Sentences with phrase «surprised at the drama»

«I'm just surprised at the drama around the situation,» he says.

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Of course there are other reasons for my sporadic blogging this year: a surprise new baby coming which completely disoriented us, a new book to finish writing (and I will share all about that in January), travelling and speaking all over North America, stewarding the message of Jesus Feminist throughout her first year of life, creating the Jesus Feminist collection with Imagine Goods, a trip to Haiti, new opportunities as a writer, three tinies at home with their own lives and drama and growth and change, remodelling parts of our home, marriage, church, friends, life, work, laundry (oh, can we talk laundry?!)

Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst and Elle Fanning are at their best in this surprising drama, which easily rises to the top of Coppola's best films.

Watching the drama of nature play out is never boring, with plot twists and surprises to keep you at the edge of your seat.

And it will probably surprise no one that Albany County is at the nucleus of this judicial drama in the sprawling seven - county district.

I was quite surprised at the amount of drama in this film because the trailers made it look like a flat out comedy.

Steven Spielberg and Todd Haynes's dramas have secured nine nominations apiece at this year's Baftas, while The Revenant trails with eight and Mad Max: Fury Road surprises with seven — but there's disappointment for Spectre and Suffragette

Jalal looks at the Oscar nominees battling for a drama actor race nomination and the surprise actor on his way to becoming the most popular man on TV.

Refreshingly even handed and never lowering to gratuitous extremes, The Queen offers a very compelling drama that will leave audiences with something to talk about afterward — and even young viewers may be surprised at just how intriguing this story is.

Last week, Robert De Niro made a surprise in - person appearance at the Tribeca Film Festival premiere of the OWN original drama «Greenleaf,» where he acknowledged just that: «Our best directors, producers, writers and actors move gracefully between movies and television,» a note he read from a prepared statement.

When this surprising two - hour drama was shown at the Cannes Film Festival in May, it reportedly received a 10 - minute standing ovation from the famously tricky crowd.

The surprise winner of the top prize at Cannes, this three - hour French drama is unlike any movie we've ever seen, getting so deeply under the skin of its central character that we find universal truths...

Shot by Academy Award - winning cinematographer Robert Elswit, who has worked with Anderson ever since Hard Eight, scored by singer - songwriter Michael Penn, edited by the great Dylan Tichenor, who started as an apprentice on Robert Altman's movies and went on to do great films such as Magnolia, There Will Be Blood, Brokeback Mountain and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Paul Thomas Anderson's epic drama went on to garner three Academy Award nominations, did reasonably well at the box office by tripling its initial investment and, more importantly, showcased the surprising talent and determination of one of the few brilliant filmmakers of American contemporary cinema.

That it intends to be a thriller and doesn't quite hit its mark is unfortunate, but as a drama it works, while clever interaction between component pieces at script level means each weaves into an overall narrative that may surprise.

Sunday night's Golden Globe Awards — hosted by Seth Meyers — saw Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri emerge as a surprising Oscar frontrunner after winning four trophies, including Best Picture (Drama), at a charged ceremony dominated by discussion of Hollywood's power imbalances and the #MeToo movement.

To some surprise there will be no Steven Spielberg, Meryl Streep or Tom Hanks at the Baftas as their Pentagon Papers drama, The Post, failed to win a single nomination.

With its best moments its most surprising, as when George sings a hymn at a family gathering, or when Ashley masturbates to a picture of a happier time between she and her husband, Junebug is a fulsome, ebullient family drama of the best kind: the kind where everybody's the villain and everybody's the hero, and it's only the situation that defines their roles from moment to moment.

At the film's recent press day, Shyamalan and Blum discussed their creative partnership and the most surprising aspect of working with each other, why the scares in this film are deceptively simple yet terrifying and original, how the mock documentary style format gave Shyamalan new cinematic tools for keeping the audience guessing, his directing style, what he was looking for in his young actors, why he cast experienced stage actors for the grandparents» roles, his collaboration with award - winning DP Maryse Alberti, how he recruited Oxenbould to shoot the chase sequence underneath the house, why he likes treating B genre movies like they're A dramas, and more.

The details: Alice Rohrwacher's deceptively gentle drama about a Tuscan family struggling to maintain a traditional way of life was a surprise prizewinner at Cannes in 2014, and it's taken its time getting to North American theaters.

Shults takes what on the surface is just another indie drama about family dysfunction, but he seems to have filmmaking instincts in his bones, even for his first feature, that it is no surprise the film received the Grand Jury Award and Audience Award in the narrative feature competition at the 2015 SXSW Film Festival.

So the small - scale drama «Mr. Pip,» which premiered on Sunday afternoon at the Winter Garden Theatre in Toronto, is something of a surprise.

It's no surprise that Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger, writers and executive producers of NBC's emotionally charged drama This Is Us have done such a remarkable job at translating Becky Albertalli's beautiful novel, Simon vs the homo sapiens agenda for the screen.

It's clear, too, that Remember works as a periodically affecting drama and look at the rigors of aging, while the surprising third act ensures that the movie ends on an exceedingly positive note - which ultimately does secure the picture's place as a top - notch thriller from a director one might've been inclined to simply write off.

Joaquin Phoenix, who won Best Actor last year at Cannes for his performance in filmmaker's Lynne Ramsay's drama You Were Never Really Here, has been surprising audiences before or after every showing of the film at the Arclight Hollywood this weekend and he plans to continue to greet moviegoers tomorrow, too.

To no one's surprise, Daniel Day - Lewis won Best Actor — Drama from the Press, meaning that there's probably little to no chance of an upset for the Best Actor category at the Oscars.

Three weeks later, God's Not Dead, a small $ 2 million independent drama with the modest star power of Kevin Sorbo and Dean Cain, surprised many by earning over $ 60 M from a theater count that peaked at just 1,860, nearly quadrupling the previous best of small - time distributor Freestyle Releasing.

The lack of drama is surprising, at first, but enduringly wonderful.

A literary family drama, with a murder at its heart, full of emotional twists and surprises.

After announcing Ace of the Diamond, All - Rounder Meguru, and Giant Killing at Emerald City Comic Con earlier this month, we've got more series making their Volume 1 digital - first debuts, keeping up our 2017 ramp - up of digital titles: Natsumi Eguchi's hellfire comedy Hozuki's Coolheadedness, Kotono Kato's alternate - history medieval war - drama Altair: A Record of Battles, Ryosuke Tomoe's disturbing serial - killer thriller Museum, and a surprising parody - sidestory set in the Read More»

It should come as no surprise that HP is at least exploring the possibility of cutting its losses with webOS, but it beggars belief that the sticking point after all the drama of the past few months is printers.

If you listen and respond to high conflict people with empathy, attention, and respect, you may be surprised at how quickly you can minimize drama and avoid a full - blown war.