Sentences with phrase «engaging film about»

God's Land, Preston Miller's alternately languorous and engaging film about a Texas - based Taiwanese cult awaiting the end of days, walks a fine line between satire and earnestness, but the project...

Maybe my expectations were duly lowered but director Francis Lawrence, who took over the series from filmmaker Gary Ross and raised the bar, and screenwriters Peter Craig and Danny Strong turn out a surprisingly engaging film about rebellion, propaganda, media, and the emotional and psychological scars of war, all seen from the point of view of a young woman (Jennifer Lawrence) who becomes a symbol of resistance simply by surviving with courage, dignity, and compassion.

A warmly engaging film about the «New York Review of Books» might have been more than a birthday love - in

Shelly's lasting legacy, then, is this exquisite, engaging film about stunning, sincere slices of life — Russell's luminous lead, a narrative in no hurry to hit familiar notes, Andy Griffith's codger delighting in schadenfreude.

Since Hollywood refuses to make clever, engaging films about strong 50 - something women, leave it to Chile to give us a movie to celebrate.

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«Christians should be ready to engage with them about the main biblical themes that are portrayed in the film, namely sin, judgment, and salvation.»

I think I'm going to be sick, AA wants nothing to do with press radio or film (nor does it wish to engage in any sect, cults or religion), yet you have the nerve to write an opinionated article about not believing in God and being part of AA?

To inform the organic sector about the OSCII activities, the OFC and OACC have created 8 short films that present organic producers engaged in research and innovation in close cooperation with OSCII researchers.

Nevertheless, Chasnoff says, «The experience of engaging in the mainstream media about our film like that was one of the first times that the topic ever surfaced in the mainstream media.»

«Once I received the script and became engaged related to the subject matter that is a worldwide problem related to people of color, I felt compelled and appreciative to be a part of bringing to life a film about the epidemic of skin bleaching in both impoverished and wealthy nations,» said Vicker.

Without the baggage of having read the book, the synopsis or even the film's Wikipedia page, Fifty Shades of Grey unspools as a surprisingly engaging story about sexual naivety, concepts of consent and, ultimately, power.

A lot of people have a phobia about these creepy crawlies and of course it makes for engaging horror films.

What is so engaging about the film is the way its director, Ki - duk Kim, manages to keep our interest intensely focused on the couple.

It is this ability to crossover from potential niche status - a huge risk for a film with a mammoth budget - to billion dollar behemoth should light a fire under the asses of studios to show them that stories about anyone can be successful as long as they are well made and engaging.

I can't say enough about this surprisingly engaging film!

While the film's melodramatic conclusion threatens to undo the goodwill of its first two thirds, it's mostly an intelligent, engaging, and sometimes darkly funny drama about the process — and cost — of 21st century warfare.

You feel a sort of united front the couple present when they are engaging with painfully chatty outsiders like their neighbor going on and on about her children or the constantly upbeat realtor attempting to reassure D they'll find good buyers (Hogg's former film alums Mary Roscoe and Tom Hiddleston, respectively).

When Baker decided to engage her via direct message to tell her about his film, she had no acting experience beyond her playful persona on social media.

I never would have thought a film about football, depression and dancing could be this engaging and easy - going, despite of the serious undertones.

3 1/2 stars Story: Animated film about a teen girl who discovers a tiny world of forest creatures engaged in a constant battle between good and evil.

The French film My King is a very engaging movie about a failed relationship.

There is a very clear sense in which I am being unfair to The Congress as I am writing about a dramatic film rather than a philosophical essay but Folman's decision to critique dramatic artifice whilst engaging in dramatic artifice means that The Congress draws your attention away from the drama and towards the film's flawed philosophical argument.

Add to that a few dramatic elements, and you have a movie that is thoroughly engaging and above all worth seeing for viewers that are skeptical about these sorts of films.

Their film is zippy and funny but also layered with a let's - all - get - along message that feels more relevant and engaged than your average kids» movie (including feminist gags about not calling women animals «cute»).

Sichel's choice to make a film about her illness, of course, not only has the opposite effect of firmly directing her attention to her own mortality, but it also forces her to engage with technology and stress, two leading triggers of sickness today.

A gorgeous and engaging piece of film making that exemplifies all that is right about cinema.

Writer / Director Rian Johnson (Brick) delivers a very entertaining, creative, thrilling and clever sci - fi film that features time travel, dark comedy, romance, metaphysics, and enough action to keep just about any viewer engaged... as long as you enjoy using your brain a bit.

As she wrote in her post about the film, this is a story about class and it's a story, in keeping with good timing, that perhaps could only be told in these times, as we continue to engage in more nuanced discussions about belonging and inclusion and privilege.

I found it a truly engaging experience; both funny, touching and ultimately a sincere film about mental illness and the perception of genius and madness being two sides of the same coin.

It's no surprise that Millennium Actress is a critical darling, as it's about how film — or any art — only becomes important when an audience that respects it enough to engage it on multiple levels opens it up to a broader dialogue.

As the engaging newcomer this series needed, stand - up comedian Cristela Alonzo makes Cruz Ramirez adorable, soulful, and worth caring about that it makes one wish the whole film had been about her the whole time; her enthusiasm is as infectious as Ellen DeGeneres» Dory.

Throughout the Lab, Fellows engage in one - on - one meetings with advisors as well as view advisors» films to spark discussions about the journeys of their stories from script to audience screenings.

If you can accept critically - acclaimed, but mostly historically inaccurate and somewhat anachronistic, films like Jesus Christ Superstar, Gladiator, and Braveheart, perhaps you might be able to cut Marie Antoinette the slack necessary, allowing the artistic license to properly engage you as a story about a young girl struggling to find herself, leaving everything she was behind her and uncertain of just what to be, only to finally emerge to the rest of the world as a historical figure larger than life.

His admiration for Kennedy is very evident too, and the late senator's speeches about peace and shunning violence are the most poignant and engaging moments of this film.

Scored lightly by a series of Brian Eno compositions, The Jacket is an apocalyptic poem of love and loss that's unusually wise about its visual vocabulary — about ways of looking, the line between dreaming and reality, and how eyes on film can be a powerful and elastic metaphor for the audience engaged in a kind of liquid dreaming.

I caught some of the titles: Nugu - ui ttal - do anin Haewon (Nobody's Daughter Haewon) is a delightful film from the South Korean auteur Hong Sang - soo, the story of a female student's «sentimental education» as it were, as she traverses through reality, fantasy, and dreams, we viewers never quite sure what we are watching; Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive (TIFF's Opening Night film) is an engaging and drily humorous alternative vampire film, Tilda Swinton melding perfectly into the languid yet tense atmosphere of the whole piece; Night Moves is from a director (Kelly Reichardt) I've heard good things about but not seen, so I was curious to see it, but whilst the film is engaging with its ethical probing, I found the style quite laborious and lifeless; The Kampala Story (Kasper Bisgaard & Donald Mugisha) is a good little film (60 minutes long) about a teenage girl in Uganda trying to help her family out, directed in a simple, direct manner, utilising documentary elements within its fiction.

I'm loath to quote myself, but I'll make an exception for «Hearts in Atlantis,» which was one of the first movies I wrote about as a college film reviewer for USC's Daily Trojan, and from which I singled out Yelchin's performance as «wonderfully engaging.»

In fact, there is an entire sequence about trying to look after a new baby for the first time, which is surely aimed solely at the parents in the audience that have survived this; and the action of the entire film has enough energy and visual interest throughout to keep all ages engaged.

Perhaps if The Bad Batch were less concerned about constantly establishing its mood and atmosphere through sound and visuals and more (or equally) focused on engaging audiences with its characters and plot, it would have been a much more entertaining film.

Wiseman's unobtrusive filming style and strategic editing reveals the inner workings of the multifaceted institution, engages with discussion about the role of art in broader society and explores how people connect with art.

The story, a mix of Celtic history and folklore about a medieval manuscript long considered sacred by the Irish, is engaging for moviegoers all ages, but the magic here is most evident in the film's dazzling artistry.

Unlike, say, Seán Ó Mórdha's films about Joyce, Beckett, or Elizabeth Bowen, however, there is little attempt to engage audiovisually with the specificities of the literary source.

Kit Bowen sat down for an exclusive chat with «Traffik» star Paula Patton and had an engaging conversation about the film and its subject matter.

«A lot of it is about who inspired these filmmakers, and we're thrilled that people like Werner Herzog and Bret Easton Ellis were open to engaging in conversations about films that are not theirs.»

The discussions here offer a haven for engaging film beyond history, but Jones» doc proves to have an ugly, specific idea about its audience that the book doesn't.

The difference here is that Orci and Kurtzman are more engaging speakers and also relay more facts and trivia about both this film and Star Trek as a whole.

It wasn't until Dunst found a window between the second season of the FX TV series Fargo (she has since become engaged to one of the show's co-stars, Jesse Plemons) and Sofia Coppola's drama The Beguiled, that the timing was finally right for their small crew to decamp to the woods of Humboldt County, about 270 miles north of San Francisco, for an intensive five weeks of filming.

Matching this director with a strange, campy film about turn - of - the - century magicians engaged in mortal combat makes a lot of sense.

This is an engaging commentary as the speakers crack jokes and talk about the serious nature of the film.

They do a good job of engaging Barbanell and Taylor by asking them questions about the production of the film, but this can often steer the conversation away from on - screen comments.