Sentences with phrase «recent war films»

Recent war films such as «Black Hawk Down» (2001), and «United 93» (2006) wear their obvious political ideologies on their sleeves.

As well as that, the film's vibrant colour palette is a welcome change from the starker, greyer, drearier colour palette of the more recent war films like Fury

The Wall avoids the missteps of those recent war films by eliding politics and maudlin backstories for its characters, instead using cat - and - mouse thriller tactics to depict warfare on a purely visceral level.

Not exact matches

It's not often that one leaves a movie theater feeling speechless, but anyone on the right side of the culture wars who views the recent film Blast from the Past will find his jaw scraping the sidewalk» and not out of disgust.

But if you look, for example, at my most recent film, The War, you will see that issues of faith and spirituality abound in it, in very poignant moments and in humorous ones.

During the Q & A following the film, one woman in the Sundance crowd commented, «I'm against all the recent wars that America has been involved in; so I admit I had a preconceived opinion about what I was watching.

The film sheds light on one of the most private royals of recent years who overcame great personal struggles, reluctantly accepting his place as King and uniting his country, providing faith and hope through one of the darkest periods of modern history, the Second World War.

Players take command of their own ships in the midst of a war set 30 years after the events in the film Star Trek: Nemesis (not the recent Star Trek reboot).

Recent sub films have focused on modern - day vessels, but U-571 returns to the genre's wellspring: World War II.

Star Wars is nothing short of pure unadulterated entertainment, something that has been sorely lacking in a great majority of recent films.

Whatever caused all the production angst on this film I don't know, but you never get the feeling that Forster loses control of the images, and «World War Z» contains several of the most effective big - canvas action sequences in recent history.

Are you walking into the same kind of costumed glut that threatened to turn the most recent Avengers film into Infinite War on Character Development?

For those of us who prefer to judge Gibson solely in terms of his art, the movie is a virtuosic piece of action cinema — particularly in its second half... And while there has been no shortage of recent films that decry the horrors of war and man's inhumanity to his fellow man, I know of none other quite this sickeningly powerful.

In the «Star Wars» universe, Jedi can be singular or plural, something CBR's Tom Bondurant addressed in his recent speculation about the meaning of the film's title: «[I] n «A New Hope» Obi - Wan Kenobi tells Luke Skywalker that «the Force is what gives a Jedi his power»; while Grand Moff Tarkin reminds Darth Vader that «[t] he Jedi are all extinct.

Here's a scan from the recent Empire Magazine Australia featuring a story on Robert Pattinson and the upcoming film «Water for Elephants» by director Francis Lawrence (I Am Legend, Constantine) starring Robert Pattinson (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1, Bel Ami) and Reese Witherspoon (This Means War, Pharm Girl).

If the recent crop of low - budget, intimate war films featuring a handful of actors in limited locations tells us anything, it's that studios are desperate to ensure that they get a better return on investment than a full - blown, star - studded action spectacle.

The most recent trailer for Avengers: Infinity War revealed more of Thanos» plan, and its own connections to the events of one of the comics that inspired the film in the first place, The Infinity Gauntlet.

At a time when retributive wars in the Middle East have become all the rage, it is unsurprising that revenge has also returned to our cinemas, with recent American films like The Punisher, Man on Fire and the remake of Walking Tall all exhibiting a gung - ho enthusiasm for extrajudicial retaliation (and all featuring protagonists who, like Richard, have a military background).

Winning the coveted role of Lando Calrissian for the Han Solo spin - off Star Wars film is something Donald Glover clearly treasures, as evident from his recent string of humble interviews.

We've seen the effects of digitial de-aging in recent films such as Star Wars: Rogue One, and now Martin Scorsese will implement similar technology in his upcoming gangster film.

The «Star Wars» universe has been rapidly expanding in recent years with the new trilogy as well as stand - alone films like «Rogue One» and the forthcoming «Solo: A Star Wars Story.»

Admittedly, the «Back to the Future» and «Forrest Gump» director's most recent films have been more distancing than enthralling, but his latest, the World War II romance «Allied,» is one of his more human and tangible movies yet.

The Get Out star has come to prominence in recent years with memorable turns in such major films as Short Term 12, Selma, Straight Outta Compton and War Machine.

Will Infinity War disappoint as much as other recent films or will it be the breath of fresh air that we've been promised?

Adapted by The Opposite Of Sex writer / director Don Roos from the 2009 tome with a more recent draft by Tom Bezucha, the film will see James play writer Juliet Ashton, who wrote magazine columns during World War II.

There's a great sense of that in this recent chat from the DGA's podcast The Director's Cut which features Star Wars: The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson interviewing Paul Thomas Anderson about his new film Phantom Thread.

Some of my colleagues said it felt a little too forced and sentimental to them, comparing it to recent films like War Horse (2011) and The Butler (2013).

Beltrami joins The Fantastic Four with a long list of action film credentials, from the recent Snowpiercer and World War Z to older comic book films such as Hellboy, Blade II and The Wolverine.

The most recent trailer for Avengers: Infinity War gave us more context on the upcoming film.

Yann Demange's debut feature»71 has shown me exactly how ignorant I've been of recent history, with a film he himself describes as an excoriation of our propensity, across nations and time, for sending our young men off to fight «dirty» wars.

But while Avengers: Infinity War is definitely pulling from the «Thanos tries to get all those gems on a glove» aspect of The Infinity Gauntlet, there's another, more recent Avengers story from which the film has borrowed elements.

5) If you saw the recent World War II film Red Tails, you were treated to a riveting reenactment of the heroic exploits of the Tuskegee Airmen over the skies of Europe.

Fans are speculating whether the Soul Stone will arrive in Avengers: Infinity War, but recent comic developments may link it to Captain Marvel's solo film.

The film's opening text indicates that dogs have been used by the military since World War I, with over 3,000 canines having served in our most recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The most recent Star Wars movies, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and Star Wars: The Last Jedi, have either led directly into or picked up almost directly from the events of another film in the saga.

Marvel has kept some of their recent films like Spider - Man: Homecoming and Captain America: Civil War grounded on Earth where the stakes are a bit more tangible.

The humor may throw some off, but it feels more in line with the humor of the original trilogy that isn't always present in recent Star Wars films.

The Last Jedi is due out December 15th and is the third Star Wars film in the recent revival of the series.

Star Wars: The Last Jedi may or may not be the best film in the franchise, but what writer - director Rian Johnson has accomplished in the eighth installment of the Skywalker family saga gives hope to the recent announcement of a planned trilogy to come.

«Star Wars» alum Hayden Christensen has inked a two - film deal with Emmett / Furla / Oasis, the [mostly] direct - to - vid action label that's also managed to coax Bruce Willis, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and John Cusack to it's product listing in recent years.

During a recent The Martian interview with Sebastian Stan, Collider asked the Civil War star about the ways in which that film will be «a reboot and reinvention» for Marvel.

Ryuhei Kitamura has directed some of my favorite recent films like «Versus», «The Midnight Meat Train», «Godzilla: Final Wars» and most importantly his latest «No One Lives».

His most recent films include the American World War II film Emperor and Hirokazu Kore - eda's latest Like Father, Like Son (slated to premiere at Cannes this week).

Granted, people had been waiting for a new live - action Star Wars film for over a decade before The Force Awakens hit theaters and may have been a bit easier to please, but a great team has been assembled both in front of and behind the camera, and the new footage looks great, so, as of now, there's no reason to believe that Disney and Lucasfilm won't be going two for two with their recent Star Wars releases.

In this explainer by Youtube channel ScreenPrism, fans of the recent Star Wars: The Last Jedi just might gain some insight on the film's title and ending.

With his post-9 / 11 war film, 12 Strong, gearing up for release next year, Chris Hemsworth opened up during a recent set visit and explained how it's different from other films about Special Forces units.

If you have seen recent films Dunkirk or Darkest Hour, you'd be forgiven for thinking that World War II was a struggle in which half the human race was missing.

It's no surprise that Disney immediately attracted the ire of film writers around the country, whose reviews often contribute to the buzz that has helped buoy the Marvel and Star Wars franchises in recent years.

But the director's recent films like «Beauties At War» and «The Suicide Shop» have struggled to find audiences at home or abroad, and so Leconte seems to have made another ploy for a bigger crowd: at the age of 66, he's made his English - language debut.

This also makes sense based on Marvel's recent formula of turning its solo films into ensemble ones, such as Captain America: Civil War and the recent announcement of Ant - Man and the Wasp.