Sentences with phrase «of war drama»

The cast of war drama Sand Castle has swelled this week with news from Deadline that Henry Cavill and Luke Evans have joined Nicholas Hoult (X-Men: Apocalypse) in the film.

For the past five years or so, Colin Farrell has been touted as the next big thing in Hollywood, but we haven't seen him do anything especially remarkable since he first entered the industry as the star of the war drama, «Tigerland.»

(L - R): Actor Ramon Rodriguez, war veteran and film subject Megan Leavey, actress Kate Mara, actor Common, actress Edie Falco and director Gabriela Cowperthwaite attend the World Premiere of the war drama biopic, «Megan Leavey,» at New York City's Yankee Stadium.

(L - R): Director Gabriela Cowperthwaite, actress Kate Mara, war veteran and film subject Megan Leavey and actress Edie Falco attend the World Premiere of the war drama biopic, «Megan Leavey,» at New York City's Yankee Stadium.

The Oscar - winning director of war drama THE HURT LOCKER, will helm this new action - thriller that will focus on the early hunt for infamous terrorist.

Voight said his daughter was a «great actor's director» who achieved «unbelievably difficult stuff» with her prisoner of war drama Unbroken, which has been mostly overlooked this awards season

The Oscar - winning director of war drama THE HURT LOCKER,...

Josh Campbell, Matt Stuecken and Damien Chazelle also took over the scribing duties for the new thriller, whose final official name was revealed this past January 15, when its initial trailer was attached to screenings of the war drama, ’13 Hours.»

I'm not a war action movie person, but this show is more of a war drama.

Audiences and Academy voters don't want to feel like they're seeing the same movie twice (even 1998's Saving Private Ryan and The Thin Red Line felt like completely separate entities), and they sure might if the same pretty - boy - officer - faces - Japanese - torture narrative becomes the focal point of both war dramas.

Not exact matches

Netflix was also shut out in the award show's film categories, with the streaming service's original feature film Mudbound failing to win either of its two nominations, while the Cambodian Civil War drama First They Killed My Father also fell short in the foreign film category.

Disney's adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's musical «Into the Woods,» came in second place with $ 31.1 million, while Universal's fact - based World War II drama «Unbroken» took third with an impressive $ 30.6 million.

EASTWOOD: Or war movies and what have you because conflict is sort of the basis of drama.

Far from hurting CNN, Trump's war against it has amounted to a form of product placement — «earned media,» you could say — giving its anchors and correspondents starring roles in the ongoing political drama, turning them into camera - ready warriors for the First Amendment.

How I hope I am wrong about this, misled by a two - minute trailer, but more bad signs are present in the studio's promotional blurb: «Coriolanus is a drama for the ages, a commentary on the precarious draw of war...»

The third classic dilemma — called classic because it appears over and over again in literature and drama — is the tug - of - war between love for one's family and love for an alien.

As the Cold War was rooted in a conflict of ideologies and visions, so it was a drama unfolding in narrative form, and nobody could equal John Paul as a master of the dramatic arts.

U2 thus ennobled that sort of stance not simply with respect to the immediate Solidarity drama, but also with the larger cause of opposing war.

The dramas of war and peace were the plot of these years of The Christian Century.

This structure is the basis of films from Star Wars to The Lord of the Rings, from thrillers and dramas to romcoms.

But with this important exception, the Bible contains reflections of every human interest — not only religion, but also history, philosophy, poetry, drama, great addresses, stories, letters, law - making, the struggles of war, the pursuits of peace.

Their spirit wars with their flesh, they wish for incompatibles, wayward impulses interrupt their most deliberate plans, and their lives are one long drama of repentance and of effort to repair misdemeanors and mistakes.

The faith - group programs, representing Protestant, Catholics, and Jews, have consistently provided documentaries, dramas, and discussions which dealt with issues almost never touched by commercial broadcasting: the economic factors behind nuclear armaments; the issues behind draft evasion (during the Vietnam War); the real causes of worldwide starvation; and the problems of people who are ignored almost completely by the media, such as the aging who can not live on their pensions, unwed mothers, farm workers who have no homes, undocumented aliens whom we wish to employ but not pay, and refugees we are sending back to certain death in their own countries.

In Shakespeare's poems, the creative power and the intellectual energy wrestle as in a war embrace... At length, in the drama they were reconciled, and fought each with its shield before the breast of the other.

His brother Daniel, also one of the Catonsville Nine, has received much attention for his writings, including poetry, theology, drama and war - resistance essays.

History, to be sure, is not only the progress of humanity but also the drama of class war, brought about by the division of labor, private property, and exploitation.

«True Grit» may be last novel of the War of Northern Aggression and must be seen as such to understand the ingenious nuance written into this superb drama.

Moreover, the often bloody drama of the postwar transition to responsive and responsible government in Iraq» a society that suffered for thirty years under the lash of a regime that rivaled those of Pol Pot and Kim Il Sung for viciousness» has guaranteed that the seismic shocks generated by the Iraq War will affect world politics for years, and likely decades, to come.

The huge gallery surrounding the 18th green in the late afternoon shadows applauded these two survivors of so much Masters drama as if they were heroes returning from foreign wars.

Academy Award winner Angelina Jolie directs UNBROKEN, the epic drama adapted from the wildly popular New York Times Bestseller about the incredible life of Olympian and war hero Louie Zamperini.

Now we're stuck in the middle of a stupid mom war about leggings, and they are not paying us enough to deal with this drama.»

Four countries started developing nuclear weapons in response to Germany (with some extra Cold War drama for three of them, so they finished after Germany was no longer an issue).

Award - winning film maker, Cary Joji Fukunaga has issued a statement requesting for his critically acclaimed war drama, «Beasts Of No Nation'to be removed from the 2015 Ghana Movie Awards nominations announced on Friday afternoon in Accra, Ghana.

As well as the great events of war and economic crises, and the quieter drama of constitutional change, this era has been studded with democratic protests of every sort.

The movie is a drama based on the experiences of Agu (played by Abraham Attah), a child soldier fighting in the civil war of an unnamed West African country.

There was a mild drama at the Senate on Thursday when the President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, deferred the planned debate on the proposed withdrawal of $ 1bn from the Excess Crude Account by the Federal Government to fund the war against Boko Haram.

One program, «Inside Einstein's Mind,» succeeded not only because it dealt in a convincing way with the complexities of theoretical physics, but also because it revealed a very human drama as Einstein raced to complete his general theory of relativity in 1915, even as the world seemed to be falling apart during World War I as was his marriage.

Legend has it that in 1938, a radio broadcast about a Martian invasion of New Jersey incited panic; not everyone realized it was a fictional drama — Orson Welles» adaptation of The War of the Worlds.

The drama implied by competition, war and selfishness passes unnoticed because people are used to this rather hyped - up way of talking even about current scientific...

Churchill began his essay not long after the 1938 US broadcast of the radio drama The War of The Worlds (an adaptation of H. G. Wells's 1898 story) had generated «Mars fever» in the media.

In 1938, when Orson Welles broadcasted a radio drama based on the science fiction classic War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, enough people believed in the tale of invading Martians to cause a near panic.

The Starz television drama chronicles the story of a World War II nurse (Balfe) who travels back in time and falls in love with a hunky Scottish warrior (Heughan).

In one of the later season's of Foyle's War, (a British crime drama set in the 1940's, which I highly recommend, by the way, if you enjoy murder mysteries and period wartime dramas) there was an episode where the character of Sam is seen discussing shoes with a coworker.

Marine war vet who enjoys every aspect of a woman with no drama.

This kids» film mixes the heart of Rocky and dozens of other come - from - behind boxing dramas with the geeky gadget gestalt of films like The Transformers and Star Wars.

Save for the pro forma family drama and Ray's own journey of personal growth, War of the Worlds is remarkably unconcerned with the subplots that bloat most genre films.

Season 8 of this drama series brings an all - out war.

Like a TV Drama, it draws you in, taking you back to relive the tragedy, greed, despair, hope and glory of what was the Second World War in Europe.

More often than not, when a film that is a wartime drama gets released, it usually focuses on the battlefield, and the horrors of war.

Formulaic, cheesy with its fluff and histrionics, - to the point of superficializing a sense of narrative weight, and inconsistent with its tone, pacing and overall structure, this film falls as a pretty forgettable war drama, flavored up by the decent visual style, worthy subject matter, lively direction and endearing performances which secure Jesse Hibbs» «To Hell and Back» as an almost thoroughly entertaining and sometimes effective, if ultimately underwhelming account of Audie Murphy's struggles as a farm boy - turned - military man.