Sentences with phrase «movie homage»

Best known beforehand for his «OSS 17 «series of spy parodies, his latest film, the silent movie homage «The Artist,» has become beloved by critics and audiences alike since it premiered at Cannes, and is now on course to sweep the Oscars, with nods for the film, the director, and stars Jean Dujardin and Berenice Bejo all but guaranteed.

This year's best picture Oscar, after all, went for the first time to a science - fiction film of sorts, Guillermo del Toro's adoring monster - movie homage The Shape of Water — beating, among others, Get Out, Jordan Peele's wickedly playful collision of old - school horror with brisk, bracing racial politics.

You and up to two friends take control of the Wolf force, an elite squadron of»80s movie homage super commandos, as they blow the living daylights out of everything in their path in an attempt to make the world safe once again.

As a father of two girls, Sandler (who also produced the film) seems to have made the movie homage to them.

In it, Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Michael Nesmith, and Peter Tork become trapped in a kaleidoscopic satire that's movie homage, media send - up, concert movie, and antiwar cry all at once.

This is second feature from the writer / director and writer / star pairing of Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg, the duo behind the downright addictive zombie movie homage Shaun of the Dead, and it is just as funny, just as spot - on, and almost as addicting.

It's hard to tell what King wanted between a Cold War satire, a 50's B - movie homage, or a machine gun - fueled Ac / Dc music video.

The script wants to be pop culture, the narrative needs literary musing, Carpenter's doing this Lovecraft movie homage thing.

So we did sort of dial it slightly towards more psychological drama and horror than the monster movie homage that was in the original movie.

Not exact matches

NEW YORK (AP)-- George Romero, whose classic «Night of the Living Dead» and other horror films turned zombie movies into social commentaries and who saw his flesh - devouring undead spawn countless imitators, remakes and homages, has died.

Now if you read the title of this post and didn't right away giggle I'm sorry to say but you must be living under a rock:p I had to pay homage to one of my favorite movies of all time in which the color «Pink «was the center of attention: Mean Girls!

This women's Christmas Vacation Fun Old - Fashioned Family sweater pays homage to National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation which has become, in recent years, the quintessential holiday movie to watch, snuggled up sitting by a fire with eggnog during the Christmas holiday.

Director Barry Strugatz helms a sci - fi spoof that gleefully pays homage to the B - movie hits of yesteryear while offering an absorbing tale of one woman's quest to stave off an impending alien invasion.

The bombast of the G.I. Joe and Transformers franchises might suggest no, but after an uninspired year for animated movies, The Lego Movie is a 3 - D animated film that connects, as an homage to the ingenious Danish - born construction game, along with a subversively flippant story about thinking outside the blocks.

G might look a little weird by modern standards, but it's a homage to movies that came before it and a darn successful one too.

It is the very definition of an average game, and does nothing to pay homage to the original movie, merely taking up six times the shelf space it should and damning any of the current platforms to yet another throwaway licensed game that simply wasn't needed.

There's something about Tarantino's unshakeable belief that everything he does is cool, his overbearing self - indulgence, and his inability to see where the line between homage and rip - off lies that makes me want to dislike everything he does, but so far only the lamentable Deathproof and the interminable first Kill Bill movie have fallen below a surprisingly consistent standard.

A brilliant homage to classic 30's, 40's and 50's movies starring Cary Grant, James

And I also wondered, with all due homage to the series, if he'll be able, in ten years, to sit still for a movie without special effects and magic, a movie in which a man and a woman face each other across a table and merely talk.

The Coen brothers» new movie, set in Hollywood in 1951, brings easy laughs but dissipates from memory moments later, like the cheesy films to which it pays homage — or, perhaps, mocks.

For superhero buffs, the movie plays homage to all kinds of previous action figures including Captain Marvel, Flash, X-Men and Ghost Rider.

A brilliant homage to classic 30's, 40's and 50's movies starring Cary Grant, James Stewart and the like.

Based on the 1957 Glenn Ford / Van Heflin picture, Mangold embraces his subject matter with unabashed enthusiasm — along the way paying stylistic homage to oater icons John Ford and Sergio Leone — to deliver a movie that is as complex and character driven as it is packed with lead - spewing action.

I can accept it as an mediocre, entertaining homage to the oldschool «Scary Movies» and tv - shows of the 80 - 90's.

There are echoes of «Solaris» (both the Tarkovsky and Soderbergh versions), «Stalker,» «The Man Who Fell to Earth» and John Carpenter's «The Thing» in this movie, but it never feels like an assemblage of homage or too familiar, instead producing something wholly unique.

Inspired by the making of the movie «The Room» — a labor of cinematic ineptitude that has been called «the «Citizen Kane» of bad movies» — this sweet, affectionate (and unapologetically slight) comedy is an all - too - rare homage to harmless, hilarious incompetence, at a time when there is plenty of the more hurtful kind to go around.

No small screen, in particular, could do justice to the movie's hypnotic final half - hour, a cosmic brainstorm of indelible images — gnarled branches, spiraling staircases, an ecstatic vision of the void — that earns its near - wordless homage to «2001: A Space Odyssey.»

The script is not perfect, and there were a few minor scenes that did not ring true - but the overall package is amazing - the perfect cast from top to bottom, most of the script, the acting, cinematography, directing, score, everything about this movies pays homage to a by - gone era of American Films and does it with taste and class.

A kinetic homage to revenge movies of the 1970s, Kill Bill, Vol.

Mr. Nixey is doing an Alfred Hitchcock homage within a movie lacking anything as subversive, or skilled, as Hitchcock.

The film, as most Tarantino films do, pays homage to several particular genres of movies.

What makes After Midnight more than just another ménage à trois (in homage to Truffaut) is the way Ferrario, who also writes about movies, weaves the allure of early film into a contemporary story, shot with the latest high - definition technology.

There are nods to previous Mission: Impossible movies, including the famed wire - drop from the first film when Hunt and company decide to... get this... infiltrate the Vatican (a scene that is accompanied by a charmingly amusing performance of Cruise going all Italian), and even a small homage to «Top Gun».

A meandering, overindulgent tale of revenge that plays like an homage to a genre that never existed, Django Unchained ironically feels more bound - up than any Tarantino movie before it.

The movie also both plays homage to, and parodies, many martial arts and action movie story tropes.

It goes to some lengths to pay homage to John Wayne (three times) while the anti-war left of the»60s is brutally caricatured as a bunch of effete snobs, and the women in this movie are just in the way.

A Million Ways to Die in the West is no Blazing Saddles but it is a decent homage to many classic Western themed movies.

Feige also said that the movie will pay homage to the action films of the era, which sounds pretty interesting.

The only thing I can make out from the resemblance and comparison of the two images is that new Red Dead Redemption (aka Red Dead Redemption 2) will pay a homage to the movie The Magnificent Seven and the Anime series Seven Samurai.

Keen observers will have noticed a few homages to the Bourne movies in recent TV spots — courtesy of executive producer Doug Liman, no doubt.

Korean director Park Chan - wook's English - language debut plays like one giant homage to Alfred Hitchcock (particularly his 1943 film «Shadow of a Doubt»), but with a decidedly unique and erotic twist that's every bit as perverse as his previous work — the kind of movie that gets under your skin and stays there for days.

Any time the movie tries to pay homage to the 1984 version, it loses whatever momentum it's built up to that point.

They are the cinematic representation of what you would get if you stretched out my Independence Day homage to 90 minutes; it is a home movie of a child playing with his or her action figures and play set.

s if you needed a reason to check out «Grindhouse» — the double feature homage to B - movie cinema from Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez — here's one anyway: believe the hype.

This movie might have been a fun, stylish homage to everyone's favourite hardboiled L.A. action - thrillers, but for Gudegast's clumsy, overcompensating fetishisation of masculinity.

The Shape of Water feels very much in tune with them and on this occasion he taps into the Cold War paranoia of America while also recognising the psyche that plagued the country during the secrecy of the Roswell incident and pays homage to the old Hollywood monster movies of yesteryear.

Everett has said his comically snobbish crook is a kind of homage to the late, beloved British comedian Terry - Thomas, whose plummy accents he recalls; he and Dunaway play the pretentious types that movie comedy has loved to deflate all the way back to Mack Sennett.

Essentially a subversive homage to the B - movie creature features of the era, the film doesn't even try to pretend that the monster — which has been dragged up from a river in South America — is going to be the bad guy.

Still, as a sharp but silly homage to McDonagh's idea of American movies, Seven Psychopaths hits many good notes.

This featurette shows all of the homages to the ride thrown into the movie, and there were a considerable amount more than I had realized.