Sentences with phrase «ostensible lead»

Ostensible lead Ethan Chandler had already settled into a funk, and with the introduction of two new characters it felt like Penny Dreadful was still clearing its throat before getting on with the good stuff.

Jack Nicholson, already a two - time Academy Award winner (he'd later collect a third trophy in the 1990s), was paid a king's ransom for the role (his cut of the film's profits ran to an estimated $ 50 million) and received top billing above the movie's ostensible lead Michael Keaton.

Nolan seems to think the Wally Pfister photography can sell any scene, whether it's one of the most boring chase sequences in a big budget film (but it's at twilight and Pfister makes it look great) or if it's ostensible lead Christian Bale and his romantic interest, Marion Cotillard, letting the rainy afternoon bring out their passions.

If Friedkin gave his ostensible leads any direction, though, it doesn't show, as both Brown and Lowell deliver white - bread performances.

When a movie begins with the killing of its ostensible leading man (Burt Lancaster in his debut movie role as Ole Andreson), you know you aren't on a sentimental journey that ends happily.

Along with Brie, who after her roles in Community and Mad Men has long deserved a chance to take the wheel as the ostensible lead, GLOW welcomes another Nurse Jackie alum in Betty Gilpin, who lent Starz's American Gods a few memorable moments in season 1.

Gerard Butler is the ostensible lead as One Two, a freelance street thug and member of the loose brotherhood «The Wild Bunch» but in the scheme of things he's just one part of an ensemble lorded over by crime boss Tom Wilkinson and explained by narrator Mark Strong, who plays his right - hand man Archy.

Brie Larson holds nothing back as the ostensible lead.

With Haley and Wilson the ostensible leads, it works out all right.

But while Pitt is the ostensible lead, Lerman is our eyes and ears, raising a role that begins in formula to something much, much more.

Charisma - challenged Patrick O'Neal is the ostensible leading man here, playing a career Navy officer coerced into joining a covert private team and go behind the Iron Curtain to retrieve a diplomatically dangerous letter, but in the scheme of things he's just another player in a big, messy, tangled ensemble piece.

But what this ultimately means is Mercer sits out many of the action scenes, and so despite being the ostensible lead, rather struggles to make herself relevant to the story in its latter stages.

Amid the kerfuffle over the generally baffling awards given by the jury headed by George Miller at last year's Cannes Film Festival, a fair bit of attention was paid to the award for Best Actress, which was given to Jaclyn Jose, the ostensible lead of Ma» Rosa, the film directed by Filipino director Brillante Mendoza.