Sentences with phrase «matinee idols»

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

Loosely based on Scott Mitchell Rosenberg's illustrated novel of the same name, the film co-stars Harrison Ford and Daniel Craig, bona fide matinee idols whose presence in a cheesy B - flick with cheap special effects only adds to the unintended hilarity.

But where the former film featured an A-list cast with Jamie Foxx, Jon Hamm, Kevin Spacey and Ansel Elgort, the latter's ensemble doesn't have any matinee idols.

In dozens of films, and in the pages of countless magazines, Hunter's astonishing looks and golden - boy sex appeal drove his fans to screaming, delirious frenzy, solidifying him the prototype for all young matinee idols to come.

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

Giroud should stop trying to be a matinee idol and start grafting like a centerforward should.

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.

An American matinee idol 30 years ago, Charlie Farrell is still very much on stage at the Palm Springs Racquet Club, the celebrity - filled institution that he founded, ran and rarely leaves

Well Ken, I'll say this for you; you argue your case til you are blue in the face and I have to give you some credit for consistency, though consistently getting things WRONG is what Wenger, your matinee idol, does also.

This may be a blockbuster election but there is no matinee idol to front it.

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.

It all adds to the gritty, sometimes distasteful, realism, and Redford's performance largely overcomes the drawback of his matinee idol looks.

That's a problem for Miguel, who dreams of becoming the next Ernesto de la Cruz (Benjamin Bratt), a matinee idol who was also Mexico's most famous singer / songwriter until he was killed in an untimely accident.

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.

With his salt and pepper beard and some lines of time on his still handsome face, British actor Rupert Everett, 58, still possesses a matinee idol...

For sheer entertainment value, though, little in Cannes could best Michel Hazanavicius's The Artist, a black - and - white silent movie about the end of silent movies, starring the rubber - faced Jean Dujardin (a veteran of Hazanavicius's hilarious OSS 117 spy - movie send - ups) as a vain Hollywood matinee idol who digs in his heels and refuses to adapt to talking pictures.

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.

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.

But this is different from being a matinee idol or a living legend or an icon or Jennifer Lawrence or any of those other words used to describe our celluloid heroes.

With his penetrating gaze, quiet strength, and unshakeable everyman persona, Jean Gabin was the most popular French matinee idol of the prewar period, and remains one of the great icons of cinema.

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.

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.

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.

I just hope the ethnically - ambiguous matinee idol doesn't mind being branded a brother.

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

Curtis» performance is an amusing spoof of classic movie heroism and his own status as a matinee idol.

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.

Though Robert Redford may be the very platonic ideal of a movie star — a matinee idol from films such as «Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,» «The Sting,» «The Way We Were,» «The Electric Horseman» and «Out of Africa» — he has of late been involved with smaller - scale, socially conscious dramas.

I hadn't seen much of his range prior to this film because he was mainly doing romantic comedies, almost like a matinee idol.

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.

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.

Then, he enlists the assistance of his skeptical attorney / agent Jake (Zach Galifianakis) and his drug - addicted daughter Sam (Emma Stone), while rounding out the cast with his girlfriend, Laura (Andrea Riseborough), fellow film industry refugee, Lesley (Naomi Watts), and her matinee idol beau, Mike (Edward Norton).

Unlikely scenarios (including the central love story) are established just to be rebuked in matinee idol moments (and the scene in which Watson finally dumps cad Bill (Dominic West) is an inexplicable graft from Dying Young), and by the end of Mona Lisa Smile the only thing curious is how the picture manages to cast all men as either philandering jerks or ciphers with dicks, while all subplots (one of them concerning philandering Giselle) are summarily dropped just as they threaten to provide the piece with something like depth and humanity.

It's about a matinee idol, played by the French actor Jean Dujardin, whose fans forget about him when talking pictures come in.

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.

Affleck's on - screen appeal, as it were, was always rooted in a matinee idol's identification and a nimble sense of cleverly apportioned timing, and maybe that's why it makes sense to some to cast him as a smooth, glad - handing politician.

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

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).

(PG - 13 for sensuality, smoking, violence and mild epithets) Day - in - the - life dramedy, directed by the Coen Bros and set in the Fifties, revolving around a Hollywood fixer (Josh Brolin) who comes to the rescue of a matinee idol (George Clooney) kidnapped for ransom in the middle of a film shoot.

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).

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

Throughout all of these turns, Ali exhibits so much talent, resourcefulness and dashing, mega-watt charisma that it's something of an embarrassment that no one in Hollywood has made him a matinee idol yet.

Hoffman, who was no matinee idol figure with his tubby, lumpy build and limp blond hair, made his career mostly as a character actor.

The last time Payne gave a leading role to a matinee idol, George Clooney gave one of his career best performances in «The Descendants,» which also earned one Oscar win and four other nominations.

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.

A poignant character portrait capable of catapulting Kyle Mooney from SNL support player to bona fide matinee idol!

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.

She looked up when she heard the commotion and saw him - disheveled, unshaven, but unmistakably her matinee idol.