Sentences with phrase «cast as detective»

Logan Browning has been cast as Zora, Andrew Sensenig will play Triphammer and Justice Leak has been cast as Detective Kutter.

Kole has been cast as Detective Trent Wilkes, lead detective in the Robbery Homicide Division of the LAPD, while Stocklin will play Perry, an introverted college sophomore.

On December 2, 2010 filming began on AMC's The Killing - Enos leads the cast as Detective Sarah Linden.

Often cast as a detective or lawman.

L.A. Noire casts you as a detective, and during each case you'll need to interview suspects which requires you to watch your suspect for hints that they may be lying to you, or not telling you the whole story.

Not exact matches

Examining absurd theories around Mad Men and True Detective, Julia Yost characterizes this phenomenon as a shift from the aesthetic to the forensic: «Everything on screen and soundtrack is a clue, and the viewer's challenge is to suss out the secrets encoded by the creators» choices in writing, casting, wardrobe, and art direction.

Convenient blackouts hit at every turning point and the bodies pile up as our intrepid, wise - cracking reporters turn detective to investigate the hidden passages and clutching hands and missing wills while the script contorts itself in absurd contrivances and ridiculous dialogue and the cast offers a grab - bag of character types and acting excess.

Despite various B - movie trappings (the killer in a hooded rain slicker; an atmospheric slasher movie score), Odar and a strong ensemble cast (led by Sebastian Blomberg as the haunted lead detective) maintain a steady intensity and a strong focus on psychology rather than exploitation.

Ian McKellen is perfectly cast as the great detective in his sunset years, coming out of retirement to solve a 50 - year - old case that he can only remember fragments of.

Among the strong but woefully underused supporting cast are William H. Macy as Mick's best friend, a private investigator; Bryan Cranston as a homicide detective whose screen time looks suspiciously truncated; and Michael Pena as a former client of Mick's whose case will become crucial later on.

The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that Ryan Reynolds has been cast as Pikachu in the upcoming live - action film Detective Pikachu.

Cast John Cassavetes as Axel North Sidney Poitier as Tommy Tyler Jack Warden as Charles Malik Kathleen Maguire as Ellen Wilson Ruby Dee as Lucy Tyler Robert F. Simon as Mr. Nordmann Ruth White as Mrs. Nordmann Val Avery as Brother John Kellogg as Detective David Clarke as Wallace Estelle Hemsley as Lucy's Mother Charles Jordan as Old Stevedore Ralph Bell as Night Boss Will Lee as Davis

Ian McKellen is perfectly cast as the great detective in his sunset years, coming out of retirement to solve a 50 - year - old case that he can remember only in part.

Doctor Strange is set for release on October 25th in the UK and November 4th in the US, with Scott Derrickson (Sinister) directing a cast that includes Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock) as Stephen Strange, Tilda Swinton (Snowpiercer) as The Ancient One, Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave) as Baron Mordo, Benedict Wong (The Martian) as Wong, Rachel McAdams (True Detective) as Christine Palmer, Mads Mikkelsen (Hannibal) as Kaecilius and Benjamin Bratt (The Infiltrator) in an as - yet - unrevealed role.

For his follow - up to the bewitching A Ghost Story, writer - director David Lowery dramatizes the twilight years of this late criminal career, with screen legend Robert Redford cast as the infamous outlaw, Sissy Spacek as the woman who loved him, and Casey Affleck as the detective in hot pursuit.

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.

To celebrate the upcoming release of their new film The Nice Guys, the cast and filmmakers were in London this week to discuss the action - comedy, which stars Russell Crowe (Les Miserables) and Ryan Gosling (The Big Short) as mismatched detective duo in 1970's Los Angeles.

The cast includes TV comedienne Polly Bergen as Sam's wife Peggy, Lori Martin as their daughter, Martin Balsam («Psycho's» ill - fated detective) as police chief Mark Dutton, Telly Savalas as gumshoe Charlie Sievers and Barrie Chase as Diane, a goodtime girl victimized by Cady.

Its excellent cast also includes Alison Janney as an insinuating detective, Lisa Kudrow, and Laura Prepon.

As HBO prepares its third season of True Detective, it has added yet another cast member.

Ray Fisher moves from Justice League to HBO's True Detective as the third season of the crime anthology continues to round out its impressive cast.

But no falling out occurred: «Sin City,» whose cast included Jessica Alba as a vengeful stripper and Bruce Willis as a disillusioned detective, was praised for the digital effects and backgrounds that created a stark visual sensibility matching the comics.

Mad Men's Elisabeth Moss proved to be perfectly cast as the brittle detective at the heart of the action, trying to solve a puzzle in a hometown full of traumatic memories.

With a cast of characters that includes surfers, hustlers, dopers and rockers, a murderous loan shark, LAPD Detectives, a tenor sax player working undercover, and a mysterious entity known as the Golden Fang, which may only be a tax dodge set up by some dentists... Part surf noir, part psychedelic romp — all Thomas Pynchon.

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The hit voice of Deadpool, Ryan Reynolds has been cast as the voice of Detective Pikachu!

The ensemble cast includes Matt Le Nevez, who made a calculated career turn away from his most popular role as Offspring's loved - and - lost Dr Patrick Reid — this time impressive as sinister senior detective Brian Dutch.

The venerable Ken Watanabe has joined the cast of Detective Pikachu as Detective Yoshida, a brand - new character created for the movie.

With a cast of characters that includes surfers, hustlers, dopers and rockers, a murderous loan shark, LAPD Detectives, a tenor sax player working undercover, and a mysterious entity known as the Golden Fang, which may only be a tax dodge set up by some dentists... Part surf noir, part psychedelic romp - all Thomas Pynchon.

As Ambrose Hilliard, the star of a pre-war detective series, Nighy is never less than splendid, whether cozying up to Catrin so she plumps up his self - sacrificing role as drunken Uncle Frank, patiently coaching the real - life Audie Murphy - style American war hero in the cast (Jake Lacy, leadenness personified) used as bait for Yankee ticket buyers or conducting a sentimental group sing - a-long in a puAs Ambrose Hilliard, the star of a pre-war detective series, Nighy is never less than splendid, whether cozying up to Catrin so she plumps up his self - sacrificing role as drunken Uncle Frank, patiently coaching the real - life Audie Murphy - style American war hero in the cast (Jake Lacy, leadenness personified) used as bait for Yankee ticket buyers or conducting a sentimental group sing - a-long in a puas drunken Uncle Frank, patiently coaching the real - life Audie Murphy - style American war hero in the cast (Jake Lacy, leadenness personified) used as bait for Yankee ticket buyers or conducting a sentimental group sing - a-long in a puas bait for Yankee ticket buyers or conducting a sentimental group sing - a-long in a pub.

Based on Infernal Affairs, a finely complex Asian policier from 2002 (this is ten times better), the plotting has much the same wit as Face / Off, with DiCaprio's precarious dive mirrored by the spectacular rise of a clean - cut detective (Damon, equally well cast), secretly compromising the force for the benefit of his decadent gangster patron (an unhinged Nicholson, which is saying a lot).

Here, he breaks out in William Friedkin «s latest as a killer detective, the standout in an all - star cast that fills the run time with excellent performances all around.

We can only hope that someone has the good sense to cast Danny Devito as Detective Pikachu.

The supporting cast provides the broader strokes: Henry Winkler is, unsurprisingly, excellent as the egocentric teacher of the acting class Barry enrolls in to follow his next target; Stephen Root plays Barry's money - hungry boss; Sarah Goldberg is terrific as a talented but self - centered acting student; and Paula Newsome plays a detective whose scenes with an amorous Winkler provide some of the show's best moments.

We've also learned all about the supporting cast, which is full of character actors you know from other cable shows (James Frain, Michael Irby, C.S. Lee), as well as a bunch of beautiful women who get the kinds of female roles we've come to expect from True Detective.

No better or worse than his subsequent law»n' order flick, 1975's Brannigan (the one in which he jets off to London to nab a bad guy), this finds the actor cast as a veteran detective who investigates the murder of his partner and discovers that the rotten apples might be located in his own department.

Cast: Keanu Reeves as Detective Tom Ludlow Forest Whitaker as Captain Jack Wander Hugh Laurie as Captain James Biggs Chris Evans as Detective Paul Diskant Cedric the Entertainer as Scribble Jay Mohr as Sgt. Mike Clady Terry Crews as Detective Terrence Washington Naomie Harris as Linda Washington Martha Higareda as Grace Garcia John Corbett as Detective Dante Demille Amaury Nolasco as Detective Cosmo Santos Common as Coates Cle Shaheed Sloan as Fremont The Game as Grill

Talking movies with him is a treat, the conversation leaping from obscurities such as the 1980 asylum - set psychological thriller The Ninth Configuration (about which we discovered a shared obsession when we first met in 2002) to such detective classics as The Big Sleep and The Long Goodbye, both of which cast long shadows over his latest work, Inherent Vice.

Director Sternberg, in his Dietrich years, tackles Fyodor Dostoyevsky, with the young Lucien Ballard behind the camera, and a cast that includes Peter Lorre (as the gloomy, philosophical student killer) and Edward Arnold (as his nemesis, genial and persistent police detective).

After co-starring on HBO's «True Detective,» Daddario was cast as Dwayne «The Rock» Johnson's daughter in the upcoming Warner Bros. tentpole «San Andreas.»

With a cast of characters that includes surfers, hustlers, dopers and rockers, a murderous loan shark, LAPD Detectives, a tenor sax player working undercover and a mysterious entity known as the Golden Fang, which may only be a tax dodge set up by some dentists, Inherent Vice is part surf noir, part psychedelic romp - all Thomas Pynchon.

Last filmed by Sidney Lumet in the 70s with an A * - list cast, Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express now returns to the screen, directed by Kenneth Branagh, who has cast himself as the great moustachioed detective Poirot.

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.»

Lord of the Rings and X-Men star Ian McKellen has been cast as the iconic detective in a new film called A Slight Trick of the Mind.

Interestingly, Allison Janney has been cast as the tough, suspicious, particularly knowing in a woman's way, lead detective, whereas in the novel the investigation was headed by a rather refined gent until he was pushed aside by a woman detective who knew better.

Kenneth Branagh stars as Agatha Christie's master detective, Hercule Poirot, and also directs an all - star cast — Michelle Pfeiffer, Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz, Willem Dafoe, Daisy Ridley, Josh Gad, Judi Dench, Leslie Odom Jr., etc. — in the latest adaptation of the classic train - bound mystery.

Rounding off the cast is Jennifer Carpenter, well - known for her role as Debra Morgan in the hit Showtime series Dexter, who plays Juli Kidman, Sebastian's Junior Detective partner.

Rounding out the supporting cast, David Oyelowo (Selma) continues his ascent with a terrific performance as a straight arrow detective.

The film is now currently in production in the UK, with Rob Letterman (Goosebumps) directing a cast that includes Ryan Reynolds in the title role as Detective Pikachu alongside Justice Smith (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom), Kathryn Newton (Big Little Lies), Suki Waterhouse (The Bad Batch), Ken Watanabe (Godzilla), Bill Nighy (The Limehouse Golem) and Chris Geere (Modern Family).

The supporting cast is stacked, with Six Feet Under «s Patricia Clarkson as Camille's mom and Mindy Project alum Chris Messina as a local detective.