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An even more inspired choice was John Mahoney («Frasier»), still a newcomer to film acting at 47.

Not exact matches

This hints at the practical limitations police face when enforcing the Copyright Act — and also why the burden for fighting film piracy falls largely on the industry itself.

She supplements her Social Security income by running 10 - day sales events at Costco, where she sells clothing, shoes and bedding for marketing companies, and by acting as an extra in Baltimore - filmed television shows and movies.

The idea of women's sexual emancipation in this film, the «independent woman» moment, is when Ana (while looking at a sexual contract that is central to the film) says «no» to one particularly violent sexual act.

These series» «prestige» accrued initially through their production quality, through their writing, acting, cinematography, and art direction executed at a level previously reserved to feature films.

The cocktail is served at Orson, Chef Falkner's restaurant, where some of the cocktails are named after films that Orson Welles acted in or directed.

Inspired by the Oscar - winning film «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,» Kat Sullivan, a former Emma Willard student who was raped by her history teacher at the elite Troy private school, rented out three electronic billboards — one of which is in Albany — to highlight her experience and support the Child Victims Act.

The high court found police officers acted unlawfully when they filmed, photographed and took the details of a legal observer during a «kettle» at a trade union demonstration in 2011.

People are entitled to keep their identity secret at demos, not least of all because the police routinely contravene section eight of the Human Rights Act by filming protestors.

She acted with the Williamstown Theatre Festival, the Charles Playhouse in Boston, and, with such future film luminaries as Al Pacino she appeared in several off - Broadway productions A tentative stab at film acting in The Wedding Party, filmed at Sarah Lawrence in 1963 but released in 1969, might have been forgotten save for its roster of celebrities - to - be: Jill Clayburgh, Robert DeNiro and director Brian De Palma.

A minor diplomat before he turned to acting, Hale began appearing in minor film roles in 1934, showing up fleetingly in such well - remembered films as the Karloff / Lugosi film The Raven (1935), the Marx Brothers» A Night at the Opera (1935) and the first version of A Star is Born (1937).

The warm color palette is appropriately garish at necessary thematic times, while a few more intimate moments of dialogue towards the third act of the film do reflect a more modern cinematographic flair.

The inclusion of an absurd yet thoroughly captivating celebrity cameo, which essentially stands as a high point within the entire series, perpetuates Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb's better - than - expected third - act atmosphere, although, unfortunately, director Shawn Levy ensures that the film concludes with a whimper by offering up an excessively sappy final stretch that just goes on and on - with this underwhelming climax confirming the movie's place as an almost passable concluding entry in a seriously forgettable trilogy.

One of those «look at me, I'm so trendy» early 90s films that flirted with bisexuality and / or a girl - guy - girl love triangle; the desperation here is palpable and the writing, acting and direction are all sub-sub-par.

Still, the film never quite nails down an overall tone, building to two powerful scenes closing out the second act and warming up the third: one between Gerry and his ex-wife (Robin Weigert, looking nothing like «Deadwood's» Calamity Jane) heartbreaking and tense, the other at a sparsely attended horse track with Gerry and Curtis seemingly all but solidifying their own sad fates.

Following the lead of 2012's underrated «At Any Price» in matching the socially conscious topicality of Bahrani's early films to the demands of broader - brush melodrama, this dynamically acted, unapologetically contrived pic reps the filmmaker's best chance to date of connecting with a wider audience — one likely to share the helmer's bristling anger over corruptly maintained class divides in modern - day America.

The specific ending of the film, which wisely avoids the worst mistakes of the book and at least cuts things mercifully short after a series of catastrophes, is not successful or convincing; in fact, it's rather clichéd and banal, but the intuition that violent, terrible acts flow inexorably in part from Americans» unawareness and incomprehension of the simplest facts of their own lives is undeniably true.

Hanks» solid yet stiff performance is, in the end, emblematic of everything that's wrong with Inferno, as the film's overly serious feel is completely at odds with the fun, fast - paced tone of Brown's page - turner - with, especially, the dull third act ensuring that the movie ends on as anti-climactic a note as one could envision.

Yet while those comic book references, along with plenty of well - written quips aimed at older audiences, will engage the parents in the theater, the film's introspective second act may fail to hold the attention of younger viewers.

Johansson meanwhile is an anachronism in the film: She is an impossible sell for a reason having nothing to do with physical beauty or acting chops — she's completely and simply at long last out of her element.

The film take a more blatantly serious turn in the third act than most of Anderson's previous stories have done, hinting at the emotions that are at the surface for the characters but that still feel deeply buried to us.

At one point in «Deadpool 2,» Reynolds as Deadpool references the surprise Golden Globe acting nomination he earned for his work in the first film.

At the beginning of 1995, he directed a segment of the anthology film Four Rooms and acted in Robert Rodriguez's sequel to El Mariachi, Desperado, and the comedy Destiny Turns on the Radio, in which he had a starring role.

And I wouldn't mind that concept, if the film at least had a story to go along with it, instead of segments (or skits) of humans acting like selfish, reactionary assholes.

Lelio, who also directed the excellent «Gloria» and last year's Oscar winner for best foreign film, «A Fantastic Woman,» never shortchanges the desire or the faith, a neat balancing act between the competing elements at the heart of Disobedience, and the success of which makes it so compelling and worthwhile.

Bearing the burden of being the first film about AIDS, Longtime Companion (which premiered at Sundance Fest) had the task of placing the crisis on the national agenda, which meant a gentler, kinder tone; even so, it's a touching, nicely acted feature

The performers don't seem like they're acting at all, which contributes to the film's unsettling power.

At least those films have stood the test of time, and are always entertaining, but the Santa Clause is tired, annoying and poorly acted.

Despite scattered favorable notices, most critics despised the picture (Roger Ebert remarked, «Here is a film so dreary and conventional that it took an act of will to keep me in the theater»), but it soared at the box and became one of the top grossers for several weekends.

There are constant acknowledgements that you're watching a movie, and a formulaic one at that (right before the the start of the film's third act, our boy declares that if his plan succeeds, everybody gets to go home early because there'll be no need for a third act).

And, aside from a conclusion I won't spoil except to say that it plays exactly like the meta - film twist at the end of Altman's THE PLAYER, Spielberg can't resist to inject a Gumpian «brush with history» as then Assistant Attorney General Rehnquist, a future Justice of the Supreme Court, calls to advise Bradlee the publication of the papers is prohibited by the Espionage Act of 1917 — just a beat too late to stop the story going to print.

Throw in Myrna Loy and you have a very fun movie with 3 actors at the top of their game.The film is about a test pilot (Gable) and his trusty mechanic (Tracy) who meet a girl (Loy) and how the strain of a test pilot's life affects them all.The film is a little long, but the action is well done.The acting is the main reason to watch this film, and if your are a fan of the big three, then you will have a good time.

The story wasn't all that strong, but the acting was, and what I really liked about this film is how it came at a common story in an unconventional way.

Avoid it at all costs, unless you get a kick out of films with horribly jumpy storylines and poor acting.

What makes Nichols» film so satisfying, at least until the melodrama of the final act, is the deftness of the characterisations and the constant sense that things are probably considerably more complex than they're perceived.

As Schrader's hero takes a bleaker look at life, and considers committing an extreme act as a desperate attempt to find resonance and morality in the world, he stands alongside the protagonists of such Schrader - written films as «Taxi Driver,» «American Gigolo» and «Light Sleeper,» three works the filmmaker has connected as his «night trilogy.»

Dull and pointless, Johnny Depp plays a far to run of the mill boring character for his acting style and the sub-par scares won't raise anything apart from your anguish at how much longer of the film is left.

If however you can enjoy something a bit different, there's great acting, good tension, and some shocking scenes in this film that will mean it'll have some lasting value at least.

B -: Brilliant acting / directing but extremely slow moving and very depressing... who needs this kind of angst at a film?

A founding member of both the Drama Division of New York's Juilliard School and John Houseman's The Acting Company, she is equally at home on the Broadway stage as she is in front of film and television cameras.

The acting is decent at best and the scares are good enough, but the film works because it is entertaining and is meant to be a fun film to watch.

Written and directed with care, acted spectacularly, and delivering a satisfying conclusion even for those who knew the outcome, I really don't have anything negative to say, aside from the fact that it can feel boring at times and a little dragged out to fit a feature film runtime.

Yet, despite the good acting, the middle section of the film, set at the Capitol, is attenuated and rhythmless — the filmmakers seem to be touching all the bases so that the trilogy's readers won't miss anything.

The film is very entertaining and visually well done, the acting has improved and the action scene at the end is awesome.

Sawyer Shipman started acting professionally at the age of six and has appeared in films, including YOU MUST BE JOKING, SLEEPING WITH OTHER PEOPLE, and ADULT BEGINNERS.

DICK DINMAN SALUTES GARY COOPER»S BLU «THE HANGING TREE»: Producer / host Dick Dinman and Warner Home Video's Senior Vice President of Classic and Theatrical Marketing George Feltenstein celebrate the Warner Archive's lustrously restored Blu - ray release of THE HANGING TREE one of legendary superstar Gary Cooper's most unjustly forgotten masterworks and actress Joan Leslie (who at the tender age of 16 costarred with Cooper in SERGEANT YORK) and acclaimed director Michael Anderson (who directed Cooper's final two films) regale Dick with their praise of Cooper's uniquely invisible acting technique.

If you love classic cinema, Judgement at Nuremberg is a stunning, well acted film that recounts an important part of history.

In this charming film, British actress Claire Bloom takes an insightful look at the art of Shakespearean acting with rich portrayals of many of Shakespeare's most memorable women including Portia, Rosalind, Imogen and Juliet.

Thankfully, Prey At Night makes no attempt to mythologise or explain its killers, keeping their acts of violence as inexplicable and seemingly random as they were in the first film.

Her work in Hartley's films established the blonde, strong - jawed actress as a solid talent with a proclivity for deadpan humor, something she has also exhibited in a variety of film, television, and stage productions including Tom Noonan's What Happened Was..., a darkly humorous date movie that earned Sillas particular praise.A native of Brooklyn, where she was born June 5, 1965, Sillas studied at the acting conservatory at the State University of New York at Purchase.