Sentences with phrase «lead in a movie like»

I'd like to see Jackson in the lead in a movie like this.

You need a strong performance from your lead in a movie like this or there is literally no reason to make it.

Not exact matches

DC is poised to be the only comic book company with a successful female - led movie in its arsenal, where competitors like Marvel are lacking.

«With a movie like this, it's important not to get too carried away with expectations because... in the lead - up to a big movie, that's all people are talking about, and it's easy to keep saying, «It's going to be bigger, and bigger, and bigger.»

She wants as many young girls to see this movie as possible, so they can see someone like themselves in a strong leading sci - fi role.

And last, Rosicky's «foul» that directly led to the final goal was nothing more than a tap, and Barton dropped like he'd been hit in the back of the head with a cricket bat swung by Vinnie Jones in a bad movie — it wasn't even good acting.

(«Unanimous» in this case means all of the people who were present, since those allied with the so - called «rogue faction» led by the «notorious Haggerty brothers» — the party's words, not mine, and it makes them sound like outlaws in a bad Western movie — et al attended the other meeting).

Each summer in a Wisconsin marsh, experts train a group of captive - raised chicks to follow an ultralight aircraft, using techniques like those portrayed in the fictional 1996 movie «Fly Away Home» to lead them on a 1,300 - mile journey to their Florida wintering grounds.

How And When Insufficient Sleep Happens Certain conditions like insomnia and obstructive sleep apnea can lead to insufficient sleep syndrome, but, in some cases, behavior is to blame, such as taking on shift work, checking a few extra emails at 11:00 pm or staying up late to finish a movie.

In the opening scenes we see him leading his forces into battle against the barbarous Germans, who deserve everything they get for cutting off the head of the luckless Roman cavalryman despatched to issue a surrender ultimatum (like most mainstream movies, Gladiator is strong on audience emotion cues to nudge us in the right directioIn the opening scenes we see him leading his forces into battle against the barbarous Germans, who deserve everything they get for cutting off the head of the luckless Roman cavalryman despatched to issue a surrender ultimatum (like most mainstream movies, Gladiator is strong on audience emotion cues to nudge us in the right directioin the right direction.

In 1929, Dunne was cast as Magnolia in the Chicago company production of Show Boat; her superlative performance led to a movie contract with RKO, where after a few inconsequential programmers like Leathernecking (1930), she became one of the top dramatic stars at that studiIn 1929, Dunne was cast as Magnolia in the Chicago company production of Show Boat; her superlative performance led to a movie contract with RKO, where after a few inconsequential programmers like Leathernecking (1930), she became one of the top dramatic stars at that studiin the Chicago company production of Show Boat; her superlative performance led to a movie contract with RKO, where after a few inconsequential programmers like Leathernecking (1930), she became one of the top dramatic stars at that studio.

The animation, again like all of Miyazaki's other animated pictures is incredible, and for a movie with perspectives of smaller people to much larger people and animals leads to some very good eye candy to see in a Miyazaki movie.

In a movie like this, almost everything depends on the lead actor — and Stephen Dorff does not disappoint.

The trouble for Tonya is that most people aren't interested in learning about it until someone exhumes it in the form of a riotously entertaining movie, slaps some very obvious classic rock cues on the soundtrack in order to make the scenes of abuse more appealing, and lets a sex symbol like Margot Robbie dirty herself down to play the lead.

I'm so glad I found it this late in life, like a formerly blind man seeing a sunrise, so was my reaction to Wesley Snipes throwing Gary Busey like a torpedo, my constant bewilderment at how they'd cram more and more skydiving and subculture into the movie, the inconsistency of Snipes» mood and general actions leading me to believe they simply rolled cameras and he refused to do a second take.

Why It's Paul Bettany's Movie: Creation is a biopic that seemingly exists to give Paul Bettany a major leading man role, rare for him after years of playing second fiddle to the likes of Heath Ledger (A Knight's Tale), Russell Crowe (A Beautiful Mind, in which Crowe romanced Bettany's future real - life wife, Jennifer Connelly), and Russell Crowe yet again (Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World).

Having strong actors in the leads (except Wilson, who seemed like some MTV «be in a movie» contest winner) helps elevate some of the material, but there are too many cobwebs to get around.

Rodriguez explained in early interviews that he wanted the movie to feel like any of these stars could be the lead, something that reflects the «87 PREDATOR.

Holdovers like David Fincher «s Gone Girl, the Robert Downey Jr. - lead The Judge, and Whiplash will still likely be in theaters for what might turn out to be a very enjoyable October at the movies.

The three lead actors — along with Tom Hollander as the perverse villain Isaacs, Olivia Williams, Jason Flemyng and Jessica Barden as the British family Hanna meets in the desert — have the kind of acting chops you don't usually see in movies like this, and they display them as much as Seth Lochhead and David Farr's script lets them.

During this recent interview to discuss the TV version of Zombieland, co-creators and executive producers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick talked about the journey from TV series to movie and now back to TV pilot, what it's been like to work with Amazon, what motivated the decision to have the same characters from the movie on the TV show, how they envision it as a road show, how much gore they can have, what Kirk Ward (who was originally cast as Tallahassee before being replaced by Woody Harrelson) brings to this version of the character, what led them to the 30 - minute format, whether they could have any surprise cameos (Bill Murray made a very memorable one in the film), what will determine whether the pilot is successful enough to go to series, and when they might know if they're picked up.

Natalie Dormer has been a consistent highlight in many of our favorite shows and movies — including Game of Thrones, Elementary, The Hunger Games, The Tudors, etc. — but she doesn't get to lead them as often as we'd like.

It looks like Sony is aiming high for the lead role in Bloodshot, the first offering from the studio's shared Valiant movie universe, with The Wrap reportedly revealing a wishlist of actors to play the title character.

Back in her Mad About You days, Helen Hunt seemed like a natural fit for the lead in a Woody Allen movie.

Paul Rudd still stars as Ant - Man, Michael Douglas plays Henry Pym, the inventor of the shrinking formula in this version of the movie (and not the original superhero like he is in the comics) and Lily who recently revealed a few more details and said her character Hope Van Dyne «is the daughter of the founders of The Avengers, Ant - Man and the Wasp» which will no doubt lead to lots of confusion as we know from the MCU Ant - Man and The Wasp weren't in those original movies (she's referring to what happened in the comics).

After starring in the surfing drama Blue Crush, Bosworth found leading roles in movies like Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!

The gore is plentiful and sometimes inventive (I love the use of a zombie - familiar as traction to one of the eternally - bogged cars in movies like this), and the addition of geek avengers leads to Scream commentary like, «A whole new genre, man.»

And though Holt is the most often ignored of the three leads (too many dismiss him out of hand as a B - movie staple), in watching a scene where he struggles with whether or not to save a partner from a cave - in one is reminded that Holt spent time in films like My Darling Clementine and The Magnificent Ambersons.

It's the National Geographic Channel's «Genius», and I'd like to see Geoffrey Rush and Johnny Flynn nominated in the Lead and Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie categories.

«Casting Rose in a leading role in my next movie felt like the right move to make at the time — to literally make [Harvey] pay.»

Surprisingly, the movie's more weirdly interiorized and not as expansively outgoing as the book would lead you to anticipate: the Inherent Vice of my dreams would have more sense of the jumbled archaeology of L.A. back then, more of the grunge - funk edifices, the leftover potluck from previous generations, the smog and the unexpected torrential rains, the feeling of reality bleeding and strobing like a cheap color TV picture in a thunderstorm.

Yet, people still flock to films like Pulse in droves, leading me to think that perhaps the movie executives know more about the intelligence of the American public than I'm willing to believe.

So Cage being the lead in the movie is never a 100 % indicator as to what kind of movie you're in store for when you sit yourself in the theatre, or like me pick it up on DVD.

Poor Mativo acts like bait a lot in this movie, and the scene of him in the tree led me to uncomfortably remember the guy in the tree in Django Unchained.

In order to be as true to the spirit of Neil as he can, Fozzie refused to see any movies and just went by the trailers, but this leads to more interesting discussions, like Dwayne Johnson's possible future in a Pretty Woman remake (in Julia Roberts» role, no less) and the speculative marketplace for vampire fang dentures for the old and senilIn order to be as true to the spirit of Neil as he can, Fozzie refused to see any movies and just went by the trailers, but this leads to more interesting discussions, like Dwayne Johnson's possible future in a Pretty Woman remake (in Julia Roberts» role, no less) and the speculative marketplace for vampire fang dentures for the old and senilin a Pretty Woman remake (in Julia Roberts» role, no less) and the speculative marketplace for vampire fang dentures for the old and senilin Julia Roberts» role, no less) and the speculative marketplace for vampire fang dentures for the old and senile.

Within a very few years, artists like John Carpenter, John Landis, Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante, Rob Bottin, Rick Baker, Sam Raimi, Brian DePalma, Bob Clark, Dan O'Bannon, Sean S. Cunningham, Wes Craven, Tobe Hooper, Stan Winston, Larry Cohen, and on and on and so on, were working in and reinvigorating the horror genre — many under the tutelage of Roger Corman, still others the initial products of formal film school training, almost all the consequence of a particular movie geekism that would lead inevitably to the first rumblings of jokiness and self - referentiality - as - homage that reached its simultaneous pinnacle and nadir with Craven's Scream.

But he is Brad Pitt, luckily, so he can still play the lead in action movies like World War Z. Pitt is one of Hollywood's most reliable and beloved stars, someone with tremendous acting chops who also plays the whole fame game masterfully, and does his fair bit of philanthropy on the side.

A few other Westerns featuring female protagonists that almost made the cut are: the Coens» «True Grit» although we just didn't really feel like Hailee Steinfeld, good as she is, actually leads the movie; Samuel Fuller «s «Forty Guns» which also stars Western superheroine Barbara Stanwyck; 1995 TV movie «Buffalo Girls» in which Anjelica Huston plays Calamity Jane; William Wellman's «Westward the Women» in which a wagon train of «marriageable» females is brought out to supply a woman - starved town in the West; and straight to video title «The Desperate Trail,» just because this is a list about strong women leads and they don't get much stronger than Linda Fiorentino (alongside Sam Elliott).

Even though the adaptation of the Kathryn Stockett best - seller had detractors like Professor Melissa Harris - Perry questioning the historical accuracy of its depiction of Mississippi maids in the Sixties, there's no denying that Viola Davis delivered an Oscar - worthy performance as the movie's lead character, Aibileen Clark.

You can't spread all the wealth, which leads to movies like Lady Bird and The Florida Project getting shut out and Phantom Thread only receiving a win for Costume Design (and a Jet Ski), but it would be just as easy to imagine The Shape of Water winning for screenplay (and editing and sound) in the olden days, denying Jordan Peele the opportunity to get his.

In case you were wondering what the movie version of The Sopranos might have looked like, director Luc Besson and producer Martin Scorsese are giving you a taste with The Family, a film that seems to follow the HBO drama's lead, albeit with a madcap comedic spin.

It'd be like casting Melissa McCarthy as the lead in a Roseanne movie.

But, like so many films that want to suggest violence only leads to more violence and unhappiness, this movie tries to make that point by appealing to those who find entertainment and happiness from violent depictions in movies.

If he is strong in both movies it could lead to a split amongst voters over which one they prefer, or if they like one movie more they could be more inclined to reward him for that one than the other despite which one holds the better performance.

This year Wimmer is back with Ultraviolet, an Aeon Flux - like sci - fi movie he claims to have written specifically with lead actress Milla Jovovich of Fifth Element and Resident Evil fame in mind.

Like with anything that is popular, the movie's plot has led to countless fan theories; ranging from aspects like the story was all in the head of Rod the TSA agent, that Get Out is a sequel to Being John Malkovich, the important symbolism of the deer, the dramatic irony of Chris picking cotton to lead to his escape, and much mLike with anything that is popular, the movie's plot has led to countless fan theories; ranging from aspects like the story was all in the head of Rod the TSA agent, that Get Out is a sequel to Being John Malkovich, the important symbolism of the deer, the dramatic irony of Chris picking cotton to lead to his escape, and much mlike the story was all in the head of Rod the TSA agent, that Get Out is a sequel to Being John Malkovich, the important symbolism of the deer, the dramatic irony of Chris picking cotton to lead to his escape, and much more.

Searchlight will seek to emulate the Sundance - launched success it had in the past with the likes of «Napoleon Dynamite» and «Little Miss Sunshine» — other movies with quirky and appealing lead characters — but will need to sell a film that at heart is far more of a quiet drama than it might appear.

lead the charge against Valentine, Samuel L. Jackson sporting a lisp (in what seems like one of the longest leads to a joke in a movie in some time), a mad genius who is trying to solve the world's climate problem.

All of this tempest in a teapot leads, as such things invariably will, to the requisite witches» coven (a word certain of the actors insist on pronouncing with a long «o,» just like in American Movie).

I've never seen the 1981 movie, starring legendary comedian Dudley Moore, but I can tell you that I liked the casting of Russel Brand and Helen Mirren in the leading roles here, even if the story feels awfully uneven at times.