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Austin Wintory
Austin Wintory (born September 9, 1984) is an American composer for film and video games. He is known for scoring the video games ''Flow'' and '' Journey'', which made history as the only video game soundtrack to be nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media. Early life Austin Wintory was born in Denver, Colorado in 1984 and started learning piano when he was ten years old, after he was introduced to composer Jerry Goldsmith by his teacher. Before the age of ten, Wintory did not play any instruments and barely listened to music. By the age of sixteen, Wintory started writing for and conducting the Cherry Creek High School Orchestra during their performances of the "Spirit of the Cosmos" pieces. Two years later, at the age of eighteen, Wintory conducted the Utah Symphony during its recording of "Cosmos", which became one of his most popular projects, although he refers to it as "atrocious garbage". Since 2003, Wintory has composed over three hund ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denver, Colorado
Denver () is a consolidated city and county, the capital, and most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Its population was 715,522 at the 2020 census, a 19.22% increase since 2010. It is the 19th-most populous city in the United States and the fifth most populous state capital. It is the principal city of the Denver–Aurora–Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area and the first city of the Front Range Urban Corridor. Denver is located in the Western United States, in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. Its downtown district is immediately east of the confluence of Cherry Creek and the South Platte River, approximately east of the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. It is named after James W. Denver, a governor of the Kansas Territory. It is nicknamed the ''Mile High City'' because its official elevation is exactly one mile () above sea level. The 105th meridian wes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Captain Abu Raed
''Captain Abu Raed'' ( ar, كابتن أبو رائد) is a 2007 Jordanian film directed and written by Amin Matalqa. It is the first feature film produced in Jordan in more than 50 years. The Royal Film Commission of Jordan endorsed ''Captain Abu Raed'' to be submitted to the 81st Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, the first ever submitted by Jordan. The film won awards at numerous film festivals including the Sundance Film Festival, Heartland Film Festival, and the Dubai International Film Festival. It was screened at the Jerusalem International Film Festival in 2008. Plot Abu Raed is an airport janitor at the Queen Alia International Airport in Amman. After finding a Royal Jordanian captain's hat in the trash, the neighborhood children mistake him for an airline pilot and beg him to tell them stories of his adventures. At first refusing, he later concedes and tells them about his fictional travels to England, France, and New York, earning the name "Captain Abu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Double Fine
Double Fine Productions, Inc. is an American First-party developer, first-party video game developer of Xbox Game Studios based in San Francisco, California. Founded in July 2000 by Tim Schafer shortly after his departure from LucasArts, Double Fine's first two games – ''Psychonauts'' and ''Brütal Legend'' – underperformed publishers' expectations despite critical praise. The future of the company was assured when Schafer turned to several in-house prototypes built during a two-week period known as "Amnesia Fortnight" to expand as smaller titles, all of which were licensed through publishers and met with commercial success. Schafer has since repeated these Amnesia Fortnights, using fan-voting mechanics, to help select and build indie game, smaller titles. Double Fine is also credited with driving interest in crowdfunding in video games, having been able to raise more than for the development of ''Broken Age'', at the time one of the largest projects funded by Kickstarter, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horn (video Game)
''Horn'' is an iOS and Android game by American developer Phosphor Studios and published by Zynga on August 16, 2012. Gameplay and plot The game's plot and gameplay were, according to Gamezebo, inspired by '' Zelda'', ''Infinity Blade'', and ''Fable''. Critical reception The game has a Metacritic score of 86 based on 19 critic reviews. IGN's Justin Davis praised the game "as an impressive example of what can be accomplished when a talented team takes full advantage of modern mobile devices". Gamezebo described it as "what Ico would look like if Peter Molyneux made it (after an all night ''Infinity Blade''/''Zelda'' binge)", "a beautiful mobile adventure that no gamer should be without", and a "mobile masterpiece". Several reviewers commented on difficulties with the games exploration controls. James Stephanie Sterling writing "touching the ground in a fully 3D world is about as clumsy as you might expect. Between Horn not responding to input, getting stuck on corners, and r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thatgamecompany
Thatgamecompany, Inc. (stylized as thatgamecompany) is an American independent video game development company founded by University of Southern California students Jenova Chen and Kellee Santiago in 2006. The company was a developer for Sony Computer Entertainment, contracted to create three downloadable games for the PlayStation 3's PlayStation Network service, and has since secured independent funding. The first of their games is a remake of Chen's award-winning Flash title '' Flow'', with enhanced visuals and sound, added multiplayer modes and compatibility with the PlayStation 3's motion-sensitive controller. The title was released on the PlayStation Store in 2007. The company's second PlayStation 3 game, ''Flower'', was released on the PlayStation Store in 2009, and their third game, ''Journey'', was released in March 2012 on the PlayStation Store. Their fourth game, '' Sky: Children of the Light'', was released in July 2019 on iOS and in April 2020 on Android. Later, it r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thai Cave Rescue
''Thai Cave Rescue'' ( th, ถ้ำหลวง: ภารกิจแห่งความหวัง) is a 6-part limited series produced by Netflix, directed by Kevin Tancharoen and Nattawut Poonpiriya. It was released on September 22, 2022. Premise The series is based on the events of the Tham Luang cave rescue that occurred in Tham Luang-Khun Nam Nang Non National Park during June and July 2018, in which twelve members of the ''Wild Boars'' youth football team and their assistant coach were rescued from the flooded Tham Luang Nang Non cave system. Cast *Papangkorn "Beam" Lerkchaleampote as Coach Eak * Thaneth Warakulnukroh as Governor Narongsak Osottanakorn *Supakorn Kitsuwon as Saman Gunan *Bloom Varin as Colonel Bhak Loharjun *Urassaya Sperbund as Kelly, a Thai-American hydrology expert *Manatsanun Panlertwongsakul as Pim, a park ranger * Christopher Stollery as Rick Stanton *Nicholas Farnell as John Volanthen * Rodger Corser as Richard Harris * Damon Herriman as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One Shot (2021 Film)
''One Shot'' is a 2021 British action thriller film directed by James Nunn and starring Scott Adkins, Ashley Greene Khoury and Ryan Phillippe. The film follows a Navy SEAL squad conducting a transport mission of a prisoner while dealing with insurgents who are after the same prisoner. ''One Shot'' was released by Screen Media Films in theaters and on VOD on November 5, 2021. It garnered mixed reviews from critics. Synopsis An elite squad of Navy SEALs, on a covert mission to transport a prisoner off a CIA black site island prison, are trapped when insurgents attack while trying to rescue the same prisoner. Cast * Scott Adkins as Jake Harris *Ashley Greene Khoury as Zoe Anderson *Ryan Phillippe as Jack Yorke *Emmanuel Imani as Brandon Whitaker *Dino Kelly as Danny Dietler *Jack Parr as Lewis Ash *Waleed Elgadi as Amin Mansur *Terence Maynard as Tom Shields *Jess Liaudin as Hakim Charef *Andrei Maniata as Adamat *Lee Charles as Dhelkor Release Screen Media Films acquired Nort ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tread (film)
''Tread'' is a 2019 American documentary film directed by Paul Solet. It premiered at the South by Southwest film festival in March 2019 and to limited theatres and on Netflix on February 28, 2020. Synopsis American welder Marv Heemeyer goes on a violent rampage with a secretly fortified bulldozer made up of steel, concrete, and guns after feuding with members of the small town of Granby, Colorado. Reception The film was positively reviewed and has approval rating, based on reviews on Rotten Tomatoes Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television. The company was launched in August 1998 by three undergraduate students at the University of California, Berkeley: Senh Duong, Patrick Y. Lee, and Stephen Wang .... References External links * 2019 documentary films 2019 films American documentary films Documentary films about violence Documentary films about Colorado Grand County, Colorado Bulldozers 2010s English-langua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bullet Head
''Bullet Head'' (also known as ''Unchained'') is a 2017 American-Bulgarian crime thriller film written and directed by Paul Solet and starring Adrien Brody, Antonio Banderas, and John Malkovich. Plot Interspersed flashbacks occur of a Perro de Presa Canario, a large mastiff, from a dog fighting ring, as well as his owner Blue, who has abused the dog in order to make it fight. Despite growing large and taking on multiple canine opponents within single matches, the dog has become injured, and Blue instructs the handler to put him down. Following a botched robbery, the getaway driver of a four-man crew was presumably shot as there are three bullet holes shown in the driver's side window. The getaway car is shown out-of-control and then crashing into an abandoned warehouse, with the driver shown dead, his head resting on the steering wheel. The other three criminals, Stacy, Walker, and Gage take refuge in the warehouse. Stacy contacts another driver, but they won't be picked up unt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Last Movie Star
''The Last Movie Star'' is a 2017 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Adam Rifkin. The film stars Burt Reynolds, Ariel Winter, Clark Duke, Ellar Coltrane and Chevy Chase. The film had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 22, 2017. It was released through DirecTV Cinema on February 22, 2018, before being released in a limited release and through video on demand on March 30, 2018 by A24. This is one of Burt Reynolds' latter film appearances before his death in September 2018. Plot An aging movie star is invited to a small, local film festival in Nashville. He attends and goes on a journey throughout his past as he faces the fact that his glory days are behind him. The story begins with Vic Edwards, old, frail, and frustrated trying to perform everyday tasks. Although once a top movie star, he is ignored by an attractive woman while shopping. He has lunch with his friend Sonny and mentions he has been invited to get a lifetime achievement a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mercury Plains
''Mercury Plains'' is a 2016 American action drama film directed by Charles Burmeister and starring Scott Eastwood, Angela Sarafyan, and Nick Chinlund. Grindstone Entertainment Group acquired the US rights to the film, and it was distributed by Lionsgate Home Entertainment. Eastwood stars as an American drifter hired in Mexico to fight drug cartels. Plot Mitch Davis, unhappy with his life and seeing no prospects for work, leaves with a friend for a trip to Mexico. After getting a prostitute a bar, Mitch's friend leaves without paying. When Mitch refuses to pay his friend's debt to the pimp, he is beaten and robbed. Another American, Jesse, buys him a meal. As they talk, Jesse offers him a job working for a man known as the Captain, an American veteran who runs a paramilitary vigilante group that targets the Mexican cartels. Mitch answers noncommittally and listens to the Captain's recruitment speech. The Captain, recognizing his ordinary speech that emphasizes glory and power ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tales Of Halloween
''Tales of Halloween'' is a 2015 American comedy horror anthology film consisting of ten interlocking segments, each revolving around the titular holiday. Segments were directed by Neil Marshall, Darren Lynn Bousman, Axelle Carolyn, Lucky McKee, Andrew Kasch, Paul Solet, John Skipp, Adam Gierasch, Jace Anderson, Mike Mendez, Ryan Schifrin, Dave Parker and, in his film debut, Jack Dylan Grazer. The film premiered on July 24, 2015, at the Fantasia International Film Festival, before receiving a limited theatrical release and through video on demand on October 16, 2015, by Epic Pictures. Synopsis Sweet Tooth :''Written and directed by Dave Parker''. Having just finished trick-or-treating, Mikey comes home with a bag full of candy. His parents have left him in the care of babysitter Lizzy, who has invited her boyfriend Kyle over to watch a horror movie. As Mikey begins to enjoy his candy, Lizzy and Kyle advise him to leave some for "Sweet Tooth". Not knowing who Sweet Tooth is, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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