Sentences with phrase «cast of film about»

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A standout element of the film, about supervillains recruited to go on nearly impossible government missions, is its impressive cast, whose members blend so well into their respective roles that you may not even recognize some of the actors.

Jolie was criticised over a casting exercise she carried out for «First They Killed My Father», an upcoming Netflix film about the Khmer Rouge and the Cambodian genocide of 1975 - 79.

«Deep down we all hoped that people would come to see a film about a fictional country on the continent of Africa, made up of a cast of people of African descent.

There hasn't been too much revealed about the plot of the film, but the cast is stacked.

The Big Short, an upcoming film about the housing and credit bubble that led to the financial crisis of 2007 - 08, is lining up one of the better casts in recent...

Olson was cast in a short film about the 1931 kidnapping of Fred Blumer, then owner of Blumer Brewing Co. in Monroe, Wis.The story goes that after realizing they wouldn't get much ransom money, the mob members released Blumer, charging him a week's worth of room and board.

In an earlier blog post about Christopher Nolan's latest blockbuster movie, Interstellar, I lauded the film for its ambition, its visuals and the strong performances of its cast.

The icon could be joining the cast of Little Women offers comment features about british scene with sections books, films, music, theatre, art architecture.

Cast / credits plus additional information about the film Find listings of daytime and primetime ABC TV shows, movies and specials.

Cast / credits plus additional information about the film One of the world's greatest spies and master of disguise, she's the legendary scarlet - haired NATASHA ROMANOVA, the BLACK WIDOW!

As important as the cast, of course, is the look of the film - although, given the quantum - leaping developments in computer animation, it's far too tempting to let yourself be distracted by attention to detail or by worrying about how realistic it is when you should just be sitting back and enjoying the ride.

A smarter film about country music would cast the would - be cowpunk as a Jack White - type, somebody who would encourage the aging legend to reject Nashville values and make an all - out roots album (similar to Loretta Lynn's «Van Lear Rose», produced by The White Stripes frontman himself), which would add creative tension to the preexisting atmosphere of marital discord between Kelly and her commercially - minded husband.

The feature, Actors in Search of a Story, applauds the entire cast of the film (right down to the woman who plays Harold's psychologist for about two minutes of screen time), Building the Team profiles director Marc Forster and some of his crew, and Words on a Page focuses on budding young screenwriter Zach Helm.

Russell pokes fun of his weight, makes ludicrous power plays to establish his dominance in prison, and invites a number of deeply uncomfortable jokes about his inevitable sexual abuse in prison — a line of comedy that feels even more unwelcome given that the film's cast includes an accused sexual assailant in T.J. Miller, who needlessly returns as Deadpool's best friend, Weasel, in a few throwaway scenes.

Despite the efforts of a strong ensemble cast — featuring Bruce Dern, John Ortiz, Ellen Burstyn, Nick Offerman, Jon Hamm, Catherine Keener and Patton Oswalt — the film fails to drive home its point, about the power of the stuff we leave behind when we die, with the same emotional punch that the people on - screen seem to be telegraphing: grief, longing, regret, resentment and sundry other flavors of moroseness.

Throughout the film there are several cinematic camera tricks, which hit the mark about half the time (and are annoying the other half), and overall the performances of the cast are good, though I thought that the cheerleader's portrayal was a bit uneven, perhaps due to the script that had her alternatevely playing hot and cold.

But the dazzle of the cast and the targeted in - jokes never take away from the film's core messaging about the importance of believing in one's own ability as an artist.

Even if the casting choices in portraying some of iconic talents in Kenney's orbit are occasionally questionable — a detail the film gleefully acknowledges — there's something delightful about watching actors known for comedy now try to capture the sound or energy of the performers who inspired them.

The most impressive thing about this film of The Seagull is that every role has been ideally cast.

You're not going to learn much about the making of the film, because this commentary is all about the cast enjoying themselves and reliving favourite moments in the film.

Warner Brothers, which is marketing the film as a conventional thriller, recently overruled the producers» desire to show it in European festivals so that the studio could open it wide (in many theaters at once) and cash in as quickly as possible on the name value of its cast before word - of - mouth about its depressing subject matter could kill it.

The film depends a lot, like about 85 % of it, on the cast.

Minnelli's second film suffers from the casting of Lucille Bremer (producer Arthur Freed's mistress) in the lead role, and the public was not crazy about seeing Astaire playing a thief.

The cast go from room to room discussing stuff, from location to location looking at stuff, explaining scenarios to each other, lots of driving around and of course the other obligatory scene where everyone watches an old educational news film reel about their enemy and how it lives.

Excerpts from the note read — «I am struggling to find the words to express my gratitude at this moment, but I will try... Deep down we all hoped that people would come to see a film about a fictional country on the continent of Africa, made up of a cast of people of African descent.

The Summer Blockbuster Hit, Disney • Pixar's «Finding Dory,» Swims Home on Digital HD on Oct. 25 and Blu - ray ™ on Nov. 15 Dive deep into the kelp to find out more about the making of the film with extensive extras featuring the creative talent of Pixar and the all - star cast!

In a cast packed with scene stealers — Paul Reiser and Cheryl Hines co-star as Zach's parents and Anna Kendrick shows up later as a friend of the family — she's easily the best thing about the film.

During this recent interview to discuss the TV version of Zombieland, co-creators and executive producers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick talked about the journey from TV series to movie and now back to TV pilot, what it's been like to work with Amazon, what motivated the decision to have the same characters from the movie on the TV show, how they envision it as a road show, how much gore they can have, what Kirk Ward (who was originally cast as Tallahassee before being replaced by Woody Harrelson) brings to this version of the character, what led them to the 30 - minute format, whether they could have any surprise cameos (Bill Murray made a very memorable one in the film), what will determine whether the pilot is successful enough to go to series, and when they might know if they're picked up.

was surprised just how good this film is.The humour and pathos of this film is quite moving.There is no - one remotely attractive in the cast, it is full of strange looking redneck Americans living in semi wilderness.Everyone is poverty stricken.The sadness of old age is there, as is the regrets of past memories, and the desperation of the son to heal the wounds of his father's past life.The acting is brilliant even with the bit part actors with the sunburnt aged faces.The fathers grumpy reticence is counters by his truculent wife, who never has a good word for anybody with her vicious put downs, which is at times laugh out loud funny.A funny sad and moving film about the sheer desperate meanderings of life and old age.

For whatever reason, Warner Brothers packaged Jammin'the Blues, one of the greatest short films ever made, alongside Michael Curtiz's feature length Passage to Marseille (1944), a thoroughly mediocre military melodrama so desperate to replicate the success of Curtiz's earlier masterpiece Casablanca (1942) that it reuses most of the principal cast and some of the same story beats about lovers torn apart by war and self - centered anti-heroes who come to learn the importance of self - sacrifice.

Similar to that film, «The Fifth Estate» boasts an intriguing tale about an Internet startup and a fantastic cast led by two of the more exciting rising talents working today.

While on the set of X-Men: Apocalypse last year we talked to many of the cast members about what is new and different for their roles in this film.

(4:55), a slight and promotional but fun making - of short, in which Tom Green playfully interviews his cast mates and crew members about the film.

Not only is the screen time between each character poorly divided but some of the films fantastically talented cast members are criminally underused sometimes just forgotten about.

The disc includes a short behind - the - scenes featurette, giving an idea about the premise of the film as well as snippets of interviews with the major cast members.

During this 1 - on - 1 phone interview with Collider, actress and filmmaker Heather Graham talked about wanting to make a movie celebrating women and friendship, the biggest challenges in getting this film going, having her voice heard, as a female filmmaker, what she most enjoyed about playing Honey, putting together this cast, funny moments on set, what she enjoyed about the experience of directing, her hope to do it again, juggling three different writing projects, and doing the British TV series Bliss, from David Cross.

No Escape — This was very cool; the cast and crew talk about the aesthetic of the film (the way it's largely swallowed in darkness) and director Fede Alvarez gets into one of his favorite scenes to shoot, which was the fight in the basement that he shot in black and white.

Director of successful films about Indian retirement hotel says another film not on the horizon, citing age of principal cast as major factor

The bit in question involved about six of the film's young cast members, and I imagined each of their characters as I spotted them — the voluptuous, dark - haired Slut; the porcelain Ingénue; the hunky Boyfriend.

Writer / director Scott Derrickson finally spoke out about it and Marvel went so far as to issue a statement which read in part, they «have a very strong record of diversity in its casting of films.»

Throughout the film's production, Reynolds and Deadpool 2 studio 20th Century Fox have been very crafty about not revealing any potential spoilers for the film, and in fact, made normal procedures such as casting announcements - like the addition of Cable (Josh Brolin) and Domino (Zazie Beetz) to the film - feel like pop culture events.

Blu - ray Highlight: Instead of the typical audio commentary, director Marc Forster sits down for a somewhat brief discussion about the movie, including the challenges of maintaining the story's authenticity, filming in South Africa, and casting the lead roles.

Besides that, it's actually a pretty sweet video of some of the cast talking about their memories of the original animated film as well as their impressions of the live - action version.

Apprehensions about Peter Jackson's first instalment of The Hobbit films — a trilogy stemming from JRR Tolkien's iconic novel, and the writer / director's second stint in Middle Earth after The Lord of the Rings — are swiftly cast aside in The Desolation of Smaug, endless exposition gratefully replaced by rollicking action.

The real stars of the film are the supporting cast of stereotypes the dopey Mexican, the thieving black guy and good with computers serious Russian who make sure the film maintains its humor and remembers that ultimately its a film about a man who hangs around with ants.

Director Zhang Yimou defended the casting when he told Entertainment Weekly, «Our film is not about the construction of the Great Wall.

It also makes an interesting counterpart to another Swedish film about children cast adrift by their parents, Play (2011), shown as part of a Ruben Östlund retrospective.

This baby delivers the goods, and more certainly the all - star cast — Christian Bale, Brad Pitt, Ryan Gosling and Steve Carell — carry with them the clout of almighty white man, but what is most surprising about this film is the level of despair and rage lurking just under the surface of things.

Besides, as the film suggests it through the cast's performance, the most beautiful thing about patriotism is to sacrifice ourself for a noble cause even if it means being in front of difficult choices.

In spite of its failings on the dramatic level, Disco is still a very entertaining film, thanks to an appealing cast (which also includes Beckinsale's Much Ado About Nothing love interest, Robert Sean Leonard, and a briefly - seen Jennifer Beals) and those wordy discussions.