Sentence examples for period fantasy from inspiring English sources

The hopefuls are broken up into three categories: period, fantasy and contemporary film, and this year there was a lot of overlap with likely Oscar contenders.

You have come to gape at a period fantasy made flesh, and suddenly the object becomes a subject, someone with whom you empathize.

Minnelli and his daughter Liza finally fulfilled their dream of making a film together when exploitation movie king Samuel Z. Arkoff's American-International Pictures agreed to finance the period fantasy A Matter of Time (1976).

But with Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them based on an original JK Rowling screenplay, fans looking to flesh out the New York-set period fantasy with oodles of whimsical backstory will need to find new sources of reading.

Preposterous as these vignettes may be, a period fantasy of the pneumatic sex goddess fulfilled by domesticity, at least Mansfield and Hargitay look like they're having fun — their exuberance, however tacky, in stark contrast to the tasteful restraint that characterizes the book's other entries.

The theatrical film nominations announced Monday are divided between period, fantasy and contemporary categories.

The family romance is a latency-period fantasy, belonging to the drowsy years between 7 and adolescence.

The group announced its nominees for its annual awards on Friday, and there were more nominees in the contemporary film category than in either period or fantasy.

For someone who ricochets constantly between the period and fantasy genres, I wonder who of all these characters she identifies with the most.

(The Academy mostly chooses period and fantasy films over modern ones, but the detailed recreation of Osama bin Laden's compound in Kathryn Bigelow's film may give it an edge).

Listening to it from the beginning to the end is like being trapped in a dream with a twisty plot that draws you deeper and deeper into a period Hollywood fantasy of the bad and the beautiful.