Sentences with phrase «playing psychotic»

Besides, did The Return of Jafar have Gary Oldman playing a psychotic peacock?

The film boasts an amazing cast — Casey Affleck who can do no wrong playing a psychotic creep; Rooney Mara who has proved herself a solid versatile actor and desperately needs to shrug off the lingering Goth image festering from the wretched Dragon Tattoo film; and a slew of excellent character actors who I adore, Ben Foster and Keith Carradine among them.

Both aspects are painfully relevant to that character, though, and the way poor Richard Cabral is stuck playing the psychotic minority is a nice distillation of how this film mishandles its tone.

In this thriller, Humphrey Bogart plays a psychotic artist who secretly poisons his wife after falling in love with another woman.

In Dressed to Kill, Michael Caine, the sexy, badass man's man from Get Carter and Alfie, plays a psychotic psychiatrist struggling with gender identity, while Angie Dickinson (and her body double), a star known for sexual allure rather than genuine acting prowess, wryly plays a middle - aged housewife bored with her life, who goes cruising in an art museum and ends up with a stranger going down on her in a taxi cab before getting sliced to ribbons.

The only one with any juice is Vincent Cassel, but he can play a psychotic thug in his sleep.

Not exact matches

Seeing a parent go psychotic cheering for their kid isn't a new idea if you've every played or watched sports.

Some psychologists believe that the football match may have resulted in the throes of some sort of «psychotic break» and the inability to cease play in the match is a very worrying sign.

«Our findings suggest that glycine abnormalities may play a role in the earliest phases of psychotic disorders,» said Dr. Öngür.

But scientists from the Julius - Maximilians - University of Wuerzburg in Germany have zeroed in on one mutation of a gene on chromosome 22 that appears to play an important role in catatonic schizophreniaa particularly severe form of the disease characterized by acute psychotic breaks and disturbed body movements.

While less well established than dopamine, it is also likely that glutamatergic dysfunction also plays a role in psychotic disease.

Jason Bateman plays the everyman (ya know - the Ed Helms - role), who's lorded over by psychotic Kevin Spacey, who manages to make the other horrible boss he played, Buddy from SWIMMING WITH SHARKS, look almost saintly by comparison.

You play as a goat doing impossible crap that not even a psychotic human being could accomplish.

And instead of having an aura of peace, Mr. Popper is played by Jim Carrey, who is as peaceful as a psychotic episode.

Playing something of a cipher who reinvents himself as the occasion demands, Wood is unusually well cast, but it's Hunnam, with a psychotic twinkle in his eye, who turns the movie on whenever he's onscreen.

Charlize Theron plays a mercenary tasked with chaperoning a busload of women through the wasteland, with only the Road Warrior standing between her and a tribe of psychotic petrolhead cannibals.

In Seven Psychopaths, he shockingly played the least psychotic of the bunch — a sage, sensible old man who attempts to go on living after his wife, the love of his life, passes on.

So the leader, Eddie (Billy Burke), the frosted - tipped and morally conflicted Sam (Levi Meaden), the psychotic Duncan (Richard Cabral) and the ex-military Peter (Mark Furze) decide that the best course of action is to kidnap the kids, hunt down the mom and play it by ear as to whether or not to kill them.

So their leader Eddie (Billy Burke), the frosted - tipped and morally conflicted Sam (Levi Meaden), the psychotic Duncan (Richard Cabral) and the ex-military Peter (Mark Furze) decide that the best course of action is to kidnap the kids, hunt down the mom and play it by ear as to whether or not to kill them.

Oddly, the film's satire of local news plays better than most of the divine stuff, with pod people broadcasters (including a faux - ethnic newswoman about as Hispanic as Davy Crockett) covering borderline psychotics in soullessly cheerful puff pieces.

MacLaine and Hepburn play the proprietors of a prestigious all - girls school who are forced to close when an especially psychotic little brat claims she saw them kissing.

And then, just over a year after the lights went out in that beloved Boston bar, Harrelson played a shorn and psychotic mass murderer in Oliver Stone's satirical and violent Natural Born Killers.

His new partner in the movie is played by Bruce Dern, who distinguished himself in all sorts of character roles, usually as a psychotic, before finally graduating to leads.

But there the quartet is, Boyle and the men who respectively played Renton, Sickboy and Spud (Robert Carlyle, the actor who gave life to the psychotic Begbie, is still back in the U.K. working), joking with each other as if the last 20 - plus years had never happened.

After Lloyd reveals that he was «just playing» with Harry (he's clearly psychotic but nothing's physically wrong with him), Harry discovers a long - lost postcard.

Gallons of 8 - bit blood spill in Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number, an action game where you play as a psychotic killer that must figure out the most efficient way to wipe out everyone on a level.

The only thing they're playing is monkey - turd insane in a film whose premise encompasses a face - transplant that transforms a noble FBI agent into a psychotic terrorist - for - hire (and vice versa), not to mention a gun battle set to «Somewhere Over the Rainbow» and an escape sequence that hinges on the visual gag of our hero repeatedly losing his shoes.

Skyfall (2012) Bardem — playing Raoul Silva, a psychotic cyber-terrorist intent on taking down James Bond in Skyfall — may just be the franchise's all - time best villain.

Making Igor his righthand man, Victor's playing - God project starts badly when he brings to life a psychotic rampaging monkey - monster stitched together from pieces filched from zoos.

And he doesn't get much help from the rest of the ensemble, as Wiig looks bored, Owen Wilson is still just Owen Wilson, and Jason Sudeikis and Kate McKinnon lay two distinctly rotten eggs — the former playing the world's worst hitman and the latter David's psychotic country bumpkin fiancée.

Set on Halloween night in the 1970s, the film finds a group of psychotic clowns capturing unsuspecting people and forcing them to play deadly carnival games.

The setup and structure of the plot is no different from most other cop films of the period, with a psychotic bad guy (a forger played by Willem Dafoe) being chased by a cop (William Petersen, the CSI guy) who doesn't play by the rules (or «laws» as we call them), out to get him not merely because it's his job, but because this time it's personal (seems Dafoe killed Petersen's partner, mere days before his retirement!).

The oldest brother (Fuller's ever - constant Griff, played by Barry Sullivan) also manages to start a feud with Stanwyck's little brother, who's rather psychotic.

Needless to say both modes are fun and competitive play is downright nasty but equally delicious which is probably why the Director loves this psychotic circus so much.

Given the demands placed on the actors, it would have been surprising if at least some of them hadn't been in as much a state of revolt as Fitzgerald, the surly and psychotic fur trapper played here by Tom Hardy.

The cast tries heroically to infuse meaning into vague, unfocused lines, and there is a last act appearance by a psychotic recluse (played by Betty Buckley) that changes the entire tone into something akin to a backwoods exploitation effort.

Lee Geum - Ja (as played by the excellent Lee Young Ae) has a complex disposition and is portrayed as kind hearted and generous and brutal and psychotic (sometimes, in the same scene).

Playing the dorky / psychotic father of Hit Girl, he really shines in a comedic role played completely straight.

Uncle Frank also has a henchman who (since everyone is related in this movie) is a younger brother with brain damage, a psychotic named Bobby played by Jake Busey, who's now getting roles his dad used to get.

If you enjoyed the inert, slightly off - brand version of an Adam McKay - Will Ferrell comedy in the first film — and you're not the kind of person to be put off by Mel Gibson's documented history of psychotic behavior being played once again for cuddly laughs — chances are you won't mind taking an eggnog nap while it plays on TBS someday.

Madec essentially feels like a more psychotic update on Wall Street's Gordon Gekko, and Douglas appears happy to get to play such a vivid personality.

Corey gives an astonishing performance here as the psychotic vengeance - seeker — playing the character not as the usual cold - blooded, relentless Lee Marvin or Jack Palance type, but as someone you'd probably trust.

A motif in which Gunther, having taken a new victim, plays a round of Russian roulette before quivering his lips in expectation, murmuring «So be it» and putting out one more «Apartment for Rent» sign, gives his madness some psychotic structure and provides a neat hook for Kinski to hang his nervous performance on.

She plays the group's leader, but according to the first reviews plot and character aren't of as much importance as the interplay between actual dance numbers and psychotic freak outs.

Also, Skyler Gisondo and Steele Stebbins do strong work as bickering siblings with Gisondo playing a hyper - sensitive teenager with more journals than one could image and Stebbins playing his tough - minded and possibly psychotic little brother.

At its best, the film has some of the hallucinatory power that gives the play an eternal aura of mystery, like Nicolas Winding Refn's psychotic Viking epic Valhalla Rising, but with words.

In the 60 years since, the genders have changed, and the degree of sexual interest, too, from the spurned psychotic single woman (Play Misty for Me, Fatal Attraction) to the parasitic bi-curious battening of Jennifer Jason Leigh on Bridget Fonda in Single White Female.

INSTINCT is a cross between GORILLAS IN THE MIST and SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, with Hopkins once again playing a seemingly omnipotent and dangerous psychotic.

I disagree about Fight Club being shut out — Pitt's character plays like a psychotic frat boy — and Edward Norton has been better elsewhere as well as Carter.

In this tragic misfire, the My Big Fat Greek Wedding star plays a patently psychotic florist whose strict five - date system blows up in her face in the wake of a fling with a charming, down - to - earth restauranteur (John Corbett, her co-star from Greek Wedding).