Sentences with phrase «as a heroine who»

Amanda Bynes sparkles as the heroine who disguises herself as her twin brother.

Some, like Daisy Ridley, see her as a heroine who is all the more important because she is an average person upon whom greatness is thrust.

Undeniably, the single biggest draw of Tomb Raider is its groundbreaking engine that makes it possible to play as a heroine who has more than just a pair of big guns!

She also adopts the televised image of Wonder Woman, only as a heroine who has no end of trouble changing identities.

Not exact matches

The heroine remembers the time before when she and her friends had dismissed news stories of violence done to women (as readers might dismiss literary dystopias) as «too melodramatic»: «We were the people who were not in the papers.

The sad or manic heroines» such as Hannah Gonen in My Michael and the mother in «The Hill of Evil Counsel»» harken back to Oz's mother, the doomed Fania Klausner, who took her life when her only son was twelve.

By keeping it illegal, you force people to dealers who are likely going to have access to much more potent stuff such as cocaine and heroine.

She parries with Jesus as if she were Portia or some other Shakespearean heroine who gets her man by using her wits.

It's marvelous because we believe that all human beings are spiritual daughters of God and share in God's divine nature; that Eve was a heroine who contributed to the plan of salvation rather than a temptress who was responsible for the fall of man (and I use «man» quite literally here); and that we have a Mother in Heaven as well as a Father.

But it was Howard who founded the ERG in 1993 as a reaction to the ejection of his heroine Margaret Thatcher from the Conservative leadership.

All 43 police forces in England and Wales currently have the power to drug test people who have been arrested if they are suspected of using Class A drugs such as heroine or cocaine, but only 23 police forces currently use that power.

New York Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who's said to have set her sights on seeking the presidency in 2020, even penned a piece for Time lauding Sarsour and other Women's March leaders as heroines.

Its heroine is a cunning princess who, for extremely complicated reasons and with equally complicated results, disguises herself as a young man.

Paprika, the heroine, is an eighteen - year - old sprite — a kind of sexy Japanese Tinker Bell — who enters people's dreams as a form of therapy.

First it removes all doubt as to who the heroine is — what her «secret» is.

Gwyneth Paltrow stars as Emma, Jane Austen's classic heroine, a mischievous young beauty who sets up her single friends.

What may bring even jaded viewers back to «Christy» is Tyne Daly's striking characterization of Alice Henderson, the kind but formidable Quaker who serves as the heroine's mentor.

The movie starts with the eponymous heroine, who is played by Scarlett Johansson, as she argues with her boyfriend Richard (Pilou Asbæk).

He removes any indication of a personality from his heroine and turns her into a sociopath, who, at one point, shoots a patient on the operating table because, as she rationalizes, «He wasn't going to make it, anyway.»

The highlight of You're Next is the quality physical performance by Sharni Vinson, who becomes the film's de facto heroine, exerting that sense of «I got this» cool that propelled Vin Diesel to stardom in his first take as Riddick in Pitch Black.

Lindsay Lohan stars as Cady, the sensitive and naive heroine — you could get away with that casting in 2004 — who gets a rude awakening when she enters the school system after being home - taught by zoologist parents in Africa.

There is none of that to Depp's cartoonish Hatter, Bonham Carter's hammy Red Queen, or Wasikowska's Alice, who again fades despite efforts to paint her as a courageous heroine.

Silver lining: Ex Machina's Alicia Vikander, whose plucky German car mechanic Gaby Teller joins Furiosa and Ilsa Faust, if to a lesser degree, as heroines in action franchises this year who don't exist simply to operate as eye - candy sidekicks to their male co-stars.

Maeve Dermody anchors the cast as Vera Claythorne, the sort of slightly nervous, haunted heroine that midcentury gothics love so much — and who reveals a fascinatingly twisted interior as things begin to break down.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

It features a terrific performance by Jennifer Lawrence as a heroine Sturges would have loved, the Long Island woman who invented the Miracle Mop and became rich selling it on the then - new able channel QVC.

She then went to work for Cecil B. DeMille, who admired her courage and tenacity and cast her as the glamorously (and provocatively) garbed heroines of such lavish productions as Don't Change Your Husband (1918), Male and Female (1919), and The Affairs of Anatol (1920).

Professor Marston and the Wonder Women: Nice as the «Wonder Woman» movie was, I found this story about the sexually adventurous academics who created the iconic comic book heroine more compelling.

James Hong is good fun as the Chinese magician trying to help our distraught heroine who only wants to have fun dancing in her bedroom despite the intrusions of seemingly demonic forces attached to ninja weaponry.

She also has much more agency as a character than the heroines of those films, something seized upon by Hawkins, who's flat - out brilliant in the role; her innately expressive features almost rendering the subtitling of her signed conversations irrelevant.

Nicolas Pesce's debut feature The Eyes Of My Mother views its deeply disturbed heroine through the lens of hardy, immigrant - born midcentury stoicism, and Pesce chose a similarly controlled - yet - disturbing film for our marathon: The Night Of The Hunter, Charles Laughton's classic thriller starring Robert Mitchum as a killer who disguises himself as a preacher.

The film stars Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen, the hapless heroine who becomes a contestant (or «tribute») in the annual hunger games.

«Games» actors Jennifer Lawrence, who plays heroine Katniss Everdeen; Josh Hutcherson, who plays loyal competitor Peeta; and Liam Hemsworth, who plays Katniss» hunting partner Gale; and the movie's director Gary Ross, as well as others, will be touring the country appearing at various malls the week of March 3.

In an original and electrifying film loaded with live musical performances, Streep stars as Ricki Rendazzo, a guitar heroine who made a world of mistakes as she followed her dreams of rock - and - roll stardom.

In the venerable teen - movie tradition of John Hughes and Cameron Crowe (and in the warm comic spirit of James L. Brooks, who produced the film), Fremon Craig sees her heroine's inner life not as grist for punchlines and gross - out shenanigans but instead as something to be treated with warmth, sensitivity and nary a trace of condescension.

Reduced to its essential narrative elements, Hardware is an elaborate «stalk and slash» movie, with a relentless killer as its antagonist, onscreen sexual encounters shown from the killer's point of view, ineffectual authority figures, and an androgynous heroine who eventually succeeds in killing the killer (9).

Lynley is another of Preminger's lithe, lovely heroines who finds herself isolated and alienated, a stranger in a culture that feels just slightly off (Noel Coward is particularly unsettling as a landlord with questionable motivations), while devoted brother Dullea supports her through the ordeal.

They're on the sidelines, gazing with bewilderment, dislike, and / or awe at their heroine, played by Charlize Theron as the type of girl who once upon a time walked all over them.

Favored to win Best Foreign Language Film at next month's Academy Awards, the wistful drama follows the journey of a heroine who's rarely been positioned as a screen protagonist: a transgender woman named Marina, played with fire and vulnerability by Chilean transgender actress Daniela Vega.

It feels like a start, maybe, but would have been so much better served as a story told from a perspective other than that of male outsiders like Lucas and Moore, who turn their heroines into unconvincing femme - bros.

Preference: To hear many tell it, Screen Actors Guild and BAFTA winner Stone's only real competition here is Isabelle Huppert, who's characteristically intelligent, brittle, and complicated as the heroine of Paul Verhoeven's Elle.

«Tamara Drewe» (Sony), directed by Stephen Frears, has a strange and wonderful pedigree: an adaptation of the graphic novel (by Posy Simmonds) inspired by Thomas Hardy's «Far From the Madding Crowd» and whipped up with a light sex comedy froth by screenwriter Moira Buffini and the cast (headed by the Gemma Arterton as the gorgeous heroine with identity issues and Roger Allam as the philandering author who wants to bed her).

Bill Nighy gives a great Bill Nighy performance as a sweetly vain actor past his prime who's begrudgingly taken a role as the heroines» drunken old uncle.

Ronan, who's amassing a very impressive resume in diverse and extolled films such as Atonement (2007), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), and Brooklyn (2015), here presents what may be her career - best performance as the titular rebellious heroine.

So, even with her best efforts, that robs Moretz of her opportunity to compete in the same dystopian, feminist, heroine league as Jennifer Lawrence, who played Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games series.

And they're not the only new additions, as David Adamthwaite, Daniel Bacon, Chris Gibbs, Adam Godley, Jonathan Holmes, Paul Moniz de Sa and Olafur Olafsson have all been hired to join Mark Rylance's titular character, Ruby Barnhill as young heroine Sophie and Bill Hader, who is playing one of the less charming giants.

We've got our first look at Meryl Streep in what will presumably be her next Oscar - nominated role as a hard - rocking front - woman in director Jonathan Demme and screenwriter Diablo Cody's upcoming comedy Ricki and the Flash... In a film loaded with music and live performance, Streep stars as Ricki, a guitar heroine who gave up everything -LSB-...]

Directed by Cary Fukunaga, who made a splash in 2009 with Sin Nombre, this adaptation stars Australian actor Mia Wasikowska (Alice in Wonderland, The Kids are All Right) as the titular heroine and Michael Fassbender (Inglourious Basterds) as Edward Rochester.

Unremarkable details — the eruption of sprinklers, a blaring car alarm, a hammered and sleep - deprived frat pledge keeling over — play like clockwork as our «heroine» attempts to unravel the mystery of who is killing her, assuming that discovering the identity of her attacker will bring an end to the murdercycle once and for all.

While she starts out a little generic, a child who was wronged at birth by a tribe who outcasted her for unknown reasons and is now out for revenge and answers as an adult, Aloy quickly evolves into a well - rounded heroine.