Sentences with phrase «cult leader»

You would think we would beyond falling any old mystical explanation given by a charismatic cult leader.

Would a primitive tribal fringe cult leader even be able to wrap his brain around modern politics?

It's kind of fun to stand on the sidelines while all the world's cult leaders argue about which one's religion is a cult and which one isn't.

And if that's true, the unknown cult leader at least deserves a name.

We just heard about Vincent Cassel joining the cast of Bourne 5, and now we've got a new trailer for Partisan, the creepy - looking film that features Cassel as a sort of cult leader who acts as head of a closed community and trains young urchins to do his bidding, which is often violent.

The superior supporting cast includes Adam Driver as an inquisitive NSA agent who doesn't follow the rulebook, Kirsten Dunst as Lieberher's estranged mother, and Sam Shepard as a religious cult leader who feels he has a claim on the boy.

Daniel Day - Lewis won Best Actor for Lincoln (he previously won for Gangs of New York and There Will Be Blood), while Philip Seymour Hoffman, who was previously recognized by the group for his work in Capote, won Supporting Actor for his performance as a charismatic cult leader in The Master.

The 36 - year - old actor is starring as cult leader David Koresh in a new TV miniseries and though...

As the titular Martha (Elizabeth Olsen) recuperates in the lake house belonging to her sister (Sarah Paulson) and brother - in - law (Hugh Dancy), the present blends with every cut into her past, when, even as an independent, smart young woman, she became entranced by cult leader Patrick (John Hawkes, somehow topping his astonishing supporting turn in last year's «Winter's Bone «-RRB-, and ended up as a member of his commune.

On the eve of his wedding to perennial fiancee Carol Lambert (Ann Rutherford), Wally is summoned to the mansion of cult leader Joseph Jones (Conrad Veidt).

As wrecked alcoholic drifter Freddie Quell and Hubbard - like cult leader Lancaster Dodd, two opposing forces sharing a bond through some strange alchemy, Joaquin Phoenix and Philip Seymour Hoffman have never individually found a better match nor, arguably, given better performances.

But even Paramount Network's upcoming miniseries Waco, starring Taylor Kitsch as cult leader David Koresh, does a better job of transforming true - crime headlines into compelling drama.

The problem with cult leaders like Gaskin is that they can be much as you describe.

first I doubt that enough people believe Jesus was an evil cult leader for that to be counted as a «side.»

Last month it was reported that former Doctor Who star Matt Smith was in talks to play notorious cult leader Charles Manson for American Psycho director Mary Harron, and now Variety is reporting that he has officially signed on to the project, titled Charlie Says.

With tensions growing in the real world and more and more divisions appearing in society, Far Cry 5's premise of a religious cult leader with an Anti-Government stance may be a little to real to life for some.

«Only when we're afraid, are we truly present,» declares the creepy cult leader played by John Hawkes in Martha Marcy May Marlene.

The attraction of women to prison bad boys echoes the fascination with killers like notorious cult leader Charles Manson.

In the middle of the screening, with the 70 mm print unspooling before my eyes, it suddenly occurred to me that the character played by Joaquin Phoenix in the film — Freddie Quell, a disciple of the L. Ron Hubbard - style cult leader Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman)-- is actually a dog.

Some Romans made a book about a long - dead cult leader long after everyone who met the guy was dead.

(Hitler comes to mind here, and a few other cult leaders we all are aware of, I'm sure.)

And if you feel the need to do a story about religion, maybe you could present the other side for a change, something like: Jesus was an evil cult leader that required his followers to hate their families and hate their own self (Luke 14:26); Jesus didn't want peace on Earth but instead he wanted violence; Jesus wanted a man's family to be his his enemy (Matthew 10:34 - 36).

The cast, which includes Jason Momoa as a sensitive cannibal, a nearly unrecognizable Jim Carrey as a sunburnt drifter, and Keanu Reeves as a Jim Jones - style cult leader in a Mad Max-esque desert dystopia, is similarly eccentrically utilized, for better (Reeves» smarmy menace) and for worse (Momoa's ill - advised Cuban accent, clearly stretching his range as an actor).

After an attempt to arrest cult leader Joseph Seed goes horribly awry, your rookie cop finds themselves stranded in Hope County, their colleagues kidnapped and cultists hot on their tail.

The silly teaser offered glimpses of newcomer Bobby Moynihan's men's rights activist Fran Dodd as well as the return of Jon Hamm's doomsday cult leader Reverend Richard Wayne Gary Wayne.

John Hawkes, who acts only with his eyes and voice, proves himself once again an actor who can reach effortlessly from a drug - dealing redneck («Winter's Bone») to a creepy cult leader («Martha Marcy May Marlene») to this man, so helpless and hopeful.

This potential hideout should appeal to those spiritual survivalists who hope for salvation with their apocalypse, or it might make a fine headquarters for aspiring cult leaders.

But if you are in the throes of a delusion, a schizophrenic mindset with perceptual bias, then you will insist that your imaginary god is real and that your dead cult leader will return and that I'd better believe everything you say if I know what is good for me.

Bray Wyatt is the bayou cult leader also covered in tattoos, just not of the skull variety.

Before the final onslaught, security operatives had for several months been on the trail of the notorious cult leader also called «Maximum» by members of his gang.

Evidence in the case against alleged sex cult leader Keith Raniere and his accused sidekick, «Smallville» actress Allison Mack, will include not only victims of sex trafficking and forced labor...

Alabama GOP Senate nominee Roy Moore on more than one occasion cited murderous cult leader Charles Manson's «family» to argue why gay people shouldn't be allowed to get married.

The story starts with players taking the role of a rookie deputy who is on their way (with a group of law enforcement officers) to arrest Joseph Seed, an enigmatic cult leader who calls himself The Father and who has gathered a sizeable flock of people who believe that the world is going to end soon.

Based on the tragic events of the 1993 Waco siege, this mini-series sees FBI hostage negotiator Gary Noesner face off against cult leader David Kroesh in a siege that lasted 55 days.

The silly teaser offered glimpses of newcomer Bobby Moynihan's (L) men's rights activist Fran Dodd as well as the return of Jon Hamm's (R) doomsday cult leader Reverend Richard Wayne Gary Wayne

Beck is an up in coming Cult Leader.

Allison Mack, the «Smallville» actress connected to alleged cult leader Keith Raniere, has been arrested and indicted on sex trafficking, sex trafficking conspiracy and conspiracy to commit forced labor charges.

It's a daring, immersive undertaking by USA, while also being far removed from the usual true crime suspects — lately the Menendez Brothers and Waco - based cult leader David Koresh.

This time, she's writing her own screenplay based on the book «Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple,» written by Deborah Layton, who at one point had been a trusted aide of cult leader Jim jones.

What you seem to be arguing for is a direct inputting of information into Luke's mind, which you are expecting me to take on faith when various cult leaders all claim to have the same link to God telling them to sleep with young girls, and so on.

If President Obama was held accountable for Reverend Wright, why is Romney not held accountability for his commitment to an immorally compromised, dishonest and racist cult leader like Joseph Smith?

He's looking at a movie based on Charles Manson — the infamous cult leader, rock star wannabe and, finally, deranged psycho who went on a Hollywood killing spree that left nine dead.

If religion is properly weilded, i.e. cult leader — the pope, it is much worse then all others for its appeal to the ignorant m@sses is like food to the hungry!