Sentences with phrase «social drama into»

Best known for his acting credits, including In America and the cocky detective in Hot Fuzz, Paddy Considine elevates the British social drama into something more than your average miserable affair, tapping into the grandeur of Western archetypes as Joseph (I am sure there is a biblical parable in there somewhere as well) tries to do one right thing in a maddening world.

Not exact matches

The story, by Wired Editor - in - Chief Nicholas Thompson and Contributing Editor Fred Vogelstein, is headlined «Inside the Two Years That Shook Facebook — and the World» (subhead: «How a confused, defensive social media giant steered itself into a disaster, and how Mark Zuckerberg is trying to fix it all») and sets the stage for the social network's current drama.

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Both films integrated social issues into their narrative fabric quite naturally, even though Creed was angled more as a sports drama.

Molly's Game (***) Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin (The West Wing, The Social Network) marks his directing debut with this tense crime / drama / thriller about Molly Bloom (Jessica Chastain), a young woman who turns a job as a personal assistant to an obnoxious young boss into a proprietor role, organizing high - stakes Hollywood poker games that make her wealthy and hounded by the FBI.

Quinn Shephard's Blame is an admirable debut feature, utilizing the framework of The Crucible to delve into themes of adolescent angst, social politics, and high school drama.

Both principal actors have a strong enough sense of their characters, even as they're pulled into increasingly harrowing places, to make the film a more successful one than Loach's last few, but it's still schematic and predictable, and it aggressively stacks the deck against Blake and Kattie in a way that makes it more effective as social activism, and less so as drama.

It's like Spike Milligan rewrote Broadchurch and spliced it into a Ken Loach-esque social realist drama.

Taking into account Hollywood's love for social issue dramas, look for this to snag its fair share of awards come January.

What turns this fairly ordinary - sounding family drama into something on the edge of epic is its use of landscape and setting — the desert Southwest, California's San Fernando Valley (also the setting for Wenders's 1997 The End of Violence), and the concrete canyons of Houston — reinforced by the stunning cinematography of regular early collaborator Robby Müller and a plangent slide - guitar score by Ry Cooder (with whom Wenders would later make the Oscar - nominated documentary Buena Vista Social Club).

Where Keegan - Michael Key mostly seems comfortable remaining in the goofy comedy / light drama world, Peele is aiming to become a razor sharp satirist who's unafraid to delve into social ills with sharper teeth than sketch humor allows.

This week, the Cooler gang reviews two high profile social drama entries into the 2017 Emmy race: American Crime Season 3 and Shots Fired.

«While it has an activist purpose in common with many social issue documentaries of its ilk, VIRUNGA stands out by constantly folding its unsettling content into an intimate drama that doesn't take the high risk scenario for granted.

This three - disc set boxes up Shoot First, Die Later (1974), a ruthless crime drama starring Luc Merenda as a corrupt cop on a mission of righteous vengeance (previously released as a stand - alone disc), with two disc debuts: Naked Violence (1969), a juvenile delinquent cop drama by way of social commentary, and Kidnap Syndicate (1975), a revenge thriller with Merenda, this time playing an innocent bystander roused to take justice into his own hands.

The Stanford Prison Experiment This 1971 social study — which separated innocent college students into guards and prisoners, coaxing their most monstrous impulses to the fore — gets a vigorous big - screen airing in Kyle Patrick Alvarez's new drama.

Like that earlier film, «Loveless» is a shatteringly bleak family drama that expands into a corrosive critique of its country's social, political and spiritual ills.

While it has an activist purpose in common with many social issue documentaries of its ilk, «Virunga» stands out by constantly folding its unsettling content into an intimate drama that doesn't take the high risk scenario for granted.

«Lethal Weapon» is a buddy - film that incorporates social commentary, crime drama, and comedy into a compulsively entertaining form.

Kids have always divided into cliques and subjected the nonconforming to verbal and physical abuse; only recently, it seemed, had the social drama of high school resulted in mass casualties.

Providing access to social work support and integrating restorative justice practices into the school day, or offering high - quality after - school opportunities (like drama or sports) from primary through high school are not options that all students across Chicago are offered.

By reducing paintings to mere signs of themselves, McCollum turned the gallery and the museum setting into a kind of theater, highlighting the drama of presenting, displaying, buying and selling, exchanging, photographing, assessing, criticising, choosing, and writing about the works; the object - paintings at the center of the action were purposely rendered moot, in order to turn one's attention to the supplementary devices and social practices that, in the end, bestow the value on the work.

She integrates music, literature, drama, and feminist pedagogies into a research - driven practice that engages with alternative realities and radical social experiences.

The techniques offered in Evocative Strategies in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy are informed by an integration of psychoanalytic and attachment theories and can be integrated into a variety of therapy methods including evidenced - based cognitive - behavioral, social learning, family systems, emotion - focused, Ericksonian, solution - focused approaches, gestalt, psychodynamic, narrative approaches, play therapy, and creative arts therapies such as art, music and drama.