Sentences with phrase «retelling of a familiar story»

Like its repetitive title, Runner, Runner offers up a bland retelling of a familiar story that lies in the shadow of smarter and sleeker films like The Firm.

● Relive the classic with a good laugh - retelling of a familiar story with a humorous twist of a parody.

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The story of the Book of Mormon is too familiar to require detailed retelling here.

By Kndergarten, children are required to retell familiar stories, recall key details, and recognize common types of text such as poems, storybooks, etc..

Price starts with Lloyd George and goes on to retell the familiar stories of Baldwin versus the press barons Beaverbrook and Rothermere (and his famous denunciation of them as having «power without responsibility, the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages» - in fact written by Kipling).

Disney is already in early talks with Favreau and screenwriter Justin Marks to return for The Jungle Book 2, so now Serkis» film runs the risk of retelling a familiar origin story when audiences are already primed and ready for the sequel.

A more personal approach would have elevated «Patriots Day» from a solid effort to retell a familiar story to a deep and moving reminder of the kind of personal damage that comes with this kind of tragedy.

Now, at ESPN.com, Coogler's lovely reflection on DuVernay's career charts their parallel paths while also dialing in on the emotional power of DuVernay's filmic retelling of A Wrinkle in Time, a story that is, as Coogler sees it, a powerful and familiar reflection on loss and love, influenced by the loss of DuVernay's father:

The details: The reboot - ification of popular culture continues apace with this latest attempt to retell a familiar story by going back to before the beginning.

Expensive new takes on familiar stories have practically become a staple of Hollywood over the last few years, with Disney having success at making CG - heavy live - action retellings of their beloved animated classics like Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, and The Jungle Book.

It covers the following National Curriculum learning objectives: - develop pleasure in reading, motivation to read, vocabulary and understanding by: listening to, discussing and expressing views about a wide range of contemporary and classic poetry, stories and non-fiction at a level beyond that at which they can read independently - becoming increasingly familiar with and retelling a wider range of stories, fairy stories and traditional tales - drawing on what they already know or on background information and vocabulary provided by the teacher - making inferences on the basis of what is being said and done - answering and asking questions - predicting what might happen on the basis of what has been read so far - using dictionaries to check the meaning of words that they have read - checking that the text makes sense to them, discussing their understanding, and explaining the meaning of words in context

- uses the real - life puzzle format to retell the story of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time in the space of one hour - puzzles involve doing math, deciphering glyphs and turning in worksheets to a cast of Zelda - themed taskmasters - instead of being a small experience hosting just half a dozen players, this is one big room where teams of 6 face off against dozens of other teams - one puzzle involves decoding words from a series of brain teasers and then using a key to pull out individual letters to decipher the next instruction - involves multiple familiar characters from the series

Influenced by the oral history of her family's arrival in the United States from the Philippines, and of growing up in the midwest, Palileo infuses her narratives with both memory and imagination: as stories and recollections are subjected to time and constant retelling, the narratives become questionable, somewhere between fact and fiction, even as they remain cloaked in the convincingly familiar.