Sentences with phrase «svengali in»

This was a heroic action, yet in the movie there's something unnerving about this man, and the main thing is that he's played by Michael Shannon, a character actor who specializes in wild - eyed zeal, whether he's saving cops in World Trade Center, attempting to work as a punk - rock Svengali in The Runaways, hunting down Superman in Man Of Steel, or warning his community about the coming apocalypse in Take Shelter.

Not exact matches

Tsarnaev's defense team is expected to lay out a «Svengali» defense for their client, a strategy named after a character in a 19th century novel and meaning, in a legal context, the defense of a criminal who was «a pawn of a more influential mastermind.»

For his part, Mr. Meng, in a brief phone interview in Mandarin, dismissed any suggestion that he was some kind of political Svengali, saying that he was busy minding his lumber business and other interests.

Michael Shannon's performance as Sunset Strip Svengali Kim Fowley is the standout in the middling 2010 movie «The Runaways»; Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning didn't particularly stand out as Joan Jett and Cherie Currie, respectively.

The appeal of Lovelace to the emotions, in its simplistic characterisation of Chuck Traynor as Svengali, becomes pornographic, in this sense, when Anthony Romano oversees Chuck's beating, at which stage viewers will probably take delight in seeing this exploitative man getting what he deserves.

But dominating proceedings is Peter Sarsgaard's Chuck Traynor, Boreman's domineering husband and the creepy svengali who guided a career in skin flicks until she eventually gave up in favour of campaigning anti-pornography work.

Also on this train, of course, is Lily's Svengali mentor, the impresario Oscar Jaffee (Peter Gallagher), who after four straight flops needs his Pygmalion to headline his next venture in the theater, an extravaganza based on the life of Mary Magdalene.

In a scenario that borrows from a century of show - business clichés, the gorgeously lifeless Beyoncé Knowles stars as a Diana Ross - like singer who rockets to the top with the help of her Berry Gordy - like lover / Svengali (Jamie Foxx).

In both parallel stories, it is the Cecil family of royal advisors — first William (David Thewlis) and then his son Robert (Edward Hogg)-- who act as Svengali to Elizabeth, manipulating her and twisting events to suit their purposes.

Beginning with Eisenberg (here enjoying the role of his young career, at least until someone inevitably casts him as the lead in a Woody Allen biopic), the entire cast — including Justin Timberlake, who plays Napster co-founder Sean Parker as a kind of sleazy Svengali — deliver their lines with deft aplomb.

In a Rotten Tomatoes era which has a Svengali effect on the box office, Fifty Shades movies are critic - proof, and film reviewers aren't any more forgiving slamming this James Foley - directed title with a 13 % Rotten score, the second lowest of the three (Fifty Shades of Grey earned a 25 % Rotten and Fifty Shades Darker logged a 10 % Rotten score).

But the scenes of Traynor threatening and battering his wife feel just as phony and unconvincing as the sunnier stuff that preceded them, partly because Sarsgaard — usually a fine and subtle actor — flies so over the top in his depiction of a creepy Svengali.

You might imagine that like true pop svengalis, Activision decided on purchasing Red Octane in 2006 that wholly - owned Neversoft should be rewarded with a surefire new project for its long slog on Tony Hawk.

Interestingly, the state AGs unveiled their crusade at a press conference in March with former vice president and climate Svengali Al Gore looking on.

Following the news that Yahoo will acquire social sharing platform Tumblr for a massive $ 1.1 billion in cash, it's becoming clear that two of these investing svengalis are Bijan Sabet of Spark Capital, and Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures.