Sentences with phrase «role in the movie dead»

He landed his first feature role in the movie Dead Man Walking in 1995.

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They just don't want to debase it by using it as a cheaper alternative to seeing a movie, or (for boys) as a way of asserting machismo in the absence of positive male role models, or (for girls) as a desperate ploy to hold on to a boyfriend — or any of the other sad, dead — end abuses of sex that become common whenever a society sheds its «repressed Victorianism.»

Speaking about the film recently in Los Angeles, Cera — who in this film, takes some refreshingly bold steps away from his usual one - note nerd persona — and co - writer / director Edgar Wright (who also did the zany cult classics Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz) discussed the meaning of the film, the stretching Cera had to go through for the role, and the way in which the film's hyperkinetic action sequences are really just the same as the dance scenes in Grease or a Gene Kelly movie.

In addition to her impressive list of soap roles, Chapman has also appeared in numerous movies over the years, such as Dead Space and 28 DayIn addition to her impressive list of soap roles, Chapman has also appeared in numerous movies over the years, such as Dead Space and 28 Dayin numerous movies over the years, such as Dead Space and 28 Days.

In his previous movie roles, as the addled newscaster in Bruce Almighty, the brain - dead meteorologist in Anchorman, even channeling Paul Lynde's snarky chiffon quiver in Bewitched, Steve Carell revealed a punchy genius for outsize personality ticIn his previous movie roles, as the addled newscaster in Bruce Almighty, the brain - dead meteorologist in Anchorman, even channeling Paul Lynde's snarky chiffon quiver in Bewitched, Steve Carell revealed a punchy genius for outsize personality ticin Bruce Almighty, the brain - dead meteorologist in Anchorman, even channeling Paul Lynde's snarky chiffon quiver in Bewitched, Steve Carell revealed a punchy genius for outsize personality ticin Anchorman, even channeling Paul Lynde's snarky chiffon quiver in Bewitched, Steve Carell revealed a punchy genius for outsize personality ticin Bewitched, Steve Carell revealed a punchy genius for outsize personality tics.

Legal troubles aside, Priestly continued to appear in films throughout the 2000s (Cherish, Die Mommie Die, Homicide: The Movie), and joined Joss Whedon's Tru Calling in the role of Jack Harper, a man determined that the dead not be revived by Tru.

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.

A legendary B movie actor, Campbell is most famous for his starring roles in cult films like The Evil Dead, Evil Dead II, Crimewave, Army of Darkness, Maniac Cop, Bubba Ho - tep, Escape From L.A. and Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat.

Emma Stone, fresh from her role as Sophie in «Magic in the Moonlight,» about an Englishman called in to unmask a charlatan, is incredibly charming as a student in love with her much older teacher now serving as his confidante, while Joaquin Phoenix is ideal as a man who for half the movie is dead from the next down and who finds meaning in life only when he contemplates murder.

Starring Martin Sheen in his mid-life renaissance (he was going gangbusters in TV movies and short - lived series, and kept trying to break back into films, scoring, at best, supporting roles in a couple Stephen King adaptations (Firestarter and The Dead Zone) before securing the lead in 1987's The Believers.

More diverse roles followed: the lovelorn time - traveller in Richard Curtis romcom About Time; the dead boyfriend in the Be Right Back episode of Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror; the hapless musician in Frank Sidebottom - inspired road movie Frank.

Havana is still fighting an Electra Complex battle with her dead mother, which is why she covets a role in a movie that her more famous actress mother once played.

As well as working on big budget Hollywood Movies such as Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Naomie Harris (Jane) continues to choose challenging and exciting roles in smaller and more diverse films such as THE FIRST GRADER.

In addition to his role as director, Wright — known for bitingly funny films like Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World's End, as well as Scott Pilgrim vs. the World — cowrote the movie's script with Joe Cornish, who worked on the screenplay for The Adventures of Tintin and wrote and directed Attack the Block.

During his career as a stand - up comedian and actor, Williams starred in serious roles in movies like Dead Poets Society, Awakenings, Good Morning Vietnam, August Rush and Insomnia.

For a piece in today's Calendar section about actresses and nudity in Oscar - winning roles, the Los Angeles Times «Rachel Abramowitz talks to Marisa Tomei about her on - screen nudity in both Before the Devil Knows You're Dead and The Wrestler, and the well - toned actress pooh - poohs talk about a new direction for her career: «I happened to get offered The Wrestler after I did that movie,» she says.

You take on the role of somebody who has inherited a chunk of money, parcel of land and several scripts from a dead uncle and decides to make his or her fortune through the magic of the movies, hiring famous actors, building up your studio and competing in the Academy Awards.