Sentences with phrase «matinee idol»

Well, he really found it in 2012 during the «21 Jump Street» reboot, where the cardboard cut - out with matinee idol good looks suddenly came alive in front of the camera with an inspired and lovable comic performance.

George Segal gets the biggest role as Peter Gusenberg, a ruthless Moran gunman in a tempestuous affair with a showgirl (Jean Hale), and Clint Ritchie is Capone's favored lieutenant Jack McGurn, a young, ambitious guy with matinee idol looks and an initiative that earns him the job of planning and executing the Moran hit.

He carries the movie as matinee idol mixed with hard - assed John Wayne-esque drawl which is perfect when playing opposite the solid Benjamin Walker as sea - wary Captain George Pollard.

In the vein of other American - style actioners pumped out by Besson's EuropaCorp production house, most notably Taken, the film casts an aging matinee idol in a plot that's almost comically generic.

Flush with Hollywood success, Tinseltown gossip and a goony matinee idol American husband (Elwes channelling some sort of Andy Kaufman creation), she is to star in a big - budget film about the life of Queen Isabella.

Christopher Wylie, who testified to British lawmakers, has become a red - haired, nose - ringed matinee idol in some technology quarters.

But what makes this mother - of - four married to former matinee idol Warren Beatty so disruptive, so eruptive, is that as a craftswoman and artist, she never stands still.

A tall, dark - haired, often elegant silent screen actor, Larry Steers had appeared with the famous Bush Temple Stock Company and opposite matinee idol Robert Edeson prior to making his film debut with Paramount in 1917.

Soon matinee idol Robert Mitchum was installed at Milltown House overlooking the bay where, off set, he grew marijuana in the greenhouse and flew in a steady supply of lady companions.

Somewhere (12/22) Oscar - winner Sofia Coppola wrote and directed this redemption drama about a freewheeling Hollywood matinee idol (Stephen Dorff) who suddenly finds himself contemplating some serious lifestyle changes after his ex-wife (Michelle Monaghan) unexpectedly gives him custody of their 11 year - old daughter (Elle Fanning).

But no one fulfills his duty better than that lanky slice of wry known as Bill Nighy, who plays an aging matinee idol making hay as younger thespians are otherwise engaged.

Partnered with fellow writer, Buckley (Sam Claflin), the pair, along with fading matinee idol Ambrose Hilliard (Bill Nighy), reluctantly joins forces on a movie to warm the hearts of the nation and capture the imagination of the US public.

By Kam Williams Headline: «Tis the Season of Oscar Hopefuls Right around the same time that visions of Santa and sugarplums start dancing around in children's heads, matinee idols begin dreaming of winning an Academy Award.

The Delightful Rogue (1929), opposite matinee idol Rod La Rocque, earned her a contract with RKO and she played a femme fatale in Check and Double Check (1930), an attempt to turn radio's Amos»n' Andy into viable screen stars and perhaps her most visible film today.

George Clooney officially passes the impish matinee idol torch to Ryan Gosling in this smart, hella - cool (does Clooney waste his time on any other kind of movie these days?)

This is not a trick every 60 - ish matinee idol should try.

Johannson's mid-career transformation from husky - voiced ingenue to intensely physical matinee idol is one of the more fascinating arcs in American cinema.

Perhaps, this vagueness is inseparable from a self - invented matinee idol who began as a vaudevillian.

Consider the art house credentials behind this film: besides Vitti: director Joseph Losey, known for his collaborations with Harold Pinter («The Servant,» «Accident»); Terence Stamp, fresh off his disturbing turn in William Wyler's «The Collector,» which won him a best actor award at Cannes; and Dirk Bogarde, the onetime matinee idol who had grown into an adventurous, risk - taking actor.

LORD LARRY By Richard Schickel Sir Laurence Olivier was more than the embodiment of British Acting Tradition: at once matinee idol, thesp, and character actor, he found both Archie Rice and Hamlet inside himself, and therein lay the rub

Fortunately, the original cast has been reunited, starting with Adrian Grenier as matinee idol Vince Chase.

The only character in the story based on a real person, Ivor Novello — the English matinee idol and composer, gracefully played by Jeremy Northam — is an actor, and the use of biographical details about him in the dialogue, proposed by Altman, functions as one kind of discipline; the performance of a few of his songs while the murder is taking place offscreen structures the entire sequence and might be said to function as another kind.

It's that ability to subsume himself in a character despite matinee idol looks that will serve him well in future, as will a surprisingly light comic touch, given full vent in one of the film's standout scenes — Lizewski's delusional De Niro moment in front of his bedroom mirror.

Tab Hunter was one of the most promising matinee idols of the 1950s, but his career as a romantic lead began to fizzle when rumors surrounding his sexual orientation began swirling about town, making him one of Hollywood's first victims of gossipy tabloid magazines.

Kung Fu Elliot (Unrated) Martial arts documentary about kickboxer - turned - wannabe matinee idol Elliot «White Lightning» Scott's attempt to become Canada's first, homegrown action hero, much to the chagrin of his impatient fiancée.

The Last Movie Star (R for sexuality and partial nudity) Burt Reynolds stars in this poignant character study about an aging matinee idol forced to face the fact that his glory days are way behind him.

On the way, matinee idol Bruce Baxter (Kyle Chandler) and Denham's right - hand man Preston (Colin Hanks) enjoy blissful ignorance.

Instead, he wants to be a singer, a crooning cowboy like his favorite movie star, the late, great matinee idol Ernesto de la Cruz (Benjamin Bratt).

Fortunately, the forthcoming comedy — which stars Josh Brolin as a Hollywood «fixer» who's hired to rescue kidnapped matinee idol Baird Whitlock (George Clooney)-- touches on a number of other milieus that Burwell has been eager to explore.

A compelling chopsocky made in America, featuring a homegrown matinee idol who might very well blossom into the next Bruce Lee.

Granted, Eastwood's probably got the toughest obstacles to surmount because, though his character (potential spoiler alert) achieves a dignified and easy moment of total redemption, and even though he coughs up more blood than Camille, Satine, and Ratso Rizzo combined, there is the small matter of how delicately Eastwood the director allows Eastwood the scowling matinee idol to walk the line between absolving him of his grumpy - old - coot racism and valorizing him (it.

Sparkling bons mots and Samuel West's fine performance as a self - obsessed matinee idol fail to disguise the deep unpleasantness of this farce

For starters, there are matinee idols Stallone, Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis.

Despite being perhaps a little long - in - the - tooth to still be doing such stunt - driven adventures, the sixty - something matinee idol is back with Skiptrace, a slight variation on the theme co-starring Johnny Knoxville.

As adept with Jamaican vernacular as she is at revealing the internal machinations of a fading and bloated matinee idol, Margaret Cezair - Thompson weaves a saga of a mother and daughter finding their way in a nation struggling to rise to the challenge of independence.

Goodman Gallery owner Linda Givon describes Robert Hodgins as her «superstar matinee idol».

With his devilish grey - black beard, matinee idol hair and impish grin, he looked twenty years younger than his real age.

In the 1920s, actor George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) is a bona fide matinee idol with many adoring fans.

The former matinee idol, who won a gold medal in front of his countrymen at the Rome Olympics in 1960 and later held the world middleweight title for most of three years, had been beating himself up, guilt - ridden that for all his success in and out of the ring, he hadn't done enough to help others.

A Star Is Born, about a young showgirl who gets taken under the wing of a faded matinee idol, who begins to spiral downward as she finds fame, was first released in 1937 and was remade again in 1976, with Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson.

French writer - director Michel Hazanavicius» affectionate ode to the late - silent and early sound eras in Hollywood won five Oscars in all, including the lead actor award for Jean Dujardin's zesty portrayal of a Jazz Age matinee idol, and a win for Hazanavicius as best...

While Satyanand didn't become a matinee idol overnight, the process of becoming a runner taught him some seriously valuable lessons about his business, he claims.

He was a matinee idol at Duke, a bad boy at Minnesota and, last season, an All - Star at Atlanta.