Sentences with phrase «pass as a movie star»

Handsome enough to pass as a movie star, Henry was offered any number of film and television assignments upon his retirement from the gridiron.

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This is the auteur's second project to utilize the real - life passing of time as a storytelling device, following his Before series (whose latest entry, Before Midnight, was my favorite film of 2013), a trio of romance movies separated by 9 years each starring Hawke and Julie Delpy.

DC Films actor Ben Affleck was approached to direct the Flashpoint movie (starring Ezra Miller as Barry Allen), but passed on the project.

Give»em sunglasses, call them movie people and pass them off as Hollywood types on a «location scout» for a «Star Wars» ripoff, a sci - fi picture set in the desert.

However, with what's there, they do get good use out of the stars, with Harrison Ford (Ender's Game) and Arnold Schwarzenegger (Sabotage) recurring throughout the movie just enough to keep their effort above a cameo, and Antonio Banderas gets some good laughs in a comic relief role as the fighter who is always passed over, but really wants to be back in the fold.

In the summertime, the only films you could see in approximately 99 % of British cinemas were Moonraker, The Champ, Battlestar Galactica and Pete's Dragon; as the autumn set in, you could see only Alienand The Bitch (which movie symbolises with truly hideous perfection just how seedy and sleazy a pass British films have come to); currently, Star Trek and Meteor crowd»em in.

Reuniting with his «Fruitvale Station» star Michael B. Jordan, Coogler has created an energizing addition to the «Rocky» series that doesn't just succeed as a respectful passing of the torch, but as one of the best «Rocky» movies ever made.

A 2017 trend that stands out to me only now, as we usher in a new season — a new generation — of movies, is the passing of the baton from one Hollywood generation to the next: from the allegedly retiring Daniel Day - Lewis to Vicky Krieps, a relative unknown for American audiences, in Phantom Thread; from the indispensably familiar Willem Dafoe to the fast - rising and tenacious Caleb Landry Jones and Brooklynn Prince in The Florida Project; from the late Carrie Fisher, America's one true franchise queen, to a bustling new generation of Star Wars stars — and fans.

The movie world lost a true great when Bill Paxton suddenly passed away in early 2017, and while he'll be remembered as a legend among character actors, he also directed (and stars in) this this dark, fascinating, and wonderfully twisted occult thriller.

All About Eve Year: 1950 Directed by: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Starring: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Thelma Ritter, Marilyn Monroe Why it's essential: This movie used to get brushed off as essential for gay audiences, and while it does pretty much function as the Gay Bible — in that there's a lot of fascinating history and memorable one - liners, but too few people are actually familiar with the text — we've long passed the point where it's acceptable to think of All About Eve as anything less than a cinematic classic.

Among them, we find stars like Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, the above - mentioned Johnny Depp, comedian Louis C.K, whose movie «I Love You Daddy» was canceled, and the list will likely grow further as time passes.

And then as the days, weeks, months and even years passed fans came to the realisation that it just wasn't just a bad Star Wars movie, but a bad movie in general.