Sentences with phrase «movies of past eras»

Not exact matches

As we humans move along in the concept of time, eras and lives — we tend to romanticize past decades by literature, movies and modern interpretations of past clothes and trends.

In Lee's Bamboozled, he's invoked (alongside many other silent and early - sound - era performers) as a grotesque specter of racist Hollywood representation — the ghost of minstrelsy past — but writers like Mel Watkins and Champ Clark have complicated the issue by suggesting that there was an element of subversion in Perry's subservience — that the shiftless, feckless caricature he inhabited in so many movies was not a capitulation to the viewership (or the filmmakers) but a bold form of ethnic masquerade.

Save for his two Hellboy movies (among the most irreverent and entertaining comic book films of the modern era), his more straightforward genre fare — Mimic, Pacific Rim, the ripe gothic melodrama of Crimson Peak — are pretty anaemic once you get past the beautiful production design.

Hoot isn't really trying to recapture a sense of nostalgia for these sorts of vacuous, sometimes - preachy little films, but it does appear to be made by people that haven't really matured past that era in terms of what they think of when they conceive of movies aimed at young adults.

None of the movie should feel like a revelation to anyone with knowledge of America's tainted past; however, the no frills honesty with which McQueen approaches his subject seems the only proper approach to this sad era of history.

Farewell My Concubine may have been better received, but the Chinese director's follow - up is the more ravishing movie; set largely in 1920s Shanghai, it doesn't evoke a past era so much as a universe of indulgences, temptations, and sumptuous textures lost to time.

Fifty Shades movies have been a staple for the past few years, but we're approaching the end of an era.

The movie included several hits from the 80s, as director James Gunn had earlier pointed out in an interview that he needed the old, forgotten classics of the past in the film, as Chris Pratt's character, Peter Quill, belonged to the same era.