Sentences with phrase «films about race»

On a deeper level, though, this brief opening battle establishes the central theme of Lincoln, and it's a theme that lies very much at the heart of Spielberg's cinema: if Lincoln is intended to be a biopic about arguably the most revered commander - in - chief in the history of the Republic, it also positions itself with its opening images as a film about race.

The film about race: «Get Out» harks back to the situation depicted in «Guess Who's Coming to Dinner,» with its story of a white woman bringing home her black boyfriend to meet her white liberal parents.

Not particularly a film about race, creed, or even location, Hartigan explores relatable themes like loss, friendships, puberty and single parenthood.

«I'm not sure rave reviews or buzzing awards talk are enough to express the amplitude of what director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal achieve in «Detroit,» a film about race riots from half a century ago.

«Selma» wasn't the only film about race to get short shrift from Oscar voters this past year.

For a film about racing, many scenes unspool at a deliberate pace in closely observed scenes from life.

Ice Cube and Lori Petty star in Charles Burnett's powerful film about race and the Los Angeles police.

Not exact matches

However, if it fails to meet analyst's estimates, and teeters close to DreamWorks Animation's Thanksgiving debut, the studio could have a larger problem on its hands with only one other film — about a racing snail — out later this year.

Of course this show is not going to represent 100 % of muslims in america, just like when they film a show about asians, african americans or any other race it doesn't represent all those people in that race.

The film was released in the US during the build - up to the election campaign, with Syllenhaal making some rather hopeful statements about his desire to affect the race.

Turning an album into a gorgeously - rendered art film was new, unexpected, and revolutionary, and Beyoncé did it while weaving a narrative about womanhood, motherhood, loss, reconciliation, and yes, race.

«Guess Who» is a dry comedy, a remake of the classic «Guess Who's Coming to Dinner» (1967), only this time, it has a race role reversal, where the original film was about a white family meeting a black man, this film centers around a black family meeting a white man.

Now, at the time, Disney made safe films for kids to not have to think too hard about, and while «The Jungle Book» (1967) does play it safe in some regards, the harsh fight sequences and undertones of race really does come through for older viewers and may have kids hiding their eyes every once in a while.

While the film touches upon its various political and cultural issues (In addition to the give - and - take relationships between reporters and politicians, there's a lot about the overt and subtle sexism that Kat receives as the first and, at the time, only woman serving a newspaper publisher), the film plays mostly and best as a race - against - the - clock thriller of sorts, in which the obstacles are as imposing as the might of the U.S. government and as low - key as deadlines or being beaten to a story by a rival paper.

«Deadpool» star believes Miles Teller will have an easier time bouncing back from film's flop than his co-star in conversation about race and gender in Hollywood

The announcement arrives this morning with the first details about the plot of the film, directed by D.J. Caruso: The third film in the franchise finds Cage coming out of a self - imposed exile, and on a collision course with «deadly alpha warrior» Xiang and his team in a race to recover a seemingly unstoppable weapon called Pandora's Box.

«A street - racing blockbuster about traffic cops» is one of the more endearing action - film premises in recent memory, and in terms of conceptual scale alone it seems a refreshing rejoinder to the genre's rather exhausting penchant for maximalism.

Of the two, Death Race 2000 was the most fascinating to her, and still is, and she'd joke with me about the film's sanctioned vehicular homicide and humorous point system.

«Room,» an adaption of the best - selling novel about a woman raising her young son inside a solitary room, won runner - up in the best film race.

Hillenbrand's first book, Seabiscuit: An American Legend (2001), was an «inspiring» tale about the famous race - horse; it was also made into a Hollywood film in 2003.

More than that, though, he and Cole have also manufactured the MCU's most explicitly political film, the pair's story talking about issues of race, protectionism, humanitarianism, police brutality, political fascism and immigration policy that comes alive as if it was pulled from today's most recent headlines.

It's part of the strength of Parker's film that the current controversy doesn't entirely overshadow its impact — and that Birth of a Nation immediately becomes part of another crucial conversation, about race.

Frequently, race - issue films act as if black victims of racism don't matter at all; Richard Attenborough's Cry Freedom (1987), about South African leader Stephen Biko, is focused almost entirely on Kevin Kline's fleeing journalist.

For top dramatic pictures, the selections made by the HFPA's fewer than 100 voters were the historical drama «12 Years a Slave»; the Somali piracy thriller «Captain Phillips»; the 3 - D space spectacle «Gravity»; «Philomena,» about a mother's search for her son; and the car racing film «Rush.»

• Finally, reader questions, including queries about a hypothetical five - film Best Picture slate, an apparent influx in populist cinema finding room in the Oscar race and how we all got our starts in the blogosphere.

The internet calmly took this news in by immediately casting about for wild rumors regarding what this might mean for the second film — specifically, the idea that once it was made clear the Captain Marvel movie (coming out in between the two Avengers films) would feature the Skrulls (a race of green - skinned shape changers, for all you non-comic nerds), the fourth Avengers movie would turn its attention to a «secret invasion» storyline, starring said aliens.

Starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Thomas Edison and Michael Shannon's George Westinghouse, the film is about the race for marketable electricity in the U.S. Tom Holland, Nicholas Hoult, and Katherine Waterston co-star.

They weren't catching the wave of excitement Selma's mere presence brought to audiences — not because history was about to be made with the first black female director in the Oscar race, but because Selma was such a very good film, such a moving film, such a sensual, breathtaking, wholly original work that no one really knew what to do with it.

How much better can a debut feature realistically get, and why discredit one of the greatest films ever made about race relations by attributing it to Humpty Dumpty?

Maybe they're still prized destinations for film lovers, but just about all I'm reading out of them are dispatches on what each new premiere does to next year's Oscar race.

The first section of the podcast my guest, Gold Rush Gang member Matt Dinn, and I talk about the impact of this on the current landscape of the Oscar race, specifically to The Weinstein Company's awards efforts and the surprising news last week that Ridley Scott would cut Kevin Spacey out of his Getty kidnapping drama All the Money in the World, replace him with Christopher Plummer (the actor he originally wanted for the role of Getty) and the race to do this and keep the film's December 22nd release date.

The first trailer has arrived for The Post, Steven Spielberg's film about The Washington Post's race to publish the classified Pentagon Papers in 1971.

While faint praise, it should be said that this does feel like a case of colorblind (and genderblind) casting; nothing about his character specifies his race, and Roberts» character was a man in the original film.

The Oscar race isn't really about finding the «best» if best means the pinnacles of film history, but rather, they usually choose the movie that's a snapshot of a moment in time, the movie most people can agree was most satisfying.

If only Emmerich could figure out how to better integrate these cool effects shots into his films, rather just drop them in the middle of some tedious story about a scientist racing against the clock to blah blah blah...

Had that film won, it would have defied everything I know about the Oscar race.

What chance does a film based on a video game about car racing have?

However, it isn't till about the last 30 minutes of the film that you realize you've been witnessing a nuanced dissection of intergenerational relationships, race relations and double consciousness, and then the film really reveals itself to you.

What begins like a movie about concerns over a mixed - race couple's relationship turns into a horror film when Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) visits the Caucasian family of his girlfriend (Allison Williams) and discovers they take racial prejudice to a whole new level.

«All of the films are just incredible work,» he concluded about the Best Director race at large.

The film raises pertinent questions about love life, and race, without actually «meaning» to.

Ensuring that it doesn't get left behind in the» stories about affluent white folks struggling with daddy issues» arms race, Netflix has announced that it's picking up Noah Baumbach's latest film for its online streaming library.

We talk about why we still think, more than ever, that it is the film to beat in the Best Picture race.

Surprisingly, Harlin also interjects a great deal of racing information about which one would not otherwise suspect the director was privy, considering the dearth of useful information in the film itself.

On the ongoing discussion of race: «I think [the film] has actually helped talking about it and so forth,» McQueen reflected.

I don't even know how long it's been since we last heard about this film moving forward, but inching like a snail in a turtle race we finally have some more movement.

I know as much now about CART racing's strategy and appeal as I did prior to watching the film, leading me to believe that the amount of knowledge one possesses about the «sport» going in will greatly influence the degree to which one enjoys the movie.

It's the kind of publicity angle that film distributors dream about, particularly as their prestige project is jockeying for position in the forthcoming Oscar race.

When a film starring three prominent Oscar winners / nominees isn't getting any buzz in the 2012 Oscar race, you wonder about the sum of its parts.

StudioCanal has unveiled the very first full trailer for Ron Howard's Rush, the Formula One racing film about two real - life rival drivers, one played by Daniel Brühl (Niki Lauda) the other played by Chris Hemsworth (James Hunt).