Sentences with phrase «movie about ambition»

With The Lost City of Z, he has realized his true epic — a story that spans continents and decades — yet kept his finger on the intimate pulse that's always made his movies work: This is a great movie about ambition, colonization, and audacious dreaming, but even more than that it's a moving (and tragic) story about fathers and sons.

Not exact matches

The bottom line is that Apple's ambitions in the content industries seem to be hampered in part by a lack of a consistent vision about what the company wants to do and why, combined with a culture clash between existing movie studios and TV networks about who is the most important player in the relationship, and who gets to control the terms.

In an earlier blog post about Christopher Nolan's latest blockbuster movie, Interstellar, I lauded the film for its ambition, its visuals and the strong performances of its cast.

Richard Dreyfuss put himself on the map with his performance in this movie about how ambition and greed can drive someone at the expense of his own happiness.

Richard Gere has long harbored the ambition to make a movie about America's homeless problem, and his decision to enlist the services of Rampart director Moverman as both writer and director proves he's willing to take a creative chance.

It's a wry in - joke to have a villain worried about the hazards of overpopulation in a film that features nineteen movie stars billed above the title, and I've seen Infinity War lauded in certain circles for «unprecedented ambition» simply because it's so damn crowded.

Based on the experiences of Los Angeles Times reporter J.R. Moehringer, Rod Lurie's movie is about what happens when journalistic ambitions mesh with an irresistible story.

Both movies are about men in their 40s whose adult lives have been nonstop disappointments — unsatisfying romances, lost friendships, abandonment of career ambitions.

It's just as much a movie about loss, grief, and artistic ambition — and yes, it's also very funny.

At a conference at the film's Los Angeles press junket, co-stars Dwayne Johnson, Jeffrey Dean Morgan (who plays Agent Russell) and Joe Manganiello (who plays Burke, the leader of a team of mercenaries sent to stop one of the animals) talked about breaking the video game to movie curse, the ambition of filmmaker Brad Peyton, the relationship between Davis and George, the gorilla, being big animal lovers themselves, and the influence of Jurassic Park.

Seductive, funny, whip - smart and ultimately tragic, this fact - based movie about George Jung, a genial pot dealer who wound up almost single - handedly blanketing the United States with Colombian snow, doesn't have the epic ambitions of TRAFFIC.

But while Manchester By The Sea has the whip - smart chatter and structural ambition of an Original Screenplay winner, it's hard to shake the sneaking suspicion that La La Land's winning streak might continue here, even if the writing isn't really what anyone loves about this movie.

Documenting Ebert's final months, we see a man who was challenged by his own ambition, who saw road blocks as doorways and would never back down from a fight — especially if it was about a movie he was passionate about.

This true story about light welterweight boxer and perennial underdog «Irish» Micky Ward makes for less of a sports movie than a domestic drama about blue - collar brothers struggling to stay a family while the forces of drug addiction and parental ambition tear them apart.

Fresh: Silliness is the movie's only ambition, but there's something mind - blowing about seeing a fratty comedy through two pairs of Asian - American eyes, particularly when those eyes belong to actors who were token minorities in other dumb comedies.

Since «Guffman» in 1996, when Guest revived the pseudo-documentary approach he had helped pioneer with «This Is Spinal Tap,» his movies in that style have focused on show biz of some sort — community musical theater, a dog show, a folk concert reunion — and the laughs stem from the characters» ambivalence about indulging their wildest ambitions, and their inestimable faith in the magnitude of their (or their dogs») own talents.

And it's not so much about ambition as it is about self - worth, and the way the movie draws a distinction between the two is where it finds its resonance.

With The Human Contract, Pinkett Smith seemingly attempted to make a movie about everything: sex, class, ambition, conformity, philosophy, business, family, marriage, and the way sins ricochet through generations.