Sentences with phrase «takes lead in the film»

Former real life MMA fighter Gina Carano takes lead in the film as Mallory, a freelance black ops operative who seeks revenge against her employers who betray her after a rescue mission in Barcelona.

Time's up for actresses playing victims, as warriors take the lead in films that celebrate female strength and independence.

Not exact matches

In the film, which takes place in Los Angeles in the not too distant future, Samantha's evolving emotional intelligence leads her to fall in love with her human user, Theodore Twombly, played by Joaquin PhoeniIn the film, which takes place in Los Angeles in the not too distant future, Samantha's evolving emotional intelligence leads her to fall in love with her human user, Theodore Twombly, played by Joaquin Phoeniin Los Angeles in the not too distant future, Samantha's evolving emotional intelligence leads her to fall in love with her human user, Theodore Twombly, played by Joaquin Phoeniin the not too distant future, Samantha's evolving emotional intelligence leads her to fall in love with her human user, Theodore Twombly, played by Joaquin Phoeniin love with her human user, Theodore Twombly, played by Joaquin Phoenix.

When Gwyneth Paltrow was 22 years old, she got a role that would take her from actress to star: The film producer Harvey Weinstein hired her for the lead in the Jane Austen adaptation «Emma.»

After winning a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her wild - eyed turn as a mental patient in Girl, Interrupted, she attempted a few other serious acting roles but only seemed to find blockbuster success when she took on the lead role in the feature - film adaptation of the video game Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.

Later, God the Father takes on the form of a Native American wiseman (Graham Greene), and leads Mack on a New - Agey «healing trail to bring closure to [his] journey» — the most egregious example of racial essentialism in a film that takes shallow assumptions about foreign cultures as its starting point.

During the course of the week of demonstrations in 2003, which were filmed by Swiss television, Nestlé contacted Baby Milk Action to say it was accepting the WHA Resolutions — but again it spun this as Nestlé «taking the lead», the headline in the 7th edition of its «Code Action Report», shown left.

Theresa May is said to have been presented with a «Love Actually» moment this week: taking Hugh Grant's lead and giving President Trump the sort of tongue lashing the fictional US president received in the film.

In the team's films, the compressive ones took up much more space, leading to an overall raised critical temperature.

Despite an interesting premise and excellent cast, the film flopped, but Arquette continued to work steadily the following year, with lead roles in the black comedy Goodbye Lover; Stigmata, in which she starred opposite Gabriel Byrne as the unwitting target of a supernatural phenomenon; and Martin Scorsese's Bringing out the Dead, a film starring Arquette's then - husband Cage as a burnt - out paramedic.Following the weightiness of the creepy Stigmata and the disturbing Bringing Out the Dead, Arquette took things in a decidedly lighter direction with her next two projects.

She also posed for a well - publicized layout in Playboy which, coinciding with the film's release, certainly didn't hurt her growing popularity.While Basinger's career took off after Never Say Never Again, and she appeared in several major hits (including The Natural, 9 1/2 Weeks, and Batman, the latter of which led to a brief romance with pop star Prince), quality roles tended to elude her.

Honestly, while Samantha Isler gives a great performance in the lead role, I just didn't find the «modern day» stuff (in quotation marks since the film takes in 1977) to be all that interesting to be honest.

Take the scene early on in which the film's heroes — an all - female government expedition, led by biologist Lena (Natalie Portman), tasked with exploring a quarantined zone known only as «Area X» — encounter a mutated alligator large enough to be mistaken for a small dinosaur, surreal enough to be a mass hallucination.

As interpreted by Jessie Buckley, who once played Miranda in Jeremy Herrin's 2014 film «The Tempest,» she brings fire and fury into her role as a woman determined to break the chain of her snobbish and repressive mother, willing to take her bond with Pascal wherever it leads and damn the possibility that she could be one of his victims.

No one expected that he would be able to take a lead in a major film after really doing nothing but supporting roles.

Taking inspiration from the personal life of his leading man (Lustig is a widowed grocer upon whose stories the screenplay is loosely based), Weinstein draws on his experience as a documentary film - maker to conjure a drama rooted in the reality of these characters and their community.

He took the lead in the BAFTA - nominated short film LOVE YOU MORE by Patrick Marber, directed by Sam Taylor - Johnson.

The plot really takes a while to pick up with very little in the way of dialogue; by the time the lead characters reveal a portion of themselves, it is already deep into the film and it seems late, granted the run time is just under 90 minutes.

As the film becomes confined to Georges and Anne's well - appointed apartment, we settle in for an observation of the day - to - day as Anne's condition worsens (that's the invasion of privacy referred to in my opener above), and the narrative takes its inevitable course — minor immobility but still - bright sentience giving way to paralysis, dementia, force - feeding, loss of bodily - function control, wailing and terrified / terrifying unrecognizability leading up to the point of the unbearable for both husband and wife — we are also treated to a kaleidoscopic view of this couple's comfort with each other, their familiarity, their annoyances, their casually brutal honesty, and their reflexive care for one another.

Her latest film takes place in 1845 as three families, led by hired guide Stephen Meeks, attempt to cross the Cascade Mountains.

On Geena Davis (a rare tangent into the living, precipitated by his memories of Oliver Reed on Cutthroat Island): «Perhaps in a long laundry list of ludicrous events I have witnessed on film sets, the one I most treasure is watching my leading lady having her makeup and hair assiduously attended to between each take of one scene.

The director: Nanni Moretti (Italy) The talent: As in most of his films, writer - director - producer Moretti also takes one of the leading roles, but the film is principally a showcase for 85 year - old French legend Michel Piccoli, playing the Pope of the title.

Both films skewer political ethics but it is Election, thanks to Payne's acerbic wit, which takes the clear lead in its mockery of the campaigning system.

Best known for starring in Cronenberg's Cosmopolis alongside Robert Pattinson and for her portrayal of the wife of the Carl Jung in A Dangerous Method, Canadian actress Sarah Gadon is now taking on the lead role of the young Princess Elizabeth in new British comedy film A Royal Night Out.

Naturally, remaking such a revered film is bound to lead to criticism, and the director has acknowledged that in an interview with The Guardian, describing his take as a homage to the horror masterpiece, rather than a commercially - driven decision.

The coming of age movie has picked up Best Film awards in New York and Canada with lead actor Aide Spratt also taking home a Best Actress award in LA for her work on the film.

There is a brief stop at an art fair in France, where the beautiful Monique (Cecile De France) insists on joining their expedition and can not be dissuaded; we think at first she has a nefarious motive, but no, she's probably taken a class in screenplay construction and knows that the film requires a sexy female lead.

Pattinson, the British star of Twilight, tops the bill in David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis, tipped as one of the key titles to screen, while Efron takes the lead in Paperboy, the new film from Lee Daniels, whose social drama Precious was a sleeper hit two years ago.

While Christopher Nolan has enlisted a number of A-list stars for his upcoming World War II epic Dunkirk, 19 - year - old newcomer Fionn Whitehead (Him) is set to take on the lead role in his feature film debut, and Entertainment Weekly has released a new image of his character, the young British soldier Collins; check it out here... -LSB-...]

McGregor had starred in Boyle's first three films and then Leonardo DiCaprio took over as leading man in the director's fourth picture.

At the Critics» Week — where, in the interest of full disclosure, I served on a competition jury comprised of three other critics and the South Korean director Lee Chang - dong — the highlight of an unusually strong lineup was Take Shelter, the second feature by Shotgun Stories director Jeff Nichols, an acknowledged Malick acolyte whose new film shares a producer with The Tree of Life as well as a leading lady, Jessica Chastain (reportedly at Malick's personal recommendation).

Brolin leads as Sgt. John O'Mara, who — in the opening sequences of the film — sees a little girl fresh off the bus picked up by a thug who takes her with the hopes of putting her in white slavery.

Taking its lead from McNamara's 1995 book, In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam, Morris has arranged his film around 11 lessons, adding a prologue and an epilogue.

OUR TAKE: The film can't use Hendrix's music - however, the intrigue of having Outkast's André 3000 in the lead; actresses Imogen Poots (Need for Speed) and Hayley Atwell (Agent Carter) co-starring; and Oscar - winner John Ridley (12 Years a Slave) both writing and directing?

I wrote at the time that his music for Dawn of the Planet of the Apes — while a very fine film score — wasn't one of his most engaging albums, with its dark tone and great length; and while he uses that score as a springboard (and reprises some of its material), Giacchino takes War off in different directions and in doing so solves the problems that led to its predecessor being better within the film than without it.

Other nominees include Australian actor Margot Robbie, who began her career playing Donna Freedman in the long - running soap Neighbours and made her name in Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street opposite Leonard DiCaprio, and Shailene Woodley, who was nominated for a Golden Globe for her role in the 2011 film The Descendants, starring George Clooney, and took the lead role in the 2014 film adaptation of The Fault In Our Starin the long - running soap Neighbours and made her name in Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street opposite Leonard DiCaprio, and Shailene Woodley, who was nominated for a Golden Globe for her role in the 2011 film The Descendants, starring George Clooney, and took the lead role in the 2014 film adaptation of The Fault In Our Starin Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street opposite Leonard DiCaprio, and Shailene Woodley, who was nominated for a Golden Globe for her role in the 2011 film The Descendants, starring George Clooney, and took the lead role in the 2014 film adaptation of The Fault In Our Starin the 2011 film The Descendants, starring George Clooney, and took the lead role in the 2014 film adaptation of The Fault In Our Starin the 2014 film adaptation of The Fault In Our StarIn Our Stars.

In one of Comic Con's most awaited presentations, Marvel superheroes of all kinds from Iron Man to Ant - Man took over the fan convention recently as leading actors revealed surprises to films that will showcase the characters

Director reveals both films will «collide» in the new movie titled Glass, with Unbreakable's Samuel L Jackson taking a lead role alongside Bruce Willis and Split's James McAvoy

Unfolding like Roman Polanski's take on «The King of Marvin Gardens» while simultaneously serving as a suitable spiritual sequel to the director's debut, «Afterschool,» in which the male desire to connect meaningfully with others is frayed and warped by life experience, «Simon Killer» is Antonio Campos» latest chilly, chilling character study, with Corbet effectively replacing Ezra Miller, who led the previous film, as a neuroscience major who studied how the eyes and the brain relate, but has a seriously loose wire between his own brain and his heart.

The film takes some fun turns in leading Han to his future best friend, Chewbacca (Joonas Suotamo), longtime ally Lando Calrissian (Donald Glover) and a crew of smugglers run by Beckett (Woody Harrelson).

Though Black Panther will be Marvel's first film with a black lead and a predominantly black cast, the Wakandan king isn't the first black hero to take center stage in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

His career thus far both in front and behind the camera has been diverse to say the least from exploitation flicks shot for almost nothing like the Amateur Porn Star Killer series, to a film more considered and meaningful (and genuinely haunting) like My Name Is «A» By Anonymous, and scoring a lead role in an Albert Pyun one take film called The Interrogation of Cheryl Cooper.

New York Times bestselling children's author Tony DiTerlizzi (The Spiderwick Chronicles) details the precedent - setting augmented reality used in his new Simon & Schuster novel The Search for Wondla; LAIKA president / CEO Travis Knight (lead animator on the Oscar - nominated stop - motion movie Coraline) explains how his studio will continue to take bold chances in the animated feature film world; and graphic novelist and Comic - Con special guest Douglas TenNapel (Earthworm Jim) describes exactly how a blank page comes to be inhabited with his compelling imagery.

The chart - topping duo from Disney defies the usual trend, as Disney titles tend to take a few weeks to build momentum in the rental market as the studio has no distribution agreement with Redbox, leading the kiosk vendor to acquire its copies of Disney films as any consumer would — at retail.

More subversive and inspiring than Marston's lineage, which includes the Gal Gadot led reboot (a formidable step in the right direction, especially as concerns box - office standards), a film also robbed of its source material's original enlightened subtexts on sexuality and gender norms, Robinson's take on the material is effective, even if it stops short of being exceptional.

Nichols elects to bring back the lead from his previous thriller (Take Shelter) Michael Shannon, but gives him a much smaller role in this film.

Taking the approach of an adventure film with the MacGuyver of all Botanists, Damon's charm and humor stand in stark contrast to the annoyances of the two leads from Gravity, and provide a mass appeal that should make this entertaining for most any viewer.

This year, the snubs were fewer and less harsh than in years past (like that year they totally ignored three of the best films of the year in Drive, Take Shelter and Young Adult, and failed to nominate the year's best lead actress performances).

Bruni Tedeschi takes the lead role as Louise, a retired unmarried actress in her forties, and sister of the ailing Ludovic (based on her own brother, to whom the film is dedicated, and played by Filippo Timi).

Picture taken as hint that Pegg in line for lead role in forthcoming Edgar Wright - directed superhero film