Sentences with phrase «revenge films this year»

As the buzz claims, it's actually one of the best revenge films this year, and a good one to discover for yourself if you love bloody revenge stories.

Not exact matches

Bay and screenwriter Ehren Kruger must have noticed that amphetamine - fueled mugging tested well in Revenge of the Fallen, so the third film is graced with the brilliantly hyperactive Ken Jeong — perhaps the one actor in Bay's 17 - year directing career who perfectly embodies his outsized, everything - plus - half - again - as - much style — and John Malkovich.

Dutch defiler Paul Verhoeven has provided what will prove to be one of the most controversial and provocative films of the year with his dark and deadly comedic rape - revenge thriller ELLE, while Paul Schrader delivers his unique brand of pugilistic raw force with his hyper - violent, crime - at - all - costs thriller DOG EAT DOG.

After writing and directing indies such as Gummo, Julien Donkey - boy, Ken Park and Trash Humpers, Harmony Korine's Spring Breakers was one of last year's most talked about films, with his work in that film expected to help him lure in even more A-list talent for this revenge film.

While hearts are still broken from «Carol» missing Best Picture two years ago, a vocal community hopes to gain their revenge with Todd Haynes» next film «Wonderstruck,» where he's re-teaming with «Far from Heaven» and «Safe» star Julianne Moore.

Quentin Tarantino waited 6 years after Jackie Brown to release this epic 4 hour revenge film Kill Bill.

Vinegar Syndrome has the classic blaxploitation film «Dolemite» about a pimp (Rudy Ray Moore) serving a 20 - year prison sentence after being set up by his rival, but when a fellow pimp schemes to get him out, Dolemite tries to take revenge.

Also new on DVD: M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender (Paramount), an adaptation of the animated TV series and one of the most critically reviled films of the year, the feature film version of Beverly Cleary's Ramona And Beezus (Fox), Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (Warner), Marina de Van's Don't Look Back (IFC) with Sophie Marceau and Monica Bellucci, The Lightkeepers (Image) with Richard Dreyfuss and Blythe Danner, Lau Kar - Leung's classic martial arts movie Shaolin Mantis (Vivendi) and the newly remastered The Endless Summer: Director's Special Edition (Monterey).

1 An absolutely enthralling piece of cinematic merriment — a veritable orgy of directorial high - wire acts — Quentin Tarantino's first segment of his marital arts revenge film is easily the most entertaining film of the year.

And there's more: Quentin Tarantino's favorite film of the year «Big Bad Wolves» obviously can't help but be overhyped, but as a dark comedy thriller and exercise in revenge, coming later this month, you could do a lot worse (review here).

CANNES, France — Although «Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith» was wall - to - wall action, some of the best films at Cannes this year have been very, very quiet.

The film is a tightly wound, superbly performed tale of revenge and redemption in the wake of the Irish Troubles, which sees Hirschbiegel (after the best - buried Hollywood stumble of «The Invasion») matching and exceeding the muscular, no - nonsense storytelling skills that won him a foreign - language Oscar nod for «Downfall» a few years back.

The 43 - year - old filmmaker's debut indie feature film Brick was released in 2005, the same year the last of the George Lucas - helmed Star Wars prequels — Revenge of the Sith — was still in theaters.

This Danish film (locally titled Hævnen, which means «The Revenge») won this year's Foreign Language Oscar, becoming Denmark's first victor since Babette's Feast and Pelle the Conqueror won back to back in the late 1980s.

Premiering in the Midnight Madness strand of this year's TIFF, Coralie Fargeat's debut feature offers a feminist twist on the rape - revenge film.

In the plot, prince Judah Ben - Hur was enslaved by a Roman tribunal friend (with a homosexual subtext provided by co-writer Gore Vidal), but then returned years later to seek revenge in the film's centerpiece, a chariot race.

San Francisco Examiner critics Jeff Anderson and Anita Katz's varied top 10 lists both include «Detroit,» director Kathryn Bigelow's account of the siege of the Algiers Motel during 1967 riots in that city; «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,» writer - director Martin McDonagh's dark comedy about maternal revenge; and «Wonderstruck,» director Todd Haynes» film (based on a young adult novel) about parallel tales of fearless, curious 12 - year - olds — in 1977 and 1927.

Previously released on compact disc by Silva Screen Records at the time of the film's release, REVENGE has become difficult to find over the years.

Despite the messy news clippings, the finished product is poised to premiere at this year's Cannes Film Festival and will join other films in the franchise like 2002's Star Wars: Attack of the Clones and 2005's Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith as having used the notable platform at the Grand Théâtre Lumière to bring to light a new chapter.

The last Star Wars film, Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith, was released in 2005, leaving 10 years between the end of the prequel trilogy and the start of the new trilogy.

Steve plans to make a Part II to his ill - received film, hoping to exact revenge on the shark that killed his friend and colleague, and this time he's joined by the newly - met Ned (Wilson, Starsky & Hutch), a 30 - year - old who just may be Steve's biological son, and Jane (Blanchett, The Aviator), perhaps the only reporter interested in covering Zissou's adventure.

Ostensibly a horror film of the «girls trapped in a basement by a madman» subgenre, like last year's 10 Cloverfield Lane, it somehow ends up being a rape - revenge superhero movie, like a DC Comics version of Elle.

The film follows the story of a nobleman falsely accused and imprisoned for years as a slave before he gets a chance to take revenge on the man who betrayed him.

Turns out it's all part of a two - years - in - the - making attack headed by a lethal Pakistani arms dealer named Aamir Barkawi, bent on revenge after his family is killed during a drone strike in the film's prologue.

After 20 years in captivity, Joe (Josh Brolin) is released into the world with a hammer and an appetite for revenge in Oldboy, a Spike Lee remake of the 2003 South Korean film.