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The campaign will feature WWE Superstars Alberto Del Rio, Titus O'Neil and Roman Reigns experiencing poignant moments with their actual children in a humorous way.

But like Twin Peaks, there are a lot of really poignant moments with no conclusion.

Director Sorrentino is a master at twisting these poignant moments with dashes of levity or irony.

Not exact matches

And it will be for me quite a poignant moment going there [to Whitehall] with the other church leaders and the Queen and all the others to think of him.

It was a sleazy affair, with the newspapers publishing Weakland's long and maudlin love letter to the young man - a letter not untouched by poignant moments of contrition.

Its effectiveness comes in the juxtaposition of poignant scenes with downright hilarious ones; Kindergartener Ruby Bridges tells Jabari how to be brave, mere moments before stepping out the door and starting her first day at an all - white school (where she's most definitely not welcomed), which is followed by Jabari messing around with his future idol, pre-President Obama, on the night of Dr. King's famed speech.

There is a very poignant moment where he looks out to the horizon and sees the two suns setting with John Williams beautiful score playing right before he passes.

I had a very poignant «seasons of my life» moment (a la Fleetwood Mac's «Landslide») being back in this place where my husband and I dated, returned as a married couple, and then visited again with our son and my in - laws.

Waititi does an excellent job of balancing the sweet and humorous moments with the more poignant bits (like Bella's heartbreaking death scene), but what separates the movie from the typical coming - of - age tale is the unique brand of humor that's become synonymous with the director.

Weaving together a wealth of archival footage from the most glamorous moments in fashion history with André's poignant reflections on his life and career, The Gospel According to André is a cinematic monument to one of the most unique figures of 20th Century American culture.

But the film's best scenes — including a haunting moment on the beach and a weirdly poignant encounter with a disfigured potential victim — also suggest a dawning moral awareness in the femme fatale.

It has its poignant moments but begins to get really irritating; about ten minutes from the end of the film, I actually asked myself out loud «How much longer do I have to deal with this guy?»

It's a stirring sequence that's heightened by Holbrook's engaging, downright poignant performance, with the film's compulsively watchable atmosphere perpetuated by the initial scenes set within the past - as Lawrence does a nice job of infusing such moments with a melodramatic and suitably old - fashioned feel that proves impossible to resist.

The Angulos being the Angulos, there are poignant and funny moments here and there in these scenes — one of the boys giddily fantasizing about the fact that a bit of the money from his ticket purchase might go to Russell, Mark Wahlberg, and Christian Bale, for example, which embodies the same recapturing of childlike awe toward industrial pop that figures in The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt or, for that matter, a great deal of faux - naïve, ga - ga pop journalism, and which I suspect has something to do with The Wolfpack's crossover appeal.

Friends with Kids is a daring and poignant ensemble comedy about a close - knit circle of friends at that moment in life when children arrive and everything changes.

With the 3D walk itself being worth price of admission, more so in vertigo - inducing IMAX, and poignant final moments that especially resonated with the New York Film Fest crowd, Zemeckis has crafted a spectacle to be sure even if the rest of the film will likely not stand the same test of time that the 2008 documentary With the 3D walk itself being worth price of admission, more so in vertigo - inducing IMAX, and poignant final moments that especially resonated with the New York Film Fest crowd, Zemeckis has crafted a spectacle to be sure even if the rest of the film will likely not stand the same test of time that the 2008 documentary with the New York Film Fest crowd, Zemeckis has crafted a spectacle to be sure even if the rest of the film will likely not stand the same test of time that the 2008 documentary has.

In production at the same time had been a similar genre piece, If I Stay, but this one is too encumbered by its own artifice to hit us with the sort of poignant, heartfelt moments that director R.J. Cutler (The World According to Dick Cheney, The Ordained), from a script by Shauna Cross (What to Expect When You're Expecting, Whip It), is so desperate to deliver wholesale.

In fact, there is a moment that's meant to be particularly poignant and emotional, with big sweeping music to mark its significance, but it's followed shortly by a change of scenery and a joke that undercuts any emotional response the movie was aiming to achieve.

Unless you count a trip to an art installation of a rain room, which cues a faux - poignant moment — complete with dramatic song — as each patient steps in to get... baptized?

Baldwin's relationship with Medgar Evers, Mississippi field secretary for the NAACP, provides some of the more poignant moments in I Am Not Your Negro.

Filled with subtle moments and raw emotion, the movie will move you and keep you on the edge of your seat until its poignant final shot.

It's a propaganda film to a certain extent, but not without interest, as there are enough poignant moments to make the endeavor worthwhile for those with an ear for modern political thinking, or lack thereof.

And a special nod of recognition has to go to Cooper as Charles, who delivers one of the film's few genuine moments, with a wonderful, poignant rebuke of his wife Mattie that lays bare the ugliness at the core of the Westons.

It provides an unwelcome poignant commentary, suffusing the moments between scenes with the suggestion of an omniscient presence, one that recognizes some higher order running through these lives.

The official competition kicked off this morning with the screening of Abderrahmane Sissako «s Timbuktu and Mike Leigh «s sublime (and grumpy) Mr. Turner, two films which paint beautiful tableaux, captivating characters and poignant moments.

«BATTLE OF THE SEXES» (2017) Emma Stone delivers a terrific performance as Billie Jean King, and Carell's Bobby Riggs is quite the match, with a number of great lines and some poignant moments.

He does, though, share some poignant moments of physical comedy with Janney — before they're reduced to rom - com montage.

What is a surprise is the deftness with which he handles the poignant moments mentioned above.

And Theron allows that old joy to flood back in one poignant moment, when she finally returns to the Vuvalini, with Immortan Joe's wives in tow.

Zachary Quinto's Spock fares better, if only because Quinto infuses neutral lines with a certain melancholy, but he too does not get to build on the seismic events that affected Spock in the first film, his development limited to one poignant discussion of how he has reacted to his home world's destruction and one meaningless inversion of the most iconic image of the Star Trek films that takes a piercing moment and reduces it to farce.

A poignant moment comes when Sam explains with the use of a toilet roll, that the 150 dots present on each square of the roll represent 100» 000 years in the history of the Earth.

The watchable vibe is heightened by the ongoing inclusion of unexpectedly poignant moments and sequences, with the final stretch certainly rife with interludes designed to elicit an emotional response from the viewer (including an unexpectedly moving graveside conversation).

Top notch comedy, with so many poignant human moments.

The movie's problems are exacerbated by a sporadic emphasis on elements that couldn't possibly be less interesting (ie Uncle Andy's less - than - savory extracurricular activities), and although the narrative has been peppered with a handful of undeniably poignant moments (ie Arnold finally breaks down over his unwitting role in his brother's death), The Stone Boy's inability to hold the viewer's interest on a consistent basis ultimately negates its positive attributes.

(A particularly poignant moment is when Radner mentions in her journal that, while sick with cancer, she'd watch herself on SNL reruns to cheer herself up.)

But it's the film's final scene, in which a camera trains on the ravaged, tear - stained face of Elio, a precocious 17 - year - old crushed over having just learned that his older former lover, Oliver, is getting married to a woman, that provides «Call Me by Your Name» with its most poignant and powerful moment.

As she begins to reconnect with her family — especially with daughter Julie (Mamie Gummer), whose current post-breakup rough patch helps bring Ricki back into her life — the character's mask gradually drifts away, and Streep allows moments of poignant authenticity to peak through: in an anguished phone call to current boyfriend / fellow guitarist Greg (Rick Springfield), in a private crying jag after an annihilating argument with Maureen, in a meltdown during a live performance in which Ricki exposes her regret and self - loathing to the public.

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Director - writer Martin McDonough liberally mixes the profane with violence, comedy, humanity and poignant moments in «Three Billboards,» which starts out as possibly an indictment of police corruption but veers off in several different directions in its journey.

Kung Fu Panda Year: 2008 Directors: Mark Osborne, John Stevenson Like Stephen Chow's Kung Fu Hustle, DreamWorks» Kung Fu Panda punctuates its light - hearted, comedic tone with surprisingly poignant moments along with nonstop homages to a giant list of truly classic Kung Fu films, often scene by scene.

With unfettered access to electrifying and poignant moments, it's impossible not to be riveted by the pastor's dogged battle in a treacherous world where no man is immune to losing everything.

Keep a note of all those funny moments with the children, as well as the poignant ones, and keep these at the forefront of your mind.

Nye's novel is a poignant, gentle chronicle of Aref's last week in Oman, during which he spends many magical moments with his grandfather Sidi.

A poignant, hilarious debut that's filled with heart, soul, insight and laugh - out - loud moments.

When a new Joseph Wambaugh book arrives, I know that I will be mightily entertained: I will laugh out loud, suffer with the characters through the poignant moments and be very sad to have turned the final page.

When we said our goodbyes, they called out, «See you next life,» and I remember that phrase really stuck with me at that poignant moment: they weren't (entirely) joking.

Written in a voice that is both witty and lyrical, and with a colorful secondary cast including Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman, P.T. Barnum, and notable figures of the period, this is an evocative, poignant imagining of one man's story at a unique moment in American history.

Poignant personal stories by the veterinarians being honored with the Diane Smith Service Award left many in the room wiping tears away during several emotional moments.

Billed as the country's largest charitable pet fashion show, now in its 14th year, the event's theme was Global Couture for Animal Rescue with fashions that spanned from Russia to Paraguay strutting down the runway (and a poignant moment when three generations of Armenian women appeared in handmade outfits commemorating the Armenian genocide of 1915).

This powerful and poignant work is joined by Jeff Koons» Cracked Egg (Magenta), a central sculpture from the artist's acclaimed Celebration series, conceived to mark important moments in the calendar year with universal images of childhood joy and wonder.

Currency is a piece with international roots that is presented at a poignant moment in the national dialogue about the weight of economy and labor.