Sentences with phrase «age films about»

Measure of a Man is intended as a touching coming - of - age film about one crucial summer in a young man's life.

This looks like a funky, funk little punk rock coming - of - age film about a kid learning to experience the world and all it has to offer outside of his idealistic future home.

As of Monday, the coming - of - age film about a ne'er - do - well high schooler, directed by Greta Gerwig, is now the most reviewed film to stay at a keen 100 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, according to the aggregation site.

A coming - of - age film about a California high school student who seeks to escape from her family and small town by going to college in New York.

Yet here he is with his name attached to Kundun, a coming - of - age film about Tibet's fourteenth Dali Lama.

The coming - of - age film about a high school senior (Saoirse Ronan) with pink hair, boy problems, and a biting wit is replete with adoring golden - hour stills of city fixtures like the Tower Bridge and Thrift Town.

January 11, 2018 • Trudie Stylar's coming - of - age film about a queer kid running for Homecoming Queen at his conservative private school is bright and stylized, if a bit thin on plot and characterization.

Not exact matches

Yesterday I saw two biopic films: «Amy» about the life of Jazz sensation Amy Winehouse who died of alcohol poisoning at the age of 27 and «Montage of Heck» about the life of Kurt Cobain, the grunge - rock generational voice who died of an overdose of heroin and valium at the age of... 27.

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.

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.

One of the biggest surprises in «Avengers: Age of Ultron» occurs about halfway through the film when our heroes break away from the action for a more light - hearted family - centric scene on a farm.

«Age of Ultron» executive producer Jeremy Latcham talks about how the stones were adapted from the comics to film.

Of course, aging Jesus Freaks and Episcopalians alike are all about that brevity thing, so they happily go along with «the Dude abides,» another classic line from the film.

I had the privilege of watching the film while seated behind a family that included four boys, who ranged from about six to 14 years in age.

In the trailer, Fisher is preparing to film Star Wars: The Force Awakens, is helping her mother pack and talks about the way aging effects people, in reference to her mother.

The longtime San Francisco filmmaker and international relief worker interviewed a handful of children aged 6 to 12 about their feelings about their parents» divorce for her film - in - progress, Split.

The film is intended to educate parents, community members, and middle - school to college - aged children about the dangers of addiction and how to avoid becoming a victim.

A documentary made about Okinawa showed a 100 year old villager with better fitness levels than an entire film crew less than half her age, a 96 year old martial artist who beat a 36 year old boxing champion (on national American television live) and even a 105 year old woman who easily killed poisonous snakes.

In the new documentary film $ 29 Billion Reasons to Lie About Cholesterol, Justin Smith states,»... between 1994 and 2006 the percentage of men aged 65 to 74 with «high» cholesterol decreased from 87 % to 54 %... Despite this, the rate of coronary heart disease for this age group stayed about the same... Other age groups have experienced an increase in the rate of heart disease as the number of people with «high» cholesterol has decreased.&rAbout Cholesterol, Justin Smith states,»... between 1994 and 2006 the percentage of men aged 65 to 74 with «high» cholesterol decreased from 87 % to 54 %... Despite this, the rate of coronary heart disease for this age group stayed about the same... Other age groups have experienced an increase in the rate of heart disease as the number of people with «high» cholesterol has decreased.&rabout the same... Other age groups have experienced an increase in the rate of heart disease as the number of people with «high» cholesterol has decreased.»

PG - 13 films account for nearly two - thirds of the smoking scenes adolescents see on the big screen, according to the two - year study, which surveyed roughly 5,000 children ages 10 to 14 about the movies they'd seen and whether they'd ever tried a cigarette.

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About Blog I began photographing in the age of the dark room and film photography over 15 years ago and have been inspired ever since.

I am crazy enough to decide after many years of work for the same company that life is about making dreams come true - which led me to becoming a film school student at the age of 30; — RRB - This is what I am actually loo..

Lou is one of the older adults featured in The Age of Love, a film about speed dating for 70 - to 90 - year - olds.

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.

That's the message of Poetry, a Korean movie about an aging housemaid that turns out to be one of the best films of the year.

Tom Hooper made his first film, a short about a runaway dog, at age 13; a short he made the next year (about a boy who learns that his grandfather had died in WWII) was the runner - up in a BBC young - filmmakers competition.

The Interpreter also pauses for lovely speeches about the peaceful mission of the UN (not wholly unwelcome in this UN-deflating day and age, but nevertheless hindrances to the film's momentum).

This turned out to be a ham - fisted and theologically suspect film about a possible scenario at the end of the age, utilizing a lot of the imagery and the narrative as found in the book of The Revelation of John.

Left on Purpose is a documentary film about the friendship between an aging anti-war activist who has decided that his last political act will be to take his own life and the filmmaker who is struggling to tell the story.

Action - packed film Spandex Sapiens follows also the colourful love life of Michael who is fantasizing about the return of stone age (or even the 80s) relationship politics.

It's true that seduction is an age - old espionage tactic, but this film tells us nothing new about it — or about Hollywood's male gaze.

Wryly comic, sometimes heartbreaking and altogether original film about a thirtysomething Angeleno who pays a visit to his aging New York parents and finds himself unwilling or unable to leave.

The Puffy Chair is the funniest, saddest and most emotionally honest «romantic comedy» to come along in years, even if I've yet to encounter many over the age of about 35 who like the film, or even get it.

When films are made about straight men in this predicament, they're often considered explorations of a «midlife crisis,» but Denis» film poses the questions: What if crises aren't limited to a certain age, and what if love itself is the crisis?

Living in an age post-Jackass, where people will willingly be filmed (or film themselves) causing all manner of pain and damage to their bodies, complaining about the violence in Home Alone 2 could come across as quaint.

It could be accused of being cliche but, it's about time that there was a coming of age teenage film for young people that doesn't have a straight couple as the focus.

She just completed the independent digital short film, Black Water, about a successful middle - aged man whose life falls apart, which has been invited to the Hawaii Film Festival upon completion.

Her luck runs out, though, with «Elizabeth: The Golden Age,» a gorgeous but flaccid film about that incident that is all the more disappointing for being a sequel to 1998's superb «Elizabeth.»

This must be the age of bliss for Harry being he loves absolutly every movie he sees... it's fairly obvious he's being paid off, after the Batman And Robin fiasco (back when the site was pure) studios realized how powerful this kinda site can be so they decided to give knowles a wad of cash to give their films a good review... Only reason Star Trek Nemesis didn't get a good review was because Moriarty and others bashed Rick Berman so much he didn't wan na give them Money he was so insulted... everyone do a favor and goto http://www.corona.bc.ca/films it's a real movie lovers site withreal reviews and NEWS... no shit about how they got the news or that they think the film reminds them of from their youth, just news..

It was neck - and - neck with its closest rival, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, David Fincher's loose adaptation of the F Scott Fitzgerald story about a man who ages backwards, each film having bagged three awards.

In other Marvel news, Avengers: Age of Ultron director Joss Whedon has expressed regret about comments made about the film and his relationship with the studio last year.

It seems that lost in all the talk about computers, and space travel, and the harshness of space, etc., we have somehow lost the essential drama that is the centre of the film: Dave Bowman's existential condition as he stumbles into old age and is later transfigured once again into a child.

Tiny Furniture (Unrated) Coming - of - age comedy about a rudderless, recent college grad (Lena Dunham) with a worthless degree in film appreciation who moves back into her mother's (Laurie Simmons) loft in Soho where she has to settle for an unfulfilling job as a restaurant hostess.

It is a film about self discovery, but not of coming of age.

In his review, Turan compares the film to the classic - age comedies of Preston Sturges and Ernst Lubitsch in noting that «making an anarchic, absurdist comedy about 2008's housing market collapse and the global financial crisis that followed is as unlikely as the collapse itself.

It's a coming - of - age story about 15 - year - old youth, adapted from a novel by film critic François Bégaudeau, who wrote and starred in Laurent Cantet's 2008 Cannes Palme d'Or winner The Class.

What excites Callow about the film is that people's notion of Dickens as a bearded older, stuffy Victorian writer, will be changed as in fact he was a father of four, handsome, witty and lively guy who completed the novel at age 31.