Sentences with phrase «excellent actors playing»

Solondz takes another hilariously pitch - black exploration of human behaviour with a film populated by excellent actors playing seriously messed - up characters.

Not exact matches

Maïwenn brings up the dirty and dark side of Paris with the help of an excellent team of child actors - Malonn Lévana, the lovely little girl of «Tomboy» (where she plays the sister of the leading character) is someone to keep an eye on - and the best known actors of the French cinema of today: Marina Foïs, Sandrine Kiberlain, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Frédéric Pierrot, Karin Viard, Louis - Do de Lencquesaing, Alice de Lencquesaing (L'heure d'été, Le père de mes enfants), Jérémie Elkaïm (La guerre est déclarée), Karole Rocher, and others.

Black & White movie from 1949 which is not all that bad, it starts off like a educational film but turns into a great movie, or main actor Robert Lowery who plays Fireman Joe Martin undercover did a excellent job along with Edward Brophy.

Two - handers, plays or films with only two characters, require two excellent actors who can carry the film.

The kid who plays young Nigel is excellent (this coming from me - I normally find child actors cloying and can't wait for the older cast to take over, so that's how good this kid is).

Krasinski and Blunt provide excellent performances, as do the young actors who play their kids, but the creatures are often the stars here.

(One clever bit of casting that shows up here is Derek Jacobi as Senator Gracchus; Jacobi is an excellent actor above all, but it also provides an allusion to the classic I, Claudius in which Jacobi played Emperor Claudius — underscored by the fact that Commodus tells young Lucius a story about Claudius in one scene in Gladiator.)

The actors play their likable characters with conviction, making it easy to sympathize with their plight, and the special effects are consistently excellent.

Not the fault of the actors but when you have the excellent Danny Huston (30 Days of Night) playing an evil German officer then there is the potential to create a proper villain, a mad genius with grand plans for world domination during a time of great sorrow for the rest of the world, and instead his General Ludendorff is resorted to cracking open gas tablets that give him Hulk - like strength for no real reason and never really pays off in any way; in one scene he locks a group of people in a room with a deadly nerve gas and then decides to snort on his magic capsule before cackling and running off - camera like Jack Nicholson's Joker.

Greg Kinnear is excellent as Todd Burpo, a loving husband to wife Sonja (Kelly Reilly from «Flight») and father to daughter Cassie and fun - loving four - year - old son Colton (played by first - time actor Connor Corum).

The film boasts an amazing cast — Casey Affleck who can do no wrong playing a psychotic creep; Rooney Mara who has proved herself a solid versatile actor and desperately needs to shrug off the lingering Goth image festering from the wretched Dragon Tattoo film; and a slew of excellent character actors who I adore, Ben Foster and Keith Carradine among them.

Jim Broadbent is excellent as Slughorn — a case of a talented actor playing a great character.

There is no casting for Dickens at this point — Fiennes was possibly going to play the role himself, but now will evidently find another actor — but this could be a great role for Jones, and an excellent project overall depending upon who gets the nod to play Dickens.

Chadha has also assembled an excellent supporting cast, from legendary British thespians in Sir Michael Gambon and Simon Callow, who play General Hastings Ismay (Pug) and Cyril Radcliffe respectfully, and Indian film and theatre actor Neeraj Kabi, who provides an utterly convincing portrayal of Mahatma Gandhi.

Ridley Scott wisely plays it very low - key from the get - go, leaving the film to play out in the more than capable hands of his actors and he's rewarded with three excellent performances.

It's blessed with two excellent lead performances from the actors playing father and daughter (Hüller has a film - stealing scene in which she sings Whitney Houston's «Greatest Love of All» at a party).

Always a great supporting actor (showing up in the likes of X-MEN ORIGINS, THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE and SALT), Schreiber has seemingly made the transition to strong leading man following an excellent first series run on TV show Ray Donovan, in which he plays the title character.

It's blessed with two excellent lead performances from the actors playing father and daughter (Hüller has a film - stealing scene in which she sings Whitney Houston's «The Greatest Love of All» at a party).

The child actor is excellent opposite his director / co-star, but this is Bateman's show, with Andrew Dodge's script playing to the actor's strengths so well that you'd think it was written specifically for him.

One of the most valuable and underappreciated actors of his generation, Foster has had an excellent 2013, starring in Ain't Them Bodies Saints and playing Willam S. Burroughs in Kill Your Darlings.

It's impossible to imagine Disney's Beauty and the Beast without Lumiere, Cogsworth or Mrs. Potts, and with top notch digital effects and the voices of excellent actors like Ewan McGregor, Ian McKellan and Emma Thompson playing them, these characters vividly come to life, as do Madame de Garderobe (Audra McDonald), Chip (Nathan Mack), Plumette (Gugu Mbatha - Raw) and the newly - created Maestro Cadenza (Stanley Tucci), a composer transformed into a harpsichord.

We discussed Jake's first novel, The Big Mango (an excellent stand alone novel) which the late great actor, James Gandolfini (The Sopranos, Get Shorty, and more) wanted to make it into a movie and play Eddie Dare.

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