Sentences with phrase «simple tale»

A rich yet simple tale of love, madness and spirit, told by the three women in a family on the verge of mental illness.

A Little Romance is actually a sweet and simple tale about young love that is sure to capture hearts.

Daddy's Girls is a rich yet simple tale of love, madness and spirit, told by the three women in a family on the verge of mental illness.

However, most of the online dating «horror» stories I found were really simple tales of disappointment.

The problem isn't that the overall storyline is simple — in fact I much prefer a well told simple tale over a complex jumble — it's that it's just not interesting, and the characters within it barely say anything.

A deceptively simple tale of a group of strangers trapped in a farmhouse who find themselves fending off a horde of recently dead, flesh - eating ghouls, Romero's claustrophobic vision of a late - 1960s America literally tearing itself apart rewrote the rules of the horror genre, combined gruesome gore with acute social commentary, and quietly broke ground by casting a black actor (DUANE JONES) in its lead role.

The single player is a fairly simple tale of revenge, a narrative there to drive you on through the procedurally generated maps of each level towards a final boss confrontation.

Stardew Valley tells a very simple tale of a customizable person who inherits a farm from their dead grandfather.

For one, it returns Miyazaki to the earlier films of his career, simpler tales such as My Neighbor Totoro and Kiki's Delivery Service, more kids» films than message films.

What follows is a relatively simple tale as the two make their way along a deserted country highway.

It's a seemly simple tale of guy meets girl but keeps you guessing until the very end.

The Lord of the Rings trilogy benefited greatly from characters being dropped from the story because they didn't fit the narrative arc of the project but in this case Jackson and his screenwriters raided Tolkien's notes and appendices from other stories to pad out what is essentially a very simple tale into a sprawling epic.

Nothing less than the first shot in what would become a revolution, John Lasseter's simple tale turned adults into happy children, naysayers into believers, and computer animation into the dominant expression of an entire industry.

A devastating and deceptively simple tale adapted from 10th - century folklore, Isao Takahata's The Tale Of The Princess Kaguya distills a millennium of Japanese storytelling into a timeless film that feels both ancient and alive in equal measure.

Add some visual wonders, a supporting cast including Rebecca Hall, Bill Hader, Jemaine Clement and some awesome corgis - as well as strong candidates for best fart gags of the year - and The BFG turns out a winner, blending Dahl's big imagination with a surprisingly simple tale at its core that'll defy you to not be won over.Hide

July 7, 2013 • Austrian writer Adalbert Stifter's 1845 novella Rock Crystal is the seemingly simple tale of two children who get lost in a snowfall on Christmas Eve.

Many of these bards and troubadours offered simple tales from memory or read stories.

With fine writing and a wonderful sense of story, Davis corrals a sweeping saga with an unwieldy number of characters and delivers a remarkably simple tale of redemption and perseverance.

Introducing an actual plot to gaming, the silly but simple tale followed a carpenter's pet gorilla stealing the workman's girlfriend.

Familiarity is a pivotal dimension of fairy tale because it is in the act of telling and re-telling that we dig into these apparently simple tales and derive meaning.

Walkabout is a deceptively simple tale about lost children trying to find their way home that slowly grows into a treatise against the continued expansion of industry, the domination of humanity over unbridled nature, and the correlation between the savageries still inherent in so - called civilized society.

Roskam weaves a deceptively simple tale about the loss of innocence that works because he subverts the notions of the genre, giving us a movie that questions if the events in our past can fully determine our future.

And though the film runs out of steam towards the end, taking far too long to reach its inevitable conclusion, it's hard not to get wrapped up in this relatively simple tale - which is, admittedly, elevated by some expectedly great acting.

It's a seemly simple tale

The liberties where he chooses to take us, even when we step inside from the cold, lonely edge of space, manages to turn this very simple tale into a full - fledged meditation session with the sooth sounds of composer Steven Price.

It's a fairly simple tale of a few kids defeating an evil empire looking to exploit the world's Mana energy: good vs. evil, machines vs. nature, you know the drill.

It's a simple tale of victory.

Moreover, none of the four Gospels tells the story of the Passion in such a way as to make it a simple tale of injustice done by the bad Sanhedrin to the good Christians.

We can not go back to simpler times and simpler tales — tales made by clans and tribes and nations when the world was large enough for each to pursue its separate evolution.

Paul Lake's political fable, Cry Wolf, is on one level a simple tale about the unraveling of the idyllic Green Pastures Farm and on another, a bold statement against many of the values that have come to define America.

Life with Mommy... and her Girlfriend, by elementary school teacher Noreen Spagnol, is a simple tale drawn from Spagnol's own life as a single, divorced mom to daughters Hannah and Tayleigh.

You can start by reading books about going to school or by making up a simple tale about a child who is the same age as yours.

The focus could have been refined and made for a simpler tale.

Like most Indian films, Ram Lakhan is something of an endurance test for western audiences, unfolding its simple tale in an epic 186 minutes.

-- he has nowhere interesting to take this simple tale.

Adapted for screen by Ian McEwan from his 2007 novella, this debut feature from four - time Olivier Award - winning theatre director Dominic Cooke is, at its heart, a deceptively simple tale.

A simple tale of injustice and female empowerment, the book has sold some 2 million copies worldwide.

This truly is just a simple tale of reconnecting with old friends and exploring parts of yourself that you wish you had in the past.

Adapted from Bob Glaudini's play of the same name, Philip Seymour Hoffman's directorial debut, Jack Goes Boating, tells the simple tale of Jack (Hoffman), a shy, fortyish limo driver with a fondness for pot and reggae music — he likes it because it sounds happy — who meets Connie (Amy Ryan) for a blind date set up by Connie's co-worker Lucy (Daphne Rubin - Vega), who is married to Jack's best friend and fellow limo driver, Clyde (John Ortiz).

And it fails to develop a consistent tone that would enable viewers to suspend their disbelief and be carried away by a simple tale of two people falling for each other.

This simple tale is a familiar one to us all: two married people meet and fall in love unexpectedly.

The story is a simple tale of reclaiming your honor through revenge with some predictable twists here and there, but the story is great and regardless of bringing the city to the brink of destruction or keeping it and yourself under control, every ending is

It tells a simple tale of a country bumpkin looking for a place in the world and incidently having a great voice and star power to burn.

Even though it tells a simple tale, has only two main characters and features several scenes that are mostly silent, it is more moving, more memorable, and just so much BETTER in every way possible than 95 % of the films I see each year.

A slim, low - budget coming - of - age tale whose richness lies entirely in its interstices, it's a keenly observed work that celebrates the unfettered joys of youth, and rewards viewers by reminding them of the power of a simple tale told well.

«Dunkirk» represents a step back from the ironclad narrative style Nolan has long been perfecting — it's a simpler tale told in a more straightforward manner.

Mike Flanagan, who directed Oculus and Ouija: Origin of Evil, expertly directs this simple tale of a deaf woman being menaced by a masked (and later unmasked) killer in her remote home.