Sentences with phrase «about name actors»

Not exact matches

But now that I think about it... «Keenwa Tabouli» does have a certain ring to it... it does rather sound like an actors name...

It says a lot about his mothers and fathers that Ronaldo obtained his name because of the simple fact that Ronald Reagan was his father's favorite actor, apparently!

And if anything has held true about baby naming trends over the past several decades, Hollywood's movies and actors often have a big influence.

The 505 - million - year - old fossil called Kooteninchela deppi (pronounced Koo - ten - ee - che - la depp - eye), which is a distant ancestor of lobsters and scorpions, was named after the actor Johnny Depp for his starring role as Edward Scissorhands — a movie about an artificial man named Edward, an unfinished creation, who has scissors for hands.

Television continued to be a superior medium for the actor who made guest appearances on My Name is Earl, What I Like About You, and Without a Trace.

Braff plays Aidan (a strange name choice, perhaps, considering the film's focus on his Jewish roots), an out - of - work actor whose wife, Sarah (Kate Hudson), is barely supporting the whole family with her dreary dead - end job, and whose children, Grace (Joey King) and Tucker (Pierce Gagnon), are about to be booted from their yeshiva for non-payment.

The ensemble of mostly no - name actors includes «ICarly» alum Nathan Kress as the VP's other son, a kid who refuses to put down his video camera even in situations where he's about to die, and Matt Walsh (Mike on HBO's «Veep»), as the head storm chaser / filmmaker obsessed with getting incredible footage at all cost.

There were big moments Sunday at the 24th annual celebration of actors, like Harvey Weinstein accusers Marisa Tomei and Rosanna Arquette naming some of the key silence breakers who lit the fuse to the movement, and big questions about what would happen if the recently accused James Franco and Aziz Ansari won in their categories (they didn't).

Leitch also spoke to Joblo about the rumours linking Michael Shannon to the role, stating that: «You know, I think, Michael Shannon, that name speaks for itself, he's an incredible actor and he can accomplish anything.

And that was a movie with some household name actors (who were about to become a full - fledged cinema movement as the so - called Frat Pack), not just a bunch of young faces you might recognize from high school movies like Clueless and American Pie.

There is nothing conspicuously revolutionary about the «The Kids Are All Right», a sleek, smart, enormously entertaining film about a middle - aged lesbian couple (played by Annette Bening and Julianne Moore) whose teenage kids seek out the sperm donor who is their biological father (Mark Ruffalo); it has big - name actors, a sun - dappled Los Angeles setting, and the feel of a classic Hollywood comedy at its snappiest.

The Martian is one of the most talked about films of the year and has been named one of the best movies of the year by groups such as National Board of Review, which also awarded top honors to Ridley Scott for Best Director, Matt Damon for Best Actor and Drew Goddard for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Freak Show is about a «fabulous, glitter - bedecked, gender - bending teenager» named Billy Bloom, played by up - and - coming young actor Alex Lawther, and his experiences at a public high school.

They take meetings with international financiers (some shadier than others) and even some A-list actors (Ryan Gosling, Jessica Chastain, The Artist's Berenice Bejo), while debriefing some legendary players about the process, including Martin Scorsese, Roman Polanski and Bernardo Bertolucci, to name - drop a few.

And how we learned about his casting is even stranger: his name was listed with the main actors in the small print of the recent Doctor Strange movie poster that was released during Comic - Con 2016.

Vacth has the same heavy - lidded, freckled, and inscrutable stare that has and still defines Rampling's mystique — what actor Dirk Bogarde called «The Look» in the 2011 documentary of the same name about Rampling.

Zhang's five features as a director — all made after he worked as a still photographer, then served as cinematographer on One and Eight (1982), Yellow Earth (1983), The Big Parade (1985), and Old Well (1987), in which he was also the lead actor — are the three features already mentioned, Red Sorghum (1987), and a period action thriller with political overtones about an airplane hijacking known as Code Name Puma or Code Name Cougar (1987), which has rarely been imported (and which colleagues have assured me isn't very good).

He'll drop names from Elia Kazan to Roger Corman, do a mean Hitchcock imitation (he appeared in the director's final film, «Family Plot») and talk about meeting Marilyn Monroe when she sat in on classes at Lee Strasberg's Actors Studio — and being stunned when she suddenly began crying as the two of them were passed by an older woman on a New York street in the early 1960s.

These stars, together with Call Me by Your Name's Armie Hammer, 31, and Good Time's Robert Pattinson, 31, didn't let the 200 people watching cramp their conversational style — they're actors, after all — as they animated one of the most competitive awards seasons in memory with a lively back - and - forth about the craft that unites them and the kind of artists, leaders and mentors they want to be.

It's a picaresque New York indie about a socially inept, emotionally damaged, stuttering motormouth named Keith Sontag (an insanely ambitious, almost fully - realized performance by first - time actor Dore Mann).

Talk about casting known actors in the roles of the subjects as opposed to more obscure names.

The «Justice League» actor can't say much about his role in the «Harry Potter» spinoff, but we now at least know the character's name and background.

So many movies about presidents (or statesmen / leaders in general) are distracting for me to watch, especially when the actor playing the leader in question is a big - name star.

Some of the best - received films at earlier festivals will get their North American launches here, including «Life is Beautiful,» Roberto Begnini's Cannes winner about an Italian clown who fights the Nazis with laughter; Rohmer's heartwarming love story «Autumn Tale,» which charmed Telluride audiences; Ken Loach's «My Name Is Joe,» with Cannes best actor winner Peter Mullen as a recovering alcoholic facing tough times; Theo Angelopoulos» «Eternity and a Day,» this year's Cannes winner; «The General» (1999) which won Boorman the best director prize at Cannes, and the Cannes and Telluride favorite «Claire Dolan,» by Lodge Kerrigan, with Emily Watson («Breaking the Waves») as a prostitute who thinks she can detach from her work.

The film is good to excellent in every way except morally, and there it's questionable more often than it should be, not because it's an evil film, or because the filmmaker or actors are bad people, but because the interplay of means and ends has been under - thought or misjudged, to the point where the film becomes a catalog of obscenities: a horror thrill - ride drawn from life, a thing for viewers to test themselves against while feeling just awful about Agu and his country, whatever its name is.

«The Social Network», David Fincher's incisive drama about the tangled creation of Facebook, dominated the 2010 awards of the Toronto Film Critics Association, winning five awards including Best Picture and Best Director.Jesse Eisenberg was named Best Actor for his performance as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, while his co-star Armie Hammer took Best Supporting Actor for -LSB-...]

Now a new report says there is an Ancient One shortlist of three names, with all the actors already contacted about possibly playing the character.

A few days ago, a reader responded to a trivia note by Steve Pond, about the number of Best Actor nominees whose Christian names begin with the same letter, with the question, «Is this the point at which we are officially over-saturated with Oscar stats?».

While it sounds like it could be a reference to the badass actor Keanu Reeves (I still hope it somehow is), it's actually a story about two «blerds» (black nerds) who have to infiltrate a drug cartel to rescue a stolen cat named Keanu.

Of course host Jimmy Kimmel found time for plenty of jokes about Harvey Weinstein during his opening monologue, but elsewhere, some of the industry's biggest names made their allegiances evident, from the introduction of Best Actor by Helen Mirren and Jane Fonda, Emma Stone singling out sole female Best Director nominee Greta Gerwig when announcing that award, and Jodie Foster and Jennifer Lawrence taking the stage to announce that it was a new day before they presented the Best Actress award to McDormand.

Further adding to awards season confusion, the SFCC named Gary Oldman Best Actor for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and We Need To Talk About Kevin's Tilda Swinson Best Actress.

One of the great things about the festival and its place in the calendar is the way that it introduces a host of new names (and gives a leg - up to some established ones) at the start of the new year; actors, writers and directors who, having impressed in Park City, will go on to big things throughout the rest of 2013.

Fassbender, who won Best Actor in Venice in 2011 for his performance in Steve McQueen's Shame, is currently shooting Ridley Scott's The Counselor alongside Brad Pitt and Cameron Diaz, while Domhnall Gleeson recently finished shooting Richard Curtis» new comedy About Time, and was recently named as one of Variety's ’10 Actors to Watch».

Frank Grillo His name and face might not be immediately recognizable to the general public, but in a remarkably short space of time — really the last year or so — Frank Grillo has become the kind of actor who makes everything he's in about ten percent better.

When Antoine Fuqua met with MGM to begin discussions about The Magnificent Seven, the big screen remake of the 1960s Western by the same name (which is based on the Japanese classic film, Seven Samurai), there weren't any major actors attached to the movie.

It must crush the soul of an actor, though, to have people shouting the name of a wisecracking bear at him on the day his movie about a slave rebellion in Haiti opens.

Fortunately, the two filmmakers have a dramatic tale to tell about the travails of delivering a film with outstanding production values and name actors for a remarkably low six - figure budget.

And for all his comments about specific actions, line readings, and so on made by the actors, he sheds no light on how he arrived at such offbeat casting choices; after all, the likes of Anderson, Dan Aykroyd, Anthony LaPaglia, and Eric Stoltz aren't exactly the names that immediately come to mind for a costume drama.

The Macau - born, Hong Kong and American raised actor is our first confirmed new addition to Joss Whedon «s S.H.I.E.L.D. pilot (not counting Clark Gregg, since his Agent Coulson is a known character), in the role of Melinda May, and just because that name isn't familiar might not mean we don't know anything about her.

by Bill Chambers Burt Reynolds and Frank Langella are very different actors (Burt could not have pulled off Dracula, nor would Langella have ever looked at home behind the wheel of a Trans - Am) and, as it happens, very different writers, yet in 2015's But Enough About Me: A Memoir and 2012's Dropped Names: Famous Men and Women As I Knew Them, respectively, they've taken a similar approach to memoir by reminiscing about, in Langella's words, «the transient company of many remarkable people.&rAbout Me: A Memoir and 2012's Dropped Names: Famous Men and Women As I Knew Them, respectively, they've taken a similar approach to memoir by reminiscing about, in Langella's words, «the transient company of many remarkable people.&rabout, in Langella's words, «the transient company of many remarkable people.»

«What's beautiful about representation, my girlfriend — her name is Daniella Garcia, she's Andy Garcia's daughter — an amazing actor.

«The New Tenants» Who: Director Joachim Back Country: USA, Denmark What: This is the only film with name actors, including Vincent D'Onofrio and Kevin Corrigan, and is about two men who move into an apartment together, in hopes for a fresh start, but discover their new abode has a terrifying history.

He even takes his time (about half an hour) to introduce our protagonist Bobby Sands and it's here, he is aided immeasurably by his lead actor; Michael Fassbender's transformation from a passionate healthy prisoner to one of starved frailty is astonishing and it's easy to see why he made a name for himself after this.

Hoffman replacing Wes Bentley's perfectly curated beard (there's also something about someone naming Plutarch replacing someone named Seneca that I can't quite put my finger on) is certainly a step in the right direction, but the film benefits just as much from the rule change to the Games, as it allows them to drop some established actors into the arena alongside the young ones.

IN AMERICA (Grade: C): Jim Sheridan — the Irish director of «My Left Foot» and «In the Name of the Father» — tries to bring off his own, semi-autobiographical version of «To Kill a Mockingbird» with this episodic drama about an Irish actor and his family trying to survive its first year in a Manhattan.

McNairy is slowly but surely establishing himself as one of contemporary film's most watchable character actors (he'll soon be seen in Steve McQueen «s buzzed - about «12 Years a Slave»), and the surprise scene - stealer here is Pais, one of those journeyman That - Guy actors whose face you know and name you probably don't.

Even so, I'm still not going to talk about any of the gags and I'm not going to reveal any of the names of the actors who pop in briefly for a cameo.

The British Board of Film Classification named the Mike Leigh - directed biopic as the most complained - about movie of 2014, because of a scene in which lead actor Timothy Spall «vigorously» clenches his buttocks, according to the Guardian.

He does his actors no favors in The Neon Demon, so while it should be nice that Refn has assembled a cast of mostly women after building his career on tales of rippling masculinity, it's more disconcerting that the filmmaker reduces the characters» conversations to catty chats about sensual lipstick names and the importance of cosmetic surgery.

The Disaster Artist was based on a book of the same name by supporting actor in the Room, Greg Sestero, who wrote about his experiences in making the film.