Sentences with phrase «escapist promised»
Opening with a close - up of Brian Cox's wonderfully craggy face and Leonard Cohen's «The Partisan» on the soundtrack, prison movie The Escapist promises much... It doesn't quite deliver on that set - up, but deserves kudos for ambition and intensity.
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Even the chapter looking at the Promise Keepers and the Nation of Islam tends to portray those movements as the escapist activities of people whose energies would be better spent on progressive political causes.
OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening November 23, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS August Rush (PG for slight violence, mild profanity and mature themes) Freddie Highmore stars as the title character in this escapist fantasy about a promising musical prodigy who runs away from an orphanage to New York City to find his parents (Keri Russell and Jonathan Rhys Myers) only to end up living with a Fagin - like wizard (Robin Williams) and lots of other kids in a makeshift shelter in an abandoned theater which was once the Fillmore East.
The Escapists series began in 2014 as a Steam early access game before being completed a year later in 2015 and then made its way to consoles soon after, giving fans the underdog story — the one where the little indie game worked through early access, gained critical recognition, and eventually got a promising sequel — that we all love.
While Kathryn Bigelow, Tom Hooper and Quentin Tarantino duke it for Oscar honors with their newest films, «Jack Reacher» and «The Hobbit» promise to deliver pure escapist entertainment.
Fast forward over two years later, and not only have most of what was written in The Escapist stories and my blogs come to pass, but still, neither of the two promised games (Star Citizen and Squadron 42) have been delivered to backers.
«Post-racial» is increasingly treated as a dirty word of false promises, and the obvious artifice of the scene (each figure is collaged - in separately) seemed to suggest that the fantasy is indulgent and escapist.