Sentences with phrase «excellent film roles»

She continued popping up in excellent film roles into the 1980s, as well as appearing in TV movies like MADD: Mothers Against Drunk Driving (1983).

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It's excellent for what he needed to do to get ready for the movie role — a bodybuilding type workout that packed muscle where it mattered for film (chest, shoulders, arms) while giving a good strength base with squats and deadlifts (and making sure Wolverine wasn't walking on chicken legs).

Despite an interesting premise and excellent cast, the film flopped, but Arquette continued to work steadily the following year, with lead roles in the black comedy Goodbye Lover; Stigmata, in which she starred opposite Gabriel Byrne as the unwitting target of a supernatural phenomenon; and Martin Scorsese's Bringing out the Dead, a film starring Arquette's then - husband Cage as a burnt - out paramedic.Following the weightiness of the creepy Stigmata and the disturbing Bringing Out the Dead, Arquette took things in a decidedly lighter direction with her next two projects.

The cast are all excellent, Quaid is good as the tough supportive coach and Brown is very good as Davis showing real love in his role, Dutton as Davis father is also very good in his short role adding real class to the whole film.

The cast is uniformly excellent, with Francisco Reyes a particularly likable beam of strength and light as the unfortunate Orlando, but the film's great triumph is Daniela Vega, a transgender actress and singer, who makes an indelible impression in the leading role.

The film is the directorial debut of Nat Faxon and Jim Rash (two of the Oscar - winning screenwriters of The Descendants), who also pen the excellent screenplay and take supporting roles.

Shelly casts her film well, not only in an excellent Keri Russell at the forefront, but also in most of the supporting roles.

Both stars are already receiving great praise for their roles, and under the watchful eye of Anton Corbijn whose excellent Control captured later Joy Division singer Ian Curtis so profoundly, it's safe to assume we'll be getting a touching, insightful, and rather beautiful film.

For as good as Isaac is in the role, however, it wouldn't be nearly as effective without T - Bone Burnett's excellent soundtrack, especially when such a large chunk of the film is dedicated to the musical performances.

The highlight of the excellent main cast is Howard, who Shyamalan eventually asks to carry his film, a task she succeeds gamely with in her first leading role.

It's not a great film, but it looks beautiful, is well - acted (Jeremy Irons is excellent as the passive senior missionary, Robert de Niro as a reformed mercenery and Ray McAnally as a papal representitive and smaller roles for Aidan Quinn, Ronald Pickup and Liam Neeson) and then of course comes the pièce de résistance, one of the greatest contributions to cinema of one of cinema's all - time - greatest contributors, Ennio Morricone.

Fred Gwynne did an excellent job in the 1989 film, but I'm very interested to see what Lithgow brings to the role.

Real - life stuntwoman Zoe Bell (who doubled for Uma Thurman in «Kill Bill» and Lucy Lawless in «Xena: Warrior Princess») and Tracie Thoms (whose role would have been played by Pam Grier or Samuel L. Jackson in any other movie) deliver great performances throughout their half of the film, but it's Kurt Russell who walks away with «Death Proof» as Stuntman Mike, yet another excellent addition to his rogue's gallery of classic characters.

Barbara Cupisti (of Soavi's Deliria) has a small role, and the film also benefits from Manuel de Sica's memorable score and excellent pacing by editor Franco Fraticelli.

While Thomas W. Kiennast's black - and - white cinematography is quite beautiful to behold (Gröning's film certainly features some excellent cinematographic moments as well), Atef's film never manages to convey why we should care, today, about this brief moment in Schneider's well - documented life, including her never - ending struggle with the German press, her inability to escape the role of Sissi that made her instantly famous as a teenager, and the various tragedies that befell her, including the suicide of her ex - husband.7 The film is not a biopic per se (and Atef declared that she did not intend to make one): thus, audiences who are not already familiar with Schneider certainly will not come away from viewing the film with much of a sense of her life's story); yet, given it is not a biopic, one wonders what the film is, or what it tries to accomplish.

This excellent cast is a delight to watch, but make no mistake, this is Depp's film, and perhaps his best, and most convincing role for well over a decade.

Mark Ruffalo is an excellent human for so many reasons, but topping our list today is the fact that he is just as desperate for a role in the new Star Wars films as, well, pretty much everyone else on the planet.

Brody and Polley do a fine job and Chaneac is excellent in a difficult role, while Natali crafts a very enjoyable little Sci - Fi / Horror film, of which, are few and far between.

• François Truffaut's La Chambre verte — the blackest of Truffaut's films, but a very distinguished one, stunningly well acted by the director himself and by Nathalie Baye, moving into big roles after excellent supporting work in La Nuit américaineand L'Homme qui aimait les femmes.

Aaron Paul plays a familiar role of the out of control substance abuser as he does in the excellent TV show Breaking Bad but is in the film less than you may imagine.

Ides could be considered an ensemble film as its excellent cast perfectly nails their roles.

She's already filmed her next five roles: as previously discussed she'll play the showy small role of James Brown's mom in Get On Up (August, 2014); she's excellent as a college professor in The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby Pts 1 and 2 (release date still TBA but I saw it at TIFF); she's in Michael Mann's thriller Cyber (January, 2015) with Chris Hemsworth as the headliner and supposedly her role is large there as an FBI agent; She'll headline Shonda Rhimes TV series «How To Get Away With Murder» and if it gets picked up past the pilot, don't expect to see her on your movie screens for awhile; The other leading role is Lila & Eve (she plays Lila) but her co-star is... (wait for it)... Jennifer Lopez?

The actors in the movie are universally excellent — pleasantly surprising is Gary Oldman giving his best performance in years with Gordon's beefier role in this film — but the one that will be remembered is of course Heath Ledger's Joker.

Teaming for a second time with with the eye - catching Kristen Stewart after 2014's excellent Clouds of Sils Maria, this film once again finds her in the role of a personal assistant for a demanding celebrity.

Some of the characters in the film were mere silhouettes, Bobby Cannavale, who I thought was excellent in a supporting role in Blue Jasmine, was left twiddling his thumbs in this one.

If the film's riff on «The Champ» works at all, it's because of the lived - in relationship between Gyllenhaal and Laurence, and it suggests big things to come: she was also excellent in SXSW drama «Lamb» and as the young Pensatucky in «Orange Is The New Black» this year, and is playing a lead role in David Lowery's upcoming «Pete's Dragon.»

Parrack also does an excellent job at injecting humor into the role, and gives the film a charismatic supporting player.

McAvoy and Fassbender are excellent in their respective roles and have awesome chemistry together; the most moving and interesting scenes in the film belong to them alone.

Although some of these high profile stars are relegated to smaller roles than others, the ensemble cast present an excellent on - screen chemistry and banter to rival Stallone's gang in the EXPENDABLES films.

Connery and Pfeiffer are both excellent, but much of the film's pleasure comes from watching the consummate pros filling out the roles of various bureaucrats, among them James Fox (as a perceptive MI6 head), Roy Scheider (as a wily CIA chief) and director Ken Russell (as an excitable British official — and amusingly looking like Bernie Sanders with bedhead).

Unspooling some thirty years after the first film, Ryan Gosling is K, a replicant who hunts rogue replicants and, like Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford, excellent in his best role in decades) before him, retires his quarry using deadly means.

Matthew Broderick, who has been a part of a number of excellent films from his mid -»80s teenager roles to successful adult turns in both comedic and dramatic fare, takes on the role of Gadget.

An excellent supporting cast include Peter Sarsgaard as Bobby, Greta Gerwig as Jackie's confidant Nancy (the first film I've seen Gerwig in where she wasn't annoyingly OTT in every scene) and John Hurt in a role made all the more touching by is recent departure from us.

It was a fine film that was not seen by many, but Cruz was excellent in her role.

Nunn was an excellent actor and had a long career in film, and we remember his role in «Regarding Henry» very well.

Apart from a strong supporting role as an FBI agent in Ben Affleck's excellent The Town, Jon Hamm hasn't made the expected transition from the TV success of Mad Men to real film stardom.

It's unfortunate, then, that some distracting casting mars the film's otherwise excellent final act, with several faces familiar to British audiences popping up in unsuitable and unconvincing roles.

It's worth seeing the film to watch Chan deliver a powerful and unique performance, truly doing an excellent job channeling that darkness he has so often eschewed in other movies, but «The Foreigner» never realizes that this role is its greatest strength and emotional core, and in doing so, ends up becoming a muddled affair that isn't as engaging as it should be.

Burning like a sparkler at the film's center, though, was poised and petite Nicole Beharie, whose excellent breakthrough performance in the leading role unfortunately got buried in the rubble of the movie's missteps.

Nevertheless, the role is an excellent step into a fulfilling career in television and film production.