Sentences with phrase «less drama from»

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Tuesday that «less drama from the White House» was needed to advance legislative priorities.

Not exact matches

But it still nails some of the less - than - savory realities of life as a server at a top New York City restaurant, from the wine snobbery to the palpitation - inducing kitchen drama.

While VAR has not currently eliminated this, the more effective it gets, the less drama we will get from refereeing decisions.

The big boys will most likely cancel each other out, so far only Arsenal vs Chelsea / Liverpool vs City / LLiverpool vs Arsenal have played each other, and we have Man City vs Chelsea coming up, so more drama to come plus a few shockers from the lesser teams too.

When you weigh the risk of death by terrorist attack (less than 1 in 10,000) against that from heart disease or cancer (nearly 1 in 3), it makes much more sense to forgo the drama and join a gym.

It's clear virtually from the get - go that filmmaker Todd Phillips is looking to transform this true - life tale into a Martin Scorsese - like crime drama, as evidenced by War Dogs» less - than - subtle visuals and almost paint - by - numbers rise - and - fall structure.

My complaint stems less from the false advertising I described earlier and more from the simple lack of drama on display.

With this true crime drama set in late 1940s Los Angeles, director Ruben Fleischer looks to make the jump from modestly budgeted action - comedy (Zombieland 73, 30 Minutes or Less 49) to serious dramatic filmmaking.

Less a «civil rights drama» than a tender portrait of a marriage suffering unimaginable stress, Loving soars thanks to its narrative approach and career - best performances from Negga and Edgerton.

One of Collette's lesser - known roles was also one of her most challenging in this under - seen Australian drama from 2003.

One of the most impressive things of Bahrani and Bahareh Azimi «s script is that it sets up scenes which could have followed into much more dramatic outcomes but the writers chose to take the road less traveled and in an odd way, by taking the less dramatic approach, the film removes itself that much further from the majority of indie films that concern themselves with cramming the most amount of drama into the least amount of time.

In the Oscar - winning ensemble drama from 2006, it's easy to forget the less showy roles outside of Alan Arkin's foul - mouthed grandfather and Abigal Breslin's excitable pageant wannabe.

Director: Edgar Wright Cast: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Martin Freeman Edgar Wright's follow - up to «Shaun of the Dead» is a bigger, busier, slightly less focused ramble through small - town cop - movie clichés, but it might just be the better film, benefiting from a script packed with smart one - liners and neat riffs on everything from Hammer horror to cosy ITV dramas.

Rockstar Games is a little less than six months away from finally releasing Red Dead Redemption II, the hugely anticipated follow - up to its era - defining Western drama.

It's the kind of lesser known film you might find through the film festival circuit (had it's premiere at Sundance Film Festival) that's made up of a different brand of comedy or drama than your used to from a typical blockbuster, strong performances from B or C - list actors, and overall much to offer.

20th Century Fox debuted the first trailer for its Freddie Mercury drama «Bohemian Rhapsody» to much hype from movie lovers and Queen fans (the YouTube video has over 1 million views in less than seven hours).

Kimberly Peirce's Stop - Loss, an MTV - produced drama about three young grunts returning from the war to their stars - and - stripes Texas town, got a more respectful rollout from Paramount Pictures this past March, but it flopped, grossing less than half its $ 25 million production cost.

Yet for all its handsome pleasures, the film is also a curiously remote drama — great to gaze at from a distance, less so when studied up close.

Maybe it's because this movie takes its bike messenger street drama completely seriously or maybe it's because none of its ideas (from bizarre staredowns to unclear stock market trading scenes) really pays off, but this emerges as one of the more embarrassing and less lovable pieces of»80s cinema.

Getting strong reviews, 75 - year - old Lily Tomlin's Grandma from Sony Pictures Classics scored $ 30,000 a screen on four screens, while 55 - year - old Patricia Clarkson's Learning To Drive, which she spent nine years trying to bring to the screen, did about half that — still a great result for a much older - skewing drama that even featured its star in a tantric sex scene no less.

He's appeared in everything from Big - budget Hollywood productions (he was solid as Jack Nicholson's second - in - command in Scorsese's The Departed) to lesser - known independent features (Face was a sturdy, if somewhat forgettable crime drama).

Manglehorn is along the same lines as Green's most recent films, a low - key character driven drama, but from the looks of the trailer it may be less successful than his last two efforts.

A typically ineffective drama from Asghar Farhadi, The Salesman follows couple Emad (Shahab Hosseini) and Rana (Taraneh Alidoosti) as a structural problem forces them to hastily track down a new apartment in which to live - with problems ensuing as the former owner of said apartment's less - than - savory lifestyle eventually comes back to haunt Emad and Rana.

127 Hours is Boyle's follow - up to Slumdog Millionaire and like that deserving 2008 Best Picture winner, this drama takes Boyle away from his native England, albeit to a place less exotic and far less populous than Mumbai: Utah.

You can see it in Steven Soderbergh's experimental «Bubble» from 2006, a love triangle set in a small - town doll factory featuring non-actors, and in Zhang Yimou's 2000 drama «Not One Less,» about the struggles of schoolchildren in a rural Chinese village played by... schoolchildren in a rural Chinese village.

I had a less of a happy experience with «Gare Du Nord» [C] from French helmer Claire Simon, which melds drama and documentary in a look at contemporary France against the backdrop of its biggest Parisian station.

Cribbing more from the cringey French dramas of Catherine Breillat (think: a less perverse Fat Girl) than the warm and fuzzy «80s staples of John Hughes, Eighth Grade is the painfully real attempt at comprehending what it means to grow up in a generation overwhelmed with information, which in turn transforms nearly everything about the process into a competition (even more so than it organically is).

The environment now is certainly less competitive for an upscale drama, but audiences mostly shrugged at the weekend, resulting in a UK opening of # 190,000 from 219 cinemas.

At times the spectacle seems distracting from the human story, at other times his determination to ground the action in human terms (with all the mortal dangers involved) becomes alarmingly intense, less a superhero action movie than a grim urban tragedy (Berg's on - the - job directorial training on the medical drama Chicago Hope comes in handy here).

Yes, it's a bit derivative, owing an obvious debt to Gareth Edwards's Monsters from 2010 and a slightly less obvious one to John Hillcoat's post-apocalypse drama, The Road (2009).

We're less than a month away from the April 22nd premiere of the second season of the wildly successful HBO sci - fi drama Westworld from Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy and now we have the first trailer.

Choice of 3 assessment tasks for teacher to choose from Lesson 15 - Performance and Evaluation (evaluation can take the form of an extended activity to be completed in a separate lesson) Ideal for less experienced teachers and non-subject specialists as well as more experienced drama teachers.

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She also wanted to avoid the drama of the hall ways and be less distracted from doing well in school.

Before you begin the journey to self - publish your book it's important to have realistic expectations so you're not disappointed, so your road is less congested from the drama that's typically associated with failure.

As we round the corner into May, the drama among discount brokerages continues to unfold, albeit with less flare than the heart pounding finishes from both the Habs & Raptors.

«In old age,» psychoanalyst Anthony Storr wrote, «there is a tendency to turn from empathy toward abstraction; to be less involved in life's dramas, more concerned with life's patterns.»

To add external regulatory drama to the political dissonance demonstrated by a government less than a year out from ousting their former president, regulatory prospects for South Koreans have also been hindered by New York State's Department of Financial Services (DFS), as they reportedly requested customer information on accounts associated with cryptocurrency trading among six commercial Korean banks with branches in New York on January 26, 2018.