Sentences with phrase «urban drama»

A strong cast highlights this tough - minded urban drama.

The film features Eminem in his first major screen role, and a fine job he makes of it too — this is no pop star vehicle but a gritty urban drama of some merit.

Given the shallow and / or heavy - handed political satires Hollywood's been churning out, you can sort of appreciate what Beatty has tried to do here — make a comedy that combines scathing political humor with a smarter brand of urban drama.

The setup for John Singleton's latest urban drama is pure western - movie lore.

Allen and Albert Hughes» gritty urban drama bested «The Fugitive,» «Jurassic Park,» «Philadelphia» and «Schindler's List» — «Schindler's List»!

He returned to the U.S. for the racially supercharged urban drama Halls of Anger (1970), following this personal triumph with an embarrassing appearance in Myra Breckinridge (1970) and a fascinating turn as the charismatic villain of Cotton Comes to Harlem (1972).

A low - key but powerfully affecting urban drama that tells a familiar story — of drugs, power and respect on the inner - city streets — with such unusual authenticity and dramatic force that it's as if we're seeing it for the first time.

Michele rebounding in 1991 when she was cast in Mario Van Peebles's gritty urban drama New Jack City; a year later, she was a regular on the short - lived TV series Dangerous Curves.

On the surface it looks like any other urban drama, but Tipping's use of whimsical fairy tale and sci - fi elements combines with heartbreaking social commentary for a totally unique experience.

Above all, the film is a classic of «poetic realism,» that distinct brand of pessimistic»30s French urban drama that gave lyrical, sometimes even surrealistic, interpretations to working - class romances and underworld characters, settings and dramas.

Director Gomez burst on the scene a few years back with his edgy urban dramas, Laws of Gravity and illtown.

The moral of the gritty urban drama seems to be that crime doesn't pay, and is the wrong way to fulfill the American Dream.

This week, it's Bullet Boy, Saul Dibb's sharp urban drama.

Hot on its toe - tapping heels are cerebral alien sci - fi Arrival and generational urban drama Moonlight, which both earned six nominations apiece.

It's the most personal statement in this highly commercial movie: Scorsese's most popular and critically acclaimed films have defined the violent urban drama (Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, GoodFellas), but through a series of ambitious and eclectic projects he's resisted being defined by it himself (The Last Temptation of Christ, The Age of Innocence, Kundun).

Eran Creevy is the British director who made the very good urban drama Shifty in 2008, and this is his step up to a big commercial picture — a London crime thriller with plenty of hardware: handguns, machine - pistols, automatic rifles, the lot.

This latest urban drama, which won the Palme d'Or when it bowed in Cannes last year, is equally incendiary.

The film plays Daniel cleverly, pitching him initially as a solitary figure in his cold - seeming apartment; but a single artfully placed glimpse of a dinner party shows that he isn't the archetypal lonely man of urban drama, but someone who chooses for himself when he gets to spend time apart from others.

Great Directors on TCM: Martin Scorsese Martin Scorsese has been a leading American director since the 1970s, when he burst on the New Hollywood scene with gritty urban dramas like Mean Streets and Taxi Driver — and he's stayed on top pretty much ever since, and shows no signs of slowing down.

Following their success spoofing the urban drama with «Don't Be a Menace...» the Wayans brothers took on the horror genre.

It's the urban drama most of us have been forced to play.

D: You've done epic sci - fi, comic - book hero backstories, gritty urban drama and more.

If you enjoy tales with darker tones or gritty urban dramas, you definitely can not miss this.

Directing an urban drama is a stretch for the one - time Waterworld helmer, and it shows.

1998-05-20 04:00:00 PDT SAN FRANCISCO — The 22nd San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival opens June 18 with the premiere of Lisa Cholodenko's «High Art,» an urban drama about Syd (Radha Mitchell), a photo magazine editor, and Lucy (Ally Sheedy), a renowned art photographer who retired at the age of 40.

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Boosted by a strong central performance from Thomas, and good supporting turns from Mullan and Jenny Jules, as the matriarch of the Murdoch household, The Man Inside is a well - intentioned and finely crafted, if not wholly satisfying, urban drama.

Underneath the survivalist narrative of its gritty urban drama is an unabashedly sentimental coming of ager, including opening scenes reminiscent of «Stand By Me».

Dublin based Dramas also feature strongly with the political drama «Charlie» being nominated as well as the final season of gritty urban drama «Love / Hate».

After appearing in Channel 4's Top Boy and Sally El Hosaini's urban drama, My Brother the Devil, she was singled out by Screen International as one of its 2012 Stars of Tomorrow.

In their epic and relentless extent, simultaneously Dickensian and ultra-modern, the LONDON PICTURES comprise a great visual novel, revealing without judgment the ceaseless relay of urban drama, in all its gradations of hope and suffering.