Sentences with phrase «as villains in the film»

Just look - or listen - to what he did with Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy, each film's score kicking as much ass as the villains in the films themselves.

Michael C. Hall and Danny Huston also deliver small but powerful roles as villains in the film.

Michelle Pfeiffer and Laurence Fishburne are joining the fun as iconic Marvel character Janet van Dyne (the original Wasp) and Bill Foster (Goliath), respectively, while Walton Goggins and Hannah John - Kamen are set to cause problems as villains in the film.

Not exact matches

He appeared in two Austin Powers films as Mini-Me, the clone and sidekick of the villain Dr Evil who was played by Mike Myers.

Though there were the occasional villains in his TV and film manifest, Bush was most often seen as sheriffs and state troopers.

The film as Spielberg made it is haunting and powerful; perhaps it was necessary to have a one - dimensional villain in a film whose hero has so many hidden dimensions.

In films from 1955's Rififi, Hossein has been generally cast as jaded villains.

Once the stars do arrive, the picture tears off after the bombs, following Devoe and Kelly as they violently interrogate baddies, study maps and evidence, and, in the film's best sequence, engage in a little demolition derby with villains in the middle of an Austrian town square.

The film works as both a character study about two men trying to manipulate the system for personal gain, and as a thriller in which the line between heroes and villains isn't all that clear - cut.

The same goes for the various villains, who behave as if in a comedy; rather than scripting the film to lighten up on the seriousness, the characters must betray normalcy to better fit insincere resolutions.

After having his first major Broadway success with A Shot in the Dark, Matthau began working on the screen, usually in small supporting roles that cast him as thugs, villains, and louts in such films as The Kentuckian (1955) and King Creole (1958).

It is also The Void that creates Michael B. Jordan's Erik Killmonger, the antagonist of Black Panther, cousin to Chadwick Boseman's protagonist King T'Challa and a comic - book villain so transcendent that he is almost out of place in a film about a superhero who dresses as a cat.

What Hela lacks on paper, Cate tries making up for it in Hela's aura and she partly succeeds as well but when you find that even her henchman Skurge (Karl Urban) has more of a story arc that the film's main villain, you know there isn't much to her anyway.

The film deals with very real (and socially relevant) issues of gun violence in the United States, but more often than not skirts around its questionable morals in order to transport Willis back to the 1980s with catchy one - liners as he takes down the next faceless villain.

Reasonably busy as a silent - film western villain, Ring was cast as the caddish Harvey Yates in the Marx Bros.» 1929 film debut The Cocoanuts.

Most of the film's subplots are inconsequential in the big picture and really only involve stalling, the all - powerful villain is mishandled, and big problems seem to have simple solutions that come off as cop - outs.

Lupita Nyong» o (12 Years a Slave, Star Wars: The Force Awakens), Danai Gurira (AMC's The Walking Dead), and newcomer Letitia Wright (Black Mirror) threaten to walk away with the whole movie while Michael B. Jordan, the star of Coogler's previous films Fruitvale Station and Creed, emerges as perhaps the most fully realized villain in a MCU film to date.

It's also possible this is Jack Kesy's Black Tom before he's revealed as the villain of the film in a double - cross.

Despite his Oscar, Robertson continued to work in television as well as films, including a tongue in cheek performance as the villain Shame on «Batman.»

Accordingly, the picture is a beautifully lensed nightmare, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas shot as a road - trip horror film instead of an acid - enhanced carnival ride, where the villain is the devil in Cobb's back pocket.

For some time, it seemed as if the first film in the Black Panther franchise would suffer from the dreaded issue of too many villains.

But one still can't shake that feeling that Abramoff, as presented in this film, isn't just an excuse tor Spacey to engage us with his schtick, which includes several celebrity impressions and that sarcastic bite he's perfected over the many sneaky villain roles he's played.

The film is said to be a period piece for Marvel Studios and will take place in the early 1990's with the Skrulls as the primary villains.

The film works on multiple levels — as a supernatural thriller (though explicit paranormal elements are limited to a hallucinatory dream sequence and the final shot of the baby's eyes), as a psychological thriller about a paranoid pregnant woman who imagines herself at the centre of a conspiracy, and as the last word in marital betrayal, since the most despicable villain here is surely Guy, who allows his wife to be raped by the devil in exchange for an acting role.

Disney brought on horror filmmaker Scott Derrickson to take on the origin of the Sorcerer Supreme with gratifying visual splendor only to fall short in what many Marvel films have been missing and that's a villain worth noting as well as actual stakes in the grand scheme of the plot.

Obviously, it's not as if Kaufman did a complete overhaul, so don't expect Po to be kung fu fighting villains within his memories, only to realize that those memories are just part of an elaborate play being directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman (or maybe in this case Dustin Hoffman, since he voices a character in these films) which features himself directing a sequel to Kung Fu Panda.

Harrelson suffers a related problem as in their attempts to make a memorable villain, the character is overdone and comes across as a one - dimensional psychotic from an exploitation film rather than the more muted drama he's supposed to be in.

Returning to the «Machete» fold are Jessica Alba and Michelle Rodriguez, but there's an entirely new ensemble joining in as well, including Lady Gaga (making her acting debut), Amber Heard, Vanessa Hudgens, Sofia Vergara, Demián Bichir, Cuba Gooding Jr., Antonio Banderas, Alexa Vega, Charlie Sheen and Mel Gibson as the film's main villain.

Jake Gyllenhaal is set to play villain Mysterio in the next «Spider - Man» movie.The 37 - year - old actor has reportedly won the race to portray the antagonist opposite Tom Holland who is returning as the webslinger in his second standalone film in the...

It might not be wise to leave said creature — repeatedly referred to as «the Asset» — in the company of a cat, but the film makes clear early on that the true villain is the American military - industrial complex, personified here by Michael Shannon's square - jawed, Cadillac - driving, all - American security agent.

Deadpool 2 sees David Leitch (John Wick) directing a cast that includes returning stars Ryan Reynolds (Wade Wilson), Morena Baccarin (Vanessa), T.J. Miller (Weasel), Brianna Hildebrand (Negasonic Teenage Warhead), Stefan Kapicic (Colossus), Leslie Uggams (Blind Al) and Karan Soni (Dopinder) alongside new additions Zazie Beetz (Atlanta) as Domino, Josh Brolin (Avengers: Infinity War) as Cable, Terry Crews (Brooklyn Nine - Nine) as Bedlam, Lewis Tan (Iron Fist) as Shatterstar, Bill Skarsgard (It) as Zeitgeist, Julian Dennison (Hunt for the Wilderpeople) as Russell, Jack Kesy (The Strain) as the film's villain, and Shioli Kutsuna (The Outsider) and Eddie Marsan (Atomic Blonde) in as - yet - unrevealed roles.

In episode 16 of the Screen Rant Underground we chat about «Star Trek 2» villain troubles, Fox campaigns for Andy Serkis Oscar, the end of Showtime's «Dexter,» as well as revisit a few of our favorite, and least favorite, summer film releases.

Matt Damon and Damian Lewis will be in the film as well, with Damon presumably playing the same character he played in the other Ocean's movies, and Lewis playing the new movie's villain.

«Furious 7» featured Jason Statham as villain Deckard Shaw, seemingly locked in an inescapable prison at the end of the film.

With Claude Rains as Doctor Doom and Peter Lorre as Mephisto (two villains who team up to destroy the Earth), as well as various uncredited sequel - teasing cameos dropped into the climactic battle in the film's final moments — Errol Flynn as Hawkeye; Joseph Cotton as Starfox; Henry Fonda as Hercules — the film earned its nickname «The Biggest Film of All Time!»

According to CinemaBlend and Twitch, Luke Evans has been asked to star in the film as the villain.

If you remember, the Bride in Black was in the first Insidious film as a secondary villain and she was portrayed by male actor Philip Friedman.

Christoph Waltz, an ideal candidate as a Bond villain, is the puppet master, and through him Mendes gets to toss in scores of nods and winks to the entire span of 007 films.

Serkis also has a live action role in the film, with speculation suggesting that he is playing the Black Panther villain Ulysses Klaw, but his main responsibility was working with James Spader and Mark Ruffalo on their motion capture work as Ultron and The Hulk.

Writer / Director Jordan Peele does something simple yet profound with his first film: populating a conventional horror movie structure with a black man as the hero and white people as villains, pulling audiences into a mind - set that others have been striving to for eons: the black person in America.

«Game of Thrones» alum Jason Momoa and «Zero Dark Thirty» actor Callan Mulvey recently have been reported in connection with villain roles in director Zack Snyder's film, but it seems unlikely that either would be cast as Superman's iconic arch-nemesis.

The nineteenth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is the Russo Brothers» most epic team - up superhero movie yet, featuring Thanos (Josh Brolin) as the main villain who's taking matters into his own hands.

These films still haven't figured out how to properly handle a villain, as neither Ed Skrein nor Gina Carano (as Ajax and Angel Dust respectively) are given much in terms of motivation and story, except being typical villains who hit hard or fight well.

Nolan decided to use Bane as the main antagonist in the film because he wanted Batman's body to get the heavy workout his mind usually does when competing against these villains.

Spielberg had played down his Jewishness as a child, and judging by his films, the habit stuck: in the Indiana Jones films, for example, all religions get equal time, with Christian and Jewish relics (the Holy Grail and Ark of the Covenant, respectively) given equal billing, while Nazis figured as comic villains as recently as 1989's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

While they do excel at that aspect of the characters, it's still an instance where they could be replaced with plenty of other villains and the results would be the same, which is a shame as all of the characters in the film do have decent chemistry with each other.

Deadline reports that the actress is in final negotiations to join the franchise reboot as the film's villain, the Blood Queen.

Daniel Bruhl is bringing the Marvel villain Baron Zemo to the big screen in Captain America: Civil War, but according to Bruhl, the version fans get in the film won't be quite the same as the one they recognize in the comic books.

Walton Goggins, who plays the villain in this year's Tomb Raider film, opens up about his character's motivations as he clashes with Lara Croft (Alicia Vikander) over the contents of a tomb he has spent the last seven years searching for.

As the 19th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the roster for the Avengers has grown considerably from the first film, with the team of six growing to include new characters like Scarlet Witch, Winter Soldier, the Guardians of the Galaxy, and Doctor Strange, as well as villains Loki and NebulAs the 19th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the roster for the Avengers has grown considerably from the first film, with the team of six growing to include new characters like Scarlet Witch, Winter Soldier, the Guardians of the Galaxy, and Doctor Strange, as well as villains Loki and Nebulas well as villains Loki and Nebulas villains Loki and Nebula.