Sentences with phrase «other fantasy films»

There is the element of power and control which appears in other fantasy films of this ilk, but also a question of the ethics of its use.

What's perhaps most amazing about E.T., what distinguishes it from many of the other fantasy films of its era, is its ability to put an audience under a spell of childlike wonderment without infantilizing it.

Despite the unpromising pulp origins of the film's hero and the acting resume of its lead actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, director John Milius grounded his pre-Sumerian fantasy in a level of reality sorely lacking in most other fantasy films (even Barbarian's inauspicious sequel Conan the Destroyer).

Not exact matches

I know they're there and that many people love them, but I've found other modern fantasy film franchises much more investable.

Yet like the thunder god himself, the film is stuck between two worlds: the one where you want to tell a lively fantasy - adventure story, and the one where you have to make it tie in with the other movies.

The first hour of the movie is virtually unwatchable, with Braff oddly sprinkling in fantasy sci - fi sequences that are supposed to convey the character's inner - life, but never really add anything to the film other than make it feel alternately goofy and pretentious.

For our first show of 2018, we welcome writer and critic Dr Eloise Ross, who joins us as we check out some of the key films from this month, including Steven Spielberg's paean to press freedoms The Post (01:04), Guillermo Del Toro's dark romantic fantasy The Shape of Water (05:46), Don Hertzfeldt's animated science fiction sequel World of Tomorrow Episode 2: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts (10:23), and Ridley Scott's Getty dynasty biopic All the Money in the World (13:16).

We kick off the show looking at some of this month's key films, including Steven Spielberg's literally - ripped - from - the - headlines true story The Post, Guillermo Del Toro's dark romantic fantasy The Shape of Water, Don Hertzfeldt's animated science fiction sequel World of Tomorrow Episode 2: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts, and Ridley Scott's ambitious Getty family biopic All the Money in the World.

The film strains credulity even for a vid - game fantasy by letting the leading lady recover awfully quickly from bad injuries, but other than that Vikander commands attention and is the element here that makes Tomb Raider sort of watchable.»

We don't accept or like each other or ourselves enough,» I believe that there is a light that shines through these films, whether it's told through satire («The Square»), through fantasy («A Fantastic Woman»), hope («The Insult») or humor («On Body and Soul»)

Admittedly the backgrounds of the four major fantasy sequences that anchor the film look impressive for a couple of seconds but like every other element in this film, the art direction is so conceptually underdeveloped it fails to sustain interest.

In other words, Boll's latest evokes the form but not the content of such film series as Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean and Star Wars, which means that few if any fantasy fans will be deceived into believing that Dungeon Siege is a legitimate endeavor rather than the same everything - must - go yard sale of clichés and familiar formulas the director mined for his previous work.

The film opens on the island of Themyscira, a paradise island created by the god Zeus and hidden from the real world by a protective shield, and the film stays there for a while as we follow Diana from curious little girl to fully trained warrior princess but once Steve Trevor's fighter plane crashes there and Diana realises there is a war being fought in world she does not know of that is not too far away then we swiftly get brought into London in 1918 and this shift from fantasy into a «real world» scenario gives the film a greater sense of depth, and when combined with characters that you actually care about then Wonder Woman is head and shoulders above all of the other DCEU movies on the strength of that alone.

Luckily, fantasy films are red hot, and it's better than other wildly popular, but inherently mediocre efforts like Chronicles of Narnia, Harry Potter, Pirates of the Caribbean, and all of their brethren.

When you've finished that, follow it up with Big Trouble In Little China, the fantasy comedy that's really unlike any other film you've seen.

Synopsis: The film is set in a fantasy world where the four elements of earth, air, water, and fire can be controlled through martial arts called bending, and the ruthless flame - manipulating Fire Nation is waging war to control the other nations of the world.

In other words, I'll do my best to say it's a Yakuza - gangster - horror - fantasy film.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening November 23, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS August Rush (PG for slight violence, mild profanity and mature themes) Freddie Highmore stars as the title character in this escapist fantasy about a promising musical prodigy who runs away from an orphanage to New York City to find his parents (Keri Russell and Jonathan Rhys Myers) only to end up living with a Fagin - like wizard (Robin Williams) and lots of other kids in a makeshift shelter in an abandoned theater which was once the Fillmore East.

Creating a space where dreams, reality, fantasy, politics, fiction, non-fiction and other seemingly disparate concepts intermingle with one another, the film is a serene, meditative experience where anything feels possible.

Other highlights in this strand include: Miguel Gomes» mixes fantasy, documentary, docu - fiction, Brechtian pantomime and echoes of MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Moss.

Baird's direction is of a similarly heedless, knockabout nature, filching from other filmmakers with magpie abandon: Kubrick in the sweaty, distortive use of closeup, Fassbinder in an arch, unexpectedly resolved strain of Germanic camp, and Gilliam in Robertson's fantasy sessions with swollen - headed shrink Jim Broadbent — perhaps the film's least successful flight of fancy.

Timid and mousy in the office, she gets to let loose with a fantasy version of the character, a ferocious, seductive femme fatale with some of the best lines in the film (to whit: «It's not cheating if you despise each other»).

Looking back there has been many popular video games that have been adapted to the big screen, including Nintendo's classic Super Mario Bros (1993's Super Mario Bros.), Capcom's survival horror Resident Evil (2002 - 2016's Resident Evil series), Blizzard's fantasy strategy Warcraft (2016's Warcraft or Warcraft: The Beginning in international territories), Core Design / Square Enix's action adventure platforming Tomb Raider (2001 - 2018's Tomb Raider films series), Ubisoft's time - traveling action adventures Assassin's Creed (2016's Assassin's Creed), Square Enix's immersive JRPG Final Fantasy (2001, 2005, and 2016's Final Fantasy movies), and many others.

They are very much related and feed into each other as the film addresses the differences between past and present and the fine line between reality and fantasy with one fictional story even serving as a metaphor for another.

Beside Dorval, the best thing about the film is probably the cinematography, even though it sometimes calls a bit too much attention to itself, what with all the off - center close - ups, slow - motion tracking shots à la Wong Kar - Wai, B&W shots of Hubert talking to the camera, colourful fantasy cutaways... Still, you can tell that the kid has seen a lot of movies and instinctively knows how to recreate the things he likes in others» work through his own.

The film is a sequel to the 2015 fantasy film about humans and monsters who lived alongside — and at odds — with each other in ancient China, making $ 390 million.

In addition to the plethora of comic book - based superhero movies in the next few years, there are a variety of other films such as science fiction, fantasy and action under the umbrella description of «genre.»

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening March 5, 2010 BIG BUDGET FILMS Alice in Wonderland (PG for fantasy, action, violence, scary images and smoking) Tim Burton directs this animated sequel to the Lewis Carroll children's classic revolving around now 19 year - old Alice's (Mia Wasikowska) return to the whimsical kingdom for a reunion with the White Rabbit (Michael Sheen) and other childhood friends, and to end the Red Queen's (Helena Bonham Carter) reign of terror.

The upcoming fantasy horror film Before I Wake looks to be building its otherworldly dread from two of humanity's biggest sources of fear: our own imaginations and other people's children.

I loved the way escapist fantasy tangoed with brute consequence in «The Shape of Water» and «The Florida Project,» two films that have nothing in common other than heroines desperate to keep faith with innocence in a fallen world.

Other reliable pros include Bob Dishy, Paul Dooley, Cloris Leachman and Jay O. Sanders, but their efforts count for little in a film (rated PG - 13 for a teen sex fantasy, zombie violence and some language) that's impossible to imagine anyone getting away with except David Lynch.

When the scenes (which look like they popped right out of an Alfred Hitchcock film) focus on the budding love, «The Shape of Water» becomes a fantasy like no other.

The films beat out a number of other worthy contenders like Gregory La Cava's Stage Door, Frank Capra's dramatic fantasy Lost Horizon, the Darryl F. Zanuck - produced drama In Old Chicago, and the Cary Grant - Irene Dunne screwball comedy The Awful Truth.

Next to other contemporary fantasy films, the visuals aren't overly stylized, but the clean, sharp 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer allows one to easily marvel at them.

Veteran sound designer Ben Burtt, composer John Morgan, film historian Rudy Behlmer, and directors Peter Jackson and Joe Dante, among others, describe the revolutionary ideas Steiner and Spivack employed in what remains a standard in blockbuster filmmaking for the action / fantasy genre.

One sequence resembles the unveiling of the dream city of Shangri - La in Frank Capra's Lost Horizon, another recalls the casino action in half a dozen Bond films, while still others rescue the exotic excitement of jungle - adventure fantasies from the colonial condescension of Great White Hunter movies.

«Snowpiercer» The show based on 2013 fantasy - thriller feature «Snowpiercer» has been picked up to series at TNT from its already - filmed pilot, which stars Jennifer Connelly, Daveed Diggs, Annalise Basso, and Antonio Cayonne, among others.

When I was younger I used to have these film noir fantasies that I, along with others, would travel the country planning elaborate cons.

(Interestingly, in what could also be known as «The Year of Stephen King,» the other film version of his work, The Dark Tower, a fantasy, was widely dismissed.)

These lineages can spread beyond games: plenty of book and film influences create imaginative patterns that are then sustained in the fictional worlds of games — from the utter dependence of Halo: Combat Evolved upon James Cameron's Aliens to the massive debt Dungeons & Dragons owes to Tolkien, Moorcock, and the other twentieth century fantasy writers.

While some artists utilize photography, film, and video to «document» narrative fantasies, others turn to these reproducible mediums to record different, yet related, untruths.

Beginning with Cronos (1993) and continuing throughThe Devil's Backbone (2001), Hellboy (2004), Pan's Labyrinth (2006), Pacific Rim (2013), and Crimson Peak (2015), among many other film, television, and book projects, del Toro has reinvented the genres of horror, fantasy and science fiction.