Sentences with phrase «social realist drama»

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

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What's really intriguing is the way that an Africanist myth invented in 1966 by two Jewish guys in New York, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, and later elaborated upon by the likes of Reginald Hudlin and Ta - Nehisi Coates, has now been taken over by Ryan Coogler, the writer - director who previously made the very good social - realist drama Fruitvale Station and the first - rate genre - revisionist Creed.

This year he is back in En Guerre, or At War, by the French director Stéphane Brizé — another social - realist drama about a factory shutdown and a workers» representative battling to save jobs.

If Carry On ever decided to remake the Pink Panther series as a social - realist drama this well could be the end product, a warped farce of a farce that doesn't quite know what it is.

At once hugely influential — there is no Paul Greengrass without Clarke — and still relatively obscure, Clarke is singular among the British social realists, owing to his adaptability to a variety of sub-genres (within this sampling you will find women's pictures, war movies, prison dramas, documentaries, and even an hour - long about a dystopian roller rink) and a blazing empathy for the downtrodden that seem to go hand - on - hand.

«Half social - realist drama about truckers, half women's genre melodrama about a neurotic rich wife who murders her husband and makes a play for...

Tom Courtenay, most famous perhaps for his portrayal in «Dr. Zhivago» and known for social - realist «kitchen sink» drama of the sixties, turns in a performance (did I say «restrained»?)