Sentences with phrase «escapist work»

But the man, who hasn't directed a film since the brilliant but bleak Munich in 2005 (no, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull doesn't count), has became Hollywood's most heavy - handed melodramatist in his later years, bombarding even his most escapist work with daddy issues and inoffensive, utterly sentimental narratives.

Sterling writes that his dictatorship angle for the show he had since his days at The Escapist worked with his larger - than - life and egotistical persona and sense of humor.

Not exact matches

It is escapist to believe that it will all be worked out in the end times.

When we talk with biblical precision about the resurrection, we discover an excellent foundation for lively and creative Christian work in the present world — not, as some suppose, for an escapist or quietist piety.

The Director of Communications and Audience Engagement will work closely with the CEO to create, curate, and market an expansive collection of film clips (full episodes and movies as well as short clips) focused on bringing light escapist pleasure to the (mostly female) masses.

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

It's just one example of how «Django Unchained» is one of those films that works on multiple levels, either as pure escapist entertainment or as something deeper.

Ultimately, Solo: A Star Wars Story depends on — and just manages to work as an escapist romp because of — its legacy characters.

If you like escapist espionage thrillers with lots of action, perhaps there's enough quality actors, superb stunt work, and nice location shoots to give The November Man a passable grade, especially because the R - rated action can be quite brutal compared to a James Bond flick.

The Escapists series began in 2014 as a Steam early access game before being completed a year later in 2015 and then made its way to consoles soon after, giving fans the underdog story — the one where the little indie game worked through early access, gained critical recognition, and eventually got a promising sequel — that we all love.

Working with production designer John Barry and special effects supervisor John Dykstra, writer - director George Lucas makes escapist entertainment respectable again, and more — he turns it into art.

Courtney Howard / / Film Critic RETURN OF THE HERO (LE RETOUR DU HÉROS) Not Rated, 90 minutes Directed by: Laurent Tirard Starring: Jean Dujardin, Mélanie Laurent, Noémie Merlant, Christophe Montenez By now, we've seen almost all of our favorite female authors» classic romantic works turned into fully cinematic, swirling, escapist period pieces.

Compared to that, Creed is a work of escapist fantasy.

Rupert Wyatt Indie Work: Wyatt had only short films behind him (most notably 2004's «Get The Picture») when he made his first film in 2008, the low - budget prison thriller «The Escapist,» which starred Brian Cox, who'd also appeared in the short, alongside Joseph Fiennes, Seu Jorge, Liam Cunningham, Dominic Cooper and Damian Lewis.

His work has appeared more than 40 publications, including Nintendo Power, PC Gamer, GameSpot, PlayStation The Official Magazine, EGM, GameSpy, IGN, Official Xbox Magazine, GamePro, The Escapist, Ars Technica, and many others.

ChrisD and Mouldy Toof Studios, the creators of Spud's Quest, a Metroidvania adventure game that was successfully funded last year, has begun work on his new game, The Escapists.

His work has been featured in publications such as Vice, The Verge, The Guardian, The Escapist, Forbes, Wired, The A.V. Club, Game Informer, Waypoint, Polygon, Kotaku, Famitsu, and Edge Magazine.

«Back when we were working on the console version of The Escapists we needed a helping hand on the code side to get things wrapped up in time for launch and we were fortunate enough to find a gap in Dlala Studio's schedule so that they could assist.

My personal work has been covered by the LA Times, Lifehacker, and VICE, and my advocacy and talks have been covered on Polygon, Kotaku, The Escapist, and more.

The usual Escapists gameplay will be present and correct, working around prison schedules, doing favours for your fellow inmates to purchase supplies and avoiding unwanted attention from those pesky guards who are just doing their job eh?

Susan Arendt has been working in the video game industry since 2007, adding her expertise to sites including Game Life, 1up, The Escapist, Joystiq and GamesRadar +.

The developer had success with his previous game, Spud's Quest, and wanted to work full time on The Escapists.

His most notorious work to date is «what what in the butt» - a youtube viral video that conflates homosexuality, blackness, and religion into an absurd / escapist cartoon like universe.

Inspired by Eric Fischl's own childhood in suburban Long Island, NY, and his early career as an artist working in New York City in the 1980s, Disturbing Innocence presents a subversive and escapist world at odds with the values and pretensions of polite society.

Inspired by Fischl's own childhood in suburban Long Island, NY, and his early career as an artist working in New York City in the 1980's, Disturbing Innocence presents a subversive and escapist world at odds with the values and pretensions of polite society.

These works lead to Escapist Collages, paintings on colored tile layered with photo decals of tropical imagery, as if suggesting a way out.

«3 Doig equates many elements of his work - its very big size; its subjects of skiers, horror movies, and drug use alluding to his adolescence in Canada - with losing oneself and the inherent freedom that follows an escape from the blandness of the everyday.4 Movies, arguably the ultimate escapist vehicles, are extremely important for understanding Doig's work.

On the other hand, many works have a more escapist quality — dreamlike or nostalgic — encouraging slower modes of engagement and reflection.

This show seems to suggest that artists will either make more politically - charged works or retreat into escapist studio practices.

This new body of work, which includes paintings and c - prints, reveals the sordid gutters of paradise; a fractured world illuminated by neon and laden with lost boys, bloated sex tourists, escapist degenerates and opportunists.

The works reflect the artist's escapist love of color, lines, and texture.

His work investigates desires to transcend normality and escapist pursuits, with an open mind.

Irony and self - reflectivity are central strategies of her work, which touches upon feminist issues and patterns of micro history, and is furthermore socially engaged, whilst it can be political and escapist all at once.

These works in gouache and oil on paper were the artist's escapist response to the growing horrors of war during the early 1940s.

Surfacing at the Minnesota Marine Art Museum will include two temporary «escapist» exhibits that spotlight water - themed works by painter Samantha French and photographer Rhea Pappas.

The motif of black activism is communicated in the silver gelatin print, The New Negro Escapist Social and Athletic Club (Kiss), though the theme of black identity and notions of African «otherness» underlies most works in the exhibition, which provides a unified result.

This exhibition includes examples from ongoing bodies of work such as Cosmic Slops, The New Negro Escapist Social and Athletic Club, recent shelf sculptures featuring found objects, early examples of his photographs, and a special commission that will cover a gallery floor.

I got to the point where I was able to pay all my bills on a few hours of work per day, spending the rest of the day on whichever escapist leisure activity suited me at that point.

Often, one spouse does the escapist thing from a bad relationship, working overtime, hardly ever home, going out drinking, having an affair, and so forth, during a lengthy deterioration of the parents» relationship.