Sentences with phrase «way as their heroine»

Scott Tobias, The Dissolve The Zellners are as obsessed with «Fargo» in their own way as their heroine, but they're smart enough to get some separation where it matters.

Not exact matches

Those include a tax on vapor products, a 2 - cent per milligram tax on opioid prescriptions framed as a way to combat the heroine addiction epidemic, and a «windfall profit fee» on health insurance companies.

Use these to tie up your hair the way classic Hollywood heroines did, or add some color to your wardrobe by using these as belts for your pants, there is so much you can do with a scarf!

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

Sure the heroine should have been changed out and the climactic sequence was way too nutty to be believed, but Jake Gyllenhaal is a wonderful hero and Kingsley as the villain serves as the perfect snake in the grass.

Even if our heroes (and heroine) learn the hard way that you can't go home again, following them all the way to «The World's End» is, as a beer - lover might put it, an experience that's both heady and effervescent.

Sucker Punch is definitely at it's most enjoyable as the heroines gleefully slice and shoot their way through their enemies.

Audiences fell in love with Paulina García as the romantic heroine in Gloria, the Chilean sensation that won her the Best Actress award at the 2013 Berlin Film Festival and other honors along the way (including a nomination here).

It's nicely balanced by Taylor - Joy's low - key grit as the heroine, although Shyamalan deprives the audience of true gratification, in the heartless way he ultimately dumps her character.

You sense Polley wouldn't have it any other way: Though she's best known as the zombie - slaying heroine of 2004's commercially savvy remake of Dawn of the Dead, the filmmaking Sarah Polley hews closer to the confrontational nature of her Canadian colleague Atom Egoyan, for whom she acted in Exotica (1994) and, unforgettably, The Sweet Hereafter (1997).

It's likely to be the most criticized element of the story, insofar as it uses deep - seated daddy issues to lightly chip away at our heroine's psychological armor, but it's also a possibility that the movie playfully considers, and critiques, in ways both humorous and cathartic.

The Angelina Jolie films from the early 2000s felt like relics even as they were being released thanks to the way she was forced into fight a losing battle with a style of filmmaking more suited to elevating co-stars Daniel Craig and Gerard Butler to the A-list than figuring out how to make Lara Croft a robust heroine.

Any film that ends with its heroine on the dance floor, getting down to what's effectively her own disco theme song, is bound to come across as feel - good one way or another — although as upbeat endings go, Gloria's is deliciously slow - burn and more than tinged with ambivalence.

Check out the first season of the DC heroine's adventures, starring Melissa Benoist as Kara Zor - El, who is way cooler than Superman.

Even when a character's status as a writer feels incidental to the plot at hand — such as in 2016's Hush, wherein the heroine's writerly profession comes into play mainly as justification for her later resourcefulness — the fact that such a vocation was chosen at all tends to shift the viewer's dynamic with the film in fascinating ways.

Emily Mortimer is well - cast, clear - headed, and thoroughly intelligible as Fitzgerald's heroine, in all the ways that the film surrounding her is not.

That out of the way, this is a fun book that goes down as smoothly and sweetly as the gelatos of its heroine Alda Ducci's native Italy.

A tale of love and hope, bigotry and betrayal, loss and discovery — as Violet, who's always considered herself a minor character in her own life story, emerges as a heroine you'll laugh with, cry with, and, most important, cheer for all the way.

When it came time to concoct a heroine, I figured I could go one of two ways: either give him his complete opposite, someone shy and proper and who needed his protection, or give him a lass at least as tough and fierce as he was.

Players will need lightning - fast reflexes and an eye for strategy to survive the three chaotic weeks that lie ahead for our heroines, as they take on anyone and anything that gets in their way.

I often hold out hope that Square - Enix will find a way to place her in a game where she can get the credit she deserves as a strong female heroine.

Torrance, Calif. — December 10, 2015 — XSEED Games, the independent - minded console publishing brand of Marvelous USA, Inc., today announced that Nitroplus Blasterz: Heroines Infinite Duel will launch with two free DLC characters for a limited time, as XSEED Games» way of saying thanks to fans purchasing the new 2D fighting game.