Sentences with phrase «about modern»

Panahi is a seeker more than a finder, and what he has to say about the modern world in general and contemporary Iran in particular can't be reduced to a simple message.

Ultimately, Meet the Parents is one of the funniest comedies I've seen since Annie Hall, a film with which it shares a wry sensibility about modern romance.

The first 2 books in the series were surprisingly well written, witty and full of good observational humor about modern commercialism and the way we rationalize shopping.

Pointed without ever falling into stereotypes, it's a bold statement about modern immigrant life in America and not to be missed.

Gameloft has just revealed more details about Modern Combat 5: Blackout, outlining the game's multiplayer classes and level progression system.

The similarities or influences of horror flicks past, only give it that classic feel and, I think, makes it sit on that shelf alongside its predecessors.That being said, it was all the better for it, this isn't just a horror flick, this is a film with something to say about modern society and the undercurrent of racism.

After Russell Crowe's one - two punch of Gladiator and A Beautiful Mind (both very standard, Oscar - friendly choices), the Academy chose a cynical musical (Chicago), a fantasy epic (Return of the King), a tiny, short story boxing fable with a pro-euthanasia message (Million Dollar Baby), a wild ensemble film about racism (Crash), a dark crime epic (The Departed), another dark crime epic with an inconclusive ending no less (No Country for Old Men), and a movie about modern India (Slumdog Millionaire).

It's also irksome that he's cast Omar Sy as Nicolas; it introduces a racial mix into the story, making it more plausibly about modern France, but at the uncomfortable cost of making Nicolas a compliant black sidekick.

If you don't even like sci - fi, forget about it — it's probably everything you despise about modern science fiction.

(So clueless are they about modern - day conventional warfare that they're repeatedly ambushed by this untrained makeshift militia; they're the Washington Generals to our Harlem Globetrotters.)

Go back and troll a few of her favourite hangouts, in this case a gallery of Kate Moss photographs, which in Richard Curtis's Britain's is clearly the thing everyone simply must have an opinion about («the important thing is the sense of history»), the same way everyone in Annie Hall had an opinion about modern art.

Fiennes plays the title character with a rabid intensity that's required of the role, and Vanessa Redgrave delivers an excellent performance as his controlling mother that has even garnered Oscar buzz, but your own mileage will vary depending on how you feel about the modern setting.

This revolutionary feature - length film reveals a larger narrative about modern creativity.

But Inherent Vice tells stories about race and minorities, capitalism and inequality, and America at large, a bit like how John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath has plenty to say about the modern US from the vantage point of the 1930s.

Still, it gives us pause to think about our modern - day food obsessions and how they might look to others in the future.

And living as we do in a world that's «gone porn» — at least if you believe the countless trend pieces about the topic — it's almost impossible to not try and draw some broader lesson about the modern world from Linda Lovelace's tragic tale.

A complaint heard all too often about modern horror films is that they aren't very scary.

Filmmakers, especially documentary filmmakers telling unflattering stories about modern Turkey, could spend years on a movie that can't be shown.

But whereas other cinematic studies like Gomorrah (about modern Sicily) and the documentary Dancing with the Devil only wallowed in such viciousness, this film plunged deeper, gripped harder, and yet always allowed glints of humanity into such darkness.

Indiepix Festival Favorites, Volume 2 Value - priced, three film set of music documentaries: «Icons Among Us: Jazz In the Present Tense,» about the modern jazz scene, with Terence Blanchard, Ravi Coltrane, Robert Glasper, Nicholas Payton, Brian Blade & the Fellowship Band, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Donald Harrison Jr., Anat Cohen and Esperanza Spalding; «Echotone,» a lyrical documentary providing a telescopic view into the lives of Austin's vibrant young musicians as they grapple with questions of artistic integrity, commercialism, experimentation, and the future of their beloved city; and «Roaring Abyss,» a stunning audiovisual poem, the product of filmmaker Quino Piñero's two years of field recording traditional and modern music from around every corner of Ethiopia, a country of eighty different nationalities and cultures spread amongst mountains, deserts and forests.

The revelations in the film about modern cultural anthropology are indescribably delicious, speaking to pleasure in a way that Jonathan Rosenbaum once identified as including the sensations of fear and unbalance — as an experience, the picture is as exhilaratingly unnerving as only an illicit document can be.

Godless was just one of two Bulgarian films about modern - day crime and corruption in the post-Soviet state, with the other, Slava (Glory), from Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov, who had impressed with Urok (The Lesson, 2014).

This hard - hitting portrait of a notorious white supremacist raises some challenging questions about modern America.

Although John Carpenter's work is too diverse to refer to him as simply a horror filmmaker, you can't actually talk about modern horror without talking about Carpenter.

I want this to be a regular thing for Segel and Stoller to team up and make another personal and silly tale about modern relationships.

If I say that I left the cinema thinking I'd seen a film about modern Britain, you may dismiss me as a driveller, and it wasn't a view I was about to state out loud.

An FBI agent (Frank Whaley) surveilling one of these mob establishments overhears the second such heist and passes the story and a photograph to longtime crime reporter Jerry Cardozo (Ray Romano), who turns it into an obvious front page story about a modern - day Bonnie and Clyde.

It's a biopic about modern dance pioneer Loie Fuller that follows her from her days as a teenager living with her French father in the American Midwest to her journey to France, where her unusual dance style, utilizing silks and colored lights to help create arresting visual displays, made her the toast of the town during the days of La Belle Epoque and the mentor and eventual rival of Isadora Duncan (Depp).

And this is where I come to the crux of the problem: Sonic Boom suffers from many of the issues that I dislike about modern Sonic titles.

Loznitsa has only just given us his searing documentary Austerlitz, about modern - day consumerist and tourist attitudes to the Nazi concentration camps.

Piecing together a remarkable story from first - hand accounts, still photos and grainy video footage, filmmakers Harlock and Thomas assemble a gripping narrative documentary about a modern - day prophet.Bill Hicks grew up in Houston with his pals...

I put out a tweet during Summer of Sonic, giving a brief overview of my first impressions of Sonic Boom, stating that it was «everything I dislike about modern Sonic games».

There's one last thing to bring up about modern Sonic games: the hints.

The 21st Folio is podcast about modern Shakespeare productions of stage and screen.

Being about a town where people can't discuss the past — and must always put up a happy front — «Wayward Pines» could be interpreted as an allegory about modern America.

It's a sincere, well - put - together movie about the modern human condition.

21st Folio is a podcast from Seventh Row about modern Shakespeare productions of stage and screen.

Morrissey's complaint cuts through to the truth about modern journalism — as Spielberg does not — by exposing how what we consider «the news» has become the illusory practice of a primarily Left - centered, conspiratorial institution that operates to manipulate a susceptible public.

There's an impressive balance between the good and bad sides of the story in a complex screenplay about modern bank robbers in Texas.

Or maybe he is talking about the modern customer service experience.

BlackBerry People's Choice Documentary Award: Artifact directed by Bartholomew Cubbins [TIFF] Telling harsh truths about the modern music business, Artifact gives intimate access to singer / actor Jared Leto and his band Thirty Seconds to Mars as they battle their label in a brutal lawsuit and record their album This Is War.

(It's not about Saxons its all about modern attitudes in old time drag shhhh!)

It's a tender, compellingly realistic story about modern relationships.

Watching * Corpus Callosum and marveling at its sprightliness, its joyous, imaginative air, its effortless attenuation to all that is wonderful and horrible and comical about modern technology, makes you want to jump up and shout for joy, too.

Creature Comfort is a balls to the walls statement about modern culture with amazing sound, the album shouldve kept that level of fun, instead we got just a very dull synth - pop experience.

So what does «World War Z» say about modern times?

For children it provides goofy, lovable characters and childish potty humor, while for adults it also offers meta jokes about modern society or of the film itself.

Today, wearing a «Make America Great Again» hat at a bar might get you a free drink — or get one thrown in your... everything misogynistic about modern...

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