Sentences with phrase «as the hostage who»

The Hollywood Reporter, John De Fore (April 19, 2018) As the hostage who will come to most closely identify with the outlaws, Rapace has the film's biggest job.

Not exact matches

The attack comes just days after a separate incident involving union workers at a soon - to - be shuttered Goodyear plant in the French town of Amiens, who held two executives hostage as they sought to negotiate bonus and severance packages.

Taking hostage a man who is regarded in many quarters as a hero is unlikely to curry favor in other European capitals or bolster the Spanish government's already tarnished image in the international press.

To me it is a sickening abomination of God's will that the most advanced nation on the face of the earth has to be held hostage to these willfully ignorant, dark - age dwelling crackpots, who turn concepts such as Capitalism into false religious idols which they expect people to worship mindlessly.

The President and others who recognize the shortcomings of the colonization of peoples by more powerful foreign nations would do well to heed the words of Pope Francis — for whom the President often expresses admiration — about the new form of colonization, holding foreign aid as a hostage when their nation's views reflect a different understanding of the human person, one held by many Americans as well.

In a joint statement, they said: «Turkish officials who participate in the detainment of any innocent American citizen should face international consequences, and the actions against Pastor Brunson, in particular, qualify as hostage - taking.»

They include the «chilling effects» of libel suits, the perennial conflicts between property and access, the three out of four publishers who intervene in news decisions affecting their local markets, the advertisers» freedom to move their money to where their interests are, industry self - regulation in broadcasting and advertising, the backlash against conveying under duress (as in a hostage crisis) points of view that are never aired as directly without duress, the flareups of book banning and censorship of textbooks, the rout of the civil rights movement, the retreat from principles of fairness and equality (even where never implemented), the attack on scientific and humane teaching, the threat of self - appointed media watchdogs to also spy on teachers in the classroom, and the general vigor of ancient orthodoxies masquarading as neo-this and neo-that.

I used to be a repub till congress was taken over by the tea party and Romney as our candidate.I can not support a man who is a draft dodger and a tax evader.The repub congress has done nothing for vets, nothing for the middleclass.All of the good repubs have gone or have been forced out by the extremists that care nothing for the average joe or veterans like myself.Until we get real candidates that care for the middleclass and vets I will not vote for the repubs.Honor and respect, and caring for this nation is what the repubs used to stand for, now we have wackjobs from the tea party holding america hostage and thats as un patriotic as it gets, it is hurting many americans, our economy and soldiers who are looking for work.

I do not know any moral theologian who denies the Pope's teaching, although it might be possible to imagine some moral dilemmas; for example, if one were ordered to kill an innocent hostage as the price of saving an entire city from destruction.

Meanwhile, the 28 - year - old also had a message for club legend Thierry Henry, who insisted that Ozil and Sanchez were holding the club «hostage» over their reported wage demands of over # 200,000 - a-week, as noted by ESPN FC.

I feel held hostage (as I don't want her to get sick, wake my neighbors or my other child who is 2 yrs).

NY1's intrepid political director Bob Hardt is otherwise indisposed (no word on whether he has been taken hostage by allies of a certain gubernatorial nominee as a result of sparking Lasagnagate), and so I will be live blogging the leaders meeting from the studio with the assistance of input from CapTon's Mike Whittemore and Kaitlyn Ross, who are in the Red Room.

«It's something we want to look at because obviously we want to make sure our men and women who are serving abroad are safe and are not being targeted as perhaps future hostages,» said Senator Kirsten Gillbrand, D - NY.

But Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins characterized the education measures, which were negotiated by Republicans who lead the Senate, as holding school aid «hostage» to the teacher evaluation changes.

Mama Peace, as she» s fondly called noted thay the Federal Government was working to ensure their safe release of the girls who have been held hostage over 181 days.

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Hogwarts is now in the malevolent hands of the sinister Severus Snape (hissing, sniveling Alan Rickman), who is holding students and staff hostage as they wait for Harry to rescue them.

This movie starts off with a prison bus going down a empty stretch of road and on the other side the only car insight driven by one Dr Douglas Madsen as these two come closer and closer together something happens that sends the Dr's car to collide with the prison bus freeing four prisoners who decide to take the good Dr hostage and retreat to a remote cabin in the woods that just happens to be home of a family that is more dangerous then the prisoners now with no way out the prisoners and the hostage must fight to stay alive against the people in the cabin.

Griffith and his wife Ida Lupino are held hostage by the crooks, led by Michael Brandon, who plan to use the apartment as headquarters while they pull off a big robbery.

In Jerusalem, the battle is between Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (Lior Ashkenazi), who's willing to negotiate with the hostage - takers as a means to end the constant warfare, and Defense Minister Shimon Peres (Eddie Marsan), a hardliner who's willing to let the hostages die to avoid negotiations.

But the sprawling narrative, including flashbacks to terrorist training in Frankfurt and Yemen, and a misguided, metaphorical subplot of an Israeli dance troupe performing on stage, leaves little room to learn more about the rest of the Air France crew or even the hostages, who register as little more than extras in the drama.

Walter Baltzer's thriller Family Under Siege stars Mel Harris as Fay Baxter, a mother who must defend her family after they are taken hostage by three bad guys.

In fact, the only thing that makes Hostage feel different is the misguided style of its director, who by every appearance, seems completely bored by the whole premise of his movie that he has to direct it as if he were doing a different project altogether.

When a group of friends in Boston, who also work together as bank robbers, run into issues during a bank heist, they decide to take a hostage (Hall).

Split stars James McAvoy as Kevin, a man with 24 different personalities who kidnaps a group of women and holds them hostage in a windowless room.

And then the film gets downright brutal when Mature, taken hostage along with an Amish family (with Ernest Borgnine as the moral patriarch), takes a stand against the robbers, who have already left a couple of victims in their wake.

The film follows Bello, as a single mother, who is taken hostage along with her child by a relentless bank robber.

Skyscraper stars Dwayne Johnson as former FBI Hostage Rescue Team leader and U.S. war veteran Will Sawyer, who now assesses security for skyscrapers.

You play as a type of robotic cop (hmmm...) who is tasked with ensuring society's safety and used to assassinate violent targets and defuse hostage situations.

This reasonably solid B movie, one in the continuum of bizarre Harrison Ford vehicles that combine high - stakes action with household horror, stars Ford as a man whose family is being held hostage by a homicidal crook (Paul Bettany), who needs Ford's help to rob a bank.

After a brief year on the hostage negotiation series «Standoff» (which was cancelled quickly, but had the benefit of introducing DeWitt to co-star Ron Livingston, who she later married), DeWitt impressed with a recurring role as Don Draper's mistress on the first season of «Mad Men.»

Even more risible, however, was Jason Reitman's slushy melodrama Labor Day, which starred Josh Brolin as a convict who escapes from jail and takes a woman (Kate Winslet) and her son hostage.

Affleck, 41, who won multiple awards as the director of Iran hostage crisis film Argo earlier in 2013, will appear alongside British actor Henry Cavill, star of Superman reboot Man Of Steel.

Arnold Schwarzenegger (Commando, The Terminator) stars as Dutch Schaeffer, who, along with his crew of elite special ops commandos, is sent to the jungle of a hostile Latin American country on a covert rescue mission to save the bacons of a previous military crew rumored to be held hostage there.

A hostage situation ensues as the frightened but armed Jimmy locks himself into a diner's storeroom with a worker as well as a mother and baby who are in the wrong place at the wrong time.

In short order they are run off the highway by some cartoon banditos led by John Goodman, and Doug (poor Justin Bartha, who in the course of these films has spent more screentime with a bag on his head than anyone since John Hurt in The Elephant Man) is taken hostage until such time as the guys can locate the whereabouts of... wait for it... yes, Lesley Chow (Ken Jeong)-- who has made off with a goodly pile of Goodman's loot.

But when their sneering ruler Mehmed II (a hammy Dominic Cooper) comes to demand the eldest son from every family as a hostage, Vlad seeks the help of an ancient vampire who offers him a terrible deal that might just save his people.

George Clooney stars as a financial personality who gets taken hostage after a tech stock plummets in the first trailer for Money Monster.

Trends of the Year: Sex addiction (Don Jon, Thanks for Sharing), shipwrecks (Gravity, All Is Lost), the skin trade (Lovelace, The Look of Love), taking the White House hostage (Olympus Has Fallen, White House Down), the apocalypse as comedy (This Is the End, The World's End), slow cartoon protagonists who nonetheless win the big race (Turbo, Planes), likable character actors who are revealed to be villains in the final reel (Star Trek Into Darkness, White House Down, The Lone Ranger)

The man assigned to serve as hostage negotiator is Detective Keith Frazier (Denzel Washington), who's currently being investigated for a bunch of cash disappearing on another case.

Tony Scott's workmanlike remake of the classic 1970s thriller stars Denzel Washington as a New York subway dispatcher who ends up being the go - between in a subterranean hostage crisis.

The film follows the obese title character (Sam Coleman) through an upbringing supervised by his abusive mother (Lili Taylor) and his eventual escape from a mental hospital with three other inmates, who become his hostages as a deranged sheriff (Stephen Dorff) pursues them to the bloody end.

Affleck also stars in this exciting and tense, white knuckle political thriller as a CIA exfiltration expert who comes up with the best «bad idea» right out of Hollywood (no kidding) to rescue 6 Americans who found refuge at the home of the Canadian ambassador during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis in which 52 Americans were held captive.

It's hard not to feel bad for the actors (mainly Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan) who signed up for this dumpster fire, because they look about as excited as a hostage being held at gunpoint.

The German - Spanish actor Daniel Bruhl is outstanding as Bose, an idealistic and relatively naïve bookstore operator who makes the cardinal mistake of getting to know some of the hostages, further weakening his already bending commitment to his cause.

This, in turn, becomes a hostage situation as they're locked in a green room, and with the help of insider Amber (Imogen Poots), they try and protect themselves against a group of white supremacists, led by a man named Darcy (Patrick Stewart), who want to kill them to wipe away any witnesses to their crime.

The film stars Josh Brolin as Joe Doucette, a man who is abruptly kidnapped and held hostage for 20 years in solitary confinement, for no apparent reason.

It's also worth nothing that she's the one female character, with the possible exception of Soledad O'Brien playing herself, who isn't used in the film as a pawn or hostage, which is about all we get from Amy Adams «Lois Lane (who's apparently as addicted to stilettos as Bryce Dallas Howard in «Jurassic World»), Diane Lane «s Martha Kent or Holly Hunter «s all - too - brief turn as a Kentucky senator who squares off against Luthor.

It's a hard lesson for Nasha (Anna Lee), who misdirects the Gestapo soldiers during his escape and hides him when the area is cordoned off at curfew, then chooses to turn him in when her father (Walter Brennan), a scholar who clearly knows more about the resistance than he voices, is arrested as a hostage.

Downey stars as dashing billionaire playboy Tony Stark — part Howard Hughes, part Errol Flynn — who leads a life unencumbered by reflection until he's captured and held hostage in Afghanistan by terrorists using his company's weapons.