Sentences with phrase «of films like world»

Not exact matches

Through Tribeca Immersive's Storyscapes and Virtual Arcade — two programs that highlight the intersection of film and technology — traditional filmmakers used new methods like 360 - degree cameras and virtual reality devices to bring audiences deep into new worlds.

Several Hollywood films have used the ruinous landscape to their advantage, like «Jurassic World» and «Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.»

In this obscure indie film, two little read - comic books come together in a subtle, dialogue - heavy character study that plays out like a slow - burning portrait of good and evil in the modern world.

Yes, the authors of the Gospels were a bit like a group of screenwriters fulfilling a prediction that James Bond will save the World, get the girl and kill the bad guy as the write the script for the upcoming Bond film.

The lead character in novel and film is Lyra Belacqua, a girl who roams from the rooftops and hidden tunnels of an Oxford - like university to the frozen northern wastes and through alternate worlds, trying to rescue children who have been captured by agents of the Church.

Now, talks are still early (and we'e heard rumors like this before), so this whole thing is far from certain, but Deadline is confidently reporting that talks are definitely happening and filming could start after Pratt wraps his work on Jurassic World and Guardians of the Galaxy 2.

Characters in zombie films are willing to do terrible things to each other because of the fear of zombies and the urge for self preservation, while, in the real world, things like the use of torture (or «advanced interrogation»), preemptive war and drone strikes were being debated as options to fight a threat even scarier than zombies: terrorism.

The film's world had been plunged into the deepest darkness of winter, families were torn apart, evil was sneering and shameless, everything was falling apart and when the young woman dies, it looks like all is lost.

not really making the news, the atmosphere on last wednesday was really strange, silent, step by step to normal football, but you can't throw away your thoughts immediately, I just got a glimpse of Enkes personality during a film of him shown before the match, I can't realize how hard it must be for his wife to lose him, tomorrow the players of Germans first Bundesliga will wear a black ribbon again, but I think it won't affect the atmosphere like it has with the national team despite of Hannover of course, people will be enthousiastic again, but there is the idea of an «Enke donation» which I like, will keep his name alive, will take some positive emotions on this tragedy and a kind of appeal for everyone to reflect the important things of life and control your own behaviour, I hope so at least, and I hope his wife will cope with that situation, and again: it was really hard for the German nationl team to play under these circumstances, to lose someone close in this way is hard to deal with, on the other hand it causes a close solidarity feeling I think, but of course the world will not change, things are returning to the old soon, but nonetheless for me this tragedy is a kind of human wake - up call, at least a call and then you continue

When the film premiered in Boston in 1984, Chasnoff recalls in the DVD interview, «It was one of those moments where you felt like something major just shifted in the world.»

Working side - by - side in a small restaurant and collaborating as celebrities on something like a TV show, with handlers and layers upon layers of pre - and post-production people, are totally different worlds; they may never even see each other while the show's filming.

Families Like Yours, a new documentary «exploring the love, compassion, sacrifice, and success of LGBT families in America,» premiered in New York City yesterday, and will soon make its way to LGBT film festivals and conferences around the world.

The film itself is an excellent introduction to Second Life and its use for education and persuasion — if you've never played in this virtual world, the video will give you a sense of what it's like and why people are drawn to it as a place to spread political messages.

He said Lagos, like Los Angeles, Paris and Mumbai is one of the big capitals of film around the world.

To put it diplomatically, we were both operating at the limits of our understanding - sailors adrift on the Far Side of the World, at the mercy of the wind and waves, like those in Peter Weir's stirring film.

The world may someday be full of pop - up images like those imagined in the film Jurassic World, where museum patrons walk through a hall where a projected dinosaur image stands on display, or like the free - standing visuals used by the character Tony Stark in designing his metal suits in the Iron Man fworld may someday be full of pop - up images like those imagined in the film Jurassic World, where museum patrons walk through a hall where a projected dinosaur image stands on display, or like the free - standing visuals used by the character Tony Stark in designing his metal suits in the Iron Man fWorld, where museum patrons walk through a hall where a projected dinosaur image stands on display, or like the free - standing visuals used by the character Tony Stark in designing his metal suits in the Iron Man films.

Only after each system had produced a sophisticated representation of the world did the brain combine their perceptions into one experience of reality, like a film editor adding a soundtrack to a movie.

UFC or ultimate fighting has been around since the early nineties and made an instant impact with fight fans but since the release of films like never back down and red belt mixed martial arts seems to have taken the world by storm and even threat tens to overtake boxing as the number one combat sport.

A massive asteroid is three weeks away from impact with Earth (a TV - news voiceover at the start of the film describes the failure of an Armageddon - like space mission to obliterate the thing), and the world — or at least Southern California subbing for suburban New Jersey — copes, or doesn't, with imminent demise.

«World War Z» isn't your typical zombie movie, but rather a globe - trotting socio - political thriller that treats the zombies more like a viral disease than something out of a horror film.

For apart from ensuring the film an audience on both sides of the Atlantic, it enables Himelstein to import a theme more usually associated with Henry James than Wilde — the corruption of the New World by the Old — and also to introduce some amusing cross-cultural digs (like Darlington's mock approval of America as a society «that's gone from barbarism to depravity without bothering to develop civilisation in between»).

What the film does is reimagine other horror films as meta - narratives, except in those cases, the characters never discover the truth about the artifice of their world, as Marty does, just like another fool, Truman Burbank in Peter Weir's The Truman Show, a horror film in its own right.

But John's command does push the film further into the old science - fiction, doomsday territory of films like Five; The World, the Flesh and the Devil; and Night of the Living Dead, where the only way in the world the races could commingle was at itsWorld, the Flesh and the Devil; and Night of the Living Dead, where the only way in the world the races could commingle was at itsworld the races could commingle was at its end.

This emptily callous film tries to be an edgy expose of the Dominican criminal world, but plays more like a particularly juvenile game of shoot -»em - up.

«World War Z» plays a bit like a series of separate films and the juncture where the new final act was grafted onto the proceedings is unmistakable, but unless you knew about the film's troubled past, you'd never guess it existed.

That story is still very much relevant today and it's crazy to see how accurately made this film was when looking back at what certain parts of the world were like when this movie was made.

You can admire a movie like Steven Soderbergh's «Contagion» (2011), a realistic rendering of civil breakdown caused by a spreading pathogen, but the horror - film version of disaster in «World War Z» stretches the senses to take in more than you may expect.

While all too many films would like to convince you of the essential banality of our society and institutions, Se7en answers what may be the defining challenge of our times: to see the world for what it is, and love it anyway.

For all the value of his three most recent period pictures, they feel less vital as direct responses to the world around us than as filmed civics lessons, like popcorn Rossellini in his historical films era.

Some of the establishing shots, for instance, are filmed in a way that makes everything look miniaturized, giving the world an appropriately board game - like look.

It can be overindulgent at times and Myers» over-the-top lens through which he projected his early comedy films can seep into the narrative and produce some overbearing results at times, though «Supermensch» feels like a work of minimalist restraint compared to films like «Wayne's World» and «Austin Powers».

As it happens, the Ireland - based studio was also responsible for producing world - class Oscar nominees «The Secret of Kells» and «Song of the Sea,» and though Nora Twomey worked on both films, «The Breadwinner» marks her solo directing debut, employing a similarly bold graphic style in its telling («hand - drawn» via a program called TVPaint), augmented by colorful story - within - the - story interludes designed to look like stop - motion.

But unlike the rigorous skepticism of films like Blood Simple, Fargo, and Burn After Reading, I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore uses its allegorical narrative to further a simplistic political message meant to give it an aura of timely social commentary.

In 2003 Fanning could be spotted in The Cat in the Hat, and it wasn't long before she was gearing up to appear alongside Denzel Washington and Christopher Walken in the Tony Scott thriller Man on Fire.As the 2000's continued to unfold, Fanning appeared in a number of films, like Hide and Seek, War of the Worlds, and The Secret Life of Bees.

The story of a young girl (voiced by The BFG's Ruby Barnhill) who discovers that she has been born into a long traditional of witchcraft, the film — adapted by Yonebayashi and Riko Sakaguchi, with an English - language script by David Freedman and Lynda Freedman — is predicated on a sense of wonder, but so much of its world feels familiar, if comfortably so, like a favorite band playing their old hits.

Her next major film assignment was Lady Anne in Olivier's Richard III (1955), which led to a steady stream of costume roles in films like Alexander the Great (1956), The Brothers Karamazov (1959), The Buccaneer (1959), and The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962).

I like the World War II films that cover the stuff everyone knows, but I'm stating to get even more appreciative of the ones that bring the lesser known parts to a wider audience.

No movie is going to fix the world, but films like I Am Not Your Negro demand accountability from its audience, both on a personal level and as a community of human beings.

A film that will leave you dreaming about what it would be like to step off the edge of the world and discover you could fly.

An early scene that sees Toni skipping rope and contemplating the world around her (her defining characteristic) is exemplary: all of a sudden, the soundtrack becomes possessed with what sounds like a piece of music originally recorded for a 1940s swamp - monster horror film.

Both Thor and Thor: The Dark World presented us with something drastically different than what was before it, including expanding beyond the cosmos and accepting the God - like characters as normal, which really pushed the medium of comic book films, while also blending humor and action in a way that made the character both interesting and viable.

The result is a work that — like a whole sub-species of French films of the recent decades — fetishizes its own hyper - naturalistic visual style and performances (all but one by non-actors) while offering no original or striking insights into the world it portrays.

The film gives what seems like an honest look at a world that might be quite foreign to many of us, and it's a fascinating slice of life to observe.

By cleverly tying the film in with real world events, like the nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll in the 50s, the film feels a teensy bit more believable than any of the other Godzilla films, aside from maybe the original Gojira.

All of these little things add up by the end of the film into something quite substantial, and we actually have grown to like these men and their own little world.

And the fact that the film, much like Spotlight, the Arabian Nights Trilogy, and Anomalisa, is very much pitched at an adult level, instead of going aiming for the «teenager» set (and I'm not just talking Jurassic World / Marvel / StarWars, I do believe a lot of Oscar - Bait is pitched at that simple level of easy digestion, Carol is not.

It's a point of pride with any horror film, or any thriller verging on horror: Used correctly, a perfectly innocent song suddenly sounds like the scariest bleep in the world.

Rihanna's «We Found Love» is the grandest of the musical juxtaposition this film has to offer, but other tracks like Sam Hunt's «Take Your Time», The Raveonettes» «Recharge and Revolt», and E-40's «Choices» help build the world and characters in which filmmaker Andrea Arnold is creating here.

The lab is one of those classic Brutalist - fortress - looking monstrosities; it seems to be located deep in the bowels of the earth but is revealed in helicopter shots to be within biking distance of the U.S. Capitol (seems like a bad idea, but this isn't a film that puts a high price on real - world plausibility, so whatever).

I liked some aspects of the film, but the finale was bizarre, well I suppose that's to be expected; the whole film is based in a Strange parallel world and so one has to expect the bizarre and the unexplained but the way the villain was dispatched with was forced and his eye make - up was, well eye make - up when in fact it was meant to be the partial disintegration of his body... If there is a sequel it will be interesting to see where they go.