Sentences with phrase «war epics»

This American Civil War epic has the feeling of a made - for - TV movie but is carried by a truly inspiring story and some excellent performances.

Christopher Nolan's second world war epic Dunkirk followed with eight nominations, including best picture and director.

Go spend some quality time with your child - like go out to dinner or to the latest Star Wars epic.

Thankfully, the God of War Facebook community determined this coveted list when we asked «What is your favorite God of War epic moment of all - time?»

Muv - Luv Unlimited is a heart - wrenching war epic with twists and turns that retroactively make Extra worth revisiting.

Actors shooting a big - budget Vietnam war epic suddenly find themselves in the midst of actual armed combat.

Warner Bros. «Dunkirk,» Christopher Nolan's structurally adventurous war epic released in the summer, is Warner Bros.» big hope for best picture, with eight Oscar nominations total.

Christopher Nolan «s war epic took home Best Film Editing, Best Sound, and Best Original Score for Hans Zimmer.

Movies were suitable only if they were cartoons, family entertainment or, oddly enough, fact - based war epics.

Critics Consensus: Subsequent war epics may have borrowed heavily from the original Best Picture winner, but they've all lacked Clara Bow's luminous screen presence and William Wellman's deft direction.

It's a throwback to romantic war epics stretching as far back as

It's a throwback to romantic war epics stretching as far back as Casablanca but despite its grandeur can't help but feel tired and rote.

This certainly isn't in the ranks of such war epics like Saving Private Ryan, Platoon, and Apocalypse Now, but it certainly manages the essentials in creating an entertaining war film.

Kent pays homage to many of cinema's greatest war epics in a number of carefully chosen shots, deciding to capture the aftermath of the battles rather than the battles themselves.

The editing stands out in the complex Christopher Nolan war epic because it must thread three different storylines happening all at once.

It has Oscar - season pretensions of significance it doesn't earn, but also lacks the bombast of a historical war epic like Saving Private Ryan.

If a film doesn't touch you in some way, it's not really working — and the film that really moved her was Dunkirk, Christopher Nolan's Second World War epic.

As we celebrate the release of the God of War: Saga, let's continue our weekly countdown of your top five God of War epic moments with # 4 from Ghost of Sparta — a tag - team boss battle, in a critical situation when Kratos (or perhaps his brother) absolutely needed it.

Dracula Untold is certainly one of this month's most anticipated films; not just because it retells Dracula's origins by way of a stylized big - budget war epic, but also since it could be the first brick in Universal's rebooted Shared Monster Movie Universe.

But its greatest innovation may be its recognition that you can squeeze a full - blown war epic into just a bit over an hour and a half, if — as Elmore Leonard famously recommended — you leave out the boring parts.

Two potentially higher - profile films, the disco period film 54 (1998) and Ang Lee's Civil War epic Ride With the Devil (1999), failed to make a positive impression on critics and audiences.Ruffalo's luck began to change, however, when he was cast in an off - Broadway production of This Is Our Youth.

Still more success came as he won the part of Pfc. Doll in Terrence Malick's critically lauded war epic THE THIN RED LINE.

Initially hired to the punch up the «slog» — the women's dialogue — in one - reelers and informational shorts, Catrin soon finds herself working on a full - on Technicolor war epic about the evacuation of Dunkirk for an Alexander Korda - like producer.

This was fueled in large part by the fact that Steven Spielberg's Civil War epic garnered 12 nominations, the most of any film.

The Monuments Men - December 18 A Great - Escape style war epic starring Matt Damon, Cate Blanchett, George Clooney, Bill Murray, and John Goodman.

His character, Lazarus, is a «very serious Oscar - winning actor» who is cast for a role originally written for a black man in the most expensive Vietnam war epic ever filmed.

The Civil War epic received 12 Oscar nominations.

British playwright Matt Charman makes his Hollywood debut penning fact - based Cold War epic «Bridge of Spies» for director Steven Spielberg and star Tom Hanks.

Spotlight Pictures has released several new images from upcoming war epic Bitter Harvest, which follows Max Irons (The Riot Club) and Samantha Barks (Les Miserables) as a pair of young lovers in famine - struck Ukraine during the interwar period.

Among the most popular contenders are sci - fi romances, genre - busting war epics, black comedies of historical events, touching LGBT dramas, and biopics of some of Hollywood's stranger figures.

Jolie has been friends with the writer for 17 years and convinced Netflix to back the $ 24 - million Cambodian war epic, which she whittled down to two hours and 16 minutes.

An immersive and intense experience that unfolds across three temporalities with the storytelling dexterity of a magic trick, «Dunkirk» finds director Christopher Nolan brilliantly pulling off a large - scale war epic with a degree of difficulty most filmmakers wouldn't dare approach.

It was 1998 when he finally returned to make war epic THE THIN RED LINE, and it took till 2011's THE TREE OF LIFE for him to truly kick into gear, bringing us TO THE WONDER in quick succession.

Pacific Rim (for those unfamiliar) is a futuristic war epic revolving around the battle between humans armed with 25 - foot - tall self - controlled robots - and enormous creatures from another dimension.

Despite it, the story feels like small potatoes in comparison to other war epics to grace the silver screen, more a personal quest to solve a mystery and redeem the family name, and along those lines, the film does work so long as you see it as a simple tale of valor.

We're used to big war epics being over two hours long, making Jones feel like a film that pads out its runtime to gain the kind of scale a long runtime inherently implies.

In his genre - defying war epic, overflowing with top British actors (Mark Rylance, Tom Hardy, Kenneth Branagh), director Christopher Nolan's casting of Styles — a former member of the boy band One Direction — felt stunty.

But make no mistake, this is no soft, touchy - feely enterprise but a tough war epic, and the film accordingly has a stunning and spectacular look.

The Alamo: Speaking of overblown war epics, The Alamo somehow manages to waste the talent of two exceptionally charismatic performers (Dennis Quaid and Jason Patric), while turning a moment of great historical importance into a dull spectacle.

An anonymous Oscar voter tells Star movie critic Peter Howell she loved war epic Dunkirk and had mixed emotions about The Shape of Water.

Alexander: Oliver Stone's overblown, poorly - paced war epic features a handful of laughably bad performances (I'm looking in your direction, Angelina Jolie) and a distinct lack of coherency.

The Civil War epic costarred Nicole Kidman and Jude Law.

Everybody's goin» surfin» — including Jan - Michael Vincent, Gary Busey and William «The Greatest American Hero» Katt — in this borderline - ridiculous comedy from director John Milius, who's better known for his right - wing war epics (Red Dawn, etc.).

Christopher Nolan's pounding war epic arrives on the small screen, while Alex Horne's gloriously offbeat gameshow returns with a new batch of contenders

The public screening of The Search, Michel Hazanavicius's abrupt u-turn into earnest war epic after Oscar - winning frivolity The Artist, apparently had people on their feet, weeping and cheering.

Tsui Hark, China) Getting in just under the wire, Tsui Hark's latest is a wonderfully entertaining action romp that thankfully does its best to shake off the sombre tone of many recent Chinese war epics and have a bit of fun.

Early on a U.S. marine references Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 Vietnam War epic when he hums some bars from Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries, famously used during the helicopter attack scene in said movie.

If you're interested in sharing a piece of military history with your children, a la Hollywood, yet are concerned about the extreme violence in many newer war epics, Tora!

It's not exactly the Robin Hood you might be accustomed to, as it feels as if the legend has been shoehorned into a much more grandiose medieval war epic.