Sentences with phrase «tales than face»

Not exact matches

Still, it's on Franco's expressive face that Boyle tells his tale of courage under fire, even in that squirmy, avert - your - eyes moment when Aron uses a dull knife on his arm rather than resign himself to a tragic fate.

The producers of this film must have thought that a quick change in scenery and a new face would help enliven the tale, but in the end, director Ridley Scott is left with little more than a story that feels remarkably like «Under the Tuscan Sun;» with Russell Crowe, of course, replacing Diane Lane in the lead role.

Released during a summer that extended today's most visible and profitable fantasy movie series, Stardust is both more accessible and less in - your - face than the dense, some - reading - required Harry Potter tales and self - aware Shrek comedies.

The script, co-written by Wong with American crime novelist Lawrence Block, is more a suggestion of stories than actual drama, and it almost unravels in the tinny, emotionally tone deaf (and fortunately brief) tale of a brassy baby - faced gambler, that Portman clomps through with little conviction.

The film sets four tales spinning simultaneously, each uncovering the unpredictable challenges and opportunities facing four characters who are dealing with capitalistic expansion, an unprecedented and often unstructured change in more than just their economic reality.

Told by three resonant and evocative characters - Jess; Adelaide Lyle, the town midwife and moral conscience; and Clem Barefield, a sheriff with his own painful past - A Land More Kind Than Home is a haunting tale of courage in the face of cruelty and the power of love to overcome the darkness that lives in us all.

Better still, rather than consisting of the traditional Tales mix of fresh - faced do - gooders, every party member this time around has a dark agenda and relatively few moral scruples.