Sentences with phrase «skilled actors in»

After a fascinating pre-nominations derby of skilled actors in scene - stealing roles competing in a wide - open category, it all became so simple the night of the Golden Globes, when Sylvester Stallone received a standing ovation as he rose to accept his award, and the hearts of Hollywood seemed fully pinned to their sleeves.

Not exact matches

Filmmaking skill and solid actors can make these movies fun, but the truth and virtues buried in them is what makes these movies important — much like the original Star Wars movies were for the previous generation.

They get conned by players who are skilled actors, perhaps after match bans would help here, three match suspension for diving in penalty area, proved by video evidence would soon stamp out this activity.

First, the PhD student does not only require the ability to turn «suspension of disbelief» into an art form beyond the illusory skills of our most eminent Shakespearean actors; he or she must also retain the ability to remain as cynical and as hard - bitten as Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca.

Chelsom observes Sarandon's particular skill in one scene with Jenkins: «It's not what actors show you on screen that's interesting, it's what they're hiding from you,» and he's right on — she is all about digging into pain or anxiousness and then repressing it so you have to figure out her character's trajectory.

The movie is both a tribute to the skill of Fruitvale Station and Creed director Ryan Coogler, who almost effortlessly scales up to a much bigger budgetary level with Black Panther, and to an ensemble cast full of actors who'd rarely get asked to play parts like these in a blockbuster like this.

The actor has lived large on screen ever since, mainly as the stalwart of insipid rom - coms in which his most acclaimed skill was removing his shirt.

And, by now, Kidman has mastered that survival skill honed by all good actors — faking conviction in the midst of weak material — and it serves her brilliantly here.

That his is the only performance of note in the lesser third entry speaks volumes of the actor's skill, and inspires a contemplation of what the series may have been like if it had been his face instead of Maguire's behind the heroes» mask.

Actors Billy Crudup and Anton Yelchin are set to show off their musical skills at Utah's Sundance Film Festival by taking the tunes they perform in...

As absorbing as the ideas are behind the film, the project just wouldn't work without the skill of the two main actors, who have to say so much with just a look, a subtle expression or a gesture in order to let us know what they're thinking.

Branagh brought an innate skill in melding spectacle and actor - friendly dramatics with «Thor,» so it's likely his stewardship of another series - starter could reasonably provide the foundation for a number of entertaining sequels.

Aubrey Plaza heads up a cast of skilled comic actors in a sex farce that has amusing moments scattered throughout but risks feeling like an extended SNL skit

New York has Sachs, a down - to - earth city scion who tackled love and apartment - hunting in the must - see Love Is Strange and returns to examine the budding friendship between two Brooklyn kids: an introvert with art skills and the safety net of white privilege, and an audacious aspiring actor being pushed out of the neighborhood by gentrification.

I mention all this partly because of my delight in discovering that an actor whom I'd almost always found «good» has taken on a meaning that transcends questions of acting skill.

Instead, we get to see Pacino in theaters in the silly Danny Collins, a star vehicle making use of all of his flamboyance and little of his skills as an actor.

Joining the long list of thespians to have tried their hand at helming, acclaimed English actor Paddy Considine expands upon an impressive career by demonstrating his skill in the director's chair.

Nice to see an actor so skilled at righteous authentic good man nobility piss that out in a casual loser about face.

McAvoy is a skilled actor, and under Shyamalan's direction, he becomes a master in suspense, intrigue, and terror.

Lupino's career as a theatrical director was about to be abruptly terminated, and she was about to enter television direction in earnest, both to make ends meet and also to provide herself with a creative outlet in a medium that required exactly those directorial skills that Lupino so obviously possessed: speed, and the authority to deal with actors despite tight shooting schedules.

They may be two actors known largely for comedic work, but here the two show off their dramatic skill in equally astonishing measure and both have elevated themselves to a point where it becomes clear that they can handle both sides of the tonal coin in perfectly - measured stature.

Slightly more amusing are some of the interactions between Doug and his future in - laws, thanks in large part to the skill of good actors slumming for a paycheck: Ken Howard as Gretchen's macho dad, Mimi Rogers as her tightly wound mom, Olivia Thirlby as her too - cool - for - school younger sister, and a sadly underused Cloris Leachman as her loopy grandma.

Lumet's greatest skill may have been in choosing good material and even better actors.

Lumet was known as an actor's director, a core tool of the trade which the Academy tends to overlook in favor of flashier skills.

It helps that an actor of Emily Blunt's (The Five - Year Engagement) stature signed on to give this project star wattage, but the film is genuinely a major step up in terms of maturity and skill compared to Shelton and Duplass» last collaboration, Humpday.

One can only imagine how much better the film would be by plugging a better actor like Coburn in the lead role and giving someone with much more martial arts skills and screen presence like Bruce Lee in the other roles.

Certainly not the way that the true nature of an actor's skills are tested with a camera in their face to capture the moment they lose.

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Vega stands in the limelight for every trans actor and actress who has been told they aren't famous enough, or skilled enough, or world - ready enough to be hired and to carry a film to success.

Christian Bale's mad drumming skills in The Big Short got us thinking about other memorable renditions from famous actors.

The warehouse in question is filled with an eclectic bunch of actors clearly chosen for their skill and suitability rather than their box office appeal.

His skills with getting children to appear natural is charmingly in evidence in Beyond The Clouds: the only parts of the film which feel fresh have these child actors flitting about; the rest is dispiritingly same - old.

Language: English Genre: Action / Drama MPAA rating: R Director: Nicolas Winding Refn Actors: Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Christina Hendricks Plot: A stuntman - turned - wheelman must use all his skills to survive after a botched job results in a contract on his head.

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.

Thankfully, Biggs isn't a skilled enough actor to adequately emulate Allen's neurotic persona the way so many curiously did in the back half of the filmmaker's career, which keeps the film from being even more interminable.

He gets shipped to Los Angeles and passed off to Gay Perry (Kilmer), a private eye who specializes in teaching sleuthing skills to actors.

And that goes doubly for Outside In, whose premise at first glance is interchangeable with any number of Sundance movies — yet is distinguished from the mass of «sad person returns to his / her hometown» movies, by virtue of Shelton's inimitable skill as an actor's director.

Coogan is Dana Marschz, a failed actor with uncertain rollerblading skills and daddy issues who has found refuge as a drama teacher in a Tuscon Arizona high school.

It also doesn't help matters that Culkin is not a terribly convincing young actor, with co-star Elijah Wood running rings around him in terms of sheer acting skills.

Carell, who began to shed his «gross - out - comedy - actor» tag in 2014's «Foxcatcher», continues to demonstrate his skill as one of the most exciting dramatic actors working today while Gosling is on fine, flashy & quick - fire form in his best role since «Crazy Stupid Love» and a superb supporting cast includes an always excellent Rafe Spall and «New Girl's Max Greenfield who delivers a brilliant turn as a nauseatingly hilarious mortgage broker.

Character actors are supporting actors who are usually skilled at playing interesting or unusual characters, but not usually the lead roles in a film.

Hemsworth has been described as a wooden performer, but the toughest test for any actor is comedy and here he demonstrates his skill in this area with aplomb, while also switching to portentous drama when he needs to.

Despite my prior relative indifference to the actors in it, they're perfectly cast — against their standard types — in this, and do terrific jobs, and the script, by the highly skilled and literate Ernest Lehman and Clifford Odets, is spectacular.

Since then he's turned in another fine performance in «Black Mass,» proving himself to be quite a skilled actor.

In addition, «Nick Frost, Martin Freeman, Paddy Considine and Eddie Marsan are all talented actors, with Frost and Freeman particularly skilled in comedy, and together the five principals create the sense of men who have known each other for many yearIn addition, «Nick Frost, Martin Freeman, Paddy Considine and Eddie Marsan are all talented actors, with Frost and Freeman particularly skilled in comedy, and together the five principals create the sense of men who have known each other for many yearin comedy, and together the five principals create the sense of men who have known each other for many years.

Here you see him crossing off a completed shot of his detailed story boards in the zero g battle room where our young actors, in their zero g training suits, are showing off the high flying skills they've learned from our veteran stunt coordinator Garrett Warren.

The Irish actor and his X-Men: Days Of Future past co-stars James McAvoy and Hugh Jackman demonstrated their mimicking skills while taking part in a live question and answers session for Yahoo! Movies.

I have never understood the insistence of casting famous actors in animation, unless they have a particular skill at vocal performances.

Director, co-writer and producer Alejandoro González Iñárritu, well known by cinephiles for his «Birdman,» which features Michael Keaton as a popular actor trying to deal with the problems of his current life, now puts his skill on creating a dramatic biopic of fur trapper Hugh Glass (played by DiCaprio) who, in 1823 in an area which became the Dakota Territory, is brutally attacked and mauled by a bear while scouting for an expedition.

This actor gets to show off a wide array of skills in Not Fade Away, both in acting and performing.