Sentences with phrase «escapist fantasy as»

The first object encountered in the installation is a large black cone rising up from a flat circular disc: a witch's hat blown up to the size of absurdity, referencing both lighthearted escapist fantasy as well as the historical trauma of persecution.

Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (G) Natalie Portman stars in this escapist fantasy as the insecure manager of a magical toy store who inherits the business from her 243 year - old boss (Dustin Hoffman) and then realizes that she has the right stuff to run the place with the help of his accountant (Jason Bateman) and a precocious kid (Zach Mills).

Not exact matches

It's an escapist fantasy film that more or less works as solid spectacle entertainment.

And the fantasy sequences in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty — which stars Stiller as a Life magazine photo editor with escapist daydreams — yield some of its funniest moments.

Ignoring the absurd idea that somehow the Korean resistance to the Japanese was a key to the winning of the war (which the film explicitly states at one point), the creation of noble resistance heroes (even when sometimes compromised) versus the evil Japanese villain is pure escapist nonsense that passes itself off as realism instead of the Tarantino-esque fantasy it actually is.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening November 23, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS August Rush (PG for slight violence, mild profanity and mature themes) Freddie Highmore stars as the title character in this escapist fantasy about a promising musical prodigy who runs away from an orphanage to New York City to find his parents (Keri Russell and Jonathan Rhys Myers) only to end up living with a Fagin - like wizard (Robin Williams) and lots of other kids in a makeshift shelter in an abandoned theater which was once the Fillmore East.

The Golden Compass (PG - 13 for fantasy violence) Epic escapist fantasy, based on Philip Pullman's award - winning novel, about a precocious 12 year - old scholar (Dakota Blue Richards) already attending Oxford who ventures into a parallel universe to save her best friend and other children kidnapped by an evil organization known as the Gobblers.

The Cobbler (PG - 13 for violence, profanity and partial nudity) Adam Sandler handles the title role in this escapist fantasy, set in NYC, as a shoe repairman who manages, metaphorically, to step into the lives of his customers.

This is reality as escapist fantasy (it is Florida, after all), and this is what lingers, as the camera lingers on one last escape.

Many AAA games serve as escapist power fantasies, where the player is ultimately able to dominate the game's universe — right up until the game ends.

«Post-racial» is increasingly treated as a dirty word of false promises, and the obvious artifice of the scene (each figure is collaged - in separately) seemed to suggest that the fantasy is indulgent and escapist.