Sentences with phrase «drama set»

The Emmy winner played Lou Grant in the 1970s sitcom with Moore and in «Lou Grant,» a spinoff drama set at a newspaper.

Two videos overleaf show the news: one with stills of the underwater rescue interspersed with narrative of the compelling drama set to calming whale calls and a second as broadcast in an English - language Asia Brief.

Square Enix has today officially unveiled Sleeping Dogs, a «gritty» and «visceral» openworld cop drama set in Hong Kong.

I'm particularly fond of war stories and epic political drama set in fantasy / medieval settings - elements that are rich in Final Fantasy XII.

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands: War Within The Cartel is an upcoming 30 - minute promotional live - action drama set within the game's world.

For the first time ever, Mii characters behave based on the personality traits you select, playing out the drama you set in motion.

Root Letter is a youth mystery adventure and human drama set in Shimane Prefecture.

An open world crime drama set in Hong Kong.

It is an epic love story and family drama set at the dawn of World War II.

A writer whose «unflinching yet lyrical prose» O Magazine recently compared to Toni Morrison, Bond might just have penned the breakout novel of the year with Ruby, a period drama set in rural Texas.

Now she returns with a bracing new novel, at once an intricate mystery and a rich human drama set in the high - stakes atmosphere of a prestigious research institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Last year, I brought to your attention Ripper Street, the BBC crime drama set in Whitechapel (London) in the years after the Jack the Ripper murders.

Gakkyu Hotei: School Judgement, the court drama set in an elementary school, is ending serialization in the issue out May 11.

It's basically a courtroom drama set in an elementary school, with Phoenix Wright if he was a kid, blonde and wore glasses.

It's returned to the limelight recently with a live action drama set to debut this month.

There are many books we could recommend about family drama — especially family drama set in a small - town setting — but I'll limit this list to a few novels that are particular BookPage favorites:

Now that we can enjoy the finished product, Call Me by Your Name is a stunningly beautiful drama set in 1983 and centred on Elio (Chalamet)-- an introverted 17 - year - old trying to make the most of the summer holidays in a quiet, relaxing, sleepy Italian town.

The Studio has a number of future projects set up at TNT, including a pilot production order for an untitled drama set in the unpredictable world of the Florida cocaine trade in the 1970s, from Jerry Bruckheimer, Michael Bay and Michelle Ashford, and is in development on «Titans,» from Academy Award - winner Akiva Goldsman and Marc Haimes, based upon the DC Comics characters.

Somehow director Shawn Levy, leaving the familiar waters of high - concept comedy for family drama set against a vaguely futuristic backdrop of robot action from the dregs of fleapits to the main event of a championship bout, makes it all work as a satisfying experience.

Film review: Catherine Keener leads a noteworthy cast in Please Give (15, running time: 90 min), a downbeat comedy drama set in New York.

A crime drama set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city's history, and centered on a the lives of an immigrant and his family trying to expand their business and capitalize on opportunities as the rampant violence, decay, and corruption of the day drag them in and threaten to destroy all they have built.

Based on a Pete Dexter novel, God's Pocket is a blue - collar drama set in a rough Philadelphia neighbourhood.

Then the great film critic J. Hoberman weighed in with the following: «A survival drama set almost entirely in the unfathomable abyss of outer space, Gravity is something now quite rare — a truly popular big - budget Hollywood movie with a rich aesthetic pay - off.

However, even with Demme's stellar track record with musical documentaries (Talking Heads, Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen), it's difficult to understand why so much time is devoted to the musical performances after the extensive family drama set - up.

In other platform - hopping filmmaker news, Andrea Arnold (American Honey) will direct all seven episodes of HBO's second season of Big Little Lies, and Wong Kar Wai has been doing casting calls for Amazon's Tong Wars, a 10 - part crime drama set on the streets of San Francisco.

Gary Oldman steps into the imposing persona of Winston Churchill in Joe Wright's (Pride and Prejudice, Atonement) period drama set in the early years of the Second World War, when Churchill's rousing leadership inspired a nation.

«Halt and Catch Fire,» AMC's latest drama set during the 1980s tech boom, is about to get released to the masses on DVD and Blu - ray plus Digital and DVD this May, and to celebrate the upcoming release, the show's star, Lee Pace, and the show creators / executive producers discuss retro technology in a DVD bonus clip.

Soapy drama set against the backdrop of a Miami Beach hotel revolves around the family who owns the business, the staff who run it and the explosive secrets they hide under the perfect exterior.

After Ridley Scott left the Blade Runner sequel to another director (Denis Villeneuve), he focused his attention on this true - crime drama set in 1973.

Fantasy - Will Smith and Joel Edgerton star in this cop drama set in the future where mystical creatures live and work side by...

Minder (Seasons One - Three)(BFS) This British series of the seventies, a comic drama set in the smudged lines between opportunistic hustling and criminal schemes, is a corker of a show with the sensibility of The Rockford Files in the London urban underworld.

This drama set in a foster - care center for at - risk teens could have been painfully mawkish.

Up until then, The Other could pass for an elegiac coming - of - age drama set against the backdrop of bucolic rural America just before the onset of World War II.

DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: DVD Features Romance Drama Set on Streets of Saigon Thuy (Pham Thi Han) is a 10 year - old orphan who lives on the outskirts of Saigon with her mean Uncle Minh (Nguyen Hau).

«Containment» (The CW): «The Vampire Diaries» and «The Originals» showrunner Julie Plec adds another project to her plate with this drama set in the immediate aftermath of a catastrophic viral outbreak.

We had the first trailer for Whiskey Tango Foxtrot a few weeks ago — catch up by clicking here — and now we've got a more «group» photo for the upcoming comedy - drama set on the front line of journalism in Afghanistan.

The film seems to be a «Fail Safe «- style drama set in «the political backrooms of London» in the aftermath of a nuclear attack on the city, and will shoot on July 15th.

Last month, we got word that Paul Thomas Anderson had begun shooting his latest movie, a fashion drama set in 1950s London that will reteam the director with his There Will Be Blood star Daniel Day - Lewis.

Sieranevada Directed by Cristi Puiu Romania, 2016, 173m Romanian with English subtitles U.S. Premiere A decade after jumpstarting the Romanian New Wave with The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, Cristi Puiu returns with a virtuosic chamber drama set largely within a labyrinthine Bucharest apartment where a cantankerous extended family has gathered forty days after its patriarch's death (and three days after the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris).

It's gone through several titles, but Frank Darabont's new venture is a crime drama set in Los Angeles in the»40s, with Jon Bernthal, Milo Ventimiglia, Jeffrey Munn.

UPDATE: Focus Features has officially announced the start of production on Paul Thomas Anderson's untitled movie and their press release includes this plot description: «The new movie is a drama set in the couture world of 1950s London.

I'll be visiting several countries from five continents from the comfort of a cosy cinema screen in London — to South Africa for John Trengove's drama set amongst, and starring members of, the Eastern Cape's Xhosa tribe, The Wound; to Afghanistan for radio journalist Sonia Kronlund's profile of the country's most popular movie personality, Salim Shaheen, in The Prince of Nothingwood, and to Chile for A Fantastic Woman, Sebastián Lelio's critically - praised movie about a bereaved transgender woman.

Love is certainly all around in this ensemble drama set during the holiday season.

Two childhood friends growing up in poverty in south Boston come under the influence of a local crime boss, only to strike out on their own when he is caught and imprisoned by the F.B.I. Despite the marketing that features explosions and SWAT teams galore (neither of which actually appear in the film) What Doesn't Kill You is a character - driven drama set in the world of petty urban crime.

Gina Prince - Bythewood's Beyond the Lights makes our social - media - driven celebrity culture such a centerpiece of its story that this old - fashioned romantic drama set in the world of showbiz seems more topical than it actually is.

Back in October of 2009, we heard that Josh Brolin and Brad Pitt were interested in a new project called Go Like Hell, a fast - paced, adrenaline - fueled racing drama set up at Fox.

Release: Friday, March 18, 2016 (limited)[Theater] Written by: Jeff Nichols Directed by: Jeff Nichols Add Midnight Special to the short but increasingly compelling list of reasons to keep an eye on Jeff Nichols, the director of Mud, an understated drama set on the bayou and one of a select few credited with reinvigorating Matthew McConaughey's career circa 2013.

9) «Short Term 12» This drama set in a foster - care center for at - risk teens could have been painfully mawkish.

She's just finished filming Wes Anderson's «Grand Budapest Hotel», a comic drama set in middle Europe in the 1920s and co-starring Ralph Fiennes, Edward Norton, Jude Law, Owen Wilson, Bill Murray and Willem Dafoe.

Grand Hotel (Drama, Mid-Season) Eva Longoria executive produces this bold, provocative drama set at the last family - owned hotel in multicultural Miami Beach.