Sentences with phrase «of about a boy»

Unfortunately, this adaption does not match the wit and coolness of High Fidelity or the emotional heart of About a Boy.

DVD - ROM only features: Interviews, Documentary: The Making of About a Boy.

The action picks up when R (played by Nicholas Hoult, of About a Boy, the UK «Skins» and X-Men: First Class fame) and best friend M (Rob Corddry) come across a band of young human refugees led by Julia (our young heroine, played by Teresa Palmer of, well, nothing remarkable), Nora (Analeigh Tipton, Crazy Stupid Love) and Perry (Dave Franco, of looking uncannily like his brother James, and also 21 Jump Street).

Fresh off of this week's news that Bill Nighy, Stanley Tucci and John Kassir have joined the cast of director Bryan Singer's Jack The Giant Killer, Deadline are reporting that said Jack has been cast in the form of About A Boy and A Single Man star Nicholas Hoult.

Paul Weitz, Academy Award nominated writer of About a Boy (2002) and the popular high school comedy, American Pie (1999) will be releasing his...

No mention of About a Boy anywhere?

By the end of About a Boy, everything wraps up nicely as movies like this always do, but the difference here is that it feels good, not forced.

Although the story is very different, in many ways Roger Dodger is a less commercial, more adult version of About a Boy, with both films centering around an egotistical womanizer who learns a thing or two when taking a younger boy under his wing.

Not exact matches

About 125 boys, some as young as 11, race back and forth across the grass, kicking footballs in a complex choreography of attack and defense.

The storyline is about an orphan girl in the early years of Great Britain, Mary «Jacky» Faber, who has to disguise herself as a boy to sneak onto a Navy ship just to have a chance at life.

«I was worried about the fact I'm this young woman at the helm of an organization you would think was the classic «old boys» club,»» she admits.

The city, which famously inspired J.K. Rowling to start writing about the Boy Who Lived, is now home to an apartment that looks like it was plucked straight out of Hogwarts.

Indiana researchers using data from 2002 - 2003 and 2007 - 2008, found that both boys and girls were more likely to give to charity if their parents talked to them about it, regardless of their age, family income or ethnicity.

The U.N in July said it had a list of more than 640 Sunni Muslim men and boys reportedly abducted by a Shi'ite militia in Falluja, west of Baghdad, and about 50 others who were summarily executed or tortured to death.

Coding is a universal language of the future, and when you think about jobs in the future, this is a skill that young kids, girls and boys, really need to succeed.

According to reports, the woman, Lori Drew, had established a fake MySpace account for a fictitious 18 - year - old boy in hopes of finding out what the girl was saying about her daughter online.

As GM of Desk.com and a mother of two boisterous boys, I think a lot about empathy in both my personal and professional lives.

Seventeen years later in 2013, Colin Specht, one of the boys who he saved, spoke to CBS New York about his gratitude for Harmon's bravery.

After The Hundreds paid homage to the Lost Boys characters from Peter Pan in a few designs, Disney approached Kim, 28, to talk about a line of Lost Boys streetwear.

About 40 % of the girls born in Britain in 2013, for example, are expected to live to 100 (the percentage of boys is just behind that).

Falling Whistles started as a journal about the young Congolese boys who are sent to the frontlines of war armed with nothing but a whistle, but it quickly became a movement tens of thousands strong of people wanting to help.

Denny's Twitter is full of commentary on pop culture, live blogging Saturday Night Live and engaging One Direction's boy band member Liam Payne after he ranted on social media about the stress of celebrity life.

But all that most people saw when they looked at the magazine cover was a fully - clothed boy of about four or five years old standing on a chair to breastfeed.

While venture capital partners have more sons than daughters, about 125 boys for 114 girls, its roughly in line with the national demographic of 51 % boys.

Yes, all the video game people were there, and from the looks of the crowd, just about every 13 - year - old boy in the metropolitan New York City area showed up.

The hints about a Game Boy device come three months after reports Nintendo could be planning a «Classic Edition» of the N64 console for next year.

Ann Curry, another former «Today» cohost who left the show after just about one year «felt that the boys» club atmosphere behind the scenes at Today undermined her from the start, and she told friends that her final months were a form of professional torture,» according to Brian Stelter's 2014 book «Top of the Morning: Inside the Cutthroat World of Morning TV.»

When Freitas sat down to talk to young people about their phones, she heard some pretty crazy stories of raging tech addiction, from the girl who gave her phone a name and talked about it like a friend to the boy who claimed he'd rather leave his brain at home than his precious device.

Trump's visit was also the third-most talked - about topic on Chinese social media platform Weibo over the last 24 hours, trailing only the birthday of a singer in a Chinese boy band and a weekly Asian pop song chart.

Boys, on the other hands, are not encouraged enough to talk about their feelings when they're sad or upset nor encouraged to do well in school, according to over half of Americans.

Boy Scout membership dropped about 13 percent in just five years according to the AP (from 2.6 million to 2.3 million)-- and it's way down from a height of 4 million a few years back.

About 78 percent of Democrats say this is a good thing for boys.

Democrats and Republicans are somewhat on the same side when it comes to encouraging girls to engage in traditionally - boy dominated activities, but Democrats feel more strongly about this being a good idea (80 percent of Democrats say it's a good idea compared with about 66 percent of Republicans).

«If you think about what Canadians like in their brands, it's that sense that they're the boy and girl next door,» says Alan Middleton, assistant professor of marketing at the Schulich School of Business.

And as the kids head back to class for another school year, it made me think about all of the valuable lessons that I learned as a boy that continue to resonate and apply to my daily routine.

«I am right about Amazon costing the United States Post Office massive amounts of money for being their Delivery Boy,» Trump tweeted.

«And when those bad boys are made, look, the way to think about it, the magic of self - driving vehicles, is that the reason Uber [is] expensive is because you're not just paying for the car, you're paying for the other dude in the car,» said Kalanick, in a moment of bare - knuckles candor.

He says he wanted people to read it for pleasure and that Flash Boys is a positive story about people acting in the better interests of others.

IT, once the blue - eyed boy of India Inc, has been the least - talked - about sector for more than a decade now, as the bellwether industry gradually lost its sheen with the decline of western economies.

Lieberman has analyzed Cruz and wrote a book about groupies of incarcerated killers, «Bad Boys: Why We Love Them, How to Live with Them and When to Leave Them.»

«I don't care if you're big or small, huge muscles or no muscles, never even played football or star of the team — I don't care about any of that stuff,» Biff went on to tell the boys, who sat in the grass while he spoke.

Most of my female jujitsu students would have no qualms about getting on the mat with a boy... they do it every practice and they are some are really really good at it.

I hear about the issue occasionally, usually after a friend gets an issue of the magazine and starts asking me about a band like Fall Out Boy (their new one...

And don't forget all the victims of Christianity's own Jim Jones... I'm certain you and all you Christian Extremists are in your churches, always trying to find ways to brainwash everyone into committing suicide like Jim Jones and have plans to blow up buildings like Timothy McVeigh and think about as well as act upon your perverted thoughts by molesting young boys... don't you?

Some perpetrators are female - It is estimated that women are the abusers in about 14 % of cases reported among boys and 6 % of cases reported among girls.»

I find myself very concerned about the well being of innocent men and boys at the hands of what I truly believe to be a feminist conspiracy against the well being of men for female domination.

Interestingly, the Times story does not mention the North American Man - Boy Love Association (NAMBLA), an organization that has the merit of being utterly straightforward on a subject about which the Times, at least at this point in its political evolution, feels compelled to be somewhat coy.

Then three boys walk out of the tall grass, three stair - steps with the oldest one about ten or eleven.

Finally medicine man came out of cave sweating and all bruised, her husband rushed to him, and asked about wellbeing of his wife and child, boy or a girl, medicine man could not answer, while he was trying to figure out way to explain, finally he put himself together and started to explain mystery of his child birth.

Well, chaddy boy, if you can show me in the bible (the only source you have that tells you about god) where is says that god exists outside of time and space, that god runs the universe which is why the laws of the universe exists, and many other questions, I'll be more inclined to listen...