Sentences with phrase «revenge saga»

Nichols likes to play with genre — «Shotgun Stories» was a sideways take on a revenge saga, while «Take Shelter,» in other hands, could have been a flat - out horror film or psycho - thriller.

Their screenplay can't decide whether it's a crude and edgy revenge saga about a woman scorned, or a gentle and heartwarming examination of starting over.

A pungently overwritten revenge saga featuring three of the year's top performances: Frances McDormand as a mother wanting answers, Woody Harrelson as a police chief not providing them and Sam Rockwell as a dim, dangerous deputy standing his ground.

The Bride has an epic showdown with her former boss and lover in the finale of Quentin Tarantino's stylized revenge saga.

(In French and Arabic with subtitles) Red Hill (R for profanity and graphic violence) Bloody revenge saga, set in the Australian Outback, about a young sheriff (Ryan Kwanten) who takes a transfer to a supposedly - serene, remote outpost for the sake of his pregnant wife (Claire van der Boom) only to find the town besieged by an escaped con (Tommy Lewis) with a grudge.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's («Birdman») fact - based frontier revenge saga «The Revenant» has an unnerving way of lodging itself in the back of one's mind for days.

A magnetic Christian Bale adds much - needed gravitas to this otherwise conventional blue - collar revenge saga.

OPENING THIS WEEK by Kam Williams For movies opening August 24, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS Illegal Tender (R for violence, profanity and sexuality) Rick Gonzalez and Wanda De Jesus co-star in this graphic revenge saga about a college student who chooses to defend his family's honor after a ruthless gang kills his father and forces his mother to flee for her life.

The Trailer Confirms That MGS V: The Phantom Pain Is A REVENGE SAGA With Lot of Pain.

Yorgos Lanthimos's freeze - dried revenge saga casts Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman as a moneyed married couple who find themselves targeted by a supernatural teenager (Barry Keoghan), while the tale slaloms from deadpan black comedy through Cape Fear - ish thrills towards a finale of such matter - of - fact horror that it can only be watched through splayed fingers.

The British star is nominated for best actor in a drama for his performance as transgender artist Lili Elbe in The Danish Girl, while DiCaprio received his 11th nod for his gruelling turn as Hugh Glass in revenge saga The Revenant.

Applying the episodic format and visual template of classic and spaghetti Westerns to a revenge saga mostly set in the Deep South just prior to the Civil War, the film makes a point of pushing the savagery of slavery to the forefront but does so in a way that rather amazingly dovetails with the heightened historical, stylistic and comic sensibilities at play.

«Blue Ruin, which won an international - critics prize at Cannes last year (2013), is Saulnier's successful attempt to build some creative space between the iron conventions of Hollywood revenge sagas and the informality of a movie made with friends.

Not exact matches

«Dark of the Moon,» part three in the ongoing saga of the children's toys that became a cartoon that became a movie franchise, is better than part two, «Revenge of the Fallen.»

The first volume of the saga sees Uma's character going after the first two names in her revenge kill - list.

Female Prisoner Scorpion: The Complete Collection (Blu - ray + DVD) Details: 1971 - 73, Arrow Video Rated: R, violence The lowdown: An eight - disc set featuring four action films from Japan starring Meiko Kaji («Lady Snowblood») in a vengeance saga in which Kaji's Nami Matsushima assumes the identity of «Scorpion,» who becomes an symbol of revenge and female empowerment in a male - dominated society.

And this year, the #metoo and #timesup movements could push the Academy to lean into women with revenge drama «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri» and Frances McDormand, relationship drama «Lady Bird» with writer - director Greta Gerwig and actresses Soairse Ronan and Laurie Metcalf, Dee Rees» World War II family saga «Mudbound» with cinematographer Rachel Morrison and actress / songster Mary J. Blige, or true sports story «I, Tonya» starring Margot Robbie and Allison Janney.

After showing Nicolas the first five films in George Lucas» saga in the order they were released, we wrapped up with «Episode III — Revenge of the Sith.»

According to HarperCollins, the saga will feature «a boy who forms an unlikely alliance with an enemy -LSB-...] they help each other attain what they most desire: for one, redemption, and the other, revenge.»

The Black Elf of Seaward Isle, Book One of the Seaward Isle Saga $ 13.75 Joni Parker Left orphaned by the Wizard Mylar, young Lady Alexin seeks revenge.

The PlayStation Store is particularly stacked this week as further down the new release list is Extreme Exorcism (PS4 + PS3 Cross-Buy), a supernatural single - screen arena fighter from Golden Ruby Games; Laserlife, the latest game from Bit.Trip developer Choice Provisions; and Afro Samurai 2: Revenge of Kuma — Volume 1 (PS4), another ultra-violent martial arts saga based on the anime series.

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«Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number is the brutal conclusion of the saga Hotline Miami, with the background of an escalation of violence and revenge for the blood shed in the original game.

Xbox One 101 Ways to Die ($ 5) 8 - Bit Adventure Anthology Volume 1 ($ 4) Albert and Otto ($ 6)(Anode $ 2) Armikrog ($ 5) Binaries ($ 3.30) Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Gold ($ 19.80) Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Pro ($ 33) Call of Duty: Ghosts ($ 19.80) Call of Duty: Ghosts Hardened ($ 33) Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare «Enhanced» ($ 30) Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Digital Deluxe ($ 64.99) Candleman «Enhanced» ($ 10.49) Cyber Complex ($ 5) Death Squared ($ 8.99) Dreamals: Dream Quest ($ 3) Disneyland Adventures ($ 19.49) Energy Cycle ($ 1.50) Factotum 90 ($ 4.01) Farming Simulator 15 Complete ($ 10) Farming Simulator 17 «Enhanced» ($ 13.20) Farming Simulator 17 Platinum ($ 29.99) Farming Simulator 17 Platinum Expansion ($ 16.99) Farming Simulator 17 Premium ($ 24.75) Farming Simuklator 17 Season Pass ($ 23.44) Flockers ($ 6.25) Fru ($ 7.50) Gass Guzzlers Extreme ($ 6.25) Goat Simulator ($ 3.30) Goat Simulator MMO Simulator ($ 2.50) Goat Simulator GoatZ ($ 2.50) Goat Simulator: Payday ($ 2.50) Goat Simulator: Waste of Space ($ 2.50) Jump, Step, Step ($ 5.35) Kyurinaga's Revenge ($ 3.24) Magnetic: Cage Closed ($ 6) Monkey King Saga ($ 6.99) Nebulous ($ 4.50) Never Alone Arctic Collection ($ 3.60) One Hundred Ways ($ 6.49) Plague Inc: Evolved ($ 7.50) Planet of the Eyes ($ 5.99) Quatros Origins ($ 2.99) Raining Blobs ($ 6.69) Rememoried ($ 8.99) Rime ($ 17.99) Seasons After Fall ($ 5) Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shotgun ($ 25) Shift Happens ($ 8.99) Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom ($ 7.50) So Many Me ($ 7.50) Song of the Deep ($ 3.75) Soul Axiom ($ 3.75) Sparkle 2 ($ 4) Sparkle Unleashed ($ 4) Spy Chameleion ($ 2.50) Star Balls ($ 2.50) Super Party Sports: Football ($ 2.50) Swapquest ($ 2.50) The Bridge ($ 3.30) The Inner World ($ 7.50) The Jackbox Party Pack 2 ($ 12.50) The Living Dungeon ($ 6) The Magic Circle: Gold Edition ($ 6) The Sexy Brutale ($ 10) Threes!

This marks the first time that the six - film saga will be available digitally, including «Star Wars: The Phantom Menace,» «Star Wars: Attack of the Clones,» «Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith,» «Star Wars: A New Hope,» «Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back,» and «Star Wars: Return of the Jedi.»

Where would we be without Emily Brontë's dark and brooding saga of ill - fated romance and revenge set amid the rugged landscape of the Yorkshire Moors?