Sentences with phrase «childhood friend turned»

Meanwhile, childhood friend turned villain Oswald Cobblepot finally makes his move...

The ideological line is drawn, but the split between the Avengers only grows when Captain America's childhood friend turned Soviet assassin, the Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan), shows up and is suspected of an act of terrorism.

We meet Bulger and two powerful people who shield and enable him: his senator brother William «Billy» Bulger (Benedict Cumberbatch) and his childhood friend turned FBI agent James Connolly (Joel Edgerton).

I watched many childhood friends turn down birthday treats for this reason

The spitting occurs during a long love scene between Ronit (Weisz) and Esti (McAdams), two childhood friends turned one - time (well, now two - time) secret lovers who were raised in an Orthodox Jewish community in London.

Not exact matches

The two are childhood friends whose relationship has turned sour since stepping up to cut - throat world of F1, according to BBC Sport.

The intrepid reporter's retirement to her spacious, Christopher St. apartment in trendy Greenwich Village turns out to be short - lived, since she's soon summoned to the morgue to help identify the body of Grace Clayton (Nicki Aycox), her best friend since childhood.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

In the new film «Disobedience,» Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams play women who were childhood friends until one of them, Ronit, played by Rachel Weisz, is turned out of their Orthodox Jewish community in London.

Another actor to win Oscar in his one and only try, Charlton Heston delivered a performance for the ages in William Wyler's classic historical epic as the titular Judah Ben - Hur, a former prince exiled to slavery by a former childhood friend (Stephen Boyd) turned Roman tribune.

Having turned her back on her Jewish faith and orthodox family, Rachel Weisz must return to the place of her upbringing; a gay affair with her childhood friend (Rachel McAdams) stirs prejudice even further.

Set during the turn of the 20th century, the film stars Mia Wasikowska as young American heiress Edith Cushing, an aspiring author who has no interest in romance, whether in real life or her stories, despite the fact that childhood friend - turned - physician Alan McMichael (Charlie Hunnam) clearly fancies her.

Kyle Chandler, as Carol's husband Harge, is remarkably solid in an unforgiving role, and Sarah Paulson as Abby, the childhood friend and Carol's ex-lover, again makes us wonder just why it is that we only ever see her in supporting turns.

Told in the immediate first - person voice of 10 - year - old Carrie, Zora Neale Hurston's best childhood friend, each chapter in Bond and Simon's story evokes the famous African American writer's early years in turn - of - the - last - century Florida.

Turns out it works about as far as getting the characters together, no more or less better then any of the old classics would've — long - lost childhood friend, a runaway looking for a place to stay, distant cousin, half - sister, surprise fiance, etc. etc..

Gold found herself turning memories from her childhood into fiction, and after a few of those, her friend declared it the foundation for Gold's next book.

She turns to cousin and childhood best friend Ari for the cord blood he's been banking for his own children.

Caridad Pineiro's latest novel, One Summer Night, begins when retail heiress Maggie Sinclair reunites with her childhood friend - turned - rival Owen Pierce.

Now turning to the present, a surprising revelation awaits a young man by the name of Zack and his childhood friend, Stella, in the capital from a chubby cat claiming to be none other than the Light Deity and declaring the world to be on the verge of destruction.

Inspired by lost childhoods spent at the arcade in which best friends took turns beating unfairly difficult games, Next Up Hero was created so that beating a level is a shared victory, and more fun than playing on your own.

I recently had a childhood friend make a career change in her late thirties: she went back to school full - time, investing significant time, effort and money to turn her nursing dream into reality.