Sentences with phrase «about young characters»
«We're so excited to explore this new part of the X-Men universe, and so excited to do it with Josh, who is uniquely suited to tell this story about young characters,» says Kinberg.
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Michael Barbaro of the New York Times, for instance, had this to say about Trump's social marketing via Twitter: «Mr. Trump has mastered Twitter in a way no candidate for president ever has, unleashing and redefining its power as a tool of political promotion, distraction, score - settling and attack — and turning a 140 - character task that other candidates farm out to young staff members into a centerpiece of his campaign.»
Lions Gate Entertainment (No. 54) has had box office success with two major franchises: The Twilight series (produced by Summit Entertainment, a Lions Gate subsidiary) and Hunger Games, which have much in common as they are both film adaptations of bestselling young adult book series, are fantastical (one is about vampires and the other about a futuristic dystopia), and are anchored by a dynamic young female character (portrayed by Kristen Stewart in Twilight, Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games).
My wife believes him and trusts him and she is a better judge of character than I. [When she met Mark Driscoll in 1997 she said he was a «future cult - leader» and she was never happy about me hanging out with the Young Leaders Group.]
Something about the young Lakita character reminded me so much of a little girl I met named Bharathi, who is pictured above on the left.
We then have a major section on Ayesha, who is later impersonated by one of the prostitutes, the whores of «The Curtain,» and from that impersonation the reader is given full details of Ayesha's strong - willed character, and the scandal involving her and an apparently innocent young man, Safwan, who rescues her on a desert trail only for idle tongues to wag about their alleged secret conduct.
«What young people really need is not more talk about the mechanics of sex and contraception, but encouragement to develop the character qualities of stability, faithfulness and commitment - the qualities they will need to build a strong and lasting marriage based on something that runs deeper than feelings and physical attraction.»
«We're about developing the character in these young kids,» DeRusso said.
When a young child works, plays and lives his life freely with his parents (or parent substitutes, such as grandparents or other guardians) in a one - to - one relationship in the home and out and about, he has a better chance to develop sound character traits systematically: neatness, orderliness, promptness, dependability, honesty, diligence, perseverance as well as kindness and concern for others.
The character educators Tough writes about in his book believe that confidence, optimism and curiosity are the attributes we need to instill in our young; they just don't know how to do it yet.
Horne also offended Norway's lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community after the re-emergence of a tweet that she sent in 2010 about a children's book that included gay characters: «I wonder if it's okay that kindergartens are reading gay adventures for young children?»
Success, he argues, is about how young people build character.
Teach your son to value a young woman for her character and personality; and talk with your daughter about how to spot that kind of young man — and how to spot one who's giving insincere flattery.
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It is directed by Craig Gillespie (Lars and the Real Girl, Mr. Woodcock, and Fright Night remake) and stars Chris Pine (one of many Chrises in Hollywood), Casey Affleck (Batman's younger brother), Ben Foster (That angel mutant called... Angel, in X-Men 3), Eric Bana (Not the second or third Hulk...), Kyle Gallner (The STD - ridden teenager in Veronica Mars), John Magaro (One of the character's husband, Lorna, in that Netflix show about prison women), and Holliday Grainger (Cinderella... but she wasn't Cinderella).
Six weeks later, he texted A young lonely woman takes a soul - searching journey across America to resolve her questions about love while encountering a series of offbeat characters
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The film's uncomplicated plotting allows plenty of space for goofy little throwaway gags — like a running joke about the young McGregor's feeble attempts at birdwatching — that other films might have cut to make way for various subplots or emotional character moments.
In part an homage to tobacco farming, in part a story about standing up to «the man», and in part a love story, or perhaps better put, a story of young ladies falling all over themselves for Troy Donahue's character, a young man who has moved in to a rural farming area with his mother, played by Claudette Colbert.
Being the consummate bullshit artist, Refn is certainly preaching, but not heeding his own sermon's words, as he's been revealing bits about Too Old To Die Young, little - by - little, complete with new character stills.
Being a prequel many are excited about seeing how younger versions of favourite characters -LSB-...]
At the film's press day, Collider spoke to actress Katee Sackhoff (who plays the mother of the siblings in flashbacks) for this exclusive interview about what attracted her to Oculus, being a fan of director Mike Flanagan's work, how she approached this character, her concerns about having to be intensely physical with the younger actors, and the technical challenges of the show.
The bit in question involved about six of the film's young cast members, and I imagined each of their characters as I spotted them — the voluptuous, dark - haired Slut; the porcelain Ingénue; the hunky Boyfriend.
What I particularly like about While We're Young is how I connect to the two main characters played by Stiller and Watts.
That's still pushing it for her to even make Major (averaging at 10 years of service), and we're still in this place of demoting the character to cast a younger actress when a character who is her peer in the comics gets to keep his rank in the movies (For the sake of reference, Terrence Howard was ~ 38/39 for Iron Man 1; Cheadle is about 4/5 years older than he is.
Adapted from stories drawn from Giovanni Boccaccio's medieval book «The Decameron,» the film draws humor from the tension between its setting and the way the characters speak and interact as a story unfolds about a fugitive servant (Dave Franco) who pretends to be a deaf - mute to be taken in by a convent that includes three young nuns (Aubrey Plaza, Alison Brie, Kate Micucci), each dealing with personal crises of their own.
Sure, I would have preferred the whole film be about Beatty's Hughes and the many colorful characters — Matthew Broderick especially, but also Alec Baldwin, Candice Bergin, etc — rather than a screwball romance between two young people for whom life's lessons still await.
She is defiant in the face of societal norms — a scene in which she gives her younger sister a book about defying the patriarchy for a baby shower is perfectly in tune with the character — but she's struggling in two areas of her life.
Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.
Princess Cyd is his most accomplished film yet, about a young woman named Cyd (Jessie Pinnick) who finds herself attracted to Katie (Malic White), a barista, while visiting her Aunt Miranda (Rebecca Spence, playing a character modeled on the author Marilynne Robinson) in Chicago.
One of the most striking elements about this film was the way it was shot, which gave it a voyeuristic sensibility reminiscent of North by Northwest (1959) in particular — especially in terms of the way the character of Héctor 1 was set - up and the power dynamic between the multiple Héctor sequels and the young girl.
Given the illustrious history of characters like these, the fact that these young women are sociopaths isn't in and of itself a problem; it's that Finley has almost nothing to say about how they became that way, and there's nothing very interesting or new about depicting a world where there are no consequences for that kind of behavior.
Featured characters include Jack Warner, Eartha Kitt, Marilyn Monroe, Judy Garland, and Pier Angeli... Underrated English indie filmmaker Duane Hopkins, director of 2008's Better Things, is finally back with his second feature, Bypass, a lost - youth drama about a young small - time fence (played by rising star George MacKay) who comes to a crossroads in his life...
Various characters talk about slaughtering animals, and a young boy pretends to kill goat and cut out its heart.
There have been similar films about young men traveling home to find themselves of late, perhaps most successfully in a similarly themed vehicle, Garden State, but Buscemi's knack for drawing out well - rounded eccentric characters that are believable allows Jim to work more often than not.
That would be Barry Keoghan, the 25 - year - old Irishman who has given two superb but wildly different performances this year playing characters about a decade younger.
On the DVD commentary, they are talking about an alternative ending that I always liked: When Morgan Freeman's character realizes that he can't keep Pitt from shooting John Doe, he pulls out his gun and does it himself, sparing the younger cop decades in prison and sacrificing himself.
As for Day, who worked with first - time feature director Richie Keen on the TV series It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, it's not that his performance was weak, but rather that I just didn't care about his character at all (despite the fact that he was given an overdue pregnant wife and young daughter as justification for why it was critical that he keep his job over others who had been let go in a massive, nonsensical layoff).
Chaplin is brilliant as always in the role of his famous Tramp character, and Coogan impresses as his young partner - in - crime, but while there's a lot to love about «The Kid» (particularly the duo's fantastic chemistry), it falls well short of its reputation as a cinematic masterpiece.
Dear John In 2010, Tatum tapped back into his romantic side with Dear John, an adaptation of the Nicholas Sparks novel of same name about a young couple who exchange love letters after the title character, John, is sent off to war.
Few details are known about the game: it is planned for a 2016 release and it seems like the game is looking to cater to an even younger audience, with its stunning cel - shaded graphics and a kid looking character.
However, the writers use this premise as a tool to introduce its audience to several wacky characters and five episodes in, it becomes a comedy about a group of people living in a cul - de-sac, rather than cougars preying on young men.
According to one fansite the directors» «screwball comedy angle» was «starting to interfere with what the character of Han Solo is really about», and Alden Ehrenreich's portrayal of a young Han Solo was described in the report as being «oddly comparable to Jim Carrey's performance in Ace Ventura at times».
Gordon - Levitt tends to play characters who are a couple of moves ahead of the competition, but you wouldn't figure the young child star of capturing a major unspoken facet about a large chunk of the population.
Characters reminisce about the»90s, wear Pixies T - shirts, and maintain collections of hand - painted action figures in Young Adult, all in line with what viewers might expect from a film that reunites Juno's writer and director, Diablo Cody and Jason Reitman.
The Cabin In The Woods deals with all these issues and more while fitting in some sly commentary about why we enjoy the spectacle of characters — particularly young, nubile ones — getting slaughtered onscreen.
Alden Ehrenreich plays the young Han Solo, who is about to meet other other familiar characters like Chewbacca (Jones Suotamo) and Lando Calrissian (Donald Glover).
After all their on - screen chemistry as the wise - cracking old master and young, inexperienced apprentice worked so incredibly well in Spider - Man Homecoming it's hard not to get hyped about seeing where Marvel Studios will take the characters in the third Avengers film.
We've got much more piss your pants one liners and forth wall breaking tomfoolery from Wade, it's sweet sensitive and extremely emotional in parts (not since the finale of T2 have I sobbed so much), the OTT action and gore makes a hatchet fight in a Butcher shop look clean in comparison with moments to make hardcore Gore - Geeks give a huge hooray, the cringe worthy «oh no he didn't» moments are rife, there's a touching subplot about what it really means to be Family and also we are treated to an array of colorful supporting characters including an excellent turn from Josh Brolin as futuristic super soldier «Cable», a wonderful performance from upcoming young talented star Julian Dennison (hunt for the wilder people), the obligatory Hugh Jackman cameo and a mega hard Super Villain who makes his previous onscreen incarnation seem like Vinny Jones in a giant penis suit... Oh wait!