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How social media turn teens into «friends without benefits»; A.O. Scott suggests some reasons why the centuries - old «conversation about race» keeps surprising everyone and not really leading where it should; Bruce Dern gets the best part of his 77 - year life.

Director Rian Johnson and actors Mark Hamill, Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Andy Serkis, Gwendoline Christie, Kelly Marie Tran, and Laura Dern got together following the film's junket that afternoon.

MacLachlan finds a severed human ear in a field, and he and Dern get involved in trying to solve the mystery of the ear.

Not exact matches

I was a «good little NCB» who endured 30 hours of labor, 4-1/2 hours of pushing, severe tearing (had to go in to get stitched up), a broken tailbone, AND an injured baby and still sung the praises of my midwife... I should have gotten the gold star sticker, dern it all!

An unemployed construction worker willing to do anything to get his preteen son Connor (Noah Lomax) and weathered, resilient mom Lynn (Laura Dern, currently the go - to actress for weathered, resilient moms) out of a rough downtown motel heavily populated with other foreclosed families, Nash reluctantly accepts Carver's offer of piecemeal employment, cleaning and repairing houses recently seized by his unlikely new benefactor.

held together by the remarkably vivid and varied performances of Ruffalo, Dern, Watts and Krause, each of whom gets his or her share of juicy moments and sharp dialogue.

Writer - director Mark Pellington meditates on these questions at length in the somber indie «Nostalgia,» a cinematic mosaic with the thematic heft to get, say, Bruce Dern to drop by for a scene.

His first visit is to an aged widower (Bruce Dern) living in a quiet old house filled so filled with cameras, radios, an out of date word processor, and books — some read, some he still expects to get around to reading.

As said, the acting is superb, especially Ruffalo and Dern, but Krause's character gets left behind big time, and the kids that are treasured so much by the characters as well as the story in general get next to no development, which isn't good when you consider the film's emotionally heavy climax.

Despite every effort to save his home, Carver comes in like the Grim Reaper to bring reality to the situation, and soon Nash is forced into living in a dingy motel with his mother (Dern, Wild) and young son (Lomax, Safe Haven) on the hope that he can find a way to legally get his home back.

Adapted from Joseph C. Lincoln's best - selling novel Can»n Eri, this gentle tale of three retired sea captains living together and looking to get their house in order features an all - star cast including David Carradine, Rip Torn, Bruce Dern, and Mariel Hemingway.

The story begins in turn of the century Cape Cod, where Captain Jerry Burgess (Torn), Captain Perez (Dern), and Captain Zeb (Carradine) decide that the only way to get their house in order is for one of them to get married.

Mortgage repayments get missed and with a predatory swiftness, a real estate agent named Rick Carver (Michael Shannon) is evicting Dennis, his young boy and his mum (Laura Dern) and has legally taken possession (aided by an indifferent court system and local police) of what was once Dennis's security.

The film becomes a mystery as to whether one of the patrons really is there to break out Domergue or when Jackson is going to get to go crazy on the old vicious Civil War General, General Sandy Smithers (Bruce Dern).

In the case of Nebraska, while it's no journey to Mt. Doom or Battle Royale, Woody Grant (Bruce Dern)'s mission to get to Lincoln, Nebraska to claim his prize money of one million dollars in any way possible is very much a moving story that uses actors who don't necessarily jump off the screen but are perfect fits for the narrative at hand.

The film stars Bruce Dern as a man who believes he's won a million dollars in a sweepstakes, and plans to go to Nebraska to get...

The film stars Bruce Dern as a man who believes he's won a million dollars in a sweepstakes, and plans to go to Nebraska to get it.

The film stars Bruce Dern as Woody, a man who believes he's won a million dollars in a sweepstakes, and plans to go to Nebraska to get it.

The eight who get stuck in a blizzard at Minnie's Haberdashery are: Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Walton Goggins, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Bruce Dern and Demian Bichir.

Finally, dressed like Warren in his military garb, there is General Sandy Smithers (Bruce Dern), who stresses his rank to John Ruth, lest he not get the respect his title deserves.

Peter Derns (Timothy Hutton) is a marketing executive at Mrs. Appleby's cookie company who, after his assistant starts a family (and gets his hand mangled in a paper - shredder), receives a remarkably competent temp in the form of feral Kris (Lara Flynn Boyle).

Woody Harrelson stars as Wilson, a lonely, neurotic, and hilariously honest middle - aged, misanthropic dog lover who reunites with his estranged wife (Laura Dern) and gets a shot at happiness when he learns he has a teenage daughter he's never met.

Also getting a nice boost was Alexander Payne's «Nebraska,» which gave Bruce Dern (Actor) and Will Forte (Supporting Actor) their first entry into the race.

«It would be awesome if we somehow got Laura Dern in there, as well,» he said.

«You do it for as long as I have, and you figure that, well, the train hasn't left, but goddamnit, it's hard to get on,» Dern, sitting on the Paramount lot, told TheWrap.

Corman gets a good cast of venerable characters, among them Frank Silvera, Joseph Campanella, Richard Bakalyan, Harold J. Stone, Joe Turkel, John Agar, Reed Hadley, Alex Rocco, and Leo Gordon, and adds in a few of his favorites, including Bruce Dern in a sympathetic role as an earnest mechanic just trying to support his family and unbilled appearances by Dick Miller and Jack Nicholson.

Last year, she was part of the campaign to get her father Bruce Dern cited for Nebraska.

He also suggested Alexander Payne reined him in and didn't let him get away with «Dernsies» — the Jack Nicholson term for patented Bruce Dern improvisations.

Laura Dern's intelligent and sensitive performance in Wild, as the mother of Cheryl Strayed (Reese Witherspoon), has deservedly got her a best supporting actress nomination.

CUT BANK Liam Hemsworth, Billy Bob Thornton, John Malkovich and Bruce Dern are among the cast members in Matt Shakman's thriller, a piece of black humor about a get - rich - quick scheme gone wrong in a tiny and frigid Montana town.

Surprise: Laura Dern's performance in «Wild» generated some Oscar buzz very early on, but when she didn't get nominated by the Golden Globes or Screen Actors Guild, her Oscar chances appeared to be shot.

Sentiment will be in Dern's corner to get this nod, and the film is certainly beloved enough to back that up.

Directed by: Quentin Tarantino Written by: Quentin Tarantino Cast: Channing Tatum, Samuel L. Jackson, Walton Goggins, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tim Roth, Michaegl Madsen, Bruce Dern, Demián Bichir, and Zoe Bell Synopsis: In post-Civil War Wyoming, bounty hunters try to find shelter during a blizzard but get involved in a plot of betrayal and deception.

It's a cautionary tale with a riveting performance by Dern and - get this - a prog - folk soundtrack by Joan Baez that acts as a kind of musical chorus to the events on screen.

While Dern will get the accolades, it is the indelible underlying subtext regarding modern (or the lack thereof) life as it exists in many small towns in the Midwest that will ultimately prove to be Nebraska's greatest document to visit time and again.

Disney and Lucasfilm showcased Star Wars: The Last Jedi at the D23 Expo in Anaheim, California this past weekend, and we've got some backstage video interviews with director Rian Johnson and cast members Mark Hamill, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Laura Dern, Benicio Del Toro, Kelly Marie Tran and Gwendoline Christie.

Benicio Del Toro, the other big addition to the cast alongside Dern, gets to play a kooky side role, but his entire subplot feels like it's doing little more than marking time, making the film drag every time it returns to him from other, more exciting prospects.

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That's how we get a category like this one stuffed with movie stars and award winners like Reese Witherspoon, Jessica Lange, Ewan McGregor, Nicole Kidman, John Turturro, Geoffrey Rush, Laura Dern, and more.

Besides Richard Dreyfuss, film fans got to spend time with such stars as Bruce Dern and Paul Sorvino.

A lot of talent gets wasted in «Wilson»: not just Harrelson, Dern, and Clowes, but also Cheryl Hines («Curb Your Enthusiasm»), as Pippi's prissy sister; Mary Lynn Rajskub («24»), as wife of that solitary Wilson friend; cinematographer Frederick Elmes («Blue Velvet,» «Paterson»), and director Craig Johnson.

Dern has been a busy character actor for more than 50 years, but he's rarely gotten leads — and never has he played someone so withheld, so interior, so still.

Based on the play by Jason Miller, That Championship Season follows four high school buddies (played by Bruce Dern, Stacy Keach, Martin Sheen, and Paul Sorvino) and their former coach (Robert Mitchum) as they get together to celebrate the 24th anniversary of a pivotal basketball win.

Tom Hanks got bumped from the Best Actor in a Leading Role category with Christina Bale, Bruce Dern, Leonardo DiCaprio, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Matthew McConaughey taking the nods while Hanks» «Saving Mr. Banks» co-star, Emma Thompson, lost the Best Actress in a Leading Role nomination to Amy Adams, Cate Blanchett, Sandra Bullock, Judi Dench and Meryl Streep.

We've finally gotten a Star Wars film with an auteur's tenor (and Johnson's use of red really resonates), and not only that but The Last Jedi hosts a bevy of badass women being smart, solving problems, kicking ass, and taking names (the aforementioned Ridley is joined by the likes of Gwendoline Christie, Laura Dern Lupita Nyong» o, Kelly Marie Tran, and a stunning final bow from Carrie Fisher each memorably offset the testosterone).

The parking lot scene in the Laura Dern story was a challenge for me and just one, the filmmaking of it, I like what it got to.

They finally get to Minnie's and find no Minnie but a motley collection of suspicious characters: a Confederate general (Bruce Dern), a taciturn cowpoke (Tarantino regular Michael Madsen), an English hangman (Tim Roth — hey, welcome back!)

When Chris Mannix acquires the blanket, it was because I was like, «We need to get Bruce Dern a blanket.»

Given the less innately attention - getting role (a la Tom Cruise in «Rain Man»), Forte does similarly nuanced work, his scenes with Dern resonating with the major and minor grievances that lie unresolved between parents and children.

But their journey is about to get disrupted by a blizzard, leaving them stranded at Minnie's Haberdashery with six other travelers (Samuel L. Jackson, Walton Goggins, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Bruce Dern and Demian Bichir), and they might not all make it out alive.