Sentences with phrase «age cautionary tale»

Instead, Maclean and company aimed higher: an absurdist send up of the genre, a coming of age cautionary tale, and a moralist adventure all in a simmering 83 minutes.

Superbad is a coming - of - age cautionary tale about two socially inept teenage boys about to graduate high school.

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The tragedy may have provided a cautionary tale to a young Jobs, since it's the story of an aged monarch going crazy trying to divide up his kingdom.

It is a hamfisted cautionary tale about global warming (which, via the film's scientific hand - waving, produces an ice age), but it also functions as a powerful 9/11 allegory, celebrating the ability of New Yorkers to unify in the face of tragedy.

But it's also nothing to be commended as a model for others, except as a cautionary tale about the effects of surrendering to the spirit of the age.

In short, the long history of cautionary tales about the implications of a radically longer life has now given way to a newly envisioned, upbeat old age.

Spanning consumerism, beauty, gender, body commodification, aging and more, Greenfield has created a comprehensive cautionary tale about a culture heading straight for the cliff's edge.

Without the stone - age shredding that was once this band's life purpose, Used Future is just nostalgic affectation, with the added anti-bonus of pushing frontman John D. Cronise's Ozzy - lite enunciations and corny lyrics — like those of the vixen - fearing cautionary tale «Deadly Nightshade» — into the unflattering limelight.

As a grueling «trip» movie and cautionary tale of the nuclear age, K - 19 fits the bill.

Since they remain the same while the characters age, the play's events are seen all the more clearly as a story, a cautionary tale that has already happened, rather than as something we should drum up suspense about.

Splice, directed by Vincenzo Natali and written by Vincenzo Natali and Antoinette Terry Bryant, is yet another scifi movie that delves into the ages old cautionary tale of of what happens when humankind attempts to «play God» through reckless scientific research.

While no information was divulged on the budget size for this rom sci - fi (which sounds like a nerdy cautionary tale for the tinder age a la I Origins), we're fairly certain that if Doremus has had time to insert any sci - fi special effects, it could land an acquisitions friendly slot.

While Ingrid Goes West is a nerve - wracking cautionary tale, it's also a surprisingly entertaining indie comedy about the obsessive desire for attention in the internet age.

It's a transfixing, mournful and tragic love story, a cautionary tale against the scope of fearmongering propaganda and an aching parable of resignation we all tend to feel as we age.

And the 1987 thriller «Fatal Attraction» served as a cautionary tale about casual sex in the age of AIDS.