Sentences with phrase «quite well cast»

There are some things to like — a few funny moments, it looks good and it's quite well cast.

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This is an «I should know the answer to this» kind of question, but I'm not sure of the best pan to use for this: I have a regular nonstick skillet that isn't very deep, a cast - iron skillet that isn't very deep, and a Dutch oven that is quite deep (obviously).

It has a reasonably tight script and is well cast, with Warner Baxter playing the lawyer and Myrna Loy as the gangster's moll, a «bad girl» with glittering eyes who he quite understandably falls for.

The cast members give energetic, dedicated performances and actually sing quite well.

The cast is generally quite good; Ms. Martin is extraordinary, making Christy's fresh - faced innocence utterly captivating on these beautiful and sometimes dangerous mountains.

The cast do a good enough job, and Mark Wahlberg is quite good as Chris Cole the lead singer of Blood Pollution a Steel Dragon Tribute band.

Having never read the book I'm rating it as just a film and it's really a film that starts well then gets predictable then got silly and confusing, The story was not new but it had a different take on it, It wasn't acted very well but it had some good intense scenes that were done well, With a good cast the story should of been told more deeper and we never really know how it all started which was quite annoying, I did like the ending but the scenes before that completely ruined the film as they didn't make sense or were done that well, It's not a bad film it's just poor for what was on offer.

The cast that he directs is quite good, and there are plenty of effective performances.

And while Farrell is admittedly quite good as the smooth, charismatic Jerry, Yelchin is simply unable to become the compelling protagonist that the narrative clearly requires - with the actor's less - than - engrossing performance matched by an underwhelmingly bland supporting cast (eg Toni Collette, playing Charley's concerned mother, is hopelessly wasted here).

With a versatile cast of strange of wonderful characters that play well and quite differently, it's a release that deserves a rightful place in any fighting game fans collection and a title I hope gets the attention it deserves.

DP Lol Crawley's best efforts can't quite overcome the rather awkward performances of the film's mostly nonprofessional cast.

There's a lot of heart poured in from the talented cast to make this a cut above most in the genre, and there is quite a bit of good romantic dialogue and situations to make this deeper than the superficial relationship we usually get.

Today, it doesn't play as well and must rely on the strength of its cast, which, on first glance, promises to be quite good.

Katey Sagal and cast do the best jobs IÂ've seen on television for quite some time.

For starters, I count at least seven headliners in the upper echelons of the cast, and that doesn't include Vera Farmiga holding her own quite well as the token female lead.

As well, the supporting cast is quite good, although there are a couple of stiff line readings.

Some of the other actors don't fare quite as well, particularly Angelina Jolie (cast as Alexander's scheming mother)- who goes comically over-the-top early and often, though it's hard not to imagine that this is partly the fault of Stone.

While the movie is not an outstanding piece of cinema, the talented cast have fun with the silly transformation plot and ensure quite a good time for viewers of most ages, in the tradition of the Disney films of its era.

was surprised just how good this film is.The humour and pathos of this film is quite moving.There is no - one remotely attractive in the cast, it is full of strange looking redneck Americans living in semi wilderness.Everyone is poverty stricken.The sadness of old age is there, as is the regrets of past memories, and the desperation of the son to heal the wounds of his father's past life.The acting is brilliant even with the bit part actors with the sunburnt aged faces.The fathers grumpy reticence is counters by his truculent wife, who never has a good word for anybody with her vicious put downs, which is at times laugh out loud funny.A funny sad and moving film about the sheer desperate meanderings of life and old age.

Her supporting cast is also quite good.

Unfortunately, the rest of the cast is not quite as good, and some plot twists the writer and director may have thought were clever were ham - handedly very obvious.

With an absurdly overqualified cast - Dustin Hoffman, Morgan Freeman, Donald Sutherland, Kevin Spacey - it is quite good fun, even though it's so dumb.

The performances from the cast are what really save this film from being a total dud and the story is quite interesting of course, but if you want to know the full facts, read books on the subject and watch a few documentaries as well.

No one will play along, except for his younger son, David (Will Forte, best known as a cast member for 10 years on «Saturday Night Live,» and quite good), whose own life isn't that great, either.

The voice cast is also quite good.

See the original in all it's glory for the cast is quite good here.

The entire cast is quite good, but the film is clearly Candy's as he barges through his short stay with his young relatives, chomping on a cigar (the first step in his 5 - month program to quit smoking) and driving an oil - burning, back - firing, floating sofa of a car.

Mortdecai does, however, possess a watchable feel that's due primarily to the efforts of a better - than - average supporting cast; though McGregor and Paltrow are quite good here, it's clear that Bettany's turn as the fiercely loyal Jock stands out as an obvious highlight within the picture.

First - time feature director Anna Foerster seems well aware that the talky bits in the Underworld universe are best served in small doses, and that gives the extended cast — which also includes Theo James as a good guy, Tobias Menzies as a bad guy, Lara Pulver as a vampire lady we're not quite sure about, and (of course) the awesome Charles Dance emoting his way through some enjoyably colorful nonsense — ample time to beat the stuffing out of each other.

Although the chance to work with such a fun group of actors — and if «Keeping Up with the Joneses» has one thing going for it, it's that the film is really well cast — was no doubt a big attraction for Mottola despite the script's many shortcomings, that enthusiasm doesn't quite translate to the final product.

She's cast her film quite well, with Susie Porter turning in spectacular work as a private investigator looking into the disappearance of a student poet.

It's a highly watchable, semi-pulpy serial loaded with reveals, clues and cliffhangers, and the core cast is generally quite good.

Sliding Doors is infused with ingenious twists and turns, sparkling and deliciously nasty truths, and the best acting that any cast has offered in quite a while.

Though it is about blood - thirsty vampires, their veins pump from warm hearts, as it is a well - cast, good - natured romp that loves to catch you by surprise, never quite going straight for the obvious gags you'd gather from the premise.

Northern Playlist contributor Nikola Grozdanovic saw both parts, and found it «a remarkably well made relationship film,» using a «Rashomon «- like conceit cunningly across a «multi-layered, organically paced, delicate and quite often hilarious screenplay,» with a «perfect ensemble cast» led by Jessica Chastain and James McAvoy, with Isabelle Huppert, Ciaran Hinds, Bill Hader, Viola Davis, William Hurt and Jess Weixler among those in support.

Casting Colin Farrell in the lead is a good move, while hiring Len Wiseman (Underworld, Live Free or Die Hard) to direct doesn't inspire quite the same good will.

Hamish Linklater fares even worse as the doofus rich boy trying to win Sophie's affection, while the rest of the cast (save for Eileen Atkins, who's actually quite good as Stanley's prudent aunt) is easily forgettable.

In a cast full of hulking heroes that aren't really asked to act, it is quite good to have a three - dimensional character at one point of the film.

The film is well cast and all the actors seem to fill their roles quite comfortably.

He seems oddly cast as he naturally carries with him this charm and good looking nature that didn't quite fit the character.

The Salvation is hemmed in by its fealty to the ghosts of westerns» past, though a good, game cast offers quite a bit of compensation.

I have to admit, while Paul W.S. Anderson doesn't inspire confidence in any project (though his latest film is doing quite well) the cast and look of this film — so far — look more promising than embarrassing.

Much has already been written about the casting of ultra-Caucasian Rooney Mara in the role of Tiger Lilly, though she performs the role quite well (avoiding the screeching of her lines in the manner of Jackman and Hedlund).

While Lovelace is well made, with a terrific sense of period (though a few anachronisms exist), and features quite a formidable cast, especially a very courageous Seyfried, ultimately, the storytelling lacks a certain thematic resonance that makes a decent production into something well worth going out of your way to see.

The voice acting is also quite good, with plenty of stars like Angelina Jolie (Taking Lives) and Renee Zellwegger (Down with Love) to round up the supporting cast.

With a new cast of characters and an expansion of the potentially apocalyptic scenario, 28 Weeks Later is harrowing when it needs to be, and delivers quite well during some of the scarier parts.

The things that make this quite possibly the best in the cheerleader sub-genre are the decent cast, a strong central female character, and the unique sub-plots for some of the secondary characters.

Though not every subplot (and with this many characters to juggle, there are quite a few) works as well as others, the chemistry among the core cast remains intact, and that's a major reason for its success.

Dom Lee (Camera Operator): I may have only worked on Rewind for one day and quite late in the project but it was clear that Louis had been leading a cast who all got on really well and much of that of that comes down from the spirit a director creates on set.

She stars as a woman who inherits a large farm and becomes romantically entangled with three men (Michael Sheen, Tom Sturridge and Matthias Schoenaerts), and given Vinterberg has proven adept at drawing out career best performances from his cast (Mads Mikkelsen took home top acting honors at Cannes for his showstopping turn in «The Hunt»), this could be quite the showcase for Mulligan (and everyone else involved, for that matter).