Sentences with phrase «set against a film»

Pixel Noir is a JRPG - inspired detective game set against a film noir backdrop.

Not exact matches

Marketing Director, Amy White said «To support this Sky Sport sponsorship, we have filmed a set of new Mud House idents, starring five legends of rugby who have either played for, or against, the Lions.

Set against the backdrop of the Catskill Mountains, the drive - in shows the best classic films and is the perfect place to meet up with friends for a night under the stars.

The campaign film is shot with a balance of tradition and heritage with contemporary imagery, and depicts the comparative sets of words against the renowned Speyside landscape and the bustling distillery during the production process, reinforcing the premium and craft credentials of the range.

Created by Matthew Donaldson for Nowness, the film is compelling first and foremost for the unique and intimate access it provides to the elusive Yamamoto, set against an original soundtrack, with vocals performed by the designer himself.

Against the backdrop of a planned Tupperware party set in a 1950s house, the film adds dimension to the collection and offers a wholesome, fun slice of vintage Americana.

For all the little moments which successfully bring the Greek Myths to life, the film doesn't have enough dramatic energy to sustain itself, and its poor effects work against the power of its set - pieces.

It's no slight against Coralie Fargeat's vivid, vicious Revenge — a film that will set midnight movie devotees cheering for generations — that you've probably seen every scene in it before, in some form or another.

Set against the backdrop of a technologically advanced Shanghai, where people are only allowed to travel between countries with official passports called «papelles,» the film charts the efforts of Seattle native William (Tim Robbins) to get to the bottom of a contraband - papelle operation within the walls of a high - tech company that manufactures them.

However, the film is electric and the performances are exceptional, set against the backdrop of humor (dark or otherwise), a banging soundtrack and a story you may know but will appreciate in a whole other manner.

Set against a backdrop of London torn apart by violence, the film follows one of the champions of Earth's survival: Theo (Academy Award nominee Clive Owen), a disillusioned ex-activist turned bureaucrat, who faces his own demons and must protect the planet's last remaining hope for a future generation.

It wouldn't be a Pixar film, though, if our pre-teen protagonist weren't also a rule - breaking scamp, so against the strictest orders of his guitar - smashing granny (Renee Victor), he sets about entering the town's annual Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) talent show.

As for that key moment that sets up the final act, I thought the film established the character motivation adequately with the earlier scenes showing us Schultz's reaction to some of the violence against slaves.

As the grimmer YA - literary cousin to «The Hunger Games» that also pits young people against each other in mortal combat, this dystopian fable set in a post-apocalyptic Chicago treads much of the same ground as the first film with a modest amount of new information and characters.

The film, set against the backdrop of the ’68 Paris student riots, also starred Michael Pitt and Louis Garrel.

Pegged by some as this generation's «Hoop Dreams,» this nonfiction film documents the senior year of a girls» high - school step dance team set against the background of inner - city Baltimore, as each member tries to become the first in their families to attend college.

The film glides smoothly through its first act, counterbalancing the pompous ridiculousness of the showbiz set against the hardscrabble realities of life in war - ravaged London.

Starring Mary J. Blige, Carey Mulligan, Garrett Hedlund, Jason Mitchell and Jason Clarke, the film is set in the segregated Mississippi Delta, and tells the epic story of two families pitted against a barbaric social hierarchy and an unrelenting landscape as they simultaneously fight the battle at home and the battle abroad.

Allied is unusually linear, after the initial setup: Max is told he married a German spy in Marianne; against orders and behind Marianne's back, he sets out to disprove it.2 The apologist urge is to call it a maturation of Zemeckis's style, to tell a story so simply and economically (even if we've kind of been here before with Cast Away), but the film feels conspicuously underdeveloped as opposed to streamlined, to the extent that the big reveal seems as if it was decided on a coin toss; it's easy to imagine the opposite outcome without any sort of retrofitting to accommodate it.

The period film, which casts Josh Brolin and Ryan Gosling as cops going against Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) for control of Los Angeles, has a great cast and period setting.

The film finds the actress in a coming - of - age tale set in the English countryside, against the backdrop of World War III, and Ronan described it as «just the most beautiful story.

By placing at the centre of the narrative a white woman who believes she belongs to the land, against a set of people who see her presence as oppressive and who want to brutalise her, yet who also carry out acts of violence against one another, Denis returns to the core themes of her earlier films (such as Chocolat, 1988)-- the highly problematic issues inherent in the processes of colonisation and decolonisation (2).

When the film was set for June 1 it was up against Snow White and the Huntsman.

The result is a tour - de-force that clashes static set - pieces (including the film's most astonishing sequence, a five - minute ritual as Orin asks the village elders for advice, the figures illuminated against interior darkness by phosphorescent, ghostly lighting) with «extravagant» camerawork that has been compared to Max Ophuls (11).

Warner Bros. has released a new Wonder Woman trailer, one that promises a (relatively) colorful and exciting action - adventure film set against the horrors of World War I.

Most jaw - droppingly, Brewer nearly shot - for - shot re-creates the centerpiece of Ross's film, the tour de force explosion of teen rage set in an empty warehouse, in which Ren fights back against his daily humiliations via gymnastic solo dance.

Caleb Deschanel's cinematography is its greatest achievement; the first half of the film unfolds almost silently against the backdrop of a rocky desert island and the rolling seas, while the latter half is set in upstate, 1940s New York.

Alexander Payne's Downsizing opened the Venice Film Festival and while the film itself is a polarizing, uneven story, it boasts a powerful, touching and funny performance by Hong Chau who plays an immigrant and activist who protests the Vietnamese government's acts against her small village and ends up shrunken and placed in a TV set at a Target store in...

It may not be called Infinity War, but the second film is still clearly going to be the conclusion of the fight against Thanos, who has, after all, been set up as the biggest of Big Bads ever since the stinger at the end of the first Avengers.

One such film marks the reunion of The Artist director Michel Hazanavicius and star Berenice Bejo in The Search, set against the backdrop of the second Cechen War.

The film tells the story of a small town girl (Julianne Hough) who falls in love with a larger - than - life rocker (Tom Cruise) set against the backdrop...

Specifically, she recalls how, on the same day a «tough adult female friend» confronted Kramer about his actions against Dushku, a stunt on the film's set went «wrong,» putting the child actress in the hospital with broken ribs.

Scripted by Monroe's husband Arthur Miller, the Nevada - set film sets the actress's inimitable mix of sensuality and vulnerability against the world - weary alienation of three hardened men, played by Gable, Clift, and Eli Wallach.

Set against the background of the Cold War in the 1950s in Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia and Paris, the film depicts an impossible love story in impossible times.

Set against the backdrop of the Mississippi Delta during the Jim Crow era after World War II, Mudbound is both a timeless and timely film following two families — one black, one white — bound together by the hardships of farm life.

Post-apocalpse settings are all the rage in movies these days (see: certain portions of X-Men: Days of Future Past, the entirety of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, and so forth)- and one such upcoming film, which unfolds against the backdrop of a not so bright tomorrow, is Korean filmmaker Joon - ho Bong's Snowpiercer.

Against this unpromising set - up, Vega creates one of the most fully realized, complex characters I've ever seen in a film.

The film is based on a true story, and the tone of the movie is set right away as we watch footage from a cell phone camera of the policy brutality against the real life Grant and his friends by the Bay Area Rapid Transit officers.

One of the greatest moments in the film is where Lawrence sets in motion a chain of events that conspires against her husband and his cons.

Apart from the dialogue, one might not be able to tell that this narrative is set against the most famous film festival in the world.

The film, set in 1971, centers on The Washington Post's editor Ben Bradlee (Hanks) and its publisher Kay Graham (Streep) as they face off against the U.S. government over the publication of the «Pentagon Papers,» a series of classified military documents leaked to the press by a military analyst.

Directed by Peter Segal, from a script credited to Tim Kelleher and Rodney Rothman, the film sets Stallone and De Niro against each other as onetime rivals in the boxing ring who never had a third and deciding bout.

(And given the costs held against it from the previous directors» scenarios, the film was already set up to fail in recouping those dollars.)

We got our first official still from Guy Ritchie's big screen take on the classic spy series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. earlier this week [see here], and now we have another image from the film featuring the two leads Henry Cavill (Man of Steel) and Armie Hammer (The Lone Ranger)... Set against the backdrop of -LSB-...]

Set against the backdrop of a summer of cicadas and swimming pools, the film blends elements of up - beat teenage melodrama with the strange gravity of classic coming of age stories.

Fox has pushed the new Fantastic Four movie back from March 6th to June 19th, 2015, where it will face - off against Disney / Pixar's new original project, Inside Out (a film set inside the mind of a young girl).

The some - way - outside - Portland setting returns to the Pacific Northwest environs of the earlier films, one being simultaneously rejuvenated (by the farming on Josh's commune, and by implication by the bursting of the dam), and destroyed (there are haunting shots of broken trees semi-submerged by the river, soon contrasted against the hulking great man - made dam).

But compare it to other foreign dramas like Sweden's remarkable «Force Majeure,» set against a gorgeous mountain landscape, or Argentina's satiric masterpiece «Wild Tales» (which I consider the best film of 2014), and you'll better see how truly slight this Belgian contribution can be.

Amma Asante's film combines love and politics, racism and slavery, honour and social ranking, all set against the backdrop of stunning 18th century London, and filmed in stunning 4000k, the first British film to use the new ultra HD technology.

My favorite shot of the film is the opening one in the psych ward — long continuous take, no audible dialog, set against disorienting synth music.