Sentences with phrase «of actions films from»

Hot Fuzz surpasses the group's first collaboration, as a brilliant cop comedy that has great fun with cinema's conventions and clichés, specifically those of action films from the past 25 years.

Not exact matches

The studio has two more big Marvel releases (Guardians of the Galaxy 2 and Thor: Ragnarok) as well as a live - action version of Beauty and the Beast, two new movies from Pixar Animation Studios (including Cars 3), and a fifth installment in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise (two of the first PotC films grossed more than $ 1 billion apiece).

Netflix premiered a movie trailer for The Cloverfield Paradox, the third film in a loosely - connected sci - fi trilogy from producer J.J. Abrams, during one of the very expensive commercial breaks between the action of last night's game on NBC.

One of the biggest surprises in «Avengers: Age of Ultron» occurs about halfway through the film when our heroes break away from the action for a more light - hearted family - centric scene on a farm.

This film reminds us that we are called upon to love those who are hurting even when they threaten to hurt themselves or others, and we are asked to offer support to the beleaguered parents who often become isolated from others through the actions of their children.

Perhaps the most shocking statistic of the study was in the analysis of the speaking parts that appeared in 2014 studio films and live - action scripted TV shows from the 2014 — 15 season.

Speaking about the film recently in Los Angeles, Cera — who in this film, takes some refreshingly bold steps away from his usual one - note nerd persona — and co - writer / director Edgar Wright (who also did the zany cult classics Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz) discussed the meaning of the film, the stretching Cera had to go through for the role, and the way in which the film's hyperkinetic action sequences are really just the same as the dance scenes in Grease or a Gene Kelly movie.

Moviegoers are finally about to get a break from all of the big - budget summer blockbusters and superhero action movies, as studios move away from large - scale spectacles in favor of award - season prestige films.

Unless you create or film videos for a living, most of the footage of on - track action that F1 fans put online will be a bit shaky, wobbly, poor quality, filmed from a phone or chucked into Movie Maker.

While nothing could be certain from the footage, what was certain was that Cantona's actions were something out of a martial arts film.

From watching the film, it's clear that Bucs right tackle Gosder Cherilus, himself a backup pressed into action because of an injury, had no idea what was about to hit him.

The action was filmed with 18 3D motion capture cameras and 11 high - definition game day cameras to capture impacts from dozens of angles around the field with the goal to better understand the forces and motions that occur when a player receives an impact.

Cuomo has been adept at raising millions of dollars from interests whose businesses are impacted by Albany actions — labor unions, real estate developers, business executives, the health care industry, charter school backers, government contractors, and the film and TV companies that get tax breaks for filming in New York.

Violent content was compared with that from the two top - grossing films for adults released in the same year as each of the cartoons, excluding those tagged as «action» or «adventure,» because these are often marketed to children.

Taking inspiration from the defense mechanism of the bombardier beetle, researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a film that, when damaged, instantly releases a hot foam to discourage malicious actions.

If you're interested in the most talked about talent from the worlds of fashion, film and music we predict you'll be following all the ELLE Style Awards action as it happens via elleuk.com/elle-style-awards.

While a considerable number of women favor tear - jerkers or love stories, men find their enjoyment from action films or adult entertainment like Adult Avenue DVD's.

Mala, born Ray Wise to an Anglo trader and an Eskimo mother in Alaska, played leads in a number of Hollywood action films from the early»30s through the early»50s.

The filmmaker's attentive camera and inclination to inactivity without any sort of audience catharsis is a shrewd directorial decision; the film's action comes from extended dialogues that let the performances percolate until they're on the verge of exploding.

The chief problem with any post-apocalyptic film is that last act - mostly because all the interesting parts tend to stem from the events leading up to the destruction of civilization, humanity's efforts to cope with the few vestiges of once plentiful technology, and the small dramas and action sequences which reduce a group of irritable survivors to a select and more compelling few.

There's a curious insistence in Hollywood action - adventure films these days (doubtless aided by the comic books that provide such an increasing amount of their adaptive material) on the centrality of origins, from the X-Men to Batman to Bond and beyond — often, if not always, revolving around daddy issues.

The film lacks any kind of real «action», which makes it a departure from Mann's other work like Heat or Last of the Mohicans, but it still feels like an action movie because of the aggressive way in which Mann directs it.

The sparse arrangement of the film's action allows us space to ponder the all important conundrum of perspective and in doing so to realise that the whole affair is a series of Dante - style abysses glaring back at us from the theatre screen.

She hasn't reinvented the action film, not by a long shot: clichés of the genre abound, from the soulful, tortured bad guy to the digital display on the nuclear device counting down the seconds to annihilation.

Looking to make him stop his talk of a tiny world, they try to get that speck away from him, setting up the action of the rest of the film.

I didn't expect much from it because this kind of film doesn't really lend itself to spectacular audio mixes; those seem more the domain of action flicks.

What we get is a collection of moderately violent action set - pieces untroubled by humour or broader coherence... Forster, who directed the Bond film Quantum of Solace, has done his best to piece together a story from these incompatible parts, but the final product has an elaborate uselessness about it, like a broken teapot glued back together with the missing pieces replaced by parts of a vacuum cleaner.

Knaggs» character, a mute seaman, narrates the film's key sections with an internal voice - over monologue that is more hissed than spoken, leading the audience down all manner of strange psychological paths around the script's action; Knaggs» seaman ultimately rescues the hero from near - certain death.

Borrowing liberally from the French film La Totale, this is an action picture, domestic comedy, and political thriller rolled into a crowd - pleasing ball of entertainment.

What I like most is that the audience possess the exact same amount of information as the central character does from beginning to end, which gives the film an uneasy spontaneous energy that keeps you transfixed on the action.

LEGO The Incredibles, a new video game where players take control of their favourite Incredibles characters in unforgettable scenes and action sequences from both Disney Pixar films, The Incredibles and the upcoming The Incredibles 2.

Despite the fact that «Ant - Man» is rooted in San Francisco, «Spider - Man: Homecoming» is an ode to the bridge - and - tunnel crowd, and «The Avengers» climaxes with a «Battle of New York» that looks curiously like Cleveland, all of these films still feel like glimpses into a parallel universe made out of plastic — a bizarro alternate timeline (complete with its own 9/11) where everyone has been reverse - engineered from their own action figures.

Apart from its racialist theme, the film is nothing more than a conventional Hollywood «blockbuster,» chock full of action sequences, explosions and the rest.

Director Brad Peyton competently stages most of the action, from George breaking out of his sanctuary, to a canister retrieval in Wyoming, led by scarred mercenary Burke (a briefly used Joe Manganiello), that turns awry, to the film culminating in mass destruction of Chicago as the three animals, well, rampage to get to the sonar signal at the top of the Wydens» skyscraper headquarters and Davis safely crashes a helicopter.

Danny Madigan (Austin O'Brien) is a lonely 11 - year - old boy who escapes from his bleak reality by glorying in the action adventure movies of his favorite film character, Jack Slater (Arnold Schwarzenegger).

At its heart, Black Panther has a fairly standard comic book sort of story: baddie Ulysses Klaue (a rare live - action Andy Serkis: Star Wars: The Last Jedi, War for the Planet of the Apes), one of the few outsiders who knows the secrets of Wakanda, and who had stolen a small quantity of vibranium decades ago, is up to no good again, with a scary dude nicknamed Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan: Fantastic Four, and both of Coogler's previous films) at his side; they must be stopped by T'Challa, Nakia, and the absolute force of nature General Okoye (Danai Gurira), with an assist from CIA agent Everett K. Ross (Martin Freeman: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, Sherlock).

The features start out with a wonderful feature commentary from Coogler and production designer Hannah Beachler which goes into not only the look and action of the film, but also a lot of the themes and motivations of the characters.

The latest film from director Wes Anderson — and his first live - action film since 2007's The Darjeeling Limited 67 — tells the story of young Sam and Suzy (newcomers Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward), who run away together, sending a small New England island community into a panic.

Unlike series co-star Biel, Mitchell remained with the program throughout its run, and through many character changes that found Lucy marrying Kevin Kinkirk, working as an associate pastor, giving birth, and surviving both a miscarriage to twins and clinical depression.Although Mitchell branched out from television into cinematic work as early as 1996, with a turn in the fantasy - action thriller The Crow: City of Angels, and continued intermittent film appearances (such as a supporting role in 2005's slasher movie Saw II), she made no secret of her real passion: performing country music as a guitarist and vocalist.

His film moves along quickly and muscularly, from one serious action scene to the next, to the extent that it almost stops mattering what the particulars of this conflict are, just that various twists and obstacles are set up engagingly.

While Harlin's big action sets in other films like Die Hard 2 suffered from an unfortunately dated sampling of CGI, everything you see in CutThroat Island has been constructed — and destroyed in grand fashion.

Though Con Air was a disappointment from a critical perspective, it was the top box - office action film of the year and audiences thrilled to the kinetic action sequences that also cemented Nicolas Cage's abilities as a viable action star (following on the heels of Bay's previous mega-hit The Rock [1996]-RRB-.

Credits began following the trademarked opening of a close - up view of a match - head igniting, and the lighting of a sparking fuse, accompanied by a blindingly - fast montage of action scenes from the film - and of course, Lalo Schifrin's memorable theme music.

I find this poorly made and putted on the back of the line from many other action films I had fun watching.

With the introductions and bag - packing out of the way from the first film, the new movie jumps straight into the action and doesn't relent until the cliffhanger ending almost three hours later.

Unfortunately Antal's film working from a script by Michael Finch and Alex Litvak apes this buildup to a tee, but forgets two key elements: a great action set piece and a cast of memorable characters.

The film set itself apart from others as it used a combination of live action filming and animation.

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Superman (Christopher Reeve) tries to save the world from nuclear destruction at the hands of Lex Luthor (Gene Hackman) in this action film featuring the man of steel.

What's absent from this scene in the film is McCandless» sporadic reasoning for doing this — that despite the potency as adventure, it is another in a chain of actions intent to further mute the memory of his family.