Sentences with phrase «chewing the scenery as»

Blanchett gets to chew the scenery as Hela, in all of her sinister despicableness.

Andy Serkis reliably chews scenery as Klaue, while both Forest Whitaker and Angela Bassett add considerable gravitas as a Wakandan spiritual guru and T'Challa's mother, respectively.

Stripper - with - a-heart-of-gold Scarlet (Patricia Arquette), the unbilled transsexual's grieving wife, appears on the scene to weep and almost get naked, and William Devane chews scenery as a wizened judge with an agenda longer than a possum's tail.

As for the supporting cast, Burn Gorman relishes in chewing the scenery as a bearded detective.

Michael Angarano happily chews the scenery as a student who takes to playing a guard like a shark to blood.

Stanley Tucci once again chews the scenery as boisterous media personality Caesar Flickerman, and it's nice to see Elizabeth Banks receive a little more screen time as Effie Trinket, Katniss» ditzy but sincere chaperone.

James Woods is fun to watch as he chews scenery as the Secret Service Director.

Steve Martin battles a horrific Texas accent while chewing the scenery as the money hungry owner of the football team in question.

The aforementioned Stone plays Hillary Clinton... I mean Billie Jean King, while Steve Carell chews the scenery as Donald Trump / Bobby Riggs.

Don Cheadle plays a good foil for Gleeson while Mark Strong chews the scenery as an exasperated baddie.

But I really shouldn't bury the lede: if you are going to catch The Infiltrator (and here, your Cranston fandom and / or your interest in drug war films not starring Emily Blunt will surely factor in), you should know that you get to see Diane Kruger rock some serious fashion while nailing the tricky role of a smart and rookie undercover agent playing Bob's arm candy fiancée, you get to witness Olympia Dukakis chew scenery as Mazur's Aunt Vicki, who's not as clean - cut as her nephew, and you get to watch Amy Ryan... well, sadly not all the women could get choice roles here, now could they?

The god of thunder also gets help from afar by Heimdall (Idris Elba, who finally gets more to do than just guard a portal and give sage advice in a THOR movie), which helps to connect the action from separate worlds.As the heavy, Blanchett clearly relishes her role, chewing the scenery as Hela with her skin - tight costume and wild - antler helmet.

Not exact matches

But one would never want one's behavior at a gravesite described as «chewing the scenery,» no matter how justified one's grief.

Meanwhile, a great supporting cast — toothy Stanley Tucci as a horrific TV host, Donald Sutherland as a malevolent President and perfectly cast Woody Harrelson as drunken former Games victor Haymitch Abernathy — indulges in modulated scenery - chewing.

The actors sleepwalk through their roles (save for Rosemary herself, Mia Farrow, chewing the scenery with termitelike gusto as the boy's satanic protector), while Moore, who previously directed «Behind Enemy Lines» and the «Flight of the Phoenix» remake, seems completely at a loss without any planes to crash.

Morgan's performance is a masterpiece of scenery chewing as he accomplishes the not - at - all simple task of stealing scenes from Johnson on more than one occasion.

As the groom's brassy - babe stepmother, Demi Moore does her own share of scenery chewing, but at least she looks like she's having fun.

Despite Pacino's always - enjoyable scenery chewing, Mann and cinematographer Dante Spinotti are more interested in Crowe, the remarkable Australian actor best known previously for his role as Bud White in «L.A. Confidential.»

Similarly, Alice Braga (Isabelle) tries to stand her well gained ground, but usually sees her scenery chewed up by the likes of Walter Coggins (as Stans), Oleg Taktarov (Nikolai), and perhaps most offensively, a loony bin bit of cameo work from Laurence Fishburne.

Grandmaster is a scenery - chewing delight as Jeff Goldblum, or vice-versa?

Chewing the scenery MY ASS Anne Hathaway did a spectacular playing Tantee A PERSON IN PAIN as she is singing she is putting emotion into the song that way we feel the pain she's going through how is that in any way «chewing the scenery» 2nd the close - ups have a purpose Tom Hooper wanted to you to feel the actor's emotion's and he wanted to see the actors sing up - close because obviously this is a sad story and he wanted it to look like staged play is that a crime 3rd why is everyone nitpicking we get a good quality movie for the first time and this is what u do NITPICK NITPICK NITPICK this was a fantastic movie and you know it nitChewing the scenery MY ASS Anne Hathaway did a spectacular playing Tantee A PERSON IN PAIN as she is singing she is putting emotion into the song that way we feel the pain she's going through how is that in any way «chewing the scenery» 2nd the close - ups have a purpose Tom Hooper wanted to you to feel the actor's emotion's and he wanted to see the actors sing up - close because obviously this is a sad story and he wanted it to look like staged play is that a crime 3rd why is everyone nitpicking we get a good quality movie for the first time and this is what u do NITPICK NITPICK NITPICK this was a fantastic movie and you know it nitchewing the scenery» 2nd the close - ups have a purpose Tom Hooper wanted to you to feel the actor's emotion's and he wanted to see the actors sing up - close because obviously this is a sad story and he wanted it to look like staged play is that a crime 3rd why is everyone nitpicking we get a good quality movie for the first time and this is what u do NITPICK NITPICK NITPICK this was a fantastic movie and you know it nitpickers

On hand to chew new scenery are John Malkovich as Sam's obsessive - compulsive new boss, Patrick Dempsey as Carly's too - handsome employer, and Frances McDormand as the National Intelligence Director.

As Candie, DiCaprio chews scenery and hams it up, appropriately so.

However, as delicious as the scenery is in this film, it's most delicious to the cast, who chews through it in every scene.

Even when Giovanni Ribisi shows up to chew all kinds of scenery as an alcoholic who is waaaaay beyond repair, it doesn't seem to be in the service of anything.

And sure enough, what begins as a clarion call settles into a somewhat familiar period costume drama spiced up now and again with racy sequences nonetheless sobered by the memory of the delirious hedonism of that opening, wherein we get Dracula's backstory as a hero of a holy war, repulsing Muslim invaders in Romania, turning to blasphemy when the vengeful Turks fool his wife Elisabeta (Winona Ryder) into believing that her beloved has died on the battlefield, and gleefully chewing artificial scenery with toothy relish.

It's immediately evident that Turner isn't looking to deliver anything resembling a subtle performance here, as the actress offers up a scenery - chewing turn that vacillates wildly between somewhat charming to aggressively annoying.

Many of Stone's earlier movies, as overheated as they sometimes were, did provide an opportunity for energetic hams like James Woods, Tommy Lee Jones and Woody Harrelson to chew the scenery entertainingly.

Pierce Brosnan does some serious scenery chewing as a megachurch founder who accidentally shoots an atheist author (Ed Harris) during drinks after a college debate.

In fact, STRATTON feels like the dull pilot to a TV series, with lots of shaky exposition about his past laid out, from his upbringing by a salty old sea captain (the great Derek Jacobi — livening things up with his scenery chewing) through his status as the SBS's resident alpha.

Meanwhile, co-star George C. Scott (munching on an ever - growing wad of gum) literally chews up scenery as the Commie - hating General Turgidson who, apart from delivering some of the film's best dialogue, serves as the perfect foil to Seller's straight - laced politico.

While almost none of the movie makes an awful lot of sense in the logic department, the action is great fun and nearly non-stop, all the while giving us an army of scenery - chewing performances from the likes of Depp and Geoffrey Rush (who makes just a perfect «evil» pirate captain, as opposed to Depp's «good» pirate captain).

Most tantalizing, though, is Kylo Ren, whose history is a slow reveal, and whose turmoil, in the cold, counter-intuitive brand of intensity evinced by Adam Driver, is a wonderfully subtle thing in a story full of big explosions and a sometimes scenery - chewing, but always delightful, performance from Domhnall Gleeson, as General Hux of the First Order, which is the evil the successor to the evil Empire.

If you want to see Shakespeare's dialogue delivered as if it were an episode of Buffy with excessively chewed scenery and awful cinematography, this film is for you.

As vicious, tatted killer Picasso, Fox has clearly stuck to the Medifast diet and P90X workout, starving and shredding himself into a lean, ripped killing machine, but he's also on an all scenery - chewing diet.

Nonetheless, there are some wonderful turns here; it's so nice to see James Woods get so much scenery to chew on, as he hasn't in this kind of big Hollywood movie in awhile.

Played extremely straight by Hutton and with a satisfyingly reserved level of camp by Boyle and Oliver Platt (as a corporate dirtbag), The Temp walks the tightrope of pointed satire for a delirious stretch before being swallowed whole by the great beast known as Faye Dunaway (chewing scenery) and the twisty genre formulas of its conclusion.

Roger Spottiswoode Oh mate it's brilliant this one «cos it's got Jonathan Pryce chewing the scenery in wonderful style and Michelle Yeoh rocks up as my favourite Bond girl and Gotz Otto as the villain's «heavy» is really good and Vincent Schiavelli has an hilarious and brutal cameo and David Arnold's music is awesome and the real world analogies are more relevant today than ever and it's just brilliant in fact it's my favourite Bond so there.

She's afforded a number of moments that give her room to chew the scenery, and if Christopher Plummer happens to ride a wave of sentiment to a nomination as well, part of me feels that he will owe something to Mirren's coattails.

LAURA *** / **** Image B Sound B - Extras B starring Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Vincent Price, Judith Anderson screenplay by Jay Dratler and Samuel Hoffenstein and Betty Reinhardt, based on the novel by Vera Caspary directed by Otto Preminger PINKY * / **** Image C Sound B - Extras A + starring Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Waters, William Lundigan screenplay by Philip Dunne and Dudley Nichols, from a novel by Cid Ricketts Sumner directed by Elia Kazan by Walter Chaw A camp classic of a very particular variety, Otto Preminger's stylish, pedigreed Laura might best be read as a satire of Hitchcock's Rebecca, reuniting that film's Judith Anderson with another late, lamented mistress and acres more scenery to chew.

The cast is what helps to make it work, from Meryl Streep chewing the scenery like it's going out of fashion as the unhinged, cancer - stricken, pill - popping head of the family and the aforementioned Roberts (both of whom have received an Oscar nomination for their respective performances) to the likes of Benedict Cumberbatch, Chris Cooper and Margo Martindale who all feel very much perfectly cast when casting is so important for a film like this.

Paul Thomas Anderson's «Inherent Vice» is, as usual, stuffed with great supporting performances, from Josh Brolin's showy, hilarious, scenery - chewing to quieter, subtler work from Owen Wilson, of all people.

What I will also say is that it is never boring; Hugh Jackman seems very determined to chew up the scenery as a flamboyant devilish pirate and make the most of his screen - time, which unfortunately diminishes as the movie goes on.

Sutherland as Snow enjoyed chewing the scenery around him and looks like he is having such fun.

In the French and English versions alike (both are playing theatrically in America), the cast chews up the scenery as thoroughly as real rats and bears might.

Woody Harrelson relishes the opportunity to chew on every piece of scenery in sight, while Casey Affleck offers nuanced support as the troubled Iraq War vet literally fighting his way out of debt to local loan shark Willem Dafoe.

Lombard is luminous as usual, and Barrymore can chew scenery with the best of them, which is precisely what his role calls for.

The performances, especially those of Redgrave and Brian Cox as Menenius, are uniformly fine, even if Fiennes has a tendency to chew scenery like he's Hannibal Lecter.

Ed Skrein and Gina Carano get to chew scenery with glowering vigor as the super-powered antagonists (it's the perfect role for Carano — limited dialogue, lots of ass - kicking).

Tonto is not quite the loyal sidekick, drawn to be more of his own man, and one whose deadpan reactions and sarcastic remarks are a new addition by Depp to give a bit of comic nuance the longtime character, though one might slight Depp's performance as another of his many attempts to chew scenery in place of an honest portrayal.