Sentences with phrase «lead characters get»

You may remember from the last column, US # 77, I wrote about the 1947 film noir Desperate and mentioned that the leading character got his wife out of town before the bad guys could do her any harm.

The pilot episode features nearly every lead character getting it on, and a few others besides.

When one of the lead characters gets attacked and is near - death, the film follows Ivy as she sets off on an unprecedented quest to get through the woods and get the required medical attention from a neighboring town.

A shockingly large percentage of the movie involves generic montages of our lead characters getting drunk and running around either the mall, a bar or Sky Zone.

Michael, I think there was a Hallmark movie with Christmasville in the title at the end of last year — or the lead character got stuck in a town called Christmasville.

Not exact matches

Films like J. Edgar and The Aviator (for which he got a Leading Role nomination) require him to play a single character through many stages of his life, never allowing the actor to fully inhabit characters at a single point in time.

The spark of charisma and flash of talent may get attention for a while, but a leader can't out - lead their character and integrity, it will always find them.

A few days ago I posted a comment on here and noted how AFC always seem to lose ground and our way once the heat is on... how we lack the mental strength and character to deal with pressure of maintaining a lead once we are top of the table and how we ALWAYS crumble when it matter most... i also noted how we ALWAYS seem to regain our mojo soon as we are out of contention for every important competition, when we go on some amazing winning streak, just in time to snatch the 4th place trophy... as is the norm on here and many other AFC fans forum i got member jumped down my throat, talking about negative fans, talking about new players we have and how that problem was a thing of the past....

Paul Pogba channeled his inner Goku (the lead character of the show) as he got a new, More...

Paul Pogba channeled his inner Goku (the lead character of the show) as he got a new, show - inspired haircut done.

Peres is clearly an insular character, and it's in this way that the films gets the closest to justifying its tagline; Peres sacrifices his emotions, only allowing them to exist internally, in order to lead his country.

That is, before looking at the ovoid cartoon character and then taking a cookie taste - test, the children's health knowledge was activated when they were asked to choose the healthiest option represented in six pairs of pictures and words — such as getting your sleep versus watching TV, soda versus milk and playing inside versus playing outside — which led to lighter cookie consumption.

Lead animators work closely with directors to ensure they get the best performances out of their animated characters.

Shiri plays the lead character, who gets.

All the missing details concerning important backstories are skilfully woven into the main narrative and many of the supporting characters get an appropriate sense of closure along with the leads.

Paymer's sly, subtle portrayal of the conniving producer in «Quiz Show,» directed by Robert Redford, ultimately led to more edgy and textured characters in such movies as «Get Shorty,» directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, «Nixon,» directed by Oliver Stone, and «The American President,» directed by Rob Reiner.

Experience with summer stock led to his first Broadway appearances in the 1940s, and at the age of 28 he got his first break serving as the understudy to Rex Harrison's character in the Broadway drama Anne of a Thousand Days.

In the second installment of this motion picture, the lead character of The Bride continues her vengeful ways by searching for, stalking and then ultimately, attempting to kill, all of the ex-partners who tried to kill her while she was pregnant and getting married.

So, the lead characters from Swingers grow up and get big movie rolls.

Yes, do note that I said that the underdevelopment makes it «hard [u] er [/ u]» to get invested in the characters, because as if it's not bad enough that the characters are so undercooked and, well, kind of bland, they're unlikable, or at least the lead is, for although Sam Eidman's portrayal of the Scott Weidemeyer character is engaging convincing, the character himself is just too much of a manchild - concerned with the superficial and his own self - esteem over the concerns of others and growing up - for you to feel for him all that much.

Surprise: Tatiana Maslany, «Orphan Black,» Lead Actress - Drama Tatiana Maslany finally got an Emmy nod, and it only took her playing eight characters on one show to get it.

The moment hearkened to a scene in «Get Out» where the lead character is auctioned off shortly before an attempt to steal his body.

It's like a get - out - jail - free card for any filmmaker with a nasty streak, as they can proceed to punish the lead characters in unfathomable ways without asking the audience to feel too guilty for relishing in their suffering.

When the Trolls filmmakers managed to get Anna Kendrick and Justin Timberlake to voice the lead characters Poppy and Branch in what would become a riotous musical comedy, cleverly titled Trolls.

Only the leading characters participate (it would probably get too chaotic otherwise, but that doesn't stop the Boss Battles; see below).

This is of course primarily the story of T'Challa / Black Panther (played by bona fide movie star Chadwick Boseman, the lead in the biopics «42,» «Get on Up» and «Marshall»), but rarely have we seen a comic book movie with such a wonderful bounty of supporting characters.

So low that the sole white leading character in the movie, the CIA operative Everett Ross (Martin Freeman), gets to be a hero who helps save Wakanda.

There are some protagonists from earlier entries — as well as all - new faces, such as lead characters Rowan and Lianna — but this is clearly a package aimed at modern followers of the franchise, and thanks to the focus on switching between units during battle, you'll get more of a chance to familiarise yourself with each one than you perhaps did in Hyrule Warriors.

Meryl Streep got lead billing over Anne Hathaway for Devil Wears Prada Denzel Washington had lead billing over Ethan Hawke for Training Day Ian McKellan got lead billing over Brendan Fraser in Gods and Monsters despite the fact that Fraser's character had the most screen time and the story was about him.

That said, as an efficient, low - stakes thriller, A Patch of Fog comes recommended, mainly thanks to the showcase it provides for its leads: two reliable character actors given a chance to headline a psychologically probing battle - of - the - wits, something usually reserved for bigger movie stars, when this sort of film had an easier time getting funded in the current landscape.

Still, Jimi: All is By My Side is an interesting curiosity that takes chances and gets at a certain truth about its enigmatic lead character.

Those are your less than fantastic leads — but casting isn't the movies biggest problem — or problems: First of all — it takes so long for «Fantastic Four» to get to the point where the characters get their powers.

From the sex of its characters (which, yay, means we get Parker Posey in a lead role in a SCI - FI SHOW!)

This wild concept of chaos reigning in a suburban neighborhood has its edge reduced by its incomplete image of characters, an aspect that affected Get Him to the Greek in the past, and has made for slower moments in other Stoller films (on the other hand, when characters were solid like in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, they lead to a great introduction for a bare - all Jason Segel).

When you're the bad boy pilot, who's a secret rebel spy, you lead the mission to steal the Death Star plans, are played by Diego Luna and still get outshined by a robot, your character has problems.

Then there's Marshall's [Keir Gilchrist] sexual identity crisis, which leads to experimentation with Courteney [Zoisa Mamet], a girl from school — and Kate's [Brie Larson] getting a job with a collection agency and becoming friends with Lynda [Viola Davis], one of the people she's sent to collect from — and becoming the avatar of a seventies comic book character called Princess Valhalla Hawkwind.

This is the only glimpse we get at the personal lives of any of these characters, but it gives us a female leading character and a civilian to whom we are supposed to relate.

Drama Series Game of Thrones (1st win in this category) Lead Actress, Drama Viola Davis How To Get Away With Murder (1st win, also the 1st woman of color to win in this category Lead Actor, Drama Jon Hamm, Mad Men (1st win in this category) Supporting Actress, Drama Uzo Aduba Orange is the New Black (2nd consecutive win for this character) Supporting Actor, Drama Peter Dinklage, Game of Thrones (2nd win this category) Writing / Directing Game of Thrones

His castmates — comic character actors Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson, and Clark Duke — displayed no such integrity, wisely recognizing that getting cast in a lead role without an audition is a luxury they're rarely extended.

Earlier this week it was reported that production on director Tim Miller and producer James Cameron's Terminator reboot — a.k.a. Terminator 6 — is scheduled to get underway in May, and now we have a casting breakdown for the new lead character.

Assassin's Creed gets a full synopsis and cast as Michael Fassbender is revealed as the lead character.

The protagonist of Be My Cat: A Film for Anne is played by his namesake Adrian Țofei — and if Țofei serves as this film's director, writer, producer, DoP, editor, sound designer and production designer / manager, his character Adrian is also a first - time polyhyphenate filmmaker pitching his own movie called Be My Cat, and himself trying to get into character to play that film's creepy romantic lead.

The bad dialogue and shameless product placement are to be expected, and the dynamic between the three lead human characters is pretty annoying, but Bay can't even get the action right in this one, settling for unintelligible set pieces that evade logic almost as much as the story.

With Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann in the leads of Judd Apatow's comedy, McCarthy played a kid's mom who gets in a verbal argument with Rudd's character, Pete, at school.

We also get to see a few new faces: a woman who looks strikingly like the original's Bonnie MacFarlane - leading some fans to wonder if it's her mother - and a Native American character who advises Morgan on needing extra firepower.

Luckily, they keep from getting too frustrating as completing the sidequests means spending more time in this wonderful world and also leads to all important character upgrades.

It's a road movie and character piece more than the action comedy it's occasionally marketed as and Brest never lets any set pieces or gags get in the way of the journey made by the leads, physically or emotionally.

Not having read Roald Dahl's 1982 children's book, I can't say how faithful this adaptation is (though colleagues have suggested that darker aspects have been watered down), but it seems to follow the same basic trajectory: Cute British orphan Sophie (newcomer Ruby Barnhill) gets abducted by the title character (played, or performance - captured, by recent Oscar winner Mark Rylance), who turns out to be the smallest and kindest inhabitant of Giant Country; Sophie winds up enlisting the Queen (Penelope Wilton) in an effort to stop the other, meaner giants (led by a performance - captured Jemaine Clement) from eating England's children.

This ambition leads the character to, as he puts it, «blackmail the entire school to better my chances of getting into the school of my dreams.

The first clip shows Michael Fassbender as the title character, who leads his Scottish soldiers, which includes super slow - motion footage of the battle getting under way.