Not exact matches
OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That
Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening November 23, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS August Rush (PG for slight violence, mild profanity and mature themes) Freddie Highmore stars as the title character in this
escapist fantasy about a promising musical prodigy who runs away from an orphanage to New York City to find his parents (Keri Russell and Jonathan Rhys Myers) only to end up living with a Fagin - like wizard (Robin Williams) and lots of other kids in a makeshift shelter in an abandoned theater which was once the Fillmore East.
Guillermo del Toro's
escapist fantasy - romance The Shape of Water was the biggest winner, the story of a young woman's love for a captured sea creature — with best picture and best director, setting the official seal of approval on what is, by any measure, a beautifully
made movie to which audiences have responded with distinctively sensual delight.
That
makes Julie Cazzin's feature on snowbirds a practical guide to following the sun or at least an
escapist fantasy for those resigned to another winter of putting on snow tires and shovelling driveways.
The superpowered characters all trying their hardest to look cool, the jutsus, peculiar, colorful clothes, the whole ninja faggotry and everything about the Naruto world fuels their
escapist fantasies, while the pity - party character backgrounds, emphasis on revenge, and overall preachiness of the series
make it fit just right with the mary - sueish drives of your average preteen and his sense of unwarranted self - importance towards the world.