Sentences with phrase «age film by»

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The film, directed by Barry Jenkins and based upon the play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue by Tarell Alvin McCraney, follows Chiron, a young African - American boy coming of age in Miami, navigating his family, both found and biological, and his sexuality.

With those two films showing potential weaknesses, there is room for a surprise winner like Get Out, the horror film about racism, or the coming - of - age LGBTQ romance Call Me By Your Name, among others.

According to 2009's «The Little Book of Curses and Maledictions for Everyday Use,» by Dawn Rae Downton, the actor who played Superman as an infant in the 1978 film, Lee Quigley, died at age 14 from inhalant abuse.

-LSB-...] Though the pornography biz has been reshaped by the recession and the digital age, Grey has managed to make the jump from bondage flicks on the «Net to a Steven Soderbergh film at the Tribeca Film Festival.

The film, based on a bestselling coming - of - age Christian memoir of the same name, is scheduled to premiere Saturday at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas.

Founded in 1998 by the creators of the Academy Award - winning short film TREVOR, The Trevor Project is the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to LGBTQ young people (ages 13 - 24).

One of 2016's most surprising breakout films - i0t currently holds a 97 % on Rotten Tomatoes — is Irish coming of age comedy Sing Street inspired by New Wave music, the raise of the music video and teenage romance.

Lisa loved acting as a child and was a full - time drama student by the age of nine starring in numerous films and television shows.

Capturing three generations in the one picture by taking a photo that features a grandmother, daughter and granddaughter for example, makes the age difference become quite clear and in doing so, creates a wonderful family memory on film.

So when Nestlé states in its report, «we also do not market complementary foods for children under six months of age», it is important to remember that it took many people monitoring and exposing Nestlé's contempt for the Resolutions, working for binding regulations and taking to the streets to force this change (the demonstration at Nestlés UK HQ was filmed by Swiss Television).

In March 2009, while Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Miliband attended the UK premiere of climate change film The Age of Stupid, where he was ambushed by actor Pete Postlethwaite, who threatened to return his OBE and vote for any party other than Labour if the Kingsnorth coal - fired power station were to be given the go - ahead by the government.

The culture secretary added that film style age classifications similar to those given to movies was an option coming into «full focus» at the moment and hinted this was being seriously considered by the government.

Many people will be familiar with Hawkeye, as portrayed by Jeremy Renner, from films such as The Avengers, Avengers: Age of Ultron, and Captain America: Civil War.

The amount of gun violence in top - grossing PG - 13 movies, which can be seen by children of all ages, has continued to exceed the gun violence in the biggest box - office R - rated films, a new analysis published in the journal Pediatrics shows.

Born in 1865, William Bentley was fascinated by snowflakes from an early age and invented a technique for capturing them on film

In this respect, the «psychic» who regularly liven up the press in the New Year — at least in the US — with predictions that California will fall into the sea, the president will be abducted by aliens and some film star will give birth at the age of 65, evidently understand their audience better than the astrologers.

In one especially remarkable case highlighted in the film, a man named Tony Cicoria was not a particularly musical person until he was struck by lightning at the age of 42.

It's a private venue that calls on an eclectic mix of patrons, ranging in age, but all brought together by their mutual love of live music, film screenings and art at large.

There are so many different ways of searching for people in your area — whether it's by occupation, interests, age, or even favourite films.

What's more, our clever search filters also let you search by age and interests, so whether you're looking for someone who shares your taste in Bollywood films or your love of the great outdoors, you've come to the right place.

Critics Consensus: It's sentimental, and some viewers may feel manipulated by the melodramatic final act, but The Man in the Moon offers a finely drawn coming - of - age story with an excellent cast — including Reese Witherspoon in her film debut.

A smarter film about country music would cast the would - be cowpunk as a Jack White - type, somebody who would encourage the aging legend to reject Nashville values and make an all - out roots album (similar to Loretta Lynn's «Van Lear Rose», produced by The White Stripes frontman himself), which would add creative tension to the preexisting atmosphere of marital discord between Kelly and her commercially - minded husband.

The fourth film in the animated Ice Age series follows Manny, Diego, and Sid as they try to reunite with their family and friends after they are separated by the dividing continents.

Critic Consensus: It's sentimental, and some viewers may feel manipulated by the melodramatic final act, but The Man in the Moon offers a finely drawn coming - of - age story with an excellent cast — including Reese Witherspoon in her film debut.

«The Angry Birds Movie» is not really a good film by any means, but for taking an app and turning it into feature film and trying to satisfy all ages, I think they did they best they could with what they were given.

Michael Tolkin has also written and / or directed such films as The Player (1992), directed by Robert Altman, and The New Age (1994), both of which also skewer contemporary American society as shallow, materialistic, and desperate for something authentic to believe in.

The film is by no means terribly long, at least when you compare it to its 1969 musical counterpart, so it's not like storytelling drags its feet for ages, but make no mistake, the fact of the matter is that plotting's structure is something of a mess that meanders along repetitiously and, well, is to be expected, because, really, where does this story have to go?

While it's not a perfect film by any means — a lack of catchy musical numbers and a questionable shift of focus in the film's latter half knock Megamind down a few pegs — the lively cast and interesting flip on the superhero concept make it a fun time at the movies for viewers of all ages.

Although Lassie may seem like a unusual film for Morton to appear in, she has a history of working in family friendly fare having provided the voice for Ruby in the Max and Ruby animated television series based on the popular children's books by Rosemary Wells.In 2007 she appeared as Mary Stuart in Elizabeth: The Golden Age, and appeared in the Ian Curtis biopic Control.

A historical epic in search of a tone it never quite conquers, Oliver Stone's three - hour labor of love is simply laborious, a ponderous behemoth of a film that favors breathy exposition over the more battle - savvy aspects of the young king who by the age of 32 ruled virtually all of the known world.

After some opening images — a shadowy blond figure, complete with trench coat and heels, dumping a corpse off a bridge — that immediately frame its tale of moneyed madness through the greasy lens of B - movie schlock, the film moves to an aging Durst (here renamed David Marks and played by Ryan Gosling) on the witness stand.

With dogged determination, the producers continued onward with Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), at which point fans finally flocked to the series, rallying behind the film's crisp space battles and the melodramatic tête - à - tête between Shatner and Ricardo Montalban.Shatner had to wrestle with his advancing age and the deaths of several characters in Star Trek II and Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984), but by Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986), the actor got to indulge in his more whimsical side, which has since characterized his career.

This film may seem like a movie that is only full understood by someone over the age of 50, but anyone who enjoys likeable chemistry, a relaxing story, or slice - of - life storytelling, the you may just find yourself enjoying A Walk in the Woods quite a bit.

Miles Ahead is a film that showcases the soulful filmmaking capable by Don Cheadle and it sets an example of great cinema for ages to come.

The film chronicles a woman's erotic journey from birth to age 50, recounted over 8 chapters by Joe, a self - diagnosed nymphomaniac, to Seligman, a bachelor who finds her beaten body in an alleyway and tends to her wounds.

The film skews young, to be sure, and it isn't as memorable as the new Disney classics of the early 1990s, but there's still plenty here to hold the interest of viewers of all ages: delightful performances (particularly by Dench, plowing Angela Lansbury terrain), zinging comic dialogue and a soundtrack that's a wealth of sonorous riches.

Based on a real piece choreographed by Ohad Naharin and appropriately scored to the classic Passover jam «Echad Mi Yodea» (a fun song that simplifies an age - old struggle), this opening gambit offers a prime example of the forcefulness missing from the rest of the film, even though Padilha finds a way to bring Batsheva back.

That said, this is very much her film, and Fifty Shades Freed — written, like the last installment, by James's husband, Niall Leonard — demonstrates a genuine self - awareness of the strange hypocrisies she's forced to submit to as she attempts to drag Christian out of the Victorian era and pull him into an age of nontraditional gender roles, just as she's also prodding him to what's posited as his ultimate relinquishment of power and dominance: fatherhood.

In Ann Vickers (1933), she plays a lady doctor who undergoes an illegal abortion, and in The Age of Innocence (1934), Dunne played the same role reprised by Michelle Pfeiffer in the 1994 remake of that film.

More bittersweet than some sugar - coated, rose - colored ode to motherhood, the film pulls no punches in capturing the messy, unglamorous minutiae of parenthood, whether it's the sight of a bag of breastmilk falling over and spilling on to the counter, or Marlo being told by a coffee shop patron that the decaf coffee drink she orders still contains trace amounts of caffeine, or Marlo trying to lose her baby weight and catch up to a college - aged jogger.

These words are spoken by Sir Walter Raleigh to Elizabeth I in the new film Elizabeth: The Golden Age.

The short - statured, middle - aged Haven, who throughout the film is always dressed in white with rhinestones and gaudy designs, is distracted by the unauthorized entrance into the control room audience of a BBC journalist Opal (Geraldine Chaplin), a flea - market dressed, tattered, nit - wit, opinionated reporter who is «doing a documentary on Nashville» and lugging a tape recorder at her side.

Besides Raleigh, there is a contentious, almost father - daughter relationship with her aging spymaster Walsingham, still ably played by Geoffrey Rush but with unfortunately not enough to do, and her reliance on her spiritual advisor Doctor Dee (David Threlfall), one of the few areas of the film that works completely in and of itself.

Heart - breaking and stark, Pelle the Conquerer is a strong coming - of - age film featuring an incredible performance by the legendary Max von Sydow.

In the tradition of the bestselling memoirs, Maria Flook's My Sister Life and Jennifer Egan's Invisible Circus, comes the haunting coming - of - age melodrama Arizona, a film by the Holechek Brothers.

The performances by Ange Dargent and Théophile Baquet could not be better, and it's their authenticity and abandon that make this film a fine addition to the coming - of - age canon.

Comic actor Bob Saget served as producer and director of this made - for - TV film, inspired by the true story of Saget's sister Gay, who died in 1994 at the age of 47.

The film segues breezily between various episodes from Piaf's life — such as her lover, French boxer Marcel Cerdan's (Jean - Pierre Martins) championship bout in mid -»40s New York; her period in Hollywood during the»50s; Piaf's abandonment as a young girl by her contortionist father (and earlier by her mother, a street singer); her brushes with the law as an adult; and her 1951 car accident and subsequent morphine addiction that caused her to age well beyond her years and left her barely mobile; and, through it all, her ability (like Billie Holiday) to funnel personal tragedy and emotional struggles into her vocalizations — dazzling audiences in the process.

The other factor leading to Darwin's creative block was the death, seven years earlier, of his daughter Annie at age 10; in scenes where Darwin is visited by the goading spirit of Annie (newcomer Martha West) and finally in the film's keening climax in the town where she died, «Creation» seems as neurotically focused on her passing as Darwin was.

The star - studded heist caper «Widows,» from director Steve McQueen and set to begin filming in Chicago this month, is looking to hire two sets of twin infants — one set biracial (unspecified), the other white — who are between the ages of 3 months and 6 months, according to a flyer posted by 4 Star Casting, which specializes in background actors, aka extras.