Sentences with phrase «age story focused»

This was a best picture like no other — a lyrical yet unflinching coming - of - age story focused on a poor, black, gay young man, complete with a hopeful ending unusual for a gay - themed Oscar film.

This coming - of - age story focuses mainly on Ellis (Tye Sheridan), who, like his best friend Neckbone (Jacob Lofland), lives on the banks of an Arkansas tributary, in a community of makeshift houseboats.

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Sure, there's still crime - fighting and high - tech gear, as in any superhero film these days, but focusing on Parker's vulnerability, and creating a relatable coming - of - age story, seems to be what makes this Spider - Man special.

While many of the news stories about this report focused on figures showing a tendency for numbers of religious believers to increase with age, the figures also showed the overall percentage of religious believers declined in most countries, showing an increase in only three:

Story time is a keen focus along with an interactive circle to get your baby smiling, clapping and enjoying time with other babies aged 0 - 12 months.

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While it's important to convert consumers of all ages with winning accessories, analysts believe Armani needs to focus more on delivering a brand story that resonates with a new generation of consumers.

The focus of news stories about Cheryl and Liam's alleged romance has been the 10 - year age gap between the two... t...

Gilchrist starred in the Focus Features film IT»S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY, a coming - of - age story from writer - directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (HALF NELSON) opposite Zach Galifianakis, Emma Roberts, and Viola DSTORY, a coming - of - age story from writer - directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (HALF NELSON) opposite Zach Galifianakis, Emma Roberts, and Viola Dstory from writer - directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (HALF NELSON) opposite Zach Galifianakis, Emma Roberts, and Viola Davis.

And the film itself loses focus as it drifts toward the conventions of the coming - of - age story and the family - dysfunction melodrama.

Showalter isn't the kind of person you'd expect to see handling such a female - focused story as this, and yet he gives Field the kind of showcase that women her age rarely get these days, which the actress bites into with absolute commitment and glee.

6:30 am — IFC — My Life as a Dog Lasse Hallstrom gives us this simple but effective coming - of - age story, focusing on the every day life of a young boy as he's sent to live in a provincial village after acting out at home.

Working from a script by Gaby Chiappe, Scherfig — best known for the winsome coming - of - age drama «An Education» — skillfully keeps the tonal shifts in working order, keeping the story afloat in a series of crisp, sharply focused vignettes awash in clattering typewriters, smoldering cigarettes and other appurtenances of a bygone age.

The story focuses on the three pets of the Burnford family: an aging Golden Retriever named Shadow (voiced by Don Ameche, Trading Places), an immature American Bulldog named Chance (Michael J. Fox, The Hard Way), and a snarky Himalayan cat named Sassy (Sally Field, Smokey and the Bandit II).

Avengers: Age of Ultron is rumored to be the final chapter in this «phase» of Marvel stories; a focus on the beloved Infinity Gauntlet storyline and the Guardians of the Galaxy is positioned down the road.

Godzilla gets a lot right, hiring excellent actors even in bit parts to sell every inch of the story, focusing on characters, the emotional stakes of the leads and even embracing the atomic - age fears and allegories that the Toho Studio films utilized while putting a modern - spin on them — the casualties and cost of life within such disasters (there is a 9 / 11-esque disaster - porn tinge to the film, but it's certainly not as thoughtless as it is in «Man Of Steel»).

Although dramatically flat, Greta Gerwig's coming - of - age directorial debut covers its Mumblecore tracks with jabs of humor and a breeze of earthy authenticity.Set in Sacramento, California (Gerwig's hometown), the story focuses on the fraught relationship between Lady Bird (a.k.a. Christine — played by Saoirse Ronan) and her overworked mother Marion (Laurie Metcalf), whose emotions run hot or cold.

Following the likes of great coming of age stories like The Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles, this film focuses on contemporary issues of coming out to your friends and family.

10:00 am — IFC — My Life as a Dog Lasse Hallstrom gives us this simple but effective coming - of - age story, focusing on the every day life of a young boy as he's sent to live in a provincial village after acting out at home (his behavior is both caused by and threatens his mother's poor health).

1:30 pm — IFC — My Life as a Dog Lasse Hallstrom gives us this simple but effective coming - of - age story, focusing on the every day life of a young boy as he's sent to live in a provincial village after acting out at home.

The lower age ranges, for children aged five — eight, focused on four areas — healthy eating, cooking, food and farming and learning with stories.

Meadowbrook Press is a children's publisher that is focused on high - interest titles, featuring joke books, kid - selected poems, and silly stories that are sure to engage readers of all ages.

While I enjoyed both takes on the Lost Planet universe, I'm glad to hear that Lost Planet 3 will be returning to the series» roots by going back to the character - driven plot, focusing on a new lead character, Jim, in a prequel story set back in the ice - age stage of E.D.N. III's history.

So how does the quasi-reboot of 2003's The Black Mirror fare in an age where linear, story - focused adventures have gained popularity?

Karadalis: Im sorry but unless bioware decides to turn away from epic war stories and focus on the common day to day live of peasants in the dragon age world a «plus size» character makes no fucking sense.

Im sorry but unless bioware decides to turn away from epic war stories and focus on the common day to day live of peasants in the dragon age world a «plus size» character makes no fucking sense.

Sunshine (and Wind Waker) have aged very well, a true testament to Nintendo's ability to focus on fun, creative gameplay before story or presentation.

The story follows Clementine's struggles to survive during a zombie apocalypse from the age of 8 in the first season until her younger teenage years in the third season, while 400 Days focuses the story on a multitude of intertwining characters.

As such, we not only focused on retelling the fantastic story of The Avengers and Avengers: Age of Ultron, but went deeper into everything related to the Avengers past and present.

Now, in a tweet posted by Bioware's Casey Hudson, he said that based from feedback on Dragon Age, the upcoming title will be a «live» experience, and will also be story and character focused.

The story was more driven by love, loss, and the coming of age drama that focused on Squall and friends.

, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,

They tend to remember emotions experienced by people better than those experienced by Muppets or animated characters, and they do not necessarily focus on emotions of the characters when retelling the narrative of a television program.5 By the time they reach age eight, however, children, especially girls, are more likely to mention characters» affective states when retelling a televised story.6 Older children also begin to understand television characters» more complex emotions, such as jealousy.7 Like their younger counterparts, older children's recall of affect is higher if they perceive the program as realistic.8

Mind Yeti, a free app, teaches research - based mindfulness skills to children ages 5 to 12 using fun, kid - friendly characters and engaging stories that help kids «settle the hubbub» and calm down, focus and connect better with the people around them.

His areas of research and publication include video documentary projects focused on end - of - life hospice stories: «Wisdom of Age Project» documents insights and reflections from older citizens about what makes life meaningful.