Sentences with phrase «darker films people»

Not exact matches

She says the lighting in her second film, Middle of Nowhere was «a deliberate decision to find the beauty of black people in dark spaces.»

LisaRaye McCoy, actress, makes her directorial debut with the film «Skinned» which tells the story of Jolie, a young girl that is so uncomfortable in her own skin and the stigma of what society places on dark skinned persons that she uses skin lightening creams to alter her complexion.

Because we watch horror films, some people see us as these dark twisted people that go and worship satan, and murder cats.

I, Tonya, directed by Craig Gillespie, doesn't shy from the darker turns her life took, the film's screenplay working from rumor and the unreliable narration of the people around her.

But while that film hit every clichéd note you'd expect, despite its good intentions and great ensemble cast, «Other People» breathes new life into the formulaic, dark comedy about death.

I bring this up not to scare away potential audiences, but to make clear that this film, while billed as a comedy (and it is that), also has a dark side that some (sensitive) people (like me) might not be comfortable with.

For our first show of 2018, we welcome writer and critic Dr Eloise Ross, who joins us as we check out some of the key films from this month, including Steven Spielberg's paean to press freedoms The Post (01:04), Guillermo Del Toro's dark romantic fantasy The Shape of Water (05:46), Don Hertzfeldt's animated science fiction sequel World of Tomorrow Episode 2: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts (10:23), and Ridley Scott's Getty dynasty biopic All the Money in the World (13:16).

And yet, I do appreciate the B - movie charms of the Olympus Has Fallen and especially enjoy how approximately 64 % of the film consists of Butler's disgraced Secret Service agent wandering dark hallways and stabbing people in the head.

We kick off the show looking at some of this month's key films, including Steven Spielberg's literally - ripped - from - the - headlines true story The Post, Guillermo Del Toro's dark romantic fantasy The Shape of Water, Don Hertzfeldt's animated science fiction sequel World of Tomorrow Episode 2: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts, and Ridley Scott's ambitious Getty family biopic All the Money in the World.

To be honest, I also look at films that I grew up with like Dark Crystal and Labyrinth and for Jim Henson at the time they were flops in terms of their theatrical release, but they went on to become classics that people still buy to this day.

Because, the film says, when it comes to what people are really like — what their motives truly are, and how they rise to, or run away from challenges — all of us are truly in the dark.

Oren Moverman's films showcase the dark elements of stand up people.

THE DVD Anchor Bay's 2 - disc DVD release of Near Dark is not only gorgeous in every technical aspect, but something that gives a great deal of comfort and hope to cinephiles everywhere: we're in good hands when people who recognize the artistry and importance of this little film are given the means and the opportunity to produce something definitive.

Though the film is absolutely dark, it stays comical because Frank and Roxy kill people who are, well, annoying bastards.

The film goes back - and - forth from the camp to their days before the war, as director Andrei Konachalovsky collapses their identities, while offering a new perspective on the Holocaust and the morally complex choices people must make during the darkest of moments.

The only film Spaihts has actually gotten to completion is The Darkest Hour, a 2011 dystopian actioner starring Emile Hirsch that few people remember and fewer people saw.

Several weeks ago, in the dark basement of a music club in Madrid, Spanish filmmaker Nacho Vigalondo whispered a name in my ear, the person he hoped would be the star of his latest film, and then he quickly swore...

Good film, full of dark humour that pretty much all British people will love.

Not many people would have been willing to wager before the start of the summer movie season that «The Avengers» would emerge as the best superhero film of the year (especially with «The Dark Knight Rises» still to come), but Marvel's big gamble proved everyone wrong, making beaucoup bucks at the box office on its way to becoming the third highest grossing movie of all - time.

It's a warm, teasing relationship — Varda really, really wants JR to take off his dark glasses and reveal himself — animated by their mutual affection, their curiosity about people, and their enthusiasm for their art, and captured gloriously in this glorious film.

They make a complementary double feature: two classic film noirs, with the same co-stars (suave Jean - Claude Brialy, feisty Gerard Blain) in the same kind of dark, chatty, stylish, psychologically complex drama — both about people unwittingly destroying themselves.

The Will Smith / Tommy Lee Jones / Josh Brolin sci - fi comedy was generally well - liked and did well for the studio, but thanks to films like The Avengers and The Dark Knight Rises, very few people have gone on to discuss it since.

Dark days were ahead and the film acknowledges the impact of heroin, the presence of neo-Nazism, the commercialisation of the counter-culture, and the increase of government surveillance on its own people.

I was the only black person in the theater, lured to the film by its glowing reviews — at the time of this writing, it holds a rating of 93 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, boosted by several notices that gush about how the film is a dark but honest look at humanity and grief.

The only concern that people might have is the brightness level, but it's no fault of the disc, The Void is a very dark film, and the Blu - ray beautiful recreates that experience.

Though he does a better job for longer than you'd expect, director Alan Taylor (who transitioned from respected cable dramas to film on 2013's pretty good Thor: The Dark World) can not overcome the fact that there's only so much a person needs to see of one indestructible character fighting another, each bouncing back from seemingly certain death on multiple occasions.

The most hopeful thing about the film is that even in a situation as dark as the one depicted, there can still be people like Saul.

Being one of his darker films, his character conducts some pretty awful atrocities, including murdering innocent people and betraying those closest to him.

I will pick the person / film I believe is the favorite to win, along with a dark horse selection — that way, if you want to roll the dice on a few categories, you can do so.

After Memento and its follow - up, Insomnia (the only one of his films on which he does not have a screenplay credit), he changed the way many people thought about superhero films with his Dark Knight trilogy (Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, and The Dark Knight Rises), punctuated by a few mind - bending films with original screenplays (The Prestige and Inception).

Of the many thrills that come from interviewing creative people — variously, unknown, ascendant and at the top of their game — there's also the under - discussed flipside: talking with, 1) vapid young «actors» (line - reciters is more like it) who have neither a sense of film history nor an appreciation for their occupational good fortune and, 2) perfectly genial writers and directors who are nonetheless so relentlessly on script — occasionally reciting entire career - checking passages verbatim from press notes no doubt spit - polished into significance by some friendly faction in the dark wings — that you realize they actually have less summary insight or thoughts about several months or years of their own work than you do after 90 to 120 minutes with it.

Lynne Ramsay's last two films (Morvern Callar, We Need to Talk About Kevin) have focused on individuals (in these cases, women,) who must contend with being the odd - person - out, someone with a secret they fear so dark and disturbing that it...

His prediction is not just that plenty of people will put Dunkirk first on their ballot; it also looks at the films likely to get the fewest number of No. 1 votes — Daniel predicts that will be Darkest Hour, The Post, and Phantom Thread — and then guesses where Dunkirk shows up on those ballots.

First up, «Black Mass: Deepest Cover, Darkest Crime» (23:00) provides a general overview of the real people dramatized and the film's depictions of them.

The world of «The Counselor» is not the sort of seedy underbelly we are accustomed to seeing in crime films; it is the milieu of greedy wealthy people hoping to become wealthier, dipping their toes into a darker world of crime and hoping there's nothing under the surface to grab them and pull them in.

One person they had no qualms about posing with however was Irish actor Domhnall Gleeson, who also features in the dark film.

Lynne Ramsay's last two films (Morvern Callar, We Need to Talk About Kevin) have focused on individuals (in these cases, women,) who must contend with being the odd - person - out, someone with a secret they fear so dark and disturbing that it leaves them at odds with and isolated from society.

Much the same as his previous films, he manages to bring out award worthy performances from every single person in this dark rural tale.

People flocked online to watch the first trailer for Disney's new film, which soundly topped the previous record established by Fifty Shades Darker.

There are many films that depict resurrection bringing people back but with dark differences, just look at the Tales of Beedle the Bard in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part One and the bride that was brought back from the dead.

One of the most hopeful signs of this is the spectacular failure of Alex Kurtzman's The Mummy (2017), a misguided Tom Cruise vehicle that was supposed to kick off the Universal Dark Universe series of updated horror films, but instead saw most of the people attached to that enterprise quitting the entire slate of upcoming projects, suggesting that perhaps, at long last, the comic book movie juggernaut may be coming to an end.

This is a film that begins as a clever joke, only to reveal itself as a dark study of how loneliness, the mundane, a lack of fulfillment, and jealousy can turn a person into a monster.

In 1973, the Central Office of Information produced «The Dark & Lonely Water», a harrowing Public Information film which aimed to send a message to young people about the dangers of playing near open water.

This one scene from the film pretty much sums up what Gotham City Imposters is; what would happen if normal people decided to replicate the Dark Knight and Clown Prince of Crime (that's the Joker to you, Batman noob) and go head - to - head?

Looking at films as an example, there is 2001: A Space Odyssey and The Godfather for the highbrow audience, The Avengers, Man of Steel, and The Dark Knight for comic book fans, and anything directed by Michael Bay for people who want to see stuff explode.

So while Modern Warfare 2 did make more gross revenue when compared to The Dark Knight, more people saw the film... a lot more.

At Hammonds House Museum in Atlanta, Weems's photographic series From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried, along with selected works and her 2016 film People of A Darker Hue, demonstrates the artist's strength as a storyteller, and as a powerful voice against racism, white nationalism, and the white - washed narrative of our country.

However, after visiting the exhibition entitled Edvard Munch: The Modern Eye, recently opened at the Tate Modern, it's not unrealistic that people will be more focussed on Munch's self - portraits and short films rather than his iconic painting; bellowing a cacophony of dark emotion through the public psyche.

A collection of film and video was presented with a curatorial nod to Jean Luc Godard's The Joy of Learning (Le Gai Savoir)(1969), in which two young people meet in a dark and empty television studio for «a series of dialogues during which they undertake a rigorous analysis of the relation between reality and film.»

It was accompanied by a film that paired footage of Black Lives Matter protests with body - cam video taken by a person walking around a dark house.