Sentences with phrase «central character»

This is a fabulous new addition that taps into crowd sourcing and gives you a massive list of central characters to any given book and how often they are referenced.

What he found was that boys check out books with male central characters much more than girls.

There is still honesty about many of the film's situations and the problems of its terribly flawed central character.

Black Panther excels in presenting a unique central character with a memorable supporting cast.

All four central characters put forth a strong effort and the story does not disappoint.

It is the beginning of spring, and the young central characters are looking for a fresh start.

I think it's an involving, moody mystery with a very interesting central character.

It could've been considered a risk, placing the fortunes of a debut feature film in the hands of a single central character, rather than an ensemble.

As a portrait of middle - aged vulnerability and weakness, this is a rich story with a believable, complex central character.

The RPG and rogue - like elements framed around the juxtaposition of central character's lifestyle make for perfect console game.

«That means that almost four out of every five books that kids read have male central characters,» he says.

Almost as central a character as Lara is the island of Yamatai itself, a place so packed full of detail and gorgeous scenery that I often found myself stopping to simply take in the view.

[Kerrigan] accepts the challenge of central characters who do not let us know what they're thinking.

The headline news is that not only will there be a new location and a new job for central character Carrie Mathison, played by Claire Danes, but that there will also be a time jump of a couple of years.

Whereas the sculptures are based on central characters from his recent films and include papier - mâché heads and multi-faced masks composed from printed steel, the drawings and dioramas depict these new players standing besides figures from the artist's earlier repertoire, as if posing for a group portrait of his ever - expanding roster of protagonists past and present.

She plays central character Becky Sharp, a one - time urchin who, over the course of the two - and - a-bit hours, schemes her way up the social ladder, happily stepping on the fingers of anyone who blocks her way as she goes.

Animated sequels in which central characters are reunited with long - lost parents: Rio 2, How to Train Your Dragon 2

Jason Graves reached deep into humanity's musical past to craft a soundtrack that would not only enhance the experience of playing through Primal's Stone Age setting, but also immerse players deeper into central character Takkar's personal journey to survive and rebuild his life.»

The two central characters do make major geographic changes — yet no matter what their external surroundings are, their internal worlds remain stubbornly rooted.

The over a minute long video definitely gives a déjà vu with its familiar central characters from the main group, but we also see more of Yondu, Mantis and Nebula hinting that they are set to add to the high octane adrenaline rushing action.

Like Jellicoe Road, this hefty Printz Honor Book about a teen's attempt to reinvent himself rewards readers with an ambitious, wholly original high - school story whose central characters search for identity and meaning.

Previous studies found ratios of male - to - female central characters in picture books of 1.5:1 to 2:1.

Three of the strongest entries in the official competition — Jacques Audiard's Rust and Bone, Ulrich Seidl's Paradise: Love and Cristian Mungiu's Beyond the Hills — feature central characters who are bound and gagged, for sale to the highest bidder, or literally cut off at the knees, in films that bring a physical, visceral intensity to stories of religious oppression, sex tourism and life on the margins of the working class.

Reynolds» superb turn as unhinged central character goes a long way towards smoothing over The Voices» various faults, which finally does confirm the film's place as a distinctive black comedy that is, in essence, an instant cult classic.

The real action belongs to the words, that distinctive clip - clopping rhythm of banter between central characters that McDonagh writes with such aplomb.

There are no real central characters so it's a bit like when we first approached Resident Evil and imposed our own characters and story on that world.

Leafing through the menu, we also came across two special Final Fantasy VII parfaits, modeled after central characters Aerith and Cloud.

In this interview, Corbeil discusses his approach to adding nuance to the personalities of the story's central characters through the use of the musical score.

Midler's scenery - chewing turn as the brassy central character remains virtually the only worthwhile element within Stella's overlong running time, as the movie suffers from a fairly stale narrative that's compounded by an absence of compelling supporting figures and an often unreasonably deliberate pace.

After the earnest portrayals in Singer's first two X-Men films, the third, ineptly directed in 2006 by the now infamous Brett Ratner, was bleaker than its predecessors: Multiple central characters got killed off, and critics were underwhelmed.

A Clatter of Jars by Lisa Graff Kids should first read National Book Award nominated A Tangle of Knots, then pick up A Clatter of Jars, which continues five years later with the same central characters at Camp Atropos for Singular Talents.

Dewey Hughes (Chiwetel Ejiofor) is the other central character here, and at the start of the film in 1966, he is visiting his brother Milo (Mike Epps) at Lorton Prison.

The author places the main characters in timeframes that involve the other central characters in their lives yet each character remains self - centered in their own space.

In her first major screen role, Daniela Vega, who plays Marina Vidal, the beleaguered central character in Chilean director Sebastián Lelio's A Fantastic Woman, elevates even the most mundane action — petting a dog, lifting an arm to activate a motion - sensor hallway light — into a gesture of minor majesty.

Originally released in 1962 under a pen name, Borderline (Hard Case Crime / Titan Books — 2014) is a steamy tale of sex, violence, and deception as its four central characters move individually, for their own troubling reasons, back and forth across the Rio Grande separating El Paso from Ciudad Juárez.

Making his first appearance in Soul Edge, Siegfried is the most central character of the Soul series, acting as the main protagonist in most of its installments.

To that end, the quartet of central characters comes to life excellently.

Critics Consensus: I Feel Pretty has a charming star and the outline of a worthwhile comedy — but unlike its suddenly confident central character, it suffers from a fundamental lack of conviction.

And despite the extensive secondary cast of cameramen, sound techs and story editors, the film manages to develop well - rounded central characters, some who of become almost likable in spite of themselves.

It seems like every summer we get this kind of comedy where the innocent and naïve central characters think they're off for some fun and wind up in a whirl of trouble involving strange guns and drugs.

But while this kind of comedic bildungsroman has been repeatedly overdone, what saves «Submarine» from becoming the ugly sister to «Napoleon Dynamite» is its smart and strongly developed central character.

The Girl on The Train «s central character Rachel (Emily Blunt) confesses to one of the story's several red herrings «I'm afraid of myself.»

There are no real central characters so it's a bit like when we first approached Resident Evil and imposed our own characters and story on that world.

Later ported to the Sega Game Gear by Kaneko itself, Berlin Wall was mysteriously altered for the Genesis, where it was given a new title and an entirely different central character - a crocodile («wani» being the Japanese word for crocodile).

Yet, these assets showed me that Kratos had matured, that the story would explore deeper themes, and that there was a new central character by his side — his son, Atreus.