Sentences with phrase «by central casting»

Not exact matches

«I believe policymakers should have been much more aggressive in tightening policy and rejecting the fiscal impropriety associated with this most recent tax cut... The die has been cast by the Fed and other central banks and future policy prescriptions are predictable.»

Let me preface these reflections by saying that I am not casting criticisms towards other central banks or their policies.

Thus a characterization of theology and of what makes theological education theological that is cast, like Wood's, in terms of «action» already has conceptually built into it resources for addressing the justice issues so central to the sort of position illustrated by the Mud Flower Collective's proposal.

occupied a territory in the sparsely settled central hill country of Canaan bounded on the cast by the Jordan, on the west by the coastal plains, and on the north and south by strong Canaanite city - states.

After casting your vote using your desktop computer you can thus pull out your smartphone and verify the results that were actually received by the central electoral servers.

That fall, she joined the cast of Saturday Night Live but exited before the conclusion of the season, publicly disheartened by the show's increasing drop - off in quality.After signing on as a correspondent on Michael Moore's news magazine TV Nation and hosting Comedy Product, a standup showcase on the Comedy Central cable network, Garofalo began work on her breakthrough role, co-starring with Uma Thurman in the 1996 romantic comedy hit The Truth About Cats and Dogs.

Already powered by its strong cast and the gripping central dilemma, The Martian also excels in every technical aspect.

Adapted and Americanized from the 1974 novel by popular British author Frederick Forsyth (The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File), Dogs casts Walken as Jamie Shannon, one of several mercenaries making a narrow exit from war - torn Central America in the film's opening sequence.

Despite lots of energy from the cast, Blankman is marred by stupid humor and an inability to make its central plot the least bit interesting.

A loose assemblage of movie villains straight out of central casting (including the baby - faced one who might have a change of heart and the total maniac who seems in it just to kill people, played by a scene - stealing Richard Cabral), there's no honor among thieves, and there's even less logic.

At the bar, we meet his beer - swilling family, played with sometimes - too - broad Boston accents and personalities by Miranda Richardson as Jeff's mom and Clancy Brown as his dad, along with famous Boston comic Lenny Clarke as another relative, and others who sometimes feel straight out of Boston central casting — love the Sox, drink before noon, yell over each other, etc..

A lesson in grief and hope, this crowd - pleaser (Sydney Film Festival Audience Prize winner) has a strong central performance from Mohamed Fellag as the substitute teacher, M. Lazhar and equally great turns by the cast of children who play his students.

Huff first puts down some Central Casting hoods in a grocery store hold - up, then gets recruited by the FBI to infiltrate a biker gang under what appears to be the leakiest false identity ever crafted for a federal sting operation.

by Walter Chaw A castration / redemption picture with the most ineffectual central character in any film south of Polanski, direct - to - video thriller Malevolent casts Lou Diamond Phillips as an eternally - framed homicide detective and Kari Wuhrer as an ex-softcore goddess now reduced to acting badly in a variety of scoop - necked blouses.

Constructed around a few locations (including Stevens» own home for Anne's gilded prison) and a cast of four central characters and shot in an economical ten days, it is both a handsome production (shot by veteran, Oscar - nominated DP Ted McCord sometime between Treasure of the Sierra Madre and The Sound of Music, and camera operator Conrad Hall) and a visually evocative world taut with palpable tension and he orchestrates the quartet nicely.

Unlikely scenarios (including the central love story) are established just to be rebuked in matinee idol moments (and the scene in which Watson finally dumps cad Bill (Dominic West) is an inexplicable graft from Dying Young), and by the end of Mona Lisa Smile the only thing curious is how the picture manages to cast all men as either philandering jerks or ciphers with dicks, while all subplots (one of them concerning philandering Giselle) are summarily dropped just as they threaten to provide the piece with something like depth and humanity.

It thunders along like a washing machine on spin cycle, much like its central protagonist, Rosalind Russell as ace reporter Hildy Johnson (not first choice for casting by director Howard Hawks, but she earned her stripes so to speak).

And though Howarth is actually quite effective in the central role, the supporting cast is populated almost exclusively by subpar performers (which makes it impossible to sympathize with most of Max's victims).

Release date: July 13 Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Neve Campbell, Chin Han, Roland Møller, Pablo Schreiber Directed by: Rawson Marshall Thurber (Central Intelligence) Why we're excited: This year's Rampage, which found Johnson battling enormous animals and flying a helicopter around, might have been a dud, but we still have high hopes for the other movie where he performs insane physical feats in a disaster scenario.

Filmed entirely in South Africa, with a cast made up of the country's citizens, this powerful, sometimes shocking account of the life of the apartheid martyr, Solomon Kalushi Mahlangu, frequently benefits from a strong central performance by Thabo Rametsi that helps to hold the story together.

For anyone who has watched the film's trailer or has looked at the cast list and seen the likes of Joan Allen and William H. Macy registered as supporting players, it's doubtful they'll be particularly shocked by the central revelation awaiting the preschool - aged protagonist.

Kicking it off is «Dance Along», an interactive feature hosted by the central and supporting cast.

Adapting a then - unpublished novel by Tom Perrotta, Payne grounds the absurdity of his central dynamic in the recognizable — the setting is his hometown of Omaha, and the accomplished cast is rounded out with nonprofessionals — and distills his closely observed take on deeply flawed humanity to its bitter but stealthily sympathetic essence.

Despite the relative inexperience of Linklater and his sizable cast, Dazed and Confused still flows by with finesse, despite the loose structure and lack of a central plot.

Marcel the monkey shows up the Central Perk crew by becoming the first cast member of «Friends» to go solo, and we would be remiss if we did not discuss the plucky young helicopter pilot played by Cuba Gooding Jr., who in a few short years would grace the world with such masterworks as «Chill Factor» and «Boat Trip.»

They unequivocally cast assessment in the central role of teaching and learning by making the forceful argument that testing should not be the afterthought of instruction, but the central point of instruction.

Although there are a multitude of characters and plot threads in The Tenderness of Wolves (perhaps, a few too many of both), the central role is taken by Mrs Ross, who stands out from the rest of the cast because she narrates her part of the story, while the rest of the story is told in the third person.

Cooled by central air - conditioning or ocean breeze, this Poipu rental casts a hypnotic spell with its bright island inspired decor and contemporary flair.

The project required a three - year overhaul and restoration of a landmark building dating back to 1883, characterized by a vast skylight - topped central atrium that has been preserved right down to its cast - iron railings.

Undeterred by Final Fantasy 15's focus on straight white men, however, fans are already taking matters into their own hands and re-imagining its central cast of canonically straight characters in all sorts of new — and, usually, super-gay — ways.

Making art, which is theoretically prized and precious, out of cast - off objects is one of the basic paradoxes central to many projects that have appeared in the Mexico City gallery, which has presented work by artists like Sarah Lucas, Damián Ortega, Allora & Calzadilla, Adrián Villar Rojas, Danh Vo and Dr. Lakra (Jerónimo López Ramírez).

From long walks in remote Japanese or American woodlands and Europe, to urban forests such as Central Park in New York or the Jardin du Luxembourg in Paris, Takeshi Shikama trained his lens to capture fleeting moments of living things: plants and flowers about to wither, flowing streams or shadows cast by trees.

The series of sculptures that are central to Chris Evans's exhibition bear cowlicks but, tangential to the coiffeurial connotation, are cast from genuine licks made by cows in buckets of molasses and cereal.

It was at the Central Academy of Fine Arts that Sui first came across a plaster cast of the discus thrower: this and other casts were brought to China by Xu Beihong in 1939 as models of European art.

Formed by a ten - foot - square, cast cement cube with a tall tree embedded at its central axis, the second work functions both as an icon and a passageway along the pier.

This display at 59 Central Street will showcase the Contemporary Art Society Collection Committee's first ever purchase: Rebekkah by Simon Fujiwara (2012), consisting of five terra - cotta dyed, life sized, cast plaster female figures and video, initially commissioned for the Shanghai Biennale (2012).