upon the very real fear of the safest place in your world being flip - turned into a living nightmare.

Countless films released in the last several decades fall under the home invasion umbrella, from 1967's Wait Until Dark to 2011's You're Next, but it wasn't until Bryan Bertino made his own contribution to the sub-genre that the home invasion film truly reached its pinnacle of terror.

Don't Breathe: DO N'T BREATHE is a home invasion film, with a twist.

The actor previously worked with the filmmaker on 2002 alien invasion film Signs and 2004 mystery The Village, and now the duo is adding a third film with an as - yet - untitled movie.

It's hard to know where to start or how to even describe Annihilation — part alien invasion film, part surreal mind - bender, part heartfelt melodrama... I was on the set a little over a year ago, spoke with the producers, director, production & art designers, saw the mood boards tracking the story of the film, and watched a particularly tense sequence filmed — and yet even after all of that, I'm still not sure what to expect.

As our series heads towards its conclusion, Catherine Shoard makes the case for Denis Villeneuve's staggering alien invasion film

I'm a big fan of Nacho Vigalondo's time travel film Timecrimes, so when I saw his new alien invasion film was coming to AFI Fest, it was an immediate must on my schedule.

Chloe Grace Moretz's alien invasion film «The 5th Wave» and STX Entertainment's «The Boy» are also opening this Friday

Chazelle and Lonergan also share space in the Best Director category, where they're joined by Denis Villeneuve for his subdued alien invasion film, Arrival.

The game was released in 1986, soon after the quintessential Soviet invasion film, Red Dawn.

Not exact matches

Stanley Kubrick's classic movie about an ultraviolent teen went so far in showing horrific antics, including house invasion and rape, that numerous countries banned the film for decades.

In L.A., he worked on a successful lobbying campaign that helped earn the Canadian film Les Invasions Barbares an Oscar for best foreign - language film.

Conspiracy charge against Lisi is related to a home invasion at the Etobicoke bungalow of Ford's former classmate, Fabio Basso, where the alleged crack video in question may have been filmed

Psychological preparations for that first step have already been implemented with the film, «2001: A Space Oddessy;» the StarTrek series, and «Star Wars;» all of which deal with invasions from space and the coming together of all nations to repel the invaders.

Later i saw his film about the invasion of Iraq and was quite moved, as was the rest of the audience (one of the few films that got applause in the theatre).

Coinciding with the film of the same title is the screen writer Anthony McCarten's Darkest Hour How Churchill Brought Us Back from the Brink (Penguin) in which he proposes that Churchill did not rule out some form of Peace agreement with Hitler; but only after the defeat of an invasion.

Thirty - three per cent of respondents thought the police filming protesters is an invasion of privacy while 18 per cent were put off protesting in the future due to heavy handed policing.

In the mid-1980s, Paul Moorcraft, then a war correspondent, journeyed with a film crew into Afghanistan to produce a documentary about the fifth anniversary of the Soviet invasion.

She was the object of Adam Sandler's misguided affection in the comedy Just Go With It and she's currently filming What to Expect When You're Expecting alongside heavy - hitters like Cameron Diaz and Jennifer Lopez, while her action / alien invasion flick Battleship is set to hit theaters next year.

Codebreakers» work played a key role in the Allied invasion on D - Day Cast / credits plus additional information about the film

Superficially speaking, Jonathan Glazer's first film in almost a decade is an extraterrestrial invasion story, featuring an undercover succubus from beyond the stars.

The threatening invasion of the mighty Spanish Armada is the dramatic centerpiece of the film, which provides plenty of outlets for Kapur's blood - and - thunder penchant, as does all the conniving intrigue going on in Elizabeth's court, replete with gory moments of torture presided over by Geoffrey Rush, happily reprising his role of Sir Francis Walsingham, ruthless advisor to the Queen.

The worst will happen, says Michael Haneke, in film after film: catastrophes personal and global, violent home invasions (twice, if you count his American remake of Funny Games), evil spying and life - ruining guilt.

The sixth film in Frank Capra's «Why We Fight» series focuses on Japan's invasion of China.

Re-creating Omaha Beach (17:59) examines the film's opening segment in detail, in which the filmmakers went out to recreate with gritty realism the invasion of Normandy via the massive assault landing at Omaha Beach.