Sentences with phrase «great star performances»

Great star performances help Into The Night move along nicely, paired with a ton of cameos, and an awesome soundtrack.

Not exact matches

It's a great performance and it's made him a TV star, but Crews is just happy to feel successful.

Venues at Pechanga Resort & Casino, Old Town Temecula and Temecula Valley Wine Country offer great atmosphere whether it's under the stars, in the vineyards, an intimate speak easy or in a show room; the sound, space and performance is unforgettable.

Jackson was always a great get for Tom Izzo and Michigan State, but his performance on the All - Star circuit elevated him to a legitimate top - 10 overall recruit.

For those who are not all that aware of Sotiris Ninis its worth noting that the talented Albanian born adaptable midfielder is considered the hottest prospect in Greece right now, which admittedly isn't saying a great deal but I would imagine Sir Alex Ferguson will have done his homework on the Panathinaikos star who's performances helped the Athens club secure the double last term.

The Arsenal star picked up yet another man - of - the - match accolade, putting in a performance that was notable for high work - rate, midfield dominance, great tackles and an exquisite ball to Oxlade - Chamberlain for the opening goal.

The Brazilian international bagged his 11th Premier League goal of the season to emerge as the star performer for the visitors, while Simon Mignolet deserves credit for his second - half save in particular to deny Matt Phillips to preserve Liverpool's lead as he put in a great performance too.

We also need to appreciate that the manager operates at a considerable competitive disadvantage because our rivals have invested far greater sums than we do in buying star players and that restriction should temper how we judge his and the teams performances.

The England star also has those great memories of beating Barcelona and his own amazing performance against them to inspire him.

When you have a guy like Nate who puts on performance winning shows all the time, doing great tv rating numbers, why promote him and make him a star so you have to pay him more for his next fight?

Looks to be a great signing for the club and has helped ease the pressure of losing so many first team stars this summer with another fine performance on the wing.

It was a great, if surprising, Arsenal win over Man United yesterday afternoon and there were some good performances from quite a few players, although our star men Alexis and Ozil seemed a little more subdued than normal.

We do not have world star players in every position, but neither did Leicester, in fact we have a good team that could be a great contender even against the big spenders, just look at Ramsey, he was key for Wales magnificent performance (just see what happened when he did not play), the point is that is not necessary to splash the cash, what we need is a new Manager with a different vision that understand and demand from his players not indulge them....

So we were already down to the bare bones when it comes to striker options and after his great performances against Barcelon and Everton, the 19 - year old Arsenal academy star was sure to be a starter against the Hornets.

It was a great performance from the Belgian star player and had a huge impact in the match.

Four - star style and great performance make this petite media cabinet a real space - saving star.

While anticipating for the biggest Award show of Pakistani television, we not only look forward to all the electrifying performances or the winners of the season but also expect to visualise all the great outfits our stars and celebrities carry to the big event.

Released on the sudden and unexplainable popularity of star Ashton Kutcher, the film is ultimately a realization that Terence Stamp, regardless of the great performances he has given in the past, will never be fully respected by Hollywood and given anything unworthy of his participation.

For example, Variety's Peter Debruge writes, «Not many are likely to mistake what Marion Cotillard does in Angel Face for great acting, as the glamorous French star gives a performance so phony it feels like a Saturday Night Live parody of a white - trash trainwreck, downright pathetic in its attempt to achieve what came so naturally to relative amateur Bria Vinaite in last year's The Florida Project.»

In addition to his star turn in Unbroken, he can be seen in the great British film» 71, as well as Starred Up, in which he gives the most powerful performance by a male actor in recent memory.

Yes, it's very funny and filled with enough genuinely great performances that it's actually debatable which supporting star turns in the best work (it's Laurie Metcalf, or maybe Beanie Feldstein, or possibly Tracy Letts), but what makes Gerwig's movie such a gem is the honesty that infuses every part and every scene.

Three Kings solidified David O. Russell's career in Hollywood because of its relevant subject matter, which still feels relevant today, as well as the great performances he shaped out his all - star cast.

Netflix's adaptation of the children's book series is a blast, featuring great performances from a variety of visiting stars, from Joan Cusack to Don Johnson.

They're great in their limited roles, but it feels like a cheat to give them such prominent billing, especially when Alden Ehrenreich upstages them all with his star - making performance as the good - natured singing cowboy.

Midnight Special comes from the director of Mud which had some great performances by a cast that starred an Academy Award winner and some of Hollywood's rising young talent and this is pretty much the same concept.

It contains one of the great Arnie performances, unsullied by any need to be liked, by any notion of «personality» more informed by star power than necessity of character.

It delivers great performances all around from its great all - star cast.

We are instead given a number of impressive, but token flashy performances by veteran actors in tough guy bit parts (Pete Postlethwaite and Chris Cooper as irredeemable lifelong criminals) and newcomers in «dramatic stretches» (The Hurt Locker's Jeremy Renner who is good (again) but not as great as the star - makers would have you believe, and most notably, Blake Lively, excellent as a drug - addled neighborhood floozy).

This year saw her starring opposite Ryan Gosling in Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive and earning praise for her bold performance in Steve McQueen's Shame, and she's currently at work playing the ultimate girl who got away in Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby.

But it's great to see so many mature stars together on screen giving hammy, knowing performances that more than make up for the over-serious The Expendables.

And at the centre is Scarlett Johansson, in her second great otherworldly performance of the year, but while «Her» relied solely on her voice, «Under The Skin» rests entirely on her physicality, and it's a movie - star turn, sultry and innocent simultaneously, without which the film wouldn't work.

There's a great delight in seeing such huge Hollywood stars giving sublime, persona - busting performances in a picture so esoteric.

The Drop opens this week, another of Dennis Lehane's gritty crime dramas, this time starring the great Tom Hardy alongside the late, great James Gandolfini in his final performance.

But the star is undoubtedly Vikander, whose surgically calibrated performance as Ava locates the character squarely in the tradition of sci - fi's great artificial women: Maria in Metropolis, Motoko Kusanagi in Ghost in the Shell, Pris in Blade Runner and, more recently, Scarlett Johansson in Under the Skin.

A Chinese star who grew up in England (which accounts for her excellent English) and who's appeared in almost 70 films since 1984, including most of the features of Wong Kar - wai, Cheung is exceptionally gifted when she's doing comedy (as in the 1989 The Iceman Cometh) and pantomime (as in her great performance as the silent Shanghai film actress Ruan Ling - yu in Stanley Kwan's 1991 masterpiece Actress).

Mara stars opposite Cate Blanchett (in another great performance) but she ends up being the more noticeable of the two because she's rarely been seen in any role like this one.

It even has engaging (not to say great) performances, especially from a creepy Merritt Butrick (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan), a cool Rosalind Cash (The Omega Man) as a cop, and Brenda Bakke (later in L.A. Confidential), who spends much of the film emoting with bandages covering her eyes.

New Rose Hotel — Ahead of its time noir from director Abel Ferrera stars Christopher Walken (in one of his great wacky performances) and Willem Dafoe as corporate espionage guys who hire Asia Argento to seduce a scientist and get him to move to another company.

Hawks was known for being a master of all genres, garnering great performances from stars like Bogart, John Wayne, Walter Brennan and Marilyn Monroe, and for perfecting the bromance, long before the term came into currency.

Ben Mendelsohn may be among the most gifted characters actor working today, and in «Starred Up» he gives one of his greatest performances as O'Connell's father.

In a Lonely Place (Criterion, Blu - ray, DVD)(1950), directed by Nicholas Ray and starring Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame in arguably the greatest performances of their careers, is film noir with no guns or gangsters or femme fatales or blackmail schemes, yet it is among the most devastating noir dramas you'll ever see: an ambiguous study of love torn apart from within.

It's a great choice by our readers, and Moreno's performance now joins Daniel Day - Lewis, Meryl Streep, Heath Ledger, and John William's «Star Wars» score as our Circuit Madness Champions!

Based on the 2010 novel by Richard C. Moranis, «The Hundred - Foot Journey» is nearly a 4 - star experience, with excellent characters, genuine performances, and, with every great dish, a whole lot of love.

There's a new Star Wars movie in theaters this month, as Solo: A Star Wars Story arrives on May 25, powered by a starring performance from Alden Ehrenreich and the great and terrible power of the Disney marketing machine.

And that includes «Meryl Streep» - one of the greats but her performance was 4 - star in the solidly 4 - star Steven Spielberg movie, The Post.

It's also light on gore, but loaded with great characters and a fantastic star making performance from Daniel Kaluuya.

Isaac plays Nathan with incredible physicality and brooding threat, the latest in a string of great performances that have quickly propelled him to coveted roles in upcoming Star Wars films.

Though U.S. audiences likely weren't able to appreciate the movie on the same level as native Chinese speakers because of the way that the film plays around with the language, it's still an amusing and wildly madcap spaghetti western that's anchored by a trio of fantastic performances by director / star Wen, Chow Yun - Fat and Ge You, who have such great comedic timing between them that the subtitles often move too quickly to read.

Chalamet is painfully vulnerable in this star - making turn and the supporting performances by Armie Hammer and powerhouse Michael Stuhlbarg are great as well, really rounding out this masterful vision.

Hayden Christensen (Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones) delivers a fantastic performance as Glass, very different from his high - profile role as Anakin Skywalker, evoking great sympathy for Glass» situation despite eliciting anger for being so reckless.