Sentences with phrase «fatales turn»

But Annette Bening is wholly mesmerising as Gloria Grahame, Oscar - winning femme fatale turned jobbing actress in late»70s England.

Not exact matches

Killer calves have been immortalised in images of Louboutins and half - turned femme fatales blessed by the genetic fairies.

; Scarlett Johansson plays a femme fatale with a hefty Brooklyn accent, a string of broken mobster marriages and a knack for swimming; and Frances McDormand's blink - and - you'll - miss - it turn as a chain - smoking film editor is equal parts hilarious and harrowing.

Aside from Robert Downey Jr.'s usual charisma in the role of Tony Stark, Iron Man 2's only redeeming feature is that it's also the cinematic debut of Black Widow, the femme fatale who still sorely needs her own turn in the spotlight.

Suddenly his safe routine is turned upside down by armed thugs, foreign agents and a beautiful femme fatale (Eva Marie Saint, utterly seductive in her first and only blonde sexpot role).

She turned out to be quite fatale, of course, and somebody got killed.

What starts as a vibrant affair between a legendary femme fatale and her young lover quickly grows into a deeper relationship, with Turner being the person Gloria turns to for comfort.

Things get strange, though, when XXXX is tabbed to track down the wayward daughter of godfather Eddie Temple (Michael Gambon, delicious); a Serbian hitman nicknamed «The Dragon» and saddled with a penchant for collecting heads turns up on the scene; and sexpot of the moment Sienna Miller surfaces in a hot little number to act the accidental femme fatale.

Owen is good even straitjacketed into a flat American accent, Cassel is deep in the red of his psycho turn, and Aniston is so in over her head that she never for a minute exudes the kind of sexuality (or believability) that would make a fatale of her femme.

Green does an excellent turn as the powerful, alluring femme fatale.

The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (R for nudity, profanity and graphic sexuality) Crime comedy, set in Pittsburgh in the Eighties, about a recent college grad (Jon Foster) whose plans to begin working on Wall Street are interrupted by a chance encounter with his freshman roommate - turned - drug dealer (Omid Abtahi) leads to a lustful but dangerous liaison with a femme fatale (Sienna Miller) already linked to a felon (Peter Sarsgaard) with evil intentions.

A scene in a bar early on where reluctant, soft - boiled, anti-heroic faux - detective Harry (Robert Downey Jr.) woos his femme fatale Harmony (Michelle Monaghan, in — finally — a star - making turn) by mocking the other patrons is introduced with Harmony pointing to a woman in her mid-thirties she identifies as pathetic because she still harbours dreams of making it in Tinsel Town.

In the past, even his lesser efforts have usually contained some element to make them worth considering — even a disaster like «The Curse of the Jade Scorpion» featured that hilarious supporting turn by Charlize Theron as a femme fatale for the ages — but other than Vittorio Storaro's reliably stunning cinematography, there is nothing alone those lines here.

Liverpool, 1978: What starts as a vibrant affair between a legendary femme fatale and her young lover quickly grows into a deeper relationship, with Turner being the person Gloria turns to for comfort.

She turns out to be an archetypal femme fatale, exploiting poor Dwight.

She's a lovely fatale in a film where everyone takes a turn as a fatale; too easy to say there are heroes and villains, closer to the truth to say the picture takes time to paint everyone with the same grey ambiguity.

Dashiell Hammett's supreme hard - boiled detective novel, with Humphrey Bogart as private eye Sam Spade, and an unbeatable supporting cast that includes femme fatale Mary Astor, genial fat man Sydney Greenstreet, perfumed crook Peter Lorre, patsy Elisha Cook Jr., and tough cops Ward Bond and Barton MacLane — all turned by writer - director John Huston into «the stuff that dreams are made of.»

The dashes of light at the end of the tunnel are strong supporting turns from Monica Bellucci's fiesty femme fatale (Bellucci proving she became a Bond girl a decade too late), and Paul Giamatti, always brilliant, and giving this film the kind of meaty villain that raises this story from a senseless thriller to a decent one.

A rare visit with his invalid father and vicious stepmother, an aging femme fatale, doesn't add much pleasure to Wang's already lonely existence, but things take a turn for the bizarre when an anonymous letter, tucked into the visor of his cab, assures Wang that he is the reincarnated soul mate of the sender.

As the pages turn, the question is raised: Is Alex truly a damsel in distress — or a femme fatale?

Aldridge's colour images of Kristen are highly charged — the artist's model turned femme fatale.