Sentences with phrase «from political drama»

It's hard to look away from the political drama but in case you missed it, there's a great tweet that sums up the hijinks of the week in the way that only a tweet can.

If you thought the end of the convention season would bring a respite from political drama, think again.

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It is 3.75 percent away from its high after February's market sell - off, which was kicked off by interest - rate concerns, not political drama.

Fears of seeming «political» during a presidential election year, sluggish growth in the Eurozone and a slowdown of the Chinese economic juggernaut will also keep Janet Yellen and the rest of the Federal Open Markets Committee from pulling the trigger more often; their vacillation will be one of the year's longest - running (and least loved) dramas.

Far from hurting CNN, Trump's war against it has amounted to a form of product placement — «earned media,» you could say — giving its anchors and correspondents starring roles in the ongoing political drama, turning them into camera - ready warriors for the First Amendment.

Elijah was coming off of a busy day, in which he had a life and death experience, prolonged physical activity, and was caught in the middle of political drama with a bounty on his head from an angry King.

The second is the equally incontestable fact that culture is derived from and connected to religion: architecture to temples of worship, drama to religious ritual, universities to acquiring sacred knowledge, music, sculpture and painting to the praise of the divine, indeed science and political economy themselves to categories generated by divine stories.

Today's dramatic announcement by British politician David Miliband - once widely expected to succeed Gordon Brown as leader of the Labour Party - that he is stepping back from front - line politics completes a chapter in a political psycho - drama that has transfixed the British political classes for months.

Shakespeare in the Park reduced Julius Caesar from a morally complex political drama into a heavy - handed tale of progressivism.

Whether it's the drama that's created when the various characters in our family get together, the tension that stems from political discussions, or the unnecessary comments and questions about our personal life, chances are most of us have had difficult family situations over the holidays at one point or another.

Of course, objective social and economic shocks and the intervention of socialist politics and political analysis play the decisive role, but an especially vivid sense of a society's ills, its psychic ills among them, and the human urgency of addressing them come from visual images and drama.

This political drama is taken from the classic story from Feodor Dostoyevsky, but liberties have been taken and many secondary characters eliminated.

Alas, my heart sank when I realized that the film I was about to see was not a remake of the 1995 forgotten Cindy Crawford - William Baldwin classic but a in fact change of pace low - key political drama from the go to high concept action film - maker of the past decade, Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity, Mr & Mrs Smith) focusing on the Plame Affair, one of the key scandals in recent American political history.

There has been nothing but positive feedback from the recent political drama that launched on Netflix.

Too much of the time, though, director Rod Lurie (a former film critic whose directorial credits include political dramas such as «The Contender») establishes a pace that dutifully trudges from scene to scene rather than taking time to reveal anything unexpected.

A24 has debuted the first official trailer for a true story political drama titled Backstabbing for Beginners, from Danish director Per Fly.

From 1975's Jaws, which started the summer blockbuster phenomenon, to 2017's Academy Award - nominated The Post, Spielberg has moved audiences with his rich, emotional stories, thrilled them with some incredible action sequences; made them think with his political dramas and inspired them to explore a world beyond our own.

The Ides Of March is exactly what we've come to expect from Clooney: a solid, classically made, political contemporary drama.

Chewing over ever - apt American themes of busted idealism, corruption, trust, betrayal and power, writer / director George Clooney's superb political ensemble drama takes its name from the day that Julius Caesar was stabbed to death by those closest to him.

Despite the controversy - baiting incest topic, Sitaru concentrates on the family drama mounting over an intergenerational divide stemming from lives experienced in different political epochs, a fairly common subject of contemporary Romanian cinema.

From look to language, it's no trophy - seeking construct, but a first - rate political drama made with consummate skill.

Although vastly different in style, the political thriller and romantic drama will provide local audiences with a glimpse at the breadth of the emerging Korean industry, as well as the latest from renowned filmmakers Ryoo Seung - wan and Hong Sang - soo.

Some highlights include Chile's playful fictionalized biopic Neruda, Brazil's critical sensation Aquarius, Almodovar's Julieta, the fantasy A Monster Calls, Paraguay's father daughter road trip movie called Guaraní, and at least three LGBT titles: Chile's Rara which is an LGBT family drama, the Venezuelan Oscar submission From Afar, and the Cuban political drama Santa & Andres.

Syriana (15) Running time: 128 min *** Oil and America's thirst for it is the subject of Oscar - winning screenwriter Stephen Gaghan's directing debut.Following the success of his script for Traffic, he has obviously decided that choppy, heavily populated political drama is where his talents lie.But Syriana is so busy roaming the world, from the Persian Gulf to CIA -LSB-...]

Coinciding with its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival today, a first look clip has arrived online from director Rob Reiner's upcoming biographical political drama LBJ which stars Woody Harrelson in the titular role as President Lyndon B. Johnson; take a look below after the official synopsis...

Didacticism occasionally dictates too heavily, but, at its best, potent political drama emerges from the superlative meeting of farce and thriller.

Apart from the first five minutes of a brief overview of the, questionable, political relations between the U.S. and Iran, it sidesteps any political agenda and gets down to capturing the thrilling, human drama at it's core.

It's hard to imagine the film being nearly as effective with another actor in the role, because it's his commanding performance that transforms «Selma» from yet another stuffy biopic into a stirring political drama worthy of Dr. King's legacy.

Current and upcoming domestic releases from Focus include Victoria & Abdul, directed by Stephen Frears and starring Judi Dench as Queen Victoria; Darkest Hour, directed by Joe Wright and starring Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill; the untitled Entebbe project, a gripping political thriller directed by José Padilha and starring Rosamund Pike and Daniel Brühl; Jason Reitman's new comedy Tully, starring Charlize Theron and written by Diablo Cody; Lenny Abrahamson» atmospheric thriller The Little Stranger; Joel Edgerton's coming - of - age and coming - out drama Boy Erased starring Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe; Mary, Queen of Scots with Saoirse Ronan as Mary and Margot Robbie as Elizabeth I; and the untitled new film from Paul Thomas Anderson starring Daniel Day - Lewis.

LBJ is an average political dramedy that only plays it straight when it needs to, and while it barely gives Jennifer Jason Leigh anything to do aside from a few quiet scenes (and it steers clear of any Vietnam war drama), it's a great performance piece for Woody.

His track record shows that a director with a distinctive style who's given leeway by the studio to deviate from the norm can make a crowd - pleaser that brings in the big bucks at the box office and also lands critical accolades — whether it's by reimagining comic book movies as political commentary (in the Dark Knight trilogy), sci - fi as quasi-post-apocalyptic family drama (Interstellar), or detective noir as psychological drama (Insomnia, Memento).

From director Rob Reiner, the political drama LBJ showcases what happened after Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson (Woody Harrelson) lost the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination to Senator John F. Kennedy (Jeffrey Donovan), but agreed to be his running mate.

This is not the kind of subtlety we expect from a historical drama, but in its political and personal aims, The King's Choice has chosen nuance over historical melodrama.

This earnest but heavy - handed political drama from venerable director Rob Reiner chronicles a worthwhile and relevant true - life account of investigative reporting in the face of post-Sept.

''... at the centre of it all, Bill Nighy, who somehow manages to move from comedy to serious political drama like this with the same deceptively effortless charm.

But the knack for human drama that's helped lift Morgan from TV to the big screen (The Queen, The Last King of Scotland) shines through here, as does his apparent interest in political biopics of any age.

David Gordon Green's films of late have run the gamut from broad slapstick (Your Highness) to understated drama (Joe), so seeing where a cynical political dramedy falls on the spectrum should be a draw in and of itself.

Since The Last Detail, Ponicsan has written a dozen more novels, one of which he adapted into a screenplay (Cinderella Liberty); meanwhile, his screenwriting credits branch out from military dramas into coming - of - age stories (Vision Quest), high - school dramas (School Ties, co-written by Dick Wolf), and political thrillers (Sydney Pollack's Random Hearts).

Under Al - Mansour's direction, from a script by Emma Jensen, the drama explores how Mary (played by the talented Elle Fanning), the daughter of two great thinkers — liberal political philosopher William Godwin (Stephen Dillane) and the godmother feminism, Mary Wollstonecraft — learned to find her own voice after running away with a married Percy Bysshe Shelley (played by arguably Britain's prettiest actor, Douglas Booth).

It could be argued that the ostensible neutrality actually shields 13 Hours from becoming the next hotly - contested political drama, a fate Eastwood's chronicling of the deadliest sniper in American history fell victim to last year — though shots of a topless (and completely ripped) John Krasinski, who plays experienced military man Jack Silva and the montages of substantially muscly men doing substantially muscly - man things like flipping over massive tires and knocking out pull - ups like it ain't no thang, does nothing but prop America up on a pedestal that the innocent Libyans pictured herein have nary a prayer of mounting themselves.

This drama from director Joe Wright chronicles Churchill's early days in the office of Prime Minister as he faces both political opposition and the growing Nazi threat.

Language: Italian Genre: Drama / Historical MPAA rating: NR Director: Bernardo Bertolucci Actors: Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu, Dominique Sanda Plot: The lives of two Italian men - one a bastard born to a peasant, the other to a land - owner from 1900 - 1945 - the rise of Fascism and Communism and how the two men are shaped by the social and political times.

crowed screenwriter Colin Welland from the Oscar stage in 1982, hoisting aloft his just - awarded awarded statuette for «Chariots of Fire» — and anticipating one of the bigger upsets in the history of the Best Picture race, as the modest British sports drama upended Warren Beatty's grand political epic «Reds.»

Before I could make it through even half of the usual drama associated with this country's current political state, I got a message from a buddy overseas saying the facelifted M2 leaked on a Belgian website along with a link back to our friends over at Bimmer Today.

Rooted in the author's own experience, the teen's intense narrative is set against real - life political events (reports from the New York Times are documented in an appendix), while the family drama and revelations continue right up to the end.

English politician and writer Lord Michael Dobbs did, and look what happened when he decided that «Location is irrelevant in political drama» and transferred the story in his novel and BAFTA - winning mini-series House of Cards from London to Washington.

In Meacham's telling, Bush indeed lacked an ideological vision, was as overmatched in domestic policy as he was masterful on the global stage, benefited from his family's influence, and remains overshadowed «by the myth of his predecessor and the drama of his sons» political lives.»

Figurative painter and former Turner prize nominee Dexter Dalwood talks to Gemma Kappala - Ramsamy about his cultural highlights, from the new Carl Andre exhibition to Kevin Spacey's political drama

If the drama arises primarily from social, political, or economic impacts, then it is crucial that the associated risk be understood fully, and not discounted.»

The others are blatant political games, attempts to cast blame, pure hostile drama, and to grab some goodies if you can, far removed from the concerns of the people.