Sentences with phrase «playing evil women»

Not exact matches

For example, Shurlock told me of his experience with George Cukor's Two - Faced Woman (1941), in which Greta Garbo played twin sisters, one evil and one good.

Mine, for example is a play on the 1950's movie «Attack of the 50 foot Woman» while taking a poke at the Mormon practice of wearing «magic undergarments» to protect them from evil.

In that movie, Bela Lugosi plays an evil sorcerer who promises to turn a woman into a zombie so that her spurned lover can control her forever, presumably as a mindless sex servant.

Gershon is the only woman in the movie who plays any kind of active role in the story, and hers is both tiny and evil.

«Alexander» begins with Olympias (his mother, played impressively by Angelina Jolie) doting on her little son that soon begins to take on an incestuous and almost evil shape with the woman teaching the little boy how to handle snakes.

by Walter Chaw Three short films about three women and the men who mistreat them, Rebecca Miller's DV triptych Personal Velocity: Three Portraits is a fine - looking film that plays a little like Catherine Breillat - lite — a series of iterations of Yeats's «Leda and the Swan» that suggest the evil that men do to women only makes women stronger.

Adapting (loosely) Steve Gerber's foul - mouthed mallard of the same name, the film sees Howard, a Duck from a duck world, transported to our human world to fight off an inter-dimensional evil and, along they way, fall in love with a beautiful woman played by «Back to the Future's» Lea Thompson.

Jenkins and co present a wealth of awesome women, of course (Lucy Davis is great, as are many Amazonians played by Connie Nielsen, Robin Wright, and Lisa Loven Kongsli as well as Elena Anaya's evil Dr. Maru), but there's also juicy roles for Danny Huston, David Thewlis, and Ewen Bremner.

Horror icon Boris Karloff — who had already played Frankenstein's Monster the year before — played Imhotep, an evil ancient Egyptian priest who rises from the dead when his grave is disturbed and pursues a woman whom he believes is the reincarnation of his ancient love.

Meiko Kaji plays the evangelical Scorpion, who functions more like a symbolic angel of death in the face of men who are evil to women.

While the Fuhrer and Mein Kampf play integral parts, illustrating the use of words for evil, the emphasis is on the struggle of the common man (and woman) to do the right thing in a dangerous environment.

These three daring young women will play their parts in the war to defeat evil and save the human race.

Ain't I A Woman (Keri), 2009, pairs Thomas» finished portrait with a behind - the - scenes video of the titular figure bending over, curving her back, and pouting her lips while Eartha Kitt's «I Want to Be Evil» plays in the background.

«Tiempo de brujas» or «Witch Time» consists in a series of allegoric and surrealist portraits of women that express Sara Sanz fascination with dualities characteristic of her artistic production, between the naïve and the evil, the friendly and the sinister, in this case highlighting the dichotomy between magic and the demonic aspect inherent in witchcraft and playing with the prejudices connected to it.