Sentences with phrase «true event films»

Not exact matches

A similar case to EuropaCorp's «Kursk,» the true story of a Russian submarine that sank in the Barents Sea in 2000 and killed everyone on board; though Putin had a significant role in the events, appears in the source material of Robert Moore's best - seller «A Time to Die,» and even featured in early versions of the screenplay, he's nowhere to be found in the finished film.

If you have seen the film Tigers then you may be interested to know more about the true events dramatised in the film.

Inspired by true events, Rush details the rivalry between»70s Formula One drivers James Hunt (Chris Hemsworth) and Niki Lauda (Daniel Brühl)- with the film exploring the characters» exploits in both their professional and personal lives.

Based on the award - winning book by acclaimed British author and illustrator Raymond Briggs, this hand - drawn, animated film tells the true story of Raymond's own parents — Ethel and Ernest - two ordinary Londoners living through a period of extraordinary events and immense social change.

So, like many films «inspired by true events», the film takes liberties with the facts.

When watching films based on true events, my propensity for doubting what I see on screen is instantly heightened.

Inspired by true events, this film stars Richard Gere as Clifford Irving, a charismatic and charming writer who persuades the world that he is the authorized biographer for the reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes.

Rupert Goold «s True Story is a cold and often - times disturbing film, based on true events between reporter Michael Finkel and murderer Christian LoTrue Story is a cold and often - times disturbing film, based on true events between reporter Michael Finkel and murderer Christian Lotrue events between reporter Michael Finkel and murderer Christian Longo.

Based on the true story, it is always hard to criticize the events, but when your film solely relies on the dramatic heft over some of the very important details, it will suffer greatly.

True Story isn't exactly a graphic film, but it's definitely an unsettling one that explains such events in a brutal matter, while also playing with the idea of truth and how far people will go to expose it or even bend it in their favor.

At the center of the film, however, is a story that not only functions as true continuation of the events in the original, allowing the characters to grow and change in different ways than the first chapter, it's surprisingly emotionally engaging and resonant.

The words «based on a true story» can strike dread in the heart of the frequent moviegoer, since so often a film is made no more interesting by the fact that it's about actual events.

Based on true historical events surrounding this overlooked band of brothers and their self - named Bielski Otriad (or partisan detachment), this gripping film delivers a literally chilling view of what these people endured as they attempted to live as well as possible in makeshift camps amongst the dense trees.

Since its true story is still so timely after some 150 years, we can forgive this film for being somewhat dull in the way the events are recounted.

An entertaining film about sobering true events, this is the story of notorious screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, who defied McCarthy's communist witch - hunt hearings in the late - 1940s and was blacklisted by Hollywood for more than a decade...

Based on true events, the film recalls the fascinating story of Olympic Wrestling Champion Mark Schultz (played by Channing Tatum) who befriends an eccentric multi-millionaire (Steve Carell) to...

The film, based on true events, chronicles the covert mission to rescue six Americans involved in a hostage crisis over in Iran.

Here are the five films nominated for Best Original Screenplay (apparently, «original» even if they're based on true events, which I'll never understand).

[Watch the trailer for true story - inspired The Disappointments Room right HERE] Disturbia director D.J. Caruso returns to the horror genre with a haunted house film that was inspired by true events in The Disappointments Room, a psychological thriller that they are saying is in the same vein as The Shining.

This is a little faith - based film («inspired by true events») that frankly deserves better than it's likely to get, either in this necessarily truncated review or at the box office.

It wouldn't surprise me if that was true, because «The Legend of Tarzan» — a would - be event film that happens to be pretty uneventful — has the air of a big budget movie whose studio didn't realize its mistake until it was too late.

Set in the past and focusing on the true life events of P.T. Barnum (played fine by Hugh Jackman) and the origins of his infamous Barnum and Bailey Circus, the film could have been a whole lot more better had it not been a cartoonish musical.

The film can't grasp a consistent tone in its melodramatic depiction of true events.

6 Days is a mostly well - made film based on true events, but its similarity to our current political climate makes it an uncomfortable watch.

Granted, the film is inspired by true events, but Zhang Ke Jia's way of directing and writing helps add a little bit of realism to each character instead of it feeling like an exaggerated version of someone real.

Directed by Sean Ellis, the film is set in World War II and based on the true events of «Operation Anthropoid», a mission where Czech operatives were to assassinate SS officer Reinhard Heydrich.

This is Demme's second remake of a classic film in row, however, unlike his overcooked update of Charade in The Truth About Charlie, he directs with just the right amount of style here, always staying true to the events of the story as they unfold.

With very little action, this film builds almost unbearable tension by carefully examining some moral questions in a precarious situation that's based on true events.

Inspired by a true story, this film is watchable mainly because of the extraordinary events, which are genuinely involving and moving.

Though films «based on true events» are often painfully formulaic — and so too sports pics, which seldom do justice to the drama of actual on - field events — thanks to the unlikely acting tandem of Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill, the formula drawn upon by Bennett Miller's Moneyball is a winning one.

I had very high hopes for this film, based on true events.

Indeed, for a film that's being hailed as a momentous comeback for celluloid — a motion picture event in the truest sense — The Hateful Eight is an inauspiciously low - key affair.

That's not true, or at least it's not supposed to be; when a film sidesteps, ignores or just plain forgets certain uncomfortable events, it commits a huge disservice to itself.

THE GENERAL is perhaps Buster Keaton's best - known films, is inspired by a true story of an event that occurred during the American Civil War, as adapted from the memoir The Great Locomotive Chase by William Pittenger.

Inspired by the true - life events confronting Abraham Lincoln and his monumental moral and political challenge to amend the United States Constitution to permanently abolish slavery, and based in part on the book «Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln» by Doris Kearns Goodwin, Lincoln is a rich and compelling historical and human drama that has been hailed as one of the best film of the year.

In addition to the Best Documentary category (in which the Oscar - winning Amy has been nominated alongside similarly urgent films like the campus rape exposé The Hunting Ground), there will also be a True Story category devoted to narrative films based on actual events.

An attempt to spice up a true story with fictional characters and events leaves this film feeling artificial.

Bizarrely, this Dutch film tries desperately to wedge true events into the shape of an American thriller, but the action sequences are so lacklustre that a fascinating story ends up feeling dull and pointless.

Based on true events, the film recalls the fascinating story of Olympic Wrestling Champion Mark Schultz (played by Channing

It's true that his last film, 10,000 BC, was pretty awful, and The Day After Tomorrow wasn't much better, and yet, there's still something about a new Roland Emmerich flick that feels like an event.

This season's True Detective co-lead Colin Farrell has just signed on to the Warner Bros. project that finds Eddie Redmayne playing Newt Scamander, a wizard venturing around the magical world documenting magical creatures for his book, 70 years before the events of the Harry Potter film franchise.

What makes the film ultimately compelling is precisely the fact that while it is based on a true story, its primary goal is not to represent historical events truthfully but rather to find aesthetic means by which to investigate how one can cinematically render visible past crimes that nevertheless are also suggestive about today without affording viewers the ability to assume the comfortable subject position of historical distance and moral superiority.

While based on true events, 5 Days of War contains blatant fictional elements which stick out like a sore thumb, including Hollywood - style split - second timing and other contrived scenarios that damage the film's integrity.

As the title card for the film suggests, «it is based on true events» and is an amalgamation of the murderous exploits of convicted killers, Bradley John Murdoch and Ivan Milat — the latter who was nicknamed «the backpack killer» after killing seven travelers along Belanglo State Forest between Sydney and Canberra.

Based on shocking true events, the film stars Steve Carell, Channing Tatum, Mark Ruffalo and Vanessa Redgrave and is directed by Bennett Miller who received the much coveted award for Best Director at this year's Cannes Film Festival.

Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant lead the cast of the Stephen Frears directed film which focusses the true events of the latter days of America socialite, Florence Foster Jenkins.

The writer / director talks with Spinoff about the true events that inspired the feature, and the daunting task of making a Hammer horror film.

For that matter, something quite like this did in fact happen once, and that true - life event, known as the «Crazy Eights» incident, inspired the film.

The same can be said for about 80 % of the gags in the film, which throws the kitchen sink of absurdity at the audience in the hope that we'll follow along and laugh at every random event, regardless of whether true humor value is there or not.

Many film critics have reviewed the film as a great success for a movie based on true events.