Sentences with phrase «film about masculinity»

It doesn't help that Ms. Janney's character is the least developed in the movie; though her back story is briefly sketched in, she serves mainly as a plot device in what is ultimately a film about masculinity and its discontents.

Known for films about masculinity and violence such as Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and The Departed, Scorsese's protagonists in the past have been disturbed and / or criminal men, and as a director he has become associated with tales of gangsters and stories of NYC's underbelly.

Not exact matches

In discussing the original film with the rest of The Mary Sue editors, Teresa pointed out that The Warriors was all about toxic masculinity, and she's absolutely right; I imagine what one thinks the movie says about toxic masculinity will be very dependent on how one feels about toxic masculinity overall.

It's a low - key relationship dramedy / road movie starring the ripe - for - a-late-career-renaissance Bruce Dern (who'd be the most obvious likely beneficiary from the film's award season release date), and «SNL «alum Will Forte, that promises at least a modicum of the kind of off - kilter wry observations about masculinity and aging that have marked out Payne's best previous work.

It's a film about police corruption and partners learning to trust one another and the ways in which unbridled, excess masculinity can serve as a shield against the difficulties of modernity.

Colin is obviously the horror in the film, the heavy, and he has that masculinity and presence about him; he's the fear that is that undercurrent throughout the film.

The first film in Edgar Wright's «Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy,» a thematically linked series of three genre comedies about British masculinity, maturity and friendship, «Shaun of the Dead» announced Wright and co-writer and star Simon Pegg to an international audience with what might be the most balanced — and possibly the purely funniest — horror - comedy ever made.