Sentences with phrase «bleak tale»

This game's bleak tale is anything but kid - friendly, putting you in charge of a caravan fleeing a horde of uncaring monsters and subjecting you to a series of choose your own adventure - style choices where there's often no satisfactory result.

They're rare, but help to bring a smile to an otherwise bleak tale of doom and gloom.

The debut feature from director - writer David Wnendt is a bleak tale of two girls who, for very different reasons, get swept up in the resurgent Neo-Nazi movement in Germany.

Many viewers will be particularly off put by a feeling that the often bleak tale lacks a resolution to all of the tension, particularly through an ending that raises more questions than answers (it may help to know the story of Job to understand the significance of the final shot).

This powerful, sometimes - bleak tale depicts a small - town cop in upstate Vermont struggling to rebuild his relationship with his young daughter after ending his marriage.

Shot by director John Ford against the spectacular vistas of Utah's Monument Valley, «The Searchers» is a bleak tale of the violent struggle between settlers and Indians.

Saturday Night Fever, for example, is a bleak tale of youthful fecklessness, blue - collar dissatisfaction, unwanted pregnancy and date rape, where the American Dream is exposed in its most narcissistic and narrow - minded form.

Strong performances and beautiful imagery just can't hold together what is essentially a bleak tale of two lovers.

Some deft touches of visual flair are not lost on an audience watching this bleak tale.

PlayStation 4's prequel to horror adventure Until Dawn is a bleak tale of psychological stress that quickly becomes a haunted house fairground ride

Though you'd suspect a film populated primarily by talking bunny rabbits to be family - friendly, this is actually quite a strange and bleak tale.

Fans of the cast may want to give this minor film a look, but I doubt even they will find much to enjoy about this bleak tale.

Like Pig in the City, this is another sequel ostensibly aimed at kids, but refuses to walk the same ground as its predecessor as it leans hard into a bleaker tale for its heroes.

Not exact matches

If, moreover, one thinks of the tree as the motherly feminine or as a symbol for the whole of nature, the shadows lengthen into a bleak morality tale about an oblivious male chauvinism or about an environmentally destructive anthropocentrism, both ominously foretold when, early on, the boy gathers leaves and weaves them into a crown and struts about playing king of the forest, his nose lifted high in the air.

It's a tale that only gets bleaker; even Abdi's loved ones seem to be in danger, since when he sneaks a call to them on a stolen satellite phone, he's instead extorted for more money via vague threats to their welfare.

Writer / director Pablo Trapero crafts this tender tale of an incarcerated woman who gives birth to a baby boy and struggles to raise her son behind bars as she comes to the bleak realization that he is the only one who matters to her anymore.

Hostiles is set in a bleak, bigoted world but tells the tale of a man somehow shaking all of his prejudices loose; it's an epic that hints at subtler ambiguities but forgets to actually include them in the story.

This is a fantastically spun tale which starts out as a bleak expose about death for cash, which forms into a story of friendship, but delves back down into revenge, reemerges for justice and redemption, and then turns into a cat and mouse thriller for a while until unraveling into a blood - thirsty mess of explosions and bullets before finding its ending.

The whole glum genre has made millions and that in itself is a little dispiriting; unlike the old - time sci - fi of Asimov, Silverberg and Clarke, which were rich with possibility, these new tales all forecast a bleak future, ruined by adults.

It's a bleak and blood - soaked tale, but Cooper (veteran of Crazy Heart and the underrated Out of the Furnace) has rounded up a superb cast and mostly gets the best out of them.

They have made a film that is both bleak and frothy, a tale of despair told with glee, a melodrama delivered with camp panache, a tragedy that is also a comedy.

Food is the driving force of the plot in this bleak futuristic tale from director Richard Fleischer that stars the iconic -LSB-...]

Although the subject matter is bleak, as no one in their right mind would find a story about missing, abandoned, or murdered children to be entertaining, the tale reels you in and commands your interest from beginning to end, even through a fractured mid-section, extra endings, and an epilogue that can be read as either disappointed or hopeful, depending on how much you choose to read into it.

Bleak is beautiful in Claire Denis's latest, a hypnotically woozy tale of a working - class mariner out for revenge against the big businessman who ruined his family.

It was a bleak, dystopian tale driven by the performances of its stars, perhaps most notably Hollywood newcomer Dafne Keen, who helped bring Laura / X -23 to life on the big screen.

The Handmaid's Tale season 2 has the heavy burden of striking out beyond Margaret Atwood's book upon which it's based — a book that, with its bleak open ending — didn't provide much of a path for the Hulu series to follow.

This morose tale of a beautiful Polish immigrant caught in a sick love triangle with her pimp (Joaquin Phoenix) and his wacko magician brother (Jeremy Renner) is unrelentingly bleak, pretentious, and looked like it was shot through a glass full of piss.

But these tales replace that earlier film's brilliantly bleak chill with light - hearted irony.These are...

While the setting was bleak, 12 Years a Slave is imbued with an invigorating message of hope from an astonishing tale of endurance.

A bleak, bittersweet sci - fi tale.

The stage is set for a tale as bleak as a Warsaw winter, but beneath the icy surface, emotions run surprisingly deep, thanks to a captivating central performance of the less - is - more variety.

Bast in the old west but its a very bleak and confronting tale.

Troubling: Yann Demange's bleak Northern Ireland tale of fight or flight is buoyed by its quasi-documentary approach

Set in 1887 against the bleak backdrop of New York City tenement living, A Bandit's Tale is the story of a plucky Italian boy and his adventures in a new world.

The post-apocalyptic tale follows 16 - year - old Cassie as she navigates a bleak and dangerous dystopia following an alien invasion that has wiped out most of the human race.

I started working on a bleak, claustrophobic noir tale about a young couple trapped in a roadside motel during a vicious Iowa blizzard.

It is a fairy tale for adults, both a work of modern fiction and fantasy, and at times very bleak.

With spare prose that sets a tone as chilly and bleak as the Oregon coastal setting, Zumas doesn't shy away from the grotesque while presenting a tale that's haunting, thought provoking and painfully timely.

This ebook compiles Charles Dickens» complete novels, including «Great Expectations», «David Copperfield», «Oliver Twist», «A Tale of Two Cities» and «Bleak House».

A star - studded international group of authors has come together in crime writing harmony to provide a killer cocktail for noir fans; salutary tales of gangster etiquette and pitfalls, clever takes on the locked - room genre, chilling wrong - footers from the deceptively peaceful suburbs, intriguing accounts of tables being turned on hapless private eyes, delicious slices of jet black nordic noir, culminating in a stunning example of bleak amorality from crime writing doyenne Maj Sjowall.

Surreal nightmares clash with real - world dilemmas in a tale that's as bleak as it is hopeful.

Gone are the bleak, boring and grey environments of Metal Gear Solid 2, replaced by lush jungles as we journey back to the Cold War to follow the tale of the first Snake as he's sent on a mission by the US government to kill his old mentor, and legendary hero, The Boss, after she seemingly defects to the Soviets.

Lincoln's CIA sidekick, John Donavan, is also a standout and provided a much - needed dose of comedic relief in an often bleak and emotional tale.

In well - lit areas, like the starting open field, the desaturated greens and hollow greys still paint a bleak backdrop for this ill - fated tale.

Dim Bulb Games describes the game as «a bleak American folk tale about traveling, sharing stories, and surviving manifest destiny.»

Described as a «bleak American folk tale,» this title from San Francisco - based Dim Bulb Games is as impressive as it gets, from its unique flavor to its exquisite and diverse writing to its superb art work.