Sentences with phrase «directed at the girls»

The humor is just not directed at the girls.

Shojo Beat is also for older teens, but are more romance / drama titles directed at girls.

It's particularly concerning when the comments have been directed at a girl who has admitted to an eating disorder and self - esteem issues in the past but is trying to beat them with by dedicating herself to a healthy lifestyle.

Not exact matches

If you go into the little shop at Dunquin and ask for a brand of tobacco or something else they haven't got, the girl will direct you to try next door.

But perhaps the most direct and true way is to see and smell and feel it through one person — one girl who ran both from it and straight at it; one girl sucked into its eye and then set down on its other side; one girl, now a woman, who has had time to sort out what it did to her life.

Succumbing to the marketing directed at boys and girls can result in men and women who are totally disconnected from one another.

Pay attention: Instead of dropping their kids off for practice, parents should stick around if they can; they should encourage their kids to report inappropriate behavior by teammates or coaches - whether it is «locker room talk» demeaning of women or girls, or anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant comments or behavior - regardless of whether it is directed at a teammate or not, and made to feel safe in doing so; they should pay attention to a coach's behavior at practices and games to make sure they are not participating in or tolerating bullying, teasing or abuse of any kind.

The ferocity of emotion that my eight - year - old identical girls direct at each other astonishes me at times.

Our older girls are both at ages where they are pulling away (in healthy ways) to explore independence, self - directed learning, and social pursuits without holding our hands.

The direct, engaging language and questions aimed at young listeners make this an excellent potty training book for girls.

Directing your own movie at home may be a distant dream, but you can still have some fun with current interactive movies as you let Rick get the girl this time or save Anna Karenina from an untimely death

We'd been chatting over Insta direct for quite some time, bumped into each other during Coachella and at all the festival parties and finally had some time for a girls (and Alex;)-RRB- brunch in LA.

At its helm, General Pants is directed by Pip Edwards (long time girl crush!

Written by James Garibay, June 25, 2016, at 9:15 p.m. Hungarian Indie Horror Film Lucky Girl Review Lucky Girl is a short horror film directed by Hungarian film - maker Demeter Lorant (Facebook).

Friend Finder UK Photo Profiles in United Kingdom / Britain - Dating Profiles at the site called «FriendFinder» Women and girls aged 18 to 32 in the United Kingdom - this is a direct link to their photo profiles!

Much of that praise was directed at Colin Farrell, who stars alongside Anton Yelchin, Toni Collette, and Christopher Mintz - Plasse for director Craig Gillespie (Lars and the Real Girl).

The film's historical merits are greater than its artistic ones: It's Paramount first sound film, directed by Dorothy Arzner (the only women to have a sustained directing career at the time), and the star is «It» Girl, Clara Bow.

From 1928 through 1931, Graves was co-starred with Jack Holt in a group of rugged Capra - directed adventure films, in which the two stars were usually at each other's throats over a pretty girl.

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.

Mary and the Witch's Flower Rated PG for some action and thematic elements Rotten Tomatoes Score: 85 % Available on Disc and Streaming Written and directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi (former key animator at Studio Ghibli) Mary and the Witch's Flower is a hand - drawn animated fantasy which follows a young girl who discovers a hidden world in the clouds where she is enrolled to become a witch in training, only to reveal secrets hidden by those she knows on Earth.

Actress and mumblecore icon Greta Gerwig directs and writes a universally insightful look at girls coming to terms with boys, sex, drugs, self - esteem, music, moms, dads and their uncertain futures.

This was seemingly the case with the Dardenne brothers at this year's Cannes, where their latest film, The Unknown Girl, received a considerably more lukewarm response than the likes of Two Days, One Night and The Kid with a Bike, with some suggestions that the Belgian duo had finally reached a stage of auto - pilot writing and directing and others implying that the new film was their first outright failure.

Dr. Lauzen directs research at the Center and teaches classes including The Women of Prime Time: From «That Girl» to «Saving Grace» and Film Directors: When Women Call the Shots in the School of Theatre, Television and Film.

Girls makes up for its lack of eye - catching period production design (a la Mad Men) or garish angles and filters (here's looking at you Breaking Bad) with that rarest sign of visual acuity: a classically good eye for clean and simple photography, particularly evident in episodes directed by Lena Dunham herself.

Co-produced by the BBC, directed by Julian Jarrold (who directed the first film in the «Red Riding» trilogy, the Benedict Cumberbatch «Brideshead Revisited,» as well as «Kinky Boots» and «Becoming Jane») and adapted from Spellbound by Beauty by fellow BBC - TV veteran Gwyneth Hughes, «The Girl» balances its cynically speculative content with tantalizing recreations of Hitchcock and Hedren at work.

Based on a True Story directed by Roman Polanski Blade of the Immortal directed by Takashi Miike How to Talk to Girls at Parties» directed by John Cameron Mitchell Visages, Villages» directed by Agnès Varda

And yet, despite the casual swipes at characterization in a sprawling cast (the black girl who belts out gospel like Bessie Smith, the Asian boy desperately in search of cool), School of Rock isn't a terrible film, just one that could have been written and directed by anyone.

The film and The Oasis become one oversized metaphor on how hard it is for shy guys to kiss girls and stuff, and embodies the very myopia of not seeing women as complete, complex beings beyond the adoration directed at them.

Starring: Nathan Fillion, Leighton Meester, Moon Bloodgood, Geoff Stults, Rockmond Dunbar What you missed out on: Director James Foley has got kind of a weird track record, having helmed «Glengarry Glen Ross,» «Who's That Girl,» «At Close Ranger,» and «The Corruptor,» but there's enough good stuff in there to make you take note when he directs the pilot of a series.

Sundance hit «A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night,» the Iranian vampire drama directed by newcomer Ana Lily Amirpour, has been picked up for U.S. distribution by Kino Lorber.

THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY Ben Stiller stars and directs in this fable about the shy titular photo editor at Life Magazine who is prone to elaborately staged daydreams wherein he battles his demeaning boss (Adam Scott with a fake beard) or seduces his dream girl (Kristen Wiig, who is dreamy and, um, a girl).

I, Tonya, directed by Craig Gillespie (Lars and the Real Girl, 2007; Million Dollar Arm, 2014), depicts the life and times of Tonya Harding, the former Olympic figure skater at the center of a media scandal following an assault on rival skater Nancy Kerrigan ahead of the 1994 Winter Olympics.

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Cornish will next be seen in The Seven Psychopaths and just appeared in the Dave Riker - directed The Girl, which bowed at the Tribeca Film Festival.

Cranes are Flying — This Russian film directed by Mikhail Kalatozov follows a girl (Tatiana Samoilova in a wonderful performance) whose boyfriend leaves her to fight Nazis at the start of World War II.

Mark Waters has come aboard to direct #Catfight, which centers on a teenage girl who tries to reinvent herself at a private school.

The Ava DuVernay - directed film snagged its lead back in July, when Storm Reid boarded the classic sci - fi tale as Meg Murry, the awkward - but - average girl at the center of all the space - time travel.

Script work for films he would not direct include A Taste for Women (1964), The Girl Opposite (1965), The Girl Across the Way (1968) and A Day at the Beach (1972).

The most buzzed - about movie at Sundance was probably «Catfish,» a microbudget documentary directed by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman about Ariel's brother Yaniv, a 24 - year - old New York photographer who is contacted on MySpace by an 8 - year - old Michigan girl who wants permission to paint one of his photos.

I wasn't sure what to make of Wild Girl Waltz to begin with; I was hesitant to say I liked it but at the same time I didn't want to dismiss this indie comedy directed by Mark Lewis.

After many subsequent fits and starts («The Abstinence Teacher,» «Used Guys,» «Will,» all projects that never came to pass), the duo were finally able to solidify a gig up at Fox Searchlight, directing a script penned by «The Exploding Girl» actress Zoe Kazan.

Eva Husson's Girls in the Sun premiered at Cannes on Saturday, one of only three films in competition directed by a woman.

Andrew Bujalski (COMPUTER CHESS) directs the remarkable SUPPORT THE GIRLS, which premiered to rave reviews at this...

** 1/2 / **** Image A Sound B - Extras A - starring Jamie Bell, Josh Lucas, Dermot Mulroney, Devon Alan screenplay by Joe Conway and David Gordon Green directed by David Gordon Green by Walter Chaw David Gordon Green's collaboration with cinematographer Tim Orr has borne George Washington and All the Real Girls — fruit from the tree of Americana, nourished at its roots by the twilit legacy of Terrence Malick.

Richard Attenborough: an escaped lunatic in A Bridge Too Far (1977) John Carpenter: his longest cameo appearance was as Bennett in The Fog (1980) Terry Gilliam: directed himself in bit roles in Jabberwocky (1977), Brazil (1985), and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988); he also directed himself as a member of the Monty Python troupe in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), and The Meaning of Life (1983) Ron Howard: small cameo roles in Night Shift (1982), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), and A Beautiful Mind (2001) Lawrence Kasdan: Devo's (River Phoenix) lawyer in I Love You To Death (1990) Elia Kazan: Mortuary Assistant in Panic in the Streets (1950) Stephen King: in his lone directorial effort Maximum Overdrive (1986) Spike Lee: cameos (and some larger roles) in many of his own films, including: She's Got ta Have It (1986), School Daze (1988), Do the Right Thing (1989), Mo» Better Blues (1990), Jungle Fever (1991), Malcolm X (1992), Crooklyn (1994), Clockers (1995), Girl 6 (1996), Summer of Sam (1999), and 3 A.M. (2001) Terrence Malick: an unexpected visitor at door, with blueprints, in Badlands (1973)- credited as «Caller at Rich Man's House» Robert Redford: the Narrator in A River Runs Through It (1992) Rob Reiner: a helicopter pilot in Misery (1990) M. Night Shyamalan: Dr. Hill at the hospital in The Sixth Sense (1999), a Stadium drug dealer in Unbreakable (2000), deadly driver Ray Reddy in Signs (2002), and Guard at Desk in The Village (2004) Steven Soderbergh: small cameo roles in Schizopolis (1996), Ocean's Eleven (2001) Oliver Stone: an officer with a phone in his hand in a US base's bunker when it is blown up by a suicide bomber in Platoon (1986)

At Sundance a few weeks ago, we got to interview Miguel Arteta, the Puerto Rican filmmaker also of Chuck & Buck, The Good Girl and Youth in Revolt, who directed Cedar Rapids.

Written and directed by first - time filmmaker Babak Anvari — and produced by Lucan Toh, Oliver Roskill and Emily Leo of Wigwam Films — the film is already earning comparisons to The Babadook, reports Variety, and follows the success of Iranian vampire flick A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night.

Women - directed films will bookend the festival, with Ana Lily Amirpour's A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night serving as this year's opener and Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard's 20,000 Days on Earth closing it out.

We've been anxiously awaiting the results of the awards at Sundance, and now we know who won big - Me & Earl & the Dying Girl, directed by Alfonso Gomez - Rejon, starring Thomas Mann and Olivia Cooke.

Wonder Woman (Patty Jenkins, 2017), because it's the most powerful popular feminist statement in mainstream cinema thus far, inspiring countless young women and girls to dare to succeed; because Patty Jenkins more than deserved it after languishing in the wilderness of episodic television after her masterful film Monster (2003), when any male director would have gone on to direct four of five features on the strength of that one film; because it's about damned time that a female comic book feature got made; because Jenkins still had to fight to get a fair payday to direct WW 2 — enduring months of fight - to - the - death negotiations to get a directorial fee comparable to that of Zack Snyder or J.J. Abrams for the sequel; and finally because she's better than either of those two directors, who are overrated hacks with little or no vision at all.