Sentences with phrase «of classic comics»

It gives the artists in «Swell,» spanning three galleries, more coherence, but also at times the quaint air of classic comics.

Graphic novels are an evolution of classic comics which are an evolution of newspaper comics.

Their catalog includes some of the world's most popular entertainment brands such as Star Wars, Star Trek, and My Little Pony; award - winning editions of classic comics including the Artist's Edition line; and # 1 New York Times bestsellers like Love Is Love and March, the first graphic novel ever to win the National Book Award.

WHAT: Hundreds of eager fans are expected to line up at Midtown Comics in Times Square in anticipation of DC Comics» historic launch of The New 52 — a series of 52 new editions of classic comics, each updated, modernized and launching as new No. 1s.

«X-Men: Dark Phoenix» Production is already under way on this adaptation of the classic comics story, and first - time director Simon Kinberg absolutely loves Comic - Con's party circuit.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening December 23, 2011 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Adventures of Tintin (PG for violence, drunkenness and smoking) Steven Spielberg directs this animated adaptation of the classic comic book series about an intrepid young journalist who is abducted from Europe to Morocco where he escapes his kidnappers to embark on a perilous quest for hidden treasure.

The latest to take on the super hero mantle is a re-boot of the classic comic book.

And after all the excitement this reboot of the classic comic book superhero generated, the last thing I wanted was to be disappointed in this film.

Killmonger is one of those classic comic book archetypes, an evil mirror version of Boseman's T'Challa, gifted with the same mystical power that gives him his strength.

This ups the ante on all of Deadpool's action and fight sequences (Leitch also did Atomic Blonde), to the point where the film's entire second act is basically one long action set piece that involves sky diving, stunt driving, fights on and around high - speed trucks, and the introduction of a classic comic villain.

Adventures of Superman is more of a classic comic story, a well crafted, well drawn story of Superman fighting a villain with telekinetic powers.

Are you already a fan of the classic comic series Battle Chasers?

Not exact matches

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In a matter of minutes, each participant received an 11x14 color poster starring them in one of the IPC's classic comic book ad campaign covers — a souvenir sure to bring a smile and constant reminder to stock Idaho ® potatoes.

A classic example is an inspirational comic book, written about the life of Tom Landry, the Dallas Cowboy coach who is also chairman of the national board of trustees of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, the best - known and most influential of the Sportian organizations.

In January, Gove fell out with history professors, teachers and some of Britain's leading comic actors after claiming that the classic sitcom Blackadder was responsible for spreading left - wing myths about the First World War.

To test his hypothesis that the brain uses a visual grammar to make sense of comics, he designed a series of experiments that updated some classic language studies.

The plot of the film is not very different from the Universal classics: mad scientist, longed to resurrect the dead, comic character much alike Abbott and Costello, beauty who of course is taken by the «monster» (which is the Wolf Man), the climax with a burning building, while the battle of protagonists with a monster is going on and, of course, a happy ending.

Dick Tracy, Detective (originally just Dick Tracy) was the first of four RKO Radio B - pictures based on Chester Gould's classic comic strip.

Applying the episodic format and visual template of classic and spaghetti Westerns to a revenge saga mostly set in the Deep South just prior to the Civil War, the film makes a point of pushing the savagery of slavery to the forefront but does so in a way that rather amazingly dovetails with the heightened historical, stylistic and comic sensibilities at play.

It may not rise to the level of such a classic, but tonally it's reminiscent of Young Frankenstein, a work that at once parodied the Shelley story in broad comic terms while also being supremely in awe of the James Whale film, right down to using original set pieces and compositions to mirror without any form of irony the source material.

The film skews young, to be sure, and it isn't as memorable as the new Disney classics of the early 1990s, but there's still plenty here to hold the interest of viewers of all ages: delightful performances (particularly by Dench, plowing Angela Lansbury terrain), zinging comic dialogue and a soundtrack that's a wealth of sonorous riches.

A free - agent star by the end of the 1950s, he began one of his two most auspicious creative collaborations when writer / director Billy Wilder tapped him to play one of the cross-dressing musicians in the gender - tweaking comic classic Some Like It Hot (1959).

Spawning a juggernaut of a franchise featuring a number of sequels, comic books, toys, novels, and Internet videos, «Predator» has become completely immersed in pop culture and gone from a cult classic to an iconic film.

Based on his long - running comic book, which debuted in 2008 before wrapping up at the end of 2013, «Locke & Key» would have combined a classic haunted house tale with complex and rich mythology, and as such managed to attract some heavyweight names: «Star Trek» duo Kurtzman & Orci were writing with «War Of The Worlds» scribe Josh Friedman, Steven Spielberg was producing and «Never Let Me Go» helmer Mark Romanek was brought on to direct the pilot, which reportedly cost as much as $ 10 millioof 2013, «Locke & Key» would have combined a classic haunted house tale with complex and rich mythology, and as such managed to attract some heavyweight names: «Star Trek» duo Kurtzman & Orci were writing with «War Of The Worlds» scribe Josh Friedman, Steven Spielberg was producing and «Never Let Me Go» helmer Mark Romanek was brought on to direct the pilot, which reportedly cost as much as $ 10 millioOf The Worlds» scribe Josh Friedman, Steven Spielberg was producing and «Never Let Me Go» helmer Mark Romanek was brought on to direct the pilot, which reportedly cost as much as $ 10 million.

The film is holding its NYC premiere today and I caught up with Doug this past weekend at New York Comic Con to discuss his ongoing collaboration with Del Toro and, seeing as it's the Halloween season, the enduring appeal of the Disney classic Hocus Pocus in which Jones was the benevolent zombie, Billy Butcherson.

Of course, the reason for this is that Logan appears to be loosely based on the classic comic storyline Wolverine: Old Man Logan by Mark Millar and Steve McNiven.

Errol Flynn and Olivia De Havilland made eight films together, including the stone - cold classic «The Adventures Of Robin Hood,» while Bob Hope and Bing Crosby starred in the successful «Road To...» series, and Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis had a profitable comic partnership as well.

But as a comic allegory of what it's like to be an adolescent girl who comes into sexual and social power that she doesn't know what the heck to do with, it is a minor classic.

A transcription of the spoilerific report, via Protocida, reveals that Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) will eventually have an underground Hall of Armors with at least 16 new armors, including a few classic designs from the comics.

The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Comic Con trailer: Guy Ritchie directs a remake of the classic series.

The prematurely balding, intelligent, fast - talking Chase created a couple classic characters, notably Irwin M. Fletcher (aka Fletch) and Vacation's Clark Griswold, but his career is often thought of as plagued by misfires and missed opportunities, rather than touched by comic brilliance.Born on October 8, 1943, in New York City, Cornelius Crane Chase became known as «Chevy» when his grandmother nicknamed him after Chevy Chase, the wealthy Maryland community.

A classic nemesis from the Black Panther comics liberally reimagined by Coogler and Cole, he is the American son of a Wakandan prince — a cocky and cold - blooded killer who eventually dons a Black Panther suit of his own, his ruthlessness made sympathetic by Jordan's surprisingly moving performance.

The best comic - book movie in a long time, though based on no comic, Lucy is a film that mates classic Besson with Quentin Tarantino in a go at the mystical, world - solving vision found in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey and Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life.

Rob Liefeld looks back at Marvel's X-Force, revealing that he created the team because he was bored of the classic X-Men comics.

Among the anticipated highlights at the ongoing San Diego Comic - Con (SDCC), for horror fans was tonight's world premiere screening of The Woods, from director and writer duo of Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett (You're Next), but the whole event just became bigger than anyone imagined, as it has been revealed tonight that the film is actually called Blair Witch and it is a sequel the 1999 found footage classic The Blair Witch Project!

Set on the world of Sakaar — known dearly to comic book fans as the world the Hulk gets whisked off to in the now classic story arc «Planet Hulk» — Thor: Ragnarok and its location open up unlimited potential for the Marvel Cinematic Universe; it is also the planet where the Hulk had his son, Skaar, after all.

If you saw director Gareth Edwards» statement from the set (if not, it's at the top of the page), you know the new take on the classic monster is bringing something big to Comic - Con this year.

FilmDistrict won the New York Comic - Con having premiered the first ever mind - blowing footage from their Evil Dead, their Fede Alvarez - directed reboot of Sam Raimi's cult classic 1981 The Evil Dead.

In 2016, we reported that Disney was developing a «sequel - reboot» of Joe Johnston's cult classic comic book adaptation The Rocketeer, with the plan being to introduce a new female Rocketeer to take the place of the original jetpack - having hero played by Billy Campbell in 1991 original.

Launer based the premise of the film on the lyrics to the classic song of the same name by The Clovers, which is a strange form of inspiration for a film, but in its own limited, predictable fashion, it works as a pleasant and occasionally funny comic diversion.

0:00 — Intro 2:45 — Headlines: RIP Sidney Lumet, Wayne Kramer Drops Out of Headshot, Will and Jaden Smith in M. Night Shyamalan's Sci - Fi Film, Michael Shannon is General Zod 18:30 — Review: Your Highness 43:10 — Review: Hanna 1:03:00 — Trailer Trash: Warrior, Anonymous 1:11:15 — Other Stuff We Watched: Arthur, 12 Angry Men, Taking On Tyson, Atonement, The Killing, Tough Enough, The Windmill Movie, Taxi Driver, The Toy, Three Kings 1:40:45 — Junk Mail: Reed, The Expendables 2 Directors, Spoilers, Unlikeable Main Characters, Comic Book Recommendations, Directors We'd Like to See Direct a Documentary, Movies vs. Video Games, Cult Classics 2:10:25 — This Week's DVD Releases 2:13:00 — Outro

If you are looking for an older, more classic version of Wonder Woman, then this is the place to start, considering this reboot by Pérez planted a lot of the seeds for what and who Wonder Woman became in comics today.

The classic Marvel comic also focused on a group of misfit kids with amazing powers under the supervision of a charismatic leader / parental surrogate.

Sam Raimi's classic is being re-imagined and the first tease comes out of the San Diego Comic - Con lobby.

Diehard comics followers will find it deviates from the classic story more than some of the previous renditions.

It's an overachieving showcase for the hitherto - unknown comic chops of Channing Tatum (whose big year challenged that of Magic Mike co-star Matthew McConaughey) but it's no Hot Fuzz, nor the instant comedy classic its passionate acolytes held it up to be.

I got a chance to look back at some of the best cancelled TV shows in recent memory, review plenty of drama and horror classics and «classics,» and send Hollywood yet another batch of comics that should be movies.

But even as the film takes its cues from the classic British publisher, 2000AD is drawing from the movie to entice fans of the film to the comics line.

During the yesterday's San Diego Comic - Con panel for The Hateful Eight, director Quentin Tarantino, a huge admirer of classic Spaghetti Westerns, revealed that legendary composer Ennio Morricone will be providing an original score for the film.