Sentences with phrase «of familiar faces doing»

The movie - which follows an ambitious young reporter (Justin Timberlake's Josh Pollack) as he attempts to expose a den of corrupt cops and politicians - kicks off with a relatively exciting action sequence involving a botched bank heist, and it goes without saying that the impressive cavalcade of familiar faces does prove effective in initially holding one's interest.

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Of course, when familiar faces do start showing up, it's a blast.

But they come out of ownership and a realization that this must never happen again and if it does the Church, especially for the folks I'm familiar with, must never again stand by while injustice rears its ugly face.

Respond they did, and it was a familiar face with the crucial goal as Ronaldo bagged his 48th goal of the season in all competitions with a superb strike to break the deadlock.

Cuts are coming at a time when local government faces flat revenues: «We must also consider demographic demand - we do not need to go into the familiar argument of what an ageing population means - and the fact that recession leads to income being constrained from things such as tourism, and car parking and planning charges.

A familiar face around the corridors of the Houses of Parliament, he has done more than most to promote Israel's case to the Right of British politics.

After five minutes of a filler task that had nothing to do with faces, the participants were then given a surprise memory test in which they viewed faces and were asked to indicate whether a face was new or familiar from the earlier task.

It's happened to all of us at one time or another: You're walking through a crowd, and suddenly a face seems incredibly familiar — so much so that you do a double - take.

The researchers, led by Professor Outi Vainio at the University of Helsinki, tested dogs» spontaneous behavior towards images — if the dogs are not trained to recognize faces are they able to see faces in the images and do they naturally look at familiar and strange faces differently?

I'm sure we all know young couples who desperately want a baby but whose dreams are being dashed; endometriosis and polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) are familiar terms even if we don't really understand what they mean; IVF (Invitro Fertilisation) use has skyrocketed (one in 29 Australian children is now conceived by some assisted technology); young men now face the reality that their sperm might not be up to the task when finally asked to perform (sperm counts of healthy males have more than halved in the last 50 years).

If you've ever tried meditating — or anything remotely meditative, like a long run or sitting down to write — you're familiar with watching your to - do list unfurl, seeing thoughts buzz by begging to be tended to, even experiencing an unprecedented amount of itches on your face as you start to transition from your outer world to the inner one.

I also found myself faced with the all - too familiar Procrastination To Do List — you know, the one that sort of endlessly grows right before a trip, full of the things that you'll get to «once you get back,» which always feels blissfully far away.

• I recently read about turning blogging into a business in Crain's Chicago Business and found lots of familiar faces • Also did you check out this month's copy of CS Magazine?

Unlike Edwards, he did face accusations of improper behavior from people within the company, according to a person familiar with the situation, who asked not to be named because the matter is private.

With the exception of one phone - based relationship with a man in another state that never culminated in our meeting face - to - face (I later came to suspect he was married), I did meet and have several dates with funny, interesting, smart men — men I wouldn't have met in my limited, too - familiar social circle.

It had an undeniable charm to it often times and some familiar faces with the likes of David Oyelowo and Lupita Nyong «o. However, for the most part, it's nothing we haven't seen before (person has a dream of becoming great at something, person runs into many obstacles and challenges before they can do so, person becomes great.)

Reeves does a nice job of distancing himself from The Matrix trilogy by playing Constantine as an exceedingly grizzled figure (smart choice, given that the man can literally see demons), while the supporting cast is peppered with a host of familiar faces (Peter Stormare even pops up as Satan, delivering a flamboyant performance that's easily the highlight of the film).

(It also doesn't hurt that the supporting cast has been filled by an almost astonishing number of familiar faces, with Stanley Tucci's tremendously appealing turn as Olive's sarcastic yet compassionate father undoubtedly standing as a highlight.)

It's no easy task to find a fresh way to approach a familiar face, but D'Apolito does a wonderful job ushering us through the highs and lows of Gilda Radner's life.

Whenever a fresh or familiar face pops into view — like Christian's sweet, vivacious sister, Mia (pop singer Rita Ora), or their wise, imperious mother (Marcia Gay Harden)-- you long for the movie to follow that person somewhere, to grant us a change of scenery that doesn't involve Christian and Anastasia's stunning new dream house, or a conversation that doesn't devolve into deathly dull innuendo.

Sonic Riders doesn't boast too many tracks, nor does it have an online mode, which is a shame, but a bit of unique futuristic racing with familiar faces is what I'm after these days, and Sonic Riders delivers on that front hands down.

Other familiar faces soon show up too (making fans of the series chuckle with recognition and astonishment at what more than a decade will do to some people's appearance), including Vikcy Lathum (Reid), Heather (Suvari) and Chuck Sherman (Chris Owen), among others.

It's a beyond - talented cast, with plenty of other familiar faces popping in for a scene or two, plus a nice supporting turn from Romany Malco as Fey's over-involved doorman, but Michael McCullers» script and direction don't give them much room to work.

Meanwhile, speaking with AOL, Emily VanCamp revealed she doesn't think Sharon Carter will be among the almost - endless litany of familiar faces appearing in either Avengers 4 or Infinity War.

Longtime television familiar face Mary Page Keller is David's ex-wife and a Department of Defense virologist, which naturally does little to prevent her from accidentally infecting herself.

It's all about watching familiar faces together in big pyrotechnics and facets of humanity, so the crossover doesn't have to be a movie in its strictest sense.

Stand By Me also features a host of young and familiar faces, John Cusack and Kiefer Sutherland but the very best is Jerry O'Connell as Vernon «Vern» Tessio — if you don't know who he is, go IMDB him; he's not so chubby and nerdy now.

Without the familiar face of Rocky and the tone and spirit of that first film, I doubt many people would be this willing to give Adonis «Donny Creed» Johnson the benefit of the doubt as long as we do in this movie.

This has the beneficial side - effect of preventing Assayas from beating his familiar visual motifs even further to death than Boarding Gate — with its too - predictable image of LCD projectors colonizing Asia Argento's face with global karaoke culture, et al. — did.

Instead of our eyes popping at the candy - colored visuals and familiar faces (Zach Galifiankis and Michael Peña appear in extended cameos), we're left to wonder what any of this has to do with the eternal bond between father and daughter and how it worked as well as it did on the page.

Debut writer - director Chris Eigeman does an about - face here from the familiar, drily quipping lounge - lizard characters he made familiar in a series of Whit Stillman films (Metropolitan, Barcelona, The Last Days of Disco).

Thankfully, directing duo Josh Gordon and Will Speck (Blades of Glory, The Switch) toss in enough fresh faces doing creative caricatures that their familiar foils are given new personalities to play off of.

I do nt want to give them away, but you wont believe the familiar faces which turn up in this film and most of them are involved in strange jokes.

Aside from Peeta, Heavensbee and now Coin, Haymitch Abernathy (Woody Harrelson), Effie Trinket (Elizabeth Banks), Beetee (Jeffrey Wright), Gale (Liam Hemsworth), and several other familiar faces pop up — and get a lot more to do, since there's no actual battle ground keeping them out of the picture.

Ahead of the its release, fans were wondering if there would be a Logan post-credits scene and were picking apart rumors, wondering if we'd be seeing any other familiar faces beyond Logan and Patrick Stewart's Professor X. Well, it turns out that there's an extra scene at the beginning of the film that wasn't included in early press previews, and another Marvel character does appear in Logan... kind of.

Ben Whishaw returns as the voice of author Michael Bond's beloved ursine hero, as do many of the familiar faces who made up 2015's original film.

This is a dense, lengthy film with some familiar faces, but it does not have that quippy dialogue, science - fiction like pizazz to it, nor the fun music like a Guardians of the Galaxy does.

The story of a woman who wakes up from a coma to a life she doesn't recognize, but peopled with familiar faces... Read More»

Some of the more notable others in the group include familiar faces such as Katniss» soldier boy Gale (Liam Hemsworth showing more depth here, as does his character), hunky Games survivor Finnick (Sam Claflin) and the sometimes rage - fueled Peeta, a curious addition to the team, given his unstable state.

Attending to issues of diversity and fairness in assessment — including explanations of historical or political events, names in word problems, experts cited, and even details like the book covers students see when doing research projects — can help schools reconcile the mixed messages that surface when schools say that students need to be prepared for a diverse world while primarily exposing them to familiar names and faces (Hess & McAvoy, 2014; Popham, 2006).

There were nineteen of them, their names and faces so familiar to Izzy that she actually did think of them as her brothers and sisters, or, at the very least, as her extended family.

All too familiar with the painful decision of whether or not one can afford treatment, Charisa wanted to do something to help less fortunate pet owners faced with critical vet care that they can not afford.

If you're familiar with the height and shape of the different blows, and if the wind isn't too strong, and if you're facing the whale head on, sometimes you can tell exactly what sort of whale you're seeing even if you don't get a glimpse of the body or the dorsal fin or some other telltale sign.

- uses the real - life puzzle format to retell the story of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time in the space of one hour - puzzles involve doing math, deciphering glyphs and turning in worksheets to a cast of Zelda - themed taskmasters - instead of being a small experience hosting just half a dozen players, this is one big room where teams of 6 face off against dozens of other teams - one puzzle involves decoding words from a series of brain teasers and then using a key to pull out individual letters to decipher the next instruction - involves multiple familiar characters from the series

Yet Skyrim almost literally throws dragons in your face; as you progress through the storyline the amount of dragon attacks you'll face increases, until you begin to fight one or even two every hour or so, and that can somewhat ruin the epic feeling of doing battle with these badass fire - breathers, especially as each fight with them feels pretty familiar, requiring no real changes in tactics to defeat them.

You'll play as Serah, sister of XIII «s heroine, and encounter familiar faces and locations along your adventure, which is shorter than a typical Final Fantasy but does attempt to address some of people's complaints about the original, like its infamous linearity.

While there you will interact with the familiar faces of other campers, and do some of the same things that you're used to from previous Animal Crossing games.

3DClouds, an Italian indie developer doesn't have the luxury of banking on familiar faces for their title, All - Star Fruit Racing, as it is their debut title.

Since this is the final game players can expect to see familiar faces, Toriyama mentioned that we did see Snow in the trailer who is dark place mentally and emotionally in the game after the death of Serah at the end of XIII - 2.

Sonic didn't come alone though, the game also had a further five characters to play as, including familiar faces such as Tails, Knuckles and Amy Rose, alongside the new characters of Big the Cat and E-102 Gamma.