Sentences with phrase «oddest film star»

Olly Richards meets Britain's oddest film star.

Not exact matches

Eklund, on the heels of a controversial, year - long stint in California as an adult film star under the name Tag Eriksson, got to work taking odd jobs and hawking paninis outside the set of David Letterman's Late Show.

Edgerton soon began scoring starring roles, headlining the disappointing 2011 remake of The Thing, starring opposite Jennifer Garner in the family film The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012) and playing a predominate role in the Academy Award - nominated Zero Dark Thirty (2012).

The best of the odd - numbered Star Trek films, Insurrection doesn't boast nasty villains or terrible dangers but plays like a great extended TV episode, with a compelling plot that works as a smart political commentary on Western imperialism.

Fernandez felt grateful for the opportunity, but reportedly hated the job itself so much that he hearkened off for the greener pastures of acting.Fernandez landed his first formal acting assignments as a guest star on episodes of the network series Cold Case and Jericho in 2006 and 2007, but truly came into his own as a star of low - medium budgeted independent films such as director Marc - Andre Samson's taut thriller Interstate (2006)(as a young man trying desperately to reach his girlfriend in Los Angeles, but waylaid by drugs and the trappings of an odd motel), and directors Lucky McKee and Trygve Diesen's violent psychological thriller Red (as a disturbed young man who plays the role of accomplice in killing a senior citizen's dog).

Starring Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling as an odd couple of private detectives, the film sees them embroiled in a mystery involving porn, catalytic converters and kids too smart for their own good.

Extras include a six - minute behind - the - scenes featurette whose highlight is star Wilson suiting up for a pre-production supersonic flight; seven deleted or extended scenes — among them odd alternate opening and closing title sequences — with optional commentary from director Moore and editor Paul Martin Smith — these trims carry a viewer discretion warning, for they would've threatened the film's PG - 13 rating; a fantastic, largely CGI pre-visualization (with, again, optional Moore / Smith commentary) of the virtuoso ejection set piece that at times gives Final Fantasy a run for its money; the teaser trailer for Spielberg's upcoming Minority Report; and two engrossing full - length commentaries, one by Moore and Smith, the other producer John Davis and executive producer Wyck Godfrey.

Despite all the famous character actor faces in The Odd Life of Timothy Green (Jennifer Garner, Joel Edgerton, Diane Wiest, M. Emmet Walsh, David Morse, Common...), the true star of the film is, perhaps not surprisingly, the titular twelve - year - old boy...

Directed by Joe Dante (Gremlins, The «Burbs), the film stars Anton Yelchin (Fright Night, Star Trek, Odd Thomas), Ashley Greene (Twilight), Alexandra Daddario (Leatherface) and Oliver Cooper (Project X), and is available on DVD August 4, 2015.

Katherine Heigl («27 Dresses,» «Knocked Up»), Rosario Dawson (the «Sin City» films) and Geoff Stults (TV's «The Odd Couple»), star in the film.

Frequent Coen Brothers collaborator John Goodman stars in the film with another odd haircut.

Starring: James McAvoy, Rosario Dawson, Vincent Cassel Directed by: Danny Boyle Written By: Joe Ahearne, John Hodge Rating: R (US) Running Time: 1 hr 41 min Two Pence: Tonally, this film is odd, it's on the same sort of leve...

Mathieu Amalric, Jodie Foster, James Franco and Guillaume Canet are among the actors - turned - directors who've had films featured at the festival in recent years, and it could be that their ranks are joined this time around by Ryan Gosling — the star, who featured at the festival in «Drive» and «Only God Forgives,» has stepped behind the camera for odd fable «How To Catch A Monster,» and it could well be a dark horse to feature somewhere in the lineup.

Extras include an illustrated paper foldout on the film including informative text and an essay by novelist Megan Abbott, New interviews with Coppola, DP Ed Lachman, actors Kirsten Dunst and Josh Hartnett, author Jeffrey Eugenides, and writer Tavi Gevinson, The Making of «The Virgin Suicides» (1998 documentary directed by Eleanor Coppola) featuring Sofia Coppola; Eleanor and Francis Ford Coppola; actors Dunst, Hartnett, Scott Glenn, Kathleen Turner, and James Woods; Eugenides; and more, Lick the Star, a 1998 short film by Coppola, the official (and odd) music video for Air's soundtrack song «Playground Love,» directed and shot by Coppola and her brother Roman Coppola and an Original Theatrical Trailer.

Wes Anderson «s «Moonrise Kingdom» seems like an odd choice to open the 65th Cannes Film Festival, with its deadpan Americanism, retro - set timeline and movie - star cast; at the same time, Anderson is clearly influenced by the New Wave, both cinematically and personally, he's a distinctive authorial voice as a director (which is the essence of auteur theory) and while his films are defined by near - silent moments of comedy and human frailty, there's also something mournful and wounded about them.

Winning their odd version of drawing straws, one of them (Michelle Pfeiffer), named Lamia for the film, gets to temporarily restore herself to a more presentable state in order to pursue the star with a minimum of magic.

I wasn't expecting a last - minute twist of the sort that he painted himself into a corner with years ago, but in fact the film concludes with something decidedly odder — a throwaway coda in which a former Shyamalan star ruefully turns up to acknowledge an allusion to one of MNS's earlier movies.

Paramount Pictures just released the latest movie trailer for the upcoming film «The Fighter» by director David O. Russell (I Heart Huckabees, Three Kings) and starring Christian Bale (The Dark Knight, Terminator Salvation), Mark Wahlberg (The Odd Life of Timothy Green, The Other Guys) and Amy Adams (Janis Joplin: Get It While You Can, Leap Year).

The setup in the video is slightly odd — Mitchell seems to have been held at gunpoint against a wall and forced to give a monologue — but the director has a number of interesting things to say, particularly on the contrast between working with stars like Kidman and the less seasoned players of his last film, «Shortbus.»

In the 15 - odd years since he started acting — on a whim after seeing a flyer for a sketch comedy group while walking across his college campus — he's starred in a long - running, much - beloved network sitcom, landed supporting roles alongside some of Hollywood's heaviest hitters, become a bona fide leading man in an action film, and donned both a writer's and director's hat.

THE DISASTER ARTIST: The real life story of writer - director Tommy Wiseau (James Franco, director - star), the man behind «The Room» — often referred to as «The Citizen Kane of Bad Movies» — is brought to life, chronicling the odd film's troubled development and eventual cult success.

The Rosie Effect By Graeme Simsion Simon & Schuster • $ 15.95 • ISBN 9781476767321 This sequel to Simsion's 2013 hit The Rosie Project (which is set to be adapted to film with Jennifer Lawrence in the starring role) follows odd couple Rosie and Don to New York City as they begin married life — and await the birth of their first child.