Sentences with phrase «years of action cinema»

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The part - CGI, part live - action family adventure hits cinemas everywhere this December courtesy of David Heyman, the producer of the Harry Potter series and last year's superb GRAVITY.

Every year is a good year for action cinema, at least from a financial standpoint: If you count superhero movies, the genre pretty much has the top of the box - office charts on perpetual lockdown.

by Walter Chaw Arriving right smack dab in the latter half of a decade in American cinema that saw digital «reality» supplant filmic «reality» (and appearing the same year as James Cameron's Forrest Gump: Titanic), Hong Kong legend John Woo's high - camp Face / Off directly (and presciently) addresses issues of identity theft, terrorism, and the digital corruption of reality and indirectly addresses Woo's émigré influence on the modern action film.

In a year when Gareth Evans's next - to - plotless The Raid: Redemption offered a vision of a kind of pure action cinema, and Christopher Nolan capped off his largely entertaining, stiflingly serious...

The advanced techniques of the Hong Kong action cinema translated from the period kung fu and wuxia film to the modern world of cops and robbers, from swordplay to gunplay, not for the first time (it was preceded into the present by Jackie Chan's Police Story from the previous year, as well as Cinema City's highly profitable Aces Go Places series of comic adventures and a whole host of films from the Hong Kong New Wave like Tsui Hark's own Dangerous Encounters - First Kind, not to mention earlier films like Chang Cheh's Ti Lung - starring Dead End, from 1969), but better than anything before it.

I could discuss similar films that played at this year's Berlinale — but these two examples must suffice to demonstrate the dilemma German cinema faces: these genre films suffer on the level of craft, while also facing the problem that the socio - cultural context might simply not lend itself to the kind of genre filmmaking (at least with regard to the thriller and action film genres) that seems to come so organically to filmmakers working in different national contexts.

Coming two years after Kim Jee - woon's 2008 Korean spaghetti western The Good, the Bad, the Weird, Daniel Lee's historical action epic 14 Blades offers another instance of mainstream Asian cinema attempting to give Western genre tropes a distinctly Eastern flavor.

This one will open in cinemas in March, and is part of the live - action release schedule for the Mouse House next year.

Pam Grier is the first black woman action star, and in recent years there's been more attention paid to pulp figures in that ilk, thanks to the nostalgia of cult cinema and the celebration of genre canons.

When Pierre Morel's action thriller Taken was first released in cinemas back in 2008, many people were surprised to see the then - 56 year old Liam Neeson taking on the role of anti-hero Bryan Mills.

Both of the most recent Tsui films that I've seen, the kung fu whodunnit Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame and Flying Swords of Dragon Gate, his second remake of the 1967 King Hu film Dragon Gate Inn, which remains after 45 years one of great masterpieces of action cinema from anywhere in the world, feature extensive use of CGI, though both are significantly more grounded in reality than Zu Warriors.

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Though many of us have a soft spot for these relics of pre-Nolan, pre-Marvel Hollywood action cinema, revisiting Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and its torturously titled sequel Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life today reveals just how far the genre has come in recent years.

It's a slow burn of a buddy cop thriller that sticks to the most basic of action movie clichés, entirely ignoring the CGI and overzealous plotting of the last twenty years of big - budget cinema.

In the years hence he would helm six others in a concentrated string of work that has come to define Hong Kong action cinema — a term with which Woo's name is essentially synonymous.

This certainly looks to be a better alternative to xXx: The Return of Xander Cage though as I said it's the time of year I don't mind turning off my brain to watch some silly action cinema.

Hot Fuzz surpasses the group's first collaboration, as a brilliant cop comedy that has great fun with cinema's conventions and clichés, specifically those of action films from the past 25 years.

With bold and lovable new characters, sharp and creative action, and a killer sense of humor, Guardians of the Galaxy easily qualifies as some of the most fun cinema has to offer this year.