Sentences with phrase «romantic fantasy»

What is one of the most stubborn romantic fantasies of a woman?

Romantic fantasy drama Every Day opened to expectations in ninth with $ 3.1 million, while Early Man was down to 10th and $ 1.7 million.

I want to start a blog for some adult oriented, romantic fantasy literature.

The fact that reality has settled in to this at once idyllic romantic fantasy is inevitable yet crushing.

Or it's tempting to think your partner is overly invested in unrealistic romantic fantasies that are spread around by TV and movies.

Here's what's new and ready to stream now on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Now, Showtime Anytime, FilmStruck, video - on - demand, and other streaming services... Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water (2017, R), a monster movie turned romantic fantasy about a mute janitor (Sally Hawkins) and an amphibious creature held captive in a government lab, -LSB-...]

And Lelio lets their feelings play out, not in romantic fantasy, but in a real world where honesty comes at a price.

dark romantic fantasy trilogy, The Fury Triad.

Mixing slasher - movie tropes into a supernatural romantic fantasy with elements of rock opera, in collaboration with an actual star singer - songwriter?

Written in Putney's elegant style, A Distant Magic is a highly romantic fantasy novel woven with multicultural chords and sharpened with commentary about slavery and the slave trade.

Based on a little - known fairy tale from the Brothers Grimm and set in an imagined land in ancient Central Asia, this thrilling, romantic fantasy follows a young lady's maid through both battlefield heroics and a secret love with a lord.

What's interesting as you work backwards through films we've made about traveling to Mars is: the further back in time you go (and therefore, the less scientific knowledge about the planet with which the filmmakers would have been working), the more Mars ceases to be a cold, inhospitable ball of red mud and becomes a brash, romantic fantasy world onto which stories more and more achingly mythic can be grafted.

Also in 1996, Akerman directed what might be described as her penultimate attempt at a «commercial» feature film, the light romantic fantasy Un divan à New York (A Couch in New York), starring William Hurt and Juliette Binoche, which despite its star power sat on the shelf for a while, before opening quietly at Anthology film Archives in Manhattan in November, 1997.

This had a respectable but a bit steeper fall in its ongoing run than «Love & Friendship,» but this unusual romantic fantasy continues to do surprisingly well around the country as one of the top specialized releases of the year.

Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water (2017, R), a monster movie turned romantic fantasy about a mute janitor (Sally Hawkins) and an amphibious creature held captive in a government lab, won four Academy Awards, including best picture and best director.

Kristine Grayson's Visions of Sugar Plums is a charming romantic fantasy about an image specialist with the assignment of handling Santa's «brand» in the face of an anti-obesity campaign.

Beauty and the Beast is a 2017 American musical romantic fantasy film directed by Bill Condon and co-produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Mandeville Films.

It looks like Guillermo del Toro will add to his pile of «Pan's Labyrinth» Oscars with «The Shape of Water», his much - loved romantic fantasy.

Salama's practice ruminates on romantic fantasy, obsession, consumerism and femininity and how these concepts have been affected by our constant use of the internet.

Argentine filmmaker Juan Solanas makes his English language debut on this dystopian romantic fantasy thriller, which spells out its high concept quickly.

The Guillermo del Toro - directed romantic fantasy «The Shape of Water» expanded to 41 theaters in its second weekend and earned $ 1.1 million.

Favorite women's fashion trends were beautiful woolen tweeds, the «sheer romantic fantasy» of Givenchy, a well thought out winter shoe collection, and denim culottes.

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Moving from guided communication to phone, Skype or face - to face meeting as soon as possible will prevent your imagination having too much time to form romantic fantasies and allow you to get to know the person as they really are.

Although marketed as tween - baiting pap to secure Disney Channel generation attention, «Monte Carlo» is a softer romantic fantasy, providing a few unexpectedly human moments in the midst of its mischief.

Finally becomes a somber, sentimental and rather profound romantic fantasy that is more true to the spirit of the Golden Age of science - fiction writing than possibly any other movie of the»90s.

David Fincher already proved a handy case study two years ago, when he earned his overdue first nomination for a lacquered romantic fantasy that dismayed many fans of his darker previous work; he's back on edgier ground this year with «The Social Network,» but the sober true - life drama is still a far cry from the name - making excesses of the Academy - sidelined «Fight Club» or «Se7en.»

Still, there is much pleasure to be gleaned from watching his later, commercial fare, and Peggy Sue Got Married, the time - travelling romantic fantasy, certainly falls into that category.

Of half a handful of new release movies in China this weekend, only Chinese romantic fantasy «How Long Will I Love U» and American horror thriller «A Quiet Place» made any noise behind still dominant «Avengers: Infinity War.»

Somehow the fact that the movie is a reverie based on female romantic fantasies is supposed to make Isabella's paper - doll sexuality more palatable.

As the 1990s went on, Lister played roles in a more varied assortment of films, including the quirky Johnny Depp / Marlon Brando / Faye Dunaway romantic fantasy Don Juan DeMarco (1995) and the Quentin Tarantino - wannabe noir Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995).

It certainly has spots where it breaks out of its half - realized side jaunts to deliver worthy scenes of amusement or pith, but for the most part, it plays like a series of barely - connected romantic fantasy bits that don't quite congeal into that truly satisfying and enriching capturing of the spirit of love and infinite possibilities that it seeks to be.

Sadly, Winter's Tale is missing many things, not just a helpful clarification of tone in its moniker; the only beliefs likely to be confirmed during its over-long 118 minutes is that in throwaway romantic fantasy fodder.

Ronan's competition may come from two Fox Searchlight stars: Emma Stone as a sexily athletic and formidable sports star living a double life, and Sally Hawkins as a mute lab worker in love with a merman in Guillermo del Toro's exquisite»60s Douglas Sirk romantic fantasy - thriller «The Shape of Water.»

If That Awkward Moment's goal was to prove that men can get wrapped up in silly romantic fantasies just as much as women, then it did its job.

After that brashly meta opener, you might expect a smartly constructed Tarantino - style black comedy of retribution, but the film fails to deliver on that promise, devolving instead into a dispiriting tonal mishmash of mean - spirited revenge fantasy, girl - power romantic fantasy, and comedy so broad it tips into caricature.

It is deeply rooted in pubescent romantic fantasy, albeit this time from the male's point of view.

Buoyed by one of the best screenplays of the year courtesy of one of our most interesting young actresses, «Ruby Sparks» is a clever romantic fantasy that works on nearly every level.

Also opening this week: Lay the Favorite from director Stephen Frears with Bruce Willis and Rebecca Hall, The Comedy (at SIFF Film Center), Dutch coming - of - age drama North Sea Texas (Harvard Exit), the Chinese war drama Back to 1942 (Pacific Place), and the South Korean romantic fantasy A Werewolf Boy (Alderwood Mall).

Casting attractive young film stars Elle Fanning and Douglas Booth, respectively, as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley makes Mary Shelley, director Haifaa al - Mansour's biopic of the mother of Gothic fiction, a kind of grandfather's paradox of the modern wave of eroticized young - adult romantic fantasy, reconfiguring the ancestor to match its descendant.

The Crow showcases everything Lee could do even more in an emotional romantic fantasy horror thriller, yet I'd give anything for him not to have made it and still be alive today.

Beneath the slick romantic fantasy and the gorgeous cinematography, the film asks real questions about identity and true love.

• A stranger's kiss in an alley (Holly Hunter and Elias Koteas)... rapturous romantic fantasy in Living Out Loud...

And critics were unanimous; Midnight in Paris was Woody Allen's best work in years, the time - hopping romantic fantasy ultimately earning Allen the Best Original Screenplay Oscar (from the pic's four nomination).

Peter's desire to save her kicks off an era - spanning quest in the upcoming romantic fantasy, Winter's Tale, which has released a new trailer in the run - up to its theatrical release.

Certainly no one involved in this bright romantic fantasy had their brains turned on, as if they had they might have realised the morally rotten core at the heart of an apparently charming little movie.

The jury of the 2017 festival, headed by American actor Annette Bening, awarded this year's highly coveted Golden Lion for Best Film to Fox Searchlight's «The Shape of Water,» Guillermo Del Toro's Cold War - era romantic fantasy starring Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Doug Jones, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Octavia Spencer.

Sally Hawkins gives a career - best performance as a mute who falls for a sea creature in this ravishing romantic fantasy where The Twilight Zone meets Puccini