Sentences with phrase «actor in movies like»

Actor David Krumholtz — who's probably best known for his work as a young actor in movies like Addams Family Values and the Santa Clause films, as well as more recent regular roles on network fare like Numb3rs, Mom, and The Good Wife — went on Twitter yesterday to make a public apology for one of his recent films.

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Many of us relate very deeply to characters in movies, and we like to think that we share similar traits to the actor or, more importantly, to the role they play.

When starring in movies like «American Hustle» or «The Hangover,» 40 - year - old actor Bradley Cooper is able to stay at his normal weight — around 185 pounds.

Even though she's a successful actor in movies and shows like «Dexter,» Stiles obviously still has a way with words.

Filmmaking skill and solid actors can make these movies fun, but the truth and virtues buried in them is what makes these movies important — much like the original Star Wars movies were for the previous generation.

In an age like ours, when a Hollywood movie actor who was also head of the actors» union for a while became President of the United States, this prejudice might seem mere crankery.

Shola Arikusa is a movie directed by Okiki Afolayan, it's currently being shot in Akure and it stars actors like Yinka Quadri, Femi Adebayo, Odunlade Adekola, Toyosi Adesanya, amongst others.

Sambasa Nzeribe (Slow Country) beat top actors like Richard Mofe - Damijo, Ramsey Nuoah, Olu Jacobs, Femi Jacobs and Gregory Ojefua to win the Best Actor in Drama / TV / Movies.

It was the early»80s, and Nixon soon fell into the pack of child actors making after - school specials and message movies like Little Darlings and My Body, My Child, in which she and Sarah Jessica Parker starred as the daughters of a woman — Vanessa Redgrave — agonizing over whether to abort a child with severe birth defects.

More than that, it takes the whole thing over, like an over-the-top actor chewing up the scenery in someone else's movie.

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Daniel Kaluuya has appeared in two of the most influential movies in the past year — Get Out (which earned him a Best Actor nomination) and Black Panther — so it comes as no surprise that he looked like a total star at the Academy Awards on Sunday.

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Also a actor in many international movies like Sweet n Short (Leon Schuster) operation weisdorn (Marius weyers) Last man in africa (Sean Connery).

Though neither is as wacky as they have been in the past (like both actors» Almighty movies) they do a nice job of being silly with a purpose, though Carrell's moans and screams of shock and dismay deserve awards (no matter where he delivers them.)

Nicolas Cage is by far one of my favorite actors, because even in a bad movie like this one, he gives everything he's got.

The movie is both a tribute to the skill of Fruitvale Station and Creed director Ryan Coogler, who almost effortlessly scales up to a much bigger budgetary level with Black Panther, and to an ensemble cast full of actors who'd rarely get asked to play parts like these in a blockbuster like this.

In a far less villainous vein, Charles Middleton was cast as Tom Lincoln, father of the 16th president, in Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940); he also portrayed the Great Emancipator himself on several occasions — while in 1937's Stand - In, Middleton was hilariously cast as an unsuccessful actor who dresses like Lincoln in hopes of landing a movie rolIn a far less villainous vein, Charles Middleton was cast as Tom Lincoln, father of the 16th president, in Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940); he also portrayed the Great Emancipator himself on several occasions — while in 1937's Stand - In, Middleton was hilariously cast as an unsuccessful actor who dresses like Lincoln in hopes of landing a movie rolin Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940); he also portrayed the Great Emancipator himself on several occasions — while in 1937's Stand - In, Middleton was hilariously cast as an unsuccessful actor who dresses like Lincoln in hopes of landing a movie rolin Illinois (1940); he also portrayed the Great Emancipator himself on several occasions — while in 1937's Stand - In, Middleton was hilariously cast as an unsuccessful actor who dresses like Lincoln in hopes of landing a movie rolin 1937's Stand - In, Middleton was hilariously cast as an unsuccessful actor who dresses like Lincoln in hopes of landing a movie rolIn, Middleton was hilariously cast as an unsuccessful actor who dresses like Lincoln in hopes of landing a movie rolin hopes of landing a movie role.

As an actor, Bell appeared in the occasional made - for - TV movie and in series like WKRP in Cincinatti and Dynasty.

Something about baseball seems to bring out the silly side in moviemakers — even in a movie like The Fan, which starts out well - crafted and deadly serious and seems to have good enough actors and a savvy enough director to stay that way.

I know what I am getting with Adam Sandler and I like him but this movie was an ensemble and I thought that Drew Barrymore and the younger actors in particular put in great performances.

Whether the young actor really was a star in the making or not, his career had gotten off to an inarguably positive start.Over the next several years, Pepper would find success in movies like Flags of Our Fathers and True Grit, as well as the TV mini-series The Kennedys.

In a movie like this, almost everything depends on the lead actor — and Stephen Dorff does not disappoint.

Between highly forgettable vanity projects, which he's been churning out at a torrid clip, Franco has essentially been playing an indifferent actor giving indifferent performances in terrible big - studio movies like «Oz the Great and Powerful» and «The Interview.»

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.

Having strong actors in the leads (except Wilson, who seemed like some MTV «be in a movie» contest winner) helps elevate some of the material, but there are too many cobwebs to get around.

The enjoyment comes from the two masterful Method actors, the introspective Brando - like Sean Penn searching for the truth about his role and the more instinctive Nicole Kidman playing to the exotic foreignness her character conveys in a rather prim way, as they play their frustrated oil and water would - be lover roles without even touching or expressing any love except through quiet sighs (a restrained a romance as there ever was in a movie).

Clearly, no actor would say no to a phone call from Steven Spielberg asking if they'd like to participate in an Abraham Lincoln movie, so even the smallest part is filled by either a big name movie star or a noticeable character actor, among them Lukas Haas, Hal Holbrook, Joseph Gordon - Levitt, Tommy Lee Jones (serving as the de facto emotional center for the movie), David Strathairn, Lee Pace, Jackie Earle Haley, Bruce McGill, Gregory Itzin, Jared Harris, Michael Stuhlbarg and Walton Goggins.

Chewing the scenery MY ASS Anne Hathaway did a spectacular playing Tantee A PERSON IN PAIN as she is singing she is putting emotion into the song that way we feel the pain she's going through how is that in any way «chewing the scenery» 2nd the close - ups have a purpose Tom Hooper wanted to you to feel the actor's emotion's and he wanted to see the actors sing up - close because obviously this is a sad story and he wanted it to look like staged play is that a crime 3rd why is everyone nitpicking we get a good quality movie for the first time and this is what u do NITPICK NITPICK NITPICK this was a fantastic movie and you know it nitpickeIN PAIN as she is singing she is putting emotion into the song that way we feel the pain she's going through how is that in any way «chewing the scenery» 2nd the close - ups have a purpose Tom Hooper wanted to you to feel the actor's emotion's and he wanted to see the actors sing up - close because obviously this is a sad story and he wanted it to look like staged play is that a crime 3rd why is everyone nitpicking we get a good quality movie for the first time and this is what u do NITPICK NITPICK NITPICK this was a fantastic movie and you know it nitpickein any way «chewing the scenery» 2nd the close - ups have a purpose Tom Hooper wanted to you to feel the actor's emotion's and he wanted to see the actors sing up - close because obviously this is a sad story and he wanted it to look like staged play is that a crime 3rd why is everyone nitpicking we get a good quality movie for the first time and this is what u do NITPICK NITPICK NITPICK this was a fantastic movie and you know it nitpickers

I really really dislike the main character like he's actually in real life gonna get the girl of his dream, are you serious??? He has a crooked smile, wears pajamas all day outside of his house and talk's like a gay poet, I just think he sucks as an actor, uggh I don't know why I dislike him so much after this movie.On the other hand Rachel Bilson is very cute and not as bad of an actor This movie solely focuses on telling the story and making us like the characters for themselves.

But I was really looking forward to «The Haunting» for many reasons: the actors (Liam Neeson, in particular), the story (I haven't seen any of the other Hill House movies, but my dad seems to like them and the plot intrigued me), and I was hoping for a movie that would scare me by being subtle, psychological, and spontaneous, like the kind «ol Hitchcock made.

Actors like Theo James and Jai Courtney may or may not be talented outside this series, but in this movie they come across as a hunk and a bully, respectively, and nothing more.

But Last Days works only when it deviates from this pattern, as it does in a hilarious scene depicting the rock star's friendly yet indifferent agreement to buy space in the yellow pages from a clueless door - to - door salesman (Thadeus A. Thomas, the movie's only perfectly cast actor), or when it focuses on other members of Blake's entourage, or when the camera retreats at a snail's pace from the mansion for what feels like eternity.

The three lead actors — along with Tom Hollander as the perverse villain Isaacs, Olivia Williams, Jason Flemyng and Jessica Barden as the British family Hanna meets in the desert — have the kind of acting chops you don't usually see in movies like this, and they display them as much as Seth Lochhead and David Farr's script lets them.

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...

Long admired for his efforts in movies like «Sid and Nancy,» «State of Grace,» «True Romance» and «Léon: The Professional,» among others, the actor finally landed his first Oscar nomination just six years ago, for «Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.»

@jenjuneapparebtly youhaven'tseen liam neeson in taken, a-tea, oranyof theother movies he's been in, i mean man i'm 13 and i have more sense than you than to have those annoying twilight people in my movies.and all the old actors are awesome like ian mckellen, liam neeson, michael caine, robert duvall, jef bridges, bruce willis, Harrison Ford, i mean all these amazing actors that are oldare freakin» awesome.

It looks like Sony is aiming high for the lead role in Bloodshot, the first offering from the studio's shared Valiant movie universe, with The Wrap reportedly revealing a wishlist of actors to play the title character.

But I will say that making this movie and kind of what we had to contend with, as actors, in making something like this, all of the pieces that Naomi was talking about had to — you know, having the table moving out and needing to rely on each other the way the company does, I think is incredibly helpful now going into theatre in that way and realizing that you're you know you operate very much as a unit.

«These are all dark - skinned actors playing Africans, and I feel like it would have just been off to see me as a bi-racial American with a Nigerian accent just pretending that I'm the same colour as everyone else in the movie,» she explained.

Add in actors like Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Reese Witherspoon, Benecio Del Toro, Eric Roberts and Martin Short, and you have something that could be much more lively than the last few PTA movies.

WHY: Mel Gibson is no stranger to a comeback, and following his brief return to the big screen with movies like «The Beaver,» «Machete Kills» and «The Expendables 3,» the actor delivers arguably his best work in years in the indie crime thriller «Blood Father.»

Seeing the three of them and other respected actors like Molina, Dean Norris, and Michael Kelly assembled here in a movie unspooling just before Thanksgiving gives Secret the illusion of being an awards season contender.

Some of the actors offer their own opinions about what makes the movie scary — and how the tightly - designed sets helped them understand what it would feel like to be stuck in a confined space.

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries Michael Keaton, «The Company» Kevin Kline, «As You Like It» — WINNER Oliver Platt, «The Bronx is Burning» Sam Shepard, «Ruffian» John Turturro, «The Bronx is Burning»

Mixing sweeping views with the back story of three men — Jimmy Chin, Conrad Anker, and Renan Ozturk — who attempt the titular summit in the Himalayas, the documentary captures the real tension and superhuman feats that movies like Everest have to portray through actors.

Like Carell, she is convincing in the tennis scenes — augmented by special effects, both actors create the illusion of playing at a high level — but, more importantly, she captures the fighting spirit of King, who, as the movie opens, is beginning to realize that she can be true to herself only if she does two things.

Actors aren't Navy SEALs, I know, but Johansson was, in fact, brave to take on this role: brave in that it's a sharp left turn from what audiences expect or even like; brave in that she embraced an artistically bold method of building a movie when most other movie stars would have said no thanks to the idea of chatting up random Scotsmen in a van.

The characters seem like actors and not like people at all in the sense that you can tell this is a movie.

Sure it's got James Franco, but the real star of the movie is Andy Serkis, whose motion - capture computer - enhanced performance as a smart ape named Caesar just won him an acting nomination alongside actors like Nick Nolte and Christopher Plummer, who didn't act standing in front of a greenscreen in a bodysuit.