Sentences with phrase «recognizable actors»

Characters come and go so fast and when recognizable actors pop up, you expect more than a one - scene gig.

The film industry is an industry of history, where recognizable actors, directors and other crew bring the baggage of their previous projects (for good or ill) along with them.

Unfortunately, we do have a lot of recognizable actors in The Thin Red Line.

and an array of recognizable actors in full - on period - piece mode.

9:26: (Chris): Hate to say it, but is the reason the good - not - great «The Phone Call» won live action short is that it's the only one with recognizable actors in it?

It does features prominent roles for recognizable actors like Christina Hendricks, Oliver Platt, Annette Bening, and a rapidly maturing Elle Fanning, who co-stars along with newcomer Alice Englert.

Then we have comedians like Kristen Wiig, Bill Hader and Nick Kroll with other recognizable actors like Salma Hayek, Paul Rudd and Edward Norton joining the fold.

Instead, these are very similar - looking gruffy mini-Hobbits played by recognizable actors — Nick Frost, Eddie Marsan, Bob Hoskins, Ray Winstone, Ian McShane, and Toby Jones.

It's pretty obvious from the start that Freeman («The Office») and Stevenson («Spaced») are the most recognizable actors of the bunch, if not also the most talented, but their experience is tragically wasted as the boring straight couple who never get a chance to shine comically.

Hot or Not also plans to display customized Hot Lists, based on how its users vote on profiles of easily recognizable actors, politicians, celebrities, and other public figures, Peter Lauria at BuzzFeed reports.

We'll hopefully get a low key miniseries on the BBC that focuses on the characters with less recognizable actors and a much smaller budget.

With a budget of over $ 130 million, everything about Catching Fire feels safe and mainstream, from its CGI - laden setpieces to the fact that so many recognizable actors agreed to sign on.

Hayden Christensen (Revenge of the Sith, Shattered Glass) ends up being a last minute replacement for its star Thomas Sturridge, who thought they needed a more recognizable actor in the lead.

That assumes that it's some sort of Paul Greengrass - style shakycam docudrama without recognizable actors that envelops an audience in what seems like real - life drama, à la United 93.

Lots of recognizable actors turn up during their travels, including Gary Cole, Kathy Bates, Sandra Oh, Sarah Baker (who's probably going to win an Emmy for her recent turn on Louie), Dan Aykroyd, and The League's Mark Duplass.

Surprisingly, they did recruit actual recognizable actors to play in the film, especially Fred Savage, Christian Slater and Beau Bridges, so at least they had some notion to try to make the film palatable, even if the emphasis is on shilling more merchandise.

A central problem is that Stone opts for recognizable actors whose resemblances to the (also recognizable) characters they are playing are frequently limited.

There's numerous recognizable actors at the commune.

The main recognizable actors in this scene (Chris Kattan, Fran Drescher, Goldberg, James Caan) are all Jewish.Goldberg married Wanda Ferraton, a stunt double he met while making this movie.

Lutz is the only recognizable actor on screen, and yes, ladies, he does have his shirt off most of the time.

Other fine and recognizable actors lend support where needed, including Jason Patric, James Franco, Josh Brolin, Barry Corbin, Frances Fisher, Jonathan Tucker (of Haggis» «Black Donnellys») and unknown young men (some of whom are real Iraq War veterans) who I anticipate to see more from.

Instead, we're given recognizable actors (Laura Linney, Stanley Tucci) in small roles where they pop up from time to time and spout something apocryphal for the benefit of the audience, like a British newspaper editor (David Thewlis) bellowing: «He's the head of a huge global media empire who's accountable to no one.

There are lots of lewd (and sometimes improbable) descriptions of sex, and the men on the other end of the line turn out to be weird and played by recognizable actors (Also not helping the gender stereotype is that one of these cameos constitutes the only genuinely funny scene in the movie: Seth Rogen trying to complete his business before he has to fly a plane and talking like a pilot checking off his instruments the entire time).

Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper signed on to this indie before they became two of America's most recognizable actors.

British director Paul Greengrass (Bloody Sunday, The Bourne Supremacy) avoids a single hero to drive the film, choosing instead a collective of Americans, and shies away from casting any easily recognizable actors (thus denying us distractions or comfort).

Solid supporting roles are given to Ron Eldard as Alice's depressed father and Noah Emmerich as the brutal military man trying to clean up the mess, and there are very small parts for recognizable actors and actresses like Bruce Greenwood, Dale Dickey, and Dan Castellaneta.

Franchise creators Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick wrote and directed the pilot which featured the same humor, violence and characters and as the movie, but with less recognizable actors.

Recognizable actors like Saoirse Ronan and Chris O'Dowd (playing Armand's postman father) may have been necessary to get this thing funded, and the weight of their voices helps ground the story in a human place, but it's hard to sustain the illusion when Bronn from «Game of Thrones» (Jerome Flynn) saunters through one of van Gogh's masterpieces.

While none of Tilda Swinton, Bill Murray, Saoirse Ronan, F. Murray Abraham, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum or any of the other names in the film has the drawing power that Roberts did in 2000, the fact that so many recognizable actors were assembled for the same film made them a type of collective draw — a fact which the film's marketers seized upon with highly colorful promotional posters highlighting the above names and many more.

It occupies a middle ground as an indie with recognizable actors that won't win over the art house crowd, but has even less of a shot at delighting the mainstream moviegoer.

There's a sparse but effective score by classic rocker Neil Young, and a good supporting cast of recognizable actors in the mix to liven things up.

Although it is chock full of recognizable actors, the main star is a relatively unknown Liam James (AvP: Requiem, Fred Claus) as 14 - year - old introvert Duncan, who we find reluctantly brought by his divorced mother Pam (Collette, Hitchcock) to her heel - ish boyfriend Trent's (Carell, Crazy Stupid Love) New England summer beach home.

With a solid voice cast that emphasizes their vocal work over their star power (there are recognizable actors in a few roles such as Bratt and Bernal (Blindness), but none that cast in order to sell the film commercially), a vibrant color scheme, outstanding visuals, terrific toe - tapping tunes, and an imaginative concept, this will likely go down as a favorite Pixar film for many who follow the animation company's output religiously.

The constant stream of still photos, with a recognizable actor's voice, has a distancing effect.

There's no honest unifying theory here, just the chance for a lot of recognizable actors and actresses to pick up a paycheck while not going on location.

While I will accept a puppet if worse comes to worse, what I really want is a recognizable actor, male or female, made up to look like a Pikachu detective.

While The Black Dahlia does sport an impressive cast of recognizable actors, none of them are quite formidable enough to knock us out with an interesting character portrayal.

Even those who normally eschew foreign films will find it palatable, as the film this German production is actually an English - language film, and it also has recognizable actors like Dustin Hoffman and Alan Rickman (Love Actually, Galaxy Quest) in sizable supporting roles.

Directors very often cast well - recognizable actors, because they want to attract an audience and give the public a sense of comfort that's provided by familiar faces.

The third season of FX's acclaimed Fargo series has added another recognizable actor to its cast: character actor David Thewlis, who most will probably remember as Remus Lupin in the Harry Potter franchise.

There's no word on who will write or direct, but Ubisoft is apparently looking for another recognizable actor to join up before it officially starts...

«The Florida Project» wowed critics in its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival and now finds itself in the thick of Hollywood's awards season despite being made on a very low budget with only one recognizable actor (Willem Dafoe).

Drew Barrymore and Patrick Swayze were the two most recognizable actors, but their star power was not enough to intrigue most audiences.

Like the much - tampered - with but still entertaining «World War Z,» some recognizable actors are strangely reduced to cameos.

This is a terrible story told terribly, stacked with dour visuals instead of fun and recognizable actors in lieu of fully or even partially realized characters.

To introduce a modern President every fifteen minutes or so, portrayed by a recognizable actor in either sufficient (Williams, Schreiber) or insufficient (Cusack, Rickman) make - up and hairstyling is just as distracting as it sounds.

If you strip away the recognizable actors, budgets and visual effects of Nolan's recent works, you'd see something resembling Following, only the movie doesn't suffer from those absences.