Sentences with phrase «brash characters»

Jake Gyllenhaal (Billy Hope) continues to pick bold and brash characters that fully highlight his abilities to transform himself.

is a big, bold, and brash study of big, bold, and brash characters.

American Hustle is a big, bold, and brash study of big, bold, and brash characters.

Other world leaders, like Putin, are obnoxious, brash characters.

Those brash characters from UCLA, meanwhile, were the last to arrive.

Not exact matches

In one concept, 72andSunny pitched having Tom Cruise reprise his character from the 2008 comedy Tropic Thunder as a brash, cursing movie studio executive, and equip him with a PlayBook to run his corporate fiefdom.

Uber's past refusals to release its demographics are in keeping with its brash corporate character.

One of the characters, Brianna, is a brash young woman attending university during a turbulent period of time.

Where the titular character, Wakandan King T'Challa (Chadwick Boseman), is hesitant and uncertain of how to proceed, Killmonger is brash and certain.

This initial reaction is very quickly quelled however, and with many very difficult scenes focused solely on him, Fiennes brings this brash and obnoxious character breathtakingly to life.

One might think that a movie from the director of Pineapple Express and starring Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch would be a big, brash, laugh - a-minute comedy, but Prince Avalanche is a surprisingly subdued and touching dramedy that consists of only 4 characters and takes place entirely in the woods.

The combative relationship between Hemsworth's brash youngling and Oldman's shopworn slimeball inexplicably leads to the latter hiring the former to steal trade secrets from Ford's character.

But no matter how brash all of these characters are, it's the film's soundtrack that's even more invasive, almost as if Lee left his iTunes playing on shuffle while editing the film.

In his other films he has a charismatic presence completely lost here behind the brash Communist character.

He lives him, successfully capturing that most difficult aspect of the character: the duality between the introverted dignity of Peter and the brash cockiness of his alter ego.

While known mostly for his brash, rule breaking cinematic style, his films and characters consistently possess great insight into the small, seemingly insignificant moments that can change lives.

«We're going to take you, regardless of your awareness of the show or the characters, and throw you into the loud, brash, and very bloody world of Ash.

Sofia Vergara steps in as Carl's ex-wife and does show off quite a bit of her familiar bold, brash humor, but she also manages to sell her character as a responsible, loving mother.

The soundtrack was admittedly brash — I'd still be mooning over the characters and pretty landscapes without the sweeping strings — but it was a small price to pay for such a lovely watch.

, buttoned - up Becca (Ellie Kemper, The Office) and brash Megan (Melissa McCarthy, Gilmore Girls) make up this winning ensemble, working together wonderfully, bringing their experience of stand - up and TV situation comedies to these oddball, yet affectionately crafted, characters.

Of course, Gotham City itself also serves as a major character, with brash, bold attitude and cheeky swagger, that has lent an air of mystery to many a noir.

Without his brash performance as the title character, the movie still would have worked well but it would have lacked the spark that took it to another level.

Though Lindsay Lohan seems comfortable in her position as Disney's teenage female lead, her character is brash, dishonest, and whiny, and it's tough to find a film centered around her particularly compelling.

Worse, LaBute succumbs to easy stereotyping to shorthand his story (Eckhart's brash researcher actually tells Paltrow's tightly - pinned character she must let her hair down, which she eventually does to heavy - handed effect).

In terms of tone, John Michael McDonagh's first film shot outside in the United States feels a bit like the latest U.S. - based film turned in by his filmmaking brother, Martin McDonagh, Seven Psychopaths, another film that I compared to the post-Pulp Fiction clones that came out in the late 1990s, full of bloody violence, brash attitude, and peppered with jokey moments that play to the crowd, such as one of the characters musing on whether a mime will make a sound when he is hit with a car.

Details like this, memorable characters and the brash colourful daytime palate of Manglehorn's quiet but living locale contrast with a much less welcoming washed out nightlife of EDM - throbbing clubs and seedy casinos.

In many ways, it's similar to Leo's — both play brash, tough older women prepared to do anything to protect their families — but Weaver isn't attempting to completely reinvent herself onscreen, and that leaves her free to channel all of her energy into making her character, who's improbably called «Smurf,» as creepy as possible.

I found my experience with the character to be conflicted; I enjoyed her brash attitude, her sniping prowess and her cold determination.

characters are deftly sketched; brash Texan Beck Weathers (Josh Brolin), regular guy Doug Hansen (John Hawkes), Japanese adventuress Yasuko Namba (Naoko Mori), and journalist Jon Krakauer (Michael Kelly), whose bestselling first - person account «Into Thin Air» was one of several written by the survivors (though none are credited as source material by the production).

Killzone 1 gave us 4 generic characters, the tech - savvy individual, the brash and arrogant soldier, the stealth specialist and the Captain America boy scout, almost each generic archetype was available.

Once again we dealt with Rico who continued with his brash manoeuvres making it hard to find his character likeable, alongside Narville who was so by - the - book it cost many other characters their lives.

Though these characters were certainly a marginal step up from the original, no one really grabbed your attention and Rico was back to his unlikable brash ways.

As executive producer Brian Miller states: «Kirk is this brash cowboy character, whereas Spock is the exact opposite — and when you break down Star Trek to those elements, you had to make a co-op game.

Here, Luigi is portrayed as a kind and courageous character, often jumping into trouble and making brash decisions due to his determination to protect and save Daisy.

Battle Chef Brigade revolves around, Mina Han, the brash, main character archetype, and youngest daughter of a family which runs a Chinese restaurant in rural Victusia with a bad case of wanderlust.

On one hand Jones looks to Buddhist practices and meditation as a source of energy in the creation of his work yet everywhere we look we see Wolverine masks and Black Flag logos (originally designed by Raymond Pettibon in the late 70's) which conjure a kind of brash male ego enterprise (the rocker, the comic book character) The use of these two archetypal symbols feel earnest.

The crude texture of her characters» skin, the brash and deliberate outlines that define the exaggerated figures within tableaux, the patches of thinly applicated paint that barely cover the ground, or the dug - out passages of drawing that carve into the surface, are all archeological — as if she was unearthing some hidden pattern that was embedded into the canvas all along.

Martin Parr is drawn to the crudest, most colourful examples of tourist postcards and souvenirs; Dr Lakra collects especially brash and eclectic record sleeves and scrapbooks from flea markets; Jim Shaw purposefully seeks out the weirdest paintings he can find in thrift stores and garage sales; Martin Wong and his mother amassed thousands of objects from New York shops ranging from Chinese teaware to Disney characters.