Sentences with phrase «powerful tale about»

Great Big Things is a powerful tale about courage, determination and the wisdom to recognize the truly big things in life.

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It is a hamfisted cautionary tale about global warming (which, via the film's scientific hand - waving, produces an ice age), but it also functions as a powerful 9/11 allegory, celebrating the ability of New Yorkers to unify in the face of tragedy.

Why would anyone worry about a guy that wants to be leader of the most powerful nation (save China) on the planet and believes a weird fairy tale about Jesus Christ coming to America to preach to the native peoples and golden tablets that can only be read with special glasses that all then conveniently disappear.

Starring Reese Witherspoon, Robert Pattinson and Christoph Waltz, WATER FOR ELEPHANTS is a powerful, epic tale of forbidden love, based on the acclaimed # 1 best seller, in which an idealistic young man finds his destiny in a magical place filled with adventure, wonder and great danger... I don't know about you gals but I think that is a recipe for awesomeness.

Filmmakers Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (Half Nelson) offer an insightful tale about Dominicans chasing their dreams of playing Major League baseball and, in the process, deliver a quietly powerful take on immigration.

That's because it has cleverly disguised itself as a perky little tale of female empowerment, a fable about a beautiful woman and her powerful sexuality, or at least her very nice hair.

Two powerful lead performances drive Fences, a tale about a black family living in Pittsburgh during the mid-1950s, that, while the overall experience is mostly negative, the impact is nonetheless a powerful and emotional undertaking.

Instead, this Denis Villeneuve mystery moves at a slow but powerful pace as it unravels a grounded, realistic and thought - provoking tale about vengeance and prosecution.

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.

HBO Films will premiere The Tale, Jennifer Fox's powerful narrative memoir about her own reckoning with childhood sexual abuse, on May 26th, and Fox joined castmembers Laura Dern, Isabelle Nélisse, Jason Ritter, Ellen Burstyn and Common for a moving panel after Sunday night's AwardsLine screening of the film at LA's Landmark Theatre.

Sugar (2008): Filmmakers Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (Half Nelson) offer an insightful tale about Dominicans chasing their dreams of playing Major League baseball and, in the process, deliver a quietly powerful take on immigration.

«The Tale» Review: Jennifer Fox Directs Laura Dern in an Unspeakably Powerful Story About Her Own Sexual Assault — Sundance 2018

Read More: «The Tale» Review: Jennifer Fox Directs Laura Dern in an Unspeakably Powerful Story About Her Own Sexual Assault — Sundance 2018

And here's the first trailer: «I re-read the fairy tale when Disney first approached me about the project and was reminded of what an amazingly powerful -LSB-...]

To me, the best way educators can use this powerful political fairy tale is to engage their students to think about how slavery, colonialism, and capitalism connect; how resources were taken from peoples, include Native Americans, and funneled to sustain industrialized economies.

Educators can use this powerful political fairy tale is to engage their students to think about how slavery, colonialism, and capitalism connect.

But my favorite magic to write, I must admit, is in the Baba Yaga and Broken Rider books, because those are based more on the kind of fairy - tale witches I read about in my youth, where there are very few limits on the magic a truly powerful witch can do.

I have described this book to people as a «cautionary tale» about what could happen to our country (and our world) if we allow a small but powerful group of people gain too much control.

Just as involving as Watson's earlier book about the Hayden family, Montana 1948, this prequel is a powerful, bewitching tale of love, generations, and family secrets.

Brought together by chance - or something more powerful - Theresa and Garrett are people whose lives are about to touch for a purpose, in a tale that resonates with our deepest hopes for finding that special someone and everlasting love.

I have heard all the comments and horror tales about the ALL POWERFUL DoE and NELNET.

About FINAL FANTASY IX Consistently regarded as among the best of the entire FINAL FANTASY series, FINAL FANTASY IX tells the story of the bandit Zidane, princess Garnet, the shy yet powerful black mage Vivi Ornitier, the loyal knight Adelbert Steiner, and other memorable characters for a thrilling fantasy tale of love, war, magic and self - discovery

More details have emerged about Tales of Zestiria «s Kamui Mode fusions, which allow main character Sorey to join with another party member to form a single powerful creature.

Portland, Oregon - based art collector and philanthropist Jordan D. Schnitzer talks about the powerful and often disturbing works of contemporary artist Kara Walker, shown at University of Wyoming Art Museum in the 2016 exhibition «Emancipating the Past: Kara Walker's Tales of Slavery and Power,» drawn from the collections of Jordan D.

It is a project with many precedents in American history, quite a few of them cautionary tales about what happens when a powerful corporation takes control of civic life.