Sentences with phrase «as young heroine»

As previously reported, the weekend of March 9 marked the first time in recent memory, and possibly ever, that films by African - American directors have claimed the No. 1 and No. 2 spots on the same weekend, with Coogler's «Black Panther» again topping the box office, while Ava DuVernay's adaptation «A Wrinkle in Time,» which boasts a black female protagonist in Storm Reid as young heroine Meg Murry, opened in the second - place spot.

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.

It's action - packed in the extreme, as Young Heroine Tris (Shailene Woodely) and «Dauntless» hunk Four (Theo James) run from the armed, motorized thugs that the smug Erudite elitists send after them, with barely time for a betrayal, a moment of weakness and a break for Shailene Woodley to pile on more makeup and lip gloss.

Not exact matches

The Daily Telegraph — It's a major theme in my latest novel Not That Easy where the young heroine... itself as «the only independent dating site for genuine country - minded people.»

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

Executive produced by Angelina Jolie, «The Breadwinner» does precisely that, and though Twomey's essential, empathetic look into the plight of women, young and old, in present - day Afghanistan doesn't identify its heroine as the exact same girl, her jade - colored eyes are a certain reminder, while her spirit burns every bit as strongly.

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

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.

And as interpreted magnificently by Bel Powley, Minnie Goetz emerges as just another of this year's many feminist heroines: a young woman gradually, through thick and thin, discovering her agency, emotional, sexual and otherwise.

Similarly as Katniss did in The Hunger Games when she too substituted herself for her younger sister Primrose, Peeta in - turn substitutes himself for Haymitch, and so our hero and heroine find themselves back in the arena facing not only each other, but a considerably tougher competition.

Delivering a sturdy, self - possessed performance as «A Wrinkle in Time's» heroine, Reid proves a thoroughly capable leading lady, her slightly nerdish appeal something of a twin to Letitia Wright's precocious young scientist in «Black Panther.»

My previous description of the basic plot doesn't even mention the star of the movie, Cade Yeager (Mark Wahlberg), the new young heroine played by Isabela Moner, supporting roles by Anthony Hopkins (as the leader of the Witwiccans), Jerrod Carmichael (as Cade's assistant), John Turturro (reprising his role from the first three films), Josh Duhamel (also reprising his role from the previous films, but this time as a spy), Tony Hale (as a Nasa JPL nerd), Glenn Morshower (reprising his military role), and many others.

In a surprisingly madcap Jane Austen - ish vein, Emily (played in her younger years by actress Emma Bell before a more querulous Nixon takes over) emerges as a spirited heroine with very particular and unconventional ideas about herself, and her relationship to God and the written word.

That they were able to include royalty in that mix, reminding everyone of the success Disney's had with The Princess Diaries and a whole slew of crown - sporting animated heroines, only ups the profit potential and resulting need to get this movie out to its young public as soon as possible.

Shame, then, that Stephen Bradleys earnest drama never gets to grips with its remarkable heroine, played by a wry Deirdre OKane as an adult, and by standout Sarah Greene as a young woman.

The heroine of the story is Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) who volunteers to fight as a replacement when her younger sister is selected in the annual reaping.

From its enigmatic tease of an opening sequence until its sobering finale, Mitchell establishes a permeating atmosphere of the unknown, which remains even as we learn the specifics of the threat that is pursuing our heroine, a young woman (played by Maika Monroe) who also becomes the target of male gazing.

In the opening installment, our young heroine is portrayed as a wan, waif - like creature given to wandering around her family's sprawling, mountaintop mansion located high above the seacoast.

Debut novelist Gabriel Tallent's ability is apparent immediately, but as the book descends further into the psyche of its young heroine, one realizes that the beauty of his prose is a necessary counterweight to the horror at the heart of his novel.

Sarah Campbell, the young slave who is given to her half - sister as a wedding present, is a heroine, but she is not perfect.

As the Kaiju Wars rage on, Pacific Rim: Amara follows the young heroine whose life shattered when she is orphaned during a devastating monster attack.

- VOYA «Derek Landy has written a delightful book about a young girl who realizes she's been a heroine waiting to happen all along, as she claims her rightful status as a warrior mage.

Originally intended as a Breath of Death spin - off but later changed to Cosmic Star Heroine for better name recognition, Cosmic Star Heroine Legend is sure to delight players, both old and young.

Kelley's heroine has to do a lot of listening — to young men almost as constrained as she by a preposterous stack of books, their own predatory instincts, or her nightmares of revenge.