Sentences with phrase «from child actors»

She has carried on the family tradition of delivering effortlessly fresh and spontaneous performances from child actors.

In many ways, Zathura feels like a Spielberg creation, and while Favreau may not have the prodigious conception of Spielberg when it comes to making a truly magical movie, he does have a great knack for getting superb and very realistic performances from his child actors, which is something Spielberg has sometimes struggled to do.

A large part of Maschietti making his horror so much more than a Friday Night spooky story were the incredibly deep performances from the child actors.

JJ Abrams follow up from «Star Trek» didn't live up to the hype necessarily but it did give an even enough story while showing great works from child actors Joel Courtney and Elle Fanning in this «E.T. - like» aura stricken film that has great sound and visual effects.

Strong performances, especially from the child actors, show the resilience of youth despite horrific surroundings.

One dimensional characters, Woden acting from the child actors and an overall boring story had me wondering when this movie would end.

«I can always tell when an adult is about to cry» might be the saddest bit of casual dialogue to come from a child actor that speaks volumes about this kid's battle scars.

Fanning, who's made the move from child actor to more dramatic fare, is a standout, showing Peggy Carter's poise in staring down danger and the patriarchy.

Shadowy satanist organizations, American political powers, and everyones favourite villain David Warner (here playing a shaggy haired photographer who figures out the truth), Rottweiler and Baboon attacks, the mark of the devil 666, and a creepy performance from child actor Harvey Spencer Stephens insured that The Omen was a huge success at the time.

Establishing himself from child actor to adult Academy Award - nominee, he is perhaps best known for his roles as Moocher in Breaking Away, Kelly Leak in The Bad News Bears, pedophile Ronnie McGorvey in Little Children, the vigilante Rorschach in Watchmen, as horror icon Freddy Krueger in the remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street, released on April 30, 2010, and most recently as Guerrero in Fox's drama Human Target.

In a career that stretches back nearly 35 years, he has pulled off tricky moves from child actor to adult star and from television to movies.

Sweary, cute and lethal from a child actor is a combination only possible through confidence, and Chloe Moretz has it in spades.

Featuring Willem Dafoe in one of his all - time best roles and breakout performances from child actor Brooklynn Prince and young newcomer Bria Vinaite this movie might very well be a masterpiece.

The exhibition encapsulates June's rise from child actor to cover girl through stunning prints of her by some of the most high - profile photographers of the decade, including John French, Eugene Vernier, Hans Wild and Noel Mayne.

Not exact matches

Best Picture: «The Shape of Water» Lead Actor: Gary Oldman, «Darkest Hour» Lead Actress: Frances McDormand, «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri» Supporting Actor: Sam Rockwell, «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri» Supporting Actress: Allison Janney, «I, Tonya» Director: «The Shape of Water,» Guillermo del Toro Animated Feature: «Loving Vincent,» Animated Short: «Revolting Rhymes» Adapted Screenplay: «The Disaster Artist» Original Screenplay: «The Big Sick» Cinematography: «Blade Runner 2049» Roger Deakins Best Documentary Feature: «Last Men in Aleppo» Best Documentary Short Subject: «Traffic Stop» Best Live Action Short Film: «The Silent Child» Best Foreign Language Film: «The Insult» (Lebanon) Film Editing: «Baby Driver» Sound Editing: «Dunkirk» Sound Mixing: «Dunkirk» Production Design: «The Shape of Water» Original Score: «Star Wars: The Last Jedi Original Song: «This Is Me» from «The Greatest Showman» Makeup and Hair: «Darkest Hour» Costume Design: «Phantom Thread» Visual Effects: «Star Wars: The Last Jedi»

The two come from very different backgrounds; Dupree was raised in a large Christian homeschooled family in Texas, and Bemis grew up a child actor in Hollywood (he appears briefly in the Nicolas Cage flick, Face / Off) with a strong Jewish background.

Some, like your opinion regarding the morality of killing children and infants, bend over backwards to add qualifying supplemental characteristics to the actor to excuse said actor from the premise (which in itself betrays the relative / subjective nature of the argument).

Professional actors from Improv Playhouse Theater bring classic folk tales to life with rollicking songs, a touch of improv, important life lessons, and hilarious antics that will entertain children and adults alike.

Tiffani Theissen, Actress on television's White Collar, talks about the pros and cons of being a child actor and pressure on girls from an early age.

It features the seductively soothing tones of actor Mark Rylance — from Wolf Hall — as Bing's guardian Flop, and all the children are bigger than the adults, reflecting how child - centric life is at that age.

Throughout the last year, actors Halle Berry and Jennifer Garner have been working diligently with California State Sen. Kevin de Leon, D - Los Angeles to protect their children from such harassment.

Around the State Capitol there is a widely shared belief that Governor Andrew Cuomo's Health Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker was the real life inspiration for the fictional early 90s television program, «Doogie Howser MD.» For those who don't remember the show, which ran for four seasons on ABC beginning in 1989, Actor Neil Patrick Harris portrayed the child prodigy who graduated from medical school at age 14.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — When actor Peter Falk became ill, his adult children said they were blocked from visiting him in the hospital by his spouse.

A douchebag alpha dad played by the shredded and square - jawed Belgian actor Kevin Janssens, Richard just wants to spend a quiet weekend in the desert with his teenage mistress, far away from his unseen wife and their pesky children.

Few popular, mainstream actors have had as erratic a career as John Cusack, who has gone from darkly sardonic teen icon to romantic comedy leading man to action hero to whatever Martian Child was.

Mickey Rooney is one of those child actors who is basically a fully formed performer right from the start, and his performance as Whitey Marsh wouldn't be significantly different if delivered as an adult.

Actor Peter Haskell has from time to time showed up in theatrical films (he was in two of the three Child's Play flicks), but the lion's share of his work has been on television.

In the process, Huston inadvertently launched himself as one of the most respected character actors of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.Born May 14, 1962, in Rome, as the illegitimate child of John Huston and European actress Zoe Sallis (during the former's separation from his then - wife, the late Ricki Soma), Daniel Huston came of age in Ireland and London.

The younger brother of former child star Darryl Hickman, Dwayne Hickman was himself a professional actor from the age of 10.

First to Elizabeth Rees from 1957 to 1969 and they had three children: director Damian Harris, and actors Jared Harris and Jamie Harris.

The kid who plays young Nigel is excellent (this coming from me - I normally find child actors cloying and can't wait for the older cast to take over, so that's how good this kid is).

Gordon - Levitt's adult career has been so productive that it's easy to forget he is one of the rare actors to make it from child stardom.

Braff plays Aidan (a strange name choice, perhaps, considering the film's focus on his Jewish roots), an out - of - work actor whose wife, Sarah (Kate Hudson), is barely supporting the whole family with her dreary dead - end job, and whose children, Grace (Joey King) and Tucker (Pierce Gagnon), are about to be booted from their yeshiva for non-payment.

Estranged from his wife, an out - of - work actor masquerades as a nanny to be with his children.

Bolstered by a very good cast, with solid performers extending from the leads right down to the child actors.

From Tony winners to child actors and everyone in between, see who's guest - starred on one of network television's best shows, «The Good Wife.»

Thomas Jane's quiet father figure gives a sense of light relief at times, although the inner turmoil is never far from the surface, and Jacob Tremblay again shows why he got so much attention for Room, a natural child actor you fully understand the warmth shown for on screen.

There are also perfect miniature performances from Mason Gamble as Max's chapel partner (for a child actor, he deadpans lines like «with friends like you, who needs friends?»

Home Alone is the movie that skyrocketed child actor Macaulay Culkin to fame, with a big help from a fun script by John Hughes and kid - friendly director Chris Columbus.

The Last King Rated R for violence and a scene of sexuality Rotten Tomatoes Score: 67 % Game of Thrones actor and Wyndham Hotels spokesman Kristofer Hivju stars in this Norwegian true story about a team of soldiers who, in 1206, try to save a baby from being assassinated when it is discovered that the child is the heir to the throne of the recently killed king.

Its iconic performance by Joan Crawford as Mildred, a single mother hell - bent on freeing her children from the stigma of economic hardship, solidified Crawford's career comeback and gave the actor her only Oscar.

The cast all deliver capably, from the seasoned adults to the child actors, though Eric Lloyd has a little trouble pulling off an overly dramatic scene that details his personal angst, but the problem lies more with a weakness in the screenplay.

So does Rick Groen's 2.5 - star Toronto Globe and Mail, represented by the quote: «It's the child actors, heroic indeed, who rescue «Super 8» from the blockbuster grip of its adult makers.»

Impressive in films such as «Dirty Pretty Things» and «Children of Men,» Ejiofor is a supple actor whose subtle work conveys the mind - bending notion of a man born free but hijacked into slavery, a man who finds the keystones of his identity ripped away from him, possibly never to return.

Everything about the film reeks of inanity, with its only saving grace coming from the quality of the special effects and appealing child actors.

It's a cute idea, but it gets old real fast as the script constantly tries to mine laughs from the same few jokes and undermines emotional moments with stupid stuff like ostrich rodeos, bad child actors and rhinos having sex.

No disrespect to those child actors who grew up on screen, this is a more mature entertainment in which Fogler and Sudol (pictured below) lay in a good supply of laughs from the playbook of oddball romantic comedy.

Other attendees amongst the 400 guests included Ashley Tisdale, Gossip Girl actor Ed Westwick, former Glee co-stars Darren Criss and Blake Jenner, Scandal «s Tony Goldwyn, Jane the Virgin «s Justin Baldoni with his family, The Leftovers «Margaret Qualley and Max Carver, Jamie - Lynn Sigler with her family, cute couple Abigail Spencer and Josh Pence, How to Get Away with Murder co-stars Jack Falahee and Matt McGorry, Barely Lethal «s Cameron Fuller, The Hunger Games «Jack Quaid, Black - ish «s Yara Shahidi, Bethany Joy Lenz, BFFs Nathalia Ramos and Hayley Hasselhoff, Chloe East, Chazz Nittolo, DJ Oscar Adler, plus 100 children and a number of patients from St. Jude.

Piling on the offenses, Showtime suffers from a few distracting plotholes, an obviously tacked - on prologue meant to elicit a Kindergarten Cop-esque brand of «isn't it funny to scare children with a terrifying actor,» and a score by Alan Silvestri that actually approximates the feel of hammers to the brainpan.

During our wide - ranging conversation he talked about making his feature debut (he previously helmed the miniseries Top of the Lake), the challenge of casting a child actor, balancing fact and fiction, how he collaborates with his cinematographer, what he learned from test screenings, filming in India, and more.