Sentences with phrase «role against a star»

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Far from hurting CNN, Trump's war against it has amounted to a form of product placement — «earned media,» you could say — giving its anchors and correspondents starring roles in the ongoing political drama, turning them into camera - ready warriors for the First Amendment.

Sir Andrew has also composed new music for a film version of Evita which, against his better judgment, starred Madonna in the lead role, and has produced his own version of Jesus Christ Superstar on stage and home video that he feels finally, at long last, captures his true vision of the piece.

His latest starring role came against Man City in the Champions League on Wednesday night, and while he's enjoying the form of his career and the Reds are flourishing because of it, a move elsewhere would seemingly make no sense for either.

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We all know that Shkodran Mustafi [hamstring], Calum Chambers [hip], Santi Cazorla [ankle], Danny Welbeck and David Ospina [both groin) are definitely unavailable, but the team that faced Red Star will not need many changes at all, especially as Jack Wilshere only had a cameo role against Everton so should be fine to play tomorrow.

Benitez played Bale in that central role last night against his former club and after scoring the second goal in their win, the Madrid star talked about his role and pleaded with his new manager to play him there all the time in order to get the best from him.

Uruguay will be without Edinson Cavani against Austria, so Luis Suarez should be set for a starring role for the visitors as they make the trip to Central Europe.

If not though, Arsene Wenger is likely to be less worried about the absence of Ozil than he might have been before, because our young Nigerian star Alex Iwobi had an impressive game in the number 10 role against Palace and the boss was quick to praise the 20 - year old Arsenal academy graduate in the post match comments reported by the Arsenal website.

I would assume that, if the answer to the title is the France international star Olivier Giroud, then Arsenal fans will still get to see our flying England forward Theo Walcott as well, probably right from the kick off, but he would be playing in one of the wide forward positions rather than the centre forward role he took up against Chelsea at Wembley last weekend.

Krychowiak is an Polish international and played a starring role in Sevilla's Europa League triumph last month as he scored the equaliser against Dnipro en route to a 3 - 2 victory for the Spanish outfit.

Jordan Henderson played a star role in the thrilling 4 - 3 win against Swansea on the weekend and produced the attacking display that everyone concerning Liverpool football club were waiting for.

A study of twins led by Petter Brodin, Karolinska Institutet / SciLifeLab, shows that our environment, not our heredity, plays the starring role in determining the state of our immune system, the body's primary defense against disease.

After losing 35 pounds for her role in the latest Star Wars movie, she spoke out against society's obsession with physical appearance in saying, «We treat beauty like an accomplishment, and that is insane.»

Critics Consensus: An irritating, unnecessary remake that demonstrates the libertine charm Russell Brand exudes in supporting roles turn against him when he's star of the show.

Critic Consensus: An irritating, unnecessary remake that demonstrates the libertine charm Russell Brand exudes in supporting roles turn against him when he's star of the show.

That same year, she made her credited screen debut starring opposite Sammy Davis Jr. in the drama A Man Called Adam (her first uncredited film role was in 1959's Odds Against Tomorrow).

Katt Williams (inside) has landed a starring role in Dimension's Scary Movie 5, shooting for release on April 12, 2013 (against Evil Dead), the site also reports.

The new 10 - episode mystery series Gracepoint (airing Thursdays) at least has a solid pedigree, remaking last summer's acclaimed eight - part Broadchurch from BBC America, even starring David Tennant in the same role (albeit with an off - putting attempt at an American accent) as a detective newly arrived in a coastal California town, where the murder of a young boy rocks the local residents to the core — including his resentful partner (Breaking Bad's Anna Gunn)-- turning neighbor against neighbor until a shattering denouement.

Bullock takes a role against type and proves that she is more than just Miss Congeniality, returning to the tinged - tongue that made her a star with her performance in Speed.

George O'Brien stars in the title role as Jeffrey Carson, a vacationing movie hero who finds himself in a real - life battle against mobsters.

The True Blood star is rumored to be up against Brendan Routh and Tom Welling for the iconic lead role in Zack Snyder's reboot.

Lee Daniels» The Butler (PG - 13 for violence, sexuality, smoking, profanity, ethnic slurs, mature themes and disturbing images) Forest Whitaker stars in the title role of this father - son saga, set against the backdrop of the African - American struggle for Civil Rights, recounting the real - life story of a butler who served in the White House under eight presidents.

Remember when Grumpy Cat was the fussy little darling of the Internet and we all hoped against vain hope that her Lifetime Christmas movie — starring the Internet's other fussy darling, Aubrey Plaza, in the titular cat role — might actually be worth watching?

Yes, Skarsgard swept earlier acting races, but the SAG Awards lumps leading and supporting roles into this catch - all category, which meant he was competing against De Niro, who starred in the Madoff biopic «The Wizard of Lies.»

Actor Anton Yelchin, perhaps best known for his role in the new «Star Trek» films, died early Sunday after his vehicle rolled down his Studio City driveway and trapped the actor against a brick post, authorities confirmed.

The film — directed and written by Nate Parker, who also stars in the lead role — focuses on the story of Turner, the Virginia slave who led a rebellion against slave owners in 1831.

Starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in the roles that would make them global stars, TITANIC tells the story of the epic romance between two star - crossed lovers set against the backdrop of the legendary and ill - fated maiden voyage of the «ship of dreams.»

The Beguiled (Sofia Coppola, 2017) The Beguiled, starring Nicole Kidman and Colin Farrell in the lead roles, beguiles us with its rendition of collective female strength and wit and its tale about the collective against the individual.

Employing a workshop format to cast the film, he ended up with quite the impressive roster; working with DiCaprio again for the first time since his take on «Romeo & Juliet,» he also has a galaxy of stars in support, including Maguire, and, playing against type, Mulligan as the materialistic, sometimes simple - minded Daisy Buchanan; curiously, it's her first leading role in a big Hollywood production.

Given the picture's enduring popularity, there's really no point in rehashing the plot — OK, for the uninitiated (all two of you): Ripley (series star Sigourney Weaver) heads back into space and leads a team of military grunts against the nasty extra-terrestrials — but there's always room to rehash many of the highlights: Weaver's terrific performance in the central role; the contrast between the heroic Corporal Hicks (Michael Biehn) and the cowardly Private Hudson (Bill Paxton); the escalating villainy of company man Burke (Paul Reiser); scripter Cameron's ability to keep piling on confrontations and director Cameron's ability to milk them for maximum tension; and, of course, those wonderful alien creations.

Since there's nothing consequential here, Burton and Eastwood could have played these roles in their sleep (and let's face it, they pretty much do), but it's a novelty to see acting - legend Burton play against rising star Eastwood, fresh from his spaghetti - western fame.

The first two handheld Mario Tennis titles feature role - playing game elements, where the player controls a young boy or girl character who has enrolled at the Royal Tennis Academy and must set out to become the top - ranked player there, enter a tournament called «The Island Open» to challenge other tennis champions from elsewhere in the world, and afterward travel to the Mushroom Kingdom to challenge its stars, ending with a match against the game world's greatest tennis player of all, Mario.

Saoirse (23) has star earned a nod in the Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role category for Lady Bird and is up against Victoria & Abdul's Judi Dench, Sally Hawkins (The Shape of Water), Frances McDormand (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) and Margot Robbie (I, Tonya).

I was moved to see this story, which began 39 years ago as a narrative about a white underdog going up against a cocky black overlord, pass into the hands of a breathtakingly talented black director and an equally talented black star (and, by the way, a black co-writer, and women filling the roles of DP, editor, production designer, and costume designer), and honor the original narrative while turning it inside out.

A down - and - dirty Oregon roadhouse is the venue for Blue Ruin director Jeremy Saulnier's gripping backwoods thriller, which stars Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots, Macon Blair and Patrick Stewart in a deliciously against - type role as a neo-Nazi bar owner.

Premise: Kenneth Lonergan's long - awaited writing and directing follow - up to You Can Count On Me stars Anna Paquin as a high - school student whose role in a bus accident on Manhattan's Upper West Side complicates legal action against the driver (Mark Ruffalo).

(The nomination for Brooks can happen on the strength of industry affection / respect for the star, and the novelty of seeing him in an against - type role — see Ben Kingsley in «Sexy Beast,» which I doubt a huge amount of voters saw or liked.)

The movie, which stars his daughter Harley Quinn Smith and Johnny Depp's daughter Lily - Rose Depp (her dad also plays a small role) finds the two girls working at a convenience store and eventually pitted against an army of tiny Nazis made of bratwursts.

In the English version of the series, Master Xehanort is voiced by Leonard Nimoy, who was chosen specifically by Tetsuya Nomura because of his role as Mr. Spock from Star Trek and because Nomura himself is a huge fan of both Star Trek and Star Wars, two franchises he intended to pit against each other by additionally casting Mark Hamill as Master Eraqus, Xehanort's enemy.

In Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard, videogame action hero Matt Hazard gets his chance to prove once and for all that he is the king of shooters when the new owner of mega game publisher, Marathon Megasoft, gives Matt his comeback role starring in a new title for next - gen consoles that pits him against all of his memorable foes from videogames past.