Sentences with phrase «emotional tale about»

FIVE BLUE RIBBONS - Chris at Romance JunkiesA deeply emotional tale about Sophie Duncan, a successful columnist whose world falls apart after her daughter's unexpected illness and her husband's shocking affair.

The result is a haunting, emotional tale about a teenage girl's unraveling, and a boy whose very identity feels entwined in a house condemned for demolition.

Silver Voracious: Feeding Time (Action Lab) I could tell you so many reasons why you should read this emotional tale about a time traveling chef who hunts dinosaurs, whether it's Markisan Naso's fantastic dialogue or the wonderful artwork by Jason Muhr and colourist Andrei Tabacaru.

A celebration of nonconformity; a tense, emotional tale about the fleeting, cruel nature of popularity — and the thrill and inspiration of first love.

Not exact matches

Although White is absolutely right about the tendency of today's animated films (Tangled included) to pander to the most annoying and depressing aspects of popular culture even as they ignore or deny the richer, deeper culture from which most classic fairy tales emerged, the animated features that Disney brought to the screen when Uncle Walt himself still oversaw the studio made a point of drawing considerable aesthetic, emotional, and narrative power from specifically Christian aspects of the culture that, even today, America shares with Europe.

The carefully crafted appeals to come forward at a crusade are often emotional in nature, based on success stories of people who converted, or tales of woe about people who did not.

Its emotional impact is shaped by the unique perspective of the narrator - a typical teenager telling the tale out of her own youthful concerns (having fun, her uncertain future), combining her beliefs about the dual contradictory nature of humanity («you just got half - devil and half - angel in ya»), and imaginative and fearsome fantasies of religious judgment and divine retribution (the flaming end of the world, and the Devil's presence on Earth).

In fact, it's a pretty fascinating, sometimes disturbing tale about the emotional and physical toll of combat.

Two powerful lead performances drive Fences, a tale about a black family living in Pittsburgh during the mid-1950s, that, while the overall experience is mostly negative, the impact is nonetheless a powerful and emotional undertaking.

«It's a really sprawling, emotional nightmare fairy - tale type movie... about an abandoned orphan who gets lost in the woods,» Dominik told The Playlist at Cannes in 2012.

Ronan talks about acting for the camera like she has done it for 50 years, affecting a California accent for Lady Bird, discovering the character as she was doing it, and getting emotional when we talked of the tender immigrant tale Brooklyn which brought her her second Oscar nomination just two years ago.

He has described his film project as «a really sprawling, emotional nightmare fairy - tale type movie... about an abandoned orphan who gets lost in the woods.»

Ostensibly, «The Danish Girl» is a historical biopic about this courageous transgender figure, but in reality, it's more a love - conquers - all tale in which Lili's wife, Gerda, serves as the emotional core.

If Stanley Kubrick had made a film about American slavery, it might have looked and moved somewhat like this one, always thinking about shots as shots and scenes as scenes and themes as themes, yet always tying every element, whether central or marginal, to the film's emotional spine: a tale of what it means, physically, to be enslaved as opposed to free.

Assayas canvases familiar themes in this tale about an author whose sudden fame brings unexpected emotional duress as well as the attentions of an aggressive admirer whose welcome assistance soon becomes dangerously parasitic.

The Salesman Rated PG - 13 for mature thematic elements and a brief bloody image In Persian with English Subtitles Rotten Tomatoes Score: 97 % Iranian writer / director Asghar Farhadi claimed his second foreign film Oscar with this latest tale about a modern Iranian couple struck by tragedy and emotional damage when the wife is brutally attacked in their home.

Danai Gurira who brought Michonne to life on the TV series did not reprise her role in the game, therefore Michonne is voiced by Samira Wiley who has starred in Orange is the New Black and The Handmaid's Tale delivers a stunning performance that can range from light - hearted dialogue with Pete to action and even emotional scenes when Michonne hallucinates about those who she has lost which provides a guaranteed emotional response from the player, while Malik Yoba voices Pete who made his debut as Yul Brenner in Cool Runnings followed by Detective Carson in Cop Land and TV series such as New York Undercover, Alphas and Empire.