Sentences with phrase «in a few scenes as»

Elizabeth Olsen (a prediction — she's an Academy Award - winning star in the making) shines in her few scenes as Ford's wife.

Adopting a priceless voice, Cage amuses with his sledgehammer subtlety in his few scenes as a shaggy, scarred alcoholic.

And Mary Elizabeth Winstead, who was the heart and soul of Smashed, is very powerful in her few scenes as Sutter's sister.

Sarah Paulson is quite good in her few scenes as the wife of Epps, aware of his weaknesses and increasingly scornful.

Not exact matches

After this, he has but a few remaining tasks to perform in order to complete his work as father - founder, after which he can quietly leave the scene.

As he mentions in this post, I was able to help him set up some of the «behind the scenes» elements of the blog, including tips and advice on plugins, some minor coding tweaks, and a few design elements.

Stillman is alive to the orgiastic possibilities of the disco — in one scene that «your body, my body, everybody» song is playing, and it's clear that not a few of the Club's patrons gay and straight would regard the more intense dance clubs of today as an improvement, but his own Club makes the more social pleasures available alongside the more primal ones.

To continue a bit with the end of that last idea: so if a group of people are on the scene of some event covered by the news, then obviously there would be great value in knowing some directly transferred assessment values from their brains, rather than what today we get as a summary from a few reporters plus maybe a few witnesses that still have to express what they saw.

And while this was undoubtedly Han Solo's film (God bless Harrison Ford, limping around on a broken leg) the new characters felt at home straight away: Daisy Ridley as Rey was an absolute star (the scenes between her and Leia ensured the film passed The Bechdel Test) and Oscar Isaac's Poe stole each of the few scenes he was in (even if his character was just Han Solo in a jumpsuit).

(So that when you read a news story, for instance, you might also get a composite assessment value that was assigned directly from other readers without them ever having to express such assessment via speaking, writing, etc. if a group of people are on the scene of some event covered by the news, then obviously there would be great value in knowing some directly transferred assessment values from their brains, rather than what today we get as a summary from a few reporters plus maybe a few witnesses that still have to express what they saw.)

What a strange pulsation there is to human life: as night comes on, active scenes are in a few hours deserted; not a soul is in sight except the occasional watchman or late reveller, and whole cities lie silent — cities of the dead, it might well seem, except that with the turn of the earth and the dawn of new day they revive to another brief and hectic activity.

Danny Rose and Kyle Walker were other Spurs players in attendance as revellers described the scenes in the club with a chorus of Happy Birthday being sung, along with Alli at one point being ushered off the stage by the DJ after he had a few words on the mic.

While there could be a few behind the scenes who are busy trying to get last minute deals over the line, the players won't have too much time for that as they're in action almost up until the window slams shut at 11 pm.

It would be intriguing to know what goes on behind the scenes with transfers particularly in the mid-season window as it is unthinkable that every deal is struck in the last few hours.

Nicky Butt could be the best thing that's ever happened to United's academy, but based on the club's track record of the last few years — as well as the context of the lack of structure and thoughts into how things are currently set - up behind the scenes at Old Trafford — his appointment looks like another symptom of a distorted value system more concerned with what looks right in a cosmetic sense rather than what needs to be done.

The following scene transpired: various medical professionals came in to check if I was able to handle general anaesthetic or other medical procedures, plus a few looky - loo medical students who wanted to see a natural breech birth as they had never seen one - but Lanny shooed them out and informed they couldn't watch the show - and then some epic pushing.

Professor Rueda set the scene: in times of economic hardship, when GDP is falling, the European social model should mitigate the impact of a rise in unemployment and inequality with a concomitant increase in benefit spending, however this model, which held until the 1990s, is no longer the case, except in a few countries such as Spain and Ireland.

None of these folks seems at first blush likely to enter the putrid Albany scene, but that's partly why Paterson took the lead with preemptive budget cuts and staff freezes — and as recent history shows, when a gigantic operation needs a bailout, a few potentates come together to set it in motion.

Because rubber cement fumes are the sort of thing we tell children never, ever to inhale, directors tend to try to shoot burn scenes in as few takes as possible.

Now as it turns out, I mean, again, you said no spoilers, so incredibly all these threads are, to Shakespeare's credit, everything works out okay a few scenes later and there's actually a happy ending, at least by the standards of — I mean it's actually lumped in with the tragedies.

Still, the presence of the fog itself and the change of lighting across the image in different versions of his The Houses of Parliament tell us about the scene as much as the few recognizable figures.

I've had quite a few ghost encounters as a millennial navigating the dating scene in New York City.

For sometimes more than an hour after their tagging and release, narwhals — which fled the scene — also immediately lowered their heart rates to as few as three beats per minute, Williams, Heide - Jørgensen, and their colleagues report today in Science.

Here's a quick look behind the scenes: Those posed photos are taken after a few minutes of sucking in, tightening your abs, twisting your torso and ensuring the lighting is as perfect as it can be to wash out any visible flaws.

As they made a huge comeback in the fashion scene for a few years now, owning one is essential for a super trendy wardrobe.

I'm sadly not really emo anymore, but I still appreciate the lifestyle and the people in it, and I was thinking of maybe making a few friends and hooking up here, maybe try and get back into the scene as well.

Whether you've been around the block a few times or are starting fresh after a long time out of the dating scene, it's a great idea to come up with your Must Haves and Can't Stands — two Top 10 lists of carefully chosen preferences that indicate which important qualities in a partner that you must have, as well as which qualities on which you'd prefer not to compromise.

But with fewer than two single men for every three single women in the over 50 age group, as well as an ageless difficulty in finding the right match, mature women on the dating scene are having a tough time.

A man finds beer bottles and beer cans in wall - coolers in an abandoned market and the camera cuts to him as he sits on the floor appearing drunk and slurring his words, a man drinks from a bottle of beer and prevents a woman from taking it away from him, a woman unaccustomed to drinking drinks wine and giggles loudly and a man tells her that she should save the rest of the bottle for another time (she pours and drinks another glass of wine, giggling more), two men and a woman drink wine at dinner in a few scenes, and a woman asks a man to have a drink with her and he politely refuses.

As mentioned it was difficult in some scenes to tell whether they were taking place in the weeks after Oliver's disappearance or eight years later, and there were a few characters whose place in the story I wasn't really sure of at least until I have time to view this again.

Corbijn isn't making a stereotypical Hollywood thriller, with the stakes spelled out in neon and the loud fight scenes spaced every few minutes, but he doesn't seem to realize there is such a thing as being too vague, and in his efforts to make some kind of art - house / thriller hybrid, he goes too far the other direction and creates a nicely rendered film with no emotional hook.

Despite being shot at 24 frames per second and showing «1080p» on the back cover, these Blu - Ray discs are encoded at 1080i at 30 (or 29.97 if you want to get technical) fps - while most of it still looks good (without any noticeable banding or compression artifacts) there are a few de-interlacing artifacts present in some scenes as well as aliasing.

Despite the spectral appearance of Harry's mentor, Sirius Black during one tearjerking scene, on screen, that moment still plays as cheesy and solely meant to wring a few more drops out of your hankies as it was in the book.

Played from its opening whimsical guitar score as a sweet story about friends, the dynamic of a real - life, Apatow - brand bromance is prominent, and makes for a few funny bonding moments, like when Tommy has Greg loudly rehearse a scene in a restaurant as a ridiculous gesture of fearlessness.

Russell pokes fun of his weight, makes ludicrous power plays to establish his dominance in prison, and invites a number of deeply uncomfortable jokes about his inevitable sexual abuse in prison — a line of comedy that feels even more unwelcome given that the film's cast includes an accused sexual assailant in T.J. Miller, who needlessly returns as Deadpool's best friend, Weasel, in a few throwaway scenes.

Red Sparrow mostly leers at Dominika as she wields her feminine wiles in skimpy skirts and impractical, gaping - at - the - chest swimsuits, then throws in a few torture scenes seemingly designed to one - up Game of Thrones» outlandish violence.

A few scenes, such as a panoramic view of The Land of the Dead, «pop» but much of the movie is more interested in emphasizing the Mexican culture than outdoing earlier features.

The childhood scenes are set in a Christian school that is depicted in the standard way as heavy on the discipline and little on the education, with the exception of a moment of inspiration by history teacher Garrett Walden (Jaleel White, «Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer») and a few segments showing principal Michael Akers (Thomas Lennon, «We're the Millers»), and basketball coach Murray (Tony Hale, «Brave New Jersey»).

«I want desperately for you to move up here, close to me», says Diane McBain, a few scenes before surprising him in his bedroom, and offering «as Eve said to Adam, want a bite of my apple?»

Lots of non-violent, non-gory but otherwise unsettling scenes worth mentioning: many «jump» scenes when people or objects startle others; we hear some noises during the night in many scenes (creaking doors and floorboards, screams, eerie whispers, doorknobs turning, pounding at doors) and doors slam shut as people run past them; we see eerie carvings and sculptures throughout a house, a maelstrom and sculptures come alive and scream and a skeleton sits up abruptly; a ghostly face is seen at a window and in a ceiling, windows become eyes, ghostly children are seen a few times (in one scene, a ghostly baby from a sculpture crawls under the sheets as a woman lies in bed) and a woman's hair is braided by invisible hands.

That scene - as well as a few others - belongs in different movie.

For my sake please list all the laugh out loud scenes, because although there were a few mildly funny moments, there sure as shit weren't any causing me pain in my sides from laughter...

Recruited by an old chum (Peter Boyle) to help find an exotic prostitute missing in Chinatown, Hammett enlists his implausibly gorgeous neighbor (Marilu Henner) to play Girl Friday as he matches wits with colorful actors including Jack Nance («Eraserhead» and other David Lynch works), David Patrick Kelly (whose strangled voice is an interesting counterpart to his iconic «Come out to play - yi - yay» taunt from «The Warriors»), Roy Kinnear and a few old - timers from film noir's heyday (the scene with Sylvia Sidney is especially good).

The movie tries for a few scenes of psychological transformation (as when Kersey watches his raging father - in - law go after poachers with a shotgun), but they're ham - handed, and the whole trick of the movie is that Willis doesn't shake off his easygoing charm once he becomes a vigilante.

Moreover, the screenplay sets up a few sturdy ideas that could have been turned into something if anyone had paid attention to them, such as a 90 - minute time limit before the police come to investigate the disrupted alarm, or automatic lights or a drone camera, established in the early scenes.

Extras are, per Anderson's M.O., exasperatingly abstract: The cover copy refers to the bonus features as «special trailers,» but one is just a deleted scene of Shasta and Doc watching the waves lap against the shore at dusk (their lips are moving, but a dreamy Greenwood composition mutes everything they say), while the fourth and final, «Everything in this Dream,» is an artful 6 - minute montage of cutting - room scraps, including a few shots of Doc and Sauncho watching a schooner leave port that could be construed as the ending from Inherent Vice the novel.

The Aviator is a well made film, and one of the year's best, with enough great moments to make the three hours not seem so long, although some trimming down of certain characters and scenes could still be done (Jude Law's cameo as Errol Flynn seems to be just an excuse to get him in the movie for a few minutes).

Kaufman does marvelous things with small supporting players, too, like the excellent Molly Parker as Hemingway's put - upon second wife, Pauline, who manages in a few short scenes to convey a poetic sense of a woman trying to tame a lion with a riding crop.

Not a problem in of itself (and, in fact, many filmmakers would do well to follow his lead, as few commentaries hold any kind of interest aside from the stray tidbit now and again), when the commentary track is enabled through remote or Special Features menu, as the film plays on into un-commented scenes the regular soundtrack doesn't return.

But the story is so simple that it's almost unnecessarily long just for the sake of feeling epic, and it's tonally uneven as well, due in part to a few scenes that stray close to parody and some cameos (from Franco Nero, Jonah Hill and Tarantino himself) that are too cheeky for their own good.