Sentences with phrase «character after the film»

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Keaton's character, Adrian Toomes, is used to explain a key plothole from 2012's «The Avengers»: What ever happened to all of the alien weapons and tools left on Earth after the film's end battle?

Throughout the film, the characters played by Bale, Adams, and others have to convince, sell, trust, and entrap one mark after the next.

Directed by Ryan Coogler (Creed) and starring Chadwick Boseman (Get On Up) as the Black Panther, the movie is the first standalone film for the classic Marvel Comics character after Boseman previously appeared as the Black Panther in 2016's Marvel film, Captain America: Civil War.

Despite a real - life narrative stuffed with secrets and suspense, the film version quickly feels bloated as Stone treats us to scene after scene of Snowden struggling with his inner dilemma and, especially, with his devoted girlfriend, Lindsay, who is a major character in her own right.

These films were in stark contrast from Scorsese's work at the time, the character study of a live - at - home, celebrity - obsessed comedian with delusions of grandeur in King of Comedy and the «one crazy night in Soho» comedy After Hours — both of which met tepid results.

Wicked too has characters just as nasty as the Wicked Witch in the original film, only now they're turning the tale on its head, and showing that the characters that we used to love may not be so nice after all.

After all, what Allardyce was invited to contemplate, then filmed enthusiastically contemplating, was a silly thing for the England manager to do but an entirely in - character, maybe even predictable thing for Allardyce to do.

The Milibands insist they are still close, but relations between their camps have become strained, with David's key allies branding rival Ed «Forrest Gump» after the less - than - bright character played by Tom Hanks in the hit film.

After watching a scene from the film Trainspotting, in which a character reaches into the bowl of an indescribably filthy toilet, they sold a pack of pens for an average of $ 2.74, compared with a price of $ 4.58 for participants shown a neutral clip of coral reefs.

After taking account of total run - time and years since release, children's main cartoon characters were 2.5 times as likely to die as their counterparts in films for adults, and almost three times as likely to be murdered.

But after the massive success of the 2003 film, Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl, based on the attraction, film characters such as Captain Jack Sparrow and Captain Barbossa joined the attraction in 2006.

After playing minor roles in the television series Doc and the film Big Fish in her childhood, she became a teen idol starring as the character Miley Stewart in the Disney Channel television series Hannah Montana in 2006.

After the mid»40s he played character roles, appearing in films every few years until the early»70s.

After seven movies of playing Severus Snape with slimy and malevolent aplomb, Alan Rickman is finally given the chance to imbue his character with some genuine emotion — the flashback that reveals his tragic history is easily the most moving sequence in the film, if not the entire series.

A much more restrained Xavier Dolan after his pretentious previous film, and he displays an assured direction and firm control of this suspenseful thriller, even though the narrative seems to move too fast as the characters start to act in ways that are not always convincing.

All in all, though, we don't fall in love with any of these characters, we don't root for the film's one «couple» (who we think all along will unrealistically be granted a predictable Hollywood ending), we can't remember the jokes after the fact and, most important, we aren't consistently entertained.

The film, which opens today, is a three - character story set in an unspecified South American country (standing in for Mr. Dorfman's native Chile) after the fall of a dictator.

I now have to say I feel as weary as the film's characters look after the final defeat of Voldemort.

Liotta's character denies he's murdered anyone all the way through the film, even after he's killed a stewardess!.

As a homeless transvestite who croons for Amanda Plummer's character after making a flamboyant entrance into her quiet office, Jeter's carefree ditty was a highlight of the film.

The episodic bent of the film's first half - much of the narrative seems to follow the central characters as they fight one fire after another - does test the viewer's patience to a fairly demonstrable degree, and it's clear that Backdraft, by and large, works best when focused on the rivalry and relationship between the central figures (and how it ultimately affects their respective work).

However self - aware the film may be, its characters and moods and conflicts are too over-determined and familiar to linger in the memory very long after the credits roll.

After three films together, one might expect the two main characters to, you know, actually know a thing or two about each other.

The film has a revelation about a character's love life that will resonate even stronger today, after gay marriage votes across the country, and I think that revelation is the emotional denouement the movie needed.

Fortunately, the film does pick up after the first 45 minutes and has moments where the action and characters do take flight.

An unfocused, unfunny black comedy, Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb details the chaos that ensues after a nuclear attack is mistakenly triggered against the Soviet Union - with the film following a host of disparate figures, including George C. Scott's Buck Turgidson, Sterling Hayden's Jack D. Ripper, and Peter Sellers» title character, as they attempt to neutralize the threat.

This small film is a thoughtful addition to his parables about happy and unhappy families (Nobody Knows, After the Storm), studded with memorable characters and believable performances that quietly lead the viewer to reflect on societal values.

The film never gets past the unlikelihood that its characters have much chance of living happily ever after.

After the war, his film parts multiplied, and he was very busy on the screen during the 1950s, in productions as different as Anthony Asquith's The Importance of Being Earnest and Tony Richardson's Look Back in Anger, and playing every kind of character role from coroners (in Cast a Dark Shadow) to British admirals (in Sink the Bismarck!)

Even after the film's last half - hour descends into a silly season, Mr. Rudolph writes and directs with obvious affection for his characters and with a deep knowledge of whatever makes them tick.

Kapur imbues the film with the historical import and epic sweep missing from Elizabeth, and while Blanchett's firebrand performance is the film's searing centrepiece, strong supporting work from Owen, Abbie Cornish (finally impressive after many try - hard strike - outs), Morton and, especially, Geoffrey Rush as her loyal - to - a-fault servant Francis Walsingham, bring out the shades in her deeply conflicted character.

Not long after our intrepid heroes» arrival in Hollywood, there's a big showdown including most of the characters from the film, and this single scene probably packs in as much madcap insanity as the whole running time of Meet the Feebles.

Nicolas Roeg conducts the film in two different, alternate story lines: one, the «love» story of the two characters; the other, the «present», in which Milena is taken into an emergency room with a medication overdose, as Alex waits outside smoking cigarette after cigarette and reluctantly answering a police inspector's questions.

After Panettiere showed up in such films as Remember the Titans and Joe Somebody, her next notable role was Maddie Harrington, the long - lost daughter of the quirky title character on Fox's Ally McBeal.

Then, shortly after Batman Begins hit theaters in 2005, Warner Bros. started looking into ways to unite the character with other DC superheroes - and so began work on George Miller's unrealized team - up film, Justice League: Mortal.

If you only watch one film this year wherein a Game Of Thrones character escalates through the ranks of a elite prison gang of white supremacists after manslaughtering Schmidt from New Girl in a drunk driving accident, make it Shot Caller, currently streaming on Amazon Prime.

Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lilly were basically confirmed to return the second the film was announced (those are their character's names in the title, after all).

After weathering the furore over his casting as Lee Child's 6 - foot - 5 blond muscle man in the 2012 film Jack Reacher, Tom Cruise set out to make the character his own in the sequel, Jack Reacher:...

On deck is a 2m16s trailer due next week, a full synopsis of the film (including Daniel Day - Lewis's glorious character name — Reynolds Woodcock) and reportedly Day - Lewis's last film ever (rumors that he wants to retire to become a dressmaker after being so inspired by the film have been swirling for a few months now).

Although they help set the tone at the outset of the film, we don't need more of these scenes after her first action sequence as her character's MO is very clear.

He'd previously experienced dark «blue» periods after completing past films, leading «My Left Foot» director Jim Sheridan to say «Daniel hates acting»; usually, the actor eventually found a new character with a story too tempting to resist.

After a rather good setup of some pretty cool characters, this film degenerates into a mess to be honest.

English actress Emily Blunt says she was attracted to starring in the film Arthur Newman after reading the script and realising that her character's desire to reinvent herself, everyone relates to.

Sure, they're all good - looking, vacuous partiers who abuse pledges — that is the basic conflict in the film, after all — but the characters themselves get a fuller treatment than what you might expect.

I started to the film reading off a lot of the credits which included Helen Mirren, Sam Neill, Geoffrey Rush, Hugo Weaving and Jim Sturgess and after the first half of the film was over I stopped trying to figure out which character was voiced by which actor.

The film has three central characters who take turns narrating portions of their collective story in flashbacks: After being arrested for murder, Lila (Patricia Arquette) begins by saying, «I'm not sorry.»

This is after all a story featuring teenage characters called Mr Fantastic (special power: stretchy limbs), The Invisible Woman (special power: take a guess) and the villainous Victor von Doom, adapted from a lightweight 1960s comic strip and given a twenty - first century makeover by a guy whose first film, 2011's «Chronicle», was an ugly, noisy found - footage mess.

Wilson isn't a character with an arc, he stays exactly the same through the entire film, getting himself into one obnoxious situation after another.

The character is haunted by the start of the film, after he and Lady Macbeth (Marion Cotillard) lose a child, but his madness grows and grows over the course of the story.

The twist in Sirk's comedies is that their emphasis is on the situation rather than the resolution, on the problems that divide the characters — all four films are romances of one kind or another — rather than on the contrivances that suggest that all will be well after the final credits have rolled.