Sentences with phrase «by a dream cast»

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The dream falls apart when his film's Hatuey, played by locally cast Daniel, becomes the fugitive ringleader of protests against the privatization of Bolivia's water.

Four million votes More than four million votes were cast by 320,000 users (a 30 % increase on last year), and the resulting dream team features five members of the Barça side that conquered Europe last season, plus another who has joined since.

By Sean Ryan Competing predictions of commuter rail in southeast Wisconsin are casting the project as either a development mirage or a dream come true for struggling builders.

By plucking out delicate, live tissue during neurosurgery and then studying the resident cells, researchers have revealed a partial cast of neural characters that give rise to our thoughts, dreams and memories.

But it's also heartfelt, hilarious and the cast is a dream - team topped by Viola Davis.

And a cast to dream of down to the smallest roles, most of the actors giving the performance of their lifetime: J.Lo is hardly recognizable as the irrelevant pop singer of recent years, doing a great job as a female cop tempted by the attracting opposites of bank robber George Clooney, who was never better than here.

WHY: Featuring a great ensemble cast, an awesome soundtrack and a creative dream team that includes Martin Scorsese, Mick Jagger and Terrence Winter, HBO's «Vinyl» should have been a homerun, but instead, it's a messy, half - baked period drama that tries to skate by on tired clichés and overwrought nostalgia for 1970s New York.

The protagonist is such a profoundly boring and uncharismatic character, as played by Jack Lowden, that it falls to these successive manic pixie dream girl archetypes to push him into doing really anything at all, and when his efforts fail - which they almost always do - they are cast aside.

Cast: Lupita Nyong» o, David Oyelowo, Madina Nalwanga Based on «The Queen of Katwe: A Story of Life, Chess, and One Extraordinary Girl's Dream of Becoming a Grandmaster» by Tim Crothers

In rich black and white, it's the story of an aspiring young New York filmmaker (Steve Buscemi) in the throes of his creative struggle, his beautiful neighbor and muse (Jennifer Beals), and a lovable con man (Seymour Cassel), chasing their dreams in quintessential 1990s NYC amidst a cast of oddball characters played by Stanley Tucci, Sam Rockwell, Will Patton, Jim Jarmusch, Debi Mazar, Carol Kane, and others.

This movie is filled with the songs and music we grew up with, performed by a cast that is a dream team.

Directed by John R. Leonetti (Annabelle), the film sees Joey King leading the cast as a troubled teenager who is granted seven wishes by a magic box, only for her dream life to turn into a nightmare; check it out below after the official synopsis... -LSB-...]

And then there's the cast, which seems like someone put together a dream wish list and then, by some miracle, every actor said yes.

When: October 14th Why: Based on the book of the same name by Mark Obmasick, «The Big Year» has the kind of cast that, up until a few years ago, would have sounded like a comedy dream team.

With her short debut, the longtime actress is beginning to realize her dream of becoming a filmmaker in her own right — which often means letting go of material by casting outside herself.

So you were talking about this kind of karmic circle where it comes back around — where now «Hoop Dreams,» a film Ebert helped make successful, he was someone that shined a light on these less - well - known films that had weaker marketing budgets or so forth, drew people's attention to Errol Morris, who you saw on screen, really helped launch the careers of some of these people by shining that light on them... and you were saying how from your experience as a critic and all that, you say in your own words, you yourself feel the same desire, that your job is to cast that light.

This year, Taylor Sheridan made the transition from actor to screenwriter with his film Sicario, a border thriller directed by Denis Villeneuve and starring his dream cast: Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin and Benicio Del Toro.

For at least half its run, the show — created by Fabrice Gobert and with early episodes co-written by the heavyweight novelist, journalist, and filmmaker Emmanuel Carrère — was unmissably good, not least because of its dream cast (Anne Consigny, Clotilde Hesme, Grégory Gadebois, et al).

Howardís dream cast also included two other prominent female charactersñJill (played by the beautiful Elizabeth Hurley), the opportunistic actress who dates Ed just because of his celebrity; and Edís eccentric mom, Jeanette (embodied by Sally Kirkland), whose life crumbles when Ed becomes famous.

Wispy and familiar in its themes and humorous strokes, Cafe Society benefits from an exceptionally adept cast led by Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart and Steve Carell, as well as from a luminous glow that emphasizes both the old Hollywood nostalgia and the story's basis in dreams and artifice (it's the director's first feature shot digitally, by Vittorio Storaro, no less).

«A Dream Team Like No Other» (13:56, HD) spotlights the cast, one by one.

Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Jamie Foxx, Catherine Keener, Nelsan Ellis, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Tom Hollander, Stephen Root Director: Joe Wright Screenplay: Susannah Grant (based on the book, «The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music,» by Steve Lopez) Review published May 16, 2009

I actually don't think I ever dreamed this big — that a film about an African nation, with an all - black cast and helmed by a black director would get this much of a celebration.

Starring the actor who goes by the moniker Childish Gambino in his Grammy - winning musical career and an increasingly widely versed cast of Lakeith Stanfield, Zazie Beetz and Brian Tyree Henry, the 11 - episode second season that premieres March 1 continues with its gaze upon the periphery of the American Dream and the hip hop scene of the ATL, which provided the foundation for the first season that debuted in September 2016.

The rest of the cast is a stellar spread which includes Jim Gaffigan as Kennedy confidant and U.S. attorney Paul Markham, Bruce Dern as stern family patriarch Joseph Kennedy and Kate Mara as Kopechne, loyal to the Kennedy dream but doomed by one fateful decision.

Director: Wes Craven Cast: Heather Langenkamp, John Saxon, Johnny Depp, Amanda Wyss, Ronee Blakley, Nick Corri and Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger Plot: A group of teenagers are haunted by strange dreams about a disfigured killer wearing a sweater and home - made knuckledusters.

Dashiell Hammett's supreme hard - boiled detective novel, with Humphrey Bogart as private eye Sam Spade, and an unbeatable supporting cast that includes femme fatale Mary Astor, genial fat man Sydney Greenstreet, perfumed crook Peter Lorre, patsy Elisha Cook Jr., and tough cops Ward Bond and Barton MacLane — all turned by writer - director John Huston into «the stuff that dreams are made of.»

And Dream House classes up a by - the - numbers haunted - house premise with direction by Jim Sheridan and a prestigious cast headlined by the recently married, ridiculously attractive Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz.

The returning cast was joined by newcomer Daisy Ridley, who beat out fierce competition to take the principal role of Rey; BAFTA Rising Star Award winner John Boyega (Attack the Block, Imperial Dreams) as reluctant stormtrooper Finn; Emmy nominee Adam Driver (Lincoln, Girls) as the villainous Kylo Ren, and Golden Globe winner Oscar Isaac (Inside Llewyn Davis, The Bourne Legacy) as Resistance pilot Poe Dameron.

The show, which is airs 5 March on FX, stars Jessica Lange as Crawford and Susan Sarandon in the role of Davis — a dream - casting scenario that looks to have paid off judging by this first official trailer.

Webber and lyricist Tim Rice's songs, including the tunes «Close Every Door» and «Any Dream Will Do,» are catchy and memorable, and they are nicely performed by the cast, which also includes Maria Friedman as the Narrator as well as a briefly seen Joan Collins.

This comparison would be little more than hyperbole if one did not consider the lives lost to the streets of New Haven, the potential never realized, the dreams crushed, and the crimes committed by the un and undereducated who can not find legitimate employment, not to speak of their inability to get into college, all due to the fact that we are playing with our childrens» education with little, if any, intention to provide a quality one for all of them, eapecialy those who are cast away by the the Acheivement First Enterprise (you know, «the least of these») while lying about it, with the help of this publication.

Book: The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach Sport: Baseball at a small Midwestern college Reviewer's verdict: «You don't have to like baseball to savor Chad Harbach's sumptuous debut novel, a wise and tender story of love and friendship, ambition and the cruelty of dashed dreams, featuring an appealing cast of characters.»

«A tense, spare tale which contrasts the claustrophobic interiors of its perfectly cast characters» lives with places nobody willingly goes: from lonely stretches of desert to the suburbs of Cape Town where dreams are punctuated by the sounds of howling alarms and dogs.

The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach (528 pages) You don't have to like baseball to savor Chad Harbach's sumptuous debut novel, a wise and tender story of love and friendship, ambition and the cruelty of dashed dreams, featuring an appealing cast of characters.

Developed by Omega Force based on the iconic manga and anime series Berserk, Berserk and the Band of the Hawk follows the compelling tale of the famed mercenary group The Band of the Hawk, focusing on its diverse cast of characters and their struggles as they fight to achieve their dream of owning a kingdom.

Here, surrounded by the eerie plaster casts, Art Macabre present Death Drawing — a fantastical life drawing salon complete with dark woodland creatures, fearsome faerie queens and transformed beings inspired by moments from A Midsummer Night's Dream.

This facile tactic — one artwork loosely related to the convolute, plus one text, then repeat — persists throughout the show: four photos of mannequins in shop windows by Lee Friedlander, each titled New York City and taken in the late aughts, illustrate «The Flaneur»; Mike Kelley's aluminum light fixture, modeled on his childhood home in Detroit and casting an ominous, unfriendly glow, serves as an inconsequential helpmeet to «Dream City and Dream House, Dreams of the Future, Anthropological Nihilism, Jung»; Good Hand Bad Hand (2010), Rodney Graham's photographic diptych mounted on lightboxes of a stone - faced man playing poker is used in concert with «Prostitution, Gambling.»

The Art Gallery of Ontario's major summer exhibition will feature the voices of Stratford's brightest stars, live performances from cast members of the Canadian Stage TD Dream in High Park, and Degas - inspired ballet performances by Opera Atelier's Artists of Atelier Ballet.

A great pair of headphones has always been dream - worthy for serious audiophiles, but Beats by Dre makes headphones that everyone can drool over (even more so when they're cast in a gorgeous champagne hue!).

There are so many amazing makers who, like me, have quit their day job to follow their handcrafted dream and I hope you'll support me by heading over and casting a vote (or two or three or six!)