Sentences with phrase «first class actor»
Scottish star has reportedly replaced fellow X-Men: First Class actor Michael Fassbender in Danny Boyle's next film
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It turns out that when we let ourselves surrender to the «Time of the Season,» we are less like the animals and flowers of the field than a) like actors playing parts in some two - bit melodrama about low - class Others, or, b) like the starry - eyed Icaruses of the first verse seeking to take one another «to the sun» and «to promised lands.»
The plot details here are so ludicrous and complicated that you'd need some really good actors to put them across, and luckily Days of Future Past has two fine ensembles at its disposal: not only Jackman and the original X-Men cohort (including Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen) but also the sleeker, more contemporary models last seen in the mediocre prequel X-Men: First Class.
The film's first act embarrassingly reduces the book's study of class, race, masculinity, and American gun worship down to a series of sketches in which bad actors and misplaced celebrities utter amateurishly presentational dialogue.
Plays like a series of well - done but disconnected acting - class sketches, filled with a huge cast of first - rate actors whose careers have all gone into decline.
The actors are first class as they interpret what's there; trouble is that what's there - the story - becomes almost a parody of earlier, sturdier Masterpiece Theatre fare.
Hamilton and D'Abo are both understated and terrific here, as are the character actors who served as Baumbach's rep company during the first phase of his career: Eigeman, unsmiling and hostile; the hilarious Jacott, all self - aware neuroses; and obligatory»90s indie mascot Eric Stoltz as Chet, the bartender who's still working on his thesis and maintaining an encyclopedic knowledge of classes and campus events.
Another series of films introduced new set of actors and actresses and a revamp of the X-Men universe in 2014 with X-Men: First Class.
Everything about the film is first - class: Benoit Delhomme's cinematography, John Paul Kelly's period production design, Johann Johansson's score, and the contributions of such fine actors as David Thewlis, Emily Watson, Simon McBurney, Charlie Cox, and Maxine Peake.
Jones had an early encounter with big - budget studio fare as Banshee in 2011's X-Men: First Class — what would be the end goal for many budding actors — but he has tended towards more sophisticated work ever since.
Like X-Men: First Class before it, The Help is a study in how good actors can elevate mediocre material.
Variety has confirmed that the actor has officially signed on as the bad guyalong with actress Jennifer Lawrence as Mystique for Fox's «X-Men: First Class.»
Says the network: «The chilling new series focuses on former FBI agent Ryan Hardy (Emmy Award - nominated actor Kevin Bacon, «X-Men: First Class,» «Frost / Nixon»), who is brought in as a consultant when notorious serial killer Joe Carroll (James Purefoy, «Rome») escapes from death row and embarks on a new killing spree.
Actors with Three Films in the Top 100: Christian Bale: American Hustle, The Dark Knight Rises, The Fighter John Goodman: The Artist, Argo, Flight Ben Affleck: Argo, Gone Girl, The Town Matt Damon: Interstellar, True Grit, Elysium Nicholas Hoult: X-Men: Days of Future Past, X-Men: First Class, Warm Bodies George Clooney: The Descendants, The Ides of March, Gravity Joel Edgerton: Zero Dark Thirty, The Great Gatsby, Animal Kingdom James Franco: 127 Hours, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, The Green Hornet Michael Caine: Interstellar, The Dark Knight Rises, Inception Marion Cotillard: The Dark Knight Rises, Midnight in Paris, Inception Jeremy Renner: American Hustle, The Town, The Avengers Scarlett Johansson: Her, Iron Man 2, The Avengers Gwyneth Paltrow: Iron Man 3, Iron Man 2, The Avengers Paul Bettany: Iron Man 3, Iron Man 2, The Avengers Matthew McConaughey: Interstellar, Mud, The Wolf of Wall Street Morgan Freeman: The Dark Knight Rises, The Lego Movie, Oblivion Tom Hanks: Toy Story 3, Saving Mr. Banks, Captain Phillips John C. Reilly: Wreck - It Ralph, Guardians of the Galaxy, Cedar Rapids Melissa Leo: The Fighter, Flight, Prisoners The three Hunger Games movies alone also qualify Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Stanley Tucci, Willow Shields, and Paula Malcolmson
Actors with Five or More Films in the Top 100: Jennifer Lawrence: 8 (American Hustle, Silver Linings Playbook, The Hunger Games, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Winter's Bone, X-Men: First Class, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1) Jessica Chastain: 6 (Zero Dark Thirty, Interstellar, The Help, The Tree of Life, Take Shelter, Lawless) Amy Adams: 5 (The Muppets, American Hustle, The Fighter, Her, The Master) Leonardo DiCaprio: 5 (Shutter Island, Django Unchained, The Great Gatsby, Inception, The Wolf of Wall Street)
New Hank McCoy actor Nicholas Hoult explains how he played the furry mutant in X-Men: First Class... right down to the CGI feet.
Actor Michael Fassbender is in early negotiations to play Magneto in «X-Men: First class.»
Fans most recently saw the actor costarring alongside Jennifer Lawrence and Oscar Isaac in «X-Men: Apocalypse,» and can check out his string of previous X-Men outings including «First Class» and «Days of Future Past» on DVD and Blu - ray now.
And that day may come, as it has for fellow Skins actor Nicholas Hoult, who went on to roles in big budget movies like X-Men: First Class, Jack the Giant Killer, and the upcoming Mad Max reboot.
In his first - ever online class, the Oscar winner teaches his approach to filmmaking, from storytelling to editing to working with actors.
It was on the set of an earlier XMen film (2011's First Class) that she met the British actor Nicholas Hoult and began a three - year romance that ended earlier this year.
In addition to First Class stars Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, and Jennifer Lawrence, we previously learned that X-Men actors Ian McKellan, Patrick Stewart, and Hugh Jackman will be reprising their roles in the upcoming follow - up.
James McAvoy (X-Men: First Class) gives the performance of his career and he is joined by a fantastic cast, including Jamie Bell (The Adventures of Tintin), Imogen Poots (Fright Night), Oscar winning actor, Jim Broadbent (The Iron Lady), Joanne Froggatt («Downton Abbey»), Shirley Henderson (Trainspotting), Eddie Marsan (The Illusionist), Emun Elliott (Prometheus), Martin Compston (Sweet Sixteen), Shauna Macdonald (The Descent) and Gary Lewis (Gangs of New York).
The film stars Jeremy Irvine (War Horse), Jonny Beauchamp («Penny Dreadful»), Caleb Landry Jones (X-Men: First Class), Joey King (White House Down) up - and - comers Karl Glusman, Vlademir Alexis, and Alexandre Nachi as well as veteran actor Matt Craven, with Jonathan Rhys Meyers (Match Point, «The Tudors») and Ron Perlman (Hellboy).
Hoult, 23, an English actor who starred in zombie rom - com «Warm Bodies,» met Lawrence while they were filming 2011's «X-Men: First Class,» and she later gushed about him in the December 2012 issue of Elle magazine.
Simon heaped praise on the younger generation of actors introduced in 2011's X-Men: First Class, including James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender, taking on the roles played by Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Patrick Stewart.
The Berlinale honor should be the first of many for both actors, who give a master class on their art.
«But I also would have said before First Class that there would be no way that we could find actors who can stand alongside Ian McKellan and Patrick Stewart, and I think we managed to with Michael and James, finding their own interpretations of the characters and not doing an impersonation,» he continued.
Especially when «24» gives you trickier plotting, more believable stunts, top - flight production values, first - class actors (Kiefer Sutherland, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Stephen Spinella, William Devane, Ray Wise, Jean Smart...) and characters for whom you can actually feel something besides an indefinable creepy revulsion (though some have that quality, too), week after week (and in digital surround and HDTV, no less)-- making pre-packaged, pre-fab disposable summer action products like «Miiii» seem as dinosaurish and unnecessary as they truly are.
Emma Watson does deliver excellently the role of the Beauty and she is slowly but steadily being moving to the first class new actors.
The actors are first class as they interpret what's there; trouble is that what's there — the story — becomes almost a parody of earlier, sturdier «Masterpiece Theatre» fare.
# 3 A funny, clever script; well - cast lead actors; skillful direction — all - around first - class entertainment.
It is this strong system of beliefs and political awareness that has elevated Tim Robbins from your average actor turned director to the level of first class filmmaker.
Actor of the Year (for an exemplary body of work)- Jessica Chastain, Coriolanus, The Debt, The Help, Take Shelter, Texas Killing Fields, and The Tree of Life - George Clooney, The Descendants and The Ides of March - Michael Fassbender, A Dangerous Method, Jane Eyre, Shame, and X-Men: First Class - Ryan Gosling, Crazy, Stupid, Love., Drive, and The Ides of March - Brad Pitt, Happy Feet Two, Moneyball, and The Tree of Life
OSCAR CHANCES: Mortensen earned a Best Actor nod for «Eastern Promises» and Fassbender is coming off a career making performance in «X-men: First Class.»
Those fighting words come straight from actor James McAvoy who is playing the younger version of Professor X in «X-Men: First Class» — a role made famous by Patrick Stewart in the film franchise.
In X-Men: Days of Future Past, not only do we get Singer, but we get the best of both worlds as it reunites the original trilogy cast members plus the new actors that played their younger selves in X-Men: First Class.
The younger actor was able to both act like Hank McCoy and be the Beast (even though, due to First Class «s smaller budget, the Beast makeup effects and costume were pretty sad looking).
27:35 — Review: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 1:04:15 — Review: Young Adult 1:31:20 — Trailer Trash: Moonrise Kingdom 1:38:00 — Top 5: Most Anticipated Movies of 2012 1:47:50 — Other Stuff We Watched: A Dangerous Method, Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory, Sweet Genius, Winter Wipeout, Rob, The Innkeepers, Boogie Nights, Branded to Kill, The Fifth Element, Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, Contagion, Modern Life, Moneyball, The Town, X-Men: First Class, Paradise Lost 3, Dumbo, The Russia House, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Merantau, The Wire 2:25:00 — Junk Mail: Top Actors and Actresses of 2011, Books vs. Film Adaptations, DVD Organization for Mini-series, Family Films Passed Down from Parents, Why Jay Directed a Documentary, Technical Glitches in Documentaries, Charlie Day is the New Bobcat Goldthwaite 2:50:30 — This Week's DVD Releases 2:52:00 — Outro
«I believed I was the best actor in the world when I first came out of drama school - that anyone who wouldn't employ me was second - class.
Nicholas Hoult is a young actor on fire right now: X-Men: First Class and Warm Bodies.
Obviously, he was known for being an actor but he's very quickly gaining a reputation as a first - class director.
«Director Bryan Singer has confirmed the «X-Men: First Class» actor will be rejoining the mutant...
Despite having a big question mark in the script department, Assassin's Creed seems to have a lot going for it: New Regency, the production company behind the Oscar - winning films 12 Years a Slave and Birdman, is producing the film; fantastic actor Michael Fassbender (X-Men: First Class) is playing the lead role of Callum Lynch (a character created specifically for the film); and seasoned actor Jeremy Irons joined the cast as Abstergo Industries leader, and father to Marion Cotillard's character, Alan Rikkin.
The first is a straight - forward biopic, Christine, which sees Rebecca Hall (The Prestige) play Chubbuck, while the second is more meta, with Kate Plays Christine charting actor Kaye Lyn Sheil's (House of Cards) preparation for playing Christine in an upcoming movie (which does» t exist, but the film has still been classed as a documentary).
James McAvoy enjoys the build up to the Christmas period.The «X-Men: First Class» actor - who plays the lead role of Arthur in animated movie «Arthur...
The actor known for his incredible role as Magneto in X-Men First Class is now attached to the Assassin's Creed movie.
German - born actor Michael Fassbender who also starred in Prometheus and X-Men: First Class will be playing Desmond Miles, who comes from a long line of assassins in a silver screen adaptation of the p...