Sentences with phrase «led war drama»

The Miles Teller - led war drama Thank You for Your Service opened with just $ 3.7 million, while George Clooney - directed Suburbicon tanked, earning $ 2.8 million in wide release.

Jack O'Connell (Starred Up) leads this war drama as a young British soldier, left in a daze when his unit accidentally abandons him on the hectic streets of Belfast at the height of the Troubles.

Jack O'Connell (Starred Up) leads this war drama as a young British soldier, left in a daze when his unit accidentally abandons him on the hectic...

Not exact matches

Completing his law studies after World War One service, Brackett turned to writing magazine articles and novels; this led to a stint as drama critic for The New Yorker.

Christian Bale delivers a bravura performance as an unhinged Gulf War veteran leading his boyhood best friend (Freddy Rodriguez) astray during a drug - fueled foray into the seedier side of Los Angeles in this gritty drama.

Currently shooting Paramount's La Femme Nikita-esque The Rhythm Section with Blake Lively in the lead and Barbara Broccoli producing, Morano wasn't able to squeeze directing on the second season of Handmaid's Tale into her schedule, but her acclaimed work on the Hulu drama led to a meeting with Star Wars gatekeeper Kathleen Kennedy about, um, something.

And so, while Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water leads the pack with 12 nominations, it's helped by a superb Sally Hawkins, who's up for Best Actress, and is going up against Call Me By Your Name, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri — nine nominations and directed by our own Martin McDonagh — Winston Churchill drama Darkest Hour and Christopher Nolan's bold war film, Dunkirk.

The Emmy - winning drama about a Nazi war - crime trial, which was American television's first miniseries in 1974, will be accompanied by a discussion led by its legendary producer, Douglas S. Cramer, and one of its stars, Juliet Mills.

Fifty Shades Of Grey star Jamie Dornan has signed on to lead a new World War Two drama amid rumours he is quitting the erotic thriller franchise...

In describing what attracted him to Brad Pitt's new film, World War Z, a global action drama in which UN investigator Gerry Lane (Pitt) leads a desperate attempt to stop humanity coming to an un-dead end, director Marc Forster is clear that the universality of the threat was key.

Coinciding with its VOD release today, a new trailer has arrived online for Mario Van Peebles» World War II drama USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage which sees Nicolas Cage leading a cast that includes James Remar, Tom Sizemore, Thomas Jane and Cody Walker; watch it below after the official synopsis...

The decade that began with him winning a Best Original Screenplay for Patton had just ended with his Vietnam War drama Apocalypse Now overcoming virtually every conceivable filmmaking obstacle (including a heart attack, lead role recasting, and typhoon)

Coinciding with its VOD release today, a new trailer has arrived online for Mario Van Peebles» World War II drama USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage which sees Nicolas Cage leading a cast that includes James Remar, Tom Sizemore, Thomas Jane and Cody Walker; watch it below after the official synopsis... In the waning days of WWII, the USS -LSB-...]

Next year, he will play the lead in David Ayer's World War II drama, Fury, as an army sergeant in charge of a tank and its five - man crew (which also includes Shia LaBeouf, Michael Peña and Logan Lerman) on a dangerous mission in Nazi Germany.

Toby Stephens, Keeley Hawes, Linus Roache and Timothy Spall will lead the cast of the BBC's Cold War drama «Summer of Rockets.»

Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche lead this 1996 Best Picture winner at the Academy Awards, a war drama following a nurse who takes in, and cares for, a badly injured plane crash victim.

Sam Claflin forgoes his usual romantic - leading - man role for a muddy cerebral one in the trenches of this World War I drama.

Left largely on the outside were Steven Spielberg's Cold War thriller «Bridge of Spies,» which was only nominated for Mark Rylance's supporting performance; the Irish immigrant drama «Brooklyn,» nominated only for Saoirse Ronan's leading performance; and «Straight Outta Compton,» the popular N.W.A biopic, which landed no nominations.

After tracing how the discoveries of Turing's World War II decoding machine led to the modern computer, Cumberbatch clarified that the Morten Tyldum - directed film «is not a period drama» but is «utterly relevant» now because of its discussion of Joan Clarke's (Keira Knightley) plight in a male - dominated workplace, as well as Turing's secret homosexual status, for which he was punished by the British government and eventually triggered his suicide.

A second trailer has surfaced independent war - torn drama TWICE BORN (or VENUTO AL MONDO) Penelope Cruz leads the film, directed by Italian actor - turned - filmmaker Sergio Castellitto, as a single mother attempting to put some demons to rest when she returns with her young son to Sarajevo, the home which she shared with his father (played by Emile Hirsch) before his death during the harrowing Bosnian conflict of the 1990s.

Oldman can currently be seen alongside Kristin Scott Thomas and Lily James in «The Darkest Hour» as World War II British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and at the weekend he won the Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama prize at the Golden Globes and he has also been nominated for the Leading Actor gong at this year's BAFTA Film Awards.

Two wars, Vietnam and Iraq, intersect in memory and grief in «Last Flag Flying,» a drama that gets considerable mileage out of its three outstanding leads.

A well - intentioned historical drama that unfolds in the 1960s against the backdrop of the Nigerian Civil War, Half of a Yellow Sun features a couple strong lead performances from Chiwetel Ejiofor and Thandie Newton, plus the sort of high stakes and stark socioeconomic class conflict that often lends itself to engaging adaptation.

A super-concentrated packet whose features have the precision of an X-Acto knife, Natalie Portman literally and figuratively blasted out of the box as a pubescent punkette assassin in The Professional (1994) and hasn't taken a breather since, working with the top stratum of directors in a carousel of genres ranging from costume drama (The Other Boleyn Girl) to space opera (the Star Wars prequel trilogy), to mirror - splintering psychodrama (Black Swan, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role).

The violent war drama about child soldiers in Ghana led by Elba's paternal general would have been a hard sell in any case.

television series — Rick's group of resolute, at times morally questionable but ultimately good band of survivors encounter an unscrupulous rival gang, more often than not led by a charismatic leader, who they then proceed to wage war against for a season or two before triumphing — it's fair to say that same sense of déjà vu hasn't affected Telltale Games» superb interactive drama series of the same name.