Sentences with phrase «heroic pilot»

In teaming up with Clint Eastwood to portray heroic pilot Captain Chesley «Sully» Sullenberger, Hanks yet again shows that when it comes to depicting ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances (as he did in Saving Private Ryan, Cast Away, Captain Phillips et al), he's the best there is.

Dr. Smith and the original series» heroic pilot Don West have both been reconceptualized: Smith as a sociopath con woman played by Parker Posey, West as a blue - collar crewmember and smuggler played by Ignacio Serricchio.

So they created an allegorical political fable — adding «new inspirations from real life,» said Anderson at Berlin — about a group of scruffy canines quarantined by a dog plague to Trash Island, who rescue Akira (Koyu Rankin), a Japanese orphan boy and heroic pilot in search of his dog Spots (Liev Schreiber).

Tammie Jo Shults, the heroic pilot who guided her Southwest Airlines jet to safety, said she and her fellow crew members were merely doing their jobs, and «our hearts are heavy» that a passenger in died when an engine exploded in midair.

Clint Eastwood's ode to the heroic pilot is an old - fashioned sort of film, an account of a stoic, strong - silent - type man forced to account for his own heroism by a bunch of pencil - necks.

I just wish that Eastwood — who is clearly a fan of the heroic pilot — had spent a little more time filling in Sully's background for us.

Denzel Washington stars in director Robert Zemeckis» true - life drama about a heroic pilot whose drinking is called into question, in theaters this November.

Add that to the casting of Tom Hanks as the heroic pilot and the perennial power of a true story, and this looks like a contender.

But if you are male, you get to be a spiritual mentor, a political revolutionary, a heroic pilot, President of the United States, a handyman, a soldier, a space colonist, an entrepreneur and more!

One of the key contributors was the heroic pilots of the RAF providing air cover, while hundreds of small boats picked up the stranded troops.

They focus on individuals whose momentary fame has been attained in fleeting media obsession, such as «Balloon Boy» Falcon Heene and heroic pilot «Sully» Sullenberger, pushing representation to the breaking point with turbulent, psychedelic distortion that subverts our memory of each subject's identity as furnished by the media.