Sentences with phrase «territory of films like»

But John's command does push the film further into the old science - fiction, doomsday territory of films like Five; The World, the Flesh and the Devil; and Night of the Living Dead, where the only way in the world the races could commingle was at its end.

Not exact matches

Even if you're eager to appreciate the 48 fps highlights, the fact that a good portion of the film dips down into that strange video - like territory turns the feature into an even more disjointed experience than it already is.

Some employees of an international arms dealer go out into the Hungarian wildeness for a weekend company retreat, only to find themselves menaced by a group of militants who don't like having them around their territory in this modestly budgeted dark comedy / horror film from Christopher Smith, who also directed Black Death (with Sean Bean).

Writer - director Roland Joffé has built a career on narratives of white men in foreign territories, with films like The Killing Fields, The Mission, and City of Joy being notable (and tiresome) examples of a distinctly middlebrow breed of the historical drama that locates subaltern longing through an imperialist lens.

The Duffer brothers» «Stranger Things» on Netflix and the Jeff Nichols» film «Midnight Special» both call back to a specific attitude and time in pop culture (and in fact, it's the same time for both of them), but they manage to do so masterfully enough that it feels both like going back to something familiar while moving forward into unexplored territory.

Haneke: I think that in my earlier films, like 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance and Code Unknown, I presented cross-sections of society, so this isn't quite uncharted territory for me.

Smartly, the filmmakers — who include screenwriters Jenny Bicks and Bill Condon (the latter directed the live - action Beauty and the Beast and Dreamgirls and wrote the film version of Chicago)-- also know how to keep a four - quadrant family musical from sinking into Chitty territory by employing devices that also will please the Broadway crowd, particularly the Bob Fosse - like opening number as well as sensational choreography throughout.

Luckily, the talent of these people balanced this film and drove it into the same territory as his previous movies, films that are relatable despite any extraordinary circumstances like shrinking to five inches tall.

But then The Wrestler on film is much like the real thing — scripted moments come with the territory, but in the right hands the end result can become a different kind of spectacle entirely.

By the time the film arrives at «the incident», and swerves into territory that plays like Goodfellas populated by Coen brothers characters, the rags - to - riches story alone has already been one hell of a ride.

Still, even if much of «Blade Runner 2049» feels like well - trod territory by this point — cribbing as much from sci - fi like «Ex Machina,» «Her» and «A.I. Artificial Intelligence» as Scott's original film — it's a beautiful revisit to one of sci - fi cinema's most striking visions that does right by its predecessor.

The theme that revenge only leads to misery feels like familiar territory, and one wonders if the film would have been better off simply implying the violence of its characters through its indelible images.

What You Need To Know: Even those who liked all of David Gordon Green «s comedies were, by the time «The Sitter» rolled around, looking forward to seeing the filmmaker return to the kind of territory that made his name, with films like «George Washington,» «All The Real Girls» and «Undertow.»

Every once in a while we end up with a jackpot like Kick - Ass, but most of the time the films find themselves in Witch territory.

And while Strange may not be the most engaging of protagonists, Cumberbatch makes the leap from the small screen and a string of serious feature film roles to blockbuster leading man territory like he's been firing off zingers, juggling green screens and carrying franchises his whole life; if there were ever any doubt of Benedict's star quality, this is bona fide proof he's an A-lister with a capital «A».

But neither will anyone accuse him of emulating a film like «Virgin Territory» (2007), a direct - to - DVD romp that went to «The Decameron» strictly for the clerical, uh, romance.

There's an aura of unpredictability around her, like she might suddenly send things careening off course into uncharted territory, and I found myself wishing that she was the protagonist of her own film.

This thematic territory of cultural mistrust via miscommunication should be a generous playground for a humane writer's writer like Sayles, but his usual anthropological ear and eye for class tension and social custom have mystifyingly deserted him here — halfway through the film, my note - taking devolved into simple transcription of the multiple howlers in the dialogue.

Oh, here we go: «At no point does this seem like new territory, but outside of being about ten minutes too long, it's a film that works despite its rather traditional dramatic nature.»

I always liked the idea of exploring a sister relationship... I've had an incredibly fascinating and rich love / hate relationship with my sisters my whole life and I thought it would be rich territory for a film.

«A dodgeball movie is uncharted film territory,» says Rawson Marshall Thurber, the film's writer / director, «but at the same time it inhabits the same tradition of great underdog movies like «Stripes,» «The Bad News Bears» and «Meatballs,» which follow an archetypal comedy framework: scrappy underdogs take on the socially, financially or athletically gifted and prevail against all odds.»

Kay's journey through various villages, dungeons, and enemy territories is colorful, light and full of dialogue that draws heavily from its Kung Fu film inspirations, while including elements like jokes that would make kids chuckle in delight.