Sentences with phrase «best screen role»

But Whiskey Tango Foxtrot offers another kind of insider's view of the workings of daily journalism, with Tina Fey in her best screen role yet as an Afghanistan - based TV reporter.

Kudos to Roos for giving Lisa Kudrow the best screen role of her career as Lucia, the sister of Bill's deceased partner, and the acerbic conscience of a perfectly dysfunctional modern anti-romantic comedy.

Not exact matches

After deciding on the role to fill, they go through the traditional route of posting ads to different job boards, screening candidates, interviewing those who seem the most qualified and then hiring the person who is the best fit.

On - screen, actor Johnny Depp is best known for his role as Jack Sparrow in the highly successful Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.

Johnny Depp is best known on - screen for his loveably flawed portrayal of Captain Jack Sparrow of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise - among other roles.

Designed by William J. Dodd, whose portfolio included such landmark buildings as the Los Angeles Herald - Examiner and The Pacific Center, this once private home sheltered famed New York attorney Samuel Untermyer as well as silent screen star Marion Davies, remembered as much for her 30 year affair with William Randolph Hearst as her movie roles and business savvy.

A role similar to Clint Capela's — a screen setter and rim runner surrounded by shooters — seems like the best way to unlock his potential.

Again, Matic screens in midfield while McTominay offers support and Pogba lies on the right — but the formation could also get the best out of Alexis Sanchez, with him being the playmaker in a central role that could afford him more space, to link up with both Pogba and the United forwards.

They're less into dolls and role play type games, although they do still enjoy a good game of school on occasion, I try to avoid screen time where possible so tablets are not an option and they're still at an age where clothes are a necessity rather something to be bought for pleasure.

An actor better known for her off - screen antics than her starring roles, Lohan crashed her Mercedes in Santa Monica, California, while over the legal alcohol limit.

They reported that they felt role playing with the 3D headsets was better than just looking at a screen, not only because it was easier and better, but because they felt that they were living the role more realistically.

By pairing engineered cell lines containing disease - specific mutations with high throughput screening, we can investigate the role of given mutations in the biology of disease as well as identify potential druggable targets.

Dr. Bernard plays a critical role in the analysis of the high - throughput drug and siRNA screens as well as in drug target prioritization based on TCGA.

Emily Eve Best (born 31 July 1971) is an English stage and screen actress and director, known for her television roles as Dr. Eleanor O'Hara in the TinyMiner - Eve Online Mining Bot, Undetectable Eve Bot Macro Miner makes billions of ISK for you totally on AutoPilot!

The Thor / Hulk dynamic is absolutely joyous, offering some of the best gags of the film, and the friendship between Hemsworth and Ruffalo just bleeds right through into their roles on screen.

D'Arcy's best English - speaking screen role of the»30s was as Irene Dunne's amorous music teacher in The Awful Truth (1937), in which he was hilariously beaten to a pulp by jealous husband Cary Grant.

Reluctantly, she accepted a role in Anthony Adverse (1936), her screen debut; for her work she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar (the first ever awarded).

With success on the small screen soon prompting James to try his talent in feature films, a supporting role in 50 First Dates and a co-starring role opposite Will Smith in Hitch found the television favorite's amiable humor translating well to the big screen.

A well - wrought effort, it won Tyson her first Emmy for her title role, which required her to age 91 years on the screen.

Fadden's better - known screen roles include the tollhouse keeper in It's a Wonderful Life (1946)-- which led to choice appearances in subsequent Frank Capra productions — and «possessed» townman Ira in Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956).

A talented and attractive actress who has managed to wrangle a remarkable number of affecting roles despite her youthful age, Elisabeth Moss may be best known to television viewers as the President's daughter on the acclaimed series The West Wing, though thoughtful characterizations in such features as Girl, Interrupted and Imaginary Crimes have been a testament to an actress not afraid to court more challenging and emotionally demanding roles unusual for an actress of her age.Born to music manager and a mother who specialized in the blues harp in 1983, Moss spent her childhood in Los Angeles and was inspired to pursue acting at an early age by screen idol Bette Davis.

She played a similar character the same year on the small screen, taking a memorable turn as ex-pep queen turned good - time girl Connie Bradshaw in PBS» Tales of the City (she would later reprise the role for More Tales of the City in 1998).

Born January 26th, 1966, Rainn Wilson is best known for playing über - nerd Dwight Schrute on the NBC comedy The Office, actor Rainn Wilson parlayed a Broadway career into screen work that began with a role on the daytime soap One Life to Live.

While the film was not released until 1987 and received poor distribution, Doe's rugged good looks and cool charisma registered well on screen, and he soon landed small roles in Oliver Stone's breakthrough film Salvador and Wayne Wang's neo-noir drama Slam Dance.

He is best known to audiences for his starring roles in the films HOT TUB TIME MACHINE and HOT TUB TIME MACHINE 2, as well series regular roles in GREEK and THE OFFICE, for which he and the cast received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination.

One of his best - known screen roles was the ill - tempered Subway Ghost, who teaches newly dead Patrick Swayze how to move solid objects with sheer «hate power» in the 1990 blockbuster Ghost.

Though Goodman's status as an amiable big guy was well established by the early 2000's, he didn't actually appear on - screen for two of his most beloved roles.

A movie with the bleakest vision of Wolverine yet, but also hands down the best treatment the character has received on the big screen in the fifteen plus years Jackman has inhabited the role.

Fairbanks is returning to the screen in a role she's long wished to play — Belle Gunness, a notorious real - life mass murderer who went on a well - documented killing spree in the 19th century.

He began earning better roles in the mid - to late»40s, mostly villainous, and went on to become one of the busiest supporting players on television in the 1950s and 1960s, appearing in small - screen Western fare ranging from Gene Autry to Lancer.

This is Hamm's best big - screen role, one that takes advantage of his sharkish and ruminative streaks.

While he has accrued several noteworthy screen assignments (including the starring role of a nasty hockey player in 1992's The Cutting Edge), D.B. Sweeney is best remembered for his even - keel portrayal of the tragic Shoeless Joe Jackson in Eight Men Out (1988); if he looked like a «natural» on the ballfield, it was because Sweeney had once actually played minor league baseball with the Kenosha Twins, hanging up his spikes after a knee injury.

At the same time, Uchida is responsible for some of the most remarkable swordplay films of the 1950s and»60s; his five - film Musashi Miyamoto epic (not screened at MOMA), starring Kinnosuke Nakamura in the title role and Ken Takakura as his arch-nemesis Kojiro, surpasses the better - known Inagaki Samurai Trilogy starring Toshiro Mifune in terms of both drama and swordplay, yet remains little - known in the West (despite its availability on DVD in the U.S.) After the BAM retrospective (and others) in 2008, most of Uchida's films remained unscreened and undistributed in America, so with MOMA's bigger series recently ending, it's time again to encourage distributors like the Criterion Collection, Kino Lorber, and Arrow Video to bring out more of the director's masterpieces, both for critical reconsideration and for those whom the veteran filmmaker will be a major new discovery.

Jennifer Lawrence, of course, won Best Supporting Actress for her role as Bale's on - screen wife, Rosalyn Rosenfeld, while Amy Adams scooped the Best Actress honour.

It's also a treat to see an older generation of great African - American actors get a decent role on screen; Angela Bassett (pictured above with Letitia Wright) and Forest Whitaker acquit themselves well.

The film accolades continued with a 2014 Screen Actor's Guild nomination for Judi Dench for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role and 2014 Golden Globe ® nominations for Judi Dench for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture — Drama, Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope for Best Screenplay — Motion Picture, and Best Motion Picture — Drama.

Allison Williams will also surprise in her debut role on the big screen with her twist on the «good girl,» a role that audiences often associate her with HBO's Girls.

Jackman has done a wonderful job in the role, widening the character's popularity from a comicbook fans to the general cinema - going public: It is only well - earned audience affection that allowed him to survive the execrable X-Men Origins: Wolverine, as idiotic a film as has ever had the misfortune to be screened publicly.

The film will mark the Brazilian supermodel's first big screen speaking role, having appeared in a brief cameo in Casino Royale, as well as episodes of Gossip Girl and Entourage.

«The latest big - screen iteration of the blockbuster video game isn't a film for the ages, but it's actually pretty good fun; an old - fashioned treasure - island adventure tale gilded in circa - 2018 wokeness (Lara Croft's breasts no longer command a lead supporting role) and anchored by an Oscar - winning actress far more gifted than the story requires.

Naomi Watts — so wonderful in better horror fare like The Ring or thrillers like Mulholland Drive and Funny Games — does the best she can here with a comparatively inferior character, but Charlie Heaton, who broke out as the protective and lovelorn older brother in last summer's Stranger Things, and Jacob Tremblay, Oscar - nominated for his role in 2015's Room, are stymied in roles that require too little in the way of nuance or are lacking in enough screen time to show real depth.

Seriously, I must confess that Carrell and Fey can be likable people on screen and yet I often watch The Office in spite of Carrell's character, not because of it, and the best thing I could say about Fey's character is that I have yet to see her play a role that was really bad but then I have yet to see her play a role that really wants to make me see her play another role.

Bell long ago finished the job of butching up his screen persona — this isn't his first soldier role — but it is Strong who has the picture's best moments.

This prescient sequence fragments and triples Bill Murray's image separating the «public» Bob who exploits his fading star to sell whisky for three million American dollars, the «private» Bob who aspires to «good roles» and Bill Murray whose ironic, subversive screen persona threatens to destabilise the illusion.

The stellar cast could play every single one of these roles in their sleep but that doesn't make them guilty of lazy performances; Anthony Mackie's conflicted cop is empathetic at times and well in need of a slap at others while Casey «better - in - every - way - than - his - brother - when - on - screen» Affleck is likable if not always blessed with the best lines of dialogue to deliver.

Jordan Phipps is making big waves this year in the genre community, with a stellar performance in this year's festival favorite Close Calls and a lead role in the upcoming Halloween horror anthology 10/31, so we were thrilled to catch up with Jordan on the Orange Carpet for quick interview following our screening of Close Calls at the 2017 Halloween International Film Festival in Kill Devil Hills, NC, where she would go on to win the Best Actress award.

Returning from The Avengers are Samuel L. Jackson and Cobie Smulders who both do well in their roles once again, Sam Jackson getting more screen time than most of his other appearances.

The Independent watch on as the three - time Oscar - winner - deemed by many to be one of the best working actors today - spoke at London's V&A Museum following a screening of new drama Phantom Thread where he was asked if there have been any film roles he wishes he could have played.

Kevin Kline is a triumph as the original Hollywood bad boy, Errol Flynn, who was better at playing his fizzy, rakish role off - screen than on.

Despite his enduring role in pop culture, numerous attempts to do the Hulk justice on screen have left fans more angry than the Green Goliath himself and Marvel's only attempt to build a solo movie around the character didn't fare much better.