Sentences with phrase «real events of war»

This movie, which is based on the real events of war correspondent Kim Barker (as told in her book The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan), forces you to bed the question as to its authenticity.

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If the deficit is due to an economic recession, defined as two consecutive quarters of negative growth in real gross domestic product, or to «extraordinary events», such as a natural disaster or war, that results in an «cost» of more than $ 3 billion, then the operating budgets of departments and agencies would be automatically frozen to pay for any wage increases.

Hasker's third proposition is that for the problem of divine non-intervention to be a real problem, «we must be able to identify specific kinds of cases in which God morally ought to intervene but does not» Many critics of (traditional) theism probably already have a more or less vague list of such cases, which might include genocidal events, such as the Nazi holocaust and the Rwandan massacre; wars; large - scale natural disasters; conditions of chronic poverty, in which millions of children die from starvation or are permanently stunted because of inadequate protein; the sexual molestation of children, which often leaves them psychologically scarred for the rest of their lives; death preceded by long, painful illnesses, such as cancer or AIDS, or by mind - destroying conditions, such as Alzheimer's disease; and the kinds of events described by Dostoyevski, such as the soldier using his pistol to get a mother's baby to giggle with delight and then blowing its brains out.

On her computer is a window of spooling text called JChat — it looks like an Internet chat session — providing a real - time view of the events of the war.

The story is based on real events and does not shy away from showing the ugly sides of a war.

It's uncertain if the film even has a firm opinion of our sitting president, for with Sawyer's reductive preachings about a stereotypical black upbringing, and actions to end a «limitless war on terror» that plainly contradict current events, the movie is both a simplistic Obama insult and an aspirational Obama fantasy (and if you don't think it's channeling our real - life president, look no further than the Easter egg of Nicorette gum, which Sawyer keeps in his own nightstand).

And despite most of the characters having already been introduced and fleshed out prior to the events of the film, Infinity War will still have to make time for each to get their own moment to shine, while also making way for Josh Brolin's Thanos, who audiences will finally get to spend some real time with after years of cameo appearances in previous Marvel films.

Award: The Assassin Least Sexy Movie: 50 Shades of Grey (Runner - up: A LEGO Brickumentary) Best Tolkien Reference: The Martian Best Gag Involving a Hammer: Avengers: Age of Ultron Best Joke About Naming Your Fists «Cagney and Lacey»: Spy Best Celebrity Cameo: LeBron James, Trainwreck Best Imaginary Friend: Bing Bong, Inside Out Most Awkward Interplay Between Real and Fictional Theme Parks: Tomorrowland (Runner - up: Jurassic World) Best Contact Lenses: Johnny Depp, Black Mass Best Eyeglasses: Sean Harris, Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation Best Glass Eye: Christian Bale, The Big Short Best Robot: Ava (Ex Machina) Worst Robot: Chappie (Chappie) The Cameron Crowe Award for a Soundtrack in Search of a Movie: Aloha Best Aerial Stunt: Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (Runner - up: Spectre) Worst Oven - Cleaning Method: The Visit Worst Misuse of a Juice Bottle: Sleeping with Other People Best Movie About Journalism: Spotlight Worst Movie About Journalism: Truth The Sudden Ubiquity Award: Domhnall Gleeson (Ex Machina, Brooklyn, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, The Revenant); Tom Hardy (Mad Max: Fury Road; Legend; The Revenant); Oscar Isaac (Ex Machina, Mojave, Star Wars: The Force Awakens) Best Dog - boy: Jack Bright, The Good Dinosaur Worst Dog - man: Channing Tatum, Jupiter Ascending Worst Implicit Historical Comparison: Moving the events of The Secret in Their Eyes from Argentina's Dirty War to post-9 / 11 America Best Backward - Looking Reboot: Star Wars: The Force Awakens Worst Backward - Looking Reboot: Terminator Genisys Best Home Movies: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl Nicest Russian Spy: Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies Trends of the Year: Women ruling comedy (Trainwreck, Spy); an overdue pushback against CGI (Mad Max: Fury Road, Star Wars: The Force Awakens); sneakily feminist themes in summer sequels (Magic Mike XXL, Mad Max: Fury Road); spy spoofs (Spy, Kingsman: The Secret Service, The Man from U.N.C.L.E, the final third of Spectre)

The tale is fictional, but the events, from the fall of the Third Reich to the Kennedy - era Cold War are real, and their fine - tuned depiction gives an air of both gravitas and authenticity to this cautionary tale.

Black Panther, starring Chadwick Boseman, tells the story of T'Challa (Black Panther's real name) after the events of Captain America: Civil War.

«Inspired by real events,» The Whistleblower visits Bosnia in the rubble - strewn aftermath of the Yugoslav civil war and finds power, corruption and liesnot just among the bribe - taking, uncaring local authorities but also the U.N. officials and American contractors assigned to train the Bosnians in the ways of democracy.

Of course, the real - life events took place in 1961, at the height of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet UnioOf course, the real - life events took place in 1961, at the height of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Unioof the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union.

Scorsese himself seems less interested in screenwriters Jay Cocks, Steven Zaillian and Kenneth Lonergan's plot concerns than the real - life events; the power of the film's climax derives largely from his stunning recreation of the 1863 Civil War Draft Riots than the resolution of the Amsterdam - Bill conflict, and the needless voiceover narration provided by DiCaprio (reportedly an addition that came late in the long post-production — and does that ever show) revels largely in extraneous historical details.

Some, of course, will object on principle to the mere act of turning events such as the Iraq War and the 9/11 attacks — two of Greengrass's previous subjects — into pulse - pounding thrills in the first place, arguing that he's exploiting real - world trauma for the sake of shallow entertainment.

Apparently, the bad blood created during the events of Civil War spilled from the screen into real life and RDJ conveniently forgot to invite his old pal Chris Evans to lunch.

With shows like The Walking Dead, World War Z the movie and of course the book, tv shows like Doomsday Preppers etc and events in the real world.

It includes snippets from accounts of real - life events such as the presidential dinner held the night Willie Lincoln died and news reports of the Civil War.

Written in the spirit of E.L Doctorow's Ragtime, Gold's expansive novel attempts to dissect and fuse together the birth of Hollywood, the escalating events leading to the Great War, and the ascendancy of American capitalism, using a vast array of characters both real and fictional.

It's thirty years after the events of the first trilogy, both in real life and in the Star Wars universe, and Abrhams wisely ensured that Solo feels like he's lived those thirty years, coming out of them wiser and maturer, but with that classic edge that made us all fall in love with the character.

Bladestorm — Nightmare (PS4 / XB1): In this new strategy game the player takes the role of mercenary and chooses to fight either for England or for France in missions inspired by real events and battles of the era dubbed the Hundred Years War» (1337 - 1453).

This War of Mine: The Little Ones is a gritty and engaging experience inspired by real - life events.

A real - time strategy game set in the Star Wars universe prior to the events of Episode IV, that sees battles take place in space and on the ground.

As the critic Germano Celant wrote in Arte Povera: Notes for a Guerilla War (his manifesto of sorts): «Over there a complex art, over here a poor art, committed to contingency, to events, to the non-historical, to the present...» Yet, as much as these works functioned in the present tense — often literally mutating in real time — they also rejected the fetish of the «contemporary,» with its technological and productivist tendencies.

It was the first in a series of events that Real Art Ways presented in the context of the culture wars, and a foreshadowing of Wilkins» demonstrated commitment to supporting artists and taking risks to present meaningful programming.

Caught between simulation and realism, between video war games and cinematic recreation of a real event, the minimalist aesthetic of a projection keeps the experience both particular and complex.