Sentences with phrase «actor in films like»

Phillippe has established himself as a credible dramatic actor in films like Igby Goes Down and Breach, but he regresses here to the kind of sneering playboy roles he vacantly inhabited before he proved he could act.

The same could be said for Asa Butterfield who started as a kid actor in films like The Space Between Us and Hugo.

Not exact matches

Actor Joel Edgerton («Warrior,» «Exodus,» «The Great Gatsby») wrote, directed and stars in the film, which is clearly reminiscent of similar thrillers like «Fear,» «Fatal Attraction» and even Michael Haneke's fantastic «Caché,» but gleefully twisted enough to distance itself from the pack.

As the actor who redefined what it means to be The Man in Hollywood with films like «Pulp Fiction,» he simply put too much into the role, making the Octopus one of his least memorable characters to date.

Of course, there will always be skeptics who claim Nolan cast the singer to help market his film, but the truth of the matter is, the director's films have always contained concepts (like «Inception» and «Interstellar») or iconic figures (Batman and The Joker) who are far bigger than any actor who has appeared in them.

In a recent interview with The Guardian, actor Christopher Eccleston opened up about filming «Thor: The Dark World,» and said it was like a «gun in your mouth.&raquIn a recent interview with The Guardian, actor Christopher Eccleston opened up about filming «Thor: The Dark World,» and said it was like a «gun in your mouth.&raquin your mouth.»

Reagan was a well - known actor before he became president, but he wasn't always watching his own films in the White House theater — that was only on special occasions like his birthday.

«This job is working with interesting people and interesting actors — I didn't feel like I needed to be in another period drama, but this was just a really interesting director who had done a really interesting film,» says actor @douglasbooth of the @tribeca Film Festival film «Mary Shelley.»

Actor Marshall Allman, who plays Don Miller in «Blue Like Jazz» film, with actress, Claire Holt, who plays «Penny.»

He and Celestin transferred schools to escape the shadow of the case, and Parker went on to a successful career as an actor, appearing in films like The Great Debaters and Red Tails.

Ethan has also been seen throughout literature and film, like actor Ethan Hawk, whose prime was in the 90s.

The first surprise is finding the hut lined with photographs of quite healthy prisoners, working in the sun and looking much like the actors in the Hollywood film.

I did a term in film studies at college, and I like to know details, so actors / actresses names, directors, film scores.

Daniel Craig is a very well - known British actor, but it wasn't until his early breakout roles in films like Layer Cake and Road to Perdition that he ever made it on the radar of American film watchers.

Fans may not like the CGI zombies, but unlike the video game creatures in I am Legend (2007), these are more filmed actor - CGI tweaked hybrids; their believability is really dependent on how much viewers will accept the virus as a fast - moving bug which immediately transforms a host into a rabid sprinter with super-strength (not unlike 28 Days Later).

Django Unchained is an epic film with a simple and straightforward story that is as entertaining as they come; for all the hyper - explosive and bloody bullet hits, the film shines in its more quieter moments, where an actor like Christoph Waltz can excel in his charm or Samuel L. Jackson can ooze with ill - intent.

The filmmakers went into this project insisting that all the actors do their own singing, and while «crooners» like Pierce Brosnan and Colin Firth (let alone Stellan Skarsgård, who is very, very brave to have done his own singing) are not going to go down in history as much more than barely competent, star Meryl Streep, who has already proven her musical chops theatrically and previously in such films as Postcards from the Edge, is marvelous, if a bit too country - yodelish for this patently pop score.

David Starsky is just the sort of uptight, anal retentive stick - in - the - mud that Stiller's has a lot of success with in films like Meet the Parents and Along Came Polly - while Wilson's Ken Hutchinson is reminiscent of virtually every character in the actor's repertoire (with few exceptions, including his rare dramatic performance in The Minus Man).

«The pleasure of this unique film comes in watching superb actors dine on Mamet's pungent language like the feast it is.»

Drawing inspiration from such pivotal usage of practical effects in films like E.T., The Empire Strikes Back, and The Thing, the team intends on building a practical robot puppet for the young actor playing Wei to interact with and get better performances from.

The rest of the actors look like they're lost in some direct - to - video «Speed Racer» sequel, save for Evangeline Lilly, who turns in some nice work as the film's Adrian.

Like most great comics, he also decided fairly early that he wanted to be taken «seriously» as an actor, and so he traded in «Ace Ventura» and «Dumb and Dumber» for films like «The Majestic» and «Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.&raLike most great comics, he also decided fairly early that he wanted to be taken «seriously» as an actor, and so he traded in «Ace Ventura» and «Dumb and Dumber» for films like «The Majestic» and «Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.&ralike «The Majestic» and «Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.»

Since their notable appearance in a song and dance routine with actor Dick Van Dyck in the 1964 film Mary Poppins, these little black and white creatures have scored numerous screen roles in films like Madagascar, Cat's Don't Dance, Surf's Up, Happy Feet and this fall's sequel Happy Feet Two.

This is really the actor's moment to shine after over a decade in the black wig, working that cape like America's Next Top Model, increasingly alluring visual - kei, Jrock star styling and short appearances in each of the films.

Handsomely mounted by Creed director Ryan Coogler and starring an enviable slate of black actors that makes cameoing comics godhead Stan Lee almost seem lost, the film is provocative and satisfying in ways that are long overdue, like its ornate, culturally dense production design and the deeper subtexts of honor, compassion and destiny.

Studi, a great actor who has a long career playing fearsome warriors in films like Dances With Wolves and The Last of the Mohicans, is equally stoic but is given even less character shading.

The Beijing - raised, London - and Mount Holyoke — educated filmmaker shares with the American Honey helmer an interest in young people at the margins, a knack for eliciting fantastic performances from amateur or under - the - radar actors, and what film critic April Wolfe described to me as a «dream - like realism.»

Cutting his losses at home (where ethnic actors like Al Pacino and, interestingly enough, Robert DeNiro were getting the plum roles), Dullea returned to Canada for a number of interesting but distinctly B - grade films (Welcome to Blood City with a pre-comeback Jack Palance) and the continent for guest starring roles in poorly - received art house productions (Pope Joan with Liv Ullmann) and the occasional thriller (as Mia Farrow's disbelieving stuffed shirt of a husband in The Haunting of Julia).

Some of the banter between Ruth and the jaded cop named Det. William Bendix (Gary Anthony Williams, TMNT: Out of the Shadows — yes, William Bendix, like the classic film actor) on the case offer some insights on where the film could have found its comedic spark, but even those scenes lose flavor when we see that cop break down in anguish because of his own personal relationship issues bubbling up to the surface.

A docudrama that in its early scenes feels like a documentary — the co-directors have a nonfiction background, and the actors are actual carnival performers — the film plays out like a small - scale fairy tale.

It never flashes back, as you might expect in a film about memories, but instead lingers on the faces of actors as they process emotions or focuses on simple items that hold intense meaning, like keychains.

But this movie also like Ghiblis other movies get moderately big actors or much older actors, such as in this film they got Carol Burnett, and Amy Poelher and Will Arnett.

Surprisingly though, it's not the Oscar winning / nominated actors like Blanchett, Hilary Swank or Greg Kinnear or even the excellent supporting actors like Gary Cole, J.K. Simmons or Giovanni Ribisi that shine in this film but it's Keanu Reeves who steals the show in this impressive ensemble.

Like in «M * A * S * H» and his later films, Altman creates a startling sense of reality by having the actors talk over each other's lines.

Everyone must watch this film its my humble request... I liked it so much that i watched it more than 100 times.The song the cameras all are well set... Both actors looks charming and they have really given their maximum effort in making such a marvelous film... Come up with new films like this in future..

It was while she was working as an extra in various film productions that she answered Kusama's ad for actors; after being cast as Girlfight's protagonist, she trained intensively to condition her body like that of a boxer to such a degree that, at one point, she was even asked to go pro.

Like Kurosawa did before him, Altman used multiple cameras to film the big crowd scenes; the actors had to remain in character because they had no way of knowing what footage of them might be used.

In a film like this, it's the actors that make it good or not.

Australian actor Joel Edgerton has been starring in movies for 20 years, from homegrown hits like Erskineville Kings (1999) to playing Luke Skywalker's uncle in the Star Wars prequel trilogy to acclaimed films like Animal...

He and his lead actors, including Cage and costar Anton Yelchin, did appear in photos online recently wearing t - shirts that read, «I have no comment on the film or others connected with the picture,» which isn't, strictly speaking, a criticism but sure doesn't feel like an endorsement.

After making his name as an actor in acclaimed films like Control and RocknRolla, Kebbell discovered that he...

I think the best part of being an actor is that to me it feels like I've been in the best film school for the last twenty years because not only do I see the director work on set, I see how the producers work, I see how the DPs work, I see how the gaffers work, I see how the costume department works, I see how the production office works.

With so much non-fiction footage available, culled from such a long time span, the last thing the case would seem to cry out for is a conventional dramatization, the kind in which glamorous actors put on just enough makeup to look 10 percent like the people they play, without any hope of imbuing the roles with the intensity already captured on film.

The film's largely no - name cast does include Max von Sydow, an actor accomplished and old enough to forgive and not second - guess some of the questionable recent projects he's agreed to pop up in, like this and the wretched Branded.

A mural maker fluent in the extended, meandering, zooming wide shot, Altman could swallow elaborate social environments like Hollywood in a single gulp; and by peopling those environments with actors set free to improvise, he allowed an uncanny degree of naturalistic behavior to indemnify the real - lifeness he collected by, it seems, just rolling and rolling film and looking around him.

They don't even really make a big deal out of gayness in this version, which is odd, but this is a dumbed down and less interesting version of the same story, which would be fine if it took advantage of having actors who don't even have to act if they can dance in a film like this.

A new report gives us several actors who may be cast to play a young Han Solo in a Star Wars prequel film and I'm not liking any of them.

I did like how she thanked some of the smaller named actors in the film «Precious,» but you know once she wins the Oscar, she's going to speak even more deliberately.

It features actors who showed up in the third cycle of Star Wars films that began in 2015 with «The Force Awakens,» in which classic characters like Han Solo, Chewbacca and Leia were mixed in with new ones played by Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver and John Boyega.

On another track, actor Topher Grace joins writer - director Paul Weitz for a respectable feature - length commentary in which they mock Grace's Agent Smith - like attire and mutually confess to making the film in partial tribute to their respective fathers.