Sentences with phrase «on rich character»

For director David Gordon Green, who cut his teeth on rich character studies like George Washington, Undertow, All the Real Girls and Mud, this moves closer to those films than his recent forays into flops like Our Brand is Crisis or wild comedy like Pineapple Express and Eastbound and Down.

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On Tuesday, the company unveiled some tweaks to help people share more within the 140 - character limit, and to encourage them to share more and richer content.

Community has some of the richest, most complex characters of any sitcom on television right now, and Shirley (portrayed with marvelous nuance by Yvette Nicole Brown — she should be getting far more recognition) is one of its best.

When the rich man dies, Peter Seller's character is cast out on the street and through a series of events he finds himself in a position where he is being considered as a candidate for the president of the USA.

I've made long - cooking caramelized onions loads of times... and my irresistible homemade tomato paste gets all of its character from a lengthy turn on the stove, so I figured, like chocolate and peanut butter, the two just had to be great together: slow - simmering BFFs on a fall Sunday afternoon, all of their natural sugars mingling and melting and morphing into a spectacular coating that infuses the thick, rich tomato - oniony amazingness.

How Character - Driven Labels Are Driving Wine Sales: As the wine aisles swell with an ever - rising sea of brands, wine producers are looking to increasingly rich and imaginative narratives on which to build their brands...

Color: Pale yellow Taste: Intense aroma and gently fruity Drapò Bianco is a sweet vermouth, fresh, soft and delicate, but strong in character, rich and complex on the palate.

It is during this intensive process that Reserva 44 takes on its rich, complex character.

With 58 years of rich character soaked into its walls and the peanut shells on the floor.

because woodley is not a fighter that can sell a fight in terms of his character or persona or promotional skills... not all of his fights were boring but the last 2 were too tatical for the average casual fan to pay for a PPV, hence all the promotional work would be on Nate, basically nate making Tyron rich, tyron against RDA on current UFC cards would no way reach 300K....

The venerable Stan Lee, himself a rags to riches story on the order of his Marvel character, Captain America, is credited with a large portion of the popularity of the ever more sophisticated world of the graphic novel.

The movie turns on a series of revelations about the characters, whose hushed, intimate narration — split between Laura, Jamie, Ronsel, Hap, and Florence — reveals rich inner lives.

As the Brits enjoy high tea on the subcontinent, the colors are so vivid, the characters so rich, the period piece so faithfully depicted, you can practically smell the Punjabi spices.

Coupled with rich world - building that brings the long hidden land of Wakanda to striking life on the big screen, this allows Black Panther to breathe fresh life into familiar MCU plot and character tropes, without skimping on the shiny spectacle and playful humor that Marvel Studios movies are known for.

Canadian - born, Yale - trained Peter Donat made his mark on the theatrical world with his rich portrayals of such larger - than - life characters as Cyrano de Bergerac.

A visually - rich film like Ghost in the Shell that's filled with futuristic sets and cyborg characters could have easily relied on green screens and digital effects to bring its entire world to life.

What emerges is a film tinged with irony and filled with many a fourth wall — breaking moment where characters, including Harding's mother (played by Allison Janney), comment on the liberties being taken with this rags - to - near - riches story.

Based on the journalist Lynn Barber's memoir of her sentimental education at the hand of an older charmer and scripted by Nick Hornby, this soft - edged exercise in nostalgia is worth seeing for its rich array of sharply drawn characters led by Carey Mulligan, who received a deserved Oscar nomination for her sweet, smart, sexy central performance.

Penny Dreadful isn't easy on its characters and their desire for the riches of Earth, no matter the cost.

Lean on Pete production designer Ryan Warren Smith discusses how he created rich, detailed environments that subtly reveal character.

Based on Mary Norton's classic novel The Borrowers, this film features striking animation and a story that's rich, detailed and full of vividly engaging characters.

Carroll Lynch doesn't dwell much on plot, instead opting to spend time with his rich cast of characters that surround Lucky (including particularly fun turns by Ron Livingston, David Lynch, and Ed Begley Jr.).

It even introduced Rich Uncle Pennybags as its beloved mascot, an exuberant, tuxedoed character sporting a top hat, cane and handlebar mustache modeled on filthy - rich financier J.P. MorRich Uncle Pennybags as its beloved mascot, an exuberant, tuxedoed character sporting a top hat, cane and handlebar mustache modeled on filthy - rich financier J.P. Morrich financier J.P. Morgan.

It's the richest lead character in a Wright film; a screw - up who demands the right to be a screw - up, and whose life can only be lived on his own terms, or not at all.

While fans wait to see the how the storied thespian takes on the role of the infamous American business magnate, Plummer is starring in The Man Who Invented Christmas as a different iconic rich misanthrope — Ebenezer Scrooge — and he said the chance to play such a famed literary character was «marvelous.»

When I went into the editing phase of the process I realized what a bounty of moments he had produced, things I had seen on the day but hadn't realized how rich and detailed they were in the context of the character's journey.

The party system of YS Memories of Celceta is also quite diverse and each character has their pros and cons and thankfully these characters can be swapped on the fly, especially when exploring the rich dungeons beneath The Great Forest.

Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure brought the idea for many playable characters that not too many other games have, as well as combining imaginative play with video games, while making a profit of up to $ 640 on one rich kid who needs every Skylander on both path's, while holding onto the others by not requiring them to by all of them.

The film also establishes Scott as a filmmaker looking for thematically rich material; these characters» battle with each other mirrors the wars going on around them, and the struggle within themselves between desire and honor.

Other opportunities he misses are reducing potentially rich characters into stereotypes — Sam Jackson being the worst offender — and pacing that spends too much time on Ducett's backstory and less on the actual mystery.

If the Eighties were Day - Lewis» coming - out party and the Nineties his flirtation with Hollywood, then this century has seen him embrace larger - than - life characters that put his bravado on rich display.

SEE THIS MOVIE IF: you are a fan of the Larsson books and / or the original Swedish films OR you want to see one of the most original characters on film OR you are just looking for another reason to hate rich people

Her Katniss - on - the - screen is so much richer and more compelling than Collins's Katniss - on - the - page that it almost seems as though she's playing another character altogether.

While I do feel that Scorsese's film is, in some important respects, better overall than Infernal Affairs due to its emphasis on character development, richer themes, and more fleshed out motivations, there are at least two reasons why I think that it will never make Infernal Affairs obsolete.

There's no rich character study or meditations on issues, it just goes straight for fisticuffs and feet and loses all semblance of story and reality by the time the film turns for home.

Now 81, Jackson has not been on Broadway since 1988 — she spent 23 of the intervening years as a member of the British Parliament — and here she plays the character identified as A: a rich, mean elderly woman nattering about her life as she nears the end of it.

The film mostly succeeds on all fronts, crafting a rich and thoughtful character study of a man going through a real identity crisis, unsure of which world he truly belongs to, if any.

Director David O. Russell penned the screenplay based on a novel by Matthew Quick and they created rich, multifaceted characters and a wholly engrossing tale in which these complicated souls interact.

His formidable character is based on the role that real - life fixer / negotiator Chase played for the richest man in the world, John Paul Getty (Donald Sutherland).

The story is engulfing and character rich (and we're talking a TON of characters) and the gameplay is spot on both in terms of the shooting mechanics and the driving / platforming.

It was an amazing experience, which was very rich for my character because I stood there and I thought, «This is like nothing else on the planet and it's my character's job to protect it.»

Mia Wasikowska and Josh Hutcherson are solid, although neither is given a character as rich or fun to play as their on - screen parents.

Every character in this movie, from Mildred's son Lucas (Robbie Hayes) to angry and racist officer Dixon (Sam Rockwell) to billboard proprietor Red (Caleb Landry Jones) to others, are multi-faceted, rich characters that will take your initial allegiances and stomp on them.

His latest creation is chic and classic, timely yet timeless, shiny on the surface with rich characters driving the engine underneath.

Which is perhaps why their «Godzilla» — an initially character - rich movie about relatable ordinary humans in extraordinary circumstances — is ultimately so frustrating as the picture inadvertently turns its back on those core principles.

«The Looming Tower,» a chilling character - rich drama that focuses on the events that led up to the tragedy of 9/11, features a stellar cast, led by Jeff Daniels as FBI counterterrorism chief John O'Neill.

The story of the fight for women's right to vote is definitely a cinematically rich one but Sarah Gavron's film focuses on the fictional character of Maud Watts (Carey Mulligan) instead of the real women on the dangerous frontline of the fight.

Looking less interested in stealing from the rich than just killing them this new Hood is certainly going to be a fresh cinematic take on the character.

Following a nun - in - training in the 1960s who discovers that she's really Jewish, and sets out on a road trip with her only living relative, an alcoholic aunt, it's undoubtedly indebted to Bresson in look and feel but still manages to be its own thing, rich in character and flavor, proving unexpectedly funny, sexy even, and featuring two star - making performances from Agata Trzebuchowska and Agata Kulesza.

Luckily Brando and Harris — the film's weakest characters — are supported by a fine cast of British actors, and the decision to film their scenes on an fully functional reconstruction of the Bounty pays off much in the way directors Peter Weir and Fraser Hestion were able to extract rich atmosphere through the use of real ships in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) and Treasure Island [M](1988), respectively.