Sentences with phrase «powerful films with»

The film is without a doubt one of the most emotionally powerful films with this level of grim violence that I've ever seen.

But the two must risk their careers ---- and their freedom ---- to bring truth to light in this powerful film with a celebrated cast.

It is a powerful film with a Christian theme running through it.

It's a powerful film with powerful performances.

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«Beasts of No Nation is a powerful film that unfolds beautifully in the hands of director Cary Fukunaga with Idris Elba delivering a career - defining performance,» Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos said in a statement.

There are two answers to this: first, because the film is released on DVD this month and is expected to challenge all - time sales records, and second, because the central story contained within it is remarkably, profoundly and intentionally stuffed with powerful theological messages.

Instead of a typical church fundraiser - perhaps a bake sale - Friends Church's leadership proposed a feature film shot on location on two sides of the globe and with a powerful message about the $ 32 billion world slave trade.

Filmed entirely on location in Morocco on a relatively modest budget of $ 20m, major challenges included filming large - scale battle sequences using a stunt team, and recreating the fall of Jericho with powerful explosives.

In «Duck Soup «-- the 1930s Marx brothers» film — a powerful rich lady tells the ailing government of Freedonia, she will only bail them out with another loan, if her favourite — Groucho Marx — becomes president: chaos follows.

The Civic Heart is a powerful, short film opening with video of a diverse group of citizens.

These days, medical X-rays come in multiple formats: plain film used in dental exams and doctors» offices; fluoroscopy, which bounces a continuous X-ray beam off contrast agents you've either injected or ingested, providing a moving real - time image of arteries and intestines; and the computed tomography (CT) scan, which couples a powerful computer with a circular array of extremely sensitive detectors to turn X-rays into detailed cross sections of the body.

I would love to have lunch with Lauren Parsekian Paul, one of the founders of Kind Campaign, a nonprofit that helps educate about the powerful belief in KINDness that brings awareness and healing to the negative and lasting effects of girl - against - girl «crime» through documentary films and school based programs.

One of the greatest and funniest horror films ever made, it has a great story and a powerful scenes with great visuals and exquisite acting, I am a big horror fan, this one is good, it is really good, although I was barging for something smaller and simpler, but it turned out to be way too different than expected!

With SLEEPWALKING, first time director William Maher (not Bill Maher - the Politically Incorrect guy) had a chance to make an extremely powerful film about the effect an abusive childhood can have on someone when they try to start their own lives.

Still, the film never quite nails down an overall tone, building to two powerful scenes closing out the second act and warming up the third: one between Gerry and his ex-wife (Robin Weigert, looking nothing like «Deadwood's» Calamity Jane) heartbreaking and tense, the other at a sparsely attended horse track with Gerry and Curtis seemingly all but solidifying their own sad fates.

This may be Alvarez's greatest accomplishment with the film — getting the kind of emotionally potent performances that make it a powerful and visceral film to watch.

One of the greatest and funniest horror films ever made, it has a great story and a powerful scenes with great visuals and exquisite acting, I am a big horror fan, this one is good, it is really good, although I was barging for something

(Ian Holm was nominated for an Oscar as Best Supporting Actor in his role as Abrahams» coach), and this powerful film ended up with four Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Costume Design, and Best Original Score.

It's a beautiful film with a powerful message that still manages to make us laugh just as much as move us.

This is a gruelling film and one that survivors of sexual violence should watch with caution, but it is a tremendously powerful piece of cinema.

The film finishes on a powerful note in present day with the real Schindler survivors and their descendants visiting his grave.

an absorbing, frequently powerful, and at times insightful film that smartly deploys its sci - fi trappings to keep us engaged while leaving us with just the right touch of ambiguity to chew on afterwards

Filled with truly warm and tender moments, this film is a story of how powerful the human relationship can be.

Washington also turned in powerful performances in a number of other films, such as Mississippi Masala (1991), as a man in love with an Indian woman; Philadelphia (1993), as a slightly homophobic lawyer who takes on the cause of an AIDS - stricken litigator (Tom Hanks); and Devil in a Blue Dress (1995), as a 1940s private detective, Easy Rawlins.

The direction of the film, along with the script and acting, is beyond powerful.

di Florio emerges with a serenely powerful, handcrafted film that navigates into a place Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once called «the tangled discords of our nation.»

Django Unchained is a long, powerful film, its dramatic brush strokes broad and colourful, its psychological points made with considerable subtlety and wit.

The Hasidic Jews» traditional dress may serve as a barrier on the street, and the film does indulge itself occasionally in playing on the incongruity of the suited and hatted men making their way around modern New York, but seeing the generalities of life reflected in such a particular setting amounts to a genuinely powerful insight into some of the universal themes of love, sacrifice and (gentle) self - improvement that are here handled with a charmingly light touch.

The concert itself was a bold, life - affirming project, but with a couple of additional extended music sequences, Mr. Xido's film might have been more powerful and way more hardcore.

From his youth, fueled by dreams of glory and adventure, to his lonely and mysterious death as a ruler of a vast state, from the tumultuous relationship with his parents - a powerful king and a queen determined to put her child on the throne at any cost - to the rousing brotherly bonds with his closest companions and vast army, as they fought from the sun - scorched battlefields of the Persian Empire across the snow - peaked mountains of India, the film chronicles Alexander's journey to become a living legend, a man who embraced the ideal that power has a destiny.

At the end of the first film, the powerful Dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald (Depp) was captured by MACUSA (Magical Congress of the United States of America), with the help of Newt Scamander (Redmayne).

Carrying the film on his back, Jackman is powerful and tender as the selfless Valjean, with an arc that might just fill your eyes with tears.

As powerful as many of the scenes were though, I did have some problems with the film as a whole.

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.

Maresco is not interested in making a political film but simply in riffing on the notion that powerful men who come out of nowhere have to be funded by someone with a clear intent to intervene in politics.

But at its core, like all LAIKA films, The Boxtrolls is a moving and human story with timelessness and powerful emotional resonance.

The film starts with a powerful space entity called «The Center» (voiced by Keith David, ATL) determining that the human race has become too destructive, especially of themselves, and therefore, must be eradicated.

It's important to remember that these films are more than just spoofs or parodies of the genres they emulate as each film has a powerful emotional core with something to say about friendship, growing up and more.

It's a powerful film that blends seafaring folklore with the raw emotions of losing a loved one.

With every movie - related news story referencing James Franco of late — including rumours of his role in Sam Raimi's The Wizard Of Oz prequel Oz: The Great And Powerful, his impending directorial involvement of Cormac McCarthy's «Blood Meridian», and even a college course collated by the actor based on his work — the fact that his latest film releases in Australia this week has hardly rated a mention.

Transcending the boundaries of both biopics and animated films alike with rich material, gorgeous images, a devastating story, and one of the most powerful thematic interpretations of the passion that comes with creativity, the story of Jiro Horikoshi and his journey from wide - eyed dreamer to war - engineer is a heartbreaking, existentially maddening, astoundingly beautiful and human film.

Her speech was as powerful as Meryl Streep's was last year and watching her be elevated along with the other women and female - fronted films and shows that won made for a refreshing and progressive evening.

However, the famed musical talent will also re-team with Sam Raimi on his next film, Oz: The Great and Powerful — and is in talks to compose the soundtrack for Gary Ross» adaptation of The Hunger Games.

Accepting the World Cinema documentary directing prize, «Winnie» helmer Pascale Lamche pointedly said her film was «for those who know that history is not made by great men» — a sentiment echoed by one of the U.S. doc winners, «Step» director Amanda Lipitz, when she said, «These girls show that nothing is impossible when you surround yourself with a group of powerful women.»

sung by Mick Jones as himself in a cameo that makes a strange sort of sense within the films context of cloning; a minor character with a freckle fetish who regards Anne of Green Gables as an erotic classic; and one of the most achingly powerful evocations of longing that I have ever seen.

The official synopsis shares, «At the end of the first film, the powerful Dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald was captured by MACUSA (Magical Congress of the United States of America), with the help of Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne).

The film builds to its powerful climax on the strength of Christopher Plummer and Martin Landau's extraordinary pairing as Auschwitz survivors who meet in a nursing home and plan the murder of a former guard from Auschwitz with two deadlines: One due to the diminishing number of Nazi officers and perpetrators remaining alive, and other because of the dementia that has made Plummer's Zev Guttman constantly battle the growing fog and uncertainty that are slowly destroying his mental competence as Landau's Max guides him on an improbable journey.

Stars is such a smart film and with such a talented director like Boone behind the camera, it just makes the film so much more powerful than I ever expected.

And while only a few saw it, those who did catch Andrei Zyvagintsev «s «Elena» fell head over heels in love with it; a powerful and gripping Russian film about an elderly woman trying to secure an inheritance for her son.

«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.