Sentences with phrase «eponymous character»

One of the central scenes of the play finds Chastain's eponymous character performing a nude dance for Pacino's King Herod.

French author Marcel Proust is famous for his gentle remembrance of things past, his eponymous character - revealing questionnaire... and his love...

The Iron Lady is a wild, colourful, fast - paced swoosh through a career that transformed its eponymous character from determined election candidate to scarred leader.

It's a stunning story, dark and comical in equal turns, and the film relays the events in splendid fashion as well as giving us a star - making turn by Australian actress Margot Robbie as the eponymous character.

I don't think it's only because I didn't like the eponymous character that I didn't like the film as a whole.

Roles in such high - profile features as The Faculty and Dracula 2000 served to balance parts in more obscure films, including Wild Horses and Dirt Merchant (in which he played the eponymous character).

Buddha Smash, a hilarious and explosive new web show takes the eponymous character Buddha, a large and angry Asian man, who smashes and destroys objects with his bare hands, done in a 2D gaming format, ala Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat.

The eponymous character is shackled, badly bruised and covered in mud, the effects of poor living conditions on the Roma...

About the series: «Dylan Dog is an Italian horror comics series featuring an eponymous character created by Tiziano Sclavi.

The eponymous character, Ned (Paul Rudd), is not so much the hero of the piece as the Holy Fool, a hippie... Read More»

What the film does best is portray the eponymous character well, and most of this credit is due to the fantastic performance by Daniella Vega.

Her character, the love interest, is a Hollywood obligation that the aforementioned Fuqua, in killing his eponymous character's wife, protested.

In 2015, Marvel announced that it was handing the keys to Wakanda over to writer Ta - Nehisi Coates by letting him take on the Black Panther comic in advance of the eponymous character's first big - screen appearance in Captain America: Civil War and eventual solo movie.

We can assume that he also loves Emma Bovary, the novel's eponymous character, or at least that he loves the idea of her.

Written by Max Landis (Chronicle, American Ultra), Victor Frankenstein isn't so much a re-imagining of Mary Shelley's iconic 1818 sci - fi / horror novel, «Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus»; rather, it's an origin story for the eponymous character, as seen from the perspective of Igor (who didn't originate in Shelley's source book, but rather in a subsequent movie adaptation).

Nicolas Cage plays the eponymous character who is trying to live a quiet life in a rural town, but must confront his inner...

The eponymous character's dilemma still plays, packaged in a drum - tight 90 minutes, but only the subtitle - averse have any reason to see it.

Martin (Farrell) is a screenwriter has a new screenplay called «Seven Psychopaths» but he's only got the title, and needs to find the eponymous characters.

The eponymous character barely features.

While Gerwig's eponymous character is reminiscent of her roles in Frances Ha, Damsels in Distress, Mistress America, and others, it still comes off as a fresh performance thanks to strong writing, directing, and a charming cast of supporting players.

The title refers to formerly - eponymous character (played by Kristen Wiig) who wrote a hit play when she was a child but...

Collaboration also helped Mond forge the story and style of his deeply personal directorial debut, which closely squares its camera on the turmoil within Christopher Abbott's eponymous character as his mother (Cynthia Nixon) succumbs to her terminal illness.

The eponymous character in Juno, a pregnant 16 - year - old played with impressive verbal dexterity and heart by Ellen Page, speaks in quips and geeky references, and surrounds herself with ironic accessories like a hamburger phone and a plastic pipe.

More specifically, it's about how the eponymous character, a former rebel soldier, reacts to the presence of that gang — apathetic at first, since he has seen worse in his homeland, but quickly rising to righteous anger when the gang's actions directly affect him and the people he sees as his family.

Accordingly, Martha Marcy May Marlene plays with perception and reality as it juxtaposes the exploits of the eponymous character in her entrenchment in, and eventual escape from, Patrick's Catskills farming collective.

There's a nefarious plot to force the collapse of western civilization in SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS, and as befits an eponymous character, Sherlock Holmes (Robert Downey, Jr.) is the only person who can save the day.

Nor is he alone as, perhaps surprisingly for a film with an eponymous character, Black Panther features quite the ensemble cast.

Rise of the Silver Surfer hardly touched on the eponymous character's tragic backstory and how he became the servant to the planet - devouring Galactus, much to the chagrin of his fans.

The central performance is from Kate Mara, who plays the eponymous character.

It is an often funny, sometimes touching, occasionally intensely preachy affair, following the eponymous character and a young single mother caught in a catch - 22 relating to the government's healthcare benefits.

A lengthy act of explaining the past, motives, and ultimately strange behavior of its eponymous character, The Vanishing of Sidney Hall leaves little to the imagination and, by the end, a lot over which to be frustrated.

WHITE FANG is a novel by American author Jack London (1876 - 1916)- and the name of the book's eponymous character, a wild wolfdog.

«It could have been a good book... But because of one particular plot device... the novel refuses to sail very high in the water... at a cost for the good of the novel, Coetzee ushers onto the stage the eponymous character from his previous novel, Elizabeth Costello.»

The eponymous character returns to her ancestral home, exploring every room and discovering secrets about her unlucky clan.

In it, Norris plays the eponymous character, an African American woman who hopes to become a singer and painter, against the backdrop of a similarly aspirational post-Katrina New Orleans.