Sentences with phrase «parts in films like»

Four years later, he again stole the show as Bill Lumbergh in «Office Space,» and although it helped to buy him comic cred and parts in films like «Dodgeball,» «Talladega Nights» and «Pineapple Express,» he still remains a well - kept secret from the general public.

Waterston, the daughter of «Law & Order» star Sam, is generally better known for her stage work (though she has had small parts in films like «Being Flynn» and «Michael Clayton»), but even given that she shares almost all her screen time with the great Joaquin Phoenix, Waterston owns every second in which she appears.

Following secondary to miniscule parts in films like Sleep With Me, Amateur, and Mixed Nuts (all 1994), Posey had her breakthrough role as the titular heroine of Daisy von Scherler Mayer's Party Girl in 1995.

The portly, leprechaunish O'Malley essayed on - camera character parts in films like Witness for the Prosecution (1957) and Mary Poppins (1965).

Not exact matches

While major production companies and distributors, à la Disney, typically get most of the credit for the success of Hollywood films, there are dozens of independently run startups like Rodeo that contribute in no small part to the success of projects, and without which these films would not look as glossy as they do.

The algorithm is part of what's known as electronic image stabilization, a type of video processing that can help smooth the jerkiness in videos even when filmed in an unsteady environment, like from a dirt bike cruising down a bumpy trail.

Much like trolls» attempts to affect Black Panther «s status as a critical darling, the Twitter posts describing fake attacks at movie screenings also seemed to be part of a racist campaign meant to scare people away from theaters in order to hurt the film's overall box - office gross (again, a major fail).

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But Tahir built up his chops by acting in plays while waiting for film and television roles to trickle in, and turning down parts when they felt too much like typecasting.

While classification freed directors to use explicit language in marvelous films like Platoon and Something Wild and has allowed films like Out of Africa and Children of a Lesser God to explore the complex nature of human sexuality, it has also given us a series of slasher films — Friday the 13th, with its many parts; The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, parts one and two — and films like Brian DePalma's artistically significant but deplorably explicit Body Double.

Dinish is well at home with the GOP crowd «For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre» (ps.5: 9), but God is «not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness» (ps.5: 5) and so although Dinish and by extension the GOP don't care who they hurt with their lies and behind the scenes dirty tactics like that silly film, they are cautioned not to include the name of God in their wickedness.

This is part of the things we are trying to do in Kenya, using the parliament to be able to pass certain policies like the film policy.

If you're somewhere in between, i.e., someone who kinda, sorta likes the films rather than loves them, you'll probably find this one to be only sporadically amusing, but will also think that tedium is now going to be an ingrained part of the series.

Like «Part 1», «Part 2» was filmed in 2D, but in this case the effects (and some 200 shots) were completed in 3D.

Usually, a real film aficionado can spot dozens of these quotes / homages, but they are woven into his films in such a way that the change of context makes them feel not like rip - offs, but fresh, integral parts of a completely new story.

Though the theme of resentment plays a big part in the film, Tom's emotional transformation is taken a little too far, to the point that you're not even sure if you like the main characters anymore.

Perhaps its unexpected box office success can be attributed in part to the popular reaction against an entertainment industry whose laser - like concentration is on big - budget franchise and sequel films.

I can't say, therefore, that the book is better than the film or vice versa, but given the vistas captured by Caroline Champetier in widescreen lensing, we get at least as good an idea what of farm like was like in Europe during the early part of the 20th Century.

A film that's easier to admire (at least in part) than actually like, but it's also a difficult film to ignore.

I argued that her roles in films like The Fifth Element, Stone and even her minuscule part in Zoolander

... This two - part, three and a half - hour film feels like a landmark, something that should be welcomed as warmly as the two Elvis books published in the 1990s by Peter Guralnick, Last Train to Memphis and Careless Love.

I was also very surprised at who bought it and when, and in a film like this, sometimes who gets killed is the best part.

I argued that her roles in films like The Fifth Element, Stone and even her minuscule part in Zoolander made up for all the bad.

Granted, the situation here just so happens to be the apocalypse but like that film it's all about choices, and how much of a part our basest instincts play in the decision making.

The standout performance of the film, however, goes to Dr. Ken Jeong, who has previously only played bit parts in Judd Apatow productions like Knocked Up, Step Brothers and Pineapple Express.

The coming years would find particular success for Pace in movies like A Single Man, Marmaduke, and When in Rome, not to mention franchise films like The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.

There's an element of grain in the image, though it's appealing to the eye and truthful to the nature of the film, which, like many gialli, derives its beauty in part from the opposition between lighting that appears to be found and that which is clearly and expressionistically contrived.

«Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1» (2010) Box Office Take: $ 960m 21st Century Box Office Ranking: 22 Like many of the titles that languish in the mid-table doldrums here, our issues with «Deathly Hallows Part 1» are similar to those of the «Hobbit» movies: its misshapenness is a factor of trying to spin too little material into too many films.

Harrison Ford has remarked that The Mosquito Coast is his personal favorite entry in his filmography, and though that does surprise given how many great films he's been a part of, it definitely isn't quite like any of his other films in terms of his performance.

Even so, his new film feels like an overflowing repository of ideas, a by - parts exhilarating and baffling mélange of melodrama and comedy that can leap from Greek mythology to rap music in a finger - snap.

He added, «I'm so proud to be a part of a time at the beginning of a movement where I feel like the best films in every genre are being brought to me by my fellow black directors.»

I think the best part of being an actor is that to me it feels like I've been in the best film school for the last twenty years because not only do I see the director work on set, I see how the producers work, I see how the DPs work, I see how the gaffers work, I see how the costume department works, I see how the production office works.

Noel: As much as it pains me to say it — in part because it sounds like sour grapes, and in part because it's almost too big a topic to tack onto this discussion — I think the rise of the OPs corresponds with the rapid decline of film criticism in the mainstream media.

In their attempt to give a woman a diverse part, they end up flipping the film back in the direction of the male character, by default, because human beings aren't interested in one - dimensional assholes like MaviIn their attempt to give a woman a diverse part, they end up flipping the film back in the direction of the male character, by default, because human beings aren't interested in one - dimensional assholes like Maviin the direction of the male character, by default, because human beings aren't interested in one - dimensional assholes like Maviin one - dimensional assholes like Mavis.

Goodman known mostly for scene stealing bit parts in Oscar winning pictures like «Argo» or «The Artist» is the real star of the film.

Female - led high - budget flicks like «Divergent,» «The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1» and «Maleficent» did very well at the box office, while directors Angelina Jolie and Ava DuVernay «s films, «Unbroken» and «Selma,» respectively, are accumulating Oscar buzz as awards season is already in full swing.

Using cars that are exactly like their real - life counterparts in the film, you get to take part in Bucket List encounters, Showcases and a variety of game modes from Forza Horizon 2.

The way it was going, I really loved Part 2 and then having it come later in the film — I feel like it could be a lot to digest.

I love the Hunger Games series — both the books and the films — but even I kinda gave Mockingjay, Part 1 some side - eye, because it really felt like the first part of a story, rather than a film in and of itsPart 1 some side - eye, because it really felt like the first part of a story, rather than a film in and of itspart of a story, rather than a film in and of itself.

In this series of interviews, the actors - alongside director Rian Johnson - open up about their roles in this fantastic franchise, the extraordinary sets and scenaries they were placed in during filming, and just what it's like to be part of such a well - loved worlIn this series of interviews, the actors - alongside director Rian Johnson - open up about their roles in this fantastic franchise, the extraordinary sets and scenaries they were placed in during filming, and just what it's like to be part of such a well - loved worlin this fantastic franchise, the extraordinary sets and scenaries they were placed in during filming, and just what it's like to be part of such a well - loved worlin during filming, and just what it's like to be part of such a well - loved world.

Part comedy - concert film, part documentary, Ahmed Ahmed's «Just Like Us,» opening in limited release Friday (6/10/11), is an enjoyably sprawling travelogue with a poPart comedy - concert film, part documentary, Ahmed Ahmed's «Just Like Us,» opening in limited release Friday (6/10/11), is an enjoyably sprawling travelogue with a popart documentary, Ahmed Ahmed's «Just Like Us,» opening in limited release Friday (6/10/11), is an enjoyably sprawling travelogue with a point.

Part of me feels like Stark should have taken the place of the absent Nick Fury in this film, more elder statesman than rival leader.

Like many of Rogen's other films, «Sausage Party» exists to poke fun at films in general with its meta - references and seeks to emphasize some sort of screwed up part of our psyches.

Like the first film, the story comes in predictable parts, only faster, since — like Katniss — we are already familiar with the procLike the first film, the story comes in predictable parts, only faster, since — like Katniss — we are already familiar with the proclike Katniss — we are already familiar with the process.

Like many of the cult films I've reviewed in the past, it's a film of interesting parts rather than a perfectly realised whole.

It's a distinct change of pace after the first section of the film, which is, I think, why I didn't like it as much the first time I saw it, but in fact this part of the story is well done and quite compelling.

The Hunger Games drags at times, is not particularly imaginative as much as it's campy, the romance part seems more perfunctory as touchy - feely love than steamy and any complexities in characters or angry revolutionary messages can't be drawn out on film like they were supposedly in the book (I'm not one of its 26 million readers, but I'll take the word of those who stated that was so in the book).

He doesn't, but the film is for the most part uninterested in treating this lore like sacred legend.

The end result is, like In Bruges, an entertainingly erratic effort that receives plenty of mileage out of the actors» stellar efforts and McDonagh's crisp dialogue, and it does seem like it's just a matter of time before McDonagh crafts a film that's more than just the sum of its parts.

Jason Sudeikis is almost dangerous in the film; he was my favorite part of Hall Pass for the same reason that I like him here, which is that he's kind of a douchebag.