Articles related to "Epic Movies"

Hollywood in the 1920s discovered a gold mine in religious epic style movies. These two are fine examples of silent filmmaking.

Silent film epics, often with historical and/or religious settings, can be traced back to Europe. The leading producer of these was Italy until World War I came along.

Lawrence of Arabia was selected as the number one Eric drama by the American Film Institute in their listing of the "Top Ten Epic Films of All Time."

Hollywood in the 1920s discovered a gold mine in religious epic style movies. Helping to lead the way was Cecil B. DeMille who blended biblical stories with sex.

A review of Charlton Heston's 1968 Sci-Fi Classic film, Planet of the Apes. 4.5/5

Remembering the ground-breaking Roscoe Lee Browne, who did everything from theatre to television.

In 1915, D. W. Griffith created a movie that stirred a nation with its heroic portrayal of the Ku Klux Klan and its negative portrayal of blacks in post-Civil War.

A review of the 1970 sequel to the Sci-Fi Classic film Planet of the Apes, Beneath the Planet of the Apes.

What Happened to the Biblical Epic? Wide-screen, Technicolor, and larger than life...Are good movies based on "The Good Book" a thing of the past?

The genre of epic movies is the topic of the latest TCM A Night at the Movies special.

10,000B.C. is an enjoyable but forgettable film. While the movie may have happened in a time before history, it's too bad the plot was developed around the same time.

Rolf Harris has presented his classic Australian stockman lament first recorded in 1960 in a picture book for children illustrated with his own paintings.

Nickelodeon/DreamWorks Animation's The Penguins of Madagascar is long on wacky but seriously short on funny. 3/10.

Early in the 1920s, at the beginnings of their lengthy and illustrious careers, directors Carl Theodor Dreyer, Fritz Lang, and Sergei Eisenstein turned to making epics.

The 1920s has often been called the Golden Age of Silent Movies. These three examples from Europe show why this is true.

Chi Bi Red Cliff Part II features war strategies by Zhuge Liang, Zhou Yu and Cao Cao. Stars Tony Leung, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Zhang Fengyi, Vicky Zhao Wei & Lin Chiling.

Check out the the first trailer for DreamWorks Animation's Kung Fu Panda, starring Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman and Angelina Jolie. Movie opens June 6, 2008

Ilion/Sony's Planet 51, starring Justin Long, John Cleese, Jessica Biel and Gary Oldman, is a mess of movie clichés with nothing original to say. 3/10.

It is the changing cultural situation, not the original texts, which have led some people to identify possibly racist elements to the Lord of the Rings film trilogy.

The debut self-titled album of The Doors is usually considered as the best album of the band, as it contains some legendary rock songs.

Although a good year, 2008 had it's fair share of stinkers. Here are five that somehow managed to stand above all the rest.

Actors Moira Kelly and D. B. Sweeney reflect on the making of figure skating's greatest movie.

A deeper delve into the inspiration behind metal bands reveals that a lot derive music and lyrics from Lord Of The Rings and other Tolkien tales

The Christmas week special is TCM's film-school-for-the-masses overview of a particular genre. In this case, it's epics -- and it's mostly a by-the-numbers affair.

Even in a year in which the most popular and successful films were often among the very best, the past twelve months were no stranger to cinematic pile-ups.

Prior to World War I, Italian cinema led the world in the making of movie epics. However, the war resulted in America becoming the new center.

Billed as an epic action movie on Genghis Khan's beginnings, Mongol instead delivers a love story with everything else trailing behind it.

Paul Blart: Mall Cop, starring Kevin James, lacks laugh-out-loud comedy but still has enough charm and mildly funny scenes to make it an average film.