Sentences with phrase «war film centered»

«Enemy at the Gates» is a decently engrossing, suspenseful war film centered around a historical duel that took place between a Russian and German sniper.

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Created by director George Lucas, the film series has Star Wars Celebration is coming April 13 - 16, 2017, to the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, FL..

The big man at the center of this film is Oskar Schindler, a Catholic businessman from the Sudetenland who came to occupied Poland to reap the spoils of war.

Aficionados of the action - packed war film will savor the crackling, combat - centered approach of The Thin Red Line, an explosive melodramatization of the Yank assault on Guadalcanal in World War war film will savor the crackling, combat - centered approach of The Thin Red Line, an explosive melodramatization of the Yank assault on Guadalcanal in World War War II.

The metaphor for terrorist attack is so front and center it hardly bears mentioning; War of the Worlds is pure popcorn escapism of the highest order if you want it to be, or more, but it's never less than thrilling, thanks in enormous part to the film's magnificent, sternum - rattling sound design, surely another of the film's Oscar - calibrated achievements.

The film centers on a beautiful, strong - willed woman, who, frustrated by ongoing injustice at home, leaves the United States after meeting Jude, an American doctor who runs a remote medical mission within the Ottoman Empire — a world both exotic and dangerous, and on the brink of what is about to become the first World War.

But while «War Dogs» occupies a similar space as Adam McKay's Oscar - winning dramedy, it doesn't really have anything important to say — or rather, the important stuff feels like an afterthought compared to the dramatized events at the center of the film.

For whatever reason, Warner Brothers packaged Jammin'the Blues, one of the greatest short films ever made, alongside Michael Curtiz's feature length Passage to Marseille (1944), a thoroughly mediocre military melodrama so desperate to replicate the success of Curtiz's earlier masterpiece Casablanca (1942) that it reuses most of the principal cast and some of the same story beats about lovers torn apart by war and self - centered anti-heroes who come to learn the importance of self - sacrifice.

A Star Wars Anthology spin - off film centered on a younger smuggler, will reportedly be their next effort behind the camera.

The Simon Curtis - directed film centers on Maria Altman (Mirren) who is on a mission to retrieve her family's possessions stripped from them by the Nazis in World War II with the help of a young lawyer, Randol Schoenberg (Reynolds).

The film tells the story of brilliant British mathematician and cryptographer Alan Turing and centers on his breaking of the German enigma code at the end of World War II, his prosecution by his own government for being a homosexual, and his resulting despair.

However most of the film's action centers around government deceptions and the escalating turf war between the mechanical extraterrestrials.

Ignoring some of the absolutely silly decisions made so Brad Pitt's adventure would be a primarily solo journey (with him completely front and center until the final act), like the film's McGuffin of a scientist meeting his end in a decidedly slapdash manner, World War Z fails to instill the film's plot with any sense of urgency.

«Beauty and the Beast» and «The Huntsman: Winter's War» scribe Evan Spiliotopoulos is in talks to pen the script for a film centered on popular G.I. Joe character Snake Eyes at Paramount Pictures.

While the original ideas for a Star Wars stand - alone film would be about Yoda, Boba Fett or Han Solo, it's now been confirmed that this spin - off will center around... a woman!

«A nuanced, character - driven film centered on the evolving friendship between two older female characters is perfect counter-programming to an action - packed war spectacle like Dunkirk,» observed Andreotti.

There is also a moral crisis at the center of the film, as Lincoln (Daniel Day - Lewis) is forced to confront the fact that expediting the end of the war could mean jeopardizing the passage of the amendment.

The film is a comedy / dramedy centered on Kim Baker (Fey), a journalist recounting her time covering the war in Afghanistan.

The film centers on the rise of Mitch Rapp played by actor Dylan O'Brien, a CIA black ops recruit under the instruction of Cold War veteran Stan Hurley portrayed by Michael Keaton.

The film centers on four Iraq war veterans: The team captain, and planner Col. «Hannibal» Smith (played by Liam Neeson), who does a great job filling George Peppard's shoes as Hannibal.

While movies featuring black superheroes aren't too much of a novice idea (see Blade, Storm, War Machine, etc.), a film specifically centered on a black superhero with a predominantly Black cast is what's caused such a buzz with Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige stating that «90 percent of the cast is either African or African - American.»

The film centers on the life of T'Challa after the events of Captain America: Civil War, the discovery of another relative, Erik Killmonger, who challenges the crown and the mistakes of family.

All the parts fit together — like the hand - forged computer at the center of the story — in The Imitation Game, a thoroughly absorbing film based on the life of Alan Turing, who helped crack the notorious German enigma code during World War II.

The conflict at the film's center is a familiar standoff between good and evil (or «love and war»), and the romantic aspects occasionally become quite saccharine, but the fusion of mythological elements, period settings, comedy, and standard superhero action makes for an entertaining experience that's more than the sum of its parts.

Alden Ehrenreich has been front and center in films directed by the Coen brothers and Warren Beatty, but he's about to be thrown into the global spotlight with the May release of «Solo: A Star Wars Story.»

Starring Idris Elba and newcomer Abraham Attah, the film is based on the novel by Uzodinma Iweala, centering on the young Agu (Attah), a child soldier tragically separated from his family and forced to join a band of rebels in the civil war of an African country led by Commandant (Elba) who takes in... Read

The latest Tarantino film takes place a decade or so after the Civil War, and centers around a bounty hunter (Russell) and his fugitive (Leigh) who get holed up with six other strangers after a blizzard cuts them off from the town of Red Rock.

Directed by award - winning investigative journalist Peter Landesman (who was included in the list of film - makers on the rise), Concussion centers on Omalu (Smith), the Nigerian forensic pathologist and neuropathologist who inadvertently found himself in a war against the National Football League after discovering chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in football players who took countless blows to the head playing the sport.

After sitting out the Civil War, Thor soars back into action in the first trailer for Thor: Ragnarok, the third film centered around Marvel's god of thunder.

Probably not, but fans of the darkly cynical Oscar nominee, set on the front lines of a shadow drug war, have been eagerly looking forward to the return of Del Toro's mysterious Alejandro, the attorney - turned - hitman at the center of the new film.

The film is the true story of James Donovan, an attorney who finds himself thrust into the center of the Cold War when the CIA sends him on the near - impossible mission to negotiate the release of a captured American U-2 pilot.

But while «War Dogs» occupies a similar space as Adam McKay's Oscar - winning dramedy, providing an entertaining look at how a pair of ambitious twentysomething pals became millionaires due to the U.S. government's own negligence, it doesn't really have anything important to say — or rather, the important stuff feels like an afterthought compared to the highly dramatized events at the center of the film.

Director Ron Howard has offered a glimpse of his brother, actor Clint Howard, in his upcoming Star Wars spinoff film centered on Han Solo.

The Wrap is reporting that the upcoming second Star Wars Anthology film, which will now not be directed by Josh Trank, will center around the beloved character, the intergalactic bounty hunter Boba Fett!

Starring Agyness Deyn, Peter Mullan and Kevin Guthrie, the film is based on Scottish author Lewis Grassic Gibbon's 1932 classic of the same name and centers on a young woman as she deals with the impending First World War.

Competing alongside them are such notable talents as Spike Lee, whose new comedy, «BlacKkKlansman,» tells the true story of an African - American police officer who infiltrates the KKK; Jean - Luc Godard, here with «The Picture Book»; and Pawel Pawlikowski, whose Oscar - winning «Ida» played at Ebertfest, and whose latest film, «Cold War,» centers on a mismatched romance.

Adapted by Gaby Chiappe from the novel «Their Finest Hour and a Half» by Lissa Evans, «Their Finest» is centered on Catrin Cole (a luminous Gemma Arterton), a copywriter hired by the government to help write the «slop,» or female dialogue, for a film meant to lift the spirits of a war - weary citizenry.

A follow - up to the 2015 film, Sicario, which centers around the escalating war against drugs along the border of the United States and Mexico.

The most enthusiastically received discovery in the competition was not a film, but an actor — Austrian Christoph Waltz, previously known only in his own country for stage, television, and film appearances, who proved the galvanizing center of Quentin Tarantino's ambitious World War II adventure yarn, «Inglourious Basterds.»

The struggle between these opposing forces has always been at the center of the «Star Wars» universe, and it provides the backbone for the excellent, epic eighth film in the series, «The Last Jedi.»

Its DNA is familiar, to some extent, taking the conceit of «Groundhog Day» and layering it on to a sci - fi war picture, with a overwhelming hint of World War II (the film centers around a D - Day style invasion of alien - occupied Europe from the U.Kwar picture, with a overwhelming hint of World War II (the film centers around a D - Day style invasion of alien - occupied Europe from the U.KWar II (the film centers around a D - Day style invasion of alien - occupied Europe from the U.K.).

In addition, Kubrick's first film Fear and Desire (prints of which the self - condemning director supposedly acquired to suppress) centered on a fictional war.

Akin to the Titanfall 2 DLC release model, EA announced that post launch, Battlefront 2 will be supporting free themed DLC centered around the films starting with Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi due out December 2017.

While recognizing that the new MMO release centers around concepts and events following two best selling console gaming titles that take place in a timelineapproximately4000 years before the events of the Star Wars movies, it should be noted that the majority of people identify more closely with the Star Wars timeline as portrayed in the Star Wars films, and as such, identify more closely with the content of Star Wars Galaxies.

In the last room of Regen Projects is a sculptural theatre entitled Range Week, where the earlier movies Center Jenny (filmed at Fitch and Trecartin's Los Angeles - based studio) and Junior War (a movie Trecartin pieced together from footage he shot while in high school) are shown.

Marking the centenary of the start of World War I and drawn from the Harry Ransom Center's collections, this exhibition explores war from the point of view of its participants and observers, preserved for a 21st - century generation through letters, drafts, and diaries, memoirs and novels, photographs and works produced by battlefield artists, and propaganda posters and filmWar I and drawn from the Harry Ransom Center's collections, this exhibition explores war from the point of view of its participants and observers, preserved for a 21st - century generation through letters, drafts, and diaries, memoirs and novels, photographs and works produced by battlefield artists, and propaganda posters and filmwar from the point of view of its participants and observers, preserved for a 21st - century generation through letters, drafts, and diaries, memoirs and novels, photographs and works produced by battlefield artists, and propaganda posters and films..

Famous modern installation artists include: Joseph Beuys (1921 - 86) the war - scarred ex-Professor of Monumental Sculpture at the Dusseldorf Academy, whose lard and felt installations, extensive use of found objects, bold lectures on art and creativity and career long dedication earned him a retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum in New York; Italian Arte Povera artists Mario Merz (1925 - 2003), Michelangelo Pistoletto (b. 1933), Jannis Kounellis (b. 1936), and Gilberto Zorio (b. 1944); the German multi-media artist Rebecca Horn (b. 1944), noted for her performance films, her kinetic installations, and her Guggenheim retrospective which toured Europe in 1994; Judy Chicago (b. 1939), noted for her installation of feminist art - The Dinner Party (1979, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum, New York); Bruce Nauman (b. 1941), noted for his neon light sculpture and video installations; and the Frenchman Christian Boltanski (b. 1944), famous for his installations of photographs, sometimes with lights.

The best narrative fiction films have at their center the war between two necessary and contradictory impulses: the impulse to observe and the impulse to declaim.

I enjoy physicality of sci - fi / horror film and TV show props, like the ones you'd see in the Dark Crystal, House, Jurassic Park, Star Wars, Alien, The Blob, early X-Files, Journey to the Center of the Earth (the 1959, not Brendan Fraser), etc..

Leung's more recent works include the culmination of a twenty - year collaboration with Warren Niesłuchowski in the form of two 2011 works, a site - specific project for the MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles, called «Artist in Residence,» and a film, «War After War.»