Sentences with phrase «movie about conflict»

But this is not a movie about conflict or tension or anything not nice... even though it begins with a nice guy getting laid off from his job.

But in a field of comedies and docs, Sophia Takal's movie about the conflict between two actor friends, one successful (Caitlin FitzGerald) and one less so (Mackenzie Davis), looks bolder and sharper.

Iron Man (Paramount Pictures) may be the first movie about the conflict in the Middle East and Afghanistan to become a box - office blockbuster.

Not exact matches

Things I'm thinking about could be things like having his seat changed in class so he's next to someone he has conflict with, learning new skills at school that he's not confident about and is struggling with, some new kind of food he's ingesting at school that has something that's irritating his system (artificial dyes or sweeteners would be my first guesses), something other kids are talking about that are scaring him (movies or tv shows or stories).

First, it's a piece of music intended to make a political point about a modern conflict, one inherent in the nature of networked digital communications — authors and copyright holders have long profited from creative works by charging to distribute them, but in a digital world, books, music and movies can be made in unlimited copies and shared essentially for free.

What's clear is that Gibson has made a film about family, faith, love and forgiveness all put to the test in an arena of violent conflict - a movie you don't want to miss.

The digital video is ridiculously fitting for a movie about two Narcs in the middle of a gangster conflict.

The pitiful Wikipedia category «Films about the Israeli - Palestinian conflict» consists of just thirty titles, a mere two of which you are certain to have heard of: Steven Spielberg's Munich and, the one unlikely movie that sprung to mind while trying to make my own mental list, Adam Sandler's You Don't Mess with the Zohan.

Torres and Blasi wrap up the movie's central conflict so rapidly and so carelessly that it feels like an afterthought — as if they're eager to give the audience its happy ending, hoping against hope that viewers won't stop to think about what that ending really means.

Along with films like Jim Sheridan's Brothers, Paul Haggis's In the Valley of Elah and Grace is Gone, starring John Cusack, it's a «coming home» movie about the effect of the current conflicts on military lives back in America.

The movie is about Spider - Man's internal conflict, not about him squaring off against an interchangeable bad guy.

Empathetic and at odds with her people's cynical outlook on Middle Earth, Tauriel actually cares about people in need of help (including dwarves, the sworn rivals of elves), so it's her internal conflict that gives the movie its only shallow of humanistic depth.

WHY: «Sausage Party» isn't a very subtle movie (the dialogue is laced with so much profanity that it feels like it was written by a bunch of prepubescent boys who just learned about swear words), but what the comedy lacks in maturity it makes up for with some clever commentary on faith, sexual temptation and the Palestine / Israel conflict.

The whole movie is about the conflict between creative and impulsive self - destruction.

There are just enough historical and political details; the movie touches quickly on the fine points of British - French - Indian - settler conflicts, so that they can get on to the story we're really interested in, about the hero who wins the heart of the girl.

I do admit, when I first watched the movie, I did have a bit of a mental overload and was conflicted about what I just witnessed.

How the superhero faces conflicts, dangers and whether he could save his nation and its people is what the entire movie is about.

(My boyfriend on the other hand says he definitely feels guilty about loving B.A.P.S.) A guilty pleasure suggests that the movie in question only holds appeal because of your own conflicted feelings about it.

And Black Mass criminally wastes Corey Stoll as the US Attorney who went after Bulger, so I don't understand why the entire movie isn't just about that three - way conflict between those men, forget the rest — except that it's a box - checking standard procedural and so it must present every facet of the case, not just the most interesting part.

This may have been why the young actress has been https://movieweb.com/saoirse-ronan-refuses-to-confirm-role-in-the-hobbit/apprehensive about confirming her rumored role as Itaril in The Hobbit, as there may be a scheduling conflict between the two movies.

It's a conflict most evident in the movie's awkward and slightly unsatisfying coda, which attempts to shoehorn in at least one message — about temperance and tolerance and friendship and adventure — too many.

Early on in Jack and Jill, Mexican television star Eugenio Derbez, playing Sandler's landscaper, carries around an unopened bottle of Coca - Cola for no reason whatsoever, but that's only the tip of the iceberg in a movie that's just as much about commercials and product placement as it is about its ostensible, sibling - conflict premise.

The deleted / extended bits are as follows: Andy Samberg (4:12) on Bob Dylan, Aziz Ansari (1:42) on acting and Twitter, alternate Reggie banter (0:39), Medi - Ship complications (1:06), Fabrice Fabrice (4:21) performing a poem on a lost city, Anna Kendrick (1:47) recalling her Tony nomination as a 12 - year - old and eating a cat's liver, Rodney Waber (5:34) dishes more Harrison Ford gossip, dances, and reveals a senior citizen ticket price trick, David Cross (2:49) talks talking animals and white toilets, Senator Dewhurst (3:14) confesses strange sex dreams about his aunt and his plan to drive drunk, Zoe Saldana (2:03) answers questions about movies and acts out a Jerry Maguire reboot, «Garry Marshall» (1:19) explains why he's done with movies, Gillian Jacobs (1:38) discusses the ghost of Christopher Marlowe and the conflict in Nebraska, Chef Emeril Lugosi (0:34) endures a pun about sun - dried tomatoes, Andy Richter (4:59) delivers a kid - friendly version of «The Aristocrats» joke, pulls a gun after not answering a fart question (a task handled by Andy Samberg on the show itself), and responds to the 1990s TV movie The Shining, Tom Perdy (0:44) shows off a couple of additional cartoons.

The movie, another based on another first book in yet another series of books aimed at a young audience, is very clear about its five - tier arrangement of a futuristic society where the only apparent survivors of a massive war reside in and just outside a Chicago that appears to have missed out on most of the conflict.

The performances range from terrible - on - purpose (Fiennes, Close, and Jason Isaacs, whose first line as Pucci's father --»... You let your grades go now, maybe you don't get into a top - tier school» — hastily but explicitly lampoons the genre's default father - son conflict, thus throwing The Chumscrubber's true target of ridicule (movies about the middle - class rather than the middle - class itself) into sharp relief) to oblivious (Camilla Belle).

I was conflicted about Ryan Reynolds in this movie at first.

According to Moore, at one point in the movie, there's a scene before the battle in which Okoye and W'Kabi discuss their conflicting views about the Wakandan usurper that would have both emphasized their relationship and foreshadowed their showdown.

No one questions the system, except for a debate about which group should be the governing one, and if the central conflict that eventually shows up really late is any indication, the movie isn't too critical of it, either.

There's a couple genuinely funny parts, but not enough; and while you have to love a sport where drinking is an integral part of the training regimen, at no point in the film does one feel the slightest bit of empathy for the players who are about to lose their jobs... and in a movie with that as the central conflict, that's a problem.

Co - writer / director Sebastián Lelio's movie touches upon these ideas, but their presence is always confined to the context of its story, a melodrama about the conflict between forbidden love and traditional values.

What lessons about war and conflict does this movie intend to teach?

At a time when 90 percent of our daily news has something to do with international conflict, it does the heart good to happen upon a movie about brotherhood and the importance of peaceful coexistence.

The movie, which defies conventional thinking about war - movie endings, largely consists of conversation, not conflict (at least not in a military sense), as Juba alternately taunts, attempts to school and acts as a confessor to Isaac, who, as one would expect of these things, tries to use his head to outwit his enemy and survive.

The movie, for its part, is also fairly cerebral, raising questions about the purpose of this conflict in particular, but also about war in general.

He also starts a relationship with his real estate agent (Constance Zimmer) that ends almost as quickly as it begins (A movie less concerned with its characters would exploit this as a major subplot to bring about more conflict).

Opening Jan. 15, AWFJ's Movie of the Week is A Perfect Day, the new drama from Spanish writer / director Fernando Leon de Aranoa about a group of aid workers attempting to resolve a crisis in an armed Balkan conflict zone.

It's possible that any external conflict for these two characters could be as clichéd as the rest of the movie, which is full of montages of the boys» improvement and fish - out - of - water humor, but the result of rejecting even the possibility of conflict is that they have no existence outside of baseball and J.B. J.B., meanwhile, has plenty of things to worry about beyond Rinku and Dinesh.

During the course of the school year, seventh graders have written and produced a movie on AIDS, performed a play about a family torn by war, created a music CD, and explored the age - old conflicts between war and peace through thought - provoking collages.

In movies and games about war, it's easy to fall into a single perspective of telling just one side of a conflict.