Sentences with phrase «modern film version»

Director Michael Mann does a retread and modern film version of his highly successful 1980's television series and despite his calibre, this turns out to be just like all the other poor makeovers of hit TV shows.

Not exact matches

Taking a cue from the flapper dresses of the 1950's film setting, the lingerie model donned a modern - day version of the popular era - defining fringe dresses.

Trying to make a modern - day version of the No. 1 college film of all time and the ultimate party movie is a bold, worthwhile feat to tackle.

This film is the modern - day version of «A Clockwork Orange», as their are multiple «gross - out» moments that are meant to make you cringe.

It is hard sometimes to shake the feeling that this live - action Disney adaptation is relying too much on the 1991 animation, to the point that it almost feels like an extended version of that film; but even so, it offers a fresh and modern look at the classic story that makes it worth it.

In 2001, Hartnett hit a stride by starring in three features: he portrayed the antagonist in the film O, a modern day version of Othello.

Reuniting the stars of his celebrated film Cinderella, Kenneth Branagh and Rob Ashford direct Richard Madden («Game of Thrones,» Cinderella) as Romeo and Lily James («Downton Abbey,» Cinderella) as Juliet, alongside Derek Jacobi as Mercutio, and Meera Syal as The Nurse, in a modern, passionate version of the classic tragedy.

Reuniting the stars of his celebrated film Cinderella, Kenneth Branagh and Rob Ashford direct Richard Madden and Lily James as Romeo and Juliet, Derek Jacobi as Mercutio, and Meera Syal as The Nurse, in a modern passionate version of the classic tragedy.

There are filmmakers who are masterful DJs, remixing the cinema that influenced them, creating modern versions that, at their best, are far superior than the films that inspired them.

It's easy to reference the classics, but «The Conjuring 2» is an evolved, modern version of this story, and establishes its own classic status as film in conversation with both the past and future of horror.

We've seen modernized versions of Shakespeare in the past, with films like Baz Luhrmann «s Romeo + Juliet, O (for Othello), Hamlet, 10 Things I Hate About You, which was a modern incarnation of The Taming of the Shrew, and She's The Man, meant to resemble Twelfth Night.

This more modern version is generally considered to add nothing much to the original film, save for the very steamy sex scenes and more graphic violence.

But when he infects himself with a new virus that appears designed to kill its celebrity, the film becomes a modern version of the film noir classic DOA, will our hero figure out who poisoned him in - time?

A curious product of the modern media age, the shortcomings of The Return of the King lead one inevitably to wonder if the impending extended version of the film on DVD won't, like it did for The Two Towers: EE, fashion a melancholy completeness from this mélange of sometimes intoxicating, occasionally exhilarating parts.

Sky Captain is a scrapbook of references to old styles and newer films, everything from the pulp art of Rafael DeSoto and Frank Paul to the modern versions of them in the art of Jon Muth and George Pratt; from old Buck Rogers serials to The Land that Time Forgot and Journey to the Center of the Earth to the clinical lunar phantasms of Raiders of the Lost Ark..

A 2003 version (Ned Kelly) starring Heath Ledger, Orlando Bloom and Naomi Watts holds the most prominent spot in modern cinematic consciousness, while those recalling Jagger's early film career tend to reference his notable role in Nicole Roeg and Donald Cammell's Performance, premiering only months before Ned Kelly (which Jagger has publicly professed as never having seen).

The film stars Aaron Eckhart as a modern - day version of the creature who is being hunted by demons...

The Suspiria reboot does have a very impressive cast, so my fingers are crossed that it turns out to be a respectful modern day version of the film.

The film takes place in an alternate version of modern - day Los Angeles.

Rating: Hoopla Factor: Mired in the mess of editing cliches that betray this most modern version of the venerable franchise as «a Guy Ritchie film», Sherlock Holmes features a confused and incomplete storyline and seems more like a preface to its inevitable sequels than a fully realised feature film in its own right.

Lowery's version is gentle and kind and everything so many modern family films neglect to be, ending up a must - see for anyone who's ever had a pet; or more broadly, anyone who's ever been a child.

Adam Sandler has said that the goal of «Pixels» was to be a modern - day version of an early - period Amblin Entertainment film (think «The Goonies,» «Gremlins» and «Who Framed Roger Rabbit»), something entertaining but also absolutely bonkers, and plays by its own rules.

We are a keen to develop a film version next as there's so much in the writing and concept that can work for a modern audience.

Early on, the film seems to be shaping up as a modern - day, suburban version of Wuthering Heights.

WHY: Most directors would take a much deserved vacation after wrapping on a movie as massive as «The Avengers,» but not Joss Whedon, who used his short break between filming and post-production on the Marvel blockbuster to shoot this modern day version of «Much Ado About Nothing» with some friends at his house.

Lean on Pete's 21st - century update of the Oregon Trail is far from the first film to examine social discord and disarray through the prism of a single interstate journey: Haigh himself describes it in a recent Sight & Sound interview as «a modern version of the American myth», citing a break from tradition in that Charley goes «the opposite way, not looking for freedom, but for security and stability.»

A sing - along feature is a nifty idea but better known as a «pain - along» in this instance, while a sneak peek at the fresh hell of a stage version of this abortion evokes the modern spectacle musical born of Andrew Lloyd Weber's awful stuff as the soul mate of the Hollywood spectacle film.

The provincial city in Weekend is never named, but the film was shot in Nottingham, in many of the same locations as Karel Reisz's landmark of kitchen - sink realism Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960), which also spans a weekend and whose characters are likewise bristling against the social climate of their time; Glen is in some ways a modern, gay version of Albert Finney's original angry young man.

When: June 7th Why: Most directors would take a much deserved vacation after wrapping on a movie as massive as «The Avengers,» but not Joss Whedon, who used his short break between filming and post-production on the Marvel blockbuster to shoot a modern day version of «Much Ado About Nothing» with some friends at his house.

We were surprised once with Meowmorphosis, the Quirk mash - up of Kafka's masterpiece — and we are surprised again with the film adaptation of Metamorphosis, a «modern horror version» starring Nick Searcy and Matt Angel.

A version of his cinematic portrait of Zidane — a black and white film in which the camera follows just the footballer in the space of a 90 - minute game and which was shown to great acclaim at the Cannes Film Festival — has also been bought by Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.

The animated film version of the Dr. Seuss classic The Lorax is full of whimisical design, bright colors, age - appropriate jokes, and the voices of tween favorites Taylor Swift and Zac Efron — meaning your modern - day fledgling environmentalist will love it.