Not exact matches
Today, Marty McFly arrives direct from 1985 to a future full of hoverboards, self - tying shoes, and rehydrated pizzas — plus two
kids who look suspiciously
like Michael J. Fox (the
actor playing Marty) and a dad who looks suspiciously unlike Crispin Glover (who played the original George McFly but was not invited to reprise the role).
It's a disorienting and awkward change, not least because no amount of makeup or effects can keep these young
actors from looking
like kids playing dress - up.
Studios want to hire
kids with genuine depth
like Brad Renfro, but the system in place to protect child
actors isn't equipped for when their lives go perilously downhill.
I thought Vantage Point looked
like a pretty decent thriller from the trailer - quite refreshing to see
actors of a certain vintage in a film
like this, rather than a bunch of
kids - but reviews suggest my enthusiasm was possibly misplaced (I'll get to make my own mind up soon enough).
Matt Damon has become one of the hottest male
actors in Hollywood over the past few years, but we really
like the
kid because he's genuine in his stumbling act to fame.
It's
like that corny thing
actors say about how it's
like being asked to pick their favorite
kid.
The same could be said for Asa Butterfield who started as a
kid actor in films
like The Space Between Us and Hugo.
There's been an overwhelming sense of nostalgia at theaters this summer, with films
like «Mad Max: Fury Road,» «Jurassic World» and «Terminator Genisys» all reviving decades - old franchises on the big screen, and «Vacation» continues that trend with the latest installment in the National Lampoon series that began with Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo and a rotating door of
actors playing their two
kids.
I mean it is pretty over the top, but I think this
kid actually looks
like a great
actor.
Like The Adventures Of Tintin, though, The BFG exhausted me more than delighted me — partly because I was constantly conscious of how difficult it must have been to choreograph and execute shots, partly because Barnhill belongs to the Hayley Mills tradition of «spunky» child
actors who only vaguely resemble actual little
kids.
Scott Speedman, who always looks
like some slightly more famous
actor the producers couldn't afford, is once again a bland place - holder, convincing neither as a rich
kid nor a bad boy but remaining at least inoffensive.
A
Kid Like Jake Comedian and
actor Silas Howard had a memorable recurring run on the first season of Transparent, and now he steps behind the camera to direct this drama about two parents (Claire Danes and Jim Parsons) who are navigating their young child's unique gender expression.
Having
actors like Mark Duplass (The League), Evan Peters (American Horror Story, X-Men: DoFP) and Donald Glover (Community) riffing off one another works naturally and organically - and somehow even believably as a team of science whiz
kids.
When: June 19th Why: Mark Ruffalo is hands - down one of the best
actors working today, but while he's earned great reviews for his performance in writer Maya Forbes» directorial debut, his character feels a little too close to the eccentric fathers he's played over the past few years, especially in fellow indies
like «The
Kids Are All Right» and «Begin Again.»
But that would be
like saying Ruffalo is the Lead
Actor in
Kids are All Right.
Meanwhile, a parallel plot involves the evil dog kidnapper, played by that uniquely malevolent character
actor Harry Dean Stanton, who looks and talks
like Robert Mitchum's mean
kid brother.
Each
actor gave themselves totally to their role - the many selves of Dylan: Jude, Billy, Woody, Robbie, Arthur etc.Gere looked
like somebody who strayed from «Pat Garrett & Billy the
Kid», a rancher from the Basement Tapes out of John Wesley Harding Americana.He gave the film it's still centre.The young
actor playing Woody captured well a character out of Dylan's backstory.
While high quality virtual charters can be useful for certain students,
like actors, artists, or Olympic hopefuls, the majority of
kids need teachers to interact with and classmates to socialize and study with.
There was, for example, her superintendent's son; a Vogue design director, Ron Kajiwara, who as a child was detained in a California internment camp; many children who knocked on her door when they found out she painted «Spanish
kids»; and public figures
like the
actor and playwright Alice Childress.
She talked about sitting on a linoleum floor in Milwaukee in 1964, watching Sidney Poitier become the first black man to win an Oscar for Best
Actor, and though she was expressing gratitude for his work and appreciation for that moment of elation, she was also talking about anger: «I have tried many, many, many times to explain what a moment
like that means to a little girl, a
kid watching from the cheap seats as my mom came through the door, bone - tired from cleaning other people's houses.»