Sentences with phrase «by skilled actors»

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Even minor roles are filled by skilled actors who bring conviction to their characters, both real and imagined.

Millions of customers who already use Audible know how wonderful it is to listen to a book narrated by the author or performed by a skilled actor.

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They get conned by players who are skilled actors, perhaps after match bans would help here, three match suspension for diving in penalty area, proved by video evidence would soon stamp out this activity.

Updated at 8:12 p.m. ET on Tuesday 6/4 (CNN)-- Access to top Russian officials by U.S. lawmakers was helped along by action movie star Steven Seagal — and more specifically the actor's martial arts skills - the leader of a congressional delegation said Tuesday.

Driven by its ensemble of skilled actors, The Fighter contrasts success and failure, ambition and apathy, victory and defeat.

And, by now, Kidman has mastered that survival skill honed by all good actors — faking conviction in the midst of weak material — and it serves her brilliantly here.

Actors Billy Crudup and Anton Yelchin are set to show off their musical skills at Utah's Sundance Film Festival by taking the tunes they perform in...

The One I Love is cleverly written by Justin Lader and directed with budget - minded skill by Charlie McDowell (son of actor Malcolm, and step - son to Ted Danson, who makes a small acting appearance), both of whom are making their feature film debuts.

Although he is mostly known as an actor, Paxton has apparently not lost any of the skills which may have lain dormant for over 15 years by the looks of his first big screen directorial stint, Frailty.

New York has Sachs, a down - to - earth city scion who tackled love and apartment - hunting in the must - see Love Is Strange and returns to examine the budding friendship between two Brooklyn kids: an introvert with art skills and the safety net of white privilege, and an audacious aspiring actor being pushed out of the neighborhood by gentrification.

Joining the long list of thespians to have tried their hand at helming, acclaimed English actor Paddy Considine expands upon an impressive career by demonstrating his skill in the director's chair.

Language: English Genre: Action / Thriller MPAA rating: PG - 13 Director: Pierre Morel Actors: Xander Berkeley, Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace Plot: An ex-CIA agent calls upon his skills when his estranged daughter is abducted by slave traders.

One can only imagine how much better the film would be by plugging a better actor like Coburn in the lead role and giving someone with much more martial arts skills and screen presence like Bruce Lee in the other roles.

His aviation skills and reputation for sailing close to the wind lead to an approach from Schafer, a CIA agent (or possibly a composite of several) played by Domhnall Gleeson (whose father, actor Brendan Gleeson, resembles the stocky real Seal much more than sleek Tom Cruise does).

And that goes doubly for Outside In, whose premise at first glance is interchangeable with any number of Sundance movies — yet is distinguished from the mass of «sad person returns to his / her hometown» movies, by virtue of Shelton's inimitable skill as an actor's director.

Despite my prior relative indifference to the actors in it, they're perfectly cast — against their standard types — in this, and do terrific jobs, and the script, by the highly skilled and literate Ernest Lehman and Clifford Odets, is spectacular.

Director, co-writer and producer Alejandoro González Iñárritu, well known by cinephiles for his «Birdman,» which features Michael Keaton as a popular actor trying to deal with the problems of his current life, now puts his skill on creating a dramatic biopic of fur trapper Hugh Glass (played by DiCaprio) who, in 1823 in an area which became the Dakota Territory, is brutally attacked and mauled by a bear while scouting for an expedition.

Theo James has the looks, skill and range of an actor on the verge of superstardom, and Ben Kingsley injects some humor into his role as master villain, but the script (by director Per Fly and Daniel Pyne, who wrote The Manchurian Candidate) is too crammed with information that it sounds like historical footnotes.

Hollywood actor James McAvoy showed off his sporting skills by playing in a Scottish celebrity soccer match over the weekend (06 - 07Sep14).

Actors Robert Pattinson, Zac Efron and Andrew Garfield showed off their musical skills at a pal's wedding by forming a supergroup and performing for...

Writers Malen, Solon and Mazer keep the gags rolling in the fast - paced style of cable TV and are graced by actors known for their comedic skills.

Altman's skill as a director shows, setting up amiable scenes that are funny and well - played by his cast of likeable actors.

Each actor delves into the skin of the men they inhabit with great skill and commitment, and watching their interplay is even more fun than watching the cars whiz by (in spite of the frenetic efforts of acclaimed cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle, an Oscar - winner for Slumdog Millionaire).

Colin's romantic but remarkably human / flawed characters could be brought to life by several skilled actors today.

What's weird is how the game depicts the way in which members of the audience are drawn toward the film; adult males correspond to the dark blue stars on an actor's card that represent his or her dramatic acting skills, while women are drawn in by the red stars that correspond to character acting, and children are lured by comedic acting displayed as green stars.

They're reactions to your guitar playing skills are over-the-top and completely phoned in by the game's actors.

Also, by concentrating on a younger, more impressionable Nate who's yet to develop the expert parkour skills and casual disregard for human life we've come to expect, the film deftly navigates the problem of finding an actor who can effectively portray the 30 - something version we know and love.

The improvements unveiled this time includes improved travel with nonstop flights from town to town, more achievements and rewards, advance glyphs for combat skills and more NPC voiced by familiar Hollywood voice actors.

Moore could still snag one or two by landscape artists as prominent as Aelbert Cuyp and Jan van Goyen, with the skill to treat the weather as an actor.

Consider the multiple possibilities of unfair coins, unexpected externalities that could affect outcomes, skilled coin toss experts and their chaotic human whims, social engineering of observers by dishonest actors and their chaotic whims, observational errors and the whims of observers, one would have to call actual coin tosses a spatial - temporal chaos model, in particular if one decides beforehand to do what one can to generate that outcome.

The SQE2 will cost more: it has ten assessments in five skills and requires face - to - face assessment by a qualified solicitor as well as the help of an actor for its client interviews and advocacy parts.

Participants practice their interviewing and analytical skills by conducting a true - to - life investigation, using realistic fact patterns with actors playing the parts of complainant, respondent and witnesses.

Skills Professional Actor... Answered an average of 25 calls per day by addressing customer inquiries, solving problems and providing new... entering the restaurant to ascertain what each customer wanted or needed.

The process was facilitated expertly and the material included video presentations by systems gurus, futurists and actors, who with great skill and empathy painted the picture of reality in their «brave new world», how they got there, who they blamed or gave credit.