Sentences with phrase «bad girl characters»

The one interesting side note to the film, however, is the fact that Jaime Winstone has taken on a role that is a departure from her usual bad girl characters, which is something that may well serve her well in the future, even if her first step into new territory is something of a misfire.

Not exact matches

Consider how Christian Bale's character was able to hide behind his image in American Psycho with the help connections, and how the bad rap of Emma Stone's character in Easy A created an unnecessarily tough situation for a girl who actually had good intentions.

Subject to constant comparisons to predecessors Breaking Bad and Weeds, Good Girls attempts to ask similar questions about morality, deceit and greed, but fails to interest us beyond the shallow circumstances of the characters, ultimately diminishing its value.

So avoid reprimanding your child's character by saying things like, «Bad girl!»

Each of Fleabag's six episodes is a tightly - composed variation on her character's wild, bad - girl humor, and her personal (especially sexual) and professional frustration.

Overall I love the show and how relatable it is in terms of the spectrum of human emotion, one thing I must say is that Paige is my favorite character by far because she has a very girl next door kind of thing to her but, is still a total bad ass.

Good points, it also irked me that the girls and boys split up in the Wakanda fight — it happens a lot in action movies (good girl fights bad girl sidekick while male character fights head villain), hopefully Danvers will be an equal opportunity ass kicker.

I really really dislike the main character like he's actually in real life gonna get the girl of his dream, are you serious??? He has a crooked smile, wears pajamas all day outside of his house and talk's like a gay poet, I just think he sucks as an actor, uggh I don't know why I dislike him so much after this movie.On the other hand Rachel Bilson is very cute and not as bad of an actor This movie solely focuses on telling the story and making us like the characters for themselves.

Another rotten romance inexplicably released by formerly respectable indie studio Miramax, «Boys and Girls» is a badly miscast and sadly stagnant collegiate rip - off of «When Harry Met Sally,» devoid of a single moment of emotional sincerity or even a single character interesting enough to care about.

Nonetheless, Confessions of a Call Girl lands in this critic's «It's so bad it's good» file because the characters are so laughably cartoonish and because Tamala Jones never gets tired of baring her curvaceous booty and cannonball implants for the camera.

Adapting a short - story collection by James Franco, Coppola preserves the episodic structure of the book, allowing her camera to move among the characters with a breezy sense of freedom: April (Emma Roberts), the intelligent yet vulnerable good - girl lured into an affair with her charismatic but creepy soccer coach, Mr. B. (played by Franco); Teddy (Jack Kilmer) who's in trouble with the law and in love with April; Fred (Nat Wolffe), Teddy's cocky, bad - influence sidekick; and Emily (Zoe Levin), the profoundly sad school slut who freely dispenses blow jobs in place of genuine connection.

The good - girl - gone - bad figure could be a description of both character and actress.

Yes, the character is yet another one of those bad girls with a heart of gold, but where most actresses (let alone ones in her age range) can only nail one side or the other, Dunst is not only believable when either vixenish or vulnerable, she convinces that these are sides of the same person.

Best Bear Attack: The Revenant Best Mosasaur Attack: Jurassic World Best Blind, Flamethrowing Guitar Player: Mad Max: Fury Road The Winklevi Award for Excellence in Playing Twins: Tom Hardy, Legend Worst Romantic Chemistry: Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan, 50 Shades of Grey (Runner - up: Nicole Kidman and Chiwetel Ejiofor, The Secret in their Eyes)(Honorable Mentions: Mila Kunis and Channing Tatum, Jupiter Ascending; Chris Hemsworth and Tang Wei, Blackhat) Best Fake Soap Opera: Joy Best Fake Magazine: Trainwreck («S'Nuff») The Gay Panic Award: Get Hard (Runner - up: The D Train) Best Alec Guinness Impression: Max von Sydow, Star Wars: The Force Awakens Worst Liam Neeson Impression: Sean Penn, The Gunman Best Turn - of - the - Century Reference to The Atlantic: Crimson Peak The Unbroken Award for a Portrait of Endurance that Gradually Becomes an Exercise in Endurance: The Revenant Best Use of «Smells Like Teen Spirit»: Pan Best Use of «Freebird»: Kingsman: The Secret Service Best Use of «Girls Just Want To Have Fun»: Anomalisa Least Convincing Hacker: Chris Hemsworth, Blackhat Least Responsible First Responder: Dwayne Johnson, San Andreas Person You'd Least Want in Charge of National Intelligence: Andrew Scott (Sherlock's Moriarty), Spectre Most Comprehensive Annihilation of an Intended Franchise: Josh Trank, Fantastic Four Best Driver: Ben Kingsley, Learning to Drive (Runner - up: Robert DeNiro, The Intern) Worst Total Box Office: Confession of a Child of the Century, $ 74 (Runner - up: Paranoid Girls, $ 78) Most Disturbing Sex Scenes (Human Category): Love Most Disturbing Sex Scenes (Puppet Category): Anomalisa Best Performance Playing a Character Named «Toussaint»: Jimmy Jean - Louis, Joy (Runner - up: Fabrice Adde, The Revenant) The «Marry Me and I'll Buy You a Piano» Award: Far from the Madding Crowd The «That Was Beautiful; What Happened?»

Lavant, the lead actor, is familiar to American audiences from his lead performances in the first three features of Leos Carax — Boy Meets Girl (1984), Bad Blood (1986), and Lovers on the Bridge (1992)-- in which he plays essentially the same character, a guy named Alex, Carax's own real first name.

Eili Harboe generates sympathy and apprehension as the title character, a girl who's both thrilled and troubled to leave her religious parents» rural home for school in big, bad Oslo.

Holly could make for a funny third - wheel Nancy Drew, ostensibly becoming the parent in the absence of her mother and the incompetence of her alcoholic father, but seeing the young girl in persistent danger of physical or mortal danger leaves a bad aftertaste to much of the action moments, and even when not in the middle of a violent confrontation, her idealized character feels unnatural and scripted.

WILLIAM SMITH AS FALCONETTI ON RICH MAN POOR MAN The baddest of all TV bad guys... Matt Dillon's character in BEAUTIFUL GIRLS calls Antho...

Karin Konoval's empathetic orangutan, Maurice, develops a pungent parental chemistry with a mute human girl (Amiah Miller), and Steve Zahn revives the eccentric comic heroism of storybook castaways as a new character, the wizened hermit «Bad Ape.»

THE BAD: some horribly trite jokes liberally lifted from The Three Stooges, Laurel and Hardy and other older and oft - used sources, film - flubs galore (the girl who falls into bed under the covers, several darts hitting a car when only one flew out the window, the monster's position changing while on the table, etc.), the Inspector Kemp (Mars, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) and Frau Blucher (Leachman, The Last Picture Show) characters, and Madeleine Kahn's (High Anxiety, History of the World Part I) singing.

Of the other competition buzz films leaving Sundance with distribution deals that guarantee their release: Peter Hedges's Pieces of April is a silly sitcom with a Guess Who's Coming to Dinner twist; Tom McCarthy's The Station Agent is little more than a three - character, metaphorically burdened off - Broadway play, but Peter Dinklage's understated performance gives it a bit of substance; Catherine Hardwicke's thirteen captures the hysteria of teenage girls, and its depiction of how a good girl can go bad overnight will give parents nightmares, but the script, co-written by Hardwicke and Nikki Reed (who also plays one of the two teen leads), is as overexcited as the girls themselves, and its affirmative ending is unearned.

Leigh is basically the only girl in the Western and Russell plays a bounty hunter with a bad reputation, who's planning to hang her character.

«The Bad Batch» seems to focus on Waterhouse's character, Arlen, a girl who wanders through a Texas wasteland and has grizzly encounters with cannibals and a cult leader.

Nicholas Prosper, an eighth - grader, said that when he recited the line, «Not bad for a white girl» about the main character's dance moves, he learned about reverse racism.

What stands out for me aren't so much the characters — protagonists Nailer and Nita are complex and believable, but many of the supporting characters are sketchily drawn — or the plot, which has a familiar shape — shipwrecked rich girl rescued by gutter rat, flight from bad people wanting to use rich girl as pawn, a big fight, a hairsbreadth rescue — but the meticulously detailed, multi-layered post-climate change world in which the action takes place.

I remembered all that as I invented the character of Siranoush in Too Bad to Die: a Bond Girl with a vengeance, running circles around Ian Fleming.

DC: Other than Jess and Liz, my favorite Sweet Valley character was scheming, loaded, bad girl Lila Fowler.

In it, Amy delivers a poignant speech about «the cool girl,» and Flynn has said that feminism, for her, includes «the ability to have women who are bad characters.»

The story will be driven through cutscenes, and we will run into a different cast of characters, which seems to be made up of a lot of bad ass anime girls.

It started with X sending hostile and angry emails to the Consultant about me with outlandish claims about my character (e.g., «she is a bad influence on the girls»).