Sentences with phrase «like nightcrawler»

This teleporting power made you feel like Nightcrawler if he went straight up cray and started filleting fools like steaks.

There always seemed to be at least somewhat of a chance that it would make it into the Best Picture category as one of those token nominations, which was aided by the under - performance of Unbroken, but it was also just as likely to get bumped by more mainstream fare like Gone Girl or Interstellar or a similarly positioned low profile picture like Nightcrawler.

After a career defining role like Nightcrawler he's completely bulked up to become a real viable thug boxer.

They really need to invent instant transportation or I need to figure out how to be like Nightcrawler on X-Men.

If you liked Nightcrawler, Zodiac, and Silence of the Lambs, you'll like Mindhunter.

Not exact matches

Her inclusion means that there was no room for Rene Russo (Nightcrawler), Tilda Swinton (admittedly a bit of an underdog for Snowpiercer, which doesn't seem like an Academy - friendly film), and Jessica Chastain (A Most Violent Year) to crack the final five.

He'll be angling for his first nomination since «Brokeback Mountain» after turning out excellent work in films like «Prisoners,» «Enemy» and «Nightcrawler» in recent years.

Like a chameleon, he's morphed from the stern father in Fences to a dorky, introverted and mildly autistic attorney in writer / director Dan Gilroy's (Nightcrawler) second film.

Now, in a mad rush to be first on the scene like Jake Gyllenhaal's character in Nightcrawler, precursors unleash in a veritable flood at the beginning of Decemember leading up to the first true clarifying precursor groups: The SAGs and The Golden Globes.

This character study seems like familiar territory, Jake Gyllenhaal's recent performance in Nightcrawler comes to mind.

Usually, I mean if I don't need to — like for Let Me In, I didn't look at Let the Right One In — but for something like this, I thought it was right to just find all the roots, you know, see how Nightcrawler evolved into who he is now.

Written and directed by Dan Gilroy, Nightcrawler starts out like a gloomy crime thriller, and has the dark, moody feel of a 1970s conspiracy thriller.

Nightcrawler very much feels like a film from the early 90's.

Jake Gyllenhaal has really turned around his career over the past few years with character - driven films like «Nightcrawler,» «Enemy» and «Prisoners,» so it only seems natural that he would want to collaborate with Jean - Marc Vallée, the Canadian - born director who led Matthew McConaughey to Oscar gold in «Dallas Buyers Club» and helped revive Reese Witherspoon's career with «Wild.»

The committed star pulls off the same magic trick to even more impressive effect than usual with Nightcrawler, Dan Gilroy's directorial debut after toiling away as a screenwriter on less pedigreed fare like Real Steel and Two for the Money as well as big brother Tony's most recent Bourne franchise effort.

Both Gone Girl and Nightcrawler made it to the Producers Guild but were killed when Oscar voters had to limit their scope to five slots for Best Picture nominations instead of ten, like the Producers Guild had.

Soon, however, other X-Men form to stop this nonsense, including Raven / Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence, «American Hustle»), Scott Summers / Cyclops (Tye Sheridan, «Entertainment»), Hank McCoy / Beast (Nicholas Hoult, «Mad Max: Fury Road»), Jean Grey (Sophie Turner, «Game of Thrones» TV series), Alex Summers / Havok (Lucas Till, «The Curse of Downers Grove»), Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler (Kodi Smit - McPhee, «Dawn of the Planet of the Apes») and Peter Maximoff / Quicksilver (Evan Peters, «The Lazarus Effect»), all led by Charles Xavier and his ability to get inside people's thoughts and convince them to change their minds, or something like that.

He doesn't get to flex his character actor muscles quite as much as he did with things like End of Watch (2012) and Nightcrawler (2014), but his performance as Hope is still admirable.

Some other performers were ultimately decided to be a little too well - established, like «Selma» big noise David Oyelowo, Spirit Award - nominated «Nightcrawler» secret weapon Riz Ahmed (previously seen being excellent in «Four Lions,» among others), former child star Gaby Hoffman, «Downton Abbey ««s Michelle Dockery and Dan Stevens, «Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes» villain Toby Kebbell, «Whiplash ««s Miles Teller, «Fury ««s Logan Lerman, and «Gloria ««s Paulina Garcia, who we included on this list last year.

«X-Men: Days of Future Past» director Bryan Singer would like to bring back Gambit and a younger Nightcrawler for «X-Men: Apocalypse».

Designers Yoshihito Akatsuka — «The Left Ear,» «Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale» Kokayi Ampah — «Knight and Day» «Flags of Our Fathers» Jille Azis — «Magic in the Moonlight,» «Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy» Hannah E. Beachler — «Miles Ahead,» «Creed» Bert Berry — «Inside Out,» «Cars 2» Celia Bobak — «The Martian,» «Shanghai» Stephanie Carroll — «Elsa & Fred,» «Monsoon Wedding» Sue Chan — «Gone Girl,» «300: Rise of an Empire» Rodolfo Damaggio — «Tomorrowland,» «Terminator Genisys» Rena DeAngelo — «Bridge of Spies,» «The Judge» Warren Drummond — «Straight Outta Compton,» «Nightcrawler» Colin Gibson — «Mad Max: Fury Road,» «Happy Feet Two» Bernhard Henrich — «Bridge of Spies,» «Unfinished Business» Kalina Ivanov — «Max,» «Little Miss Sunshine» Michael Anthony Jackson — «Gods of Egypt,» «Fantastic Four» Philip Keller — «Jurassic World,» «The Last Witch Hunter» Carolyn A. Loucks — «Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,» «RoboCop» Chris Lowe — «Spectre,» «Into the Woods» Ina Mayhew — «Barbershop: The Next Cut,» «Tyler Perry's Good Deeds» Alice Normington — «Suffragette,» «Nowhere Boy» Hamish Purdy — «The Revenant,» «Step Up All In» Peter Ramsey * — «Penguins of Madagascar,» «Shrek the Third» Pilar Revuelta — «Exodus: Gods and Kings,» «Pan's Labyrinth» Mark Ricker — «Trumbo,» «Get on Up Dena Roth — «The Wedding Ringer,» «Think Like a Man Too» David Schlesinger — «True Story,» «Annie» Richard Sherman — «The Gift,» «Beautiful Creatures» Michael Standish — «The Danish Girl,» «Victor Frankenstein» Yohei Taneda — «Monster Hunt,» «The Hateful Eight» Lisa Thompson — «Mad Max: Fury Road,» «San Andreas» Patrice Vermette — «Sicario,» «The Young Victoria» Frank Walsh — «The Huntsman: Winter's War,» «High - Rise»

And I don't even mind that Nightcrawler made my beloved neighborhood — a stretch of LA just south of Hollywood that I've dubbed North Koreatown — look like a violent ghetto.

But while movies like «End of Watch,» «Prisoners» and «Enemy» have helped remind audiences why he's one of the best actors of his generation, «Nightcrawler» pushes that envelope even further with what appears to be his most gonzo performance yet.

It's still too early to know for sure, but one thing is certain: «Nightcrawler» looks like a truly one - of - a-kind experience.

We could never include everyone we'd like, but some honorable mentions include: Uma Thurman (Nymphomaniac), John Lithgow (Love is Strange), Jonathan Pryce (Listen Up Philip), Rene Russo (Nightcrawler), David Oyelowo (Selma), Sheila Vand (A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night), Julianne Moore (Still Alice), Jessica Chastain (Miss Julie), Laura Dern (Wild), the cast of Winter Sleep, the cast of We Are The Best!

Here's the full list of 142 films that featured on our contributors» ballots: (Disclaimer: Luc Besson's Lucy didn't get a single vote - I just like this image of Scarlett sorting through stuff) 71 1001 Grams 12 Years a Slave 20,000 Days on Earth 22 Jump Street 52 Tuesdays A Girl at my Door A Most Violent Year A Most Wanted Man A Touch of Sin Aberdeen Alleluia American Sniper Birdman Black Coal, Thin Ice Blind Blue Ruin Boyhood Calvary Captain America: The Winter Soldier Casa Grande Chef Citizenfour Climbing to Spring Cold in July Danger 5 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Der Samurai Duke of Burgundy Edge of Tomorrow Electric Boogaloo Enemy Fandry Force Majeure Frank Free Fall From What is Before Giovanni's Island Gone Girl Goodbye to Language Guardians of the Galaxy Haemoo Han Gong - ju Hard to be a God Horse Money Housebound Ida Inherent Vice Interstellar It Follows Jauja Jigarthanda Jodorowsky's Dune John Wick Killers Lady Maiko Les Combattants Leviathan Li'l Quinquin Life Itself Like Father Like Son Locke Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere Magical Girl Maidan Man From Reno Melbourne Memphis Mommy National Gallery New World Nightcrawler Norte, The End of History Nymphomaniac Of Good Report Only Lovers Left Alive Over Your Dead Body Pale Moon Peaky Blinders Pride R100 Red Army Seven Weeks Sils Maria Snowpiercer Song of the Sea Sorrow and Joy Spring Stand By Me Doraemon Starred Up Starry Eyes Stray Dogs Texas Chain Saw Massacre The Act of Killing The Babadook The Dam Keeper The Double The Editor The Grand Budapest Hotel The Great Beauty The Great Passage The Guest The Hobbit The Internet's Own Boy The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness The Lego Movie The Missing Picture The One I Love The Overnighters The Penguins of Madagascar The Raid 2 The Sacrament The Second Game The Secret Life of Walter Mitty The Snow White Murder Case The Tale of the Princess Kaguya The Terror Live The Tribe The Wind Rises The Wolf of Wall Street The Wonders The World of Kanako These Final Hours They Came Together Tokyo Tribe Tusk Two Days, One Night Under the Skin Wadjda We Are The Blike this image of Scarlett sorting through stuff) 71 1001 Grams 12 Years a Slave 20,000 Days on Earth 22 Jump Street 52 Tuesdays A Girl at my Door A Most Violent Year A Most Wanted Man A Touch of Sin Aberdeen Alleluia American Sniper Birdman Black Coal, Thin Ice Blind Blue Ruin Boyhood Calvary Captain America: The Winter Soldier Casa Grande Chef Citizenfour Climbing to Spring Cold in July Danger 5 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Der Samurai Duke of Burgundy Edge of Tomorrow Electric Boogaloo Enemy Fandry Force Majeure Frank Free Fall From What is Before Giovanni's Island Gone Girl Goodbye to Language Guardians of the Galaxy Haemoo Han Gong - ju Hard to be a God Horse Money Housebound Ida Inherent Vice Interstellar It Follows Jauja Jigarthanda Jodorowsky's Dune John Wick Killers Lady Maiko Les Combattants Leviathan Li'l Quinquin Life Itself Like Father Like Son Locke Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere Magical Girl Maidan Man From Reno Melbourne Memphis Mommy National Gallery New World Nightcrawler Norte, The End of History Nymphomaniac Of Good Report Only Lovers Left Alive Over Your Dead Body Pale Moon Peaky Blinders Pride R100 Red Army Seven Weeks Sils Maria Snowpiercer Song of the Sea Sorrow and Joy Spring Stand By Me Doraemon Starred Up Starry Eyes Stray Dogs Texas Chain Saw Massacre The Act of Killing The Babadook The Dam Keeper The Double The Editor The Grand Budapest Hotel The Great Beauty The Great Passage The Guest The Hobbit The Internet's Own Boy The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness The Lego Movie The Missing Picture The One I Love The Overnighters The Penguins of Madagascar The Raid 2 The Sacrament The Second Game The Secret Life of Walter Mitty The Snow White Murder Case The Tale of the Princess Kaguya The Terror Live The Tribe The Wind Rises The Wolf of Wall Street The Wonders The World of Kanako These Final Hours They Came Together Tokyo Tribe Tusk Two Days, One Night Under the Skin Wadjda We Are The BLike Father Like Son Locke Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere Magical Girl Maidan Man From Reno Melbourne Memphis Mommy National Gallery New World Nightcrawler Norte, The End of History Nymphomaniac Of Good Report Only Lovers Left Alive Over Your Dead Body Pale Moon Peaky Blinders Pride R100 Red Army Seven Weeks Sils Maria Snowpiercer Song of the Sea Sorrow and Joy Spring Stand By Me Doraemon Starred Up Starry Eyes Stray Dogs Texas Chain Saw Massacre The Act of Killing The Babadook The Dam Keeper The Double The Editor The Grand Budapest Hotel The Great Beauty The Great Passage The Guest The Hobbit The Internet's Own Boy The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness The Lego Movie The Missing Picture The One I Love The Overnighters The Penguins of Madagascar The Raid 2 The Sacrament The Second Game The Secret Life of Walter Mitty The Snow White Murder Case The Tale of the Princess Kaguya The Terror Live The Tribe The Wind Rises The Wolf of Wall Street The Wonders The World of Kanako These Final Hours They Came Together Tokyo Tribe Tusk Two Days, One Night Under the Skin Wadjda We Are The BLike Son Locke Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere Magical Girl Maidan Man From Reno Melbourne Memphis Mommy National Gallery New World Nightcrawler Norte, The End of History Nymphomaniac Of Good Report Only Lovers Left Alive Over Your Dead Body Pale Moon Peaky Blinders Pride R100 Red Army Seven Weeks Sils Maria Snowpiercer Song of the Sea Sorrow and Joy Spring Stand By Me Doraemon Starred Up Starry Eyes Stray Dogs Texas Chain Saw Massacre The Act of Killing The Babadook The Dam Keeper The Double The Editor The Grand Budapest Hotel The Great Beauty The Great Passage The Guest The Hobbit The Internet's Own Boy The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness The Lego Movie The Missing Picture The One I Love The Overnighters The Penguins of Madagascar The Raid 2 The Sacrament The Second Game The Secret Life of Walter Mitty The Snow White Murder Case The Tale of the Princess Kaguya The Terror Live The Tribe The Wind Rises The Wolf of Wall Street The Wonders The World of Kanako These Final Hours They Came Together Tokyo Tribe Tusk Two Days, One Night Under the Skin Wadjda We Are The Best!

Nightcrawler is a despicable underdog story, a deluded and hazy, trance - like dream that glides through the fluorescent streets of Los Angeles.

Anyone who's been paying attention to the actor's work for the last decade or so has witnessed an extraordinary variety of complex, empathetic performances in films like «Enemy,» «Brokeback Mountain,» «Zodiac,» «End of Watch,» «Source Code,» «Prisoners,» and last year's creepy, riveting «Nightcrawler.»

Ana Lily Amirpour for A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (Kino Lorber) James Ward Byrkit for Coherence (Oscilloscope Laboratories) Dan Gilroy for Nightcrawler (Open Road Films) Eliza Hittman for It Felt Like Love (Variance Films) Justin Simien for Dear White People (Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions)

After side - stepping a number of plausibility issues (like speeding from a murder scene right in front of the arriving police without attracting any suspicion), Nightcrawler tries to combat them with climactic conflict.

Nightcrawler is the directorial debut of Dan Gilroy, a veteran scribe of films like Real Steel and The Bourne Legacy and the younger brother of Bourne fixture and Academy Award - nominated Michael Clayton writer - director Tony Gilroy.

Whether Nightcrawler is her son like in the comics is unclear, but doesn't really sound like it from that description.

BEST SUPPORTING MALE Riz Ahmed — Nightcrawler Ethan Hawke — Boyhood Alfred Molina — Love is Strange Edward Norton — Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) J.K. Simmons — Whiplash Would you like to know more...?

Closer in spirit to the media - amplified perversity of Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver and The King of Comedy, Nightcrawler feels like a major portrait of a sick, insatiable appetite.

Initially, Nightcrawler plays like a darkly comic how - I - made - it story.

Gilroy made a major splash in 2014 when he debuted «Nightcrawler» in Toronto, a «Taxi Driver» for the millennial generation that has aged like fine wine over the ensuing years.

Recent hits like Don't Think Twice, Nightcrawler, and the works of Wes Anderson are highlights of the platform's up - to - date offerings, and they're also stocked with cult classics like Heathers and Ain't Them Bodies Saints.

Nightcrawler is the directing debut of screenwriter Dan Gilroy (The Bourne Legacy, co-written with his brother, Tony Gilroy, who also directed), and whatever I may think about the movie (and I am not as big a fan as the rest of the world), it does not feel like a first movie.

Nightcrawler's vampiresque - like mood places an intoxicating spell on whoever dares to enter.

A few hours ago we brought you the first official stills from X-Men: Apocalypse, which included our first look at the likes of Apocalypse (Oscar Isaac), Psylocke (Olivia Munn) and Storm (Alexandra Shipp), and now Entertainment Weekly has released another batch of stills featuring Storm, Jubilee (Lana Condor), Cyclops (Tye Sheridan), Nightcrawler (Kodi Smith - McPhee) and Jean Grey (Sophie Turner)...

Ana Lily Amirpour for A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night James Ward Byrkit for Coherence Dan Gilroy for Nightcrawler Eliza Hittman for It Felt Like Love Justin Simien for Dear White People

So this second stat ALONE is why I'm looking towards performers like Bradley Cooper (American Sniper), Ralph Fiennes (The Grand Budapest Hotel), Bill Murray (St. Vincent), Joaquin Phoenix (Inherent Vice), and Jake Gyllenhaal (Nightcrawler) to round out my personal Best Actor predictions.

Making LA and NY look pretty pedestrian by comparison, the OFCS have opted for some exciting choices in Best Picture like Under the Skin, Mommy, Nightcrawler and Two Days, One Night.

That Castro double feature seems like a good one, although shamefully I've seen neither Ace In The Hole NOR Nightcrawler.

When: April 8th Why: Jake Gyllenhaal has really turned around his career over the past few years with films like «Nightcrawler» and «Prisoners,» so it only seems fitting that he would team up with Jean - Marc Vallée, the Canadian - born director partially responsible for Matthew McConaughey («Dallas Buyers Club») and Reese Witherspoon's («Wild») recent career revivals.

Among the newcomers include Nightcrawler (Alan Cumming, Nicholas Nickleby, Spy Kids 2), a blue, Catholic, teleport who looks like a demon, Bobby Drake (Shawn Ashmore, The Big House, X-Men), who can freeze things, and Pyro (Aaron Stanford, Tadpole, The 25th Hour), who can control fire.

So yes, these initial days of TIFF haven't given us a 12 Years a Slave or a Gravity like last year, but Gyllenhaal's performance in Nightcrawler is a knockout and the implementation of the new screening rules means that we could definitely see some heavy hitters break out next week.

Fine details are not forgotten, however, and small things like the Guardians logo on Venom's shoulder and the way the Skrulls possess random physical characteristics of different Marvel Universe members (Nightcrawler's tail was a nice touch) add depth to the story.

It firmly sets the tone for the sheer irreverent fun of the issue, a solidly tongue in cheek piece that has mischievous little red and blue «Bamfs» (think: mini Nightcrawlers) running around like rodents.

And throw in some 90's costumes as well like cyclops, jean, storm, rogue, gambit, Emma frost, wolverine, iceman, beast, nightcrawler, psylock, colossus, polaris, havoc, any mix of them or all of them if your looking for a big roster because I look for these ppl n my fighting marvel games