Sentences with phrase «into effective dramas»

Not exact matches

The second hour picks up speed and becomes more interesting, with some dips into serious drama that are particularly effective, but an unbelievable side - story into Holly's background before coming to New York drags the film down into absurdity.

Both principal actors have a strong enough sense of their characters, even as they're pulled into increasingly harrowing places, to make the film a more successful one than Loach's last few, but it's still schematic and predictable, and it aggressively stacks the deck against Blake and Kattie in a way that makes it more effective as social activism, and less so as drama.

He's just finished wrangling a dream cast of older actors (including Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman and Helen Mirren) into an effective fighting team for Red, and now director Robert Schwentke might just be looking to bring a long - gestating drama project back from the depths of development limbo, as he's become attached like a barnacle to submarine pic Shadow Divers.

I've already seen Paul Thomas Anderson's confounding and often hypnotic tale of a battle - scarred World War II veteran (Joaquin Phoenix) and his postwar indoctrination into a Scientology - like religion formed by the title character, played by Philip Seymour Hoffman.Ö Some of it is startlingly beautiful cinema, photographed in 70 mm; most of the effective human drama is confined to the first half, but it's well worth the time and effort.

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.

The observations made in this case study show that drama can be integrated into academic classrooms as an effective approach for engaging students in active participation in their learning while helping them make connections between historical and contemporary world issues.

This is the idea of inserting simple, factual messages into pre-existing effective media such as prime time television dramas and sitcoms.

On August 22, we heard in La Presse that the Quebec Minister of Justice has asked l'Office des professions to look into the affairs of the bar association to ensure in the eyes of the public that the drama that currently plagues the bar association will not impede its good and effective functioning.