Sentences with phrase «of preceding films»

It's a comedy, defiantly so, and it derives most of its comedy from the fact most of the preceding films in the MCU pretended to be dramas.

Andrew Payne reviews The Edge of Seventeen, a teen comedy that retains neither the charm nor the humor of preceding films it's trying to emulate.

Not exact matches

Instead, the film will bear the logo of Amblin Entertainment, which preceded DreamWorks and could be an alternate name for the company.

Based on the 1975 Steven Spielberg film and preceded by a popular attraction on the back lot tour of California's Universal Studios, the ride's hybrid genetics should have made it strong.

A new film, The Innocents, tells a moving story of healing and grace without downplaying the grief and trauma that preceded them.

While such differences do not seem unsolvable, one major controversy has erupted preceding the first round of negotiations in July, when the French government, supported by several other member states, insisted on a «cultural exception»: The audiovisual sector, i.e. the film and music industries, should be excluded from free trade negotiations.

Among other things, Aiello and Gerardi are accused of colluding with Kaloyeros to rig a request for proposals that preceded construction of the Soraa plant and a nearby facility, the Central New York film hub.

Many attributes of «The Vampire» were preceded by the classic attributes of Hammer films and Italian horror films of the 1960s.

The element of violence... holds the kernels for inexhaustible analysis of the human condition that preceded the film, through the time the film captivated audiences, and even today.

Spectre is a watchable slice of the Bond saga which pales in regard to two of the three films which preceded it.

But the array of PG - 13 superhero films that preceded and followed, and that all seemed hypnotized by their own ashy solemnity to one degree or another, made the original «Deadpool» feel like a necessary counterweight.

It was also light years ahead of all film special effects that preceded it, and nothing came close to redefining the look of a «space movie» until the original Star Wars, a decade later.

As with the preceding programs, «Journey» focuses on the exploits of the ship built for the film.

After all of the interesting and fun effects of the preceding 110 minutes, the final effects make you wonder if the CGI folks pulled an all - nighter to rush this film out — like a cram session before a final exam.

Paul is a director who, like many of the movie brats, has a reputation that precedes him — whether it be writing American cinema classics like Taxi Driver or Raging Bull, directing the popular and canonized films American Gigolo and Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, or the lore surrounding the era, popularized by Peter Biskind's book Easy Riders, Raging Bulls.

Suicide Squad's problem is that it is basically trying to be an Avengers film... without having any of the origin films preceding it.

One of the most cruel and divisive endings to a film ever, and a preceding two hours of excellent old school horror.

But the Miyazaki film with the strongest connection to his latest is 1992's «Porco Rosso,» in which the title character was an Italian WWI flying ace transformed into a pig and the landscape is the rise of European Fascism in the years preceding WWII.

This is one of the key preceding awards before the Academy Awards are handed out early next month, and on the feature film side of things, another significant win adds even more momentum to the acclaimed thriller Get Out with Jordan Peele winning the award for original screenplay.

Blu - ray extras include audio commentary by directors Pete Docter and Ronnie del Carmen and producer Jonas Rivera; a making - of featurette; deleted scenes; Lava, the animated short that preceded the film in theaters; and the new animated short Riley's First Date?

If you want a heist movie with class, you cast George Clooney and Brad Pitt and make a film along the lines of Ocean's Thirteen (or any of the preceding ones).

The preceding short shown before the film in theaters over the summer, «The Blue Umbrella», continues Pixar's current string of disappointing original animated shorts.

Logan is the third in the standalone series of Wolverine films (preceded by X-Men Origins: Wolverine and The Wolverine in 2009 and 2013 respectively), and is set a year after the time - travelling X-Men: Days of Future Past.

Tuesday's sneak peak of Warner Bros upcoming films was preceded by an announcement that the studio was «celebrating 85 years and the best to come».

Upon reaching the end of Peter Jackson's Hobbit trilogy with the third and final installment, renamed The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, those familiar with J.R.R Tolkien's novel that preceded the opus of the Fellowship trilogy should pause momentarily to realize that these three films have moved well beyond the spirit or intentions of the source material.

Catch Me If You Can — Speilberg's film about the hunting down of a con artist is told with a light and breezy touch that's very much a contrast to the darker sci - fi films that preceded it.

The advanced techniques of the Hong Kong action cinema translated from the period kung fu and wuxia film to the modern world of cops and robbers, from swordplay to gunplay, not for the first time (it was preceded into the present by Jackie Chan's Police Story from the previous year, as well as Cinema City's highly profitable Aces Go Places series of comic adventures and a whole host of films from the Hong Kong New Wave like Tsui Hark's own Dangerous Encounters - First Kind, not to mention earlier films like Chang Cheh's Ti Lung - starring Dead End, from 1969), but better than anything before it.

Whether or not this film will go down as the cult classic that Rogen and Goldberg are clearly hoping for remains to be seen, but come the end of 2013, it will certainly register in the memory banks of cinema - goers to a much larger degree than all the comedy films that have preceded it this year.

Happily mixing an American cast with an oddly English countryside, Wes's world is wonderfully unique, rediscovering a lightness of touch that disappeared on his preceding film, The Darjeeling Ltd..

The opening credits feature the unsettling musical strains of «Deutschland Uber Alles,» and a title card after that informs us «The action of this film takes place during the year preceding the war, and on the night of September 3rd, 1939.»

Running around an hour, Waiting For Twilight, made during the filming of Twilight Of The Ice Nymphs (1997)-- and preceding much of the director's more mainstream successes — highlights the methods, family life and career of this great director through clips and talking - head interviews with friends and criticof Twilight Of The Ice Nymphs (1997)-- and preceding much of the director's more mainstream successes — highlights the methods, family life and career of this great director through clips and talking - head interviews with friends and criticOf The Ice Nymphs (1997)-- and preceding much of the director's more mainstream successes — highlights the methods, family life and career of this great director through clips and talking - head interviews with friends and criticof the director's more mainstream successes — highlights the methods, family life and career of this great director through clips and talking - head interviews with friends and criticof this great director through clips and talking - head interviews with friends and critics.

Known as an inventive poet of early sound cinema in France, thanks to such sharp, creative films as Under the Roofs of Paris (1930), Le million (1931), and À nous la liberté (1931), Clair had a reputation that preceded him to Hollywood, and I Married a Witch overflows with the same comic irreverence and fleet storytelling as his earlier films.

The series was well out front of the zombie craze that preceded The Walking Dead and WWZ, and it became one of the rare action film franchises anchored by an actress.

, he also preceded Ready Player One in dreaming up the idea of people interacting with beloved pop culture icons (to a level of studio cooperation few believed would ever happen again... before Spielberg signed on for this film).

The film is another piece of horror - tinged, genre filmmaking — this time the main inspirations are hyper violent»80s action films like Big Trouble in Little China and The Terminator (again)-- but like the duo's preceding film, it knows what it is, recognizes the flaws of its ancestors, and tries to improve upon them while holding onto that sense of reckless abandon that makes those movies so fun.

The studio has decided to give it the official title of The Divergent Series: Insurgent, not like the later titles in the Twilight franchise used the qualifier The Twilight Saga to precede the subtitle of the film.

Alves and co-producer Debra Hill contribute an additional feature - length commentary that begins late (two minutes into the film) and overstays its welcome; an unenviable task to follow or precede the dynamic duo of Russell and Carpenter in any capacity, Hill and Alves don't exactly help their cause by rarely deviating from the monotonous topic of location scouting and the closely - related subject of set dressing.

In fact the combination of drama with comedy is perhaps more evident in Barton Fink than in the films that preceded it.

The raunchy humor is a bunch of crude jokes that attempt to be more raunchy than the films that have preceded it.

Mitchum was apparently looking for something fresh and different from films such as Going Home and The Wrath of God, the two projects that preceded Coyle.

Instead of featuring audio commentaries from the filmmakers on each short, the dozen films are preceded (unless you manually select the «Off» option) by brief introductions by the directors, producers, and sometimes other crew members who were involved in their respective creations.

Those final few minutes have probably denied the film its share of admirers over the years, but they can't undo the fun character - driven storytelling that precedes them.

Prince Avalanche has been preceded in the media by the kind of mood music that suggests that it is the film in which director David Gordon Green retreats / recovers from the commercial, stoner - comedy digressions of Your Highness and Pineapple Express to the artistic purity of his well - reviewed first films, George Washington and All the Real Girls.

«Ant - Man» has been skittering around the development corridors of Hollywood so long, the earliest unproduced screenplays about the tiny superhero actually preceded the Disney film «Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.»

Typically, the best of these (Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Iron Man 3) have explored more serious terrain than their preceding films, offering more sober glimpses at the consequences of superhero antics.

For as individual as Cash's experience must have been, Walk the Line lacks the imagination to convey it in a way that isn't already familiar from dozens of films — not to mention portrayals of Oedipal difficulties — that have preceded it.

The three Cinéfondation prizes will be awarded at a ceremony preceding the screening of the prize - winning films on Friday 20th May in the Buñuel Theatre.

After 10 years and 18 films, we finally arrive at Avengers: Infinity War, the first in a two - part showdown between Marvel's extraordinary roster of heroes and Thanos, an intergalactic genocidal tyrant played in CGI motion capture by Josh Brolin, whose starring appearance has been seeded throughout the preceding films.

Though Leone wanted Morricone to compose the music before filming began on each of the preceding Clint Eastwood westerns, only the last reel of The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly was filmed and edited according to the pre-written music.

Preceded by such films as «The Meteor Man» (1993), «Blankman» (1994), «Catwoman» (2004) and the «Blade» trilogy (1998 — 2004), «Black Panther» isn't the first superhero movie with an African - American starring in the title role, but it has by far the largest number of black cast and crew members.