Sentences with phrase «on scenes of violence»

Now, instead of reporting on scenes of violence, she's become an expert on their root causes.

Not exact matches

In Taxi Driver, the camera even hangs on the awkward reactions of those around Travis Bickle as scene after scene of personal embarrassment leads to him to seek validation and purpose through redemptive violence.

The film's scenes of graphic violence, far from being extraneous or merely fetishistic on Gibson's part, are essential to his theological point of view.

Soon after there appeared on the scene another group of Christians who took a stand for violence — not, like the Anabaptists, as a means of relieving the oppressed and improving society, but as a political tool.

Ghana made their way into the AFCON 2015 final on Thursday night with a 3 - 0 victory over Equatorial Guinea, but the night was overshadowed by scenes of violence in the crowd.

Catalonia went to the polls on Sunday to vote in an independence referendum and the ensuing scenes of violence made headlines the world over.

A chronic lack of trust has also fuelled escalation of the conflict between the interim military government and Morsy supporters, which erupted into shocking scenes of violence and brutality on Wednesday.

«Yesterday a school filled with innocent children and caring teachers became the scene of terrible violence, hatred and evil,» President Donald Trump said from the White House in his first public comments on the country's latest school shooting, the 18th so far this year.

The Deputy Minister together with other ministers of state who were sitting far away from where the violence started was caught on Camera cautioning the other dignitaries and high ranking members who were seated with him to escape before the scene becomes uncontrollable.

A new study of national survey information gathered on more than 12,000 Hispanic children from immigrant and U.S. - native families found that although they experience more poverty, those from immigrant families reported fewer exposures to such adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) as parental divorce and scenes of violence.

Adding a scene of inexplicable hippo violence in an otherwise generic disaster movie does nothing except remind me of how much wasted potential is up on the screen.

Heineman is granted almost unimaginable access to the violence and backroom dealings of the lawless region, capturing everything from an entire village, housewives and all, turning on police who try to crack down on the Autodefensas to scenes of the white shirts slipping into the same, sadistic tactics as their enemy.

A mild improvement over its decent predecessor, The Strangers: Prey at Night follows a family of four (Christina Hendricks» Cindy, Martin Henderson's Mike, Bailee Madison's Kinsey, and Lewis Pullman's Luke) as they arrive at a remote trailer park for an overnight stay - with violence and chaos ensuing after the title characters arrive on the scene.

I, Tonya suggests that it's taking its cue for the tone of these scenes from Harding herself — a hard - nosed woman who viewed domestic violence as just another pothole on the rough road that life laid out for her.

VIOLENCE / GORE 6 - In three scenes, one man shoots another man between the eyes below the frame; we see the gun aimed at the forehead and the camera pans upward to hide the victim as we hear a loud shot each time and after each shot, the camera cuts to a long shot of each victim, lying on one side with the head hidden behind the body and no blood flow is seen.

When depicting the type of daily brutality that black slaves experienced, some scenes based on historical record, some based more on hearsay, Tarantino does not deliver violence as spectacle.

Even when directors like Meir Zarchi claim that their brutal works were actually feminist critiques, it's an assertion that rings false, due to his camera lingering on the acts of sexual violence like a porn director's would a salacious fuck scene.

His controversial and shocking scenes of extreme violence put him on a completely different level because many filmmakers aren't willing to venture into to the dark places that Miike does.

Outside of Vinson and some choice scoring / music selection that, along with its story, evokes some of the memorable 1970s work from John Carpenter (Assault on Precinct 13 and The Fog come to mind), You're Next is a fairly dreadful choice for a scare flick, with ineffective acting choices, a laughable premise, and no real surprises offered to anyone who actually pays attention to the poorly written dialogue that occurs between scenes of violence.

There are scenes where Jolie and Pitt sizzle, and there are some moments of fantastic scripting, where the violence and gun battles become something more than just great action sequences... they become commentary on the process of working out one's differences with another.

Violence: Scenes of on - screen shootings, beatings, stabbings and other carnage are seen throughout this movie with some detailed blood effects.

Also, in those scenes where he's bald - headed and clean shaven, I swear he looks just like Lars von Trier in The Element of Crime, a film that, unlike Bronson, is an exquisitely fine - tuned psychological meditation on the operation of crime / violence within a decaying society.

This scene comes in towards the beginning of the movie, the calm before the storm, prior to the two inadvertently ending up on a high - speed, high - stakes, just plain high ride fueled by hyper - violence, weed, and ramen (you'll see).

Another Tarantino movie, another opportunity for a lot of violence, profanity, and the N - word... and a lot of scenes which go on a little too long.

A cocktail party features glasses of wine held by men and women and a few of each drink from their glasses, a man at a party sips from a glass of whiskey and another man chugs from a bottle of clear liquor (the label is hidden), a man drinks expensive whiskey in his office and his living room, a man holds an open can of beer on a sidewalk, four men in the back of a pickup truck drink from beer cans as the vehicle is moving, a man drinks from a small bottle of whiskey in his living room (the scene cuts to him lying asleep on the floor with the empty bottle, two crushed beer cans, and a cigarette butt around him), a man at a party says that he is wasted (implying intoxication, no drugs are seen or mentioned), a man offers a worker a 6 - pack of beer to bring a shovel and help clean a bathroom (please see the Violence / Gore category for more details), a man offers another man a drink and he declines saying that he is high on life, and a man holds a can that could be beer.

Performances are uniformly not great; the whole thing takes place at night and even scenes inside the house are lit too dark; a PG - 13 rating holds back the violence, most of the action features a weird reliance on cheesy slow motion, and - perhaps the film's greatest misstep - the tech house angle is barely utilized.

Australia Starring Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman Rated PG - 13 for some violence, a scene of sensuality, and brief strong language Available on DVD and Blu - ray Set in Australia during the second world war, Jackman and Kidman meet and fall in love during a rough and tough cattle drive that nearly costs them their lives.

With a lead performance that is muted to a fault, a lighting scheme set permanently on sleaze and jarring scene shifts between depraved violence and, well Thai karaoke, you can certainly say it is a work of singular vision.

Desert Flower (R for profanity, violence and one scene of sexuality) Female empowerment flick based on the autobiography of the same name by Waris Dirie (Liya Kebede) who fled Somalia for London as a teenager to become a world renown supermodel.

Violence: Frequent battle scenes involve swords, stabbings, flame - throwing guns and huge explosions — all of which result in numerous dead bodies lying on the battlefield.

Directed by Fritz Lang on a modest budget, the 1953 crime drama stars Glenn Ford as the workaday family - man cop driven over the edge when the mob violently kills his wife in a hit meant for him (the scene is the first of the film's explosive eruptions of violence that tear through the poise of normalcy).

Violence: A movie studio films various scenes for pictures including: a western with a shoot - out where one of the actors is gunned down on screen, an underwater extravaganza where an actress is swallowed by a whale, and a Roman epic that depicts centurions beating slaves.

The dark tone and gratuitous scenes of animal violence will have an effect on younger audiences.

A big reward needs to be handed to Warner Brothers for the inclusion of a very small message on the video box: «Rated PG - 13 for a scene of violence, and for drugs and some language.»

Before talking about the quality of the film, most people expressed their opinions on a scene that focused on violence towards a helpless animal.

He clearly likes the scenes of dialogue between Depp and Edgerton as much, if not more, than the outbursts of violence And the excellent cinematographer Masanobu Takayanagi («Warrior,» «The Grey») hones in on these expressive faces.

However, the lessons and morals in this film are far more subtle and deep, and the violence is harsh with dozens of on - screen shootings, brutal physical attacks, jump scenes, and innocent bystanders in peril.

If the film isn't suspenseful, i.e. the pressure cooker situation of what's going on in the movie, if that's not part of it, if the threat of violence and the temperature isn't always going up a notch every scene or so, then the movie is going to be boring.

Swerve (R for violence, profanity, sexuality and nudity) Aussie crime thriller about a Good Samaritan (David Lyons) who ends up on the run from a ruthless hit man (Travis Hitman) and a crooked cop (Jason Clarke) after stopping to help a gun moll (Emma Booth) with a suitcase of cash at the scene of a car accident which claimed the life of her mobster beau.

For my taste McQueen lingers too long on scenes of brutal floggings and assaults (though the sex is not tastelessly explicit), which may be what white viewers need to be reminded of — except excessively explicit violence is a staple of many modern films, where the old saying that «less is more» has long been forgotten.

Violence: C As the topic of the movie focuses on the Medieval sport of jousting, there are many scenes depicting this activity.

B + 300: Rise of an Empire Rated R for strong sustained sequences of stylized bloody violence throughout, a sex scene, nudity and some language Available on DVD, Blu - ray and Blu - ray 3D This sequel to 300 follows the greek general Themistocles (Sullivan Stapleton) as he attempts to unite Greece to fight Xerxes and his Persian army.

The beginning borders on plodding, but all is forgiven about 45 minutes into the film, when the antagonists come into full view in a scene of extreme depravity and violence.

Waltz With Bashir 3 stars Rated R for some disturbing images of atrocities, strong violence, brief nudity and a scene of graphic sexual content Sony Pictures Classics Available on: DVD and Blu - ray

The film lives and thrives on these whiplash moments; it seems as if Wong hadn't yet perfected the languor that I love so much about his films, and so there is no small thrill in the chases, or the extended scenes of almost sadomasochistic violence inflicted on and by Wah (often shot in extremely long slow motion shots), or of course the unspoken flirtations.

That scene is nothing compared to some of the other violence on display (think «Saving Private Ryan»), but it's worth noting that it never feels gratuitous.

The movie relies on repeated scenes of cartoon violence for much of the action.

Immortals Rated R for sequences of strong bloody violence, and a scene of sexuality Available on DVD, Blu - ray and Blu - ray 3D Ever since my first exposure to greek mythology with the 1981 Clash of the Titans, I have been a big fan of the genre.

David Cronenberg's 2005 film A History of Violence and the third episode of the AMC series Breaking Bad both climax with scenes that hinge on a dinner plate.

High - Rise Year: 2016 Director: Ben Wheatley High - Rise begins with the past tense of Wheatley's traditional mayhem, settling on tranquil scenes of extensive carnage and brutal violence inflicted before the picture's start.