Sentences with phrase «hammy turn»

Though it does occasionally feel as if the supporting cast are reading from different scripts, War on Everyone also boasts an enjoyably hammy turn from Theo James as a British baddie with an insatiable bloodlust, while the ever - reliable Tessa Thompson helps redress the hormone imbalance as Terry's latest squeeze.

Particularly entertaining is Minnie Driver's deliciously hammy turn as Carlotta, the Opera Populaire's resident diva whose star takes a tumble thanks to Christine's rising star and the Phantom's machinations; credit also must go to Margaret Preece, who provides Carlotta's amusingly overblown, ear - piercing vocals.

Not exact matches

As the initial antagonist, a colorfully hammy Jeffrey Dean Morgan relishes in the part and Southern accent of enemy - turned - ally Agent Harvey Russell — «When science shits the bed, I'm the one they call to change the sheets,» he says — and delivers it with cowboy charm and swagger.

«Mission: Impossible» might have a plot with innumerable twists and turns but there are plenty of superb action set - pieces and quality hammy - acting to keep you amused.

The reviews tended to be sniffy (the Guardian's own Peter Bradshaw called it «hammy», «cynical» and «increasingly dull and overwrought») but Southpaw benefits from a highly marketable redemptive premise and credible talent elements including director Antoine Fuqua and star Jake Gyllenhaal, coming off his acclaimed turn in Nightcrawler.

The promotional materials for Thor: Ragnarok continue to give us pretty much everything we could want from a superhero movie about alien space - Norse gods duking it out: Jeff Goldblum being hammy, Hulk punching giant wolves and fire giants, and Chris Hemsworth affably goofing his way through another turn as the...

The rest of the cast do well enough in their perspective roles, though Law's turn as Vortigern often errs on the side of hammy rather than deliciously foppy.

His quirky, animated turns are intentionally hammy and over-the-top, but in this case it works.

Even his drunken - Irishman turn in Saving Mr Banks, the recent movie about the author of Mary Poppins, EL Travers, was excruciatingly bad and hammy.