Sentences with phrase «room as the actor»

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A reel of well - known actors and Hollywood celebrities appear in the opening scenes, describing a cult classic called The Room as if they're describing a miraculous contribution to filmmaking.

1:20 p.m. Actor Billy Crystal, a part owner of the Diamondbacks, enters the room, announcing himself as «a 49 - year - old Jewish second baseman who can only go to his left.

But suddenly the young man who says that he set his watch and dorm - room clock 10 minutes ahead to try to stay on schedule, who served as the Chiefs» co-captain, who spent time volunteering at last summer's Special Olympics and who had just appeared as one of nine varsity athletes on the university president's Christmas card, was being described as the instigator of a scuffle during an intrasquad scrimmage — a bad actor no longer wanted by his coach or teammates.

The detention of several powerful Saudi figures and members of clergy, can not only be seen in terms of domestic reforms and consolidation of power intended by Mohammed bin Salman, but also as giving him more room to manoeuvre in developing closer ties with Israel, given the hostility Saudi regime would have faced from actors that are anything but pro-Israel.

Five years ago, when her candidate was still struggling at the back of the Democratic pack, lagging behind front - runner Christine Quinn — who would have been the city's first out LGBTQ mayor — Nixon, who has variously described herself as bisexual and lesbian, headlined LGBT for BdB, a raucous Cutting Room campaign event featuring an impressive array of stage actors and downtown nightlife personalities.

Chants of «Local 3» and «Spectrum unfair labor practices» were by far the loudest in the room, as the rest of the assembled union members stood largely in silence through speeches by Lieutenant Gov. Kathy Hochul, National Organization for Women NYC President Sonia Ossorio, American Federation of Teachers head Randi Weingarten and actors John Leguizamo and Steve Buscemi.

In reality, crime scene investigators often spend seemingly inordinate amounts of time gathering and assessing evidence and then present it as probabilities rather than the kind of definitive result expected of a court room filled with actors rather than real people.

The Glee actor, who was found dead in his hotel room on Saturday Cory Monteith was born on May 11, 1982 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada as Cory Allan Michael Monteith.

Zac Efron gets extra points in a brief appearance as the intense actor who portrayed the very weirdly named drug dealer in The Room, Chris R.

By 1929, Fitzgerald felt secure enough as an actor to finally quit his day job with Unemployment Insurance; that same year, he briefly roomed with playwright Sean O'Casey, who subsequently wrote The Silver Tassle especially for Fitzgerald.

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I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore is perhaps most notable as the debut of Macon Blair as a director, who gained notoriety primarily as an actor featured prominently in the films of Jeremy Saulnier (Green Room), to which this film attempts to emulate to some degree.

Wendell Pierce and Michelle Williams can only do so much with so little, as the movie otherwise lets John Diehl, an otherwise fine character actor, free rein to go over the top in playing a stereotypical character, thereby sucking all of the oxygen out of the room.

Everyone from Seth Rogen (also executive - producing) and Josh Hutcherson to Hannibal Buress and Zac Efron make appearances as actors and crew members on «The Room.»

Dave Franco, Seth Rogen and especially Ari Graynor all turn in hilarious and fully realized performances as people caught up in Tommy's whirlwind, with Josh Hutcherson and Zac Efron also delivering a lot of laughs as actors in «The Room.»

They became friends and then roommates as stage actors in New York, and when they began making films in Hollywood, they roomed together again.

But more importantly, it was the rare blockbuster that was as entertaining when it just gathered its actors in a room, with Whedon's love of the actors and material palpably elevating things with real wit and drama.

And while the revelations may have had something to do with Franco missing out on what appeared not too long ago to be a lock on a Best Actor Oscar nomination, it hasn't prevented Wiseau from finally living the high - profile life he desperately dreamed as he made The Room.

As part of the hype machine for The Last Jedi, Disney and Lucasfilm have released a video of the actors training for their fight scenes, and it'll totally make you want to pick up a mop and start fake lightsaber - ing around my room.

The directorial debut of Macon Blair, «I don't feel at home...» announces a bold new writing - directing talent best known as an actor in such films as «Blue Ruin» and «Green Room.»

«Green Room was a title I had five or six years before Blue Ruin, so the logical progression of my films should have been Murder Party, Green Room and then Blue Ruin, but because Blue Ruin was designed from the script level to be something I could control with access to sparse locations, resources and actors, it came before Green Room as a necessity.

He's playing an actor filling out a dressing - room chair, his eyes squinting with tiredness as if he's just been freed from a cave after years captive.

But there may never have been a project so obviously suited to the actor - poet - writer - philosopher - pretty - plausible - as - a-weed-dealer as The Disaster Artist, which is about the making of the terrible 2003 film The Room.

Imran was okay as were the other two actors playing his room partners.

Once again the most famous trio of young actors the screen has ever seen delivers beautifully, which is harder this time as there's not a lot of room to stretch acting chops in Deathly Hallows.

James Franco directed and stars in this hilarious oddball comedy that tells the true story of Tommy Wiseau, a talentless actor and director who made «The Room,» regarded as one of the worst movies ever made.

Over the past decade, Shannon has been increasingly typecast as either a twitchy weirdo on societal margins or an earnest simpleton, but Bahrani, in a stroke of casting gumption that makes one wonder why he's the first to make the move, has redirected the actor's distinctly coiled facial features and natural gift for commanding a room toward a character with genuinely threatening social and economic power.

he moans to two teenagers half his size once he realizes he's in over his head — a pathetic moment that Yelchin brilliantly plays for humanity, as the only one in the room with real feelings, reminding us for the last time what a brilliant talent the actor was.

After years of delighting the world with the endless riches of The Room, the actor has cannily used his talents to enliven our nightmares by agreeing and committing fully to a few minutes of masterclass acting as the new face of Christopher Nolan's raggedy, stringy - haired version of The Joker.

And Ralph Fiennes enlivens a couple of scenes as a refined gay director trying to direct a cowboy actor in a drawing - room comedy - the studio era described in a single sentence.

«I think for me, I was able to leave Weinstein «s hotel room that day because I had entered as an actor but also as a writer / creator.

The trailer for the John Curran - directed film stars Jason Clarke as Kennedy and Kate Mara as Kopechne as well as a roster of actors portraying all the WASPy figures involved in the event including Bruce Dern as the senator's domineering father Joseph Kennedy, Ed Helms as Joe Gargan, Jim Gaffigan as DA Paul Markham, and Olivia Thirlby as one of the «boiler room girls,» a group of single women who worked Bobby Kennedy's 1968 Presidential campaign, which ended with his assassination.

Triumphant: The Oscar - winning actor held his Academy Award aloft as he greeted the Hollywood press in the winners» room after the ceremony

DuVall displays both confidence and trepidation as a first - time director, as much of the action consists of people talking in long and medium shots, the unfussy direction allowing the actors room to breathe but not to experiment.

As the 2016 Best Actress Academy Award winner, the Room star was tasked with presenting the 2017 Best Actor Award, which went to Casey for his role...

Room scooped the coveted People's Choice award at the Toronto Film Festival earlier this year, and has scorched through the early nomination rounds in LA - picking up nominations for Best Picture, Best Actress (for Brie Larson) and Best Screenplay at the Golden Globes, as well as Best Actor and Actress at the SAG awards.

The supporting cast — especially Scott, of «Sherlock» fame — all do excellent work (the actors all called in live from a hotel room during the film's real - time shoot), but there isn't so much as a sliver of doubt that the film belongs entirely to Hardy.

The Disaster Artist: This fact - based comedy, about two friends and the making of a self - financed movie in Los Angeles («The Room»), is the funniest movie in a year of funny movies, with James Franco, who also directed, as Tommy Wiseau, a bizarre and talentless actor who decides to write and direct his own starring vehicle.

Judging by both the events on - screen and in the room, Day - Lewis, a longtime Oscar favorite, solidified his status as a lead actor contender.

James Franco won Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy for his performance in The Disaster Artist as Tommy Wiseau, the real - life director, writer, and star of the so - bad - it's - good cult film The Room.

The Room fans watched the Golden Globes in awe as James Franco brought things full circle for Tommy Wiseau who came on stage during his emotional speech after winning Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical for The Disaster Artist.

JACOB TREMBLAY, «ROOM» To call Tremblay a revelation as the lead in Emma Donoghue's captivity drama is to undersell the now 9 - year - old actor's skill.

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The director does give ample room for his actors to plumb the depths of his half - shallowness to find what humanity they can grasp in characters equally as psuedo complex.

Actor Tom Hanks said the real draw for him to reprise his role as fictional symbologist Robert Langdon in the film adaptation of Dan Brown's thriller «Inferno» was the chance to be «the smartest guy in the room.»

And Scott's Martian leading man Matt Damon was named Best Actor, with Room's Brie Larson acknowledged as Best Actress.

Perhaps this will strike some as mean - spirited, as seasoned actors make fun of the nobodies who made The Room such magnetic trainwreck.

Just as Room had the skylight, The Danish Girl utilized big lights outside building windows, «to create a sort of northern light, where the sun is quite low in the horizon,» Cohen says by way of explaining how the actors were side - lit.

The actor will star in Broad Green Pictures» «Green Room» as Darcy Banker,...

If you think there's wiggle room here, take note: Because Colin Firth and Morgan Freeman are still solidly in this race, even though Tom Ford's embarrassing impersonation of Wong Kar - wai throughout A Single Man and Clint Eastwood's dully exploitative pushing of a Mandela - as - Obama message in his elegantly composed Afterschool Special Invictus didn't do either actor any favors, it's probably unlikely that Viggo Mortensen will sneak in for The Road, which has unfairly gotten less love this award season than those two films.