Sentences with phrase «than the classic films»

It may not contain any elements of «hard science - fiction» but it is no less a science - fiction films than the classic films I mentioned in my review.

Our x-rays are digital images on a high quality monitor rather than classic films.

Not exact matches

The video confirms Fishburne's earlier hint that the final ad would be a silly parody of the classic 1999 sci - fi film rather than a serious homage.

Reservoir Dogs: Bloody Days by Big Star Games is a third - person top - down shooter with few connections to Quentin Tarantino's film other than it being about gangsters with color - coded names; and yet Bloody Days partially succeeds in its aspiration to revive a classic for crime and gangster films, while offering a time - rewind mechanics that helps the game distinct itself from the pool of titles in the top - down shooter category.

The Manchurian Candidate, however, is a far more recognizable classic than Charade, and it would take a brave man or a foolish one to risk the wrath of film buffs by making a new version.

You can't really make this 2D arcade classic much better than it already is, and it is a great title, but it shows it's age, and the fact that it is re-released more than any Star Wars film doesn't help.

I usually am more a fan of the classics than new films, however i found this film enjoyable and to have a very good story.

What human intrigue there is finds itself secured by consistently inspired performances, the highlights of which include the dashing, then - up - and - coming Jude Law as Lord Alfred «Bosie» Douglas, - a man who must choose between embracing his lover and escaping the tragic fate of this lover - and, of course, leading man Stephen Fry, whose capturing of Oscar Wilde's classic charisma, broken by a profound vulnerability which Fry captures through striking dramatic layers, molds a leading man more consistently engrossing than the film itself.

And frustrating, especially considering that if Mr. Wenders wanted a classic film model to emulate for evoking St. Francis, he needed look no further than Roberto Rossellini's splendid 1950 film «The Flowers of St. Francis.»

I can't say I can fully blame the critics, because even though, like I said, I like this film alright, it has more than just some decent, if annoying punk rock classics to give you (Yes, I'm going to say it again) «heebie - jeebies» (There).

When Frankenheimer got a second movie to direct - «The Young Savages» in 1961 - he had a far better time, and he made no fewer than three big films the following year, including «The Manchurian Candidate», an instant classic.

From A Trip to the Moon (1902) to Arrival (2016), science fiction cinema has produced a body of classics with a broader range of styles, stories, and subject matter than perhaps any other film genre.

That makes for engrossing and moving film making and a movie that actually got deeper under my skin than Spielberg's classic.

On more than one occasion, he makes reference to classic Western films from Stagecoach to The Searchers.

At the same time, DreamWorks still has yet to make a film to put them on a par with Pixar in terms of being able to make animated family films that will last the test of time as classics in their genre, rather than populist features that work primarily in the here and now.

We've known the new film, directed by Josh Trank (Chronicle) will have some radically different concepts going on than we're used to seeing in the classic Fantastic Four comics.

Although the film didn't connect as strongly with mass audiences (although it's considered a «sleeper hit,» you have to wonder what it could have done if it had been released after Whedon's little art house film «The Avengers «-RRB- and more than a few critics found it befuddling and arch (it's neither), «The Cabin in the Woods» is the kind of movie that will ultimately live on as a deserved cult classic, perfect for drunken film studies students and bored kids at slumber parties alike.

From its idyllic, adventurous setting to the selection of music and Alexandre Desplat «s tremendous score, it somehow felt like a classic kids» film (arguably more so than «Fox») airing on TV on a Sunday afternoon, while also featuring some of the most exciting filmmaking of 2012 so far.

Additionally, in no particular order, there were vocal supporters of the Ralph Jones «incongruously great score to «Slumber Party Massacre ``; «Phantasm» «s heavily «Exorcist «- indebted score from Fred Myrow and Malcom Seagrave; Danny Elfman «s channelling of Bernard Herrmann for «Nightbreed ``; Wojciech Kilar «s bombastic, often recycled music for «Bram Stoker's Dracula ``; John Harrison's score for Romero's anthology film «Creepshow ``; Richard Band «s better - than - deserved compositions for the terrible «Troll ``; the great Lalo Schifrin «s score for the original «The Amityville Horror ``; a more recent example in Climax Golden Twins» music for Brad Anderson «s now cultish «Session 9 ``; Pino Donaggio's terrific work with de Palma's «Dressed to Kill ``; Gene Moore's classic church organ scares in «Carnival of Souls ``; and while we've featured Bava fils above, we could easily have found room for his father Mario Bava, probably with the funky original music by Libra for his final film «Shock.»

He even describes his constant companion Earl (R.J. Cyler), with whom he makes short film parodies of classic movies, as more of a «co-worker» than a best friend.

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It's consequently not difficult to see why Election is now considered a classic high school comedy, although the presence of several decidedly adult themes (ie lesbianism, adultery, etc) ensures that viewers over a certain age will probably get a whole lot more out of the film than teens.

A bit more over the top than the recent R - rated animated film, Batman: Gotham Gaslight (reviewed elsewhere on this site) which had a more traditionally cell animated look, Batman Ninja is a visually dazzling and fun film and an interesting take on the classic DC characters which include The Joker, Harley Quinn, Gorilla Grodd, various Batman villains, and members of the Bat Family as well.

Classic films present escapism in its purest form, and I can't think of a better example than William Wyler's romantic adventure, Roman Holiday.

Take, for example, the bouncy Elton John classics that litter the film's soundtrack; their inclusion clearly has more to do with the singer being one of the film's producers than with any particular thematic appropriateness of the tunes.

CinemaCon 2018: New motion - capture film promises more humans and more brutality than Disney's take on Rudyard Kipling's classic

Among the anticipated highlights at the ongoing San Diego Comic - Con (SDCC), for horror fans was tonight's world premiere screening of The Woods, from director and writer duo of Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett (You're Next), but the whole event just became bigger than anyone imagined, as it has been revealed tonight that the film is actually called Blair Witch and it is a sequel the 1999 found footage classic The Blair Witch Project!

Although not nearly the classic in the Western genre as Leone's other films, as an entity unto itself, especially when considering the works of a master director, its complexities make it more than worthwhile.

February's Black Panther is more than just the first MCU film to be headlined by a Black character (though that is a pretty big deal)- it's a chance to see a classic Marvel property with connections to the deepest parts of the publisher's lore brought to life in stunning detail.

It is a film that — maybe more than any frontrunner of recent years — is in danger of drowning in its own critical attention and press acclaim, creating successive eddies of contrarian backlash from columnists and late - breaking social media dismissal from cinephiles, who compare it unfavourably with the classic work from Hollywood and France that is their own area of expertise.

The performers continue their exemplary work from the 2009 film, embodying their own versions of these characters rather than simply imitating the «classic» cast of the 1960s show.

Of the more than 40 films he's directed this century, I've only seen a handful, but Yakuza Apocalypse is firmly in the tradition of earlier films like Sukiyaki Western Django, 13 Assassins and his remake of the Maskai Kobayashi classic Harakiri in their critique of the psychotic masculinity that underlies the ideology of Japanese action narratives.

Whether or not this film will go down as the cult classic that Rogen and Goldberg are clearly hoping for remains to be seen, but come the end of 2013, it will certainly register in the memory banks of cinema - goers to a much larger degree than all the comedy films that have preceded it this year.

One of the reasons the film's producers opted for Netflix's $ 12 million distribution offer is that they saw the potential for more viewers than specialty labels like Sony Classics or Focus Features would deliver.

I think the release is later than expected for two reasons, firstly Sony Pictures Classics now have a trilogy of films coming out over the summer with this, the new Almodovar film and Before Midnight hitting cinemas in May and June respectively.

Alfred Hitchcock never made a more purely entertaining film than North by Northwest (Warner), a classic «wrong man» thriller with a romantic cast and a breathless series of adventures across a cross-country romp.

Its much closer to classic Jackie Chan films than the fast cuts and handheld cameras of the «Bourne» trilogy.

It's shot in black and white which adds some style, and it has a haunting score by Abel Korzeniowski (of A Single Man, W.E.), but this is a film that is destined to be loved by a small audience, and be much more of a cult classic than anything.

Though we love nothing more than to bemoan an upcoming remake of a classic film, sometimes the newer version turns out to be even better than the original.

Unfortunately where I live it can be very difficult to track down films in languages other than English (only place that properly stocked them and classic film closed down a few years ago), but this one definitely seems to be worth the extra effort to track down a copy.

There are two possible effects that come from lifting the title of a respected movie classic: on the one hand, it can be perceived as an audacious, assuring wink to savvy viewers that you're aware, as a filmmaker, of your movie's debt to hallowed classics of the medium; on the other hand, it can serve to accentuate how much more desirable revisiting older, better films would be, than to sit through a pretty bad new one.

This event will see a selection of new release previews, specially selected classics and films that reflect the different programming strands that the IFI runs all year round such as IFI Stranger than Fiction, IFI Family and the IFI Irish Film Archive.

Part terse sci - fi chase thriller, part parenthood parable, this story of a former cult member (Michael Shannon) trying to protect his supernaturally gifted son never lets on more than it needs to, expressing itself in subtleties and nuances in a style that brings to mind classic films by Steven Spielberg and John Carpenter.

Pynchon's book, and this film, are loving spoofs of the classic detective story, though set in 1970 rather than the 40s.

Of all the films at this year's festival, none received more love / hate than Brigsby Bear, so of course Sony Pictures Classics acquired it for $ 5 million after a heated bidding war.

Best Short Subject: Steve De Jarnatt's superb film noir takeoff Tarzana had more moxie than most of the new features I saw last year, and was informed enough about the subject of its parody to be fascinating in the same ways the classic straight jobs are.

But it is of a piece with the rest of the movie, which plays less like a classic gangster film than like a 99 percent pure, Heisenberg - quality, blue - crystal distillation of all the tropes and themes and moods of the classic gangster film.

Sony Pictures Classics, who typically dabbles in foreign films and art house fare (and interestingly hides their usual branding from the front cover here), opened this wider than they have any other film, in over 1,000 theaters.

But here is this great classic film that's easy to enjoy and fun to compare to its remake getting more widely seen than its contemporaries and raising some awareness and interest in the eldest chapters of Warner's rich catalog.

If that's the kind of film quote that makes you melt rather than reach for the sick bucket, then this classic transatlantic rom - com is perfect for you.