Sentences with phrase «hitting dramas like»

HBO is best known for its hard - hitting dramas like The Wire, True Detective, The Sopranos, and Sesame Street.

Not exact matches

Netflix shows like sci - fi hit Stranger Things and historical drama The Crown — both popular with fans and critics alike — were shut out last night, despite having four nominations between them.

Masterful managers have a sense of drama about them, knowing exactly when to hit people in the gut and when to make them feel like stars.

Cruise hit the pause button on doing action movies, turning to dramas like «Lions for Lambs» and «Valkyrie.»

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The former star of Party of Five and films like I Know What You Did Last Summer is embarking on the fourth season of Ghost Whisperer, the creepy hit drama in which she plays Melinda, a young newlywed able to pass messages from the dead to the living.

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Even with the presence of a rare outright misfire (Third Person, from Crash director Paul Haggis), SPC managed to boost its already - high average Metascore by a few points last year, thanks to widely praised films like Mr. Turner (the year's # 2 drama, behind Boyhood), Leviathan (2014's best - reviewed foreign - language film), and Sundance hit Whiplash.

Known for hard - hitting screenplays for Submarino and The Hunt which he co-wrote with director Thomas Vinterberg, and for the popular Danish TV drama Borgen, Tobias Lindholm's solo directorial debut is perhaps as remarkable in the script department as his previous work, but the film itself — like the ship it depicts — sometimes goes adrift.

50/50 looks like it might hit on all comedy / drama cylinders.

Woody Harrelson barely makes an appearance and still seems like the most underutilized star in the franchise (although Stanley Tucci gets nothing more than a cameo appearance), while Donald Sutherland is the film's greatest benefit, hitting that perfect note of high drama and total commitment to the character — they were lucky to cast him in the role.

This film sounds like it will be a heavy hitting drama and I won't be surprised if Wilde knocks it out of the park with her performance.

«Like I told you 15 years ago, the next level is coming,» boasts Ari Gold (Jeremy Piven) as he hits the town with Vince (Adrian Grenier), E (Kevin Connolly), Turtle (Jerry Ferrara) and Drama (Kevin Dillon) in a hot convertible.

But beginning Saturday and running for the following two weeks, the culture cathedral of Lincoln Center will bless New York with its curation of the best cinema of the year, from Cannes hits anticipated on American shores (Todd Haynes» «Carol,» the Holocaust drama «Son of Saul») to the latest from international heavyweights like Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao - hsien («The Assassin»).

A stark, brutal, yet tender prison drama starring Jack O'Connell as a violent inmate sent to the same lock - up as his jailbird father (Ben Mendelsohn), the film's shot through with a raw energy and authenticity that's closer to «A Prophet» than to most other British films in the genre, with Mackenzie making the movie feel like he's bottled up a hurricane of tension, which at any second could kick through the screen at you and hit you with a sock full of snooker balls.

It must have seemed like a safe choice at the time; Schumacher had turned John Grisham's The Clientinto a nearly $ 100 - million hit, and had a string of solid dramas behind him, from St. Elmo's Fire to Flatliners.

Facing his greatest challenge to date, we see him solving problems (an Esther Williams - like starlet with an out - of - wedlock pregnancy [a funny and crass Scarlett Johansson, «Lucy»]; a talentless actor but agile cowboy who's reluctantly moved to star in a classy drama [an amazing Alden Ehrenreich, «Beautiful Creatures»]; etc., etc.) while trying to find his greatest star starring (and almost completing) what is their projected hit for the season, the eponymous epic telling of «the life of the Christ» from the perspective of a Roman general.

Because Eli has a superhero - like ability with martial arts, this veers between bleak survival drama and cartoon action, until Eli hits a Western - style town run by Carnegie (Gary Oldman).

The film features the actor known for his hard - hitting roles in the likes of WELCOME TO THE PUNCH and and classic Tyneside - set BBC drama series OUR FRIENDS IN THE NORTH, as a man with the ability to enter the memory of any individual.

The festival's Audience Award (which has in the past gone to future hits like Whiplash, Precious, and Hustle & Flow) this year went to Crown Heights, a drama set in the Brooklyn neighborhood in the early 1980s.

Nostalgists lament the demise of single plays like Ken Loach's Cathy Come Home or Mike Leigh's Abigail's Party, but drama series like The Jewel in the Crown, Edge of Darkness, Our Friends in the North, State of Play, the original Upstairs Downstairs or Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy will surely loom larger in history's rear - view mirror, while perhaps Julian Fellowes» surprise hit, Downton Abbey, heralds a new wave of the classic British costume drama.

It looks like NBC has decided to finally send a little spinoff love somewhere other than Dick Wolf's Chicago Whatever series for once, as Deadline is reporting that the network is developing a spinoff to its hit drama series The Blacklist.

Like Lee Daniels» hit TV drama «Empire,» «Furious 7» is stuffed with situations that require go - for - broke absurdity, but even Daniels and his nighttime soap predecessor Aaron Spelling would pause before attempting the level of «get the f — k outta here!»

2014 didn't have a cult film in the making like What We Do in the Shadows, or a true sleeper like Straight Outta Compton (or Spy, for that matter), or a blockbuster hitting the sweet spot for audiences and critics alike like Mad Max has done, or a traditional standalone nonfranchise blockbuster like The Martian, or an animated film with the acclaim of Inside Out, or a little horror movie that could like It Follows, or an unexpected independent drama that ran forever like Room....2015 was a year like 1999 or 1994.

Toronto has been slow to produce a breakout hit this year, but it sounds like Tom McCarthy's fact - based drama about the Boston Globe's investigation of pedophile priests might finally be it.

He's starred in hits like «Shameless,» «Wanted» and the «X-Men» franchise, and now James McAvoy joins HuffPost Live along with writer / director Ned Benson to dish on their new drama «The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby,» co-starring Jessica Chastain.

Jean - Louis Trintignan and Isabelle Huppert play father and daughter again as they did in Amour and apparently this familial drama is also, um, familiar, playing out like a greatest hits package of other Haneke films.

Keith's interactions make for hit - and - miss low - key drama, as he has passing interactions with characters who are either one - dimensional, (his cheery grandparents, a woman later who wants drugs from him) or refreshingly eccentric, like a drug ring guru dude named Mom, who espouses Bible quotes and other philosophical statements in one of the movie's rare unforgettable scenes.

And, finally, because the Globes like to give the networks their due, ratings hit and heart - tugging family drama This Is Us could sneak into the fifth slot.

But the Japanese market for dojinshi (self - published manga) has grown massively over the last 20 years, even while the mainstream has stagnated, and although most dojinshi is porn, there are also big original hits like Onani Master Kurosawa, which started out as a not - quite - Death Note parody with lots of (off - panel) masturbation, but became so popular it's been adapted into a voice drama.

Using material as diverse as copper wire, chewing gum, puffs of air, stray socks and neon gas, Canell creates tiny moments of drama («Affinity Unit», pictured above) that hit you like electric shocks.

Sarah likes clean, airy spaces for their calming vibe but isn't afraid to throw in hits of drama and glamour.