Sentences with phrase «sprawling epic»

While there is something satisfying about sprawling epics of twists and turns like the original Matrix, sometimes it is easier to engage with the broader strokes.

Paul Thomas Anderson's latest is a departure from his recent sprawling epics of American history and psychosis (There Will be Blood, The Master, Inherent Vice) and a return to the oddball romance of Punch - Drunk Love, albeit in disguise as a tasteful costume drama.

The «90s turned its back on the previous decade's sprawling epics such as «Out of Africa» and «Gandhi» by turning to more intimate period pieces.

Certainly Paul Thomas Anderson's sprawling epic BOOGIE NIGHTS (inspired by the tainted life of John Holmes) is the highlight.

Of course that requires treating stories as wholly interchangeable widgets and assuming that if I can't get my fix of rip - roaring space opera or sprawling epic fantasy I'll happily read message - of - the - day fiction.

This is a big sprawling epic that Hickman is creating and it is one hell of a ride so far.

A price, that can easily get you a couple of triple - A sprawling epics.

Cross-cutting between two generations, James Ivory's sprawling epic of self - discovery is also a lush evocation of the prismatic and sensuous beauty of India.

But the sprawling epic, collated from three different sources, is problematic.

It's also a big album: a long, sprawling epic that stretches out for it's slightly - padded running time, but one so full of ideas and intricacies that it's an easy album to get sucked into.

In other words, this is a sprawling epic that runs a little on the longish side, yet uses the length to deliver genuine spectacle that also compels you on a character level.

Mudbound is a sprawling epic about the complex relationships that connect two families of sharecroppers, one white, one black, in a rural, barren section of the Mississippi Delta in the years during and after World War II.

The Last Samurai At once a sprawling epic, an intimate character study, and a critique on American imperialism, Edward Zwick's The Last Samurai is the director's crowning achievement.

The most critically acclaimed film of 2007 is described as a sprawling epic of family, faith, power and oil, set on the incendiary frontier of California's turn - of -..

Games in the series have always been sprawling epics that take players hours upon hours to complete and even after all that time there is more to do.

Volumes One and Two may have had viewers scratching their heads, and this portion of the film is by no means conventional, but there's a musicality and dreamlike quality to The Enchanted One which resonates long after a tremendous tracking shot of Chico Chapas draws this sprawling epic to a close.

The previous «Star Trek» movie, 2013's «Into Darkness», was packed with it: a sprawling epic full of new worlds, violent consequences and hefty emotional moments.

«1900» (Olive)-- Gerard Depardieu and Robert De Niro play childhood friends — a peasant and the scion of a vast country estate, respectively — who become bitter enemies on opposite side of the political battle in Bernardo Bertolucci's sprawling epic.

Who'd have thought that Victor Hugo's sprawling epic The Hunchback of Notre Dame could be transformed into the story of a misunderstood teen, or that the Hercules legend could be purged of any reference to adultery, or that the tale of Pocahontas, involving a 27 - year - old British captain and a 12 - year - old Algonquin girl, could be the basis for a love story?

Red River (1949): In Howard Hawks» sprawling epic, Montgomery Clift defies tyrannical guardian (John Wayne) and takes over a big cattle drive.

Throughout this sprawling epic one comes to realize the ultimate circle of an intense love affair.

With the sprawling epic Gangs of Wasseypur and intense Ugly, Anurag Kashyap has done a lot expand the appeal of Indian cinema with a pair superb crime films.

The sprawling epic co-stars Christian Bale, Charlotte Le Bon and Shohreh Aghdashloo.

The Oscar - winning actor, who last visited Dublin to promote the sprawling epic Noah, will attend the screening on March 20th and participate in a post-screening Q&A with the audience at the Savoy Cinema on O'Connell Street.

The Lord of the Rings trilogy benefited greatly from characters being dropped from the story because they didn't fit the narrative arc of the project but in this case Jackson and his screenwriters raided Tolkien's notes and appendices from other stories to pad out what is essentially a very simple tale into a sprawling epic.

The most critically acclaimed film of 2007 is described as a sprawling epic of family, faith, power and oil, set on the incendiary frontier of California's turn - of - the - century petroleum boom.

8:00 pm — TCM — Gone With the Wind Margaret Mitchell's sprawling best - seller became David O. Selznick's sprawling epic, the story of spoiled southern belle Scarlett O'Hara coping with the horrors of unrequited love, threats to her family's plantation, and oh, yeah, the Civil War.

If you have any love whatsoever for the sprawling epic masterpieces of Dickens, Thackeray, Eliot, and Hardy, you really must put any book you're currently reading down and read «The Crimson Petal.»

- Kirkus» [A] raw and lyrical debut novel... Castillo's direct and urgent voice propels the sprawling epic with impressive skill.

The story in Horizon Zero Dawn starts as a seed and grows into a sprawling epic that leaves the player somewhere that is unexpected yet welcome.

A Link to the Past and A Link Between Worlds are two of the greatest Zelda games of all time, so another top - down perspective would be welcome after the sprawling epic that was Breath of the Wild.

Games in the series have always been sprawling epics that take players hours upon hours to complete and even after all that time there is more to do.

This benefits a lot of different kinds of experiences, whether it's a sprawling epic like Breath of the Wild or a competitive multiplayer shooter about teen squids.