Sentences with phrase «as aging actor»

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

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Instead, we'll chalk this miscasting up to the production team that decided it was a good idea to cast a middle - aged actor as the young, usual blonde Johnny Blaze.

There's a lot to unpack here, but here's the headline for the presentation: «The Eisenhower National Highway System for the Information Age» — a secure, nationwide 5G network that would reflect American values and counter China's «dominant position in the manufacture and operation of network infrastructure,» along with China's position as the «dominant malicious actor in the Information Domain.»

According to 2009's «The Little Book of Curses and Maledictions for Everyday Use,» by Dawn Rae Downton, the actor who played Superman as an infant in the 1978 film, Lee Quigley, died at age 14 from inhalant abuse.

Shapiro started his career as a syndicated conservative columnist at the age of 17 but wrote a critique in February of Parkland activists like Hogg and Gonzalez, pointing out their youth and saying, «Children and teenagers are not fully rational actors.

Roman nobility as Nietzsche means it wasn't exactly a product of philosophy, but Nietzsche's conviction that preserving nobility was only possible in the contemporary world via philosophy ought to be considered, I think, in light of his profound uneasiness and careful treading around the problem of the «actor's faith» that characterizes «really democratic ages.»

It features the seductively soothing tones of actor Mark Rylance — from Wolf Hall — as Bing's guardian Flop, and all the children are bigger than the adults, reflecting how child - centric life is at that age.

Who: Liam James, actorWhat: «The Way, Way Back «Where: Today at Eccles at 3:30 p.m.. Most people know Liam James for his role as Mireille Enos» son on AMC's «The Killing,» but Sundance auds will see an entirely different side of the young actor in «The Way, Way Back,» a coming - of - age tale that marks the directorial debut of Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, the Oscar - winning scribes of «The Descendants.»

A professional actor since the age of 15, Fox became a household name in the early 1980's for his Emmy and Golden Globe Awards winning role as Alex P. Keaton in the NBC comedy series Family Ties in which he starred as the young Republican son of hippie parents.

Name: 소지섭 / So Ji Sub (So Ji Seob) Also known as: Soh Ji Sup / So Ji Seop; Profession: Actor; Birthdate: 1977 - Nov - 04 (age 39) Birthplace

The scenes with Spacey crackle — Hoult leans into the hero's attractive obnoxiousness and the older actor responds with one of his looser, funnier performances — and Zoey Deutch is unexpectedly good as Oona O'Neill, the brittle, sad - eyed debutante who toyed with the young writer before throwing him over to marry the aging Charlie Chaplin.

Keeping in perspective when it was made the film is not bad, Muni a fine actor when not in costume, say in Chain Gang, brings the hambone out as Zola ages and many of the rest of the cast are stiff and overly grand.

Mr. Wilson, a stage actor who played Julius Beaufort in «The Age of Innocence,» is extraordinary at capturing Gerardo's confusion, as he wonders if his wife is right or deranged.

To begin with, how painful is it to watch actors as intelligent as Naomi Watts and Robin Wright mug their way through the story of two hard - bodied middle - aged Australian besties hitting the sack with one another's teenaged sons?

From a young age, Clark Duke has worked on a diverse slate of projects in television, film and new media as a writer, actor, director, and producer.

In the process, Huston inadvertently launched himself as one of the most respected character actors of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.Born May 14, 1962, in Rome, as the illegitimate child of John Huston and European actress Zoe Sallis (during the former's separation from his then - wife, the late Ricki Soma), Daniel Huston came of age in Ireland and London.

Though the San Fernando Valley native made his television debut as a commercial actor at the age of eight, it wasn't until college that Cranston truly realized his calling as an actor.

Not even Blanchett and Rush — two of the finest actors working today, or Morton — who stirs me to impure thoughts even as a supposedly pious figure, or Owen — who almost makes a pair of puffy pants look butch, can drag «The Golden Age» out of the morass in which Kapur has sunk it.

Large and muscular at an early age, American actor Dick Miller entered the Navy during World War II while still a teenager, distinguishing himself as a boxer.

He became an actor at a young age starting off with guest appearances on shows such as CSI and Close to Home.

Comic actor Bob Saget served as producer and director of this made - for - TV film, inspired by the true story of Saget's sister Gay, who died in 1994 at the age of 47.

Meanwhile, we'll endure his miscasting with modest disgruntlement, taking our measure of the actor as he ages into appropriate roles.

It is a little jarring when more recognizable older actors like Dennis Farina and Ted Danson appear, but both actors turn in dialed - down, natural performances; as with Hanks, we are reminded that men of all ages and backgrounds were called upon to fight in WWII.

For instance, Sam Elliot, a veteran character actor, is truly a perfect fit for this role as an aging Western star.

was surprised just how good this film is.The humour and pathos of this film is quite moving.There is no - one remotely attractive in the cast, it is full of strange looking redneck Americans living in semi wilderness.Everyone is poverty stricken.The sadness of old age is there, as is the regrets of past memories, and the desperation of the son to heal the wounds of his father's past life.The acting is brilliant even with the bit part actors with the sunburnt aged faces.The fathers grumpy reticence is counters by his truculent wife, who never has a good word for anybody with her vicious put downs, which is at times laugh out loud funny.A funny sad and moving film about the sheer desperate meanderings of life and old age.

«Daniel Day - Lewis would have always been counted as one of the greatest of actors, were he from the silent era, the golden age of film or even some time in cinema's distant future.

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.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

The actor Harry Dean Stanton, who died Sept. 15 at age 91, appeared in movies as diverse as «Paris, Texas» and «Pretty in Pink» but was consistently in a state of disrepair.

Most significantly, in Boyhood (2014), Linklater filmed the same actors over 12 years to tell the story of a boy as he grows from age 7 to 19.

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

The experimental film spans the emotional journey of a family over the course of 12 years with all the actors virtually aging in «real time» on - screen as the film chronicles the family.

Telluride broke out Damien Chazelle's audacious musical romance «La La Land,» starring Best Actress Globe and SAG winner Emma Stone, as well as Barry Jenkins» coming - of - age ensemble drama «Moonlight» (A24), featuring SAG Supporting Actor winner Mahershala Ali («House of Cards»).

Demme clearly thought he could get away with casting young actors as George's parents because he could age them as the plot swept from the»60s through to the early»90s.

The actors engage in the exaggerated performance style of silent movie melodramas and comedies and Maddin digitally «ages» his films with scuffs and scratches and cracks and even distorted frames as if they were from decaying nitrate prints from the 1920s.

Here, Wright regular (and co-writer) Simon Pegg stars as an alcoholic, middle - aged man - child who brings his gang of childhood friends back together (including actors Nick Frost, Paddy Considine, Martin Freeman and Eddie Marsan) in hopes of finally completing an epic pub - crawl they'd unsuccessfully attempted as youths.

In theory, that's a brilliant conceit, as it allows Rogen to finally (sort of) act his age, while also passing the arrested - development torch to a couple of younger actors.

Johnny Depp is out standing as Wood, and Martin Landau is great as his buddy, the aged actor / junkie Bela Lugosi.

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).

Harry Dean Stanton, a prolific character actor who brought a soulful, hangdog presence to such varied films as «Alien,» «Paris, Texas,» «Repo Man» and «Pretty in Pink,» becoming a favorite of film fans and directors alike, died on Friday at age 91.

He was nearly 20 years younger than his leading lady, and the same age then as Michael Cera is today, but in a film where few of the actors were playing their actual age, he was clearly the man for the role.

It's always a pleasure to watch Jean Reno, and he's an actor who has progressed effortlessly through his roles as he's aged, but the characters in Ca $ h are only here to double cross one another.

Comics and character actors have a partial immunity from the stigma of ageing: they haven't offered themselves up as dream figures, so there's no sense of their having betrayed their audience by being human after all.

At the age of 10, after an appearance singing on «Star Search,» Mr. Timberlake was cast on the television program «The All - New Mickey Mouse Club,» a variety show he described as ««SNL» for kids,» and which he fondly recalled as a sort of Actors Studio for the tween set: «We had an acting coach, a vocal coach, a movement coach, improv classes.»

Strengths: Another movie that festival audiences adored is Paul McGuigan's «Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool,» adapted from Peter Turner's memoir about Gloria Grahame, starring Annette Bening as the aging star who has an affair with a younger actor (Jamie Bell).

The movie was anchored by the arresting Saoirse Ronan, continuing her post-Brooklyn run as the most exquisitely transparent actor of her age.

The directorial debut of actor John Carroll Lynch, the film stars Stanton as an aging man slowly coming to terms with his final days.

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.

The New York - born actor, who for many will always be associated with The Waltons, started his career as a child actor, making his first Broadway appearance at age seven in 1958.

Conservative author Chad Felix Green took issues with the ages on Twitter, actor James Woodsadding: «As they quietly chip away the last barriers of decency.»