Sentences with phrase «age tale with»
We understand quickly that this is yet another coming - of - age tale with mostly clueless adults, and kids trying to cope on their own.
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Richard Ayoade's debut feature SUBMARINE, was a delightful coming of age tale with a dark atmosphere to it.
A quite delightful tale of oddballs and freaky geeks, Ghost World was a Terry Zwigoff - directed coming - of - age tale with added 50s records and milkshakes.
A coming - of - age tale with an uncommon twist, The Unspeakable Act approaches its subject with disarming candor.
First - time writer - director David Robert Mitchell tells a coming - of - age tale with such freshness and such bemused insight it's as if it has never been told before.
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By the time he gets to Woody's troubled daughter Casey Johnson — a tabloid mainstay throughout the 2000s who ran with Paris Hilton, feuded with her aunt in the pages of Vanity Fair and then died at the age of 31 in 2010 — the tales are simply dispiriting.
But you have to understand why this tale persists even with age.
Yeah, nevermind your well established 21st century scientific knowledge, I'll stick with my nonsensical bronze - age book of conjecture and fairy tales for all of my beliefs.
I don't need some hypocrite to stand in front of me every Sunday morning spouting off his version of a fairy tale to feel good about myself and my place in the multiverse, while he steals from the collection plate, ignores the sick, aged and needy of his «flock», and sleeps with his secretary / molests his altar boys.
Americans sure love their big book of fairy tales... seems like we are stuck with brain dead followers of myths for some time to come... oh well... one day, humanity may evolve beyond the bronze age...
As long as a «righteous man», as Jesus supposedly called him, like Lot can offer an unruly crown his virgin daughters so that they can have their way with them there is no way that I would ever take advice from these moldy books or anyone that follows these Bronze Age fairy tales.
And anybody who relies on the words of a man who died 1,000 years ago and a bronze - age book of fairy tales filled with more scientific and historical inaccuracies than you can shake a stick at to back up their positions, should not be commenting on this issue.
They're clinging to bronze age fairy tales as if they were true, and condemning everyone who disagrees with them with silly threats of hell in an afterlife.
While the wine itself is awesome (I'll never turn down fine Fiorano from Lazio with age), it was more about the chance to hear Dalton — who tends to take on the host role at these dinners — tell the story behind the wine, a convoluted tale involving an eccentric prince and his mold - covered caves.
The Jazz Age Comes Alive in July at Windsor Court Hotel June 20, 2017 The Windsor Court Hotel is excited to again participate in Tales of the Cocktail by hosting the annual weekend of Prohibition Tea, as well as a Spirited Dinner, in partnership with William Grant & Sons, devoted to American jazz greats.
Shawna and Cara Bruce were there with their anthology, Robot Hearts: True and Twisted Tales of Seeking Love in the Digital Age, and I shared the night with a number of talented contributors.
Plus, you might want to look into «Tales to Go,» a subscription - based app that streams over 900 stories for kids ages 3 - 11 with constant updates (iPhone and iPad).
«This case is the age - old tale of abuse of political power,» Martins said in her opening remarks, adding that the senator would extract payments from companies with business before the state or they would «fear his wrath.»
The USA in particular and the world at large would have a brighter future if Israel could be obliged to use its own energy and talents to develop civilized relationships with its neighbors without reference to Bronze Age fairy tales.
In a famous experiment, she gave volunteers a booklet narrating three true stories of events from their own childhood along with an invented tale that described their getting lost in the mall at age 5.
Amidst the probability of a plethora of reasons that are capable of inducing the aforesaid symptoms, the tell - tale signs are highly indicative of age - related skeletal muscle degradation rearing its ugly head as you welcome yet another new year with pomp and gaiety.
Im just looking for someone to chill and game with from time to time.I love Dragon age, Saints Row all the Tell tale games and more.
They really are wiser, clever and also older than the normal ladies you meet therefore ensure that you share tales which is appropriate with their age.
In The Silmarillion there is a section called «Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age» and in Unfinished Tales «The Hunt for the Ring», which seems to deal with the elements they might be exploring.
Toni's no wandering naif in a fairy tale: She's an eager recruit, which means «The Fits» has more in common with boot camp dramas than most coming - of - age flicks.
Waititi does an excellent job of balancing the sweet and humorous moments with the more poignant bits (like Bella's heartbreaking death scene), but what separates the movie from the typical coming - of - age tale is the unique brand of humor that's become synonymous with the director.
Sam Elliott's visceral appeal is legend by now: the oak - aged baritone that suggests a creaking porch with a pleasant view, the cigarillo frame that's just imposing enough, and a mustache that looks like it could tell its own tales.
This, along with Tales from the Borderlands, are an exquisite opening salvo from Telltale, ushering in the third age of interactive movies.
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.
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.
A remake of the 1974 film of the same name, Death Wish pairs aging action icon Bruce Willis with director Eli Roth (Hostel, The Green Inferno) to bring the classic tale of vigilante justice to modern audiences.
The ability of our parents to enbarass us even at middle age is well captued when David (Forte's) mother regales them with tales of how several men in their home town wanted to get into «her bloomers» and insists on lifting her skirt at one of her past suitors» graves to show him what he missed.
Everytime I see him he pulls the same shtick each time: An unpopular, awkward, sensitive soul in a coming - of - age tale where he winds up with the local hottie who's way out of his league.
Based on the tale of the Thumbsucker helmer's own father's experiences with embracing his sexuality at the age of 75, the feature charts the exploits of the introverted Oliver (McGregor, last seen in The Ghost Writer) as he courts enigmatic French actress Anna (Mélanie Laurent, The Round Up), whilst coming to terms with the outing and illness of his paternal influence (Christopher Plummer, The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus).
At the film festival: Bruce LaBruce's subversive masterpiece, Gerontophilia, a lovely rom - com in which everybody fucks one another across all age and gender borders — desire shall bind us together; Juno Mak's Rigor Mortis, a touching albeit grim look at loss and damnation in the form of a Chinese hopping - vampire movie, with many a nod to the subgenre's clichés and conventions; Jealousy, Philippe Garrel's latest tale of love ground down by the mill of daily life, raw and naked even by his ascetic standards; Hayao Miyazaki's troublesome The Wind Rises, which frames the story of a fighter - plane designer as a grand romance of struggle and failure, with animation's supreme living master contemplating the price mankind can sometimes pay in the name of one dreamer's self - fulfillment, and the willful blindness and egocentricity it takes to realize one's vision; and finally to Yorgos Lanthimos's Necktie and Athina Rachel Tsangari's 24 Frames Per Century, their contributions to the Venice 70: Future Reloaded omnibus, not to mention the untitled pieces by Jean - Marie Straub, Monte Hellman, Amit Dutta, and Haile Gerima.
WHAT: A coming - of - age tale that follows a boy named Mason Evans Jr. (Ellar Coltrane) from grade school to his first day of college, examining his relationship with his divorced parents (Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette) as he matures into a young man.
Guillermo del Toro's fairy tale noir «The Shape of Water» tied with Greta Gerwig's coming - of - age directorial debut «Lady Bird» for best film of the festival.
WINTER»S TALE is set in a mythic New York City and spans more than a century, with the fantasy story filled with miracles, crossed destinies, and the age - old battle between good and evil.
It's actually much more a coming - of - age tale than anything else, but one with extremely harrowing circumstances.
Cameron Crowe gave us the perfect coming of age / road flick with Almost Famous, a semi-autobiographical, 1970s - set tale of music, love, and everything in between.
The Spectacular Now, directed by James Ponsoldt (Smashed), is one of the best modern coming - of - age tales, told with depth and, more importantly, wisdom.
A coming - of - age tale conveyed with deftly handled emotional complexity and chilling thematic subtext, Raw is above all else a gut twisting work of classic body horror.
There have been many other versions of the Zorro tale: the serialized Zorro Rides Again (1937), the Italian - French production Zorro (1975), Disney's Zorro (1957 - 9)- a TV series starring Guy Williams, the tongue - in - cheek parody Zorro, The Gay Blade (1981) with George Hamilton as the foppish dandy, and Anthony Hopkins as an aging Zorro and Antonio Banderas as his younger protege in The Mask of Zorro (1998).
«Call Me By Your Name» --- A gentle, almost - pastoral tale of first love directed with affection by Luca Guadagnino and based on Andre Aciman's novel about a highly educated 17 - year - old (Timothée Chalamet) whose world gets rocked by Oliver (an apparently never - aging Armie Hammer), a handsome scholar assigned to assist his father (Michael Stuhlbarg), a professor working in Italy during a long, hot summer.
A coming - of - age tale wrapped in memory, James Schamus» «Indignation» brings back a time when $ 18 / week was decent pay for a part - time job, and when students dressed up for class and walked around campus with their heads buried in books rather than electronic devices.
«Lady Bird» — This smart, tender coming - of - age tale nimbly captures the spirit of teenage angst, so wonderfully, fully realized in Saoirse Ronan's Oscar - quality performance as a teen in her last year of high school navigating the tumultuous waters of romance and self - realization while also butting heads with her equally strong - willed mother (an astounding Laurie Metcalf).
Richard Linklater's 12 - year commitment to the coming - of - age tale «Boyhood» is paying off with his first nomination from the Directors Guild of America, the organization announced Tuesday.
There's enough to this tale of aging with dementia to hold your interest, but not enough to leave you satisfied.
What starts as a revenge tale unconvincingly morphs into a bitter, lonely middle - aged man bonding with a young Indian kid (whose parents don't seem to feel one way or another about this weird man hanging out with their kid alone in a hotel, giving him copies of Maxim magazine).
Written and directed by Baumbach, the film is described as «the intergenerational tale of adult siblings contending with the influence of their ageing father».