Sentences with phrase «kind of film star»

Bale is the rare kind of film star who doesn't need a lot of dialogue to create a fully dimensional, flawed but human man on his own course to discovery.

When Sudeikis came in and read, Hopkins felt he was an «old - fashioned, James Stewart kind of film star.

Not exact matches

Festival director Thierry Fremaux had said he believed Netflix would arrange some kind of cinema release for the two films in competition — The Meyerowitz Stories and Okja — both highly anticipated, with stars that include Jake Gyllenhaal, Ben Stiller and Tilda Swinton.

Gilchrist starred in the Focus Features film IT»S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY, a coming - of - age story from writer - directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (HALF NELSON) opposite Zach Galifianakis, Emma Roberts, and Viola DaviOF A FUNNY STORY, a coming - of - age story from writer - directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (HALF NELSON) opposite Zach Galifianakis, Emma Roberts, and Viola Daviof - age story from writer - directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (HALF NELSON) opposite Zach Galifianakis, Emma Roberts, and Viola Davis.

Suffused with fantastical elements, dreamlike sequences and hallucinatory images, A Fantastic Woman stars Daniela Vega, a trans actress, and her performance roots the film in a kind of intimate verisimilitude.

The breathtaking, richly eloquent, and visually - poetic film - deliberately filmed at a slow pace - about space travel and the discovery of extra-terrestrial intelligence (many years before Star Wars (1977), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), and E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)-RRB-, was based on the published 1951 short story The Sentinel, written in 1948 by English science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke.

Jake Johnson — who stars — co-wrote with Swanberg and the film suits him perfectly with him playing a kind of relatable everyman.

So the assumption is that Jon Amiel's film, starring the wonderful Paul Bettany as Darwin, will set out to meet the daunting challenge of bringing such static pursuits as thinking and writing to some kind of animated life.

... Okay, so it's kind of lame to forcibly cite this film as nerdy to the point of getting a star with a surname that sounds kind of like «Edison», but the filmmakers had to have some corny joke somewhere in the casting, for it's not like Edison has been earning enough attention from, well, anyone to get a gig even this low in profile.

The film, which stars Smith and Joel Edgerton as a human - orc buddy cop duo, is the streaming giant's first attempt a major tentpole release, entering the kind of waters that are normally reserved for traditional studios opening films wide across hundreds of cinema screens.

From the moment it was announced Rian Johnson would be directing «Star Wars: Episode VIII,» fans have been excitedly wondering what kind of special sauce the director of genre - bending films like «Looper» and «Brick» (not to mention a few of the best episodes of «Breaking Bad») will bring to the universe George Lucas created.

That's kind of unheard of today when you're creating films, that you have big name stars committing to 10 weeks of rehearsals.

It's dirty and grimy the way Star Wars should look — part of the original trilogy's appeal was that it wasn't a polished, shiny science fiction vision, it was scummy and kind of gross and kicked off an era of lived - in production design for these types of films.

The Mountain Between Us builds towards a tame romance that left me wondering what kind of film it might have been if the studio had the courage to make a straight romantic comedy starring Winslet and Elba, who are above this parodic material.

These are the kinds of issues dealt with in the indie drama Brightest Star, and while the film doesn't have any revelatory answers, it at least gets points for thoughtfully exploring the issue.

The Good Time star plays a wealthy pioneer who sets out across the American frontier to marry the love of his life (Mia Wasikowska), but that logline hardly does the film justice, and since the film kind of defies description, just go in expecting a clever deconstruction of traditional gender roles.

With his larger - than - life swagger, the mustachioed Mireles is the film's star, and when this crusader is brought low, his downfall acquires a kind of Shakespearean inevitability.

Director Anton Corbijn's latest has all the firepower (and star power) you expect from an action blockbuster, but it's a different kind of film, with a quiet, deliberate pace to match its distinctly European vibe.

That it was a remake (of Lina Wertmüller's squirm - inducing Swept Away... by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August) was strike one; that it starred Madonna, a lousy film actress considered box - office poison, strike two; that Ritchie is married to Madonna, marking Swept Away as the kind of vanity project that power couples make to spend more time together than their private life allows, strike three.

The Empire Strikes Back: Not just the best Star Wars film, The Empire Strikes Back is also one of the best films of * any * kind ever.

Zach Galifianakis is nearing a deal to star in «It's Kind of a Funny Story,» the next film from «Half - Nelson» writer - directors Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden.

A throwback to the star - driven cinema of the Fifties and a reflection of our own fanatical interest in cults of personality, the film features transparent performances (with the exception of Don Cheadle, each performer in Ocean's Eleven is playing his - or herself), and the same kind of sadistic voyeurism that impels us to simultaneously deify and find fault with our favourite actors keeps our peepers glued to the screen as George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Elliot Gould, and Carl Reiner revolve around one another in a loose heist intrigue intended to relieve Andy Garcia of both his millions and his girlfriend.

Later, Dev Patel takes over the role of Saroo, and it's a jarring transition, not only because the little boy is now a man, but because the lyrical nature of the film transforms into a standard «issue movie with stars» kind of thing.

The advanced techniques of the Hong Kong action cinema translated from the period kung fu and wuxia film to the modern world of cops and robbers, from swordplay to gunplay, not for the first time (it was preceded into the present by Jackie Chan's Police Story from the previous year, as well as Cinema City's highly profitable Aces Go Places series of comic adventures and a whole host of films from the Hong Kong New Wave like Tsui Hark's own Dangerous Encounters - First Kind, not to mention earlier films like Chang Cheh's Ti Lung - starring Dead End, from 1969), but better than anything before it.

Because the film's pair of protagonists spend a big chunk of their time buried in space suits, with the limited facial visibility that implies, it was critical to have actors with the kind of instantly identifiable star personas that Bullock and Clooney enjoy to keep us involved in the personal dramatics of the story.

With the kind of response from the lucky Venice crowd that caught its premiere that can only serve to whet our appetites further (our [A] grade review is here) the film looks to deliver on the promise of its trailer and the pedigree of its director and stars, and then some.

Portman is a massively popular, Oscar - winning actress, who kind of swore off franchise films after the Star Wars prequels.

It's a low - key relationship dramedy / road movie starring the ripe - for - a-late-career-renaissance Bruce Dern (who'd be the most obvious likely beneficiary from the film's award season release date), and «SNL «alum Will Forte, that promises at least a modicum of the kind of off - kilter wry observations about masculinity and aging that have marked out Payne's best previous work.

Verdict: A new film from Tsai Ming - Liang was always going to be an event for the artsier kind of cinephile and «Stray Dogs» (which the Taiwanese director of «Goodbye Dragon Inn» claimed was his last film, though he seems to have another, «Journey To The West,» starring Denis Lavant, premiering in Berlin in February) did not disappoint.

And she is as much a fan of genre movies and hearing her talk about, not just Star Wars, but hearing her talk about those kind of films, is evidence that she would just kill it.»

The film is based on Ron Hall, Denver Moore and Lynn Vincent's Same Kind of Different As Me: A Modern - Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together and stars Greg Kinnear, Djimon Hounsou, -LSB-...]

«Black Panther» fever took over Los Angeles and beyond this weekend as the highly anticipated Disney film opened to the kind of fervor typically reserved for the latest offering in the «Star Wars» franchise.

The Blaxploitation films of the 1970s starred relatively unknown black actors playing new kinds of...

Sony Pictures just released this killer new foreign poster for the upcoming film «The Green Hornet» by director Michel Gondry (Be Kind Rewind, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) and starring Cameron Diaz (Shrek Forever After), Nicolas Cage (Astro Boy, Ghost Rider), Seth Rogen (Funny People), Edward James Olmos and Jay Chou ask Kato.

As I was watching the new «Tomb Raider», which is based on the Lara Croft video games, and, of course, is a reboot of the «01 & «03 films starring Angelina Jolie, I couldn't help but think that this is the kind of movie normally released in the summertime, not in mid-March.

Sony Pictures released this awesome video featuring Black Beauty from the upcoming film «The Green Hornet» by director Michel Gondry (Be Kind Rewind, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) and starring Cameron Diaz (Shrek Forever After), Nicolas Cage (Astro Boy, Ghost Rider), Seth Rogen (Funny People), Edward James Olmos and Jay Chou ask Kato.

A James Cameron film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger isn't typically the kind of title that ends up at the Specialty box office, but a restored 3D version going out in several hundred theaters via a distributor that typically handles French titles in the U.S. makes for interesting bedfellows.

Cho, till now known as a mainstream player (Sulu in the new Star Trek films, an American Pie regular, half of the Harold and Kumar duo) reinvents himself as a thoughtful, elegant, reserved kind of young elder statesman, giving the urbane Jin a slightly sour, brittle edge.

Sterling Hayden stars as the mastermind and familiar film noir faces Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Jay C. Flippen, Marie Windsor and Ted De Corsia co-star, with stand - out supporting performances by Elisha Cook Jr. (perfectly pathetic as a mousy cuckold manipulated by the scheming Windsor) and Timothy Carey (in a small role as a sharpshooter with a different kind of assignment).

But then Wittgenstein never had to sit through this unbearable new film from Warren Beatty, his first in 15 years, co-written, produced and directed by its star, Warren Beatty, who may well be affecting a kind of kinship with his subject, the crazy but allegedly lovable billionaire recluse Howard Hughes.

Now comes A Kind of Murder, from first - time screenwriter Susan Boyd and veteran television director Andy Goddard (Downton Abbey), whose debut feature film, Set Fire to the Stars, came out in 2014.

This kind of tone used to depict the interconnectedness between sex and crime set by Cool Hair evokes Harmony Korine's polarizing 2012 feature film Spring Breakers starring Vanessa Hudgens and James Franco, but Mr. Orozco - Cubbon delivers this content much more naturally and with the poise and confidence of an experienced filmmaker who already has a well - defined style, knowingly and purposefully playing with the two intertwining dynamics that keep the audience on its toes.

He should be flooded with offers right about now, so don't be surprised to hear how he's going to be directing some kind of Spider - Man VS Godzilla spin - off, because at 28 years of age, Chazelle is by far the biggest star of the film.

Well, at least he's doing to be done making the kind of films we've come to expect from the man behind such iconic franchise as The Star Wars Saga and the Indiana Jones series.

I must admit, a heartwarming Disney film starring Paul Walker and a bunch of dogs isn't the kind of thing that typically ranks high on my list of movies to see, so it comes with great surprise for me to state that I actually enjoyed Eight Below considerably.

Among Dana's 2016 film releases are Same Kind of Different as Me alongside Greg Kinnear and Renee Zellweger with a spring 2016 release, The Runner alongside Nicholas Cage, Midnight Special beside Kirsten Dunst and Adam Driver and Kidnap starring Halle Berry.

«If you went to the 1950s version of this movie Michael Shannon would be the star and the creature carrying the woman at the end of the movie would be a scene of horror, and here is an image of love, so the complexities are kind of flipped,» del Toro says, letting loose a minor spoiler for a film that has PR teams urging critics and writers not to divulge major secrets.

Any of these films would be worthy of an Oscar win, but I'm personally rooting for the race documentary «13th» (a must - see for anyone, the kind of film they should show in schools) and «O.J.: Made in America,» which is a marathon at nearly eight hours in length (it was shown in parts on ESPN earlier this year), but a completely fascinating look at race, media and society as it was in the 1990s and today, and just happens to be a tragic portrait of the worst fall from grace for a sports star in the history of our country.

But on the other hand, we're at a point in film history where there's only one star who's good at this kind of musical leading man role who has enough box office credibility from other projects (specifically his nearly 20 - year run as Wolverine) to get an automatic green light for almost any new musical movie just by saying «Yes,» and that's Jackman — so I'd rather not nitpick him to death here.

While the duo have directed films such as «Half Nelson» starring Ryan Gosling — who actually received a Best Actor nomination for his role — and «It's Kind of a Funny Story,» they're not exactly a household name.