Sentences with phrase «in modern day»

When Thibault and André awake, they find themselves in the modern day, confused by everything they see.
Set in the modern day, it follows a 17 - year - old Norman (Freddie Highmore) through events that, we assume, will eventually turn him into a killer who obeys the phantom voice of his dead mother.
In this modern day and age of courtroom / murder mystery thrillers there is a tendency to be either overly simplistic in there set ups or over complicated to the state of losing the plot, but Primal Fear is that rare moulding of everything coming together in not only a surprising way but a believable way.
Together they, along with their much smarter daughter, try to navigate the pitfalls of family life in modern day America, with a zombie for a mother.
Like many Shin Megami Tensei games, Shin Megami Tensei X Fire Emblem is set in modern day Tokyo.
David Gordon Green's Your Highness provides some lessons in modern day cinema, says Ryan Koch.
The movie takes place in modern day yet flashbacks over the last 500 years comprise an important element of the plot.
Their most recent production was Burton's Dark Shadows (2012), an unsuccessful attempt to recapture the potent mixture of soap opera and horror tale that had been a daytime television hit in the late Sixties.At the time of Richard's death, he and his wife were preparing with HBO a television series titled The Decalogue, 10 one - act plays set in modern day Los Angeles, each based on one of the Ten Commandments.
The story, now set in modern day Djibouti, revolves around a French Foreign Legion whose commanding officer (Denis Lavant) can not come to terms with the physical and moral superiority of one of his men.
In each file, we take a look at an RPG from the App Store's past to see how it's doing in the modern day.
With a resurgence brewing within the Metroid community, it was time for Shinesparkers to return with a fresh look, an expanded team, and a radical perspective for what a fan website should be in the modern day.
SOUNDS: Placing Gangster Squad in a contemporary mindset, the score of the film is run - of - the - mill typical action accompaniment seen in any modern day movie.
Set within a sinister plantation mansion in modern day rural America and taking place after the dramatic events of Resident Evil 6, players experience the terror directly from the first person perspective for the first time in the Resident Evil series.
It's become something of an axiom of modern film music that music for any kind of serious film set in the modern day will not have a traditional orchestral score - were Oliver Stone to make Born on the Fourth of July today, I seriously doubt he would have John Williams score it - and so he turned to Craig Armstrong, still primarily known for his instrumental pop music and song arranging for popular singers.
Its star, Keira Knightley, has already made waves criticising contemporary cinema's obsession with rape, saying she found historical characters «inspiring» and that she avoids films set in the modern day as «the female characters nearly always get raped».
There's an unhealthy anachronism to these characters, who riff with one another in modern day fashion, with at least one character giving his version of a Boston accent (though his portrayer, Stephen Graham (This is England, The I Inside), is from Liverpool, England).
Set in modern day New York City, the first season interweaves «The Three Little Pigs,» «Little Red Riding Hood» and «Jack and the Beanstalk» into an epic and subversive tale of love, loss, greed, revenge and murder.
Marvel's Daredevil — Friday, April 10, 2015 Blinded as a young boy but imbued with extraordinary senses, Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) fights against injustice by day as a lawyer, and by night as the Super Hero «Daredevil» in modern day Hell's Kitchen, New York City.
This remake set in modern day New York completely missed all the themes of the book, and even completely changed the ending to make it more digestible for the Hollywood audience.
In the modern day, our heroine graciously accepts that gift from Batman (who is not seen this time out).
This reboot of horror classic Poltergeist, from director Gil Kenan, set to recapture the tone and spirit of the original but in our modern day.
However, while certainly sharing the biting humour and self - awareness of its predecessor, the irreverence here is aimed not so much towards tweaking the nose, as it is towards a close and often uncomfortable scrutiny of spirituality in the modern day.
We are in modern day America, talking about art, life, love and more.
The second part of the film happens in modern day.
I was wondering what you guys would think of a sequel to THE GODFATHER PART III taking place in modern day in which the grandson of Michael Corleone is forced into the family business paralleling the arch of the first film in which Michael was forced into the mob.
It would take place in modern day, which would be a new setting for these characters and this world.
His debut feature Crazy Heart was a rough look at a washed - up country singer; Out of the Furnace chronicled unforgiving life in modern day Appalachia; and Black Mass was an unflinching look at the crimes of Whitey Bulger.
La La Land is set in modern day Los Angeles and is simply a magical story and a love letter to musicals and the city of Angels.
Champions: The film - a musical set in modern day Tinseltown - landed 12 nominations, and took home gongs for Best Director for Damien Chazelle, Best Screenplay, Best Production, Best Score, Best Editing and Best Song
Director Larry Clark («Kids») takes on another group of unruly individuals in this modern day «Bonnie & Clyde» tale about two sets of lovers who team up for a life of crime and one big heist.
A bag of stolen cash is the common factor linking four tales of woe in the ironically titled Have a Nice Day, an animated gangster drama set in modern day China that manages to pack an absorbingly convoluted plot into its brief 75 - minute running time.
Although clearly set in modern day, there is a timelessness in the look and feel of the film that makes this fantasy work, despite being set in reality.
Deadline reports that the actress has boarded Lenny Abrahamson's Room where she'll play the role of Ma, a captive mother living in modern day slavedom.
Resident Evil 7 is a first - person survival horror game set in modern day rural America after the events in Resident Evil 6.
The show is supposed to be a realistic look at dating in the modern day.
«The Wolverine» Synopsis: Despondent mutant Wolverine retraces his past in modern day Japan, crossing paths with feuding gangs.
Diesel plays the last remaining witch hunter who must battle against an uprising of witches in modern day New York.
It's a pop soundtrack for pop audiences, and given the choice to set this version of «Annie» in the modern day, it's apropos to have modern music in it.
However, even they are not comparable to Goodbye Solo, which brilliantly explores the theme of overwhelming, unfixable loneliness and the passing of generations in modern day America.
A must see movie event for any fan of Mark Twain, we join Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn as grown up young men in the modern day, still under the long shadows of their younger selves, still on the look out for hidden pirate treasure.
But it's set in the modern day, its main character blows her cover almost immediately upon beginning her mission, and the movie is a 140 - minute epic of misery and violence.
Excellent drama about a silce of life in modern day Beijing..
After a sabotaged experiment leaves him with super strength and unbreakable skin, Luke Cage (Mike Colter) becomes a fugitive trying to rebuild his life in modern day Harlem, New York City.
The decision to make it take place in modern day was confusing at best, since it added nothing and the dialogue remained the same.
The setting is the parallel stories of two female friends in China - one pair in the 1830s and 40s, and the other pair in modern day
The setting is the parallel stories of two female friends in China - one pair in the 1830s and 40s, and the other pair in modern day Hong Kong.
Paris Love Online In its modern day frqnce for love and companionship, Paris is looking online.
Keira Knightley has claimed she rarely chooses to act in films set in the modern day because «female characters nearly always get raped».
They are tired of hearing Russian men complain about how difficult it is to cope in modern day Russia.
In its modern day quest for love and companionship, Paris is looking online.
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