Sentences with phrase «serious war film»

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Overall, this is a lovely film, ranking with the best of Disney's animated features while taking on rather serious issues of war, honor, gender roles and family pride.

Later on, he made films on serious issues like the Holocaust, terrorism, war and human rights.

His character, Lazarus, is a «very serious Oscar - winning actor» who is cast for a role originally written for a black man in the most expensive Vietnam war epic ever filmed.

However, «The Monuments Men,» also directed by Clooney, looks tonally very different from those relatively serious - minded political thrillers, with the rather fine trailer showcasing an unusually gentle, humorous tone for a film about World War II.

With the on - slaught of war this film appears to be Wes Anderson's most serious, but it's perfectly masked by its abundence of humor - filled moments.

He also mentioned «A film about a bunch of Black ladies that are solving pretty serious problems for the War Department.»

Its opening film is the British - produced mountaineering thriller Everest, featuring Anglo - American glamour in the shape of Jake Gyllenhaal, Keira Knightley and Josh Brolin; its competition strand has an impressive list of international auteurs, including Tom Hooper (The Danish Girl), Alexander Sokurov (Francofonia), Luca Guadagnino (A Bigger Splash) and Charlie Kaufman (Anomalisa); and a number of authentic coups, including the world premiere screening of Black Mass, the much - hyped gangster film featuring Johnny Depp as James «Whitey» Bulger, and a first look at Beasts of No Nation, the African - set war thriller that represents Netflix's most serious shot yet across Hollywood's bows.

Despite being more aesthetically pleasing than Michael Bay's garishly executed Pearl Harbour, Nolan's big film in service of a small story has more in common with that much - maligned war pic than more serious minded award season contenders of past years like Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan, Peter Weir's Gallipoli or Terence Malick's The Thin Red Line.

Silly and therefore a step back from his serious films like Drug War or Election!)

The film deals — movingly and with serious consideration — with many of the issues affecting veterans: disability, the struggle to adapt after the war, tensions over whether to continue to support the war, and the difficulty of having spouses left alone on the home front.

Josh Brolin, fresh off playing Thanos in «Infinity War,» gives perhaps the best supporting performance in the film as Cable, a time - traveling mutant soldier on a mission to take down Firefist before the kid does some serious damage.

The actor got serious about looking like an emaciated prisoner - of - war in the upcoming Louis Zamperini biopic and even Jolie was impressed with how far her went to achieve the perfect look for the film.

The content you see in the trailer not - withstanding, War Dogs is another serious film about corruption.

It is wrong to surmise that because nuclear war is a serious and important subject that this must be a great or even good film.

With this teaser, Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens has gone from something I'm definitely interested in to a serious contender for my most anticipated film of 2015.

Extra features on this non-SE include: a comprehensive commentary by director Hoblit and co-screenwriter Billy Ray, with the occasional comment from Bruce Willis sandwiched in; another yak - track from producer David Foster, who concentrates on the film's background in WWII history; ten deleted scenes (in 16x9) that reveal that an even more structurally and politically complex film lies on the cutting room floor, with elective commentary from Ray and Hoblit — they're especially sorry to see go, as am I, a bit in which the American soldiers entertain their German captors by donning blackface; a 4 - part photo gallery — see Bruce make serious expressions for «The Poster Shoot»; and trailers for Hart's War, Windtalkers, and the TV shows «Jeremiah» and «Stargate SG - 1».

Though it never reaches the intensity levels of «American Sniper» or other true - life war films, there is combat violence, adult subject matter and serious themes.

But I really shouldn't bury the lede: if you are going to catch The Infiltrator (and here, your Cranston fandom and / or your interest in drug war films not starring Emily Blunt will surely factor in), you should know that you get to see Diane Kruger rock some serious fashion while nailing the tricky role of a smart and rookie undercover agent playing Bob's arm candy fiancée, you get to witness Olympia Dukakis chew scenery as Mazur's Aunt Vicki, who's not as clean - cut as her nephew, and you get to watch Amy Ryan... well, sadly not all the women could get choice roles here, now could they?

And now that the Russo brothers have been put in charge of Marvel's Avengers: Infinity War films, they are already dropping some serious coin on just the cameras being used to make the two films.

Lucas, the creator of the Star Wars movie franchise and the director of films including American Graffiti, is a serious Rockwell aficionado.