Sentences with phrase «seeing modern action»

All things considered, if you enjoy seeing modern action stars like Wahlberg or Jason Statham in pulpy B - movie flicks, then Contraband will be a suitable distraction.

Not exact matches

due to racism, bigotry and ignorance, most modern historical books in the west do not or have not mentioned such historical facts bc for white men who compiled history books, any credit to any area east of Greece would have been too shameful, but again, when you read about ancient Persian culture and see it in action and look at their tablets and beliefs and artifacts and books, it's quite clear that the Persian Zoroastrian role is all over this....

[xv] Any revealing activity in modern technology is seen as a challenging or provoking of nature into action.

Against a background of these events and actions, in which more than fifty congregations are now involved and in which hundreds of people have gained experience in dealing with elected and appointed authorities, the story of the Nehemiah Project can he understood As Saul Alinsky said: «The relevant skill in modern urban life is that of knowing how to hold public officials accountable» — and that, as we shall see, is what EBC and the Nehemiah Project have been all about.

For the near future, we don't see large computing power successfully responding to the simple questions facing modern societies with complex answers: For instance, how do you motivate Asian governments to take action on climate change?

Even with long scenes of action utilizing modern effects, the approach doesn't seem gratuitous, which is an impressive accomplishment after having seen so many action films already this year.

Takes better advantage of the PS2 than «Tekken Tag Tournament», IMHO, with incredible physics, realistic fighters and fast action not seen in any other modern brawler.

by Walter Chaw Arriving right smack dab in the latter half of a decade in American cinema that saw digital «reality» supplant filmic «reality» (and appearing the same year as James Cameron's Forrest Gump: Titanic), Hong Kong legend John Woo's high - camp Face / Off directly (and presciently) addresses issues of identity theft, terrorism, and the digital corruption of reality and indirectly addresses Woo's émigré influence on the modern action film.

Where Spielberg sees 3D as a ubiquitous element in modern animation (he is shooting The Aventures of Tintin in 3D), Cameron intends to be the first to introduce a new filmmaking vocabulary with his live - action hybrid, Avatar, which blends performance capture (what he calls e-motion capture) with live action elements and actors.

I know, not something I saw coming, but the wonders of modern action cinematography come to the fore here, as a virtual camera roams the ice alongside «Margot Robbie».

The visuals of the island and its «3D» effects are reminiscent of games such as Street Racer or the original Mario Kart and I mean that literally — there's no modern - day polish or 3D polygons in use (at least from what I could see), just good old 16 - bit sprites in action.

Their actions — including shady dealings with trophy wife Lydia (Sofía Vergara, Modern Family), and a short - lived split — inform the second segment, whilst the final instalment sees the trio wade through reality television and mischievous murder plots.

Given the nature of more recent events in the world today, this could be a masterful choice by Rockstar to deliver the same Western action - adventure that we all loved from RDR with a modern day relevance that we don't see often enough in video games.

SOUNDS: Placing Gangster Squad in a contemporary mindset, the score of the film is run - of - the - mill typical action accompaniment seen in any modern day movie.

And while flight action is becoming more of a component of «modern» games rather then a staple itself (as in Battlefield, World War II Online, etc), it's nice to see an occasional flight action release dedicated to preserving the sheer enjoyment that can be had from the genre.

LMD: You have been a part of every important era in modern Hong Kong action cinema since the 1960's, very notably in the 1970's, in your own starring films throughout the 1980's, and recently in movies like SHA PO LANG, IP MAN and THREE KINGDOMS, you're seeing another new age in martial arts filmmaking.

Summit Entertainment has released another poster for the upcoming supernatural action film The Last Witch Hunter, featuring Vin Diesel (Fast & Furious 7)... SEE ALSO: New trailer and character posters for The Last Witch Hunter The modern world holds many secrets, but the most astounding secret of all is that witches still live amongst us; -LSB-...]

Ahead of its U.S. release next week, Summit Entertainment has debuted a new poster and the first clip from the supernatural action thriller The Last Witch Hunter starring Vin Diesel; check them out here... SEE ALSO: New trailer and character posters for The Last Witch Hunter The modern world holds many secrets, but the most -LSB-...]

Patrick Hughes previously made the well - regarded horror thriller Red Hill, which I haven't seen yet, but between those positive notices and the notion that he would be helming the remake of one of the best action movies in years, I was intensely curious to see what he would make of the third installment in this modern series that is dominated by lead actor, co-writer, and director Sylvester Stallone.

While epic action set - pieces are so common these days as to illicit heavy groans from critics and gamers alike, it's easy to forget that Modern Warfare was the game that essentially pioneered the bombastic formula, and that back then it was something never really seen before.

A pure stealth experience of the kind not seen since the Splinter Cells of old, Cyanide's latest game is focused on proper stealth, instead of the action - centred excuses for sneakiness of modern times.

The items that can be found are pretty close to the consumables seen in later (and even modern) action RPGs.

It's nice to have options and people who have seen the console in action says that it looks great on modern TVs.

The grey Soviet era structures and villages are a plain sight to see, and there's just no sense of style to the game's visuals or audio design, not even one of a modern high stakes action game, or an intense stealth assignment.

The story of the game seems to be focusing on a side of the modern action hero we don't normally get to see.

To fully comprehend modern games like Trine (2D multiplayer action platform puzzler) or Spelunky (2D roguelike dungeon - crawling platformer), we must see them as complex concoctions with many flavoring agents (music, art style, etc.) drawing from identifiable mechanical cores.

It has easily the most interesting plot of any game ever developed by Platinum --- still, probably, the world's best developer of focused action games --- and some of the coolest animation you're likely to see in a modern game.

His superbly detailed and emotional paintings can be seen as modern - day calls to action for protecting the world around us.

In the corridor next door, there is a display of wartime action photography — something Pollock would most certainly have seen in New York's Museum of Modern Art in 1943.

Select group exhibitions featuring his work include Creature, The Broad, Los Angeles (2016); America Is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2015); Disembodied, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (2013); Mike Kelley, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2013); The Royal Family, Hayward Gallery Project Space, London (2012); Off the Wall: Part 1 — Thirty Performative Actions, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2010); Spazio: The Scene and the Imaginary, Museo Nazionale delle arti del XXI Secolo, Rome (2010); Looking at Music, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2008); and California Video, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (2008).

The «action painting» of Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, being devoid of naturalistic references, was seen as a higher more modern form of art, and was paralleled by an even purer form of Abstract Expressionism in the work of Mark Rothko and others.

When one takes the actions of a bunch of 16th century witch - burning villagers and says things like, ``... seeking to benefit personally by gaining prestige and / or power thereby», then one is truly seeing history through the prism of modern political ideology.

A typical modern, utility - scale, wind turbine will generate about as much clean electricity as 2000 average roof - top solar installations (around 2012, see here), so you would think that people who want action on climate change would support wind power.

Another important aspect of modern proprietary estoppel is that it can be used as a cause of action, rather than just a defense: see Crabb v. Arun District Council (197» 5).

Even without seeing it in action, the SNES Classic seems capable of serving as a Nintendo fan's modern trophy.

Given the nature of more recent events in the world today, this could be a masterful choice by Rockstar to deliver the same Western action - adventure that we all loved from RDR with a modern day relevance that we don't see often enough in video games.

If you've got a healthy modern collection of Blu - ray discs then you'll likely have some Dolby Atmos discs in there and firing up The Hunger Games: Catching Fire sees a noticeably more immersive delivery than the Dolby Digital alternative, with a feeling that you're in the action thanks to the enhanced audio.

As you can see in the photo below from TouchArcade, which shows the control system for Modern Combat 5 on tvOS, there are more than five different actions assigned to that tiny touchpad.