Sentences with phrase «plays as both a thriller»

In that sense, A Simple Plan is as traditional a morality play as a thriller can get, but Raimi has never been a director unwilling to splash about in the shallows; instead, the inevitability of the plot is his point — even the simplest of decisions carry whole worlds of consequence — and Raimi injects each emotional beat with unspeakable tragedy.

This very unique film plays as both a thriller and a comedy with loads of action and laughter throughout.

Though it doesn't play as a thriller (it's not trying to, particularly), «Kill Your Darlings» tells the tense, disturbing, sometimes - moving backstory of a few inspired and reckless geniuses who redrew the boundaries of literary expression.

Not exact matches

Yevhen Khacheridi (Dynamo Kyiv): Jackson Martinez had stolen all the headlines when Kyiv and Porto played out a goalscoring thriller in Portugal, but it was the defenders» turn this time around as Khacheridi was impassable over the ninety minutes thereby keeping his club's qualification hopes alive.

Watch all the goals from every Champions League match played on Tuesday evening as Chelsea edged out Sporting, Man City were held by Roma and PSG beat Barcelona in a five - goal thriller.

Part sci - fi thriller, part love story, Perfect Sense follows an improbable couple — a cocksure chef (played by Ewan McGregor) and a prickly epidemiologist (Eva Green)-- who fall for each other just as the disease strikes.

Both actors play a convincing cat - and - mouse game, with Franco offering a riveting courtroom testimony as the script transitions into more of a low - key legal thriller about redemption for each man.

As the audience follows the slow - moving battle, punctuated by threats, confrontations and shifting alliances, the Russian - born director sets a deathtrap that snaps in a breathtaking conclusion that plays like slow motion — not the thriller type; even better: a prolonged, torturous finish which is the logical culmination of an explicitly accepted philosophy.

Even though it ends in violence, Days of Heaven plays out not as a rural thriller but as a delicate study of character and landscape.

Even though it ends in violence, Days of Heaven plays out not as a rural thriller but as a delicate landscape and character study.

The Movie: The idea of George Clooney playing a (mostly) silent assassin holed up in the Italian countryside with gorgeous European women sounds like recipe for a solid dramatic experience, so why Focus Features is marketing «The American» as some sort of action thriller when in fact it's an arty European film, will throw some moviegoers off and just outright anger others.

Though Vanilla Sky's sometimes surreal trappings found the film receiving a mixed reception at the box office, the same could not be said for the following year's massively successful sci - fi chase film Minority Report, directed by Steven Spielberg, or of the historical epic The Last Samurai, directed by Edward Zwick.For his next film, Cruise picked a role unlike any he'd ever played; starring as a sociopathic hitman in the Michael Mann psychological thriller Collateral.

As the stakes escalate, Mark Perez's script still organically makes time for the characters» realities, like Max and Annie having trouble conceiving a child, without such story points feeling too forced, and plays on the expectations of thriller plot twists more than once.

Additionally, the arduous process of buying and selling property in New York is portrayed with such fine attention to detail, that it almost plays as a ticking clock thriller.

After playing a tough lawyer in the crime thriller Gang Related (1997), Crewson further displayed her ability to convey strength as Harrison Ford's undaunted First Lady in Wolfgang Petersen's summer blockbuster Air Force One (1997).

He proved ridiculously endearing as a grizzled, broken - down, beer - swilling little league coach with a marshmallow heart in The Bad News Bears (1976), and further expressed his comic persona in such comedies as 1993's Dennis the Menace, in which he played the cantankerous Mr. Wilson, and the romantic comedy I.Q. (1994), which cast him as Albert Einstein.Though many of his roles were of the comic variety, Matthau occasionally returned to his dramatic roots with ventures such as the crime thriller Charley Varrick (1973) and The Taking of Pelham 1, 2, 3 (1974).

Thus, it came as an unpleasant surprise when the veteran actor, out of sheer poverty one imagines, accepted to play Dr. Meinschultz, devouring a cat's eye in the 1934 exploitation thriller Maniac.

In contrast to the tonally exploitative, post-9 / 11 catastrophe smut of the Avengers tentpoles, the former plays as a clever espionage thriller built on political intrigue, disguised as a comic book movie.

After hearing about this online I was wondering how an all German language spy thriller could ever play out in North America, I would watch it but I know a lot of people who switch stations as soon as they see a sub come up witch is to bad.

Despite such ill - founded critical misgivings, Russo has continued to do strong work playing strong women: The acclaimed Get Shorty (1995) featured her as a B - movie actress, while she re-teamed with Gibson for Ron Howard's crime thriller Ransom (1996) and Lethal Weapon 4 (1998).

While the film touches upon its various political and cultural issues (In addition to the give - and - take relationships between reporters and politicians, there's a lot about the overt and subtle sexism that Kat receives as the first and, at the time, only woman serving a newspaper publisher), the film plays mostly and best as a race - against - the - clock thriller of sorts, in which the obstacles are as imposing as the might of the U.S. government and as low - key as deadlines or being beaten to a story by a rival paper.

He reportedly auditioned for a small part, and though the show's producers did not deem him right for the characterization, they felt so impressed by Eigenberg's presence that they created the character of Steve Brady especially for him, as an extension of his own personality; the plan, again, was to create a sincere, committed, down - to - earth male paramour to offset Miranda's (Cynthia Nixon) cynicism.Though initially intended as a temporary part, the popularity of the character among viewers (and Eigenberg's onscreen chemistry with Nixon) led to Eigenberg's permanent inclusion on the show, as well as subsuquent movies.Circa 2002, Eigenberg expanded into film roles by playing the business partner of Richard Gere in Mark Pellington's underrated supernatural thriller The Mothman Prophecies.

Starring opposite Gwyneth Paltrow, Northam won both critical praise and the distinction of being that year's thinking woman's luxury import.The following year, the actor played a supporting role in Steven Spielberg's Amistad and then went on to explore completely different territory with a turn as Mira Sorvino's husband in the big - budget giant cockroach thriller Mimic.

Kemp launched into print modeling as well, appearing in a widely seen campaign for The Gap, then segued into acting with parts in Stephen Sommers» Victorian - era supernatural thriller Van Helsing (2004) and Renny Harlin's lurid psychological thriller Mindhunters (2005), opposite Val Kilmer and LL Cool J. Kemp deftly merged his ballroom finesse and his dramatic evocations with prominent billing in Jon M. Chu's dance - themed urban drama Step Up 2 the Streets (2008); he played Blake Collins, the proprietor of a dance school who finds his chief proclivity — an utter contempt for street dancing — upstaged by the arrival of a brash and talented young newcomer at his school.

In subsequent years, the thespian played Willoughby in John Alexander's U.K. television miniseries Sense and Sensibility (2008), adapted from the novel by Jane Austen; cut against type as an imprisoned white - collar criminal in the Wyatt Brothers» thriller The Escapist (2008); and essayed a supporting role as Sky, Sophie's (Amanda Seyfried) fiancé, in Phyllida Lloyd's big - screen ABBA musical Mamma Mia!

Fernandez felt grateful for the opportunity, but reportedly hated the job itself so much that he hearkened off for the greener pastures of acting.Fernandez landed his first formal acting assignments as a guest star on episodes of the network series Cold Case and Jericho in 2006 and 2007, but truly came into his own as a star of low - medium budgeted independent films such as director Marc - Andre Samson's taut thriller Interstate (2006)(as a young man trying desperately to reach his girlfriend in Los Angeles, but waylaid by drugs and the trappings of an odd motel), and directors Lucky McKee and Trygve Diesen's violent psychological thriller Red (as a disturbed young man who plays the role of accomplice in killing a senior citizen's dog).

The portrait of Lincoln that Spielberg presents — in a film that often plays like a tense, high - spirited political thriller as influence is peddled behind the scenes and votes come down to the wire — will no doubt surprise viewers raised on a more staid version of the Great Man.

While the beginning of the film feels like it's setting the audience up for a somewhat boring lesson on drone warfare (I'm looking at you, Good Kill), Hood — still wiping the sting of X-Men Origins: Wolverine off with Ender's Game and now this — excellently threads the needle of tension and, before you know it, the thriller aspect of the film becomes abundantly clear as the series of events play out in semi-real time over the course of one day.

plays out as an absurdist chamber piece: a single - location thriller constructed out of tightly - observed social interactions.

Life Is a Dream is composed of a patchwork of episodes organized around two narrative threads: Ignacio's return to his hometown (spy thriller) and the French - language performance (ostensibly as recalled by Ignacio) of Calderón's play.

Some people might call this a clone of Paranormal Activity, except playing out as a thriller instead of a found - footage tape, and with aliens as the home invaders rather than evil spirits.

Masterful crime thriller starring Adrien Brody as a private eye hired to solve the mystery behind the suspicious 1959 death of actor George Reeves (Ben Affleck), who played Superman on TV.

Wormwood is assembled as a hallucinatory, psychologically penetrating collage and plays like a pulse - pounding thriller, a damning indictment of institutional malfeasance, and a chilling portrait of both self - destructive obsession and the elusiveness of truth.

Diane Kruger won the best actress prize at Cannes for her performance as a grieving wife and mother in Fatih Akin's In the Fade (Germany, 2017, with subtitles, R), an intimate thriller that plays out against the culture of white nationalism in Germany.

I use the term «thriller» in the generic sense, as this plays out more like a Jean - Pierre Melville portrait of isolated underworld professionals, freelancers in the international network of criminal enterprise.

He had played so many villains that he was able to spoof himself as Max Shady in the comedic thriller parody Fatal Instinct.

2003 saw him in the thriller «State of Play» opposite James McAvoy, Philip Glenister, Marc Warren, and John Simm which won him a BAFTA for Best Actor; as well as «Underworld» with Kate Beckinsale, and «Love Actually» with Hugh Grant, Keira Knightly, Liam Neeson and Martin Freeman which won him his second BAFTA.

In the Victorian horror thriller The Limehouse Golem, Bill Nighy plays an upstanding policeman whose career has been limited because his fellow officers see him as «not the marrying kind».

District 9 is not only an action thriller, but a thought provoking critique on our own culture that can't be ignored as the Aliens or Prawns (derogetory term given to them by the humans) play a much larger emotional and dynamic role in the film than the trailer or bits of viral marketing let on.

Working, however, in an even softer register than that already lightweight film, «The Young Victoria» plays down court intrigue in favor of dewy - eyed first love; if «Elizabeth's» populist coup was restyling royal history as political thriller, this lands squarely in rom - com territory, with Rupert Friend's Prince Albert the dreamy yet ever - deferred suitor.

Back in 2013, the reimagining of a little - known British show from the 1990s as a taut American political thriller starring Academy Award - winner Spacey played a big part in securing Netflix's future not only as a streaming giant, but as a viable content creator in its own right, rivalling the likes of studio titans HBO and NBC.

It's a solid setup that also affords the film's creative team its own game: a chance to play around with the look, and the violence, of actual thrillers, all while keeping the tone as frothy as any other multiplex throwaway starring a cast member from Horrible Bosses.

However, this is perhaps where the biggest breaking point for Past Cure comes in to play as it tries to straddle the line between survival horror and action thriller, and the only area I feel where it has a little bit of difficulty trying to take on both at the same time.

Paulina (Unrated) Dolores Fonzi plays the title character of this crime thriller, set in Argentina, as a lawyer who abandons a promising career in Buenos Aires to teach high school in her hometown, only to end up brutally assaulted by a local gang.

Her career has continued to be just as eclectic, with appearances in thrillers like «Red Eye» and «State of Play,» action films like «Sherlock Holmes,» and romance films like «The Time Traveler's Wife» and «The Vow.»

Already selected as Norway's Oscar play for Best Foreign Language Film, Thelma is both an intimate love story and a heightened supernatural thriller, as young Thelma falls in love with Anja, at the same time discovering she posses supernatural powers beyond her control.

What You Need To Know: With director Paul Greengrass having made a name for himself in two relatively distinct areas — the tense conspiracy action thriller (the second and third «Bourne» films) and based - in - fact films about recent historical events («United 93,» «Bloody Sunday,») «Captain Phillips» seems like it could play to his strengths in both areas, as it's a gripping, tense, fight - for survival type tale that has added weight and heft for being lifted from a real - life incident.

Omar (Hany Abu - Assad)-- Role playing works both psychologically and as plot points for this Cannes award - winning political thriller set in Palestine.

Yet, the film plays out with little sense of requisite suspense that made the first Psycho such a great film, and many of the scenes, including the murders, play out as if they were made for a psychological drama, rather than in a scary horror flick or tense, nail - biting thriller.

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (PG - 13 for intense violence and brief profanity) Chris Pine stars as the title character previously played by Harrison Ford, Alec Baldwin and Ben Affleck, in this reboot of the franchise inspired by the Tom Clancy series of espionage thrillers.