Sentences with phrase «as robert»

Now, surprisingly enough, this wouldn't strictly be the first time Stiller has lead his film to the Oscars as Robert Downey Jr. earned perhaps the strangest nomination of all time for his black - faced role as Australian Kirk Lazarus.

Logan Lerman voices Robert Conroy, Stubby's master, and Helena Bonham Carter offers voice - over duties as Robert's older sister, Margaret, though the framing device of the sister's narration, spelling out the emotional beats, is rather unnecessary.

But Highlander «s Adrian Paul and some kid who looks like he might be cast as Robert Pattinson in a high school production of some emo Twilight fiction... well, they're not the right hands.

As Robert and Frances work through the stages of parting (counseling, mediation and acquiring venomous legal counsel), there are momentary — almost obligatory — glimmers by the sixth episode that love might prevail.

Starring: Chiwetel Ejiofor as Solomon Northup, Michael Fassbender as Edwin Epps, Benedict Cumberbatch as William Ford, Paul Dano as John Tibeats, Paul Giamatti as Theophilus Freeman, Scoot McNairy as Brown, Lupita Nyong» o as Patsey, Adepero Oduye as Eliza, Sarah Paulson as Mary Epps, Brad Pitt as Samuel Bass, Michael K. Williams as Robert (as Michael Kenneth Williams), Alfre Woodard as Mistress Shaw, Chris Chalk as Clemens, Taran Killam as Hamilton, Bill Camp as Radburn, Kelsey Scott as Anne Northup, Bryan Batt as Judge Turner, Quvenzhané Wallis as Margaret Northup, Garret Dillahunt as Armsby, Dwight Henry as Uncle Abram, Dickie Gravois as Overseer, Ashley Dyke as Anna, Cameron Zeigler as Alonzo Northup, Tony Bentley as Mr. Moon, Christopher Berry as Burch, Mister Mackey Jr. as Randall, Craig Tate as John, Storm Reid as Emily, Tom Proctor as Biddee, Marc Macaulay as Captain, Vivian Fleming - Alvarez as Mulatto Woman, Douglas M. Griffin as Sailor, John McConnell as Jonus Ray, Marcus Lyle Brown as Jasper, Richard Holden as Fitzgerald, Rob Steinberg as Parker, Anwan Glover as Cape, James C. Victor as Buyer (as J. C. Victor), Liza J. Bennett as Mistress Ford, Nicole Collins as Rachel, J.D. Evermore as Chapin (as JD Evermore), Andy Dylan as Treach, Deneen Tyler as Phebe (as Deneen D. Tyler), Mustafa Harris as Sam, Gregory Bright as Edward, Austin Purnell as Bob, Thomas Francis Murphy as Patroller, Andre Shanks as Victim 1, Kelvin Harrison as Victim 2, Scott M. Jefferson as Master Shaw, Isaiah Jackson as Zachary, Topsy Chapman as Slave Spiritual Singer 1, Devin Maurice Evans as Slave Spiritual Singer 2, Jay Huguley as Sheriff, Devyn A. Tyler as Margaret Northup (adult), Willo Jean - Baptiste as Margaret's Husband, Ruth Negga as Celeste (uncredited)

The Rocker (Fox Atomic, April 18) Starring: Rainn Wilson, Christina Applegate, Teddy Geiger, Howard Hesseman, Jeff Garlin, Bradley Cooper, Will Arnett, Fred Armisen Director: Peter Cattaneo Rating: NR The Pitch: Wilson stars as Robert «Fish» Fishman, drummer and co-founder of»80s hair - metal band Vesuvius.

«Frears's ivory tower saga is taut, engaging, and suspenseful in much the same fashion as Robert Altman's Gosford Park, its upstairs / downstairs forerunner.»

Pine stars as Robert The Bruce, alongside Aaron Taylor - Johnson («Nocturnal Animals»), Florence Pugh («Lady Macbeth»), Tony Curran («Sons of Anarchy»), Stephen Dillane («Game of Thrones») and Billy Howle («Dunkirk»).

He was creepy yet pitiable as Robert Ford and will certainly have my attention in the future.

Inferno, starring Tom Hanks once as Robert Langdon, opens this weekend.

Peter Saarsgard (The Magnificent Seven, 2016) also has a notable performance as Robert Kennedy, the attorney general who's dealing with the shocking death of his brother while helping console his sister - in - law and somehow maintaining professionalism.

Key historical markers are addressed head - on, briefly and often without dialogue, such as Robert E. Lee's surrender to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox.

The casting of Michelle Pfeiffer as Robert De Niro's on - screen wife Ruth Madoff was announced Thursday.

The schedule is rounded out by such celebrated and essential films as Robert Bresson's «Pickpocket,» Jean - Luc Godard's «Alphaville,» and Leos Carax's «Lovers on the Bridge.»

His collaboration with directors such as Robert Altman, Paul Thomas Anderson and Richard Linklater and many others on over 100 projects is a portfolio of excellence and innovation.

Things go a bit haywire in the final third of the film, as Robert Forster becomes action star and we are thrown into a faster - paced adventure, with less to think about.

Though many American directors of Mexican descent, such as Robert Rodriguez, have found Hollywood success, this list salutes Mexican - born directors, many of whom still work primarily in their native country.

You can not help but feel that the running joke that Kirk Lazarus getting lost in role after role is intensified, seeing as Robert Downey Jr. is playing every one of those roles.

Leonardo as Robert Jordan?

He could portray damaged and desperate, such as his turn as Robert Morgan in The Last Man on Earth.

Starring: Bryce Dallas Howard as Ivy Walker, Joaquin Phoenix as Lucius Hunt, Adrien Brody as Noah Percy, William Hurt as Edward Walker, Sigourney Weaver as Alice Hunt, Brendan Gleeson as August Nicholson, Cherry Jones as Mrs. Clack, Celia Weston as Vivian Percy, John Christopher Jones as Robert Percy, Frank Collison as Victor, Jayne Atkinson as Tabitha Walker, Judy Greer as Kitty Walker, Fran Kranz as Christop Crane, Jesse Eisenberg as Jamison, Michael Pitt as Finton Coin

Truth be told we can think of several more suitable names for the role but Howard has said he's after a French actress, and with Tom Hanks» likely casting as Robert Langdon, Delpy might not be such a curious choice to play his brilliant and (rather fortuitiously) beautiful sidekick.

If the deal goes through, Crowe will cameo in The Mummy as Robert Louis Stevenson «s tormented transformative doctor in the hopes of spinning the character into his own franchise.

The film has an impressive cast as Robert Downey Jr., Marisa Tomei, Martin Starr and Donald Glover all star alongside Holland.

I missed a few here - and - gone pictures I particularly wanted to see, such as Robert Mulligan's Bloodbrothers (which lasted less than a week and reportedly has been pulled from distribution), James Bridges» 9/30/55 (shown as a first - run second feature in very farflung nabes), Ted Post's Go Tell the Spartans (a short - term top feature in the same farflung nabes), Paul Schrader's Blue Collar, Sidney J. Furie's The Boys in Company C, and Jack Gold's The Medusa Touch.

Tom Hanks has found his niche with The Da Vinci Code franchise, reprising his role as Robert Langdon alongside Felicity Jones, who plays Dr. Sienna Brooks.

Scott also got fascinating results playing the ultra-contemporary presences of Keith Carradine, Harvey Keitel, and Cristina Raines off against such classical actor's - actors as Robert Stephens, Albert Finney, Tom Conti, and Alan Webb.

The sequel, as Robert Rodriguez envisioned...

Even as Robert deals with his own shock and the implications he knows will follow his family, he is forced into the fray along with his delusional mother Marguerite (Jacki Weaver).

The sequel, as Robert Rodriguez envisioned it, is Predators.

I was immediately fascinated by her, but I questioned my fascination, just as Robert did.

As Robert McCall,...

His hot screenplay, with the flamboyantly uncommercial title (wink - wink) The Dying Gaul, is apparently so brilliant that studio executive Jeffrey (Campbell Scott) is willing to pay $ 1 million for it — as long as Robert will change the two men at the center to a man and a woman.

Those viewers looking for a gripping thriller or a great war flick should probably look elsewhere, as this Robert Redford directed piece is only about trying to provoke thought.

Did I ever tell you that my daughter was in the same class at school as Robert Carlyle's son?

But in that movie as well as Robert Zemeckis»...

Mustafa says he tried to channel the cool self - confidence and charm of actors such as Robert Wagner, James Brolin and Adam West, TV's Batman, while staying true to Old Spice's traditional «manly man» appeal.

Performers such as Robert De Niro and Sylvester Stallone must know that issue all too well, each having created a coterie of legendary characters in their long careers.

As Robert Downey Jr. gears up to make his seventh appearance as billionaire playboy philanthropist and armored superhero Tony Star, the actor has been speaking to USA Today about his latest outing in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, stating that Captain America: Civil War is «like my little Iron Man 4.»

Other notable cast members include Jim Gaffigan as Paul Markham, Kennedy pal and obedient fixer; Clancy Brown as Robert McNamara, the former Defense Secretary who leads the heavy hitters during the cover - up; Taylor Nichols as Ted Sorensen, speechwriter and PR expert; and John Fiore as the pliable local police chief.

We are interested in not just those directors who are long venerated — although there is no lack of passionate support for figures such as Robert Bresson, judging from the entries so far — but, equally, the major figures (criminally little - known as they may be) in any sector or mode or geographical region of cinema: animation (Chuck Jones), independent (Todd Haynes), film - essay (Chris Marker), «new Asian cinema» (Edward Yang), experimental, «third cinema», B - films, underground, women's cinema...

I would worry however, because back when actors such as Robert Carlyle, was foisted into our imagination for his part in movies like Trainspotting in the 1990's, I'm not entirely sure there were movie directors around, who could make as good use of his abilities ever again.

In simple terms, The Cold Light of Day relates more or less the same story as Robert Rodriguez's family - friendly Spy Kids, though in this case the kid is in his late 20s and the spy stuff is much less believable or robust.

The big names include Sally Field as Mary Todd Lincoln, Joseph Gordon - Levitt as Robert Todd Lincoln, Jared Harris as Ulysses S. Grant, and Tommy Lee Jones in a standout performance as Thaddeus Stevens.

Just as Robert Downey Jr.'s Tony Stark was the «special guest» in Spider - Man: Homecoming, essentially gluing that film into the canon, here you get three crossover names: a briefly glimpsed Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow, Benedict Cumberbatch's Doctor Strange, and the Hulk, within whose lumbering digitized mass somewhere lurks Mark Ruffalo.

As Robert Oswald, he underplays while everyone swings for the fences, neatly and efficiently capturing brotherly love, ordinary dignity and irrational guilt.

Crumb (Terry Zwigoff, 1994) It's only fitting that an artist with as singular and «other» a vision as Robert Crumb would get a documentarian as daring as Terry Zwigoff, and a film as profoundly weird, disturbing, and entertaining as this one.

With such charismatic actors as Robert Downey Jr. and Chris Pratt I wondered if Rudd could keep up.

This all just goes to show then what imaginative casting and ambitious storytelling can achieve, as Robert Downey Jr.'s first stab at the role of Tony Stark was the film that started it all.

While not as brilliant of a performance as Robert DeNiro's Al Capone in The Untouchables, he was still ruthless and viscious.