Sentences with phrase «first film acting»

Wilmann is nothing short of brilliant in the lead role, and it's hard to believe that Homesick is her first film acting experience.

Not exact matches

In fact, the events of the film completely ignore everything from «The Lost World,» and «Jurassic Park III,» and act as a direct sequel to the first movie.

In this sense, the film suffers from the inverse problem of most Marvel films — its first act is a bit weak, but the back half sings.

Filmed Entertainment has been producing operating losses as far back as 2015 and acted as a drag on Viacom's earnings power; this is the first quarter of profitability in quite some time.

It is Jackson's first foray into acting since she entered the Commons in 1992, following a film career that including two best actress Oscars in the 1970s.

As an actor, he continued to act or appear in more than 20 movies between 1976 and 2011 with the first film Stay Hungry released in 1976.

Critics Consensus: While superbly acted and stylishly filmed, Hannibal lacks the character interaction between the two leads which made the first movie so engrossing.

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 first half of the film dusts off some kitschy picket - fence footage and alarmist news reports to invoke an era when homosexual acts were illegal in 49 states, and gays were subjected to arrest, electroshock and sterilization.

Though dark hued, particularly in the first two acts, «The Fighter» is, I'm sure, a much breezier film because of Russell, whose specialty is generating humor from darkness, death, and dysfunction as in the bitterly comic «Three Kings,» «I Heart Huckabees,» and «Flirting with Disaster.»

The first two films are a tough act to follow, and here, the laughs are spread out too far, the story feels forced upon its characters, and the whole gimmick of twisting the conventions of fairy tales is starting to show a lack of new, worthwhile ideas.

There's a tonal dissonance here: The gangster - movie dialogue of these different groups, as well as a somewhat lame late movie shoot - out, feel far removed from the terse, beautifully choreographed pandemonium of the film's first act.

Roth began acting during her years as an expatriate, earning her first major film role in Ivan Zuleta's cult film Arrebato (1979).

I've seen that happen in far too many films - good premise + good first act degenerates into standard action cliches.

That narrative slyness is especially welcome in Friedkin, acting as a palliative to the sensory overdose in which he habitually deals; such a contrast was nowhere to be seen in «Bug» (2006), a film that sent me straight from the cinema to the pharmacy in search of anti-itch cream, but we find it in the first half of «Killer Joe,» thanks to the title character.

Critic Consensus: While superbly acted and stylishly filmed, Hannibal lacks the character interaction between the two leads which made the first movie so engrossing.

As directed by Robert Zemeckis from a script he co-wrote with Christopher Browne, the film limps through its first two acts, putting in time until the big moment.

In the first, the former Scientologists describe how they got into Scientology; the second act recounts the history of Scientology and the author of Dianetics, and in the final act, the film airs allegations of the abuse of church members and misconduct by its leadership, particularly David Miscavige, who is accused of intimidating, beating, imprisoning, and exploiting subordinates.

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.

Julie first began acting in 1990 with the small role in the film Due occhi diabolici.

Now I like the first Hoodwinked movie very much, and for a low budget CG film its very funny and keeps you entertained, so when I heard they were going to make a bigger budgeted 3 - D sequel I was interested, but the better CG doesn't add to how poorly this film was made, the CG may be better, but the lip synching is terrible and the voice acting isn't that good.

Kazan's first film, a sentimental family melodrama, is well acted (James Dunn won a Supporting Oscar), but it doesn't begin to suggest the powerful director he would become in the 1950s.

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 film's first act embarrassingly reduces the book's study of class, race, masculinity, and American gun worship down to a series of sketches in which bad actors and misplaced celebrities utter amateurishly presentational dialogue.

The film assumes that what we want to see is Ana find her inner dom, and top Christian in one way or another, and it plays around with this notion in a few first - act bits where Ana takes the driver's seat in Christian's souped - up Audi, and intimidates a hot architect who is a little too touchy with her husband.

The majority of the film's first two acts take place entirely in a bunker with one possibly disturbed individual played by a terrifically unsettled John Goodman.

After a three - year hiatus from acting, Robbins returned to the screen in 1997 with the comedy Nothing to Lose; he soon announced plans to mount a film adaptation of Cradle Will Rock, the Marc Blitzstein play first staged by Orson Welles six decades earlier.

The two also became acquainted with novelist Ruth Prawer Jhabvala around this time; Jhabvala would become irrevocably associated with the two, acting as the screenwriter for all but a handful of their films.The trio's first films were set in India, dramas concerned with questions of cultural interplay, personal identity, and physical and emotional isolation.

Director Stanley Kubrick, working from a script cowritten with Calder Willingham and Jim Thompson, kicks Paths of Glory off with an admittedly less - than - engrossing stretch, as the movie boasts (or suffers from) a somewhat talky first act that doesn't contain much in the way of compelling elements - although, by that same token, it's clear that the film benefits substantially from Kubrick's stellar directorial choices and a host of above - average performances.

It was shot in black and white by Subrata Mitra, otherwise known as Satyajit Ray's cameraman; Ivory had befriended Ray, who reportedly acted as the film's uncredited editor and music supervisor.Shakespeare Wallah (1965), the trio's second film, was the one that first gave the filmmaking team international recognition.

Hey, maybe that's what took Spielberg so long to find his story and bring his film to fruition: Ford already covered the first act, and sometimes the third is the trickiest.

I wanted there to be more to this film because more was promised in the first act.

An architect for the first decade of his adult life, Trowbridge turned to stage acting in the early teens, making his film bow in 1918's Thais.

Kruger, a native German acting in her first German film, plays Katja Sekerci.

Coincidentally, The Method (also known simply as Method) was Elizabeth Hurley's first film project after taking a two - year break from her acting career following the birth of her son in the spring of 2002.

It's certainly unique to hear Angelina Jolie sharing a scene with Seth Rogen, or Jackie Chan acting opposite David Cross, and it would be easy for the film to coast on its marquee names, but first - time director Jennifer Yuh effortlessly pulls off a tricky ensemble juggling act that gives everyone a slice of the spotlight.

The first half of the film is dreadfully contrived and artificial, from the uneven acting to the stereotype - filled script, to the aforementioned set and production design.

As we learned in the first film, a dystopian future society divides citizens into factions based on their abilities — except for «divergents», who act as wild cards in the system.

The first act is a sappy setup for the rest of the film, and it wasn't long before I

Cast as themselves in the film, the three men, acting for the first time, bring sincerity and authenticity to their roles, even though professional actors may have had more polish.

Though she would first gain notice as the dutiful daughter of an Asian - American family attempting to bridge the gap between the past and the present in The Joy Luck Club, Tom had already been acting in film and television for over a decade — her career gradually gaining momentum thanks to bit parts in such films as Wall Street, Blue Steel, and Cadillac Man.

American character actor Crane Whitley made his first film appearance in 1938, acting under his given name of Clem Wilenchik.

Martin Scorsese's intrusive insistence on his abstract, metaphysical theme — the possibility of modern sainthood — marks this 1973 film, his first to attract critical notice, as still somewhat immature, yet the acting and editing have such an original, tumultuous force that the picture is completely gripping.

Fernandez felt grateful for the opportunity, but reportedly hated the job itself so much that he hearkened off for the greener pastures of acting.Fernandez landed his first formal acting assignments as a guest star on episodes of the network series Cold Case and Jericho in 2006 and 2007, but truly came into his own as a star of low - medium budgeted independent films such as director Marc - Andre Samson's taut thriller Interstate (2006)(as a young man trying desperately to reach his girlfriend in Los Angeles, but waylaid by drugs and the trappings of an odd motel), and directors Lucky McKee and Trygve Diesen's violent psychological thriller Red (as a disturbed young man who plays the role of accomplice in killing a senior citizen's dog).

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.

Its comparatively simple first act remains a good example of how to apply the horror elements of the Silent Hill games to film with a degree of elegance and wit, and for a solid 35 minutes, it's an atmospheric film about a mother whose deeply maternal desire to help her daughter inadvertently places her in danger, and the need for Radha Mitchell's Rose to find her daughter when she goes missing provides a cogent and palatable, if somewhat slight, emotional basis from which the proceeding action can spring.

Instead, all of that gets wrapped up before the end of the first act, thanks to a wacky cameo or two and we're off to the cosmic gag that takes up the second third of the film.

The action sequences and fight scenes in the first two acts of the movie are equally impressive in their staging, taking visual cues from sources that include Coogler's own grounded boxing scenes in Creed, as well as many a James Bond film during a nightclub sequence right out of something like Skyfall.

William Girdler was able to make a good horror film with Day of the Animals, though the acting suffers, the plot is what keeps you involved from the first frame onwards.

As with Sallitt's previous three films, The Unspeakable Act relies heavily on the (often first - time) actors» performances.