Sentences with phrase «life characters driven»

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When we answer a few simple questions to let our friends and family know which Muppet character we're the most like or which car we'd drive if we had our pick, we're sharing a digital piece of our analog lives.

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Boseman completely becomes the Black Panther with a firm, yet admirable performance that captures the good - hearted nature of the character and the drive behind protecting his people and their way of life.

Not only were several of the movie's major characters involved in the assassination plot (it was a multi-pronged affair and involved other attempts on lives of the cabinet), Lincoln drove through throngs of people, enraptured in celebratory glee, following the passing of the Amendment.

Instead, we have the disparate and desperate characters that always seem to fuel this sort of show (the short - lived «Drive» comes unfortunately to mind).

Extremely character - driven, the film provides a realistic look at teen life.

As explained (via Twitter) about Hemsworth's character, «he made a big mistake, put people's lives in danger, and now drives a Moon Tug, which is basically a forklift.»

Written and directed by master filmmaker Jia Zhangke (The World, Still Life), «one of the best and most important directors in the world» (Richard Brody, The New Yorker), this daring, poetic and grand - scale film focuses on four characters, each living in different provinces, who are driven to violent ends.

THE TIME OF THEIR LIVES THE TIME OF THEIR LIVES is a feel - good character - driven comedy starring Golden Globe - winner Dame Joan Collins, BAFTA - winner Pauline Collins, and Italian heartthrob Franco Nero.

Forster and screenwriters Matthew Michael Carnahan, Drew Goddard, and Damon Lindelof have taken what used to be a character - driven zombie story, ripped out its brain and heart, and left it as nothing but a stumbling corpse kept alive on life support with a blockbuster budget.

While the malleable allegory of the film's events — a woman and her writer husband live in an Edenic country house that spirals into infernal chaos — has fueled both love - or - hate reactions and directorial marketing, I was riveted by the heedless spectacle and totally enveloping film technique, all anchored in Jennifer Lawrence's sometimes baffling commitment to a character driven to distraction by her husband (Javier Bardem), his mystery guests (deliciously entitled Michelle Pfeiffer, Ed Harris), and much, much more.

Plot driven rather than character driven, and generous in the sheer amount of story presented, it's a fascinating meditation on luck, lust and morality, and is highlighted by strong performances by Rhys Meyers, as well as Emily Mortimer and Scarlett Johansson as the women in his life.

Chicken with Plums (PG - 13 for drugs, smoking, sensuality and violent images) Maudlin, character - driven drama, set in Teheran in the Fifties, about an inconsolable violinist (Mathieu Amalric) who loses the will to live after his wife (Golshifteh Farahani) destroys his beloved instrument during a heated argument.

Boxer's life allows the player to take their other characters in various story - driven matches with a variety of cut scenes to keep things interesting that lead you to the grand finale.

Shelter (Unrated) Character - driven drama, marking the directorial debut of Paul Bettany, revolving around the love which blossoms between a homeless street performer from Nigeria (Anthony Mackie) and a heroin - addicted widow (Jennifer Connelly) also living on the streets of New York.

This film about the life of George W. Bush frequently portrays its central character in states of extreme drunkenness resulting in aggressive behavior and reckless driving.

Jack Black plays the title character, a kind, timid, but strange soul who is driven to take someone's life.

Gainsborough portrayed Joe in the elder stages of her life and by that point in the narrative, the character had been hollowed out by her sexually driven lifestyle.

jOBS plunges into the depths of his character, creating an intense dialogue - driven story that is as much a sweeping epic as it is an immensely personal portrait of Steve Jobs» life.

The contest runs through next Wednesday, September 29th, and one lucky winner will walk away with a branded flask, a «Boardwalk Empire» book about the real - life characters, and a keychain flash drive preloaded with exclusive content.

At the film's recent press day, Carrey and Daniels talked about reprising their roles in the sequel, how it was driven by fan demand, what it was like getting back into character and finding their chemistry again, the love between the characters, which one is Dumb and which one is Dumber, how the characters hold a special place in their lives as they do for the fans, the return of the Mutt Cutts van and other callbacks from the original film, working with Kathleen Turner, their favorite scene, and where they see their characters in another 20 years.

«A consistently entertaining, character - driven comedy... Not since Trekkie fantasy «Free Enterprise» has a homespun geeksploitation comedy plunged so deep into the heart of nerd culture and lived to tell about it.»

From the little bit I'd seen and read about «20th Century Women», I felt heading in that this film was going to be a dialogue - driven, light melodrama about characters dealing with the meaning of their lives.

In short, it's too uneven to drive home any points, leaving characters we're supposed to like feeling distant and any subtext on the nature of life and war seeming just as ponderous.

Gleefully exchanging banter over drinks, their romance is treated as merely another component of her London life — a wonderfully relaxed, character - driven approach from this confident director.

Jessica Lange, as his wife, Mary, has a fierce strength of character that drives her to defend her home and children, defy her husband when she finds it necessary - and keep within her the secret that she has been raped, because she fears if Rob Roy discovers it, he will lose his life while seeking vengeance.

And like the old «Secret Life of Walter Mitty,» starring Danny Kaye (I haven't seen the remake yet), it offers a narrative that's at least one - fourth occupied by fantasy segments — yet there isn't enough variety in those segments or enough revelation of character beyond the «I wan na be famous» impulse that drives Pupkin to make them interesting.

Along the drive they encounter a commune full of colorful characters that invite them in but expect them to live by their rules of peace and free love.

The camera's unrelenting focus on the lead means that Abbott has to carry the film — and he does, giving life to a character driven by impulse and emotion and incapable of straightening himself out.

Watching Birbiglia drive a wedge between this collection of funny people who feed off each other's energy for a living makes for powerful, character - driven work and the cast, including a standout Keegan - Michael Key and Gillian Jacobs, is more than game bringing dramatic gravitas, in addition to comedic jabs aplenty, to the table.

The result is a sensitive and character - driven examination of life on the fringes, providing small yet rewarding narrative surprises instead of settling for cheap emotional payoffs.

In a way, she kind of drives home the character of Strange in this one scene, which is important because Derrickson does rush the life altering moment, as it just feels like it comes too soon.

For all its character - driven touches, the majority of the movie plays out too much like a typical biopic with episodic scenes highlighting the major events of the subject's life and occasionally touching upon glimpses into the man's psyche.

No sooner was it revealed that the live - action «Beauty and the Beast» includes the first openly gay character in Disney history than a drive - in theater in Alabama announced it won't screen the film.

These are characters who live in a reality of movie references; if the projector breaks down during the planetarium scene at a screening of Rebel Without A Cause, they can just hop into a car and drive over to the Griffith Observatory themselves.

And while «Blood Ties» isn't a disaster, it's certainly a mess, a sprawling crime saga that endeavours to evoke the great character - driven movies of the 1970s, but never quite lives up to its epic scope.

Jennifer Merin: Katell Quillévéré's compelling and poignant character - driven life and death drama is about the immediacy of organ transplant and its emotional impact on all who are brought together by the random circumstances leading up to and following it.

In this character - driven coming of age story about two 15 year old Latinas who struggle to recognize the sexual undercurrent in their friendship while growing up in an urban immigrant community within the U.S.. On the surface, «Mosquita Y Mari» is a story of best friends struggling with life's universal questions, including finding one's place in society.

The burden of survival is as difficult as the burden of readjusting to civilian life, and even these characters — who, in Iraq, drove jeeps toward hidden IEDs or were responsible for the lives of an entire caravan based on their ability to spot those explosives while on the move — find it difficult to vocalize that thought.

Mitchell effortlessly combines the slick, mounting dread of classic John Carpenter (the score is classic Carpenter synths updated for a chiptune generation) with the modern sensibility of character driven independent cinema to breathe new life into stalker horror.

It's no fault of the performances; Tina Fey is excellent and portrays Kim Baker as a complex character with multiple conflicting thoughts, a drive to live a fulfilling life, and superbly uses her natural comedic talent to elicit laughs regarding Kim's initial ignorance of the Afghanistan culture upon first reaching the location.

Life is Strange: Before the Storm looks to deliver a more intimate character - driven story about the power of teenage girls without the need of...

Both films are character studies about men who are driven by a duty to a higher calling that exceeds their own personal lives.

While the character and the film take a wrongheaded turn, Depp's performance remains consistently strong though he is also at the mercy of some unconvincing age makeup (a point driven further home by the image of the real - life Jung that closes the film).

Which is why no one should've been surprised in the slightest to see Albert Brooks given the cold shoulder: His Drive heavy had no feelings to bloviate (though the compassion he showed one of Drive's supporting characters even while taking his life away should've been more properly noted).

The question was: How can we take character formation beyond behavior modification to something that becomes internally driven and will guide our graduates in college, as moms and dads, as employers and employees and as citizens for life?

Famed North Carolina author Clyde Edgerton is best known for his witty, character - driven novels about Southern life, like «Raney» and «Killer Diller.»

In real life most full time 4 wheel drive cars display a cornering character that varies while inside the corner.

That means that whether you live in Detroit or Northfield, Chrysler will always have the same character and deliver the same unique driving experience.

«NOT NORMAL» shines the spotlight on MINI's strong, independent character — driving a MINI is expressing the way you live.