Sentences with phrase «shot put star»

New Zealand shot put star Valerie Adams will be looking to continue her unbeaten streak, while back on the track Mohammed Aman will look to turn the tables on Nijel Amos who beat him over 800m in Eugene and Asbel Kiprop will aim to maintain his winning ways in the 1500m after he finished seventh over the mile in Eugene.

Also out in the field and New Zealand's shot put star Valerie Adams extended her unbeaten streak to 55 competitions, her first throw of 19.96 m her best to claim victory ahead of Germany's Christina Schwanitz, while Olympic triple jump champion Christian Taylor leapt his best in the final round of the long jump to move from fifth to first and beat Commonwealth silver medallist Zarck Visser of South Africa by just one centimetre — 8.09 m to 8.08 m. Britain's Greg Rutherford — gold medallist ahead of Visser in Glasgow — leapt a best of 8.04 m for fourth as just eight centimetres separated the top five.

The shot put star became the first American woman to win a gold medal in the sport, and also set an American world record.

Not exact matches

Putting together a galactic - scale blockbuster is a global effort, involving not only this visual effects shop — Shore estimates his team is responsible for 250 of the shots cinema - goers will see once Star Wars Episode VII opens on Dec. 18 — but also ILM's head office in San Francisco, as well as branches in London and Singapore.

The man who has been Rhode Island's star for what feels like the better part of a decade hit clutch shot after clutch shot to put the Rams» win over Oklahoma on ice.

ELENA BRUCKNER: The Valley Christian - San Jose senior track star posted the state's best marks of 2016 in both the shot put (53 feet, 7 inches) and discus (186 - 10) in a two - day stretch on April 22 - 23.

Jackson's second penalty corner put England within sight of victory but New Zealand's star man Childs responded to force the shoot - out with his second goal.

After putting up 9.1 points per game prior to the All - Star Game, Montrezl Harrell is averaging 15.7 PPG (on 70.0 % shooting) since the break.

Steve Bruce saw his penalty saved, while Dejan Savićević and Darko Pančev had chances to put «Red Star» in front before Brian McClair tidied away the winner, finishing after Neil Webb's shot came back to him off a post.

Putting his legendary creative genius to work by shooting stars such as Scarlett Johansson, Dakota Fanning, Gabourey Sidibi, and models Lily Donaldson, Karen Elson, and Carmen Dell» Orefice, Liya Kebede to name a few.

Guest director Joshua Oppenheimer, whose wrenching «The Act of Killing» debuted at TFF in 2012, has put together an eclectic program that includes Werner Herzog's 1970 «Even Dwarfs Started Small» (with Herzog in attendance), Jon Bang Carlsen's intriguing and obscure «Hotel of the Stars» (1981), an hour - long Danish documentary about extras who live in a shabby apartment hotel in Hollywood; the only movie directed by Charles Laughton, 1955's exquisitely - shot «The Night of the Hunter,» starring a brilliant, terrifying Robert Mitchum, and fortuitously playing in his centenary year; «Salam Cinema,» Mohsen Makmalbaf's 1995 record of auditions by aspiring actors; a new print of Frederick Wiseman's long - banned, corrosive «Titicut Follies» (1967), filmed in a notorious Massachusetts hospital for the criminally insane; and Jacques Demy's glorious, gorgeous musical, «The Umbrellas of Cherbourg» (1967), starring the glorious, gorgeous Catherine Deneuve.

Mahoney has signed onto J.J. Abrams» Star Wars: Episode IX as second unit director, putting her in charge of overseeing the direction of the movie's supplementary footage like establishing shots, stunts, and cutaways.

But Jordan, who starred in both of those films, says it was still «surreal» being on the set of a $ 200 million movie with the same director who, five years ago, was shooting a $ 900,000 indie with, as Jordan puts it, «some duct tape and one camera.

For a while it was looking like Neill Blomkamp would get his shot at reviving the franchise with original star Sigourney Weaver, but Ridley Scott's sequel to Prometheus — originally not related to the Alien franchise, now called Alien: Covenant — put those plans on ice.

He made a lot of wonderful films over the course of his notable career, but if you wanted to put one movie into a capsule and shoot it into space for other worlds to know about the star power of Cary Grant, this might be the one.

The grizzled No Country For Old Men star puts his own gruff drawl to good work, mugging up a storm in several reaction shots.

Not only that, but the Gamepad's motion controls are wonky and off putting, the Walker mode is a pain in the ass to control, and Star Fox 64 just had more interesting levels in general (and in that game, you could just aim and shoot instead of having to wave the Gamepad around the room like an idiot to hit anything accurately).

It's a pared - back, unpretentious genre film, but one that is put together with real confidence, shot by rising star DP Eduardo Grau and perfectly paced and measured throughout.

The latest film by Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu is a dizzying, one - shot wonder starring Michael Keaton as thinly - veiled Keaton allegory Riggan Thomson, a washed - up superhero actor attempting to gain cred as a serious artist by putting on his own show on Broadway, with all the drama, introspection and telekinesis that typically entails.

Critics praised the film's commitment to humor, and the chemistry of its stars, with USAToday's Brian Truitt saying «Even tonal issues can't upend the magic this movie taps into putting Thor and Hulk together as new best buddies, whether they're throwing down in an arena or having a bromantic heart - to - heart,» while the AP's Lindsey Bahr said «Thor: Ragnarok is the most fun of the Thor movies by a long shot, but it is still very much a Thor movie for better or worse.»

Fresh off the set of Garth Davis» second feature, Mary Magdalene, cinematographer Greig Fraser finally has a moment to contemplate the work he's put in over the past year, between Davis» directorial debut, Lion, and the highly - anticipated Star Wars off - shoot Rogue One, which has drawn rave reviews.

On the «shoot for the stars» hand: do you put all your money in one high risk, high reward miner / driller and hope for a double in order to maximize your contribution room ASAP?

Not only that, but the Gamepad's motion controls are wonky and off putting, the Walker mode is a pain in the ass to control, and Star Fox 64 just had more interesting levels in general (and in that game, you could just aim and shoot instead of having to wave the Gamepad around the room like an idiot to hit anything accurately).

In addition to traditional ground - based shooting matches, Infinite Warfare will put players in the cockpit of a single - man space combat vehicle, with all the juking, blasting and comm chatter you'd expect from a Star Wars film.

A couple years before Core Design debuted its seminal Tomb Raider series, the UK studio put out Soulstar, a mostly forgotten Star Fox-esque shoot»em up with a 3D perspective for the Sega CD.

The kids put on solar panel glasses and roam about town shooting blue lightning from their fingers (à la Emperor from Star Wars) at various buildings, and a cow.