Sentences with phrase «best cast lead»

The accompanying score by Patrick Doyle and well cast leads Logan Lerman, Helena Bonham Carter and Gerard Depardieu help elevate this to an early Oscar contender.

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While Black Panther rode a huge wave of critical acclaim and fan excitement to the biggest opening weekend ever for the month of February (and the fifth - largest of all - time), raking in more than $ 426 million worldwide, a small number of Internet trolls still did what they could to dampen the good vibes surrounding the trailblazing film, which features Marvel's first African - American director (Ryan Coogler) and a cast led by black actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the movie.

But arguably the most anticipated bit of casting is Joe Pesci, who has only had two credits to his name this century: A cameo in De Niro's 2006 CIA drama «The Good Shepherd» and a lead role in Taylor Hackford's 2010 flop «Love Ranch.»

Activists seeking to derail President Trump's nomination of Gina Haspel to lead the CIA are looking to Sen. John McCain to cast the deciding vote against her — assuming he is well enough to return to Washington.

When they make a movie of my life, they'd better cast a character actor in the lead.

McCarter describes Jackson's hopes as he leads the cast in prayer: «He closes with the hope that everybody — in the audience, on the stage, and in the orchestra pit — will leave the theatre a better person than they walked in.»

The Big Short, an upcoming film about the housing and credit bubble that led to the financial crisis of 2007 - 08, is lining up one of the better casts in recent...

I've cast sesame seeds in a lead role here because I'm tired of seeing one of my favorite ingredients marginalized atop hamburger buns and everything bagels — they have a terrific earthy - nutty flavor and a delicate crunch that goes well with so many dishes.

But all ends well after Nanny Jo Frost swoops in, and by the time the credits roll, she has transformed the desperate parents» bad habits that led the family to be «crazy» enough to even qualify for reality show casting.

The coming together on reducing the number of party insiders who get to cast votes as delegates without being bound to election results tracks well with the news reported by CNN that Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz is expected to no longer have a leading role on the convention stage.

By casting light on a common yet poorly understood facet of meiosis, the findings may lead to a better general understanding of meiosis, including how and why mistakes can arise.

A fundamental discovery that alters our current understanding of how metals solidify and form crystalline patterns may help lead to better control of casting and welding processes.

COOKWARE: Glass, cast iron, carbon steel, titanium and lead - free crock pots (slow cookers) and enamels are best.

It's called The Crop Top Project, and it's time to cast a leading lady: Will it be Mindy or, who both give good midriff in the same Topshop ensemble.

Critics Consensus: Little Accidents has good intentions — and a talented cast, led by Elizabeth Banks — but it drowns them under dour melodrama.

As with most horror films, the cast is lead by two extremely good looking people, Ryan Merriman and Haylie Duff, who both give unexpected performances.

Hugh Jackman's and Liev Schreiber's forceful performances in the lead roles drive the movie; Danny Huston is well cast as William Stryker.

Following the cast — which includes such luminaries as Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, Cheech Marin, and Woody Harrelson — and the crew until the production's opening night, Almereyda observes the minutiae involved in leading up to the first curtain, as well as some private moments with Shepard as he recounts some of his personal history as related to + The Late Henry Moss.

Thankfully, Stoller surrounds his two leads with an excellent supporting cast that helps keep the mood light, particularly Chris Pratt, who steals the show as Tom's idiotic best friend.

The movie is great fun and looks slick with a good casting choice in Baldwin for the main heroic / bad guy lead.

Lead charaters were good, but supporting cast was hokey.

The hour balances its caper - cartoon and ghoulish sensibilities with a crisp pace and well - cast leads.

Additionally, the casting is keen (everyone plays well off their counterparts and there are no annoying roles — at least with the leads) and several juxtapositions or precisely edited sequences bolster the comedy.

The cast do a good enough job, and Mark Wahlberg is quite good as Chris Cole the lead singer of Blood Pollution a Steel Dragon Tribute band.

Often cast as a sex - symbol on the basis of her looks, here Robbie's hair is dyed in some effort to deglamorize her (it only half works) but she's wonderful in the part, doing a good job with her southern accent, and excellently conveying a character that's clearly led an ultra sheltered life, but now has to totally fend for herself, and even physically care for the often sick Ejiofor.

There are plenty of talented components to this cast, and most every one of them has his or her time to shine, even such much too briefly present forces as episodes 1's Martin Sheen - who nails both Irish - American accent and depth of the good - hearted slaver who comes to find flaws in the traditions he has had to follow - and episode 3's Richard Jenkin, who effectively despicable in his audacious portrayal of a despicable radical racist who is as willing to die as he is to kill to preserve his questionable sense of order - and plenty of other people in between, from the compelling Dennis Haysbert to the charming Danny Glover, so you know that it's saying something to proclaim that leading lady Halle Berry is this series» strongest performance, delivering on powerful layers and emotional range in her engrossing portrayal of a mulatto who is trapped in society by her mixed race, and will face many unbearable hardships that will test her innocence and humanity.

He changed the ethnicity of the lead female character in Leonard's novel from the white Jackie Burke to a black Jackie Brown which allowed him to cast Pam Grier and reference her blaxploitation films «Foxy Brown» and «Coffy» as well as, employing the use of Bobby Womack's «Across 110th Street».

Amber Heard and Christopher Walken lead the cast and have good chemistry together, but they're given very little to work with.

Later that year, Macdonald appeared in Mike Figgis» The Loss of Sexual Innocence, playing the young girlfriend of the film's protagonist; and in Gregg Araki's Splendor, a romantic comedy in which she played the blue - haired best friend of the film's heroine.After a slew of similar supporting roles, including a memorable turn as the daughter of Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Colin Firth in My Life So Far, MacDonald was given possibly her biggest break since Trainspotting when Robert Altman cast her as a lead (albeit one of many) in Gosford Park (2001).

The good news is that some parts of this shopping list are checked off with style and grace: Tony and Pepper are still, at heart, the leads in a screwball comedy — and Downey and Paltrow are top form here; the new villain has the comics» Crimson Dynamo's name — Ivan Vanko [Mickey Rourke]-- but instead of wearing the hopelessly out of date crimson armor, wields a pair of plasma whips that can slice and dice even Stark's fancy suit; and finally, there's Justin Hammer [Sam Rockwell — who was a finalist in casting Stark], a hi - tech weapons manufacturer who got Stark's old Department of Defence contracts even though he's not nearly as talented.

For starters, I count at least seven headliners in the upper echelons of the cast, and that doesn't include Vera Farmiga holding her own quite well as the token female lead.

Update the classic High Noon, say, set it in space, cast uber - charismatic Sean Connery as the lead, and lose all that time wasting moral implication stuff = well, two out of three ain't bad.

Leonard Jr. got his first break when he was cast as the lead in short film, HIS GOOD WILL with James Avery and Ashley Jones.

Bolstered by a very good cast, with solid performers extending from the leads right down to the child actors.

Soon after Logan takes the job, a group of bad guys show up, led by a man named Donald Pierce (Boyd Holbrook, also well cast), and they demand that Logan hand over the girl.

-- Meet Your New Crew: Doc's Gang — Led by powerhouse Kevin Spacey, the cast assembled to form Doc's gang is perfectly constructed with stars like Jamie Foxx and Jon Hamm as well as up and coming talent like Eiza González and Jon Bernthal.

«The Prestige» From acclaimed director Christopher Nolan (Memento, Batman Begins, Insomnia) and starring a powerhouse cast including Golden Globe ® Nominee Hugh Jackman (Kate and Leopold), Christian Bale (Batman Begins, American Psycho), four - time Golden Globe ® Nominee Scarlett Johansson (Lost in Translation, Match Point, A Love Song for Bobby Long, Girl with a Pearl Earring) and the legendary two - time Academy Award ® Winner Michael Caine (Best Supporting Actor for The Cider House Rules and Hannah and Her Sisters), «The Prestige» is the mysterious story of two magicians in Victorian - era London whose intense rivalry leads them on a life - long battle for supremacy filled with obsession, deceit and jealousy with astonishing twists and deadly consequences.

With a cast led on by Carey Mulligan that also features Better Call Saul's Jonathan Banks and singer - songwriter Mary J. Blige, Mudbound bows on Netflix on November 17.

Bringing together this story, two strong leads, a great ensemble cast including Christian Cooke, Tamsin Egerton, Suki Waterhouse and Jaime Winstone and leaving with a tone that is upbeat and tied - up with enough reality to remain froth - free bodes well for future projects.

The other novelty for fans of the raunchy television cartoon, «South Park», comes from the lead casting of that show's creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, who have a lack of charisma that shows that they are better off hiding behind cute characters talking filthy for laughs.

The rest of the cast are uniformly great, from Campbell Scott as the lead to a rich supporting cast of character actors - including a well written woman's role (shock!)

OUR TAKE: A good cast (Duvall, Billy Bob Thorton, Vera Farmiga, Vincent D'Onofrio) and RDJ in the lead of a drama?

On the television side, Netflix's political drama «House of Cards» led nominations for the Screen Actors Guild Awards, taking three nods for best actor (Kevin Spacey), best actress (Robin Wright) and best cast performance in a drama series.

While the film's little newcomers, Isabelle Allen as young Cosette and Daniel Huttlestone as Gavorche, put up a good effort at stealing the spotlight, truly stellar casting results in both high profile and high quality leads.

The first Baby Driver photos have emerged showing Ansel Elgort (The Fault in Our Stars) in the lead role, preparing for a music - fueled drive, as well as the supporting cast that includes Jamie Foxx, Jon Hamm and Elsa Gonzalez.

Winner of the Directing Award Dramatic and Special Jury Prize for Vera Farmiga for Down to the Bone in (2004), and winner of the Grand Jury Prize Dramatic and Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award for Winter's Bone (2010), this originally had Casey Affleck in the lead, but Ben Foster might be a better casting bet for a survivalist protective father with a complicated past and will be a perfect spotlight to launch a new career for the young co-lead kiwi thesp Thomasin McKenzie.

Though he'd built up a strong reputation among critics and cineastes in the 1960s with darker character work in films like Cast a Dark Shadow (1955) and the daring masterpiece Victim (1961), he was best known to the public as Simon Sparrow, the heartthrob comic lead in Doctor in the House (1954) and four subsequent sequels.

Jerry voices his wild theories in a self - published newsletter (which lends the film its title), so when some government agents led by the mysterious Dr. Jonas (an underused Patrick Stewart) start chasing him, Jerry, his «friend» Alice Sutton (Roberts, well - cast), and the audience are led to believe that one of his wild ideas is indeed true.

The first installment a surprise hit that coasted on a novel combination of savvy music design and an affable cast led by Anna Kendrick; there were enough B - sides left over to for a watchable second movie; now, the premise is stretched so thin that someone thought it would be a good idea to pad it with an action - suspense subplot involving Fat Amy's (Rebel Wilson) long - lost father / international crimelord (John Lithgow with a sketchy Australian accent).

Lead actor Daniel Kaluuya also scored a Best Actor nod, while the film's cast earned a nomination in the Best Ensemble Cast categcast earned a nomination in the Best Ensemble Cast categCast category.