Sentences with phrase «about machismo»
Hands Of Stone, a biopic about the Panamanian prizefighter Roberto Durán, can't decide whether it wants to be a portrait of the athlete as an independent hero of his times (like Ali), a character study about machismo (like Raging Bull), or just an underdog sports movie.
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Supporting her and her ruling Socialist party is a network of deconstructionist think tanks (like the ominously named Terra Nova) that draft white papers about how to purge machismo, heterosexism, Eurocentrism, and nostalgia wherever such toxins may lurk.
Sidibé says machismo about using condoms and taking HIV tests also keeps men from seeking care.
When I say act like The Man, I'm not talking about an inflated ego, arrogance, or a machismo attitude.
They were not, I suspect, prepared for a dark, cynical satire about American machismo and the country's absurd obsession with guns, violence, and, to put it bluntly, obtaining satisfaction off inflicting pain on others.
He'd better hope they're not the types who dig westerns (films about the law of the gun, machismo, etc), as his new one is a riff on this most American of genres.
At its core, this is an observational comedy about the contrast between old school and contemporary fatherhood — machismo vs emotionally open.
On its 30th anniversary, Kenji Fujishima writes about James Cameron's «Aliens,» and its subversive approach to machismo in film.
Although I was initially a little worried about how a sequel like this might turn out some 20 years after Predator 2, the franchise looks to be updated while still retaining the machismo, the gore, and the mid-range budget (not to mention the jungle setting).
The script has taken rather a trim in comparison, this film concentrating on machismo and gunplay rather than the more artful and character driven original; the result is that Eastwood's gunslinger comes across as more of a cynical operator than Mifune's aimless but moralistic samurai, and the build up has a brisk, almost rushed feel about it.
Jeff Bridges must be commended for his fresh interpretation of the roguish Rooster Cogburn as an endearing contradiction of machismo and vulnerability which actually enables you to forget about John Wayne after the film's first five minutes or so.
The characters in The Realm of Hungry Spirits, while permanently connected to one another, battle tooth and nail over just about everything: women against machismo, family against family.