Sentences with phrase «as the classic tale»

«Made In Dagenham» is destined to join the ranks of «Norma Rae» and «Silkwood» as a classic tale of a salt - of - the - earth woman driven by trying circumstances into the forefront of the battle for economic justice.

The series began with books, as so many great ones do, and lives on as the classic tale of the love between a dog and its owner.

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As Red's many fans see it, Jannard's journey is a classic tale of an entrepreneur building a better mousetrap.

The book is beating out New England Patriots» quarterback Tom Brady's «The TB12 Method: How to Achieve a Lifetime of Sustained Peak Performance,» which comes in at No. 2, as well as two novels from 1986: Margaret Atwood's dystopian classic, «The Handmaid's Tale,» and Stephen King's horror classic, «It: A Novel.»

The author of classics such as «Fahrenheit 451» and «The Martian Chronicles» was one of the last living links to an era in early 20th century America in which children got lost in stargazing or pulp magazines like «Weird Tales» instead of video games.

The adaptation (starring Hugh Jackman, Rooney Mara and Amanda Seyfried among others), serves as a darker take on the classic tale as well as a sort of Captain Hook origins story.

* Charles Dickens, the writer who penned classics such as «Oliver Twist,» «A Christmas Carol» and «A Tale of Two Cities»

Although White is absolutely right about the tendency of today's animated films (Tangled included) to pander to the most annoying and depressing aspects of popular culture even as they ignore or deny the richer, deeper culture from which most classic fairy tales emerged, the animated features that Disney brought to the screen when Uncle Walt himself still oversaw the studio made a point of drawing considerable aesthetic, emotional, and narrative power from specifically Christian aspects of the culture that, even today, America shares with Europe.

Easter is coming soon, so we figured now would be a good time to post this classic video as a cautionary tale about the dangers of using pyrotechnics at church.

Mainline Christians are familiar with such contemporary martyrs as Martin Luther King, Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Oscar Romero, though they are much less comfortable with tales of classic martyrs, like Polycarp.

It's a classic, tragic tale as old as time.

As the 2016 - 17 loan season begins in earnest we can apply some of this classic tale to affairs at Chelsea.

or Chicka Chicka Boom Boom (both by Bill Martin, Jr.) are also perfect for prenatal reading, as well as classic repetitive nursery rhymes and fairy tales.

The ride cruises through the same classic fairy tale scenes as the Storybook Land Canal Boats, offering a chance to spot Disney scenes in miniature.

Montillo uses the classic novel Frankenstein as her starting point to explore the shady science and changing social mores that inspired Mary Shelley's 1818 tale, and folds details of Shelley's personal life into a broader history of early anatomists and alchemists.

«Evil Queen» by Nathaniel Gold In the classic Scandinavian folktale «The Twelve Wild Ducks,» also known as «The Twelve Brothers» in Grimms» Fairy Tales, a wicked old Queen is jealous of her daughter - in - law's beauty.

A tale as old as time, this classic combo of strawberry and banana will have your kiddos clamoring for more.

I actually don't mind it My mom was raised and lived in the Bronx, NY for many years, as did I, so her life was paralleled to West Side Story and A Bronx Tale (such classics)!

There are at least two episodes, «Arkangel» and «Crocodile,» which are very much identifiable as classic «Black Mirror» tales.

Following his acclaimed role in American Beauty, Bentley appeared in The White River Kid, in which he played the film's titular murderer.In the wake of American Beauty, Bentley starred in Michael Winterbottom's The Claim, as well as yet another version of the classic adventure tale The Four Feathers.

As with all classic animated fairy tales, the leading man hooks up with a sidekick who keeps him on the path and bucks him up when shrek happens.

His 2006 project would be quite a departure from this sweet, poignant tale, as Schreiber took the role of Robert Thorne in John Moore's remake of the 1976 horror classic The Omen.

Unwritten Tales 2 comes up unfavourably when compared to the classic games it tries to emulate, contemporary titles that have tried to do a similar thing, à la Broken Sword 5, and games that have tried to modernise the genre such as The Walking Dead.

Disney's «Beauty and the Beast» is a live - action re-telling of the studio's animated classic which refashions the classic characters from the tale as old as time for a contemporary audience, staying true to the original music while updating the score with several new songs.

Experience Shakespeare's classic tale of love and tragedy in an entirely new setting as the tale of + Romeo and Juliet plays out against the backdrop of the Latin barrio in this moving crime drama from director Paul Wynne.

The humour, the pathos, the tension - even the blooming soundtrack - all conspire to ensure that the tale of a teenager traveling back 30 years to ensure his parents meet and ultimately mate can, given its vintage, now be fairly described as a classic.

Based on the classic fairy tale, Red Riding Hood stars Amanda Seyfried as Valerie, a young woman engaged to marry the town blacksmith but in love with an orphaned woodcutter.

The classic story, described by author White as a tale of «friendship and salvation, a story of miracles — the miracle of birth, the miracle of friendship, the miracle of death,» features the voices of Debbie Reynolds as Charlotte, Paul Lynde as Templeton the Rat, Agnes Moorehead as the Stuttering Goose, and Henry Gibson as Wilbur the Pig.

Disney's «Beauty and the Beast» is a live - action re-telling of the studio's animated classic which refashions the classic characters from the tale as old as time for a contemporary audience, staying true to the original music while updating the score with several new songs composed by Alan Menken.

The politics of the Middle East are subsumed entirely into a classic tale of good versus evil, with bad guys are that not so much deep as determined and unfettered by any psychological underpinnings.

Based on his long - running comic book, which debuted in 2008 before wrapping up at the end of 2013, «Locke & Key» would have combined a classic haunted house tale with complex and rich mythology, and as such managed to attract some heavyweight names: «Star Trek» duo Kurtzman & Orci were writing with «War Of The Worlds» scribe Josh Friedman, Steven Spielberg was producing and «Never Let Me Go» helmer Mark Romanek was brought on to direct the pilot, which reportedly cost as much as $ 10 million.

Elsewhere, the classic stories of Cinderella (Anna Kendrick) and Red Riding Hood (Lilla Crawford)- among several other fairy tale characters - play out just as you remember them, only this time we also get to see the consequences of their actions.

In the beginning — as is so often the case in these classic Disney tales — there is a death: that of her beautiful and beloved mother (Hayley Atwell), who left a powerful impression on the young girl and remained a guiding force on the young woman she'd become.

Criterion releases two other Max Ophuls classics this week as well: the delicately sweet and sour La Ronde (1950), a roundelay of chance meetings, secret trysts, hopeless courtships and cuckolded lovers where everybody and somebody's fool on the romantic merry - go - round, and Le Plaisir (1952), a trilogy of romantic tales told with mix of sweet generosity and a wistful sense of regret.

As in the 1946 classic film noir, «Gilda,» with Glenn Ford and Rita Hayworth, these tales are of the men and women who learn to «make their own luck.»

Entertainment Weekly has revealed two images for The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, director Lasse Hallstrom's upcoming adaptation of E.T.A. Hoffmann's classic Christmas tale The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, which gives us a first look at Mackenzie Foy as Clara and Keira Knightley as The Sugar Plum Fairy; take a look below... The Nutcracker and -LSB-...]

James Whale directed this version of the classic Alexandre Dumas tale with Louis Hayward pulling double duty as the royal twins and Peter Cushing making his screen debut.

It isn't long before she devises a way of getting out and establishing a reputation, and it's this that director David O Russell and co-writer Annie Mumolo saw as the perfect starting point for a classic (if semi-fictionalized) tale.

And as a fairly young gamer myself (24 yrs), I wasn't introduced to classic games like Duck Tales and Castlevania until years after they released.

Skarsgård explains to USA Today that «it's almost the opposite of the classic tale, where it's about taming the beast... This is about a man who's holding back and slowly as you peel off the layers, he reverts back to a more animalistic state and lets that side of his personality out.»

Based on H.P. Lovecraft's classic terror tale «Herbert West — Reanimator» and featuring a standout performance from Jeffrey Combs as the deliciously deranged West, «Re-Animator» remains the ground - zero of»80s splatter mayhem and one of the genre's finest hours.

Interestingly, for such a popular historical figure, there is a dearth of biographical films about her life (the only notable film is the Norma Shearer / Tyrone Power classic from way back in 1938), except through incidental events depicting her as a supporting figure, such as tales of the French Revolution or other stories taking place in the late 18th Century.

Lastly, it was confirmed today long standing news that Harry Potter, Horns and The Woman in Black «s Daniel Radcliffe, pictured, is in final negotiations to star as Igor in the classic tale Frankenstein for 20th Century Fox and Davis Entertainment, says Variety.

Disney continues their new tale as old as time, remaking their animated classics in live action, with Beauty and the Beast.

It comes as little surprise that Disney is pulling out all the stops for its upcoming live - action remake of classic musical Beauty and the Beast; it's a tale as old as time.

As for the film itself, Jose Padilha's team keep promising a different model of the tale unspooled by Paul Verhoeven's 1987 sci - fi classic, with Joel Kinnaman's tragic cop Alex Murphy given a little more humanity.

We haven't even mentioned the narrative device used to tell the story of «Moby Dick» s inception, as the author of that classic American epic, Herman Melville, is himself too a character in Howard's whale tale.

The movie is a prequel of sorts to the classic King Kong tale and has been said to head to the mysterious and dangerous home of the titular king of apes as a team of explorers ventures deep inside the treacherous, primordial island.

This 1947 Christmas classic continues to delight new generations of families as they rediscover the tale of Kris Kringle (Edmund Gwenn), a Macy's Department Store employee who goes to court to prove there really is a Santa Claus.

This makes the initially superfluous nature of the bookended scenes quite vital to keep the Lone Ranger's fans on board, as we're not being told a traditional classic Lone Ranger tale so much as one as told by Tonto himself.