Sentences with phrase «romantic fantasy film»

Beauty and the Beast is a 2017 American musical romantic fantasy film directed by Bill Condon and co-produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Mandeville Films.

Lee Toland Krieger's romantic fantasy film comes much closer to working than I expected when it played in theaters, thanks largely to strong production values and a great supporting turn by Harrison Ford.

Not exact matches

Following a substantial role in the independent romantic comedy Better Than Chocolate (1999), Crewson seemed to be on the verge of adding another hit to her resumé as one of Robin Williams» original owners in the fantasy Bicentennial Man (1999), but the film failed to live up to box - office expectations.

Following the series» demise in 1991, Helgenberger returned to television guest - star status on ER, where she had a four - episode - long recurring role, and in the miniseries The Tommyknockers.A presence on the big screen since 1989, when she made her feature - film debut in Steven Spielberg's romantic fantasy Always, Helgenberger has played a wide variety of roles in films ranging from Species (1995) to the moody The Last Time I Committed Suicide (1997) to Steven Soderbergh's widely acclaimed Erin Brockovich (2000).

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).

The stars of that film: Russell Crowe and Jennifer Connelly, join Colin Farrell in this romantic fantasy, adapted from a 30 - year - old book.

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.

As the 1990s went on, Lister played roles in a more varied assortment of films, including the quirky Johnny Depp / Marlon Brando / Faye Dunaway romantic fantasy Don Juan DeMarco (1995) and the Quentin Tarantino - wannabe noir Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995).

Achingly romantic and creepy - funny, this funereal fantasy from the director of La Chiesa (1989) is unlike any Italian film in memory.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS The Fairy (Unrated) Romantic fantasy about a hotel's night watchman (Dominique Abel) who falls in love with the magical fairy (Fiona Gordon) who vanishes into thin air after granting him two of his three wishers.

«Midnight in Paris» (Sony), the grown - up romantic fantasy that unexpectedly became Woody Allen's most financially successful film ever, earned four nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay.

For a second, the prospect of a Campion-esque act of violence hovers — the kind that hacks into her film's romantic fantasies, proving lethal to women and hardly less toxic to men.

After that brashly meta opener, you might expect a smartly constructed Tarantino - style black comedy of retribution, but the film fails to deliver on that promise, devolving instead into a dispiriting tonal mishmash of mean - spirited revenge fantasy, girl - power romantic fantasy, and comedy so broad it tips into caricature.

Alden Ehrenreich (Hans Solo) first caught my attention in the romantic gothic fantasy film Beautiful Creatures (2014) he plays a love - struck teen who dreams of leaving his oppressive small town of narrow - minded people.

While the pace is slowed and the characterizations enjoy some challenging obstacles, Deathly Hallows remains a tremendously engaging fantasy film, with a few comedic beats from Grint that bring laughs, a show - stopping midsection where the team infiltrates the Ministry of Magic (production designer Stuart Craig outdoes himself here) after downing some Polyjuice Potion, an animated sojourn that explains the origin of the titular elements, and a revival of romantic business with an appearance from Ginny Weasley (Bonnie Wright).

Call Me By Your Name, a romantic coming - of - age film based on a book by the same name, and Guillermo del Toro's fantasy drama The Shape of Water are predicted to capture the most nominations, according to the awards analysis site goldderby.com.

Casting attractive young film stars Elle Fanning and Douglas Booth, respectively, as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley makes Mary Shelley, director Haifaa al - Mansour's biopic of the mother of Gothic fiction, a kind of grandfather's paradox of the modern wave of eroticized young - adult romantic fantasy, reconfiguring the ancestor to match its descendant.

What's interesting as you work backwards through films we've made about traveling to Mars is: the further back in time you go (and therefore, the less scientific knowledge about the planet with which the filmmakers would have been working), the more Mars ceases to be a cold, inhospitable ball of red mud and becomes a brash, romantic fantasy world onto which stories more and more achingly mythic can be grafted.

In the hands of a more accomplished scriptwriter and an appropriation of style and tone from his earlier films, a subversive Lannoo could have made a refreshing mark on the romantic, comedy fantasy genre.

Also in 1996, Akerman directed what might be described as her penultimate attempt at a «commercial» feature film, the light romantic fantasy Un divan à New York (A Couch in New York), starring William Hurt and Juliette Binoche, which despite its star power sat on the shelf for a while, before opening quietly at Anthology film Archives in Manhattan in November, 1997.

Pegg is starring in the upcoming romantic comedy Man Up, and he praised the film's writer, Tess Morris, for writing a female lead in Lake Bell's Nancy who is «honest and true» rather than «some male fantasy of what a woman is or should be.»

Harry Segall's play became the basis for a popular film way back in 1941 with Here Comes Mr. Jordan, and while Heaven Can Wait may not quite live up to the classic status of that film, it stands up quite well on its own as a light romantic fantasy.

Taking the film on its own terms, as a light romantic fantasy, it is an excellent example of how to make a movie like this, capturing a spirit of life, romance, and good natured cheer.

Writer - director Guillermo del Toro's new movie, the romantic fantasy The Shape of Water, has earned raves from critics at the Venice and Telluride film festivals as an empathetic outsider's love story, which just happens to star a leading man with gills.