Sentences with phrase «revisits classic star»

Not exact matches

One of the most thunderously applauded entries in Toronto this year was itself a fascinating film about failure: «The Disaster Artist,» which revisits the making of that 2003 bad - movie classic, «The Room,» is a triumph for its prolific director and star, James Franco, best known of late for clogging the festival circuit with wan adaptations of «In Dubious Battle» and «The Sound and the Fury.»

The Ringer's Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and K. Austin Collins and The New York Times» Wesley Morris head to Philly to sprint up and down the Rocky steps and revisit 2015's instant boxing classic «Creed,» starring Michael B. Jordan and Sylvester Stallone and directed by Ryan Coogler (3:00).

The 2017 edition will also give world bows to two U.K. films, Michael Pearce's Beast and Clio Barnard's Dark River, led by The Affair star Ruth Wilson; and three films from France: Xavier Legrand's Custody, headed to Toronto after competing in Venice, Joan Chemla's If You Saw His Heart and Morrocan filmmaker Nabil Ayouch's Razzia, which revisits the 1942 classic Casablanca.

-- Booklist, starred «Time travel, ultraviolence and medieval madness — divine intervention rendered fantastically by Rice... With two marvelous reimaginings of the Gospels and a spiritual autobiography recently extending her range, Rice revisits the shadows of her vampire classics; now however with her return to Catholicism, her sinners vie for redemption... Angelically inspiring.

This type of update or revisiting of a classic happens in film (see George Lucas's efforts with the original Star Wars trilogy), and is beginning to happen with video games.