Sentences with phrase «men turned directors»

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Shock turned to outrage when reports indicated that Stoops never was offered the Iowa job by [athletic director Bob] Bowlsby, who has been the UI men's athletic director since 1991.

I started googling way back in may who could we be buying gonzalo higuian, julio cesar and wayne rooney but realize going by history wenger just as no interest in buying world class players, he wants 2 buy d grade players and turn them up to koscienly nd nasri that will take years while da arsenal faithful pay handsome figures for dismal performances, fans allowed wenger 2 get away when he gets away with these lucky matches of fenerbache been strong on paper but a waste of tym on the pitch, also it happen at bayern but they put a slighty weak team but wenger runt his mouth around of how good da team was after that 2 - 0 win, not forgetting it was bould that got the team defense looking solid while wenger moan about referee decisions and no blame on team, I just feel we (arsenal) have allowed wenger and co to misuse us, so now our main target aim is benzema yet giroud plays more often than him for france, can any1 see how wenger is lowing our standards and expectations at arsenal, I wil be over da moon if wenger does not sign an extension wit us, after the gilberto days and disaterous results and teams we play, his approach to the game defensely which is pathetic and his annoying behaviour.So what if manu and chelski haven't really bought they are already strong it was seen last week now we should be worried about our selves since that villa defeat, jst imagine what the man's and london money maniac's are goin 2 do to us, I can see it already coming from wenger, if we find the right player we will buy him, after sept2, we didn't find da right player but the squad can challenge for the title, its so sick having 2 hear that crap, just take him psg, I just wish the fans would say we had enough of this bullshit transfer policies its time we stood up against these pigs of directors by protesting!

This rambling film, which feels much longer than its actual length, might have worked as a distaff version of Nicolas Roeg's «The Man Who Fell to Earth» if it weren't for director Glazer's decision to turn the movie into something like a TV reality show.

Old School, which follows three grown men (Luke Wilson's Mitch, Will Ferrell's Frank, and Vince Vaughn's Beanie) as they turn their house into a fraternity, marks director Todd Phillips» first fictional endeavor since Road Trip, and it's immediately clear that the movie, like that 2000 Tom Green comedy, manages to entertain in spite of a distinct lack of overt laughs.

... Flashpoint has taken a big step forward this week with the news that Vacation and Game Night directors John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein (who worked on the script for Spider - Man: Homecoming) have signed on to direct the movie, after Ben Affleck reportedly turned down the opportunity.

Director James Pondsoldt (The Spectacular Now) turns Lipsky's memoir about the experience into a kind of Almost Famous for the literary world, exploring the sometimes friendly, sometimes contentious bond the two men formed over a few days.

At the same time, his daughter (Chloe Grace Moretz), a minor who just turned 17, is starting an affair with a sixty - something film director (John Malkovich) who is legendary for his skill and productivity but also notorious for making films about older men having affairs with much younger women and doing the same thing in real life.

A Quiet Place is directed by American actor - turned - filmmaker John Krasinski, director of the films Brief Interviews with Hideous Men and The Hollars previously.

Both of the men are seen conversing on camera, and there comes a great scene at the very end in which the directors take turns filming a statue and explaining their technique.

Director Jonathan Teplitzky (Getting» Square), writer Frank Cottrell Boyce (Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story) and producer turned co-scribe Andy Patterson (Burning Man) adapt Eric Lomax's autobiography of the same name into a consideration of closure and catharsis, as focused on the juxtaposition of the young Lomax's (Jeremy Irvine, Great Expectations) experiences in a Japanese prisoner - of - war camp, working on the Thai - Burma Railway in cruel conditions, and the elder Lomax's (Colin Firth, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) troubles when attempting to cope, particularly on the occasion of his marriage to the sympathetic Patti (Nicole Kidman, Stoker) decades later.

I have large doubts that 20 years ago, following the debut of writer / director Kevin Smith's Clerks, anyone predicted that one day this man would make a film about a mysterious man turning an unknowing participant into a walrus, but here we are.

When fellow actor turned director Clint Eastwood did his Boston crime picture Mystic River, we had the towering, bellowing Sean Penn keening with wild hair and Tim Robbins doing mumbling, stuttering stuff as a caricature of an emotionally stilted man.

Burbank, CA, April 5 — See the unique story of three friends who became heroes when «The 15:17 to Paris» arrives From Academy Award winning director it * Clint Eastwood which tells the real - life story of three men whose brave act turned them into heroes during a high - speed railway ride.

«From Director Jim Loach and based on the novel by Robert Lipsyte, MEASURE OF A MAN follows a bullied teen, who experiences a turning...

An Ordinary Man North American Premiere Writer / Director: Brad Silberling Starring: Ben Kingsley, Hera Hilmar, Peter Serafinowicz Logline: The life of a fugitive war criminal takes a turn for the unexpected in An Ordinary Man.

In actor - turned - director Raúl Arévalo's debut feature The Fury of a Patient Man, the mesmerizing Ruth Díaz was rewarded for her excellent performance as a pawn (to be sacrificed) in a sinister game of revenge.

Following a disappointing turn in the underwhelming OLD BOY remake, Josh Brolin will return to his NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN writer / directors The Coen Brothers for their next film, HAIL CAESAR, opposite the already cast George Clooney.

Amidst those early signs of viewer interest (Blade), franchise launches (X-Men), moments of director / source material synergy (Raimi's Spider - Man) and 18 or so MCU films, Deadpool is recognizable as a triumph of perseverance and (baby) hand - in - glove casting, as well as proof that R - rated superheroing is viable at the box office (which in turn smoothed the way for more serious takes like Logan).

Which is all right with us, as we're big fans of the man who was not only, famously, the highest - paid screenwriter in Hollywood at one time, he has also turned out to be a genuinely terrific genre director, with a particularly bright eye for the wit and wisecrackery he writes so well.

Changing the writer and director for this third Iron Man movie turns out to be the best thing that could have happened, because Shane Black is a much more focussed filmmaker, and he gives this...

The 100 - Year - Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared Director: Felix Herngren Running time: 112 minutes Certificate: R Swedish comedy, based on the best - selling novel by Jonas Jonasson, about a man who finds himself on an adventure as he turns 1Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared Director: Felix Herngren Running time: 112 minutes Certificate: R Swedish comedy, based on the best - selling novel by Jonas Jonasson, about a man who finds himself on an adventure as he turns 1man who finds himself on an adventure as he turns 100.

But directors Joe and Anthony Russo layer all those powers, personalities, and quips until they've created a barrage of frenzied playground comic - book fantasizing: What if Spider - Man tried to capture Captain America and then Cap's best friends Bucky and Falcon fought Spider - Man and then Black Widow fought Ant - Man and then Ant - Man turned into Giant Man and Black Widow changed sides, and on and on, for 15 giddy minutes.

Director Joseph Kosinski is making the jump from sci - fi (Tron: Legacy, Oblivion), and works with Life of Pi cinematographer Claudio Miranda to depict the other - worldly reality of men whose jobs place them amid walls of flame that turn night to day, smoke that turns day to night.

Like many actors turned first time directors, they are led by passion for the project (even though this one landed in Cheadle's lap), surrounded by «yes» men, rather than contemplating whether this film works as a whole.

Knock Knock / U.S.A. (Director: Eli Roth, Screenwriters: Eli Roth, Nicolas Lopez, Guillermo Amoedo)-- Two beautiful young girls walk into a married man's life and turn a wild fantasy into his worst nightmare.

Spider - Man, Turn Off the Dark, would have reteamed the 22 - year - old actress with her Across the Universe director, Julie Taymor.

An extremely strange hybrid of dark comedy / drama, actor turned director John Slattery's (from Mad Men fame) film God's Pocket will likely be forever known only because of it's featuring of one of screen legend Philip Seymour Hoffman's last roles as grubby (when wasn't he grubby?)

When the conversation turned to the pair's script for X-Men: Deadpool, which has director Tim Miller and star Ryan Reynolds attached, both men smiled.

Gone Girl Director: David Fincher Starring: Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris, Tyler Perry Synopsis: With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.

The battle of the sexes takes a decidedly different turn in INTRODUCING THE DWIGHTS, and so when I talked with its star, Brenda Blethyn, and its director, Cherie Nowlan on June 25, 2007, how men and women react to the film was top of my list of things to ask them.

In her second such turn of the year in a distaff ensemble film (both written and directed by men; the other, Casa de Los Babys, also with Gyllenhaal), Marcia Gay Harden appears as some sort of fruitcake and walks away with the film as the most interesting fabrication in director Mike Newell's dyspeptic fabulism.

No Luca Guadagnino or Steven Spielberg for Best Director The story of Best Director turned into the crowning of two incredible debut directors who aren't white men — Greta Gerwig and Jordan Peele.

Director Eli Roth's sexy new thriller, «Knock Knock,» turns a married man's dark fantasy into his worst nightmare.

Turns out being a good director with a good script is far better than whether or not Butt Plug Man has the right dildo attached to his forehead, or if they used the same origin story for Captain Fuck - all as they did in issue # 12 of the Dan * makes a fart noise * comic run.

Director Shohei Imamura turns this fact - based story — about the seventy - eight - day killing spree of a remorseless man from a devoutly Catholic family — into a cold, perverse, and at times diabolically funny examination of the primitive coexisting with the modern.

Earning a Best Actor nomination for Colin Firth, A Single Man also established Ford as an actor's director and helped in turn attract the likes of two of Hollywood's finest, Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams, for his latest feature, Nocturnal Animals.

Director: Ciro Guerra With his fourth feature «Birds of Passage,» Colombian director Ciro Guerra moves beyond the black - and - white mystical elegance of Oscar - nominated «Embrace of the Serpent» and into a wide - screen color genre movie about a man who turns to marijuana farming in order to impress his would - be bride's demanding matriarch from a northern ColombiaDirector: Ciro Guerra With his fourth feature «Birds of Passage,» Colombian director Ciro Guerra moves beyond the black - and - white mystical elegance of Oscar - nominated «Embrace of the Serpent» and into a wide - screen color genre movie about a man who turns to marijuana farming in order to impress his would - be bride's demanding matriarch from a northern Colombiadirector Ciro Guerra moves beyond the black - and - white mystical elegance of Oscar - nominated «Embrace of the Serpent» and into a wide - screen color genre movie about a man who turns to marijuana farming in order to impress his would - be bride's demanding matriarch from a northern Colombian tribe.

While everyone was gasping over THE SIXTH SENSE, writer - turned - director David Koepp quietly delivered a chilling adaptation of Richard (I am Legend) Matheson's novel A Stir of Echoes, in which a man who begins to see ghosts after being hypnotized at a party.

Reynolds mugs effectively in his fat suit (especially in his lip - sync of All -4-One's «I Swear,» positioned by director Roger Kumble to be the film's bookends), but Chris» transformation from «dweeb» to Reynolds» trademark slick asshole is strictly a movie «reality,» and Chris» reactions to plot turns are the gestures of an insane man, an idiot, or both.

Just like that, director David Mackenzie establishes, first, the idea that the men in that blue Camaro are up to no good; second, the current of economic desperation driving screenwriter Taylor Sheridan's story; and third, the religious posturing that offers an alternative to existential despair, with roadside churches, TV evangelists, and Christian radio offering a relentless white - noise stream of piety on demand to an American underclass with nowhere left to turn.

The sequel shares a director with Keanu Reeves» instant cult classic about a bad, bad man who kills a whole bunch of even worse men to get vengeance for a very good dog, although stuntman - turned - auteur David Leitch's co-direction of John Wick was uncredited.

I honestly didn't anticipate the Best Director award for well - regarded Iranian photographer - turned - filmmaker Shirin Neshat (for her debut feature «Women Without Men»), not least because it was one of the Competition titles I missed and I didn't hear much talk about it on the Lido.

Another unlikely older man - teen friendship forms the core of actor - turned - director Matthew Lillard «s first effort, «Fat Kid Rules the World,» starring Jacob Wysocki from «Terri.»

As a matter of fact, it is quite a competent movie all around, with the actors, director (Pakula, All the President's Men), and screenwriter (Pierson, Cool Hand Luke) all turning in A-grade work., except for John Williams (The Witches of Eastwick, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom) annoying and repetitive score.

Yes, Spaihts and director Morten Tyldum turn Jim's essentially murderous act (Another character even agrees with this assessment, only to dismiss it with the shaky metaphor of a drowning man pulling an innocent person under with him) into fodder for a discomforting romance.

The image turns to colour, and a young man bursts into the scene, thrusting the accusation to the director of the film - within - the - film (the nurse and her patient).

A sexy summer weekend turns into a blood - soaked nightmare for a group of college students trapped on an island surrounded by voracious underwater predators in Shark Night 3D, a terrifying thrill ride from director David Ellis («The Final Destination», «Snakes On a Plane»), featuring a red - hot young cast including Sara Paxton («Superhero Movie»,» Last House on the Left»), Dustin Milligan («90210,» «Slither»), Chris Carmack («The O.C.»), Joel David Moore («Avatar»), Chris Zylka («The Amazing Spider Man») and Katharine McPhee («The House Bunny»).

Yet for some reason, a similar rumour never leaked out about The Money Pit despite the ever - diminishing pedigree of actor - turned - director Richard Benjamin, the man responsible for My Stepmother Is An Alien, Milk Money, and The Shrink Is In, to name a few.

Ryan O'Neal (dressed to channel Harold Lloyd) plays bumbling lawyer - turned - film director Leo Harrigan, just a guy who quite literally stumbles into the film industry and inherits an entire film company in the middle nowhere, and Burt Reynolds is the Florida rube hired to shut them down who ends up their leading man.

Julie Taymor, the director of the Broadway musical «Spider - Man: Turn Off the Dark», has admitted that the production is «not quite there».