Sentences with phrase «actors were on point»

It was absolutely well done and the actors were on point.

Not exact matches

A few times during the session Kogan made a point of arguing that data audits are essentially useless for catching bad actors — claiming that anyone who wants to misuse data can simply put a copy on a hard drive and «store it under the mattress».

At one point, virtual currencies were just viewed as something to be consumed by underground actors like hackers and those on the dark web.

Though the Q1 report of Akamai on Internet security pointed to third - party plugins to be the malicious actors and explained the same, the Q2 report has taken the widely used data exchange platform WordPress for a case study.

«You're on constant interview as an actor, to the point where auditioning is really the job,» Hale said.

At this point, the first movie is set to come out this Christmas, and the second will hit December of 2013, but Warner Bros is definitely interested in exploring options for stretching things into a third movie, provided all the actors are willing to come back on for another round.

The actor would be the youngest to take on the role (he's 26 years old), and he has only been in a handful of major films; both points which actually may be an asset rather than a handicap.

As for the broader point about political actors on the internet stage not always being whom they appear to be, can that possibly NOT be true?

Exactly what happens in the uterus to transmit this risk still isn't clear, but a new study on mice points to the placenta as a key actor.

Case in point: Get Out actor Daniel Kaluuya showed up to the 2018 Oscars on Sunday night wearing, you guessed it: Fenty Beauty Pro Filt» r Foundation.

Ah you know what time of year it is when name brand actors take on roles in which their characters all have reasons to be incredibly unlikable, from the audience point of view.

At one point, the protagonists draw attention to each other's «tell,» and it's impressive how both actors, even in the smallest dramatic moments, play those tells to let the audience in on whether Gerry and Curtis are lying without anyone ever directly commenting on it.

The performances make this film, so the actors needed to be right on point, or this film wouldn't have been nearly as good as it is.

Like the book on which it's based, a memoir by Wiseau's «The Room» co-star Greg Sestero and writer Tom Bissell, the events of «The Disaster Artist» unfold not from Tommy's point of view, but from the perspective of Greg (Dave Franco), an aspiring 19 - year - old actor who meets the 40 - something Tommy in a San Francisco theater class.

«The Prestige» From acclaimed director Christopher Nolan (Memento, Batman Begins, Insomnia) and starring a powerhouse cast including Golden Globe ® Nominee Hugh Jackman (Kate and Leopold), Christian Bale (Batman Begins, American Psycho), four - time Golden Globe ® Nominee Scarlett Johansson (Lost in Translation, Match Point, A Love Song for Bobby Long, Girl with a Pearl Earring) and the legendary two - time Academy Award ® Winner Michael Caine (Best Supporting Actor for The Cider House Rules and Hannah and Her Sisters), «The Prestige» is the mysterious story of two magicians in Victorian - era London whose intense rivalry leads them on a life - long battle for supremacy filled with obsession, deceit and jealousy with astonishing twists and deadly consequences.

The main selling point of this release is a superb feature - length commentary by DiCillo in which he once again clarifies that Living in Oblivion's Chad Palomino is in no way, shape, or form based on Pitt, insisting he's worked with actors who were «way more pissy and weird.»

The role marked another important turning point in Murphy's genesis as a comedic actor: It was the first time that he really began to experiment with makeup and prosthetics in the creation of multiple personae on screen.

Elsewhere, the cast looks impressive boasting a wealth of former Oscar - winning and Oscar - nominated actors and while rightful concerns have been raised on the cast being too large, almost to the point of there being too many big name talents involved, Nolan's expert handling of ensembles may prove him right once again.

If the 300 actor strikes a deal, then Point Break 2.0 will be one of three projects he works on this year, following Alex Proyas» mythological tentpole Gods of Egypt and prior to the start of production on the Olympus Has Fallen sequel, London Has Fallen.

Even the kid actors (Lucy Fry and David Mazouz) are good, and we all know what sort of damage child actors can do to a horror movie when they're not on point.

She pointed out that most of the actors on hand for tonight's awards came from other cities, states and countries and had been brought together to create art.

Similar claims have been made by many a tiresome music biopic over the last decade and a half but approximately zero actor - director combo's have pulled off the trick so convincingly as Taylor and Boseman do in Get On Up, which easily blows the former's mediocre predecessor The Help out of its shallow waters to the point of game - changing.

You're 40 years into your career at this point, and you're working with a young actor, Jack O'Connell, who is extraordinary in Godless and recently owned the London stage in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

Kline looks to be on point here as Flynn, and the actor's relationship with Aadland is certainly a curious period in his life.

Unlike many other character actors, he had been wrong on that point for quite a few yearsâ $» at the very least, since late 1967, when filmgoers first heard the line «What we have here is failure to communicate» out of the mouth of the pusselgutted chain - gang overseer in Stuart Rosenberg's Cool Hand Luke.

So, we thought it was about time to pay tribute to this actor, artist, and sex symbol by pointing you to where you can catch his most iconic roles on streaming.

There are no two actors on the planet that are better choices for Andy and Strickland than Day and Cube (bonus points for working an N.W.A. song title into his dialogue), and the supporting cast is just as good.

Kennedy points out a favorite scene teeming with character actors: «Nothing on that screen is dead.

Why It's So Scary: 30 minutes of gameplay and it's a point - n - click adventure game with digitized actors reenacting a man's first date with a cute lady while on holiday in Portugal?

While I could go on and on about Andy Serkis» amazing performance as Caesar and how he absolutely needs to be recognized come Oscar season, I need to also point out that all the actors involved deserve special mention for delivering outstanding performances including Woody Harrelson as «The Colonel.»

As EW points out, Wood is not only the former Frodo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, but also has plenty of horror movie experience from both sides of the camera — as an actor in Robert Rodriguez's The Faculty and the excellent 2012 remake of Maniac, and as a cofounder of indie - horror company SpectreVision, where he has helped a diverse array of projects to the screen, including A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night and most recently The Greasy Strangler, which will be released in theaters and on demand this Friday, Oct. 7.

He went on to add, «As soon as you do comedy, then you're not serious anymore, which has always bothered me because the last time you looked, the Greeks are holding up two masks»» and to be able to do both seems to be the point of being an actor.»

Movies of this type are challenging not only because the characters have to be interesting — which means the actors must be on point all the time — but also since the standard is very high.

Even the series» few returning actors, Johnny Depp and Geoffrey Rush, seem to be running on fumes at this point, although they're still the best part about these films.

It's an amazing piece of work, and at this point Joaquin Phoenix and Paul have something so rare between them as an actor and director, and Sam Waterston's daughter, Katherine, is in it, and she's riveting every minute she's on screen.

Despite widely circulated reports that Tatum's deal for the title role in the standalone Gambit movie was unravelling to the point of the actor ditching the X-Men character's signature trench coat and energized deck of cards, word broke over the weekend that the Magic Mike star is still on board.

Shot in a stark black and white, with the actors repeatedly isolated in their own frames, some really creepy images of crazy nuns (the long early sequence wherein the nuns are interrogated and exorcised is a miniature masterpiece) and a series of subjective tracking shots implicating the audience in the chaos, the film reaches a high point when the priest consults the local rabbi (also played by Voit) in a series of head - on medium shots.

Stuck in a car on 2,200 mile road trip with one obnoxious person is more than enough, so while Peter Highman (Robert Downey Jr.) laments his misfortune of having to hitch a ride from Atlanta to Los Angeles with the trouble - causing, id - driven wannabe actor Ethan Tremblay (Zach Galifianakis), we have to put up with Ethan and the occasionally violent (in a rage to the point of blackout even), manic - depressive loose cannon that is Peter.

The effect on human actors is particularly harsh — there are points where The Hobbit looks like the world's most elaborate live action role play.

It's interesting that you say so much of the film depends on the actors in any given section — for me, each short in Paris, je t «aime had a fairly distinct directorial point of view.

By making «Spring Breakers,» a curiously mainstream (at least by Korine's standards) crime / exploitation picture — that could be described as «Drive» by way of Russ Meyer, Terry Richardson and «Point Blank» — featuring a bevy of teen starlets best known for wholesome work on the Disney Channel, and a performance from restless A-lister James Franco that might just be one of the actor's best to date.

The Focus Points (35:02 with «Play All» option, HD) include «Sam Worthington is Perseus,» «Zeus: Father of Gods and Men,» «Enter the World of Hades,» «Calibos: The Man Behind the Monster,» «Tenerife: A Continent on an Island,» «Scorpioch,» «Actors and Their Stunts,» «Wales: A Beautiful Scarred Landscape,» «Bringing Medusa to Life,» and «Prepare for the Kraken!»

But in a landscape that features James Woods, «Look What You Made Me Do,» and Barb possibly winning an Emmy, what's the point of hating on a sometimes - annoying actor who's having a good run?

Luckily, he's matched by a superior supporting cast of actors who deliver equally assured performances here, even when the people they're playing feel less organic than machined to make a political point about tolerance and hypocrisy: To name just a few, Jesse Plemons, Rory Cochrane, Bill Camp, Ben Foster and the ubiquitous Timothée Chalamet are all on hand for some duration of the journey; Rosamund Pike, as a woman they meet named Rosalie Quaid, delivers a searing portrayal of trauma at its most physically excruciating and psychically disorienting.

Many will point to Anthony Hopkins» Best Actor win for The Silence of the Lambs in the 1992 ceremony despite being on screen for less than 20 minutes of the two hour film.

«When the Coens cast me in their movie, my life took a huge turn because all I had really done was theater up to that point,» Stuhlbarg, 49, says of his experience on A Serious Man, the cosmically dark masterpiece in which the actor, playing the besieged Minnesota patriarch Larry Gopnik, shrank under a storm of professional and personal ruin.

What's extraordinary about Aaron's performance is that he was doing it against me or the script supervisor or an actor we had on the set at points.

There comes a point when the actors are ready and I consult with them, as it doesn't make sense to discuss what they're wearing earlier on in their life while they're building the character.

Perhaps that the routine and bland presentation of the spy work is the point, given that the focus is on the Muir / Bishop relationship — and, later, Bishop's relationship with Beirut - based relief worker Elizabeth Hadley (Catherine McCormack)-- but it's not like this «human» element is developed to much satisfaction given the dearth of chemistry between the three actors.

Pirandello's play posed the tantalizing question of who owns a theatrical character, a question that becomes even more pointed when an actor's performance can be immortalized on film.