Sentences with phrase «most escapist»

But the man, who hasn't directed a film since the brilliant but bleak Munich in 2005 (no, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull doesn't count), has became Hollywood's most heavy - handed melodramatist in his later years, bombarding even his most escapist work with daddy issues and inoffensive, utterly sentimental narratives.

«Shoes are the most escapist fashion accessory and incredibly inclusive, which is important to me with Man Repeller,» Medine says.

Not exact matches

Ready Player One is Steven Spielberg's latest movie, a return to his populist roots and the escapist fantasies for which he is most famous.

There are no escapist thrills like the pre-9 / 11 disaster films, but a cloying message of what matters most.

He would return to the era in later films, most notably his hugely successful drama Twenty - Four Eyes (1954), but immediately after Morning for the Osone Family, he dived into escapist fare that better showed off his range, from the poetic romance The Girl I Loved (1946) to the noirish thriller Woman (1948) to the comedy Here's to the Young Lady (1949) to the ghost story Yotsuya kaidan (1949).

It's a PG - rated film, so nothing gory or truly abhorrent occurs, and you never truly sense that anyone is in real danger for even a moment, which makes it suitable all but the most squeamish of children as a mildly scary and generally amusing escapist adventure.

For the rest of this week and next, we're going to round some of them up, starting today with the 50 films we're most looking forward to out of everything (many with more of a dramatic bent) followed with another 50 tomorrow (with more of a genre / escapist leaning).

Like most good sci - fi, The Expanse is both a solid form of escapist entertainment and at times an eerily accurate reflection of the present.

Attempts are made to have some social significance and allegorical plotting, but let's face it, Planet of the Apes is to its very core escapist entertainment in its most purest form.

During the pre - production on Valhalla Rising, his long time collaborator and friend Rupert Preston urged him into accepting an offer to write and direct Bronson (2009), an ultra-violent, surreal, and escapist film following the real life landmarks and self - entrapment of Britain's most notorious criminal, Charles Bronson.

Rupert Wyatt Indie Work: Wyatt had only short films behind him (most notably 2004's «Get The Picture») when he made his first film in 2008, the low - budget prison thriller «The Escapist,» which starred Brian Cox, who'd also appeared in the short, alongside Joseph Fiennes, Seu Jorge, Liam Cunningham, Dominic Cooper and Damian Lewis.

It's perfect summer television: escapist but not dumb, and terrifically fun thanks to one of the most likable casts in television.

- Juliet Nicolson, author of Abdication and The Great Silence: Britain From the Shadow of the First World War to the Dawn of the Jazz Age «Jewell's many fans should eagerly embrace this story about two different women living in two different times whose lives converge in the most unexpected way... Family «Lisa Jewell's latest escapist love story is heartbreakingly good.»

Sitting at the opposite end of the spectrum — like the pretty cheerleader voted most popular in the class — is the escapist travel book.

In other words, The Escapist, like most online gaming sites, isn't making enough money to warrant a long drawn legal battle over words.

Fast forward over two years later, and not only have most of what was written in The Escapist stories and my blogs come to pass, but still, neither of the two promised games (Star Citizen and Squadron 42) have been delivered to backers.

The most challenging thing about cheating Escapists 2 is that the game is procedural and unpredictable like Dead by Daylight hatch locations.

His most notorious work to date is «what what in the butt» - a youtube viral video that conflates homosexuality, blackness, and religion into an absurd / escapist cartoon like universe.

The motif of black activism is communicated in the silver gelatin print, The New Negro Escapist Social and Athletic Club (Kiss), though the theme of black identity and notions of African «otherness» underlies most works in the exhibition, which provides a unified result.

Team17 knows some of the most unique ways to get to freedom in The Escapists 2.

The most commonly explored strategy was escapist coping (or distraction / disengagement in Lord and Robertson, 2005), which was measured by five separate studies.