Sentences with phrase «aging actor»

The list of comparably - aged actors who wouldn't imbue this sleepy film with as much personality and pizzazz as Clement is endless.

Annette Bening stars as aging actor and matriarch Irina, alongside one of the most stellar onscreen ensembles in recent memory, including Saoirse Ronan, Elisabeth Moss, and Corey Stoll.

«Their Finest» is small - scale, as WWII movies go, but that gives you time to appreciate its characters (including Bill Nighy as a demanding aging actor with hidden softness) and the moments it captures related to the everyday horrors of war — the inconvenience / tragedy of crew members not showing up on set because they were killed in the Blitz, for example.

Murray plays aging actor Bob Harris who befriends lonely and bored Charlotte in a Tokyo hotel bar, where they find they share a common problem... Stunning urban cinematography in Japan, quirky and off - beat!

However, her turn as the self - destructive daughter of a middle - age actor trying to make a comeback on the stage in Birdman earned her the first Oscar nomination of her career, getting a nod in the Best Supporting Actress category.

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel hosts a cast of aging actors playing a group of retirees looking for affordable housing in a rundown hotel in an exotic location.

Aging actor Lester Rosenthal (Gabriel Byrne) has lost his way.

The humour is reminiscent of recent low - brow aging actors behaving badly comedies such as Last Vegas (2013) and Going in Style (2017).

«The Towering Inferno,» «The Poseidon Adventure,» and «Airport 75» were an opportunity for audiences to watch talented, aging actors slum it in a story where the melodrama and special effects were beneath them.

If there's anything Tarantino does best, it's giving aging actors their due or sparking late - in - career resurgences.

A recent renaissance of overlooked twilight - aged actors getting their overdue leading role, has almost formed a sub-genre.

Following in the footsteps of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Dustin Hoffman's directorial debut assembles a who's who of Britain's finest ageing actors for an amiable adaptation of a late 90s play.

Johannson is a great example of a twenty - something actress working with middle aged actors so often that we forget how old she really is.

Watching the two aging actors step back into the ring decades later is not only embarrassing for them, but the audience as well, particularly when the movie is built around a bunch of unfunny old geezer jokes and lame callbacks to their respective boxing characters.

So, if you're looking for the same chuckles, violent eye candy and seeing some of your favorite aging actors embody James Bond or Rambo, give «RED 2» a look.

A magnificent line - up of French acting greats (among them Mathieu Amalric, Pierre Arditi, Sabine Azéma, Anne Consigny, Hippolyte Girardot, Michel Piccoli, Lambert Wilson and longtime Resnais muse Sabine Azéma) play versions of themselves, performers who watch a new production of a play they once starred in and end up reenacting their own versions in tandem, aging actor reincarnating the young lovers of the Orpheus and Eurydice story.

Jon Hamm is a painfully handsome middle - aged actor who was perfectly cast in «Mad Men.»

The play within a play motif is used here to great advantage as an aging actor famous for pablum seeks to redeem his self - worth by mounting a prestigious piece on Broadway, that place where legions of the acting community believe is Shangri - La.

Their aging actors may not be as muscular, but they're sturdier, less concerned about age — more willing to admit its existence and simply get on with it.

It is tempting to draw parallels between the aging rocker and the aging actor, but while not all Pacino's films can be considered classics it would be churlish to say he «sold out» his artistic credentials as Danny clearly sees himself as doing.

It's obviously cobbled together with aging actors and references no one surely remembers and that's all part of the charm.

Starring Michael Keaton as an aging actor attempting to reclaim his flagging celebrity (sound familiar?)

And while the aging actor and character admits it's not as easy as it used to be, fans can still expect a whole lot of action as Indy tackles a new challenge with a young tag - a-long (Shia La Beouf) and runs into an old romantic interest (Karen Allen).

The Oscar winner will play an aging actor in Tarantino's ninth movie, with Margot Robbie reportedly being lined up to play Sharon Tate

He plays Riggan, an aged actor living off the memories of being the lead in the powerful superhero franchise, Birdman.

After Liam Neeson launched himself as an action star at age 56 with «Taken» (2008), middle - aged actors are showing up in cinemas to prove that they can take it too.

Set in 1969, «Once Upon a Time in Hollywood» stars DiCaprio and Pitt as an aging actor and stuntman, respectively, who try to make their way back into the film industry — and the actor's neighbor just happens to be Sharon Tate (Robbie).

For any reboot to work it will depend on who they hire to replace the aging actor.

Not only is the aging actor overweight and unemployed, but he has just been dumped by both his girlfriend and his agent.

One attribute that he always brings to his pictures is to give a second life to either an ageing actor or to take a chance on someone who has for various reasons fell by the wayside.

Michael Keaton plays Riggan, an aging actor who years ago starred in three Birdman superhero movies.

Perhaps more exciting than the two leads, however, is the prospect of seeing Robert De Niro in a role that could mark a return to form for the aging actor.

Michael Keaton plays Riggan, an aging actor who years ago starred in three Birdman...

We get to have our cake and eat it, too: basking in the aging actor's still - formidable star power, while also taking a perverse pleasure in seeing him bite it over and over and over again for our amusement.

Art reflects life in this tale of an aging baseball scout named Gus, played by the aging actor Clint Eastwood.

A soul - searcher family drama, the film follows Winstead's Alex, an environmentalist attorney so preoccupied with work that her husband (Messina), feeling neglected and trapped as a stay - at - home dad, takes a sabbatical from the family, leaving Alex to take care of her aging actor dad (Johnson) and ten - year - old son (Skylar Gaertner).

The Oscar nominations for lead actor are in, and they include Michael Keaton, who in «Birdman» portrays an aging actor who once played a superhero; Eddie Redmayne for his portrayal of physicist Stephen Hawking in «Theory of Everything»; and Benedict...

What opportunities do these scripts give to aging actors?

The Oscar nominations for lead actor are in, and they include Michael Keaton, who in «Birdman» portrays an aging actor who once played a superhero; Eddie Redmayne for his portrayal of physicist Stephen Hawking in «Theory of Everything»; and Benedict Cumberbatch as WWII code breaker Alan Turing...

The technical effects and make - up used to age these actors, along with strong performances by secondary cast members, might be worth the price of tickets alone.

The Oscar nominations for lead actor are in, and they include Michael Keaton, who in «Birdman» portrays an aging actor who once played a superhero; Eddie Redmayne for his portrayal of physicist Stephen Hawking in «Theory of Everything»; and Benedict Cumberbatch as WWII code breaker Alan Turing in «The Imitation Game.»

But both my head and my heart say Keaton will win for his thrilling portrayal of an aging actor trying to regain his former glory (and suppress his nagging demons) with the staging of a risky Broadway play.

Michael Keaton, on the other hand, would be everybody's first choice to play an aging actor best known for starring as an iconic, winged...

The aging actor staged a comeback for both the character and himself in the last installment of that franchise, Rocky Balboa.

It finds Brooks once again playing himself, this time as a struggling middle - aged actor and filmmaker who accepts a questionable gig as a comic ambassador to the Muslim world (in a neat bit of stunt casting, Fred Thompson, also playing himself, gives Brooks the assignment), partly out of boredom and professional ennui and partly out of a grossly exaggerated sense of his own importance.