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It's becoming commonplace to hear actors, writers and directors claiming that TV is now the place to be for powerful drama with narrative scope and rounded characters.

It's becoming commonplace to hear actors, writers and directors claiming that TV is now the place to be for powerful drama with...

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The centuries - long drama of the religious journey of the people of Israel, as it is recorded in the Hebrew Bible, was a gigantic struggle with the immensely powerful «other» of the religious world of the ancient Near East.

As in The Merchant of Venice, religious issues complicate considerations of race and ethnicity, but Shakespeare's drama again leaves an attentive audience or reader with a powerful realization of the essential humanity of the racial «other.»

10: R1P10 OT MIKE MCGLINCHEY NOTRE DAME — best OT in the draft and we need a future franchise LT. this is the guy 41: R2P9 TE DALLAS GOEDERT SOUTH DAKOTA STATE — major offensive weapon, we trade / release Cook 75: R3P11 DL B.J. HILL NC STATE — True 3 - tech was part of one of the best DT tandems in college football 110: R4P10 CB QUENTON MEEKS STANFORD — technically sound outside cornerback with good size and strength 159: R5P22 LB MICAH KISER VIRGINIA — instincts, hustle, powerful tackler, one of most productive linebackers in the country 173: R5P36 P MICHAEL DICKSON TEXAS — best punter to come out of college in a decade or more, oh and drama - free 185: R6P11 CB CHRISTIAN CAMPBELL PENN STATE — long corner with good burst, is raw but can play ST to start 212: R6P38 WR JESTER WEAH PITTSBURGH — love this guy, 6» 3 and can fly, true deep threat WR 216: R6P42 EDGE MARCELL FRAZIER MISSOURI — hard - charging defensive end who wins with skill and motor 217: R6P43 WR ANTONIO CALLAWAY FLORIDA — if he had stayed out of trouble, he'd be a second round pick 228: R7P10 RB RYAN NALL OREGON STATE — Biggest sleeper in the entire draft.

Critic Consensus: Polisse is a gripping and powerful procedural drama filled with fine acting and unflinching eye for truth and brutality.

Inevitably, «The Post» will be politicized (those involved haven't been shy about discussing their motivations for making it), but the story stands on its own, establishing a powerful sense of drama and gravity with the attributes of a thriller, even knowing the outcome.

Quentin Tarantino's script is filled with wonderful humor and powerful and intense drama.

Poor health dogged Ford's career during the 1950s, but he still managed to create The Sun Shines Bright (1953)-- one of his favorite films, dealing with politics and race relations in the 19th century South — Mogambo (1953), and The Searchers (1956), which is considered one of the most powerful Western dramas ever made.

Originally conceived as a comedy, «Dead Man's Shoes» is a powerful drama (although lightly peppered with gallow's humour) in which a community is revisited by the sins of its past, and forced to pay the price.

«BPM,» «God's Own Country,» and «Call Me By Your Name»: Though the handsomely crafted, Italian - set «Call Me By Your Name» has gotten all the critical attention, two other films about young gay men coming to terms with themselves in much harsher environments — the French «BPM» is set at the height of the AIDS crisis in Paris while the contemporary British drama «God's Own Country» is set in a grim, rural northern England — are both more haunting and powerful.

Overall, Benny Loves Killing is a deliberately paced drama with a powerful performance at its core.

A few miscalculated scenes aside, this low - budget drama is stunningly smart and powerful, with real - as - life lead performances and a style as gripping as it is unpretentious.

Oliver Stone, along with John Travolta, Salma Hayak and Taylor Kitsch, appeared on stage to help promote their movie, Savages, a powerful drama about a marijuana cartel.

Remains is a powerful drama that tells the story of an American businessman who arrives in Ireland with the ashes of his parents.

This poignant tale of grief, loss and societal alienation is directed with warmth and sensitivity by Sebastian Lelio, and is both powerful cultural statement and emotionally involving human drama.

«Room» is a powerful indie drama with two heartbreakingly effective lead performances.

This sweeping drama is brought to life with a powerful cast including Mike Epps, Omari Hardwick and CeeLo Green.

Other highlights in this strand include: Miguel Gomes» mixes fantasy, documentary, docu - fiction, Brechtian pantomime and echoes of MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Moss.

This whimsical drama is eloquently executed with powerful performances and a story that appeals to the masses, but is layered in meaning and symbolism.

I have seen the powerful, moving drama «Yesterday,» from South Africa, the story of a village woman whose husband works in the mines of Johannesburg and brings trouble home with him.

Based on a true story, his powerful drama tells an important story from Apartheid - era South Africa with honesty and real sensitivity.

Warwick Thornton's second feature is a visually striking and powerful historical drama, which confronts audiences with some ugly truths about Australia's colonial past.

ScreenPicks talked with stars Garrett Hedlund, Carey Mulligan and Mary J. Blige, along with co - writer / director Dee Rees, about their powerful Netflix drama «Mudbound.»

Six films in all, the Series kicked off on Sunday, December 3 with a 2 pm screening of the powerful drama «Menashe,» directed by Joshua Z. Weinstein.

Season 3 delivers the best extras of the three with the powerful Season 3 Finale: «A Journey to the Highlands», «Downton Abbey Behind the Drama», «Shirley MacLaine at Downton ``, «The Men of Downton» and «Downton in 1920».

Largely through discussions of faith and forgiveness with a supporting cast that includes Kelly Reilly, Chris O'Dowd, Aidan Gillen, Isaach de Bankole, Marie - Josee Croze, Domnhall Gleeson, and more, McDonagh crafts a drama that didn't really hit me until its powerful ending.

Director Mary Harron makes sure these images don't overwhelm the drama by casting young ladies with powerful presences.

A powerful allegory about environmental destruction, this richly atmospheric drama follows a teenage girl as she goes on vacation with her father, a wealthy landowner who becomes obsessed with eliminating the carp fish from his artificial lagoon.

But with this bruising, powerful drama, he also asks a question: What if the broken social, political and judicial culture around you literally allowed you to do anything for them, without any regard for right or wrong?

In a key moment in Steven Spielberg's mesmerizing journalism drama «The Post,» Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham (Meryl Streep) is on a nighttime phone call, with several powerful men in her ear telling her, conflictingly, what she should do.

18 - year - old actor is a breakthrough in this powerful drama about a boy who bonds with a broken - down racehorse

Set in the post-WWII South, Netflix's powerful period drama is based on Hillary Jordan's play and charts the story of two families pitted against a barbaric social hierarchy and an unrelenting landscape — the McAllan family, with wife Laura (Carey Mulligan) underprepared and overly hopeful for Henry's (Jason Clarke) grandiose farming dreams, and the Jackson family, led by Hap (Rob Morgan) and Florence Jackson (Mary J. Blige), whose families have worked the land for generations.

Highly stylized, the masterful direction immediately jumps out; the camera is perpetually moving, with long and involving shots that roam around the actors, thrusting you right into the middle of the powerful, visceral drama.

This powerful drama about two brothers who side with the Irish Republican Army in County Cork in 1920 seems as disturbingly fresh as today's news out of Iraq.

Whiplash isn't always a plausible, and sometimes oversteps its bounds as a small - scale drama, but any veering off course seems to be immediately righted with another riveting, powerful scene.

The night also includes the Orson Welles thriller The Stranger (1946), in which he co-stars with Edward G. Robinson and Loretta Young, and Edward Dmytryk's powerful drama The Juggler (1953), starring Kirk Douglas.

It's with this time, place, and situation in mind that director Daniel Barber brings us his new film The Keeping Room (playing Fantastic Fest), a powerful and terrifying drama about war and the people who are destroyed in its unquenchable wake.

Coogler made his directorial debut with the powerful drama Fruitvale Station, in which Jordan gave a magnificent performance as Oscar Grant,

Fantasy, Drama - In order to save the world and bring his true love back to life, a clever mortal thief teams up with a powerful and...

From the author of The Talented Mr Ripley and acclaimed director Todd Haynes (Far From Heaven, I'm Not There, Mildred Pierce) comes a powerful drama about a married woman who risks everything when she embarks on a romance with a younger department store worker.

With a little over a month to go until its premiere, Amazon has released a trailer for David E. Kelly and Jonathan Shapiro's upcoming legal drama series Goliath, which sees Billy Bob Thornton leading a cast that includes Maria Bello, Olivia Thirlby, William Hurt and Harold Perrineau; watch it below after the official synopsis... Once a powerful lawyer, Billy -LSB-...]

The powerful drama can be experienced in its original Japanese voice acting with English subtitles or in a brand - new English dub

The drama continues in Slumbering Darkness, when a powerful sorcerer kidnaps Edward with a harsh demand, that Lynn follows willingly, or never see Edward again!

How can painting compete with the powerful drama of modern film?

In a discussion with the critic Michele Robecchi about the importance of drama in Italian culture, he has cited the example of Caravaggio — one of the most powerful visual presences in Rome, since half a dozen of his greatest masterpieces are scattered through churches in the centre of the city.

You can immediately alter the ordinary, transform a mood, change an outfit or a room, make a powerful statement with drama and flair or a subtle one with restraint and elegance.

It is about my encounter with the landscape of Los Angeles, and, specifically, its incredible sunlight; the tug - of - war between light and shadow gives powerful visual form to the drama inherent to this city's urban landscape.

The human figure and the very particular figure of her husband created a challenge to one of the core aspects of her approach in the studio — that of doubt that haunts every brush stroke, and something new to her work happens in these portraits that is different than the encounter with landscape: in the first portrait of Bill, in the hospital, the overworking or overthinking becomes a powerful expression of the drama of the human body pushed to the limit of survival, where «overworking» is an embodiment of flesh itself in flux.

With each 30 minute episode, you'll find powerful human drama, suspense and a resolution — making for a compelling 30 minutes of Television.