Sentences with phrase «featuring characters whose»

His work often explores themes of alienation and isolation, featuring characters whose interactions are mediated through technology, bureaucracy or other power structures.

It will also apparently feature a character whose likeness is based off of famed film director Guillermo Del Toro, a close friend of Kojima's who was previously tapped to help the Metal Gear creator develop a new entry in the Silent Hill franchise called «Silent Hills» before Konami scrapped the project during their tumultuous split from Kojima.

In Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer this means it features a character whose house you won't be able to build without using its amiibo card.

Not exact matches

The final ad featuring the character, whose popularity has reached a level where he's now an Internet meme, sends him on a one - way trip to Mars, using the tag #AdiosAmigo.

The Meno, Plato's only dialogue on the subject of education, features a title character whose failures to learn are more frequently the results of flaws in his character than they are the results of lapses in his logic.

The modernized campaign features a more interactive character whose adventures show why he's different and how he's gained his legendary status.

Finally, I'm awarding a bonus point for staging a play featuring an actress whose main purpose was showing her boobs, then having another character criticize the actress's performance.

These items feature characters from The Nightmare Before Christmas like Jack Skellington, whose face is emblazoned in almost every piece.

Rees, whose one and only feature film until now was her 2011 debut, «Pariah,» has said she set out to make an «old - fashioned» movie, and she's done that, allowing her story to unspool at a refreshingly deliberate pace and her characters to find their own footing within the story and with one another.

Any screenwriter's dilemma would be all in the balance; how to make sure all these heroes, some who have never interacted with others, many with unresolved issues with other characters, are adequately featured, while pushing forward this new story of this seemingly invincible foe, whose own storyline is widespread and massive.

The story does get bogged down in a few of its ancillary characters, namely Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) and Natalie (Scarlett Johansson), both members of SHIELD, whose presence here is solely to bring up another entry in the comic canon (along with a post-credit scene featuring the discovery of a prop from another hero in the increasingly incestuous cinematic Marvel Universe).

Fun and delightful odd - ball comedy, featuring the always brilliant Johnny Depp, whose character in this story is no less memorable than all those he has come to play after this movie was made.

United States of Tara, which features Toni Collette as the title character and whose executive producers include Steven Spielberg, takes a riskier tack, giving the story a wide vein of comedy.

Visually stunning, like its predecessor, this game boasts an extensive character creation mode, a multitude of new and returning weapon types, each of which can be forged and upgraded to the player's preferences, while it also features 300 characters based on both fictional and historical Japanese figures, whose souls help players strengthen their team and defeat their enemies.

But this is Lawrence's film, and this is perfectly demonstrated by the inclusion of an apallingly misguided scene featuring Lawrence as a secondary character — Preacher Don — whose impact contributes to the overall feeling of «why?»

The newcomer featured most heavily is British actress Daisy Ridley, prompting speculation she is to play Luke's daughter — a next - gen Jedi whose adventures the Abrams» trilogy will chronicle (it is broadly hinted that at least one original character is to be bumped off in the Force Awakens)

This is after all a story featuring teenage characters called Mr Fantastic (special power: stretchy limbs), The Invisible Woman (special power: take a guess) and the villainous Victor von Doom, adapted from a lightweight 1960s comic strip and given a twenty - first century makeover by a guy whose first film, 2011's «Chronicle», was an ugly, noisy found - footage mess.

Joss Whedon is back marshalling this one, and the film also features the likes of Don Cheadle, Andy Serkis, Paul Bettany (whose character, The Vision, finally shows his face properly, if briefly, at the end), Hayley Atwell and Thomas Kretschmann.

The movie doesn't just feature quirky characters, which could have been found in any film of the time, but flat - out weird characters whose actions don't serve the narrative — they are simply weird for weird's sake.

The gauntlet imposes a plot structure that's like something out of a 1940s serial — such as The Adventures of Captain Marvel, which featured a different Captain Marvel from the character whose future screen debut is teased here — whereby a villain has to get hold of the components of a superweapon over many chapters.

The quartet features three cops and one criminal, the last played by Vince Vaughn, whose character, Frank Semyon, is desperately pursuing a land deal that will allow him to go legit.

Far From Heaven, the TV series Mildred Pierce and now the glorious Carol rekindle the spirit of an age when «women's pictures» were commonplace in Hollywood, telling female - centred, taboo - breaking stories, featuring exceptional actresses such as Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Crawford and Bette Davis, whose characters face obstacles — prejudice around race, class, gender — that are no less prevalent today.

For a comedy whose humor arises almost entirely from character - based situations, «Our Idiot Brother» features a plethora of characters who are incompletely drawn.

EXTRAS: There are 11 cast and crew audio commentaries spread across the four - disc set, along with an overview of Season Three, featurettes on filming the ninth episode («Battle of the Wall») and the role bastards play in the Seven Kingdoms, a roundtable discussion with the actors whose characters died in the fourth season, deleted scenes, a blooper reel and some interactive features.

As a director, Eubank (whose previous feature was the low - budget «Love») has a natural gift for composition and utilizes a clean, vivid color palette that amplifies the bumps and bruises that the characters endure as they fight for their freedom inside the nondescript, clinical walls of the facility where they're being held.

It is also the first Super Smash Bros. game to feature an Animal Crossing - related playable character, specifically Villager; whose appearance is based on the male player from the cover of Animal Crossing: City Folk.

Sadly, we still do not get anything featuring Chris Cooper, whose character and subplot wound up being cut from the film.

Writer / director J. C. Chandor (whose first feature, Margin Call, was among the best films of 2011) offers an object lesson in the virtue of understatement in this one - character drama featuring Robert Redford.

Owing equal debt to Italian neo-realism and more contemporary Iranian cinema, Haifaa Al - Mansour «s feature debut follows the title character, a rebellious 12 - year - old girl who enters a Koran - recitation competition at school in order to win enough money to ride a bike, while her mother (Reem Abdullah) fights to hold on to her husband, whose wealthy mother is encouraging him to get a second wife.

It's completely out of character for a filmmaker like Braff, whose first two features («Garden State» and «Wish I Was Here») were such deeply personal pieces of work that it's very surprising to see him slumming it as a director - for - hire.

Director Dee Rees and Virgil Williams» screenplay (based on Hillary Jordan's novel) is vast in its ambitions, featuring five major characters — living on a farm in rural Mississippi in the years before, during, and after World War II — whose lives, motives, and hopes are the central concern.

Of course, Iannucci also provides a few middle - term characters — notably the sweetheart of the movie, Stalin's daughter Svetlana (Andrea Riseborough), whose sincerity and intelligence somehow have not been poisoned by the general indecency, and the movie's hero, Field Marshal Georgy Zhukov, who is ahistorically trim and chisel - featured as embodied by Jason Isaacs, an actor who always seems to have one lock of hair dangling dashingly over an eyebrow, and so provides just the wish fulfillment the audience needs.6

For a movie that hinges on a soulless man developing feelings, Criminal is noticeably lacking any of its own, what with its roster of repellent characters and the chilly approach taken by director Ariel Vroman (whose previous feature, The Iceman, was similarly, uh, frosty) and scripters Douglas Cook and David Weisberg — note, as but one example, that the death of a highly sympathetic character (and played by a highly billed performer) is treated as an aside, completely ignored by the person's friends and colleagues and, by extension, the filmmakers themselves.

A fascinating character study featuring two women whose collected neuroses make for a fascinating watch.

«Everything Else» («Todo lo demás»), the first narrative feature from the documentary filmmaker Natalia Almada, is a low - key character study whose gently repetitive rhythms mask an unusually keen sense of nuance and subtlety.

One of them was Wes Anderson, whose short film «Bottle Rocket» Kit championed; he's a character in this cover story that I wrote about the making of «Bottle Rocket,» the feature, back in 1995.

Since starring in The Lincoln Lawyer, McConaughey has shown a willingness to forego nice - guy — or even pretty - guy — roles in favor of characters whose sordid pasts show through his now sagging (yet still handsome) features.

It also featured a character endowed with passion, ambition and street smarts, brought to life by an actress whose screen career almost ended before it began.

Pitt's character is based on General Stanley McChrystal, whose exposure as a rogue U.S. military asshole of epic proportions became public knowledge after Michael Hastings» feature article («The Runaway General») for Rolling Stone Magazine (in 2010).

MTV recently talked to Paul Reubens (the actor formerly known as Pee - Wee Herman) about the film, and Reubens revealed an interesting new detail — that the script features «characters from «Welcome to the Dollhouse» and «Happiness» whose paths converge.»

Others are a little closer to home, like depictions of choking, numerous neck breakings and a character whose back is cracked — all of which feature enhanced sound effects.

When racial minorities do feature in such films, it's either as token characters whose ethnicity is never meaningfully commented upon (Lando Calrissian being the classic example) or in the form of analogies that themselves reek of racism (like the insect - like, ghettoized aliens in District 9, or the orcs in Netflix's Bright that inexplicably invoke Latinx and black stereotypes, even though those races also exist within the world of the film).

It is also be the first Super Smash Bros. game to feature an Animal Crossing - related playable character, specifically Villager; whose appearance is based on the male player from the cover of Animal Crossing: City Folk.

The problem, according to Hunter, a professor of sociology and religion at the University of Virginia, lies in the psychologically oriented pedagogy that character educators turn to in teaching values to children: «Dominated as it is by perspectives diffused and diluted from professional psychology, this regime is overwhelmingly therapeutic and self - referencing; in character, its defining feature is a moral framework whose center point is the autonomous self.»

The SEGA Sonic Civic embodies the spirit of the Sonic the Hedgehog classic video game, whose main character Sonic, and Sonic's world, is featured throughout the modified vehicle.

Inaugurated in 2016, the annual Walter Dean Myers Awards for Outstanding Children's Literature recognize diverse authors (or co-authors) whose works feature diverse main characters and address diversity in a meaningful way.

This moving debut, set during the Chechen wars, also features a cast of characters whose lives, at first, appear to have little in common, but are eventually shown to be linked in surprising ways.

Crews, the pugilist whose many novels feature characters trying to make their way in a South much changed from O'Connor's, follows O'Connor's dictum.

Among them is Polaroid, whose new Kids Tablet 2 ships with a durable rubber design and a host of apps featuring popular characters from Disney and Marvel.

Fans of Fingersmith and The Dress Lodger will love Accidents of Providence, absorbing historical fiction featuring Rachel Lockyer, a character wronged by her time and the kind of woman forgotten by history, whose love affair leads to her trial for murder.