Sentences with phrase «film actors delivering»

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Filmed last year on location in Eastern Europe, the show is purportedly «a gritty, sexy, communist buddy cop show» popular in Romania in the 1980s — a conceit the producers maintain by dubbing English dialogue over lines delivered by Romanian actors.

To film - makers the virtual actor will open up new possibilities for delivering their art.

His career consistently overshadowed by that of his Brat Packer older brother, actor Chad Lowe has nevertheless endured to deliver numerous compelling performances in both television and film.

The lead actors are both marvellous... Yet the film's most impressive performance might come from director Dominic Cooke, who has delivered an assured, wistful debut.

It's been clear in other films that at least a couple of the actors here, beginning with Lyonne and Smulders, can deliver with good material, and Shawkat seems to have an offbeat appeal and approach.

None of the performances really deliver, but try to get through the film and it's C.G.I interactions with the actual actors involved.

With Lawrence (the director) and Lawrence (the actor) so professionally in tune over the course of three Hunger Games films, you might have hoped that the pair would deliver an off - the - rails, more mature action film with a nuanced female protagonist.

TURAN: Good versus evil films often rise or fall on the strength of the evil doer, and in the Oscar - winning Philip Seymour Hoffman, Mission Impossible 3 has a spectacular actor who delivers some deeply unnerving speeches.

Although the film failed to achieve the same amount of praise as Mann's work before it, Will Smith delivered an career - changing performance in the title role and was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar.

This is hardly Bettany's fault, though; the actor delivers a subtle yet enthralling performance that quickly proves a highlight within the film (and Connelly is just as good as Darwin's fierce wife).

Performance wise, there are some faults with the lesser known actors but as always, Shannon delivers a solid show and with scars on his back that resemble shotgun shells, it only serves to fuel the films enigmatic nature and understated detail.

The actors — many with considerable stage experience and minimal film work — deliver strong naturalistic performances, especially leading man Lamothe, whose Roque smoothly charms the ladies and sweeps us along whenever he speaks, while holding in reserve a restive intensity we glimpse in his pensive eyes.

To mark the occasion, and to acknowledge that more than half of 2013 is behind us, I've compiled a list of the finest film performances delivered by actors this year, at least until this point.

All three actors deliver infectious performances in this subtle, sensitive piece, and despite fierce competition from the War Horse and The Artist's pet pooch, this film's soulful Jack Russell terrier gets my vote as the year's best animal act.

So skillfully delivered is this sturm und drang — and so perfect a lead is actor Russell Crowe — that the film's shortcomings are all but buried beneath the sheer awesome spectacle.

Writers and directors Jim Rash and Nat Faxon have managed to obtain a group of wildly talented actors who manage to hold the film afloat but decided to play it safe and deliver us the expected beats rather than attempting something new.

All three actors deliver solid performances — especially Margot Robbie and Chiwetel Ejiofor, who are given more time to develop their characters — but unfortunately, not a lot happens over the course of the film's 98 - minute runtime that's particularly compelling.

Payne's film, written by fellow Nebraskan Bob Nelson, also offers a biography of its central character delivered by unusual means, in this case a mosaic compiled one piece at a time from former friends, enemies, and lovers of Woody (Best Actor winner Bruce Dern), on the road from Billings, Montana to Lincoln, Nebraska with his son David (SNL alum Will Forte).

Given that I have my doubts about the artiness of some of Potter's other films (excluding her underrated and unavailable The Gold Diggers), I was mainly unprepared for the graceful artfulness here — not just of her rhyming couplets to describe the adulterous affair between an Irish - American scientist (Joan Allen) and a Lebanese surgeon (Simon Abkarian) working as a cook, but also of these two actors plus Shirley Henderson (as a cleaning lady), and especially Sam Neill (as the scientist's husband), delivering them — not to mention the film's busy visuals.

He's fast become one of those actors who always delivers a memorable performance, no matter what the film.

Iron Man actor Robert Downey Jr. cautions that while a lot of films promise Armageddon, Marvel's Avengers: Infinity War will actually deliver.

And if you thought Gyllenhaal was great in «Prisoners,» you ain't seen nothing yet: the actor «carries the entire film on his shoulders, and he delivers with a smoldering internalized performance of torment that is easily his finest work.»

Mediocre as the film may be, the Blu - ray release for «The Last Kiss» actually delivers a solid collection of extras including two audio commentaries (one with director Tony Goldwyn and star Zach Braff, and another with Goldwyn, Braff and fellow co-stars Jacinda Barrett, Rachel Bilson, Michael Weston and Eric Christian Olsen) and a 40 - minute making - of featurette on everything from casting to the actor's favorite scenes.

But it's Coster - Waldau's film and the charismatic actor delivers a performance of intricacy, anguish and commitment; it's easy to see why this increasingly prominent actor was drawn to a part that provides an excellent platform for his talent.

The film — written by Kurt Sutter and originally intended as a vehicle for rapper Eminem — finds Gyllenhall delivering probably his most physically demanding performance yet as Hope, with the actor bursting with muscle gain.

Jobless and expecting, the comedy actor channelled her frustrations into her directorial debut, delivering a funny, gory and subversive horror film

Yeah Alex, this film looks like one of those pandering for an Oscar pieces that basically just begs for a golden statue by delivering an original story filled amazing performances by unheard of actors.

The rest are average at best, save the always reliable Kathryn Hahn, who is perhaps the film's sole actor delivering more than the role requires.

Bradley Cooper is an actor who has delivered some of the most memorable film performances of the last decade.

When you have people who are actors of respectable quality in your film, it's best if you allow them to do more than deliver lines with blank stares on their faces.

The lengthy sermon the actor delivers in the previous film got cut down massively after its Sundance debut, but here the writer - director gives Parks another opportunity go on, and on, at length.

Deliver Us From Evil director / writer Scott Derrickson, producer Jerry Bruckheimer, and actors Eric Bana, Edgar Ramirez, Olivia Munn, and Joel McHale came to WonderCon to discuss this suspenseful film.

With an underrated film comes an underrated actor in Sam Rockwell (Frost / Nixon, Iron Man 2) who pairs up with one of my favorites in Kevin Spacey to deliver a science fiction movie hell bent on breaking all the rules of genre - specific filmmaking.

One of the best performances I've seen this year is delivered by Cristela Alonzo in «The Actor,» a brilliantly acted installment of Sigal Avin's essential short film series, #ThatsHarrassment.

Of the actors, Chris Evans is surprisingly the film's secret weapon, delivering what may be a career - best performance, and he's given actual character development to boot.

Boseman, who broke out as an actor with his performances in films like 42 and Get on Up, delivers a strong performance (and even a respectable fictional African accent) in Civil War as T'Challa, a member of Wakanda's royal family whose plot thread is fairly integral to the movie.

During Star Wars Celebration last month it was revealed Rogue One will focus on a crew who set out to steal the Death Star plans, so it seems likely Luna could be playing a central member of rebel soldier Felicity Jones» gang — regardless, I'm just excited to see the first Star Wars Anthology film is continuing Force Awakens «trend of diversifying the franchise and casting incredible actors of color (crossing all my appendages that Rogue One actually delivers on its rumored LGBTQ + representation as well).

On the surface, The D Train looks like the archetypal Jack Black film as in previous outings like School Of Rock, he plays a small - town lummox who lies, cheats and alienates everybody around him but writer - directors Andrew Mogel and Jarrad Paul smartly play on the actors manic misanthrope persona to deliver something surprisingly subversive.

Fortunately, the two filmmakers have a dramatic tale to tell about the travails of delivering a film with outstanding production values and name actors for a remarkably low six - figure budget.

Golden Exits, the new film by Alex Ross Perry, a favorite of this festival for years, is an explosion of the director's aesthetic, a symphony of actors delivering alternately astonishing and overwrought dialogue and often framed in epic close - ups by cinematographer Sean Price Williams that appear to glance fleetingly into the chasms of the characters» souls.

Khondji collaborated with camera rig expert Tony Hill to deliver a film that choreographs the dancers and actors featured, but also the cameras used.

The Romanian actor on delivering lambs, the severe filming conditions of Yorkshire, and the likelihood of God's Own Country 2.

In 1979, Rod Hardy was already a veteran of many TV shows, and the efficiency and tight scheduling of the small screen helped the director deliver a «scope film with a solid cast that includes David Hemmings (himself having also directed a handful of films in Australia at the time) and veteran character actor Henry Silva (an actor with one imposing, balloon - like melon).

The first half of the film plods along as the actors stand around flatly delivering telegraphed punch lines.

The film is certainly aware of everything it must contain for street cred (guns, cars, shagging), but bringing the actor synonymous with 007 into its corner appears to have infected the production with a laissez - faire attitude — such that even when the picture does muster the will to deliver on convention, it does so without the slightest trace of ingenuity or gracefulness.

Both actors delivered incredibly impressive performances in 2010, Hardy in Inception and Edgerton in Animal Kingdom, and now they're joining forces to do it yet again in a film called Warrior.

Fox's DVD delivers a fine feature presentation, a lousy collection of deleted scenes worth viewing only to see the recognizable actors cut from the film, and the trailer.

An adaptation of a memoir, the»80s - set film largely looks to be a chance for Annette Bening to deliver an awards - bait turn as real - life aging film star Gloria Grahame, who falls in love with a decades - younger actor (Jamie Bell), providing a much - needed gender swap on the usual May - December romances offered up by Hollywood.

The film is a one - joke comedy, but the joke is decent, and it helps that the actors know how to deliver it.

Still Alice is the exact type of film that gets actors nominated; it's honest, focused on a medical issue, and requires it's lead actor to not only study, in this case Alzheimer's, but deliver a progressive performance throughout the film.